Psalms

1

1 Blessed is the man / Who does not walk / In the counsel of the wicked, / Nor stand on the path of sinners, / Nor sit in the seat of mockers;
2 Rather his delight is in the law of Jehovah, / And in His law he meditates by day and by night.
3 And he will be like a tree / Transplanted beside streams of water, / Which yields its fruit in its season, / And whose foliage does not wither; / And everything he does prospers.
4 The wicked are not so, / But are like chaff, / Which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment; / Nor the sinners, in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For Jehovah knows the way of the righteous, / But the way of the wicked will perish.

2

1 Why are the nations in an uproar, / And why do the peoples contemplate a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth take their stand, / And the rulers sit in counsel together, / Against Jehovah and against His Anointed:
3 Let us break apart Their bonds / And cast Their ropes away from us.
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs; / The Lord has them in derision.
5 Then He will speak to them in His anger, / And in His burning wrath He will terrify them:
6 But I have installed My King / Upon Zion, My holy mountain.
7 I will recount the decree of Jehovah; / He said to Me: You are My Son; / Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, / And I will give the nations as Your inheritance / And the limits of the earth as Your possession.
9 You will break them with an iron rod; / You will shatter them like a potter’s vessel.
10 Now therefore, O kings, be prudent; / Take the admonition, O judges of the earth.
11 Serve Jehovah with fear, / And rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son / Lest He be angry and you perish from the way; / For His anger may suddenly be kindled. / Blessed are all those who take refuge in Him.

3

1 Jehovah, how many are my adversaries! / Many are those who rise up against me!
2 Many are those who say of my soul, / There is no salvation for him in God! Selah
3 But You, O Jehovah, are a shield around me, / My glory and the One who lifts up my head.
4 With my voice I call out to Jehovah, / And He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
5 I lay down and slept; / I awoke, for Jehovah sustains me.
6 I will not fear the myriads of the people / Who have set themselves against me all around.
7 Arise, O Jehovah; / Save me, O my God! / Oh that You would strike all my enemies on the cheek; / And break the teeth of the wicked.
8 Salvation is of Jehovah: / Your blessing be upon Your people. Selah

4

1 When I call out, answer me, / O God of my righteousness; / Make room for me when I am in straits; / Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
2 O sons of men, how long will my glory be made a reproach? / How long will you love vanity, will you seek a lie? Selah
3 But know that Jehovah sets apart the faithful man for Himself. / Jehovah hears when I call out to Him.
4 Be angry, yet do not sin; / Consider in your heart upon your bed, / And be silent. Selah
5 Offer sacrifices of righteousness, / And trust in Jehovah.
6 Many are those who say, Who will show us any good? / Lift up upon us the light of Your countenance, O Jehovah.
7 You have put joy in my heart, / More than when the grain and new wine of others abound.
8 In peace I will both lie down and sleep, / For You alone, O Jehovah, cause me to dwell in safety.

5

1 To my words give ear, O Jehovah; / Consider my moaning.
2 Give heed to the sound of my cry, / My King and my God; / For to You do I pray.
3 O Jehovah, in the morning / You will hear my voice; / In the morning I will set forth my words in order to You, / And I will watch.
4 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; / Evil will not sojourn with You.
5 Those who boast will not stand / Before Your eyes; / You hate all workers of iniquity.
6 You will destroy those who speak lies. / Jehovah abhors a man of bloodshed and deceit.
7 But as for me, in the abundance of Your lovingkindness / I will come into Your house; / I will bow down toward Your holy temple / In fear of You.
8 O Jehovah, lead me in Your righteousness / On account of those who lie in wait for me; / Make Your way straight before me.
9 For there is no truth in their mouth; / Their inward part is corruption itself; / Their throat is an open grave; / They flatter with their tongue.
10 Hold them guilty, O God; / Let them fall by their own counsels; / Because of the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out, / For they have rebelled against You.
11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; / Let them shout for joy forever; / And may You spread a cover over them; / And those who love Your name / Will exult in You.
12 For You will bless the righteous man, O Jehovah; / You will surround him with favor as with a shield.

6

1 O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in Your anger, / Nor chasten me in Your burning wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am languishing; / Heal me, O Jehovah, for my bones are shaken,
3 And my soul is greatly shaken. / But as for You, O Jehovah, how long?
4 Return, O Jehovah; deliver my soul; / Save me for Your lovingkindness’ sake.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of You; / In Sheol who can give thanks to You?
6 I am weary with my groaning; / Every night I cause my bed to swim; / With my tears I dissolve my couch.
7 My eye is wasted because of grief; / It has aged because of all those who vex me.
8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, / For Jehovah has heard the sound of my weeping.
9 Jehovah has heard my supplication; / Jehovah receives my prayer.
10 All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed; / They will turn back; they will be put to shame suddenly.

7

1 O Jehovah my God, in You do I take refuge. / Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me;
2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, / Tearing it apart without anyone to deliver it.
3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this, / If there is unrighteousness in my hands,
4 If I have recompensed with evil him who was at peace with me / (Rather, I have delivered him who vexed me without cause);
5 Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake me, / And let him trample my life to the ground / And lay my glory down in the dust. Selah
6 Arise, O Jehovah, in Your anger; / Lift Yourself up against the overflowing wrath of those who vex me, / And awake for me: You have commanded judgment.
7 And let the assembly of the peoples surround You, / And over it return on high.
8 Jehovah will execute judgment on the peoples; / Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness / And according to my integrity that is with me.
9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, / But establish the righteous man. / For the righteous God / Tries the hearts and the inward parts.
10 My shield is with God, / Who saves the upright in heart.
11 God is a righteous Judge / And a God who has indignation every day.
12 If one does not turn, He will whet His sword. / He bends His bow and makes it ready.
13 And He prepares instruments of death against him; / He has made His arrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, the evil man travails with iniquity; / He conceives mischief and brings forth falsehood.
15 He digs a pit and hollows it out, / Then he falls into the hole that he has made.
16 His mischief returns upon his own head, / And upon the crown of his own head his violence comes down.
17 I will give thanks to Jehovah according to His righteousness, / And I will sing psalms to the name of Jehovah the Most High.

8

1 O Jehovah our Lord, / How excellent is Your name / In all the earth, / You who have set Your glory over the heavens!
2 Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings / You have established strength / Because of Your adversaries, / To stop the enemy and the avenger.
3 When I see Your heavens, the works of Your fingers, / The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is mortal man, that You remember him, / And the son of man, that You visit him?
5 You have made Him a little lower than angels / And have crowned Him with glory and honor.
6 For You have caused Him to rule over the works of Your hands; / You have put all things under His feet:
7 All sheep and oxen, / As well as the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of heaven and the fish of the sea, / Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 O Jehovah our Lord, / How excellent is Your name / In all the earth!

9

1 I will give thanks to You, O Jehovah, with all my heart; / I will tell out all Your wonders.
2 I will rejoice and exult in You; / I will sing psalms to Your name, O Most High.
3 When my enemies turn back, / They stumble and perish at Your presence.
4 For You have upheld my right and my cause; / You sit on the throne, judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked the nations; You have destroyed the wicked; / You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
6 The enemies are finished; they are in perpetual ruins; / And You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has perished.
7 But Jehovah sits enthroned forever; / He has established His throne for judgment.
8 And it is He who judges the world with righteousness; / He executes judgment on the peoples with equity.
9 And Jehovah is a high retreat for the oppressed, / A high retreat in times of distress.
10 And those who know Your name put their trust in You, / For You have not forsaken those who seek You, O Jehovah.
11 Sing psalms to Jehovah, the Inhabitant of Zion; / Declare His deeds among the peoples,
12 For He who avenges bloodshed remembers those who were slain; / He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
13 Be gracious to me, O Jehovah; look on my affliction from those who hate me, / You who raise me from the gates of death,
14 That I may tell out all Your praises / And, in the gates of the daughter of Zion, exult in Your salvation.
15 The nations have sunk in the pit that they have made; / In the net that they hid, their own foot is caught.
16 Jehovah has made Himself known; He has executed justice; / The wicked have been snared in the work of their hands. Higgaion. Selah
17 The wicked will be turned back to Sheol, / All the nations who forget God.
18 For not always will the needy be forgotten, / Nor will the hope of the afflicted perish forever.
19 Arise, O Jehovah! Let not mortal man prevail; / Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
20 Put them in fear, O Jehovah; / Let the nations know that they are mortal men. Selah

10

1 Why, O Jehovah, do You stand far off? / Why do You hide Yourself in times of distress?
2 Arrogantly the wicked hotly pursue the poor — / May they be caught in the plots that they devise!
3 For the wicked man boasts of the desire of his soul, / And the rapacious man curses, even despises, Jehovah.
4 The wicked man, according to the haughtiness of his countenance, / Says, He will not require it; / All his thoughts are this: There is no God!
5 His ways succeed at all times; / Your judgments are on high, out of his sight; / As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.
6 He has said in his heart, I will not be shaken; / I will be in no trouble forever.
7 His mouth is full of curses and of deceit and oppression; / Under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
8 He sits in the ambushes of the open villages; / In hidden places he murders the innocent; / His eyes secretly watch for the unfortunate.
9 He lurks in secret like a lion in its covert; / He lurks ready to seize the poor; / He seizes the poor, drawing them up in his net.
10 He stoops, he crouches, / And the unfortunate fall by his mighty claws.
11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; / He has hidden His face; He will never see this.
12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up Your hand. / Do not forget the poor.
13 Why does the wicked man despise God / And say in his heart, You will not require it?
14 You do see! For You observe mischief and vexation, / To requite it with Your own hand. / To You the unfortunate one commits his cause; / You have been the help of the orphan.
15 Break the arm of the wicked man and the evildoer; / Seek out his wickedness until You find no more.
16 Jehovah is King forever and ever; / The nations have perished from His land.
17 You have heard the desire of the lowly, O Jehovah; / You will establish their heart; You will cause Your ears to listen,
18 In order to execute justice for the orphan and the oppressed one, / That the mortal man of the earth may terrorize no longer.

11

1 In Jehovah have I taken refuge. How can you say to my soul, / Flee to the mountains like a bird?
2 For behold, the wicked bend the bow; / They ready their arrow on the string / To shoot in the dark at the upright in heart.
3 When the foundations are destroyed, / What will the righteous man do?
4 Jehovah is in His holy temple; / Jehovah — His throne is in heaven. / His eyes behold; / His eyelids try the sons of men.
5 Jehovah tries the righteous man; / But the wicked man and him who loves violence, His soul hates.
6 He will rain down snares upon the wicked; / Fire and brimstone and a scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.
7 For Jehovah is righteous; He loves righteous deeds. / The upright man will behold His face.

12

1 Save, O Jehovah; for the faithful man is no more, / For the trustworthy have vanished from among the sons of men.
2 Each man speaks falsehood with his neighbor; / With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.
3 May Jehovah cut off all the flattering lips, / The tongue speaking great things,
4 Those who said, With our tongue we will prevail; / Our lips are our own: Who is our lord?
5 Because of the devastation of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy, / I will now arise, says Jehovah; / I will set him in the safety that he longs for.
6 The words of Jehovah are pure words, / Silver refined in a furnace on the earth, / Purified seven times.
7 You, O Jehovah, will keep them; / You will guard them from this generation forever.
8 The wicked go about all around, / While vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

13

1 How long, O Jehovah? Will You forget me continually? / How long will You hide Your face from me?
2 How long will I take counsel in my soul / And sorrow in my heart day after day? / How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
3 Consider and answer me, O Jehovah my God; / Enlighten my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,
4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him, / And my adversaries exult when I am shaken.
5 But I trust in Your lovingkindness; / My heart will exult in Your salvation;
6 I will sing to Jehovah, / For He has dealt bountifully with me.

14

1 The fool has said in his heart, / There is no God. / They are corrupt; they commit abominable deeds; / There is none who does good.
2 Jehovah looked down from heaven / Upon the sons of men / To see if there was anyone who had insight, / Who seeks after God.
3 They have all turned aside; / They are together perverse. / There is none who does good; / There is not even one.
4 Have they no knowledge, all the workers of iniquity, / Who eat up my people as they would eat up bread / And do not call upon Jehovah?
5 There they were in great fear, / For God is among the generation of the righteous.
6 You put the counsel of the afflicted to shame, / But Jehovah is their refuge.
7 Oh that the salvation of Israel might come forth from Zion! / When Jehovah turns the captivity of His people, / Jacob will exult, Israel will rejoice.

15

1 O Jehovah, who may sojourn in Your tent? / Who may dwell on Your holy mountain?
2 He who walks in integrity / And does righteousness / And speaks truth from his heart.
3 He does not slander with his tongue; / He does not do evil to his friend, / Nor does he take up a reproach against his neighbor.
4 In his eyes a reprobate is despised, / But he honors those who fear Jehovah. / Should he swear to his harm, / He does not change.
5 He does not lend his money on interest, / Nor accept a bribe against the innocent. / He who does these things will not be shaken forever.

16

1 Preserve me, O God, for I take refuge in You.
2 I say to Jehovah, You are my Lord; / No good have I beyond You;
3 As for the saints who are on the earth, they are the excellent; / All my delight is in them.
4 The sorrows of them who bartered for some other god will be multiplied; / Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, / Nor will I take up their names upon my lips.
5 Jehovah is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup; / You maintain my lot.
6 The measuring lines have fallen on pleasant places for me; / Indeed the inheritance is beautiful to me.
7 I will bless Jehovah, who counsels me; / Indeed in the nights my inward parts instruct me.
8 I have set Jehovah before me continually; / Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.
9 Therefore my heart rejoices and my glory exults; / Even my flesh dwells securely.
10 For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, / Nor let Your Holy One see the pit.
11 You will make known to me the path of life; / In Your presence is fullness of joy; / At Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

17

1 Hear, O Jehovah, what is righteous; / Give heed to my cry; / Give ear to my prayer, / Which is not made with lips of deceit.
2 May a judgment for me come forth from Your presence; / May Your eyes regard equity.
3 You have examined my heart; You have visited me by night; / You have tried me: You have found nothing. / I have resolved that my mouth will not transgress.
4 Regarding the works of man, by the word of Your lips, / I have kept myself from the paths of the violent man.
5 My steps have held fast to Your tracks; / My footsteps have not slipped.
6 I call on You, for You will answer me, O God; / Incline Your ear to me; hear my speaking.
7 Wondrously display Your lovingkindness, / You who save by Your right hand / Those who take refuge in You from them who rise up against them.
8 Guard me like the pupil of Your eye; / In the shadow of Your wings hide me
9 From the presence of the wicked who oppress me, / From my deadly enemies, who close in upon me.
10 They have shut up their fat hearts; / With their mouths they speak arrogantly.
11 Now they have surrounded us in our steps; / They have fixed their eyes on casting us down to the ground.
12 He is like a lion that is eager to tear, / And like a young lion lurking in hidden places.
13 Arise, O Jehovah, confront him; bring him down. / With Your sword rescue my soul from the wicked man,
14 From mortal men with Your hand, O Jehovah, / From mortal men of the world, whose portion is in this life, / And whose belly You fill with Your treasure; / They are satisfied with children, / And they leave their abundance for their little ones.
15 As for me, in righteousness I will behold Your face; / When I awake, I will be satisfied with Your likeness.

18

1 I love You, O Jehovah, my strength.
2 Jehovah is my crag and my fortress and my Deliverer; / My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; / My shield and the horn of my salvation, my high retreat.
3 I called upon Jehovah, who is worthy of praise, And from my enemies I was saved.
4 The cords of death encompassed me; / And the torrents of destruction assailed me.
5 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; / The snares of death confronted me.
6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah / And cried out to my God. / He heard my voice from His temple, / And my cry before Him came to His ears.
7 Then the earth shook and quaked, / And the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook about, / For He was furious.
8 Smoke went up from His nostrils, / And fire from His mouth devoured; / Coals blazed forth from Him.
9 He bowed the heavens and descended, / And deep darkness was under His feet.
10 He rode upon a cherub and did fly; / He darted upon the wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness His hiding place, His pavilion around Him: / Dark waterclouds, thick clouds of the skies.
12 Out of the brightness before Him there broke through His clouds / Hail and fiery coals.
13 Then Jehovah thundered in heaven, / And the Most High uttered His voice.
14 And He sent forth His arrows and scattered my enemies; / And He shot forth lightning bolts and discomfited them.
15 The channels of the sea were seen, / And the foundations of the habitable land were laid bare / At Your rebuke, O Jehovah, / At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
16 He reached forth from on high; He took me; / He drew me out of great waters.
17 He delivered me from my strong enemy / And from those who hate me, for they were too mighty for me.
18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, / But Jehovah became my support.
19 He brought me forth to a place broad and free; / He rescued me, for He took delight in me.
20 Jehovah has recompensed me according to my righteousness; / According to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.
21 For I have kept the ways of Jehovah / And have not acted wickedly by turning away from my God.
22 For all His judgments were before me, / And I did not turn His statutes away from me.
23 I was perfect toward Him, / And I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Therefore Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, / According to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
25 With the faithful You show Yourself faithful, / With a perfect man You show Yourself perfect,
26 With the pure You show Yourself pure, / And with the perverse You show Yourself contrary.
27 For it is You who save the afflicted people, / But the haughty eyes You bring down;
28 For it is You who light my lamp; / Jehovah my God lights up my darkness;
29 For by You I can run up against a troop; / Indeed by my God I can leap over a wall.
30 As for God — His way is perfect; / The word of Jehovah is tried. / He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
31 For who is God other than Jehovah, / And who is a rock but our God?
32 The God who girds me with strength / And makes my way perfect,
33 Who makes my feet like hinds’ feet / And sets me on my high places,
34 Who teaches my hands to wage war / So that my arms may bend a bronze bow.
35 And You have given me the shield of Your salvation, / And Your right hand supports me; / And Your condescending gentleness has made me great.
36 You have broadened the places of my steps under me, / And my feet have not slipped.
37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them, / And I did not turn back until they were consumed.
38 I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise up; / They fell under my feet.
39 And You girded me with strength for war; / You brought down under me those who rose up against me.
40 You also made my enemies turn their back to me, / And I annihilated those who hated me.
41 They cried out, but there was no one to save them; / They cried out to Jehovah, but He did not answer them.
42 Then I beat them like dust before the wind; / Like the mud of the streets I pounded them.
43 You rescued me from the strivings of the people; / You have made me the head of the nations; / A people whom I had not known serves me.
44 At the mere hearing of a report, they obey me; / Foreigners come cringing to me;
45 Foreigners are discouraged / And come quaking out of their fortresses.
46 Jehovah lives; and blessed be my rock, / And exalted be the God of my salvation,
47 The God who executes vengeance for me / And subdues peoples under me,
48 Who rescues me from my enemies. / Indeed You exalted me above those who rise up against me; / From the violent man You delivered me.
49 Therefore I give thanks to You among the nations, O Jehovah; / And I will sing psalms to Your name.
50 It is He who magnifies salvation to His king / And executes lovingkindness to His anointed, / To David and to his seed forever.

19

1 The heavens declare the glory of God, / And the expanse proclaims the work of His hands.
2 Day to day pours forth speech, / And night to night tells out knowledge.
3 There is no speech and there are no words; / Their voice is not heard.
4 In all the earth their line has gone forth, / And their words to the end of the world. / In the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,
5 And he, like a bridegroom, goes forth from his canopy; / He rejoices like a mighty man running the course.
6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, / And his circuit is unto their ends; / And there is nothing hidden from his heat.
7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, / Restoring the soul; / The testimony of Jehovah is faithful, / Making the simple wise;
8 The precepts of Jehovah are right, / Making the heart joyous; / The commandment of Jehovah is clear, / Enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of Jehovah is pure, / Enduring forever; / The judgments of Jehovah are truth / And altogether righteous.
10 More to be desired are they than gold, / Even much refined gold; / Sweeter also than honey / And the drippings of the honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned; / In keeping them there is much reward.
12 Who can discern his errors? / Clear me of my secret faults.
13 Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins; / Do not let them have dominion over me; / Then I will be blameless and cleared / Of great transgression.
14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart / Be acceptable before You, / O Jehovah, my rock and my Redeemer.

20

1 May Jehovah answer you in the day of trouble; / May the name of the God of Jacob set you on high.
2 May He send you help from the sanctuary / And support you from Zion.
3 May He remember all your meal offerings / And accept your burnt offering. Selah
4 May He give you according to your heart’s desire / And fulfill all your intention.
5 May we shout victoriously in Your salvation / And raise the banner in the name of our God. / May Jehovah fulfill all your petitions.
6 Now I know / That Jehovah saves His anointed; / He will answer him from His holy heaven / With mighty acts of salvation from His right hand.
7 Some boast in chariots, and some in horses; / But we boast in the name of Jehovah our God.
8 They are humbled and fallen, / But we have risen and stand upright.
9 Save, O Jehovah! / May the king answer us when we call.

21

1 O Jehovah, in Your strength the king rejoices, / And in Your salvation how greatly does he exult.
2 You have given him his heart’s desire / And have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
3 For You meet him with blessings of goodness; / You have set a crown of refined gold on his head.
4 He asked life of You; You granted it to him: / Length of days forever and ever.
5 His glory is great in Your salvation; / You have laid majesty and splendor upon him;
6 For You have made him to be blessings forever; / You have made him glad with rejoicing in Your presence.
7 For the king trusts in Jehovah; / And because of the lovingkindness of the Most High, he is not shaken.
8 Your hand finds all Your enemies; / Your right hand finds those who hate You.
9 You make them like a furnace of fire / When Your presence appears. / Jehovah swallows them in His anger, / And fire devours them.
10 You destroy their fruit from the earth, / And their seed from among the sons of men.
11 Although they intend evil against You, / And they think up a scheme, they will not prevail.
12 For You make them turn their back; / You aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.
13 Be exalted, O Jehovah, in Your strength; / We will sing and psalm Your might.

22

1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? / Why are You so far from saving me, / From the words of my groaning?
2 O my God, I call out in the day, but You do not answer; / And in the night, but there is no rest for me.
3 But You are holy, You who sit enthroned / Upon the praises of Israel.
4 In You our fathers trusted; / They trusted and You rescued them.
5 To You they cried out and were delivered; / In You they trusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am a worm and not a man, / A reproach of men and one despised by the people.
7 All who see me deride me; / They sneer at me; they shake their heads, saying,
8 He committed himself to Jehovah; let Him rescue him; / Let Him deliver him since He takes pleasure in him.
9 But You are the One who drew me forth from the womb, / Who made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon You from birth; / From my mother’s womb You have been my God.
11 Do not be far from me, / For trouble is near, / For there is none to help me.
12 Many bulls surround me; / The mighty bulls of Bashan encompass me.
13 They open their mouth at me, / Like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 I am poured out like water, / And all my bones are out of joint. / My heart is like wax; / It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a shard, / And my tongue is stuck to my jaws; / You have put me in the dust of death.
16 For dogs surround me; / A company of evildoers encloses me; / They pierce my hands and feet.
17 I count all my bones; / They look, they stare at me.
18 They divide my garments to themselves, / And for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But You, O Jehovah, be not far off; / O my help, hasten to aid me.
20 Deliver my soul from the sword, / My precious life from the power of the dog;
21 Save me from the mouth of the lion; / Indeed while I am in the horns of wild oxen, answer me.
22 I will declare Your name to my brothers; / In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
23 You who fear Jehovah, praise Him! / All you seed of Jacob, glorify Him! / And stand in awe of Him, all you seed of Israel!
24 For He has not despised nor detested / The affliction of him who is afflicted; / And He has not hidden His face from him; / But when he cried out to Him, He heard.
25 From You comes my praise in the great assembly; / My vows will I pay before those who fear Him.
26 The lowly will eat and be satisfied; / Those who seek after Jehovah will praise Him — / May your hearts live forever!
27 All the ends of the earth / Will remember and return to Jehovah, / And all families of the nations / Will worship before You;
28 For the kingdom is Jehovah’s, / And He rules among the nations.
29 All the flourishing of the earth / Will eat and worship. / All who go down into the dust will bow down before Him, / Even he who does not keep his soul alive.
30 A seed will serve Him; / That which concerns the Lord will be told to a coming generation.
31 They will come and declare His righteousness / To a people yet to be born, that He has done this.

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1 Jehovah is my Shepherd; I will lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures; / He leads me beside waters of rest.
3 He restores my soul;He guides me on the paths of righteousness / For His name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk / Through the valley of the shadow of death, / I do not fear evil, / For You are with me; / Your rod and Your staff, / They comfort me.
5 You spread a table before me / In the presence of my adversaries; / You anoint my head with oil; / My cup runs over.
6 Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me / All the days of my life, / And I will dwell in the house of Jehovah / For the length of my days.

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1 The earth is Jehovah’s, and its fullness, / The habitable land and those who dwell in it.
2 For it is He who founded it upon the seas / And established it upon the streams.
3 Who may ascend the mountain of Jehovah, / And who may stand in His holy place?
4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, / Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood / Or sworn deceitfully.
5 He will receive blessing from Jehovah, / And righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6 This is the generation of those who seek Him, / Those who seek Your face, even Jacob. Selah
7 Lift up your heads, O gates; / And be lifted up, O long enduring doors; / And the King of glory will come in.
8 Who is the King of glory? / Jehovah strong and mighty! / Jehovah mighty in battle!
9 Lift up your heads, O gates; / And lift up, O long enduring doors; / And the King of glory will come in.
10 Who is this King of glory? / Jehovah of hosts — / He is the King of glory! Selah

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1 To You, O Jehovah, / I lift up my soul.
2 O my God, I trust in You; / Do not let me be ashamed; / Do not let my enemies exult over me.
3 Indeed may all who wait on You not be ashamed; / May those who deal treacherously without cause be ashamed.
4 Make Your ways known to me, O Jehovah; / Teach me Your paths.
5 Guide me in Your truth, and teach me; / For You are the God of my salvation; / I wait on You all the day long.
6 Remember Your compassions, O Jehovah, / And Your acts of kindness, for they are from of old.
7 The sins of my youth and my transgressions, do not remember; / According to Your lovingkindness, remember me, / For the sake of Your goodness, O Jehovah.
8 Jehovah is good and upright; / Therefore He instructs sinners concerning the way.
9 He guides the lowly in justice / And teaches the lowly His way.
10 All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth / To those who observe His covenant and His testimonies.
11 For the sake of Your name, O Jehovah, / Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
12 Who then is the man who fears Jehovah? / Him will He instruct concerning the way that he should choose.
13 His soul will dwell in prosperity, / And his seed will possess the land.
14 The intimate counsel of Jehovah is to those who fear Him, / And His covenant will He make known to them.
15 My eyes are continually turned to Jehovah, / For He will bring my feet out of the net.
16 Turn toward me, and be gracious to me, / For I am alone and afflicted.
17 Relieve the troubles of my heart, / And bring me out of my distresses.
18 Look on my affliction and my suffering, / And forgive all my sins.
19 Look on my enemies, for they are many; / Indeed they hate me with a violent hatred.
20 Keep my soul, and deliver me; / Do not let me be put to shame, / For I take refuge in You.
21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me, / For I wait on You.
22 Redeem Israel, O God, / Out of all his troubles.

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1 Judge me, O Jehovah; / For I have walked in my integrity, / And in Jehovah I have trusted; / I will not waver.
2 Examine me, O Jehovah, and try me; / Test my inward parts and my heart.
3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, / And I have walked in Your truth.
4 I do not sit with men of falsehood, / Nor will I associate with hypocrites.
5 I hate the assembly of evildoers, / Nor will I sit with the wicked.
6 I wash my hands in innocence / And go around Your altar, O Jehovah,
7 Making myself heard with the voice of thanksgiving / And telling out all Your wonderful deeds.
8 O Jehovah, I love the habitation of Your house, / And the place where Your glory abides.
9 Do not gather my soul with sinners, / Nor my life with men of bloodshed,
10 In whose hand is a wicked scheme, / And whose right hand is full of bribes.
11 But as for me, I walk in my integrity; / Redeem me and be gracious to me.
12 My foot stands on level ground; / In the assemblies I will bless Jehovah.

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1 Jehovah is my light and my salvation; / Whom shall I fear? / Jehovah is the strength of my life; / Whom shall I dread?
2 When evildoers come near me / To devour my flesh, / It is they, my adversaries and my enemies, / Who stumble and fall.
3 If an army camps against me, / My heart does not fear; / If a battle arises against me, / In spite of this I am confident.
4 One thing I have asked from Jehovah; / That do I seek: / To dwell in the house of Jehovah / All the days of my life, / To behold the beauty of Jehovah, / And to inquire in His temple.
5 For He will conceal me in His shelter / In the day of trouble; / He will hide me in the hiding place of His tent; / He will raise me up upon a rock.
6 And now my head is lifted up / Above my enemies who surround me. / And I will offer in His tent / Sacrifices of shouts of joy: / I will sing and psalm to Jehovah.
7 Hear, O Jehovah, when I call with my voice, / And be gracious to me and answer me.
8 When You say, Seek My face, / To You my heart says, Your face, O Jehovah, will I seek.
9 Do not hide Your face from me; / Do not turn Your servant away in Your anger; / You have been my help. / Do not abandon me or forsake me, / O God of my salvation.
10 If my father and my mother forsake me, / Jehovah will take me up.
11 Teach me, O Jehovah, Your way, / And lead me on a level path / Because of those who lie in wait for me.
12 Do not give me over / To the will of my adversaries; / For false witnesses have risen up against me, / And those who breathe out threats.
13 I have believed / That I would see the goodness of Jehovah / In the land of the living.
14 Wait for Jehovah; / Be strong, and let your heart be encouraged. / Yes, wait for Jehovah.

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1 To You, O Jehovah, do I call out; / My rock, do not be deaf to me, / Lest, if You are silent to me, / I become like those who go down into the pit.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications / When I cry out to You, / When I lift up my hands / Unto Your innermost sanctuary.
3 Do not drag me away with the wicked / And with the workers of iniquity, / Who speak peace to their neighbors / While evil is in their heart.
4 Repay them according to what they have done / And according to the evil of their deeds; / According to the work of their hands repay them; / Return to them their due.
5 For they do not regard the acts of Jehovah / Or the work of His hands; / He will tear them down / And not rebuild them.
6 Blessed be Jehovah, / For He has heard the voice of my supplications.
7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield; / My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; / Therefore my heart exults; / And with my song do I give thanks to Him.
8 Jehovah is their strength; / And He is a stronghold of salvation to His anointed.
9 Save Your people, / And bless Your inheritance; / And shepherd them and carry them forever.

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1 Ascribe to Jehovah, O sons of the Mighty, / Ascribe to Jehovah glory and strength;
2 Ascribe to Jehovah the glory of His name; / Worship Jehovah in holy splendor.
3 The voice of Jehovah is over the waters; / The God of glory thunders, / Jehovah over the great waters.
4 The voice of Jehovah is powerful; / The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty.
5 The voice of Jehovah breaks the cedars; / Indeed Jehovah breaks the cedars of Lebanon in pieces;
6 And He makes Lebanon skip like a calf, / And Sirion like a young wild ox.
7 The voice of Jehovah cleaves out flames of fire.
8 The voice of Jehovah shakes the wilderness; / Jehovah shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9 The voice of Jehovah causes the hinds to calve / And strips the forests bare; / And in His temple all say, Glory!
10 Jehovah sat enthroned at the Flood, / And Jehovah sits as King forever.
11 May Jehovah give strength to His people. / May Jehovah bless His people with peace.

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1 I extol You, O Jehovah, for You have drawn me up / And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.
2 O Jehovah my God, / I cried out to You, / And You healed me.
3 O Jehovah, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; / You have preserved me alive that I would not go down into the pit.
4 Sing psalms to Jehovah, you who are His faithful ones; / And praise His holy memorial.
5 For His anger lasts but a moment, / His favor, a lifetime; / Weeping may linger in the evening, / But a ringing shout goes up in the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, / I will never be shaken.
7 O Jehovah, by Your favor You had made my mountain stand strong. / You hid Your face; I was troubled.
8 To You, O Jehovah, I called out; / And to Jehovah I made my supplication.
9 What profit is there in my blood if I go down into the pit? / Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O Jehovah, and be gracious to me. / O Jehovah, be my help.
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; / You have loosened my sackcloth / And girded me with rejoicing,
12 That my glory might sing psalms to You and not be silent. / O Jehovah my God, I will praise You forever.

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1 In You, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; / Never let me be put to shame. / Rescue me in Your righteousness.
2 Incline Your ear to me; / Deliver me speedily. / Be to me a rock of protection, / A fortress, to save me.
3 For You are my crag and my fortress; / Therefore for Your name’s sake / Lead me and guide me.
4 Bring me out of the net / That they have secretly laid for me, / For You are my protection.
5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit; / Redeem me, O Jehovah, God of truth.
6 I hate those who regard vanities of falsehood, / But I trust in Jehovah.
7 I will exult and rejoice in Your lovingkindness, / Since You have seen my affliction; / You know the distress of my soul.
8 And You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; / You have made my feet stand in a place broad and free.
9 Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress. / My eye is wasted away with grief, / Indeed my soul and body.
10 For my life has been consumed in sorrow, / And my years, in sighing. / My strength fails because of my iniquity, / And my bones have wasted away.
11 Because of all my adversaries, / I have become a reproach, / And especially so to my neighbors, / And something dreaded to my acquaintances; / Those who see me on the street flee from me.
12 I am forgotten, like a dead man out of mind; / I am like a destroyed vessel.
13 For I hear the slander of many; / Terror is on every side. / When they take counsel together against me, / They scheme to take my life.
14 But I trust in You, O Jehovah; / I say, You are my God.
15 My times are in Your hand; / Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.
16 Cause Your face to shine upon Your servant; / Save me in Your lovingkindness.
17 O Jehovah, do not let me be put to shame when I call out to You; / Let the wicked be put to shame; let them be silent in Sheol.
18 Let the lips of falsehood be made dumb, / Which speak arrogantly against the righteous / With pride and contempt.
19 How great is Your goodness, / Which You have stored up for those who fear You, / Which You have accomplished in the sight of the sons of men / For those who take refuge in You!
20 You hide them in the hiding place of Your presence / Apart from the conspiracies of men; / You lay them away secretly in a shelter / Apart from the contention of tongues.
21 Blessed be Jehovah, / For He displayed His lovingkindness wondrously / To me in a fortified city.
22 I, on my part, had said in my alarm, / I am cut off before Your eyes; / But instead You heard / The voice of my supplications / When I cried out to You.
23 Love Jehovah, all you who are His faithful ones; / Jehovah guards the trustworthy, / And recompenses abundantly / Him who acts haughtily.
24 Be strong, and let your heart be encouraged, / All you who hope in Jehovah.

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1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven; / Whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man to whom / Jehovah does not impute iniquity / And in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away / Through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night Your hand / Was heavy upon me; / My life sap was dried up / As in the drought of summer. Selah
5 I acknowledged my sin to You, / And I did not cover my iniquity. / I said, I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah. / Then You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
6 Because of this let everyone who is faithful / Pray to You at a time when You may be found; / Surely when great waters overflow, / They will not reach him.
7 You are my hiding place; / You preserve me from trouble; / You surround me with the ringing shouts of deliverance. Selah
8 I will instruct you and teach you concerning the way you should go; / I will counsel you; my eye is upon you.
9 Do not be like a horse or like a mule, without understanding; / Whose trappings consist of bit and bridle to restrain them, / Else they do not come near you.
10 Many are the sorrows that the wicked have; / But he who trusts in Jehovah is encompassed by lovingkindness.
11 Rejoice in Jehovah and exult, O righteous ones; / And give a ringing shout, all you who are upright in heart.

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1 Rejoice in Jehovah, O righteous ones. / Praise is becoming to the upright.
2 Give thanks to Jehovah with the lyre; / With the harp of ten strings sing psalms to Him.
3 Sing Him a new song; / Play skillfully with a joyous shout.
4 For the word of Jehovah is right, / And all His work is done in faithfulness.
5 He loves righteousness and justice; / The earth is full of the lovingkindness of Jehovah.
6 By the word of Jehovah the heavens were made, / And all their host, by the breath of His mouth.
7 He gathers the water of the sea like a heap; / He puts the deep waters into storage places.
8 Let all the earth fear Jehovah; / Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
9 For He spoke, and it was; / He commanded, and it stood.
10 Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; / He frustrates the intentions of the peoples.
11 The counsel of Jehovah stands forever; / The intentions of His heart stand from generation to generation.
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, / The people whom He has chosen as His own possession.
13 Jehovah looks from heaven; / He sees all the sons of men.
14 From the site of His habitation He gazes / At all the inhabitants of the earth,
15 He who fashions the hearts of them all, / He who discerns all their works.
16 No king is saved by a great army; / A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
17 A horse is a vain thing for salvation, / And it cannot deliver by its great power.
18 Behold, the eye of Jehovah is upon those who fear Him, / Upon those who hope in His lovingkindness,
19 To deliver their soul from death / And to preserve them alive in famine.
20 Our soul waits on Jehovah; / He is our help and our shield;
21 For in Him our heart rejoices, / Because in His holy name we trust.
22 May Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, / Even as we have hoped in You.

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1 I will bless Jehovah at all times; / His praise will continually be in my mouth.
2 My soul makes its boast in Jehovah; / The lowly hear and they rejoice.
3 Magnify Jehovah with me, / And let us exalt His name together.
4 I sought Jehovah, and He answered me; / And He delivered me from all that terrified me.
5 They looked to Him and were radiant; / And their faces will never be abashed.
6 This poor man called out, and Jehovah heard; / And He saved him out of all his troubles.
7 The angel of Jehovah encamps / Around those who fear Him, and He delivers them.
8 Taste and see that Jehovah is good; / Blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.
9 Fear Jehovah, you who are His saints; / For there is no lack with those who fear Him.
10 The young lions hunger and starve, / But those who seek Jehovah will not lack any good thing.
11 Come, children; hear me. / I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.
12 Who is the man who desires life, / Who loves having days in order to see good?
13 Guard your tongue from evil, / And your lips from speaking deceit.
14 Turn away from evil and do good; / Seek peace and pursue it.
15 The eyes of Jehovah are set toward the righteous, / And His ears, toward their cry.
16 The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, / To cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and Jehovah hears; / And He saves them out of all their troubles.
18 Jehovah is near to those who are broken in heart, / And He saves those who are contrite in spirit.
19 Many are the troubles of the righteous man, / But Jehovah delivers him from all of them.
20 He keeps all his bones; / Not one of them is broken.
21 Evil will slay the wicked, / And those who hate the righteous man will be condemned.
22 Jehovah redeems the soul of His servants, / And none who take refuge in Him will be condemned.

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1 Strive, O Jehovah, with those who strive with me; / Battle against those who battle against me.
2 Take hold of buckler and shield, / And rise up as my help.
3 Draw out also the spear, and close up the way / Against those who pursue me; / Say to my soul, / I am your salvation.
4 Let those who seek my life / Be put to shame and humiliated; / Let those who devise evil for me / Be turned back and confounded.
5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, / With the angel of Jehovah driving them on.
6 Let their way be darkness and slipperiness itself, / With the angel of Jehovah pursuing them.
7 For without cause they hid their net for me; / Without cause they dug a pit for me.
8 Let destruction come upon him unawares, / And let his net, which he hid, catch him; / Let him fall into it, into destruction.
9 Then my soul will exult in Jehovah; / It will rejoice in His salvation.
10 All my bones will say, / Jehovah, who is like You, / Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, / And the poor and needy from him who robs him?
11 Malicious witnesses rise up; / They ask me about things I know nothing of.
12 They repay me evil for good; / I am bereaved in soul.
13 But I, when they were sick, / Had sackcloth as my clothing; / I afflicted my soul with fasting, / And my prayer returned to my own bosom.
14 I conducted myself as if it had been my friend or my brother; / Like one mourning for his mother, I bowed down gloomily.
15 But at my stumbling they rejoice and gather together; / The attackers, whom I did not know / Gather together against me; / They tear at me and do not cease.
16 As profane mocking parasites, / They gnash their teeth at me.
17 O Lord, how long will You look on? / Rescue my soul from their destruction, / My precious life from the lions.
18 I will give You thanks in the great congregation; / Among a mighty people I will praise You.
19 Do not let those who are wrongly my enemies rejoice over me; / Do not let those who hate me without cause narrow their eyes at me.
20 For they do not speak peace, / But devise words of deceit / Against the quiet people of the land.
21 And they open their mouth wide against me; / They say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it.
22 You have seen, O Jehovah; do not be silent. / O Lord, do not be far from me.
23 Awake, and stir Yourself for my cause, / For my claim, O my God and my Lord.
24 Vindicate me according to Your righteousness, O Jehovah my God; / And do not let them rejoice over me.
25 Do not let them say in their heart, / Aha! That is what we wanted. / Do not let them say, We have swallowed him up.
26 May those who rejoice at my trouble / Be ashamed and confounded together; / May those who magnify themselves against me / Be clothed with shame and humiliation.
27 May those who delight in the vindication of my righteousness / Give a ringing shout and rejoice, / And may they say continually, / Jehovah be magnified, / Who delights in the well-being of His servant.
28 And my tongue will declare Your righteousness / And Your praise all day long.

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1 Transgression speaks to the wicked / Within his heart; / There is no dread of God / Before his eyes.
2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, / That his iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; / He has ceased being wise and doing good.
4 He plans wickedness on his bed; / He sets himself on a way that is not good; / He does not reject evil.
5 O Jehovah, Your lovingkindness is in the heavens; / Your faithfulness reaches unto the skies.
6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; / Your judgments are like the great deep; / You preserve man and beast, O Jehovah.
7 How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God! / Thus the sons of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
8 They are saturated with the fatness of Your house, / And You cause them to drink of the river of Your pleasures.
9 For with You is the fountain of life; / In Your light we see light.
10 Continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, / And Your righteousness to those who are upright in heart.
11 Do not let the foot of the arrogant come upon me, / Nor let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
12 There the workers of iniquity are fallen; / They are cast down and unable to rise.

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1 Do not be incensed because of evildoers; / Do not be envious of wrongdoers.
2 For they soon wither like grass / And fade away like green herbage.
3 Trust in Jehovah, and do good; / Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.
4 Delight yourself in Jehovah, / And He will give you the requests of your heart.
5 Commit your way to Jehovah, / And trust in Him; and He will act.
6 And He will cause your righteousness to go forth like light, / And your justness like noonday.
7 Be still before Jehovah, and wait for Him; / Do not be incensed because of him who enjoys prosperity on his way, / Because of the man who performs his evil schemes.
8 Cease from anger and forsake wrath; / Do not be incensed; it leads only to evil.
9 For the evildoers will be cut off; / But those who wait on Jehovah, / They will inherit the land.
10 And in a little while longer there will be no wicked man; / Indeed, you will look diligently for his place, and he will not be there.
11 But the lowly will inherit the land / And delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
12 The wicked man makes evil schemes against the righteous man / And gnashes his teeth at him.
13 The Lord will laugh at him, / For He sees that his day will come.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword / And bent their bow, / To cast the poor and the needy down, / To slaughter those who are upright in their way.
15 Their sword will enter their own heart, / And their bows will be broken.
16 Better is the little that the righteous man has / Than the abundance of many wicked.
17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, / But Jehovah upholds the righteous.
18 Jehovah knows the days of the perfect, / And their inheritance will be forever.
19 They will not be put to shame in a time of evil, / And in the days of famine they will be satisfied.
20 But the wicked will perish, / And the enemies of Jehovah will be like the glory of the pastures: / They are consumed; in smoke they are consumed.
21 The wicked borrow but do not repay, / But the righteous is gracious and gives.
22 For those blessed by Him will inherit the land, / But those cursed by Him will be cut off.
23 A man’s steps are established by Jehovah, / And He delights in his way.
24 If he falls, he is not utterly cast down; / For Jehovah upholds him by the hand.
25 I was once a young man; now I am old. / Yet I have not seen the righteous man forsaken, / Nor his seed seeking bread.
26 He is always gracious and lends, / And his seed becomes a blessing.
27 Turn away from evil and do good, / And abide forever.
28 For Jehovah loves justice / And does not abandon His faithful ones; / They are kept forever; / But the seed of the wicked is cut off.
29 The righteous will inherit the land, / And they will abide in it forever.
30 The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, / And his tongue speaks justice.
31 The law of his God is in his heart; / His steps do not slip.
32 The wicked man watches for the righteous man / And seeks to slay him.
33 Jehovah does not leave him in his hand, / Nor let him be condemned when he is judged.
34 Wait for Jehovah, / And keep His way; / And He will exalt you to inherit the land; / When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
35 I have seen the wicked man terrorizing, / And spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree.
36 Then someone passes by, and behold, he is not there; / I search for him, and he is not found.
37 Observe the perfect man, and watch the upright man; / For there is a future for the man of peace.
38 But the transgressors will be altogether destroyed; / The future of the wicked will be cut off.
39 And the salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah; / He is their stronghold in a time of distress.
40 And Jehovah helps them and rescues them; / He rescues them from the wicked, / And saves them, for they take refuge in Him.

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1 O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in Your indignation, / Nor chasten me in Your burning wrath.
2 For Your arrows have sunk deep in me, / And Your hand has come down heavy upon me.
3 There is no soundness in my flesh due to Your indignation; / There is no wholeness in my bones due to my sin.
4 For my iniquities have passed over my head; / Like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are odious and festering / Due to my foolishness.
6 I am bent down and bowed utterly; / I go about all day long mourning.
7 For my loins are filled with burning, / And there is no soundness in my flesh.
8 I am benumbed and crushed utterly; / I cry out due to the groaning of my heart.
9 O Lord, all my desire is before You, / And my groaning is not hidden from You.
10 My heart throbs; my strength fails me; / And as for the light of my eyes, neither is it with me.
11 Those who love me and those who are my friends stand aloof from my plague, / And my relatives stand far away.
12 And those who seek my soul lay traps for me, / And those who pursue my misfortune speak of destruction, / And they contemplate deceit all day long.
13 But I, like a deaf man, cannot hear; / And I am like a dumb man, who cannot open his mouth.
14 Indeed I am like a man who does not hear / And in whose mouth there are no reproofs.
15 For in You, O Jehovah, do I hope; / You will respond, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, May they never rejoice over me! / When my foot slips, they magnify themselves over me.
17 For I am ready to stumble, / And my pain is before me continually.
18 For I declare my iniquity; / I am anxious because of my sin.
19 But my enemies are vigorous; they are strong; / And those who wrongly hate me are many.
20 Those also who repay evil for good / Are my adversaries because I pursue what is good.
21 Do not abandon me, O Jehovah; / O my God, do not be far away from me.
22 Hasten to help me, / O Lord, my salvation.

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1 I said, I will keep my ways, / So that I do not sin with my tongue; / I will keep a muzzle on my mouth / When the wicked are before me.
2 I was dumb and silent; / I held my peace, even from good; / And my pain was stirred up.
3 My heart was hot within me; / While I mused, the fire burned; / I spoke with my tongue:
4 O Jehovah, cause me to know my end, / And the measure of my days, what it is. / May I know how transient I am.
5 Behold, You have made my days as mere handbreadths, / And my lifetime is as nothing before You; / Surely every man at his best is altogether vanity. Selah
6 Surely man goes about as a semblance; / Surely they bustle about in vain: / He heaps up riches yet knows not / Who will gather them.
7 And now what am I waiting for, O Lord? / My hope — it is in You.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; / Do not make me the fool’s reproach.
9 I was dumb; I did not open my mouth; / For You have done this.
10 Remove Your plague from me; / By the hostility of Your hand I am consumed.
11 With rebukes You chasten a man because of iniquity, / And cause what is desirous to him to disappear like a moth. / Surely every man is vanity. Selah
12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah; / And give ear to my cry; / Do not hold Your peace at my tears. / For I am a stranger with You, / A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
13 Look away from me, that I may be cheerful, / Before I go away and am no more.

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1 I waited patiently on Jehovah, / And He inclined to me / And heard my cry.
2 Then He brought me up out of a pit of destruction, / Out of the miry clay; / And He set my feet upon a rock, / Establishing my steps.
3 Then He put a new song in my mouth, / A praise to our God. / Many see it and fear, / And they trust in Jehovah.
4 Blessed is the man / Who makes Jehovah his trust / And does not turn to the proud / Or to those who turn aside after deception.
5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful deeds which You have done / And Your thoughts toward us; / They cannot be set in order unto You. / Were I to declare and speak of them, / They would be too numerous to recount.
6 You do not delight in sacrifice and offering; / You have prepared ears for Me; / You do not require burnt offering and sin offering.
7 Then I said, / Behold, I have come; / In the scroll of the book / It is written concerning Me.
8 I delight in doing Your will, O My God; / Indeed Your law is within My inward parts.
9 I bear tidings of righteousness / In the great congregation. / Behold, I will not withhold My lips; / O Jehovah, You know.
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness / Within My heart; / I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; / I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.
11 You, O Jehovah, do not withhold / Your compassions from me; / May Your lovingkindness and Your truth / Preserve me continually.
12 For evils encompass me until they cannot be counted; / My iniquities have so overtaken me / That I cannot see; / They are more numerous than the hairs of my head; / Thus my heart fails me.
13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; / O Jehovah, hasten to help me.
14 May those who seek my life to destroy it / Be put to shame and confounded together; / May those who take delight in my misfortune / Be turned back and humiliated.
15 May those who say to me, Aha! Aha! / Be desolate because of their shame.
16 May all those who seek You / Be glad and rejoice in You; / May those who love Your salvation say continually, / May Jehovah be magnified!
17 But I am poor and needy; / May the Lord think about me. / You are my help and my Deliverer; / O my God, do not delay.

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1 Blessed is he who considers the poor; / In the day of evil Jehovah will deliver him.
2 May Jehovah keep him and preserve him alive; / May he be blessed in the land; / And do not give him over to the will of his enemies.
3 Jehovah will sustain him on his sickbed; / You make all his bed in his illness.
4 I said, O Jehovah, be gracious to me; / Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.
5 My enemies speak evil against me: / When will he die and his name perish?
6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. / His heart gathers iniquity to itself; / When he goes out, he speaks it.
7 All who hate me whisper together against me; / Against me they devise my misfortune.
8 Some evil illness, they say, has been poured out on him; / And when he lies down, he will not rise again.
9 Even my familiar friend, in whom I trusted, / Who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
10 But You, O Jehovah, be gracious to me and raise me up / That I may recompense them.
11 By this I know that You delight in me, / That my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.
12 And as for me, You uphold me in my integrity, / And You set me in Your presence forever.
13 Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, / From eternity to eternity. / Amen and Amen.

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1 As the hart pants / After the streams of water, / So my soul pants / For You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, / For the living God. / When will I come and appear / Before God?
3 My tears have been my food / Day and night, / While they say to me all day long, / Where is your God?
4 These things I remember, / And I pour out my soul within me: / That I passed through with the throng; / I led them to the house of God / With the voice of a joyous shout and praise, / The festal multitude.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him / For the salvation of His countenance.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; / Therefore I remember You / From the land of the Jordan and the Hermons, / From Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls unto deep / At the sound of Your water spouts; / All Your waves and Your billows / Pass over me.
8 By day Jehovah commands / His lovingkindness, / And by night His song is with me, / A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I say to God my rock, / Why have You forgotten me? / Why do I go mourning / Because of the oppression of the enemy?
10 As with a shattering in my bones, / My adversaries reproach me, / While they say to me all day long, / Where is your God?
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, / The salvation of my countenance and my God.

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1 Render judgment for me, O God; / And plead my cause / Before an unfaithful nation; / From the deceitful and unjust man / Deliver me.
2 For You are the God of my protection. / Why have You rejected me? / Why do I go about mourning / Because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 Send forth Your light and Your truth; / They will lead me; / They will bring me to Your holy mountain / And to Your tabernacles.
4 And I will go to the altar of God, / To God my exceeding joy; / And I will praise You with the harp, / O God, my God.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? / And why are you disquieted within me? / Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, / The salvation of my countenance and my God.

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1 O God, we have heard with our ears; / Our fathers have recounted it to us, / The work You did in their days, / In the days of old.
2 You, by Your hand, / Have dispossessed nations, but You have planted our fathers; / You afflicted peoples, but You spread our fathers forth.
3 For they did not possess the land by their sword, / Nor did their arm save them; / Rather it was Your right hand and Your arm, / And the light of Your countenance; / For You delighted in them.
4 You are my King, O God; / Command salvation for Jacob.
5 Through You we thrust back our adversaries; / Through Your name we trample those who rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, / Nor will my sword save me.
7 But You save us from our adversaries, / And You put to shame those who hate us.
8 In God we boast all day long, / And we praise Your name forever. Selah
9 Nevertheless You have rejected us and humiliated us, / And You have not gone forth with our armies.
10 You have caused us to turn back from the adversary, / And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
11 You have given us over like sheep to be eaten / And have scattered us among the nations.
12 You have sold Your people for nothing / And have not gone high on their price.
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, / A mocking and a derision to those around us.
14 You have made us a proverb among the nations, / Something to shake the head at among the peoples.
15 All day long my humiliation is before me, / And the shame of my face covers me,
16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, / Because of the presence of the enemy and of him who avenges himself.
17 All this has come upon us; but we have not forgotten You, / Nor have we been false to Your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back, / Nor have our steps deviated from Your way;
19 But You have crushed us in the place of jackals / And have covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God / Or spread out our hands to a strange god,
21 Will God not search this out? / For He knows the hidden things of the heart.
22 But for Your sake we are slain all day long; / We are considered as sheep for slaughter.
23 Awake! Why are You sleeping, O Lord? / Arise! Do not reject us forever.
24 Why do You hide Your face / And forget our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul bows down to the dust; / Our body clings to the earth.
26 Rise up; be our help, / And redeem us for Your lovingkindness’ sake.

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1 My heart overflows with a good matter; / I speak what I have composed concerning the King. / My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2 You are fairer than the sons of men; / Grace is poured upon Your lips; / Therefore God has blessed You forever.
3 Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O mighty One, / In Your majesty and Your splendor.
4 And in Your splendor ride on victoriously / Because of truth and meekness and righteousness; / And let Your right hand teach You awesome deeds.
5 Your arrows are sharp: / The peoples fall under You; / The arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies.
6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; / The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; / Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You / With the oil of gladness above Your companions.
8 All Your garments smell of myrrh and aloes, of cassia; / From palaces of ivory, harpstrings have made You glad.
9 The daughters of kings are among Your most prized; / The queen stands at Your right hand in the gold of Ophir.
10 Hear, O daughter, and see; and incline your ear; / And forget your people and your father’s house;
11 Thus the King will desire your beauty. / Because He is your Lord, / Worship Him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; / The rich among the people will entreat your favor.
13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within the royal abode; / Her garment is a woven work inwrought with gold.
14 She will be led to the King in embroidered clothing; / The virgins behind her, her companions, / Will be brought to You.
15 They will be led with rejoicing and exultation; / They will enter the King’s palace.
16 In the place of Your fathers will be Your sons; / You will make them princes in all the earth.
17 I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations; / Therefore the peoples will praise You forever and ever.

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1 God is our refuge and strength; / A help in distress, He is most readily found.
2 Therefore we will not fear, / Though the earth change, / And the mountains slip into the heart of the seas;
3 Though the waters of the sea roar and foam; / Though the mountains shake at its swelling. Selah
4 There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, / The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she will not be moved; / God helps her at the dawn of the morning.
6 The nations rage; the kingdoms are moved. / He utters His voice; the earth melts.
7 Jehovah of hosts is with us; / The God of Jacob is our high retreat. Selah
8 Come, see the works of Jehovah, / How He has made desolations on earth.
9 He makes wars cease unto the end of the earth; / He breaks the bow and cuts the spear to pieces; / He burns the war wagons with fire.
10 Be still and know that I am God. / I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted on earth.
11 Jehovah of hosts is with us; / The God of Jacob is our high retreat. Selah

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1 Clap your hands, all you peoples; / Shout to God with the voice of a triumphant sound.
2 For Jehovah Most High is awesome: / A great King over all the earth.
3 He subdues peoples under us, / And nations under our feet.
4 He chose our inheritance for us, / The excellency of Jacob, whom He loved. Selah
5 God ascends amidst shouting; / Jehovah, at the sound of a trumpet.
6 Sing psalms to God, sing psalms; / Sing psalms to our King, sing psalms.
7 For God is the King of all the earth; / Sing psalms with understanding.
8 God reigns over the nations; / God sits upon His holy throne.
9 The princes of the peoples have been gathered / As the people of the God of Abraham; / For the shields of the earth belong to God; / He is greatly exalted.

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1 Great is Jehovah, / And much to be praised / In the city of our God, / In His holy mountain.
2 Beautiful in elevation, / The joy of the whole earth, / Is Mount Zion, the sides of the north, / The city of the great King.
3 God has made Himself known / In her palaces as a high retreat.
4 For, behold, the kings have assembled themselves; / They passed by together.
5 They saw; therefore they were astounded. / They were dismayed; they hurried off in alarm.
6 Trembling seized them there; / Writhing, like that of a woman in labor;
7 With an east wind You shattered / The ships of Tarshish.
8 As we have heard, / So we have seen / In the city of Jehovah of hosts, / In the city of our God. / God will establish her forever. Selah
9 We consider, O God, Your lovingkindness / In the midst of Your temple.
10 As Your name is, O God, / So is Your praise / Unto the ends of the earth; / Your right hand is full of righteousness.
11 Let Mount Zion rejoice; / Let the daughters of Judah exult / Because of Your judgments.
12 Walk about Zion, and go around her; / Count her towers.
13 Consider carefully her bulwarks; / Pass between her palaces; / That you may recount it to the generation following.
14 For this God is our God forever and ever. / He will guide us even unto death.

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1 Hear this, all you peoples; / Give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,
2 Both low and high, / Rich and poor together;
3 My mouth will speak wisdom, / And the meditation of my heart will be that of understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a parable; / I will disclose my riddle upon the harp.
5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, / When the iniquity of those who supplant me surrounds me,
6 Those who trust in their wealth / And boast in the multitude of their riches?
7 None can by any means redeem his brother / Or give to God a ransom for him
8 (For the redemption of their soul is costly / And must be given up forever),
9 That he would yet live always / And not see corruption.
10 For he will see that wise men die; / The foolish one and the senseless one perish alike / And leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought is that their houses will remain forever, / That their habitations will remain from generation to generation; / They call lands after their own names.
12 But man in honor does not remain; / He is like the beasts that perish.
13 Such is the way of those who are self-confident, / And of those after them who approve of their sayings. Selah
14 Like a flock, they are appointed for Sheol; / Death will shepherd them. / And straight to the grave they will descend, / And their form will be for Sheol to consume / That there be no abode for them.
15 But God will redeem my soul / From the power of Sheol, / For He will receive me. Selah
16 Do not fear when a man becomes rich, / When the glory of his house increases.
17 For when he dies, he will take nothing; / His glory will not descend after him.
18 Though he blessed his soul while he lived — / And men praise you when you do good for yourself —
19 It will go to the generation of his fathers; / They will never see light.
20 A man in honor but without understanding / Is like the beasts that perish.

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1 The Mighty One, God Jehovah, / Speaks and summons the earth / From the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, / God shines forth.
3 Our God has come and will not be silent; / Fire devours before Him, / And around Him it is exceedingly tempestuous.
4 He calls to the heavens above, / And to the earth that He may judge His people:
5 Gather My saints to Me, / Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.
6 Then the heavens declare His righteousness, / For God Himself is Judge. Selah
7 Hear, O My people, and I will speak; / O Israel, and I will testify against you: / I am God, your God.
8 I will not reprove you because of your sacrifices, / And your burnt offerings are before Me continually.
9 I will not take a bull from your house / Nor goats from your folds,
10 For every animal of the forest is Mine, / The cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 I know every bird of the mountains, / And I am aware of everything that moves in the field.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you; / For the world is Mine and the fullness thereof.
13 Shall I eat the flesh of bulls / Or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, / And repay your vows to the Most High;
15 And call upon Me in the day of trouble: / I will deliver you, and you will glorify Me.
16 But to the wicked God says, / What right do you have to declare My statutes / And take up My covenant in your mouth,
17 Seeing that you hate correction / And cast My words behind you?
18 When you see a thief, you take pleasure in him; / And your portion is with adulterers.
19 You let your mouth loose for evil, / And your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother; / You defame the son of your mother.
21 These things you do, and I keep silent; / You think that I am altogether like you. / I will rebuke you and set forth the matter in order before your eyes.
22 Consider this then, you who forget God, / Lest I tear you apart and there be none to deliver you.
23 Whoever offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies Me; / And to him who sets his way right I will show the salvation of God.

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1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness; / According to the greatness of Your compassions blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, / And from my sin cleanse me.
3 For I do know my transgressions, / And my sin is before me continually.
4 Against You and You alone have I sinned, / And I have done what is evil in Your sight. / Therefore You are righteous when You speak; / You are clear when You judge.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, / And in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, You delight in truth in the inward parts; / And in the hidden part You would make known wisdom to me.
7 Purge my sin with hyssop, and I will be clean; / Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear gladness and joy, / That the bones which You have broken may exult.
9 Hide Your face from my sins, / And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, / And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from Your presence, / And do not take the Spirit of Your holiness away from me.
12 Restore to me the gladness of Your salvation, / And sustain me with a willing spirit.
13 I will teach transgressors Your ways, / And sinners will turn back to You.
14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation; / And my tongue will ring forth Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips, / And my mouth will declare Your praise.
16 For You do not delight in sacrifice; / Otherwise I would offer it; / You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; / A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
18 Do good in Your good pleasure unto Zion; / Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then You will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, / In burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; / Then they will offer bulls upon Your altar.

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1 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty one? / God’s lovingkindness endures continually.
2 Your tongue devises destruction; / It is like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
3 You have loved evil rather than good, / Falsehood rather than speaking righteousness. Selah
4 You have loved all the devouring words, / O deceitful tongue.
5 God will likewise break you down forever; / He will take you and pluck you up from your tent, / And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
6 And the righteous will see it and fear, / And they will laugh at him, saying,
7 Behold, this is that mighty man / Who did not make God his strength, / But trusted in the multitude of his riches / And strengthened himself in his desire.
8 But I, like a flourishing olive tree / In the house of God, / Trust in God’s lovingkindness / Forever and ever.
9 I will give You thanks forever, / For You have acted; / And I will hope in Your name in the presence of Your faithful ones, / For it is good.

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1 The fool has said in his heart, / There is no God. / They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; / There is none who does good.
2 God looked down from heaven / Upon the sons of men / To see if there was anyone who had insight, / Who seeks after God.
3 All of them have turned back; / They are together perverse. / There is none who does good; / There is not even one.
4 Have they no knowledge, the workers of iniquity, / Who eat up my people as they would eat up bread / And do not call upon God?
5 There they were in great fear, / Where there was no fear. / For God scattered the bones / Of him who encamped against you. / You put them to shame / Because God has rejected them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel might come forth from Zion! / When God turns the captivity of His people, / Jacob will exult, Israel will rejoice.

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1 O God, save me by Your name, / And execute judgment for me by Your might.
2 O God, hear my prayer; / Give ear to the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up against me, / And those who terrorize seek my life; / They do not set God before them. Selah
4 Behold, God is my Helper; / The Lord is among those who sustain my soul.
5 He will return the evil to those who lie in wait for me. / Annihilate them in Your faithfulness.
6 I will offer a freewill offering to You; / I will praise Your name, O Jehovah, for it is good.
7 For He has delivered me from all distress, / And my eye looks triumphantly upon my enemies.

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1 Give ear, O God, to my prayer; / And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.
2 Give heed to me, and answer me. / I grow restless in my complaint and moan,
3 Because of the voice of the enemy, / Because of the oppression of the wicked man; / For they drop iniquity upon me, / And in anger they make me their enemy.
4 My heart writhes within me, / And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5 Fear and trembling have come upon me, / And shuddering overwhelms me.
6 And I say, Oh that I had wings like a dove! / Then I would fly away and be at rest.
7 Indeed I would wander far away; / I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah
8 I would hasten my escape / From the storm wind and the tempest.
9 Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongue; / For I have seen violence and contention in the city.
10 Day and night they go around it, / Upon its walls; / And iniquity and trouble are in the midst of it.
11 Utter ruin is in the midst of it, / And oppression and deceit / Do not depart from its streets.
12 For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; / Otherwise I could bear it. / It is not he who hates me who magnifies himself against me; / Otherwise I could hide myself from him.
13 But it is you, my equal, / My close friend and my acquaintance.
14 We were in sweet counsel together; / We walked with the throng in the house of God.
15 Let death surprise them; / May they go down into Sheol alive. / For evil is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
16 As for me, I call out to God, / And Jehovah will save me.
17 Evening and morning and at noontime / I complain and moan, / And He hears my voice.
18 He has redeemed my soul in peace / From the battle against me, / For many are they who strive with me.
19 God hears and answers them — / Even He who sits enthroned from of old — Selah / Because with them there is no change, / And they do not fear God.
20 He put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; / He profaned his covenant.
21 Smooth were the buttery words of his mouth, / But his heart was war; / More soothing than oil were his words, / But they were in fact drawn swords.
22 Cast your burden upon Jehovah, / And He will sustain you; / He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
23 But You, O God, will bring them down / Into the pit of decay.Men of bloodshed and deceit / Will not live out half their days; / But I will trust in You.

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1 Be gracious to me, O God; for man tramples me; / All day long he, fighting, oppresses me.
2 Those who lie in wait for me trample me all day long, / For many are those who arrogantly fight against me.
3 When I am afraid, / I trust in You.
4 In God, whose word I praise, / In God do I trust, and I will not be afraid. / What can flesh do to me?
5 All day long they wrest my words; / All their thoughts are against me for evil.
6 They gather themselves; they lurk; / They watch my steps, / As they have waited to take my life.
7 Will there be deliverance for them in spite of their iniquity? / In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
8 You have counted my wanderings. / Put my tears into Your bottle. / Are they not in Your book?
9 Then my enemies will turn back / When I call; / This I know, / That God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise, / In Jehovah, whose word I praise,
11 In God do I trust; I will not be afraid. / What can man do to me?
12 Your vows, O God, are on me; / I will render thank offerings to You.
13 For You have delivered my soul from death, / Indeed, my feet from stumbling, / That I may walk before God / In the light of the living.

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1 Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me; / For my soul takes refuge in You; / Indeed in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge, / Until the destruction passes by.
2 I call out to God the Most High, / To the God who accomplishes all things for me.
3 He sends forth from heaven and saves me; / He reproaches him who would trample me; Selah / God sends forth / His lovingkindness and His faithfulness.
4 My soul is among lions; / I lie down among those who blaze forth, the sons of men, / Whose teeth are spears and arrows, / And whose tongue is a sharp sword.
5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; / Let Your glory be above all the earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my steps; / My soul is bowed down. / They have dug a pit before me; / They have fallen into it themselves. Selah
7 My heart is steadfast, O God; / My heart is steadfast. / I will sing, indeed I will sing psalms.
8 Awake, my glory; / Awake, O harp and lyre! / I will awaken the dawn.
9 I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Lord; / I will sing psalms to You among the nations.
10 For Your lovingkindness is as great as the heavens; / And Your faithfulness reaches unto the skies.
11 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; / Let Your glory be above all the earth.

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1 Do you indeed, O judges, speak righteousness? / Do you judge in uprightness, O sons of men?
2 No, in heart you perform injustice; / You weigh out the violence of your hands on earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; / They err from their birth, speaking lies.
4 Their venom is like the venom of a serpent; / They are like the deaf cobra that has shut its ear,
5 Which does not hear the sound of the charmers / Or the wise spellbinder.
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth; / Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Jehovah.
7 Let them melt like water that runs off. / When he shoots his arrows, / Let them be as though they were cut off.
8 Let them be like a snail that melts and goes away, / Like a woman’s miscarriage, which by no means sees the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the fire of the thorns, / Whether green or burning, He will sweep them away.
10 The righteous man will rejoice when he sees vengeance; / He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 And men will say, Indeed there is fruit for the righteous man; / Indeed there is a God who judges on earth.

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1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; / Set me on high, secure from those who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, / And save me from men of bloodshed.
3 For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; / The strong gather themselves against me. / Not because of any transgression of mine nor because of any sin of mine, O Jehovah,
4 Not for any fault of mine, they run and ready themselves; / Awake to meet me, and see.
5 Indeed You, O Jehovah, God of hosts, God of Israel, / Arise to punish all the nations; / Have no mercy upon any who treacherously commit iniquity. Selah
6 They return in the evening; / They growl like a dog / And go around the city.
7 Behold, they belch forth with their mouth; / Swords are in their lips; / For, Who, they say, hears?
8 But You, O Jehovah, laugh at them; / You have all the nations in derision.
9 O my strength, I will watch for You; / For God is my high retreat.
10 My God in His lovingkindness will meet me; / God will let me look triumphantly upon those who lie in wait for me.
11 Do not slay them, lest my people forget; / Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, / O Lord our shield.
12 For the sin of their mouth, / For the word of their lips, / Let them even be taken in their arrogance, / And because of the cursing and the lying that they speak.
13 Consume them in wrath; consume them so that they are no more; / And men will know that God rules in Jacob / Unto the ends of the earth. Selah
14 They return in the evening; / They growl like a dog / And go around the city.
15 They wander about for food; / And if they are not filled, they linger.
16 But I will sing of Your strength; / And I will joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning. / For You have been my high retreat / And a refuge in the day of my distress.
17 O my strength, unto You I will sing psalms, / For God is my high retreat, / My God of lovingkindness.

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1 O God, You have rejected us; You have broken out upon us; / You have been angry. Restore us.
2 You have caused the earth to quake; You have split it open. / Heal the breaks in it, for it totters.
3 You have shown Your people hard things; / You have made us drink wine to stagger us.
4 You have given a banner to those who fear You, / To be displayed because of the truth. Selah
5 That Your beloved ones may be delivered, / Save with Your right hand, and answer us.
6 God has spoken in His holiness: I will exult; / I will divide Shechem / And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine, / And Ephraim is the helmet for My head; / Judah is My scepter.
8 Moab is My washbowl; / Upon Edom I will cast My sandal; / Philistia, shout aloud because of Me.
9 Who will bring me into the besieged city? / Who will lead me to Edom?
10 Will not You, O God, who rejected us / And who did not go forth, O God, with our armies?
11 Give us help from the adversary, / For a salvation by man is vain.
12 In God we will do valiantly, / And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

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1 Hear, O God, my cry; / Give heed to my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth / I will call out unto You / When my heart faints; / Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
3 For You are a refuge to me, / A strong tower before the enemy.
4 Let me sojourn in Your tent forever; / Let me take refuge in the covering of Your wings. Selah
5 For You, O God, have heard my vows; / You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.
6 You will add days to the days of the king; / May his years be like generation after generation.
7 May he dwell forever before God; / Appoint lovingkindness and faithfulness, that they may preserve him.
8 So I will sing psalms to Your name forever, / As I repay my vows day by day.

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1 My soul waits in silence for God alone; / My salvation is from Him.
2 He alone is my rock and my salvation, / My high retreat; I will not be greatly shaken.
3 How long will you assail a man / So that you may slay him, all of you, / Like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
4 They only make plans to thrust him down from his dignity; / They take delight in lies; / With their mouth they bless, / But inwardly they curse. Selah
5 My soul, wait in silence for God alone, / For my expectation is from Him.
6 He alone is my rock and my salvation, / My high retreat; I will not be shaken.
7 On God my salvation and my glory depend; / The rock of my strength, my refuge, is in God.
8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; / Pour out your heart before Him; / God is a refuge to us. Selah
9 Men of low degree are but a vapor; / Men of high degree, a lie. / In the balances they go up; / Together they are less than a vapor.
10 Do not trust in oppression, / And do not vainly hope in robbery; / If wealth increases, / Do not set your heart on it.
11 Once has God spoken; / Twice have I heard this, / That strength belongs to God.
12 To You also, O Lord, belongs lovingkindness; / For You repay every man according to his work.

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1 O God, You are my God; I seek You diligently. / My soul thirsts for You, / My flesh faints in longing for You, / In a dry and weary land without water.
2 So I have looked upon You in the sanctuary, / Seeing Your power and Your glory.
3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, / My lips praise You.
4 Thus I bless You while I live; / I lift up my hands in Your name.
5 My soul is satisfied as with the rich fatness, / And my mouth praises You with lips of joyous shouting,
6 When I remember You while on my bed, / When I consider You in the night watches.
7 For You have been my help, / And in the shadow of Your wings I will shout for joy.
8 My soul pursues after You; / Your right hand upholds me.
9 But those who seek my life to destroy it / Will go into the lower parts of the earth;
10 They will be given over to the power of the sword; / They will be the portion of foxes.
11 But the king will rejoice in God; / Everyone who swears by Him will boast; / For the mouth of those who speak falsehood will be stopped.

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1 Hear, O God, my voice in my complaint; / Preserve my life from the enemy’s dread.
2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, / From the throng of the workers of iniquity,
3 Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, / Who have aimed their arrow, their bitter word,
4 To shoot in secret places at the perfect man. / They shoot suddenly at him and do not fear.
5 They firm up for themselves an evil matter; / They talk of laying snares secretly; / They say, Who will see them?
6 They seek out injustices, saying: / We have completed a carefully sought-out plan. / Indeed each man’s inward thought / And heart are deep.
7 But God will shoot an arrow at them; / Suddenly they are wounded.
8 They are made to stumble over each other by their own tongue; / All who see them shake their heads.
9 And all men will fear / And declare what has been done by God, / And they will ponder His work.
10 The righteous man will rejoice in Jehovah and take refuge in Him, / And all the upright in heart will boast.

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1 Praise befits You, O God, in Zion; / And to You is the vow paid.
2 O You who hear prayer, / To You all flesh comes.
3 Iniquities prevail against me; / As for our transgressions, You make propitiation for them.
4 Blessed is he whom You have chosen and bring near / To dwell in Your courts. / We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, / Of Your holy temple.
5 By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, / O God of our salvation, / You who are the trust of all the ends of the earth / And of the remotest sea;
6 Who established the mountains in His strength, / Girded with might;
7 Who stilled the roaring of the seas, / The roaring of their billows, / And the tumult of the peoples.
8 And they who dwell in the uttermost parts / Are afraid of Your signs; / You make the exitways of the morning and the evening / Shout for joy.
9 You visit the earth and water it; / You enrich it greatly: / The river of God is full of water. / You provide men grain, for so You have prepared the earth.
10 Saturating its furrows, settling its ridges, / You soften it with showers; / You bless its sprouting forth.
11 You place a crown on a year with Your goodness, / And Your wagon tracks drop fatness;
12 The wilderness pastures overflow, / And the hills gird themselves with exultation.
13 The meadows are clothed with the flock, / And the valleys cover themselves in grain; / They shout for joy; indeed they sing.

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1 Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;
2 Sing forth the glory of His name; / Make glorious His praise.
3 Say to God, How awesome are Your deeds! / Because of the greatness of Your strength, Your enemies come cringing to You.
4 All the earth will worship You / And sing psalms to You; / They will sing psalms to Your name. Selah
5 Come and see the works of God; / He is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of men.
6 He turned the sea into dry land; / Through the river they crossed on foot. / There we rejoiced in Him.
7 He rules by His might forever; / His eyes observe the nations: / Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
8 Bless our God, O peoples; / And make the voice of His praise heard,
9 Who has kept our soul in life / And does not allow our feet to slip.
10 For You have tried us, O God; / You have refined us as silver is refined.
11 You have brought us into the net; / You have put a heavy burden on our loins.
12 You have made men ride over our heads; / We have gone through fire and water; / But You have brought us forth into abundance.
13 I will come into Your house with burnt offerings; / I will pay my vows to You,
14 Which my lips uttered / And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.
15 I will offer to You burnt offerings of fatlings / With the smoke of rams; / I will offer cattle with goats. Selah
16 Come, hear, all you who fear God, / And I will recount what He has done for my soul.
17 To Him I called out with my mouth, / And He was extolled with my tongue.
18 If I regarded iniquity in my heart, / The Lord did not hear.
19 But indeed God has heard; / He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, / Who has not turned my prayer away / Nor His lovingkindness from me.

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1 God be gracious to us and bless us; / May He make His face shine upon us; Selah
2 That Your way may be known on earth, / And Your salvation among all the nations.
3 Let the peoples praise You, O God; / Let the peoples praise You, all of them.
4 Let the nations rejoice and shout for joy, / For You will judge the peoples equitably / And will guide the nations on the earth. Selah
5 Let the peoples praise You, O God; / Let the peoples praise You, all of them.
6 The earth has yielded its increase; / God, our God, blesses us.
7 God blesses us; / And all the ends of the earth will fear Him.

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1 Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered; / And let those who hate Him flee before Him.
2 As smoke is driven away, You will drive them away; / As wax melts before fire, / The wicked will perish before God.
3 But the righteous will rejoice; they will exult before God / And be glad with rejoicing.
4 Sing to God; sing psalms to His name; / Triumph in Him who rides through the deserts — / For Jah is His name — and exult before Him.
5 A Father to the orphans and a Judge for the widows / Is God in His holy habitation.
6 God causes the solitary to dwell in a household; / He brings the prisoners forth into prosperity; / But the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
7 O God, when You went forth before Your people, / When You marched through the desert, Selah
8 The earth trembled, the heavens also dripped, / At the presence of God; / Sinai there quaked / At the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9 You shed forth bountiful rain, O God; / You confirmed Your inheritance when it languished.
10 Your living flock dwelt in the land; / In Your goodness You provided for the poor, O God.
11 The Lord gives the command; / The women who bear the glad tidings are a great host.
12 The kings of the armies flee. / They flee! / And she who abides at home / Divides the spoil.
13 Though you lie among the sheepfolds, / There are dove wings covered with silver, / And its pinions, with greenish-yellow gold.
14 When the Almighty scattered / The kings in the land, / It snowed on Zalmon.
15 O mighty mountain, O mountain of Bashan, / O many-peaked mountain, O mountain of Bashan:
16 Why do you look with envy, O many-peaked mountains, / At the mountain on which God desires to dwell? / Indeed Jehovah will dwell there forever.
17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, / Thousands upon thousands; / The Lord is among them, / As at Sinai, in the sanctuary.
18 You have ascended on high; You have led captive those taken captive; / You have received gifts among men, / Even the rebellious ones also, / That Jehovah God may dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the Lord, who day by day loads us with good; / God is our salvation. Selah
20 God is to us / A God of deliverance, / And with Jehovah the Lord / Are the goings forth even from death.
21 Indeed God will smash / The head of His enemies, / The hairy crown / Of him who goes about in his guiltiness.
22 The Lord said, I will bring them again from Bashan; / I will bring them again from the depths of the sea,
23 That you may bathe your foot in blood, / That the tongue of your dogs may have their portion from the enemies.
24 They have seen Your goings, O God, / The goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary:
25 Singers go before; players after; / In the midst of virgins sounding the tambourines.
26 Bless God in the congregations, / Even Jehovah, O you who are of the fountain of Israel.
27 There are little Benjamin, who rules them, / And the princes of Judah in their company, / The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has commanded your strength; / Strengthen, O God, that which You have done for us.
29 Because of Your temple at Jerusalem, / Kings will bring a gift to You.
30 Rebuke the animals of the reeds, / The herd of the bulls among the calves of the peoples, / Trampling on those who lust after silver; / Scatter the peoples who take delight in war.
31 Nobles will come out of Egypt; / Cush will quickly stretch out its hands to God.
32 O kingdoms of the earth, / Sing to God, / Sing psalms to the Lord, Selah
33 To Him who rides upon the ancient heaven of heavens. / Behold, He utters His voice, a mighty voice.
34 Ascribe strength to God; / His excellence is over Israel, / And His strength is in the skies.
35 You are awesome, O God, from Your sanctuaries. / The God of Israel, He gives strength and power to the people. / Blessed be God!

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1 Save me, O God; for the waters / Threaten my life.
2 I sink in deep mire, / And there is no place to stand; / I have come to the depths of water, / And the flood flows over me.
3 I am weary of my crying; / My throat is parched; / My eyes fail / While I wait for my God.
4 More numerous than the hairs of my head / Are those who hate me without cause; / Mighty are those who would destroy me, / Those who are wrongly my enemies. / What I did not steal, / I must then restore.
5 O God, You know my foolishness, / And my sins of guilt are not hidden from You.
6 Do not let those who wait on You be put to shame because of me, / O Lord Jehovah of hosts; / Do not let those who seek You be humiliated because of me, / O God of Israel.
7 Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; / Humiliation has covered my face.
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers, / And a foreigner to my mother’s children.
9 For the zeal of Your house has devoured me, / And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.
10 When I wept, when my soul was in fasting, / That became a reproach to me.
11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, / I became a proverb to them.
12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me, / And I am the mocking song of those who drink liquor.
13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, / O Jehovah, in an acceptable time; / O God, in the abundance of Your lovingkindness answer me, / In the faithfulness of Your salvation.
14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; / May I be delivered from those who hate me, / And out of the depths of water.
15 Do not let the flood of water flow over me, / Nor let the deep swallow me, / Nor let the pit close its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Jehovah; for Your lovingkindness is good; / According to the abundance of Your compassions turn to me.
17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, / For I am in distress; hurry and answer me.
18 Draw near to my soul; redeem it; / Ransom me because of my enemies.
19 You know my reproach / And my shame and my humiliation; / All my adversaries are before You.
20 Reproach has broken my heart, / And I am sick; / I looked for pity, but there was none; / And for comforters, but I found none.
21 But they gave me gall for my food, / And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 May their table become a snare before them / And a trap when they are at peace.
23 May their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; / And make their loins shake continually.
24 Pour out Your indignation upon them; / And may the burning fierceness of Your anger overtake them.
25 May their camp be desolate; / May there be no one to dwell in their tents.
26 For they persecute him whom You have stricken, / And they recount the pain of those whom You have wounded.
27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, / And do not let them come into Your righteousness.
28 May they be blotted out of the book of life, / And may they not be written with the righteous.
29 But I am poor and pained; / May Your salvation, O God, set me on high.
30 I will praise the name of God with a song / And will magnify Him with thanksgiving;
31 And it will be better to Jehovah than an ox / Or a bull with horns and hooves.
32 The meek have seen it; they rejoice. / You who seek God, let your heart revive.
33 For Jehovah listens to the needy, / And He does not despise His prisoners.
34 Let the heavens and the earth praise Him, / The seas and everything that moves in them.
35 For God will save Zion / And build the cities of Judah; / And they will abide there and possess it.
36 And the seed of His servants will inherit it, / And those who love His name will dwell in it.

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1 O God, hasten to deliver me; / O Jehovah, hasten to help me.
2 May those who seek my life / Be put to shame and confounded; / May those who take delight in my misfortune / Be turned back and humiliated;
3 May those who say, Aha! Aha! / Turn away because of their shame;
4 May all those who seek You / Be glad and rejoice in You; / And may those who love Your salvation / Say continually, / May God be magnified!
5 But I am poor and needy; / O God, hasten to me. / You are my help and my Deliverer; / O Jehovah, do not delay.

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1 In You, O Jehovah, do I take refuge; / Never let me be put to shame.
2 In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; / Incline Your ear to me and save me.
3 Be to me a rock of habitation for me to come to continually. / You have given command to save me, / For You are my rock and my fortress.
4 My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, / From the hand of the unjust and cruel;
5 For You are my hope, O Lord Jehovah, / My trust from my youth.
6 On You I have been sustained since birth; / It was You who took me from my mother’s womb; / My praise is continually of You.
7 I am like a wonder to many, / But You are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth is filled with Your praise, / With Your glory, all day long.
9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age; / When my strength fails, do not forsake me.
10 For my enemies speak concerning me, / And those who watch for my soul take counsel together,
11 Saying, God has forsaken him; / Pursue and lay hold of him, for there is no one to deliver him.
12 O God, do not be far away from me; / My God, hasten to help me.
13 May those who are the adversaries to my soul / Be put to shame and consumed; / May those who seek my misfortune / Wrap themselves in reproach and humiliation.
14 But I will hope continually / And will add yet more to all Your praise.
15 My mouth will recount Your righteousness, / Your salvation, all day long; / For I do not know its full numbers.
16 I will come with the proof of the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah; / I will remind men of Your righteousness, Yours alone.
17 O God, You have taught me from my youth; / And until now I have declared Your wondrous deeds.
18 So even into my old age and grayheadedness, / O God, do not forsake me, / Until I have declared Your strength / Unto the next generation, / Your might unto everyone who is to come.
19 And Your righteousness, O God, is so high, / You who have done great things. / O God, who is like You?
20 You who have shown me / Many great troubles / Will revive me again / And bring me up again / From the depths of the earth.
21 You will increase my greatness / And will turn and comfort me.
22 I will also praise You with the harp, / I will praise Your faithfulness, my God; / I will sing psalms to You with the lyre, / O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will give a ringing shout / When I sing psalms to You, / And my soul, which You have redeemed.
24 My tongue also will declare / Your righteousness all day long; / For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, / They who seek my misfortune.

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1 O God, give Your judgments to the king, / And Your righteousness to the son of the king.
2 He will judge Your people in righteousness, / And Your poor with justice.
3 The mountains will bear peace to the people, / And the hills, in righteousness.
4 He will judge the poor of the people; / He will save the children of the needy / And crush the oppressor.
5 They will fear You as long as the sun endures / And as long as the moon endures / Throughout the generations.
6 He will drop like rain upon mown grass, / Like abundant showers dripping on the earth.
7 In His days the righteous will flourish, / And there will be an abundance of peace / Until the moon is no more.
8 And He will have dominion from sea to sea / And from the River unto the ends of the earth.
9 The desert dwellers will bow down before Him, / And His enemies will lick the dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the coastlands / Will pay tribute; / The kings of Sheba and Seba / Will present gifts.
11 And all the kings will bow down before Him; / All the nations will serve Him.
12 For He will deliver the needy man when he cries, / And the poor man who has no one to help him.
13 He will have pity on the weak and needy, / And the souls of the needy He will save.
14 From oppression and violence / He will redeem their soul, / And their blood will be precious in His sight.
15 So He shall live and to Him shall be given / The gold of Sheba; / And prayer shall be made continually for Him; / He shall be blessed all the day long.
16 There will be an abundance of grain on the earth, / Even at the tops of the mountains. / Its fruit will wave like the forests of Lebanon, / And those of the city will blossom like the foliage of the earth.
17 His name will be forever; / As long as the sun endures, His name will spread; / And men will be blessed in Him; / All the nations will call Him blessed.
18 Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, / Who alone does wondrous deeds;
19 And blessed be His glorious name forever; / And may His glory fill the whole earth. / Amen and Amen.
20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

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1 Surely God is good to Israel, / To those who are pure in heart.
2 But as for me, my feet were nearly turned aside; / My steps had almost slipped.
3 For I was envious of the arrogant, / When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For they have no pangs in their death, / And their body is well nourished.
5 They do not find themselves in the hardship of men, / Nor are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride is a necklace for them, / Violence covers them like a garment.
7 Their eyes bulge out from fatness; / The imaginations of their heart overflow.
8 They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; / They speak loftily.
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, / And their tongue walks about on the earth.
10 Therefore His people return here, / And waters of abundance are drained by them;
11 And they say, How does God know? / And is there knowledge with the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the wicked; / And always at ease, they heap up riches.
13 Surely I have purified my heart in vain, / And I have washed my hands in innocence.
14 For I have been plagued all day long / And chastened every morning.
15 If I had said, I will speak thus; / Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
16 When I considered this in order to understand it, / It was a troublesome task in my sight,
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; / Then I perceived their end.
18 Surely You set them in slippery places; / You cast them down into ruins.
19 How they are made desolate in a moment! / They are utterly consumed by terrors.
20 Like a dream, when one awakes, You, O Lord, / Upon arising, will despise their image.
21 When my heart was embittered, / And inwardly I was pricked;
22 I was brutish and knew nothing; / I was like a beast before You.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with You; / You have taken hold of my right hand.
24 You will guide me with Your counsel, / And afterward You will receive me in glory.
25 Whom do I have in heaven but You? / And besides You there is nothing I desire on earth.
26 My flesh and my heart fail, / But God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.
27 For behold, those who are far from You will perish; / You destroy all who go about as harlots away from You.
28 But as for me, drawing near to God is good for me; / I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, / That I may declare all Your works.

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1 Why, O God, have You cast us off forever? / Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?
2 Remember Your assembly, which You have purchased of old, / Which You have redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance, / And Mount Zion, where You dwell.
3 Lift up Your steps unto the perpetual ruins; / The enemy has damaged everything in the sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your assembly place; / They have set up their symbols as signs.
5 It looked like when men bring up axes / On the thicket of the trees.
6 And now they have struck down with hatchet and hammer / Its carved work altogether.
7 They have set fire to Your sanctuary; / They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
8 They said in their heart, Let us oppress them completely. / They have burned down all God’s assembly places in the land.
9 We do not see our signs; there is no longer a prophet, / Nor is there anyone among us who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, will the adversary reproach? / Will the enemy despise Your name forever?
11 Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? / Bring it forth from the midst of Your bosom; destroy them.
12 But God is my King of old, / Accomplishing salvation in the midst of the earth.
13 You divided the sea by Your strength; / You broke the heads of the sea serpents on the waters.
14 You crushed the heads of the leviathan; / You gave him as food to the creatures of the desert.
15 You broke open the fountain and the torrent; / You dried up the ever-flowing streams.
16 The day is Yours; the night also is Yours; / You prepared the moon and the sun.
17 You established all the borders of the earth: / You formed the summer and the winter.
18 Remember this: The enemy has reproached Jehovah, / And a foolish people has despised Your name.
19 Do not give the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast; / Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
20 Regard the covenant, / For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
21 Do not let him who is oppressed return ashamed. / May the poor and needy praise Your name.
22 Arise, O God; contend for Your own cause; / Remember how the foolish man reproaches You all day long.
23 Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries; / The roar of those who rise up against You goes up continually.

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1 We give thanks to You, O God; we give thanks, / For Your name is near; men tell of Your wondrous deeds.
2 When I choose the appointed time, / It is I who judge with equity.
3 The earth and all who dwell in it melt; / I have established its pillars. Selah
4 I said to the boastful, Do not boast; / And to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn.
5 Do not lift your horn on high; / Do not speak arrogantly with a haughty neck.
6 For neither from the east nor from the west, / And neither from the south, does exaltation come;
7 For God is the Judge: / He puts this one down and exalts that one.
8 For there is a cup in the hand of Jehovah, / And the wine foams; it is full of mixture, / And He pours from it; indeed its dregs will all the wicked of the earth / Drain off and drink up.
9 But as for me, I will declare forever, / I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob.
10 And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off, / But the horns of the righteous man will be exalted.

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1 God is known in Judah; / His name is great in Israel.
2 And in Salem is His tabernacle, / And His dwelling place, in Zion.
3 There He broke the flashing arrows of the bow, / The shield and the sword and the battle. Selah
4 More glorious are You, / More excellent than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted are despoiled; / They slept their sleep, / And none of the men of strength / Have found their hands.
6 At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, / Both chariot and horse fall into deep sleep.
7 You, indeed You, are to be feared; / And who may stand before You once You are angry?
8 You caused judgment to be heard from the heavens; / The earth feared and was still,
9 When God rose for judgment, / To save all the meek of the earth. Selah
10 For the wrath of man will praise You; / You will gird Yourself with the remainder of wrath.
11 Make vows and pay them to Jehovah your God; / Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared.
12 He will cut off the spirit of the princes; / He is terrible to the kings of the earth.

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1 My voice calls out to God, and I will cry out; / My voice calls out to God, and He will give ear to me.
2 In the day of my distress I sought the Lord; / My hand was stretched out in the night, and it did not drop. / My soul refused to be comforted.
3 I remember God, and I moan; / I complain, and my spirit faints. Selah
4 You hold open my eyelids; / I am disturbed and cannot speak.
5 I consider the days of old, / The years of ancient times;
6 I remember my song in the night; / I muse with my own heart, and my spirit carefully searches.
7 Will the Lord cast us off forever, / And will He never be favorable to us again?
8 Has His lovingkindness ceased forever? / Has the promise come to an end for all generations?
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? / Or has He in anger shut up His compassions? Selah
10 Then I said, This is my infirmity; / But I recall the years of the right hand of the Most High.
11 I will bring to remembrance the deeds of Jehovah, / For I will remember Your wonders from of old.
12 And I will meditate on all that You have done / And muse on Your doings.
13 O God, Your way is in the sanctuary; / Who is so great a god as God?
14 You are the God who does wonders; / You have made known Your strength among the peoples.
15 You redeemed Your people with Your arm, / The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
16 The waters saw You, O God; / The waters saw You; they were afraid; / Indeed the depths trembled.
17 The clouds poured forth water; / The skies sent forth a sound; / Indeed Your arrows went here and there.
18 The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; / Lightning illuminated the world; / The earth trembled and quaked.
19 Your way was in the sea, / And Your paths in the great waters; / And Your footsteps were not known.
20 You led Your people like a flock / By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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1 Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; / Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; / I will utter riddles from of old,
3 Which we have heard and known, / And our fathers have related to us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, / But will relate to the generation to come / The praises of Jehovah and His strength / And His wondrous deeds that He has done.
5 Indeed He has established a testimony in Jacob / And appointed a law in Israel, / Which He commanded our fathers / That they should make them known to their children;
6 That the generation to come, / The children to be born, may know them, / Who should arise and relate them to their children;
7 That they might set their hope in God, / And not forget the deeds of God, / But observe His commandments;
8 That they might not be like their fathers, / A stubborn and rebellious generation, / A generation that did not set their heart right, / And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The children of Ephraim, armed archers with bows, / Turned back in the day of battle.
10 They did not keep the covenant of God, / And they refused to walk in His law.
11 And they forgot His doings / And His wondrous deeds that He had shown them.
12 He did something wonderful in the sight of their fathers / In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, / And He made the water stand as a heap.
14 And He led them with the cloud by day / And all the night with a light of fire.
15 He split rocks in the wilderness / And gave them abundant drink, as from the depths.
16 He also brought forth streams from the rock / And made water run down like rivers.
17 Yet they still continued to sin against Him, / To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
18 And they put God to the test in their heart, / By asking for food according to their desire.
19 They also spoke against God; / They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, He struck the rock, / And water gushed out, / And streams overflowed; / Can He also give us bread, / Or provide meat for His people?
21 Therefore Jehovah heard and was angry. / And a fire was kindled against Jacob, / And also anger went up against Israel;
22 Because they did not believe in God, / And they did not trust in His salvation.
23 Yet He commanded the skies above / And opened the doors of heaven;
24 And He rained down upon them manna to eat / And gave them the food of heaven.
25 Man ate the bread of the mighty; / He sent them full provision.
26 He made the east wind blow in the heavens / And guided the south wind by His strength.
27 And He rained upon them meat like dust, / And winged birds like the sand of the seas.
28 And He made it fall in the midst of their camp, / Around their habitations.
29 So they ate and were well filled; / Indeed what they desired He brought to them.
30 They were not estranged from what they desired; / Their food was still in their mouths
31 When the anger of God went up against them / And slew some of their fattest ones / And struck down the choice men of Israel.
32 In spite of all this they still sinned / And did not believe in His wondrous deeds.
33 Therefore He consumed their days with vanity, / And their years with terror.
34 When He slew them, they inquired after Him, / And they returned and diligently sought God.
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, / And the Most High God, their Redeemer.
36 But they flattered Him with their mouth / And lied to Him with their tongue.
37 For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, / Nor were they faithful to His covenant.
38 But He, being merciful, forgave their iniquity / And did not destroy them; / Indeed He turned back His anger many times / And did not stir up all His wrath.
39 And He remembered that they were flesh, / A wind that goes away and does not return.
40 How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness / And grieved Him in the desert!
41 And they repeatedly put God to the test / And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember His hand, / The day when He ransomed them from the adversary;
43 When He set His signs in Egypt / And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
44 And He turned their rivers into blood, / As well as their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 He sent among them a swarm of flies, which devoured them; / And frogs, which destroyed them.
46 And He gave their increase to the consuming locust, / And their labor to the swarming locust.
47 He killed their vines with hail, / And their sycamores with ice stones.
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail / And their herds to the lightning bolts.
49 He sent among them the burning fierceness of His anger, / Overflowing wrath and indignation and trouble, / A mission of angels of evils.
50 He leveled a path for His anger; / He did not spare their soul from death, / But gave their life over to the pestilence.
51 And He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, / The firstfruits of their vigor in the tents of Ham.
52 But He set forth His people like sheep / And led them like a flock in the wilderness.
53 And He led them to safety, so that they did not fear; / But the sea covered their enemies.
54 And He brought them forth to His holy border, / The mountain, which His right hand had acquired.
55 And He drove out the nations before them / And allotted them as an inheritance by line, / And He made the tribes of Israel dwell there in their tents.
56 Yet they put Him to the test and rebelled against God the Most High, / And did not keep His testimonies.
57 And they turned back and dealt treacherously, as their fathers had done; / They turned aside like a deceitful bow.
58 Indeed they provoked Him to anger with their high places / And made Him jealous with their graven images.
59 God heard, and He was angered; / And He greatly abhorred Israel.
60 Thus He forsook the tabernacle in Shiloh, / The tent in which He dwelt among men;
61 And He gave over His Ark into captivity, / And His glory into the hand of the adversary.
62 He also delivered His people to the sword / And was angry with His inheritance.
63 Fire devoured their young men, / And their virgins had no marriage song.
64 Their priests fell by the sword, / And their widows did not lament.
65 Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, / Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
66 And He struck His adversaries and sent them back; / He put an everlasting reproach upon them.
67 And He rejected the tent of Joseph, / And the tribe of Ephraim He did not choose.
68 Rather He chose the tribe of Judah, / Mount Zion, which He loved.
69 And He built His sanctuary like the heights, / Like the earth that He has founded forever.
70 Moreover He chose David His servant / And took him from the sheepfolds;
71 From following after the ewes He brought him / To shepherd Jacob His people / And Israel His inheritance.
72 And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, / And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

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1 O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; / They have defiled Your holy temple; / They have turned Jerusalem into heaps.
2 They have given the dead bodies of Your servants / As food for the birds of heaven, / The flesh of Your saints to the animals of the earth.
3 They have poured out their blood like water around Jerusalem, / And there was no one to bury them.
4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, / A mocking and a derision to those around us.
5 How long, O Jehovah? Will You be angry forever? / Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out Your wrath upon the nations / Who do not know You, / And upon the kingdoms / Who do not call upon Your name.
7 For they have devoured Jacob / And have desolated his habitation.
8 Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; / May Your compassions quickly meet us, / For we have been brought very low.
9 Help us, O God of our salvation, / For the glory of Your name; / And deliver us and expiate our sins, / For Your name’s sake.
10 Why should the nations say, / Where is their God? / May the avenging of the blood of Your servants, which has been poured out, / Be known among the nations in our sight.
11 May the sighing of the prisoner come before You. / According to the greatness of Your power preserve those appointed to die,
12 And render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom / Their reproach, with which they have reproached You, O Lord.
13 And we, Your people and the sheep of Your pasture, / Will give You thanks forever; / From generation to generation we will tell out Your praise.

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1 O Shepherd of Israel, give ear, / You who lead Joseph like a flock; / You who are enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh / Stir up Your might, / And come to save us.
3 O God, restore us; / And cause Your face to shine, and we will be saved.
4 O Jehovah God of hosts, / How long will You fume / Against the prayer of Your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears / And have made them drink tears in large measure.
6 You have made us a cause of strife to our neighbors, / And our enemies deride us among themselves.
7 O God of hosts, restore us; / And cause Your face to shine, and we will be saved.
8 You brought a vine out of Egypt; / You drove out nations and planted it;
9 You cleared the ground before it, / And it took deep root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered with its shadow, / And its boughs were like the cedars of God.
11 It put forth its branches unto the sea, / And its shoots unto the River.
12 Why have You broken down its hedges, / So that all who pass by on the way pluck it?
13 The boar from the forest ravages it, / And that which moves through the field feeds on it.
14 O God of hosts, turn, we beseech You; / Look down from heaven and see, / And visit this vine,
15 Even the stock which Your right hand has planted / And the son whom You have strengthened for Yourself.
16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down; / They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.
17 Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, / Upon the son of man whom You have strengthened for Yourself;
18 Then we will not turn back from You. / Revive us, and we will call upon Your name.
19 O Jehovah God of hosts, restore us; / Cause Your face to shine, and we will be saved.

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1 Sing for joy to God our strength; / Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
2 Lift up a song and sound the tambourine, / The pleasant lyre with the harp.
3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, / At the full moon, on our feast day.
4 For that is a statute of Israel, / An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5 He appointed it as a testimony in Joseph / When He went out over the land of Egypt. / I heard a language that I did not know:
6 I turned your shoulder from the burden; / Your hands were freed from the basket.
7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; / I answered you from the secret place of thunder; / I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8 Hear, O My people, and I will testify against you: / O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
9 There shall be no strange god among you, / Neither shall you worship any foreign god.
10 I am Jehovah your God, / Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt; / Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
11 But My people did not listen to My voice, / And Israel would not consent to Me.
12 So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart: / They walked after their own counsels.
13 Oh that My people had listened to Me, / That Israel had walked in My ways!
14 I would have soon subdued their enemies / And turned My hand against their adversaries.
15 Those who hate Jehovah would have come cringing to Him, / And their time would be forever.
16 And He would have fed them with the finest of wheat; / Indeed with honey from the rock I would have satisfied you.

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1 God stands in the congregation of God; / He judges in the midst of the gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly / And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah
3 Judge the poor and the orphan; / Execute justice for the afflicted and the destitute;
4 Rescue the poor and the needy; / Deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5 You do not know, nor do you understand; / You go about in darkness; / All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 I said, You are gods, / And all of you are sons of the Most High.
7 Nevertheless you will die like men / And fall like one of the princes.
8 Arise, O God; judge the earth; / For You will inherit all the nations.

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1 O God, do not keep silent; / Do not be quiet, and do not be still, O God.
2 For, behold, Your enemies are in tumult, / And those who hate You lift up their heads.
3 They devise crafty counsel against Your people, / And conspire against Your hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come and let us destroy them from being a nation, / That the name of Israel may no longer be remembered.
5 For they have conspired together with one heart; / It is against You that they have made an alliance:
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, / Moab and the Hagarites,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, / Philistia along with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria is also joined with them; / They have been a help to the children of Lot. Selah
9 Do with them as with Midian, / As with Sisera and Jabin, at the brook Kishon:
10 They were destroyed at Endor; / They became dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, / And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, Let us possess for ourselves / The habitations of God.
13 O my God, make them like a tumbleweed, / Like stubble before the wind.
14 Like fire that burns a forest / And like a flame that sets mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest, / And terrify them with Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame, / That they may seek Your name, O Jehovah.
17 May they be ashamed and dismayed forever, / And may they be confounded and perish;
18 That they may know that You alone, whose name is Jehovah, / Are the Most High over all the earth.

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1 How lovely are Your tabernacles, / O Jehovah of hosts!
2 My soul longs, indeed even faints, / For the courts of Jehovah; / My heart and my flesh cry out / To the living God.
3 At Your two altars even the sparrow has found a home; / And the swallow, a nest for herself, / Where she may lay her young, / O Jehovah of hosts, my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; / They will yet be praising You. Selah
5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, / In whose heart are the highways to Zion.
6 Passing through the valley of Baca, / They make it a spring; / Indeed the early rain covers it with blessings.
7 They go from strength to strength; / Each appears before God in Zion.
8 O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; / Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God; / And look upon the face of Your anointed.
10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand; / I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God / Than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield; / Jehovah gives grace and glory; / He does not withhold anything good / From those who walk uprightly.
12 O Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man / Who trusts in You.

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1 You have been pleased, O Jehovah, with Your land; / You have turned the captivity of Jacob.
2 You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; / You have covered all their sin. Selah
3 You have taken away all Your wrath; / You have turned from the fierceness of Your anger.
4 Restore us, O God of our salvation, / And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.
5 Will You be angry with us forever? / Will You extend Your anger from generation to generation?
6 Will You not again revive us, / That Your people may rejoice in You?
7 Show us, O Jehovah, Your lovingkindness, / And grant us Your salvation.
8 I will hear what God Jehovah will speak, / For He will speak peace / To His people and to His faithful ones; / But let them not turn again unto folly.
9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, / That glory may dwell in our land.
10 Lovingkindness and truth have met together; / Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11 Truth has sprung forth from the earth, / And righteousness has looked down from heaven.
12 Indeed Jehovah will give what is good, / And our land will give its increase.
13 Righteousness will go before Him / And make His footsteps a way to walk in.

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1 Incline Your ear, O Jehovah; answer me; / For I am poor and needy.
2 Keep my soul; for I am faithful; / Save Your servant who trusts in You, O You who are my God.
3 Be gracious to me, O Lord; / For to You do I call out all day long.
4 Cause the soul of Your servant to rejoice, / For unto You, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5 For You, O Lord, are good and ready to forgive / And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.
6 Give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer, / And give heed to the voice of my supplications.
7 In the day of my distress I call upon You, / For You answer me.
8 There is none like You among the gods, O Lord; / Nor are there any works like Yours.
9 All the nations which You have made will come / And worship before You, O Lord; / And they will glorify Your name.
10 For You are great, and You do wondrous deeds; / You alone are God.
11 Teach me, O Jehovah, Your way; / I will walk in Your truth. / Make my heart single in fearing Your name.
12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; / And I will glorify Your name forever.
13 For Your lovingkindness is great toward me, / And You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
14 O God, the proud have risen up against me, / And a company of violent men seek my life; / And they do not set You before them.
15 But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, / Long-suffering and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
16 Turn to me and be gracious to me; / Give Your strength to Your servant, / And save the son of Your female servant.
17 Show me a token of goodness, / That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed; / For You, O Jehovah, have helped me and comforted me.

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1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
2 Jehovah loves the gates of Zion / More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3 Glorious things are spoken of you, / O city of God. Selah
4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as those who know Me; / Behold, Philistia and Tyre along with Cush: / This one was born there, they say.
5 But of Zion it will be said, / This one and that one were born in her, / And the Most High Himself will establish her.
6 Jehovah will count / When He records the peoples: / This One was born there. Selah
7 Then singing as well as dancing, they will say, / All my springs are in you.

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1 O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, / I have cried out by day and in the night before You.
2 May my prayer come before You; / Incline Your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles, / And my life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am accounted among those who go down into the pit; / I am like a man without any help,
5 Abandoned among the dead, / Like the slain that lie in the grave, / Whom You remember no more, / And they are cut off from Your hand.
6 You have put me in the lowest pit, / In the dark places, in the depths.
7 Your wrath lies heavily upon me, / And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah
8 You have put my acquaintances far from me; / You have made me an abomination to them. / I am shut in and cannot go out.
9 My eye wastes away at the affliction; / I have called out to You, O Jehovah, every day; / I have spread out my hands to You.
10 Will You perform wonders for the dead? / Will the deceased rise up and praise You? Selah
11 Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, / Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12 Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness, / Or Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
13 But I, O Jehovah, have cried out to You; / And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
14 Why, O Jehovah, have You rejected my soul? / Why do You hide Your face from me?
15 I have been afflicted and about to die since my youth; / I bear Your terrors; I am overwhelmed.
16 Your fierce wrath has gone over me; / Your terrors have cut me off.
17 They surrounded me like water all day long; / They altogether encompassed me.
18 You have put far from me / Lover and friend; / My acquaintances are in darkness.

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1 I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah forever; / From generation to generation I will make known Your faithfulness with my mouth.
2 For I have said, Lovingkindness will be built up forever; / In the heavens themselves You will establish Your faithfulness.
3 I have made a covenant with My chosen one; / I have sworn to David My servant:
4 I will establish your seed forever, / And I will build up your throne from generation to generation. Selah
5 And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Jehovah, / Indeed Your faithfulness in the congregation of the holy ones.
6 For who in the skies can be compared to Jehovah? / Who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah,
7 Like God, greatly feared in the council of the holy ones / And awesome beyond all around Him?
8 O Jehovah God of hosts, who is like You, the mighty Jah? / Your faithfulness also surrounds You.
9 You rule the swelling of the sea: / When its waves rise up, You still them.
10 You crushed Rahab like one slain; / You scattered Your enemies with the arm of Your strength.
11 The heavens are Yours; the earth also is Yours; / The world and its fullness You have founded.
12 You created the north and the south; / Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
13 You have an arm with might; / Your hand is strong; Your right hand is high.
14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; / Lovingkindness and truth go before Your face.
15 Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; / They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your countenance.
16 In Your name they exult all day long, / And in Your righteousness they are exalted.
17 For You are the glory of their strength, / And in Your favor our horn is exalted.
18 For our shield belongs to Jehovah, / And our king, to the Holy One of Israel.
19 Then You spoke in vision / Of Your Holy One, and You said, / I have given help to One who is mighty; / I have exalted One chosen from My people.
20 I have found David My Servant; / With My holy oil I have anointed Him,
21 With whom My hand will be established; / My arm will also strengthen Him.
22 The enemy will not exact anything from Him, / Nor will the son of wickedness afflict Him.
23 And I will crush His adversaries before Him, / And I will strike those who hate Him.
24 And My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with Him, / And in My name His horn will be exalted.
25 And I will set His hand on the sea / And His right hand on the rivers.
26 He will call upon Me, saying, You are My Father, / My God and the rock of My salvation.
27 I will also make Him the Firstborn, / The highest of the kings of the earth.
28 I will keep My lovingkindness for Him forever, / And My covenant will stand firm with Him.
29 And I will establish His seed forever, / And His throne as the days of heaven.
30 If His children forsake My law / And do not walk in My ordinances,
31 If they profane My statutes / And do not keep My commandments,
32 I will punish their transgression with a rod / And their iniquity with stripes.
33 But My lovingkindness I will not utterly take away from Him, / Nor will I be false to My own faithfulness.
34 I will not profane My covenant, / Nor will I change what has gone forth from My lips.
35 Once I have sworn by My holiness; / I will not lie to David.
36 His seed shall endure forever, / And His throne, like the sun before Me;
37 It shall be established forever like the moon; / And the witness in the skies is firm. Selah
38 But You have cast off and rejected; / You have been angry with Your anointed.
39 You have abhorred the covenant of Your servant; / You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
40 You have broken down all his walls; / You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
41 All who pass by on the way plunder him; / He has become a reproach to his neighbors.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; / You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.
43 Indeed You have turned back the edge of his sword / And have not made him stand in the battle.
44 You have made his brightness cease / And have cast down his throne to the ground.
45 You have shortened the days of his youth; / You have covered him with shame. Selah
46 How long, O Jehovah? Will You hide Yourself forever? / How long will Your wrath burn like fire?
47 Remember how short my time is — / For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!
48 What man will live and not see death? / Will he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
49 Where are Your former acts of lovingkindness, O Lord, / Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?
50 Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, / How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,
51 With which Your enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, / With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.
52 Blessed be Jehovah forever. / Amen and Amen.

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1 O Lord, You have been our dwelling place / In all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, / And before You gave birth to the earth and the world, / Indeed from eternity to eternity, You are God.
3 You return man to dust / And say, Return, you sons of men.
4 For a thousand years in Your sight / Are like yesterday when it passes by / And like a watch in the night.
5 You sweep them away as with a rain flood; they are as in a sleep: / In the morning they are like grass that comes up anew.
6 In the morning it flourishes and comes up anew; / In the evening it is cut down, and it dries up.
7 For we have been consumed by Your anger, / And by Your wrath we have been troubled.
8 You have set our iniquities before You, / Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
9 For all our days have passed away in Your overflowing wrath; / We bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The days of our years are seventy years, / Or, if because of strength, eighty years; / But their pride is labor and sorrow, / For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of Your anger, / And Your overflowing wrath according to the fear that is due You?
12 Teach us then to number our days / That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
13 Return, O Jehovah! How long? / And repent concerning Your servants.
14 Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness / That we may give a ringing shout and rejoice all our days.
15 Cause us to rejoice according to the days that You have afflicted us, / According to the years that we have seen evil.
16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, / And Your splendor, to their children.
17 And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, / And establish the work of our hands upon us; / Indeed the work of our hands, establish it.

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1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High / Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I say of Jehovah, / My refuge and My fortress, / My God in whom I trust!
3 For He will deliver You / From the snare of the fowler, / From the deadly pestilence.
4 With His pinions He will cover You, / And under His wings You will take refuge; / His truth is a shield and a buckler.
5 You will not be afraid of the terror by night, / Or of the arrow that flies by day,
6 Or of the pestilence that walks in darkness, / Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.
7 A thousand will fall at Your side, / And ten thousand at Your right hand; / But it will not come near to You.
8 You will only look on with Your eyes / And see the recompense of the wicked.
9 For You have made Jehovah, who is my refuge, / Even the Most High, Your habitation;
10 No evil will befall You, / Nor will any plague come near Your tent.
11 For He will give His angels charge concerning You / To keep You in all Your ways.
12 They will bear You up in their hands, / Lest You dash Your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra; / You will trample the young lion and the serpent.
14 Because He has set His love upon Me, I will rescue Him; / I will set Him on high, because He has known My name.
15 He will call upon Me, and I will answer Him. / I will be with Him in distress; / I will deliver Him and honor Him.
16 With an extension of His days I will satisfy Him, / And I will show Him My salvation.

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1 It is good to give thanks to Jehovah / And to sing psalms to Your name, O Most High;
2 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning / And Your faithfulness in the nights,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon a harp, / Upon the higgaion of the lyre.
4 For You have made me rejoice, O Jehovah, because of what You have done; / Because of the works of Your hands I will shout for joy.
5 How great are Your works, O Jehovah! / So very deep are Your thoughts!
6 A senseless man does not know them, / Nor does a fool understand them.
7 When the wicked sprout like grass, / And all the workers of iniquity blossom, / It is so that they may be destroyed forever.
8 But You are on high forever, O Jehovah.
9 For behold, Your enemies, O Jehovah; / For behold, Your enemies will perish; / All the workers of iniquity will be scattered.
10 But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; / I am anointed with fresh oil.
11 And my eye has seen its desire for my enemies; / My ears have heard their desire for the evildoers who rise up against me.
12 The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree; / He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Planted in the house of Jehovah, / They will flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age; / They will be full of sap and green;
15 To declare that Jehovah is upright; / He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

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1 Jehovah reigns; He is clothed with majesty. / Jehovah is clothed, He has girded Himself, with strength. / Indeed the world has been established; it will not be moved.
2 Your throne is established from of old; / You are from eternity.
3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah; / The floods have lifted up their voice; / The floods lift up their roaring.
4 More than the voices of many waters, / Than the mighty breakers of the sea, / Jehovah on high is mighty!
5 Your testimonies are very sure; / Holiness befits Your house, / O Jehovah, forevermore.

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1 O God of vengeance, O Jehovah, / O God of vengeance, shine forth!
2 Lift Yourself up, O Judge of the earth; / Render the reward upon the proud.
3 How long, O Jehovah, will the wicked, / How long will the wicked exult?
4 They burst out; they speak arrogantly; / All the workers of iniquity boast.
5 They crush Your people, O Jehovah, / And afflict Your inheritance.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, / And they murder orphans.
7 And they say, Jehovah does not see, / And the God of Jacob does not consider.
8 Consider, you senseless ones among the people; / And you foolish ones, when will you become wise?
9 He who planted the ear, does He not hear? / And He who formed the eye, does He not see?
10 He who disciplines the nations, / He who teaches man knowledge, does He not reprove?
11 Jehovah knows the thoughts of man, / That they are vanity.
12 Blessed is the man / Whom You discipline, O Jehovah, / And teach out of Your law;
13 That You may give him rest from the days of evil / Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14 For Jehovah will not abandon His people, / Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
15 For judgment will return unto righteousness, / And all the upright in heart will follow it.
16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? / Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
17 Unless Jehovah had been my help, / My soul would have soon dwelt in silence.
18 When I said, My foot has slipped, / Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, upheld me.
19 When my disquieting thoughts within me are many, / Your comfortings delight my soul.
20 Shall the seat of destruction be united with You, / Which devises trouble through its statutes?
21 They band together against the soul of the righteous man / And condemn innocent blood.
22 But Jehovah has been my high tower, / And my God the rock of my refuge;
23 And He will return their iniquity upon them / And destroy them in their own evil; / Jehovah our God will destroy them.

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1 Come, let us sing for joy to Jehovah; / Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; / Let us make a joyful noise to Him with psalms.
3 For Jehovah is a great God / And a great King above all gods.
4 In His hand are the depths of the earth, / The heights of the mountains are His also.
5 The sea is His, and He made it; / And His hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us worship and bow down; / Let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.
7 For He is our God, / And we are the people of His pasture / And the flock of His hand. / Today, if you hear His voice,
8 Do not harden your heart as at Meribah, / As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
9 When your fathers tested Me; / They tried Me, even though they had seen My work.
10 For forty years I loathed that generation, / And I said, They are a people who go astray in heart; / And they do not know My ways;
11 Therefore I swore in My anger: / They shall by no means enter into My rest!

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1 Sing to Jehovah a new song; / Sing to Jehovah, all the earth.
2 Sing to Jehovah, bless His name; / Proclaim His salvation from day to day.
3 Declare His glory among the nations, / His wondrous deeds among all the peoples.
4 For Jehovah is great and much to be praised; / He is to be feared above all gods.
5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols, / But Jehovah made the heavens.
6 Majesty and splendor are before Him; / Strength and beauty are in His sanctuary.
7 Ascribe to Jehovah, O families of the peoples, / Ascribe to Jehovah, glory and strength;
8 Ascribe to Jehovah the glory of His name; / Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
9 Worship Jehovah in holy splendor; / Tremble before Him, all the earth.
10 Say among the nations, Jehovah reigns; / Indeed the world has been established; it will not be moved; / He will judge the peoples with equity.
11 Let the heavens rejoice and the earth be glad; / Let the sea and its fullness roar.
12 Let the field and all that is in it exult; / Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
13 Before Jehovah, for He is coming; / For He is coming to judge the earth; / He will judge the world with righteousness, / And the peoples with His truth.

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1 Jehovah reigns! Let the earth be glad; / Let the many islands rejoice.
2 Clouds and deep darkness surround Him; / Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
3 A fire goes before Him / And burns up His adversaries all around.
4 His lightning illumines the world; / The earth sees and trembles.
5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Jehovah, / At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare His righteousness, / And all the peoples see His glory.
7 Let all who serve a graven image be ashamed, / Who make their boast in idols; / Worship Him, all you gods.
8 Zion hears and rejoices, / And the daughters of Judah are glad, / Because of Your judgments, O Jehovah.
9 For You, O Jehovah, are most high over all the earth; / You are exalted far above all gods.
10 O you who love Jehovah, hate evil! / He preserves the souls of His faithful ones; / He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous man, / And rejoicing for the upright in heart.
12 Rejoice in Jehovah, O righteous ones; / And praise His holy memorial.

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1 Sing to Jehovah a new song, / For He has done wonderful things. / His right hand and His holy arm / Have accomplished salvation for Him.
2 Jehovah has made His salvation known; / In the sight of the nations / He has revealed His righteousness.
3 He remembered His lovingkindness and His faithfulness / Toward the house of Israel; / All the ends of the earth have seen / The salvation of our God.
4 Make a joyful noise to Jehovah, all the earth; / Break forth, and sing for joy, and sing psalms.
5 Sing psalms to Jehovah with the lyre, / With the lyre and the sound of melody.
6 With trumpets and the sound of the horn / Make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.
7 Let the sea and its fullness roar, / The world and those who inhabit it.
8 Let the rivers clap their hands; / Let the mountains sing for joy together
9 Before Jehovah, for He is coming / To judge the earth. / He will judge the world with righteousness / And the peoples with equity.

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1 Jehovah reigns; let the peoples tremble. / He is enthroned between the cherubim; let the earth shake.
2 Jehovah is great in Zion, / And He is exalted over all the peoples.
3 Let them praise Your great and awesome name — / It is holy —
4 And the strength of the King, who loves justice. / You have established equity; / You have executed / Justice and righteousness in Jacob.
5 Exalt Jehovah our God, / And worship at His footstool; / Holy is He.
6 Moses and Aaron among His priests, / And Samuel among those who called on His name — / They called out to Jehovah, / And He answered them.
7 In the pillar of cloud He spoke to them; / They kept His testimonies and the statute that He gave them.
8 O Jehovah our God, You answered them; / You were a forgiving God to them, / Yet One avenging their deeds.
9 Exalt Jehovah our God, / And worship on His holy mountain; / For holy is Jehovah our God.

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1 Make a joyful noise to Jehovah, all the earth.
2 Serve Jehovah with rejoicing; / Come before His presence with joyful singing.
3 Know that it is Jehovah who is God; / It is He who has made us and not we ourselves. / We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving, / His courts with praise; / Give thanks to Him; bless His name.
5 For Jehovah is good; His lovingkindness is forever, / And His faithfulness is to all generations.

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1 I will sing of lovingkindness and justice; / To You, O Jehovah, I will sing psalms.
2 I will give careful heed to the perfect way. / When will You come to me? / I will walk in the perfectness of my heart / Within my house.
3 I will not set anything base / Before my eyes; / I hate what those who turn aside do; / It will not cling to me.
4 A perverse heart will depart from me; / No evil will I know.
5 He who secretly slanders his neighbor, / Him I will destroy; / He who is of a haughty look and a proud heart, / Him I will not tolerate.
6 My eyes are on the faithful of the land, / That they may abide with me; / He who walks in the perfect way, / He will minister to me.
7 He who practices deceit / Will not dwell within my house; / He who speaks lies will not be maintained / In my sight.
8 Morning by morning I will destroy / All the wicked of the land, / In order to cut off from the city of Jehovah / All the workers of iniquity.

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1 O Jehovah, hear my prayer; / And let my cry come unto You.
2 Do not hide Your face from me / On the day of my distress; / Incline Your ear to me; / On the day when I call out, answer me quickly.
3 For my days are consumed in smoke, / And my bones burn like a hearth.
4 My heart is stricken like grass and dried up; / Indeed I have even forgotten to eat my bread.
5 Because of the voice of my groaning / My bones cling to my flesh.
6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; / I have become like an owl of the desolate places.
7 I watch, and I am like / A lone sparrow on a housetop.
8 All day long my enemies reproach me; / Those who deride me use me as a curse.
9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, / And have mixed my drink with weeping,
10 Because of Your indignation and Your wrath; / For You have taken me up and cast me away.
11 My days are like a shadow that declines, / And I am dried up like grass.
12 But You, O Jehovah, abide forever; / And Your memorial is from generation to generation.
13 You will arise and have compassion on Zion, / For it is time to be gracious to her; the appointed time has come.
14 For Your servants take pleasure in her stones, / And show favor to her dust.
15 And the nations will fear the name of Jehovah, / And all the kings of the earth, Your glory;
16 For Jehovah has built up Zion; / He has appeared in His glory.
17 He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, / And has not despised their prayer.
18 This will be written for a generation to come, / And a people to be created will praise Jehovah.
19 For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; / From heaven Jehovah beheld the earth,
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, / To release those appointed to die;
21 That the name of Jehovah may be declared in Zion, / And His praise, in Jerusalem,
22 When the peoples are gathered together, / And the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.
23 He has weakened my strength in the way; / He has shortened my days.
24 I said, My God, / Do not take me away in the middle of my days; / Your years are throughout all generations.
25 Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, / And the heavens are the work of Your hands.
26 They will perish, but You endure; / Indeed all of them will wear out like a garment; / Like clothing You will change them, / And they will be changed.
27 But You are the same, / And Your years are without end.
28 The children of Your servants will continue, / And their seed will be established before You.

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1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul; / And all that is within me, bless His holy name.
2 Bless Jehovah, O my soul; / And do not forget all His benefits:
3 He pardons all your iniquities; / He heals all your diseases;
4 He redeems your life from the pit; / He crowns you with lovingkindness and compassions;
5 He satisfies the prime of your life with good, / So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.
6 Jehovah executes righteous acts, / And judgments for all who are oppressed.
7 He made His ways known to Moses; / His acts, to the children of Israel.
8 Jehovah is compassionate and gracious, / Long-suffering and abundant in lovingkindness.
9 He will not always contend with us, / Nor will He keep His anger forever.
10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, / Nor has He recompensed us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, / So great is His lovingkindness upon those who fear Him.
12 As far as the east is from the west, / So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
13 As compassionate as a father is toward his children, / So compassionate is Jehovah toward those who fear Him.
14 For He knows our frame; / He remembers that we are dust.
15 Man — his days are like grass; / He flourishes like a field flower:
16 For the wind passes over it, and it is no more; / And its own place knows of it no longer.
17 But Jehovah’s lovingkindness is from eternity / Unto eternity upon those who fear Him, / And His righteousness is to the children’s children;
18 To those who keep His covenant / And remember His precepts so as to do them.
19 Jehovah has established His throne in the heavens, / And His kingdom rules over all.
20 Bless Jehovah, you His angels, / Who are mighty in strength to perform His word, / By obeying the voice of His word.
21 Bless Jehovah, all you His hosts, / You His ministers who execute His will.
22 Bless Jehovah, all you His works, / In all places of His dominion. / Bless Jehovah, O my soul.

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1 Bless Jehovah, O my soul. / O Jehovah my God, You are very great. / You are clothed with majesty and splendor,
2 Wrapped with light as with a garment; / You stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain.
3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; / He makes the clouds His chariot; / He walks upon the wings of the wind.
4 He makes winds His messengers, / Flames of fire His ministers.
5 He established the earth upon its foundations, / So that it cannot be moved forever and ever.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; / The waters stood above the mountains.
7 At Your rebuke they fled; / At the voice of Your thunder they rushed away —
8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank — / To the place that You established for them.
9 You set a border that they may not pass over, / That they may not turn back to cover the earth.
10 He makes the springs gush forth in the valleys; / They run among the mountains;
11 They give drink to every beast of the field; / The wild asses quench their thirst.
12 The birds of heaven dwell alongside them; / They utter their voice among the branches.
13 He waters the mountains from His upper chambers. / The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.
14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, / And herbage for man’s use, / That he may bring forth food from the earth:
15 Even wine that cheers man’s heart, / Oil that makes his face shine, / And bread that sustains man’s heart.
16 The trees of Jehovah are full of sap, / The cedars of Lebanon, which He planted,
17 Where the birds build their nests; / As for the stork, the cypresses are her house.
18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; / The cliffs are a refuge to the rock badgers.
19 He made the moon to mark seasons; / The sun knows the time of its going down.
20 You make darkness, and it is night, / In which all the beasts of the forest creep about.
21 The young lions roar after their prey, / Even to seek their food from God.
22 The sun rises: they retreat / And lie down in their dens.
23 Man goes forth to his work / And to his labor until evening.
24 How many are Your works, O Jehovah! / In wisdom You have made all of them; / The earth is full of Your creatures.
25 Yonder is the sea, great and extensively wide; / There the creeping things are, even without number, / The small animals with the great.
26 There the ships go; / Leviathan is there, whom You have formed / To play in it.
27 They all wait for You, / That You may give them food at the proper time.
28 You give to them; they gather. / You open Your hand; they are satisfied with good.
29 You hide Your face; they are troubled. / You take away their breath; they perish, / And return to their dust.
30 You send forth Your Spirit; they are created, / And You renew the surface of the ground.
31 May the glory of Jehovah endure forever! / May Jehovah rejoice in His works,
32 He who looks on the earth, and it trembles; / He who touches the mountains, and they smoke!
33 I will sing to Jehovah while I live; / I will sing psalms to my God while I yet have being.
34 May my musing be sweet to Him; / I will rejoice in Jehovah.
35 May the sinners be consumed from off the earth, / And may the wicked be no more. / Bless Jehovah, O my soul. / Hallelujah.

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1 Give thanks to Jehovah; call upon His name; / Make known His deeds among the peoples.
2 Sing to Him; sing psalms to Him; / Muse upon all His wondrous deeds.
3 Glory in His holy name; / Let the heart of those who seek Jehovah rejoice.
4 Seek Jehovah and His strength; / Seek His face continually.
5 Remember His wondrous deeds, which He has done, / His signs and the judgments of His mouth,
6 O seed of Abraham His servant, / O children of Jacob, His chosen ones.
7 He is Jehovah our God; / His judgments are in all the earth.
8 He has remembered His covenant forever, / The word that He commanded to a thousand generations,
9 The covenant that He made with Abraham, / And His oath unto Isaac.
10 And He confirmed it unto Jacob as a statute, / Unto Israel as an eternal covenant,
11 Saying, To you I will give the land of Canaan, / The portion of your inheritance;
12 When they were men few in number, / Indeed very few and strangers in the land.
13 And they went about from nation to nation, / From one kingdom to another people.
14 He allowed no man to oppress them; / Indeed He rebuked kings for their sake.
15 Saying, Do not touch My anointed ones, / And do My prophets no harm.
16 And He called a famine upon the land; / He broke the whole staff of bread.
17 He sent a man before them; / Joseph was sold as a servant.
18 They afflicted his feet with fetters; / He himself was placed in irons.
19 Until the time when his word came to pass, / The word of Jehovah tried him.
20 The king sent men and freed him, / Even the ruler of the peoples, and let him go.
21 He made him lord of his house / And ruler over all his possessions,
22 To imprison his princes at will, / And to teach his elders wisdom.
23 Then Israel came into Egypt, / And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And He made His people very fruitful, / And caused them to be mightier than their adversaries.
25 He turned their heart to hate His people, / To deal craftily with His servants.
26 He sent Moses His servant, / And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
27 They set His signs among them, / And wonders in the land of Ham.
28 He sent darkness and made it dark; / And they did not rebel against His words.
29 He turned their waters into blood, / And killed their fish.
30 Their land teemed with frogs, / Even in the chambers of their kings.
31 He spoke, and a swarm of flies came; / There were lice within all their borders.
32 He gave them hail for rain, / And flaming fire in their land.
33 He struck their vines and their fig trees, / And He broke the trees of their borders.
34 He spoke, and the swarming locusts came, / And the licking locusts, even without number.
35 And they ate every herb in their land, / And they ate the fruit of their ground.
36 He struck all the firstborn in their land, / The firstfruits of all their vigor.
37 And He brought them out with silver and gold, / And there was none among His tribes who stumbled.
38 Egypt rejoiced at their going forth, / For a dread of them had fallen upon them.
39 He spread a cloud for a covering, / And a fire to give light by night.
40 They asked, and He brought quails; / And He satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
41 He opened the rock, and water gushed forth; / It ran in the dry places like a river.
42 For He remembered His holy word / And Abraham His servant.
43 And He brought forth His people with gladness, / His chosen ones with a ringing shout.
44 And He gave them the lands of the nations, / And they took possession of the labor of the peoples,
45 So that they might keep His statutes / And observe His laws. / Hallelujah.

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1 Hallelujah. / Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, / For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, / Or declare all His praise?
3 Blessed are those who maintain justice, / Who execute righteousness at all times.
4 Remember me, O Jehovah, with Your favor toward Your people; / Visit me with Your salvation,
5 That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, / That I may rejoice in the joy of Your nation, / That I may glory with Your inheritance.
6 We have sinned with our fathers; / We committed iniquity; we have acted wickedly.
7 Our fathers in Egypt / Did not understand Your wonders; / They did not remember the multitude of Your acts of lovingkindness, / But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
8 But He saved them for His name’s sake, / That He might make His power known.
9 Thus He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; / And He led them through the depths as through the wilderness.
10 And He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, / And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11 The water then covered their adversaries; / Not one of them was left.
12 Then they believed His words; / They sang His praise.
13 Soon they forgot His works; / They did not wait for His counsel,
14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, / And tempted God in the desert.
15 And He gave them their request, / But He sent leanness into their soul.
16 And they were jealous of Moses in the camp / And of Aaron, the holy one of Jehovah.
17 The earth opened, and it swallowed up Dathan / And covered the company of Abiram.
18 And a fire burned among their company; / A flame engulfed the wicked.
19 They made a calf in Horeb, / And worshipped a molten image.
20 Thus they exchanged their glory / For the image of an ox that eats grass.
21 They forgot God their Savior, / Who had done great things in Egypt,
22 Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham, / Awesome things by the Red Sea.
23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, / And would have, had not Moses His chosen one / Stood in the breach before Him / To turn away His wrath from destroying them.
24 Then they despised the pleasant land; / They did not believe in His word;
25 Rather they murmured in their tents; / They did not listen to the voice of Jehovah.
26 Therefore He lifted up His hand and swore to them / That He would make them fall in the wilderness,
27 And that He would make their seed fall among the nations, / And that He would disperse them among the lands.
28 Then they joined themselves to Baal-peor, / And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
29 Thus they provoked Him to anger by their actions, / And the plague broke out among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, / And the plague was stayed;
31 And it has been accounted to him as righteousness / From generation to generation unto eternity.
32 Then they angered Him at the waters of Meribah, / So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
33 For they rebelled against His Spirit, / And he spoke rashly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the peoples, / As Jehovah had commanded them;
35 But they mingled themselves with the nations / And learned their practices.
36 And they served their idols, / Which became a snare to them.
37 They also sacrificed their sons / And their daughters to demons,
38 And poured out innocent blood, / The blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; / And the land was polluted with bloodshed.
39 Thus they were defiled by their practices, / And went about as harlots by their actions.
40 And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against His people, / And He abhorred His inheritance.
41 And He gave them over into the hand of the nations: / And those who hated them ruled over them,
42 And their enemies oppressed them, / And they were subdued under their hand.
43 Many times He delivered them, / But they were rebellious in their counsel, / And they were brought low in their iniquity.
44 Yet He regarded their distress / When He heard their cry,
45 And for their sake He remembered His covenant, / And repented according to the multitude of His acts of lovingkindness;
46 And He caused them to find compassion / With all their captors.
47 Save us, O Jehovah our God; / And gather us out of the nations, / That we may give thanks to Your holy name, / That we may glory in Your praise.
48 Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, / From eternity to eternity. / And let all the people say, Amen. / Hallelujah.

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1 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, / For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, / Whom He redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
3 And gathered out of the lands, / From the east and from the west, / From the north and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness, on the desert way; / They found no city of habitation.
5 Hungry and thirsty, / Their soul fainted within them.
6 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, / And He delivered them from their distresses.
7 And He led them on a straight way / That they might come to a city of habitation.
8 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness / And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
9 For He satisfies the thirsty soul, / And the famished soul He fills with good.
10 Some inhabited darkness and the shadow of death, / And were bound in affliction and irons,
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God / And spurned the counsel of the Most High;
12 Therefore He brought down their heart with labor; / They stumbled, and there was no one to help them.
13 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, / And He saved them from their distresses.
14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, / And He broke apart their bonds.
15 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness / And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
16 For He breaks down the doors of bronze / And cuts down the bars of iron.
17 Some were fools, because of their way of transgression; / And because of their iniquities, they were afflicted.
18 Their soul loathed all food, / And they drew near to the gates of death.
19 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, / And He saved them out of their distresses.
20 He sent forth His word and healed them, / And He delivered them from the pits of destruction.
21 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness / And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
22 And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving / And declare His doings in joyful song.
23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, / Conducting business on the mighty waters,
24 These see Jehovah’s doings / And His wondrous deeds in the deep.
25 For He commanded and raised up a storm wind, / And it lifted up the waves of the sea.
26 They mounted up to the heavens; they went down to the depths; / Their soul melted in the calamity.
27 They reeled and staggered like a drunken man, / And all their skill was swallowed up.
28 Then they cried out to Jehovah in their trouble, / And He brought them out of their distresses.
29 He made the storm be still, / And the waves of the sea were calm;
30 And they rejoiced that they were quiet, / And He brought them to the haven they desired.
31 Let them give thanks to Jehovah for His lovingkindness / And for His wondrous deeds to the children of men.
32 And let them exalt Him in the congregation of the people / And praise Him in the assembly of the elders.
33 He turns rivers into a wilderness, / And springs of water into thirsty ground;
34 Fruitful land into a salt flat, / Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, / And a dry land into springs of water.
36 And He makes the hungry dwell there, / That they may prepare a city of habitation
37 And sow fields and plant vineyards / And get a fruitful yield.
38 He also blesses them, and they are multiplied greatly; / And He does not let their cattle decrease.
39 When they are diminished and bowed down / Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,
40 He pours contempt on princes, / And makes them wander in a pathless waste.
41 But He raises the needy man high above affliction / And makes his families like flocks.
42 The upright see it and rejoice; / And all iniquity stops its mouth.
43 Who is wise? Then let him observe these things / And consider the lovingkindness of Jehovah.

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1 My heart is fixed, O God; / I will sing, indeed I will sing psalms, / Even with my glory.
2 Awake, O harp and lyre! / I will awaken the dawn.
3 I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Jehovah; / And I will sing psalms to You among the nations.
4 For Your lovingkindness is higher than the heavens, / And Your faithfulness reaches to the sky.
5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; / And let Your glory be above all the earth.
6 That Your beloved ones may be delivered, / Save with Your right hand, and answer us.
7 God has spoken in His holiness: I will exult; / I will divide Shechem / And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
8 Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine; / And Ephraim is the helmet for My head; / Judah is My scepter.
9 Moab is My washbowl; / Upon Edom I will cast My sandal; / Over Philistia I will shout.
10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? / Who will lead me to Edom?
11 Will not You, O God, who rejected us / And who did not go forth, O God, with our armies?
12 Give us help from the adversary, / For salvation by man is vain.
13 In God we will do valiantly, / And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

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1 O God of my praise, do not be silent;
2 For the mouth of the wicked man and the mouth of deceit are opened against me; / They speak to me with a lying tongue.
3 And with words of hatred they have surrounded me / And have fought against me without cause.
4 In return for my love they have become my adversaries, / But I am all prayer.
5 And they have set against me evil in return for good / And hatred in return for my love.
6 Appoint a wicked man over him, / And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
7 When he is judged, let him come forth wicked; / And let his prayer be counted as sin.
8 May his days be few; / May another take his office.
9 May his children be orphans, / And his wife a widow.
10 And may his children wander all about and beg, / And may they seek food far from their desolated ruins.
11 May the creditor seize all that he has, / And may strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.
12 May there be no one to extend him mercy, / Nor anyone to be kind to his orphans.
13 May his posterity be cut off; / In the generation following may his name be blotted out.
14 May his fathers’ iniquity be remembered before Jehovah, / And may his mother’s sin not be blotted out.
15 May they be before Jehovah continually, / So that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
16 Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness, / But persecuted the poor and needy and brokenhearted, / To put them to death.
17 Indeed he loved cursing, so it came on him; / And he took no delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
18 And he clothed himself with cursing like his garment, / So it came into his inward parts like water / And into his bones like oil.
19 Let it be to him like the cloak that he wraps around himself, / And as a belt with which he constantly girds himself.
20 This is the reward from Jehovah for my adversaries / And for those who speak evil against my soul.
21 But You, O Jehovah Lord, deal with me, / For Your name’s sake; / Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me.
22 For I am poor and needy, / And my heart is wounded within me.
23 I am gone like a shadow that declines; / I am shaken off like the locust.
24 My knees wobble through fasting, / And my flesh has become lean, without fatness.
25 I have also become a reproach to them: / When they see me, they shake their heads.
26 Help me, O Jehovah my God; / Save me according to Your lovingkindness;
27 And they will know that this is Your hand, / That it is You, O Jehovah, who have done it.
28 Let them curse, but You bless; / When they arise, they will be put to shame, / And Your servant will rejoice.
29 May my adversaries be clothed with humiliation, / And may they wrap themselves with their own shame as with a mantle.
30 I will give much thanks to Jehovah with my mouth, / And in the midst of the multitude I will praise Him;
31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy / To save him from those who judge his soul.

110

1 Jehovah declares to my Lord, / Sit at My right hand / Until I make Your enemies / Your footstool.
2 Jehovah will send forth / The scepter of Your strength from Zion: / Rule in the midst of Your enemies.
3 Your people will offer themselves willingly / In the day of Your warfare, / In the splendor of their consecration. / Your young men will be to You / Like the dew from the womb of the dawn.
4 Jehovah has sworn, / And He will not change: / You are a Priest forever / According to the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord is at Your right hand; / He will shatter kings in the day of His anger.
6 He will execute judgment among the nations; / He will fill the place with corpses; / He will shatter the head / Over a great land.
7 He will drink from the brook by the way; / Therefore He will lift up His head.

111

1 Hallelujah! / I will give thanks to Jehovah with all my heart / In the council of the upright and in the assembly.
2 Great are the works of Jehovah, / And sought out by all who delight in them.
3 His work is majesty and splendor, / And His righteousness endures forever.
4 He has caused His wondrous deeds to be remembered; / Jehovah is gracious and compassionate.
5 He gives food to those who fear Him; / He remembers His covenant forever.
6 He has shown His people the power of His works / By giving them the heritage of the nations.
7 The works of His hands are truth and justice; / All His precepts are sure:
8 They are maintained forever and ever, / They are executed in truth and uprightness.
9 He has sent redemption to His people; / He has commanded His covenant forever; / Holy and awesome is His name.
10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; / All who practice His precepts have a good understanding. / His praise endures forever.

112

1 Hallelujah! / Blessed is the man who fears Jehovah, / Who delights greatly in His commandments.
2 His seed will be mighty on the earth; / The generation of the upright will be blessed.
3 Wealth and riches are in his house, / And his righteousness endures forever.
4 Light in the darkness arises to the upright; / They are gracious and compassionate and righteous.
5 It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; / He will maintain his cause in judgment.
6 For he will never be moved; / The righteous man will be remembered forever.
7 He will not be afraid of evil tidings; / His heart is steadfast, trusting in Jehovah.
8 His heart is sustained, he is not afraid, / Until he sees what should happen to his adversaries.
9 He has scattered abroad; he has given to the needy; / His righteousness endures forever; / His horn will be exalted with honor.
10 The wicked man will see it and be angry; / He will gnash his teeth and melt away; / The desire of the wicked will perish.

113

1 Hallelujah! / Praise, you servants of Jehovah, / Praise the name of Jehovah.
2 Let the name of Jehovah be blessed, / From now and to eternity.
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting / The name of Jehovah is to be praised.
4 Jehovah is high above all the nations, / And His glory is above the heavens.
5 Who is like Jehovah our God, / Who has set His throne on high,
6 Who humbles Himself to behold / The heavens and the earth?
7 He raises the poor from the dust; / From the ash heap He lifts the needy;
8 That He may seat them with princes, / With the princes of His people.
9 He causes the barren woman to keep house / As a joyful mother of children. / Hallelujah.

114

1 When Israel went forth from Egypt, / The house of Jacob from among a people of unintelligible speech,
2 Judah became His sanctuary, / Israel, His dominion.
3 The sea saw and fled; / The Jordan turned back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams, / The hills, like lambs.
5 What troubles you, O sea, that you flee? / O Jordan, that you turn back?
6 O mountains, that you skip like rams? / O hills, like lambs?
7 Tremble at the presence of the Lord, O earth, / At the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 Who turns the rock into a pool of water, / The flint into a fountain of water.

115

1 Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, / But to Your name give glory, / For the sake of Your lovingkindness and Your truth.
2 Why should the nations say, / Where then is their God?
3 But our God is in the heavens; / He does whatever He pleases.
4 Their idols are mere silver and gold, / The work of human hands.
5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; / They have eyes, but they do not see.
6 They have ears, but they do not hear; / They have noses, but they do not smell.
7 They have hands, but they do not feel; / They have feet, but they do not walk; / They make no sound in their throat.
8 Those who make them, / All who trust in them, / Are like them.
9 O Israel, trust in Jehovah. / He is their help and their shield.
10 O house of Aaron, trust in Jehovah. / He is their help and their shield.
11 O you who fear Jehovah, trust in Jehovah. / He is their help and their shield.
12 Jehovah has been mindful of us; He will bless us; / He will bless the house of Israel; / He will bless the house of Aaron;
13 He will bless those who fear Jehovah, / Both small and great.
14 May Jehovah give you increase, / Both you and your children.
15 May you be blessed of Jehovah, / Maker of heaven and earth.
16 The heavens are the heavens of Jehovah, / But He has given the earth to the children of men.
17 The dead do not praise Jehovah, / Nor do any that go down into silence.
18 But we will bless Jehovah / From now and to eternity. / Hallelujah.

116

1 I love Jehovah because He hears / My voice, my supplications,
2 Because He inclines His ear to me; / Therefore I will call upon Him all my days.
3 The bonds of death encompassed me, / And the distresses of Sheol fell upon me; / I fell upon trouble and sorrow.
4 But I called upon the name of Jehovah. / O Jehovah, I pray, deliver my soul.
5 Jehovah is gracious and righteous, / Indeed our God is compassionate.
6 Jehovah preserves the simple: / I was brought low, and He saved me.
7 Return to your rest, O my soul; / For Jehovah has dealt bountifully with you.
8 For You have delivered my soul from death, / My eyes from tears, / My feet from stumbling.
9 I will walk before Jehovah / In the land of the living.
10 I believed, therefore I spoke; / I was afflicted greatly.
11 I said in my haste, / All men are liars.
12 What shall I return to Jehovah / For all His benefits toward me?
13 I will take up the cup of salvation / And call upon the name of Jehovah.
14 I will pay my vows to Jehovah, / Oh, in the presence of all His people.
15 Precious in the sight of Jehovah / Is the death of His faithful ones.
16 O Jehovah! / Surely I am Your servant; / I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant; / You have loosed my bonds.
17 To You I will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, / And I will call upon the name of Jehovah.
18 I will pay my vows to Jehovah, / Oh, in the presence of all His people,
19 In the courts of the house of Jehovah, / In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. / Hallelujah.

117

1 Praise Jehovah, all you nations; / Laud Him, all you peoples.
2 For His lovingkindness is great toward us, / And the faithfulness of Jehovah is forever. / Hallelujah.

118

1 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, / For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Let Israel say, / His lovingkindness is forever.
3 Let the house of Aaron say, / His lovingkindness is forever.
4 Let those who fear Jehovah say, / His lovingkindness is forever.
5 Out of my distress I called upon Jehovah; / Jehovah answered me and set me in a place broad and free.
6 Jehovah is for me; I will not be afraid. / What can man do to me?
7 Jehovah is for me as my Helper, / And I will see what should happen to those who hate me.
8 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah / Than to trust in man.
9 It is better to take refuge in Jehovah / Than to trust in princes.
10 All nations surrounded me; / In the name of Jehovah I indeed cut them down!
11 They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me; / In the name of Jehovah I indeed cut them down!
12 They surrounded me like bees; / They were extinguished like a fire of thorns; / In the name of Jehovah I indeed cut them down!
13 I was pushed hard that I might fall; / But Jehovah helped me.
14 Jehovah is my strength and my song, / And He has become my salvation.
15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation / Is in the tents of the righteous. / The right hand of Jehovah does valiantly;
16 The right hand of Jehovah is exalted; / The right hand of Jehovah does valiantly.
17 I will not die, but live, / And declare the works of Jehovah.
18 Jehovah has severely chastened me, / But He has not given me over to death.
19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: / I will enter in through them; I will give thanks to Jehovah.
20 This is the gate of Jehovah; / The righteous shall enter in through it.
21 I will give thanks to You, for You have answered me / And have become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders rejected / Has become the head of the corner.
23 This is from Jehovah; / It is wonderful in our sight.
24 This is the day that Jehovah has made; / Let us exult and rejoice in it.
25 O Jehovah, do save, we pray! / O Jehovah, do send prosperity, we pray!
26 Blessed is He who comes in the name of Jehovah; / We bless you from the house of Jehovah.
27 Jehovah is God, / And He has given us light; / Bind the sacrifice of the feast with cords / To the horns of the altar.
28 You are my God, and I give thanks to You. / You are my God; I will exalt You.
29 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good, / For His lovingkindness is forever.

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1 Blessed are those whose way is perfect, / Who walk in the law of Jehovah.
2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, / Who seek Him with all their heart.
3 Surely they do no wrong; / They walk in His ways.
4 You have commanded that Your precepts / Be diligently kept.
5 Oh that my ways may be established / So as to keep Your statutes!
6 Then I will not be put to shame, / When I regard all Your commandments.
7 I will give thanks to You with uprightness of heart / When I learn Your righteous ordinances.
8 I will keep Your statutes; / Do not utterly forsake me.
9 With what should a young man keep his way pure? / By guarding it according to Your word.
10 With all my heart I have sought You; / Do not let me wander from Your commandments.
11 In my heart I have treasured up Your word / That I might not sin against You.
12 Blessed are You, O Jehovah; / Teach me Your statutes.
13 With my lips I have declared / All the ordinances of Your mouth.
14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies / As much as in all riches.
15 I will muse upon Your precepts / And regard Your ways.
16 I will take delight in Your statutes; / I will not forget Your word.
17 Deal bountifully with Your servant that I may live / And keep Your word.
18 Open my eyes that I may behold / Wondrous things out of Your law.
19 I am a sojourner in the earth; / Do not hide Your commandments from me.
20 My soul is crushed with longing / For Your ordinances at all times.
21 You have rebuked the proud, the cursed, / Who wander from Your commandments.
22 Roll away from me reproach and contempt, / For I have kept Your testimonies.
23 Princes as well have sat and spoken against me, / But Your servant mused upon Your statutes.
24 Also Your testimonies are my delight; / They are my counselors.
25 My soul clings to the dust; / Enliven me according to Your word.
26 I have recounted my ways, and You have answered me; / Teach me Your statutes.
27 Cause me to understand the way of Your precepts, / And I will muse upon Your wondrous deeds.
28 My soul melts because of grief; / Strengthen me according to Your word.
29 Remove from me the way of falsehood, / And graciously grant me Your law.
30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness; / Your ordinances I have set before me.
31 I cling to Your testimonies; / O Jehovah, do not put me to shame.
32 I run the way of Your commandments, / For You enlarge my heart.
33 Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of Your statutes; / And I will keep it to the end.
34 Give me understanding, and I will observe Your law; / Indeed I will keep it with all my heart.
35 Cause me to go on the path of Your commandments, / For in it I delight.
36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies / And not to unjust gain.
37 Turn my eyes from beholding vanity, / And enliven me in Your ways.
38 Confirm to Your servant Your word, / Which is for fearing You.
39 Turn away my reproach, which I fear; / For Your ordinances are good.
40 Behold, I have longed after Your precepts; / Enliven me in Your righteousness.
41 May Your lovingkindness also come to me, O Jehovah, / Your salvation according to Your word.
42 Thus I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, / For I trust in Your word.
43 And do not take the word of truth utterly from my mouth, / For I have hoped in Your ordinances.
44 Thus I will keep Your law continually, / Forever and ever.
45 And I will walk at liberty, / For I have sought Your precepts.
46 I will also speak of Your testimonies before kings / And not be ashamed.
47 And I will take delight in Your commandments, / Which I love.
48 And I will lift up my hand to Your commandments, which I love; / And I will muse upon Your statutes.
49 Remember the word to Your servant / In which You have made me hope.
50 This is my comfort in my affliction, / For Your word has enlivened me.
51 The proud have derided me greatly; / I have not swerved from Your law.
52 I have remembered Your ordinances from long ago, / O Jehovah, and have comforted myself.
53 Raging indignation seizes me because of the wicked, / Who forsake Your law.
54 Your statutes have become my songs of praise / In the house of my pilgrimage.
55 I have remembered Your name / In the night, O Jehovah, / And have kept Your law.
56 This has been mine, / That I have kept Your precepts.
57 Jehovah is my portion; / I have promised to keep Your words.
58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; / Be gracious to me according to Your word.
59 I considered my ways / And turned my feet toward Your testimonies.
60 I hurried and did not delay / To keep Your commandments.
61 The cords of the wicked surround me, / But I have not forgotten Your law.
62 At midnight I rise up to give thanks to You / Because of Your righteous ordinances.
63 I am a companion to all who fear You / And to those who keep Your precepts.
64 Your lovingkindness, O Jehovah, fills the earth; / Teach me Your statutes.
65 You have dealt well with Your servant, / O Jehovah, according to Your word.
66 Teach me proper discernment and knowledge, / For I believe in Your commandments.
67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; / But now I keep Your word.
68 You are good and One who does good; / Teach me Your statutes.
69 The proud have plastered lies against me; / With my whole heart I will keep Your precepts.
70 Their heart is heavy as with fat; / But I delight in Your law.
71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, / That I might learn Your statutes.
72 The law of Your mouth is better to me / Than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me; / Give me understanding that I may learn Your commandments.
74 Those who fear You will see me and rejoice, / For I have hoped in Your word.
75 I know, O Jehovah, that Your judgments are righteous / And that in faithfulness You afflicted me.
76 Let Your lovingkindness, I beseech You, be my comfort, / According to Your word to Your servant.
77 Let Your compassions come to me, and I will live; / For Your law is my delight.
78 Let the proud be put to shame, for they have subverted my cause with a lie; / But I will muse upon Your precepts.
79 Let those who fear You turn to me, / And they will know Your testimonies.
80 May my heart be perfect in Your statutes, / That I may not be put to shame.
81 My soul faints while longing for Your salvation; / I hope in Your word.
82 My eyes faint while longing for Your word, / As I say, When will You comfort me?
83 For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke; / But I do not forget Your statutes.
84 How many are the days of Your servant? / When will You execute justice upon my persecutors?
85 The proud have dug pits for me, / Those who are not according to Your law.
86 All Your commandments are faithful; / They persecute me falsely; help me.
87 They have almost consumed me upon the earth; / But I have not forsaken Your precepts.
88 Enliven me according to Your lovingkindness, / And I will keep the testimony of Your mouth.
89 Forever, O Jehovah, / Does Your word stand firm in heaven.
90 Your faithfulness is from generation to generation; / You established the earth, and it abides.
91 They abide to this day according to Your ordinances, / For all things are Your servants.
92 Unless Your law had been my delight, / I would have perished in my affliction.
93 I will never forget Your precepts, / For by them You have enlivened me.
94 I am Yours; save me, / For I have sought Your precepts.
95 The wicked have waited for me in order to destroy me, / But I consider Your testimonies.
96 I have seen an end to all perfection, / But Your commandment is all-expansive.
97 Oh, how I love Your law! / All day long it is my musing.
98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, / For they are always with me.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers, / For Your testimonies are my musing.
100 I understand more than the aged, / For I have kept Your precepts.
101 I have withheld my feet from every evil way, / That I might keep Your word.
102 I have not turned aside from Your ordinances, / For You have taught me.
103 How sweet are Your words to my taste! / Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through Your precepts I gain understanding; / Therefore I hate every false way.
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet / And a light to my path.
106 I have sworn and will confirm it, / That I will keep Your righteous ordinances.
107 I have been greatly afflicted; / O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your word.
108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Jehovah; / And teach me Your ordinances.
109 My soul is continually in my hand, / But I do not forget Your law.
110 The wicked have laid a trap for me, / But I do not stray from Your precepts.
111 Your testimonies are my heritage forever, / For they are the gladness of my heart.
112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes / Forever, to the end.
113 I hate those who are double-minded, / But I love Your law.
114 You are my hiding place and my shield; / In Your word do I hope.
115 Depart from me, you evildoers, / That I may keep the commandments of my God.
116 Uphold me according to Your word that I may live, / And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.
117 Hold me up that I may be safe, / And I will regard Your statutes continually.
118 You spurn all those who stray from Your statutes, / For their deceitfulness is vain.
119 You do away with all the wicked ones of the earth like dross; / Therefore I love Your testimonies.
120 My flesh trembles for fear of You, / And I am afraid of Your judgments.
121 I have performed justice and righteousness; / Do not leave me to my oppressors.
122 Guarantee Your servant’s well-being; / Do not let the proud oppress me.
123 My eyes faint while longing for Your salvation / And for Your righteous word.
124 Deal with Your servant according to Your lovingkindness, / And teach me Your statutes.
125 I am Your servant; give me understanding, / That I may know Your testimonies.
126 It is time for Jehovah to act, / For they have broken Your law.
127 Therefore I love Your commandments / More than gold, indeed, more than fine gold;
128 Therefore I esteem all Your precepts concerning all things to be right, / And I hate every false way.
129 Your testimonies are wonderful; / Therefore my soul keeps them.
130 The opening of Your words gives light, / Imparting understanding to the simple.
131 I opened my mouth wide and panted, / For I longed for Your commandments.
132 Turn to me, and be gracious to me, / As is Your custom with those who love Your name.
133 Establish my footsteps in Your word, / And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.
134 Redeem me from man’s oppression, / That I may keep Your precepts.
135 Cause Your face to shine on Your servant, / And teach me Your statutes.
136 My eyes shed streams of water, / Because men do not keep Your law.
137 You are righteous, O Jehovah; / And Your judgments are upright.
138 You have commanded Your testimonies in righteousness / And great faithfulness.
139 My zeal has consumed me, / For my adversaries have forgotten Your words.
140 Your word is very pure, / And Your servant loves it.
141 I am small and despised, / But I do not forget Your precepts.
142 Your righteousness is an eternal righteousness, / And Your law is truth.
143 Distress and anguish have come upon me, / But Your commandments are my delight.
144 Your testimonies are righteous forever; / Give me understanding, and I will live.
145 I called with my whole heart; answer me, O Jehovah. / I will keep Your statutes.
146 I called upon You; save me, / And I will observe Your testimonies.
147 I anticipated the dawn and cried out; / I hoped in Your words.
148 My eyes anticipated the night watches, / That I might muse upon Your word.
149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness; / O Jehovah, according to Your ordinances enliven me.
150 Those who persecute me with evil intent draw near; / They are far from Your law.
151 You are near, O Jehovah; / And all Your commandments are truth.
152 Of old I have known from Your testimonies / That You have founded them forever.
153 Look at my affliction, and deliver me; / For I have not forgotten Your law.
154 Plead my case, and redeem me; / Enliven me according to Your word.
155 Salvation is far from the wicked, / For they do not seek Your statutes.
156 Great are Your compassions, O Jehovah; / Enliven me according to Your ordinances.
157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, / But I have not swerved from Your testimonies.
158 I saw the treacherous and loathed them, / Because they did not keep Your word.
159 See how I have loved Your precepts; / O Jehovah, enliven me according to Your lovingkindness.
160 The sum of Your word is truth, / And all Your righteous ordinances are forever.
161 Princes have persecuted me without cause, / But my heart stands in awe of Your words.
162 I rejoice at Your word, / Like one who finds great spoil.
163 I hate and abhor falsehood, / But I love Your law.
164 Seven times a day I praise You / For Your righteous ordinances.
165 There is great peace for those who love Your law, / And there is no occasion of stumbling for them.
166 I have hoped for Your salvation, O Jehovah; / And I have done Your commandments.
167 My soul has kept Your testimonies, / And I love them very much.
168 I have kept Your precepts and Your testimonies, / For all my ways are before You.
169 Let my cry come before You, O Jehovah; / Give me understanding according to Your word.
170 Let my supplication come before You; / Deliver me according to Your word.
171 Let my lips pour forth praise, / For You teach me Your statutes.
172 Let my tongue sing of Your word, / For all Your commandments are righteousness.
173 Let Your hand be ready to help me, / For I have chosen Your precepts.
174 I have longed for Your salvation, O Jehovah, / And Your law is my delight.
175 Let my soul live, and it will praise You; / And let Your ordinances help me.
176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, / For I have not forgotten Your commandments.

120

1 In my distress I called out to Jehovah, / And He answered me.
2 O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lying lips, / From a tongue of deceit.
3 What should be given to you, / And what further shall be done to you, / O tongue of deceit?
4 The sharp arrows of a mighty man, / With the burning coals of the broom tree!
5 Woe is me, for I sojourn in Meshech, / I dwell among the tents of Kedar.
6 Long has my soul had its dwelling / With him who hates peace.
7 I am for peace; but when I speak, / They are for war.

121

1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills. / From where will my help come?
2 My help comes from Jehovah, / Who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not let your foot slip; / He who keeps you will not slumber.
4 Behold, Israel’s Keeper / Will neither slumber nor sleep.
5 Jehovah is your Keeper; / Jehovah is your shade at your right hand.
6 The sun will not strike you by day, / Nor the moon by night.
7 Jehovah will keep you from all evil; / He will keep your soul.
8 Jehovah will keep your going out and your coming in / From now and to eternity.

122

1 I rejoiced when they said to me, / Let us go to the house of Jehovah.
2 Our feet are standing / Within your gates, O Jerusalem.
3 Jerusalem has been built as a city / That has been compacted together;
4 To which the tribes go up, / The tribes of Jehovah — / A testimony for Israel — / To give thanks to the name of Jehovah.
5 For there thrones are set for judgment, / Thrones of the house of David.
6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. / Those who love you will prosper.
7 Peace be within your bulwarks, / And prosperity within your citadels.
8 For my brothers’ and companions’ sake I will now say, / Peace be within you.
9 For the sake of the house of Jehovah our God / I will seek your good.

123

1 To You do I lift up my eyes, / You who sit enthroned in heaven.
2 Behold, as the eyes of the servants / Look to the hand of their masters, / As the eyes of a servant girl / Look to the hand of her mistress, / So our eyes look to Jehovah our God, / Until He is gracious to us.
3 Be gracious to us, O Jehovah, be gracious to us; / For we are greatly filled with contempt.
4 Our soul is greatly filled / With the scorn of those who are at ease, / With the contempt of the proud.

124

1 If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, / Let Israel say,
2 If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side / When men rose up against us;
3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive / When their anger burned against us;
4 Then the waters would have washed us away; / The stream would have passed over our soul;
5 Then the proud waters / Would have passed over our soul.
6 Blessed be Jehovah, who has not given us / As prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul has escaped like a bird, / Out of the snare of the fowlers; / The snare is broken, / And we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of Jehovah, / Who made heaven and earth.

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1 Those who trust in Jehovah are like Mount Zion, / Which cannot be moved but abides forever.
2 Jerusalem — mountains surround her; / And Jehovah surrounds His people / From now and to eternity.
3 For the scepter of wickedness will not rest / Upon the allotment of the righteous, / That the righteous would not put forth / Their hands to iniquity.
4 Do good, O Jehovah, to the good / And to those upright in their hearts.
5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, / Jehovah will lead them off with the workers of iniquity. / Peace be upon Israel.

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1 When Jehovah turned again the captivity of Zion, / We were like those who dream.
2 At that time our mouth was filled with laughter / And our tongue with a ringing shout. / At that time they said among the nations, / Jehovah has done great things for them.
3 Jehovah has done great things for us; / We are joyful.
4 Turn again, O Jehovah, our captivity / Like the streams in the south.
5 Those who sow in tears / Will reap with a ringing shout.
6 He who goes forth and weeps, / Bearing seed for scattering, / Will no doubt come in with a ringing shout, / Bearing his sheaves with him.

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1 Unless Jehovah builds the house, / Those who build it labor in vain. / Unless Jehovah keeps the city, / The guard watches in vain.
2 It is vain for you to rise up early, / To stay up late, / To eat the bread of toil; / All the same, He gives to His beloved while they sleep.
3 Behold, children are the heritage of Jehovah, / The fruit of the womb a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a mighty man, / So are the children of one’s youth.
5 Blessed is the man / Who fills his quiver with them. / He will not be put to shame / When he speaks with enemies in the gate.

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1 Blessed is everyone who fears Jehovah, / Who walks in His ways.
2 You will indeed eat the labor of your hands; / You will be blessed, and it will go well with you.
3 Your wife will be like a fruitful vine / In the innermost parts of your house. / Your children will be like olive shoots / Round about your table.
4 Thus will the man be blessed / Who fears Jehovah.
5 Jehovah bless you from Zion; / And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem / All the days of your life.
6 May you also see the children of your children. / Peace be upon Israel.

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1 Many times have they afflicted me since my youth, / Let Israel say,
2 Many times have they afflicted me since my youth, / Yet they did not prevail against me.
3 The plowers plowed on my back; / They made their furrows long.
4 Jehovah is righteous; / He has cut the cords of the wicked.
5 May all who hate Zion / Be put to shame and turned back.
6 May they be like grass on the housetops, / Which withers before it grows up,
7 With which the reaper does not fill his hand, / Or he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
8 Nor may those who pass by say, / The blessing of Jehovah be upon you! / We bless you in the name of Jehovah.

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1 Out of the depths I have called upon You, O Jehovah.
2 O Lord, hear my voice; / Let Your ears be attentive / To the voice of my supplications.
3 If You, O Jehovah, marked iniquities, / Who, O Lord, would stand?
4 But with You there is forgiveness, / That You would be feared.
5 I wait for Jehovah; my soul waits, / And in His word I hope.
6 My soul waits for the Lord / More than watchmen for the morning, / Yes, watchmen for the morning.
7 Hope in Jehovah, O Israel; / For with Jehovah there is lovingkindness, / And with Him abundantly there is redemption;
8 And it is He who will redeem Israel / From all its iniquities.

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1 O Jehovah, my heart is not proud, / Nor are my eyes haughty; / Nor do I go about in things too great / Or too wondrous for me.
2 Surely I have calmed / And quieted my soul, / Like a weaned child with its mother; / Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 Hope in Jehovah, O Israel, / From now and to eternity.

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1 Remember, O Jehovah, for David’s sake / All his afflictions;
2 How he swore to Jehovah / And vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
3 I shall not go into the tent of my house; / I shall not go up onto the couch of my bed;
4 I shall not give sleep to my eyes, / Slumber to my eyelids;
5 Until I find a place for Jehovah, / A tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob.
6 Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; / We found it in the fields of Jaar.
7 We will go into His tabernacle; / We will worship at His footstool.
8 Arise, O Jehovah, unto Your resting place, / You and the Ark of Your strength.
9 Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness, / And let Your faithful ones give a ringing shout.
10 For the sake of David Your servant, / Do not turn away the face of Your Anointed One.
11 Jehovah has sworn unto David in truth; / He will not turn from it: / Of the fruit of your body I will set One upon your throne.
12 If your children keep My covenant / And My testimonies that I will teach them, / Their children also will sit / Upon your throne forever.
13 For Jehovah has chosen Zion; / He has desired it for His habitation.
14 This is My resting place forever; / Here will I dwell, for I have desired it.
15 I will abundantly bless its provision; / I will satisfy its poor with bread.
16 And its priests I will clothe with salvation, / And its faithful ones will shout with a ringing shout.
17 There I will cause a horn of David to shoot forth; / I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
18 I will clothe his enemies with shame, / But on him his crown will shine.

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1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is / For brothers to dwell in unity!
2 It is like the fine oil upon the head / That ran down upon the beard, / Upon Aaron’s beard, / That ran down upon the hem of his garments;
3 Like the dew of Hermon / That came down upon the mountains of Zion. / For there Jehovah commanded the blessing: / Life forever.

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1 Bless Jehovah now, / All you servants of Jehovah / Who stand by night in the house of Jehovah.
2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, / And bless Jehovah.
3 May Jehovah, who made heaven and earth, / Bless you from Zion.

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1 Hallelujah! Praise the name of Jehovah; / Praise Him, you servants of Jehovah,
2 Who stand in the house of Jehovah, / In the courts of the house of our God.
3 Praise Jehovah, for Jehovah is good; / Sing psalms to His name, for it is pleasant.
4 For Jehovah has chosen Jacob for Himself, / Israel for His personal treasure.
5 For I know that Jehovah is great / And that our Lord is above all gods.
6 Whatever Jehovah pleases He does / In heaven and on earth, / In the seas and all the depths.
7 He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; / He makes lightning for the rain; / He brings forth wind from His treasuries.
8 He struck the firstborn of Egypt, / Both of man and of beast.
9 He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, / Upon Pharaoh and all his servants.
10 He struck many nations / And slew mighty kings:
11 Sihon the king of the Amorites / And Og the king of Bashan / And all the kingdoms of Canaan.
12 And He gave their land as an inheritance, / An inheritance to Israel His people.
13 O Jehovah, Your name is forever; / O Jehovah, Your memorial is from generation to generation.
14 For Jehovah will execute judgment for His people, / And He will have compassion concerning His servants.
15 The idols of the nations are mere silver and gold, / The work of human hands.
16 They have mouths, but they do not speak; / They have eyes, but they do not see.
17 They have ears, but they do not give ear; / And there is no breath in their mouths.
18 Those who make them, / All who trust in them, / Will be like them.
19 O house of Israel, bless Jehovah. / O house of Aaron, bless Jehovah.
20 O house of Levi, bless Jehovah. / O you who fear Jehovah, bless Jehovah.
21 Blessed be Jehovah from Zion, / Who dwells in Jerusalem. / Hallelujah.

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1 Give thanks to Jehovah, for He is good; / For His lovingkindness is forever.
2 Give thanks to the God of gods, / For His lovingkindness is forever.
3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
4 To Him who alone does great wonders, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
5 To Him who by understanding made the heavens, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
6 To Him who spread forth the earth over the waters, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
7 To Him who made the great lights, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
8 The sun for ruling the day, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
9 The moon and the stars for ruling the night, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
10 To Him who struck Egypt in their firstborn, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
11 And brought forth Israel from their midst, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
12 With a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
13 To Him who divided the Red Sea apart, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
14 And brought Israel over through the midst of it, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
15 And shook off Pharaoh and his force into the Red Sea, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
16 To Him who marched His people through the wilderness, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
17 To Him who struck great kings, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
18 And slew majestic kings, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
19 Sihon the king of the Amorites, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
20 And Og the king of Bashan, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
21 And gave their land as an inheritance, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
22 An inheritance to Israel His servant, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
23 Who remembered us in our low estate, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
24 And rescued us from our adversaries, / For His lovingkindness is forever;
25 Who gives food to all flesh, / For His lovingkindness is forever.
26 Give thanks to the God of heaven, / For His lovingkindness is forever.

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1 By the rivers of Babylon, / There we sat down; indeed, we wept / When we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows in the midst of it / We hung up our lyres,
3 For there our captors required of us songs, / And those who tormented us required of us mirth, saying, / Sing for us / One of the songs of Zion.
4 How can we sing the song of Jehovah / In a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, / Let my right hand forget its skill.
6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, / If I do not remember you, / If I do not prefer Jerusalem / Above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O Jehovah, / Against the children of Edom, / The day of Jerusalem, / Who said, Lay it bare! Lay it bare, / Down to its foundation!
8 O daughter of Babylon, who are to be devastated, / Happy will he be who repays you / The recompense of what you have rendered to us.
9 Happy will he be who seizes your little ones / And dashes them against the rock.

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1 I will give You thanks with all my heart; / Before the gods I will sing psalms to You.
2 I will bow toward Your holy temple / And give thanks to Your name / For Your lovingkindness and Your truth, / For You have magnified Your word above all Your name.
3 On the day that I called out, You answered me; / You encouraged me with strength in my soul.
4 All the kings of the earth will give thanks to You, O Jehovah; / For they have heard the words of Your mouth.
5 And they will sing of the ways of Jehovah, / For great is the glory of Jehovah.
6 For though Jehovah is high, He regards the lowly; / And the haughty He knows from afar.
7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, / You will preserve me; / Against the wrath of my enemies You will stretch out Your hand, / And Your right hand will save me.
8 Jehovah will complete that which concerns me. / O Jehovah, Your lovingkindness is forever; / Do not forsake the works of Your own hands.

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1 O Jehovah, You have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; / You understand my thoughts from afar.
3 You thoroughly search my path and my lying down, / And You are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For a word is not yet on my tongue, / And already You, O Jehovah, know it completely.
5 You have closed in on me behind and before / And have laid Your hand on me.
6 Oh, knowledge too wonderful for me! / It is so high; I cannot attain to it.
7 Where shall I go, away from Your Spirit, / And where shall I flee from Your presence?
8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there; / If I make my bed in Sheol, there You are.
9 If I take the wings of the dawn / And settle at the limits of the sea,
10 There also Your hand will lead me, / And Your right hand will take hold of me.
11 And if I say, Surely darkness will cover me, / And the light around me will be night;
12 Even the darkness is not dark to You, / And night shines like day; / The darkness is like the light.
13 For it was You who formed my inward parts; / You wove me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise You, for I am awesomely and wonderfully made; / Your works are wonderful, / And my soul knows it well.
15 My frame was not hidden from You / When I was made in secret, / Skillfully fashioned in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; / And in Your book all of them were written: / The days that were ordained for me, / When not one of them was yet.
17 And how precious are Your thoughts to me, O God! / How great is the sum of them!
18 If I should count them, they would be more than the sand. / When I awake, I am still with You.
19 Oh that You, O God, would slay the wicked — / Depart from me therefore, you men of bloodshed —
20 Those who speak of You with evil intent, / Who as Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21 Do I not hate those who hate You, O Jehovah? / And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22 I hate them with a perfect hatred; / They have become my own enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; / Try me, and know my anxious thoughts;
24 And see if there is some harmful way in me, / And lead me on the eternal way.

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1 Deliver me, O Jehovah, from evil men; / From violent men preserve me;
2 Who devise evil schemes in their hearts / And continually stir up wars.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like that of a serpent; / The poison of adders is under their lips. Selah
4 Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; / From violent men preserve me; / Who devise schemes to thrust me down.
5 The proud have hidden a trap for me and cords; / They have spread a net by the wayside; / They have set snares for me. Selah
6 I said to Jehovah, You are my God; / Give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications.
7 O Jehovah Lord, strength of my salvation, / You have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 O Jehovah, do not grant the desires of the wicked man; / Do not let his evil scheme advance, / Lest he be exalted. Selah
9 As for the head of those who surround me, / May the mischief of their own lips cover them.
10 May burning coals drop down upon them; / May they be thrown down into the fire, / Into deep pits, never to rise again.
11 Let no slanderer be established in the land; / Let evil hunt down the violent man speedily.
12 I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted / And justice for the needy.
13 Surely the righteous will give thanks to Your name; / The upright will dwell in Your presence.

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1 O Jehovah, I have called upon You; hasten to me. / Give ear to my voice when I call out to You.
2 Let my prayer be set before You as incense, / The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; / Keep the door of my lips.
4 Do not let my heart turn to anything evil, / To practice deeds of wickedness / With men who commit iniquity; / And let me not eat of their delicacies.
5 Let the righteous strike me in kindness and reprove me; / Let not my head refuse oil upon the head, / For still my prayer is against their evil deeds.
6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock, / And they hear my words, that they are pleasant.
7 As when one plows and breaks up the earth, / Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
8 For my eyes are upon You, O Jehovah Lord; / In You I take refuge; do not pour out my soul.
9 Keep me from the trap they have set for me / And from the snares of the workers of iniquity.
10 May the wicked fall into their own nets / While I alone pass by.

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1 With my voice I cry to Jehovah; / With my voice I make my supplication to Jehovah.
2 I pour out my complaint before Him; / I declare my trouble before Him.
3 When my spirit fainted within me, / You knew my path. / On the way on which I walked / They have hidden a trap for me.
4 Look on my right hand and see, / For there is no one who regards me; / Refuge has failed me; / No one cares for me.
5 I cried to You, O Jehovah; / I said, You are my refuge, / My portion in the land of the living.
6 Give heed to my cry, / For I have been brought very low; / Deliver me from those who persecute me, / For they are stronger than I.
7 Bring my soul out of prison, / That I may give thanks to Your name. / The righteous will surround me, / For You will deal bountifully with me.

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1 O Jehovah, hear my prayer; / Give ear to my supplications; / Answer me in Your faithfulness and in Your righteousness;
2 And do not enter into judgment with Your servant, / For no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; / He has crushed my life down to the ground; / He has caused me to dwell in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit faints within me; / My heart is appalled in the midst of me.
5 I remember the days of old; / I meditate upon all that You have done; / I muse upon the work of Your hands.
6 I spread out my hands to You; / My soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
7 Hurry and answer me, O Jehovah; / My spirit fails. / Do not hide Your face from me, / Lest I become like those who go down into the pit.
8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, / For in You I trust. / Make known to me the way on which I should walk, / For to You I lift up my soul.
9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Jehovah; / I have fled to You for a refuge.
10 Teach me to do Your will, / For You are my God; / Let Your good Spirit lead me / In a plain country.
11 For Your name’s sake, O Jehovah, preserve me alive; / In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
12 And in Your lovingkindness cut off my enemies / And destroy all those who oppress my soul, / For I am Your servant.

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1 Blessed be Jehovah my rock, / Who teaches my hands for war / And my fingers for battle:
2 My Lord of lovingkindness and my fortress, / My high retreat and my Deliverer, / My shield and He in whom I take refuge, / Who subdues my people under me.
3 O Jehovah, what is man, that You take knowledge of him, / And the son of mortal man, that You think of him?
4 Man is like a breath; / His days are like a passing shadow.
5 O Jehovah, bow Your heavens down and descend; / Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
6 Flash forth lightning, and scatter them; / Send forth Your arrows, and discomfit them.
7 Stretch forth Your hand from on high; / Rescue me and deliver me / From the great waters, / From the hand of foreigners;
8 Whose mouth speaks deceit, / And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 O God, I will sing a new song to You; / Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing psalms to You,
10 Who gives salvation to kings, / Who rescues David His servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, / Whose mouth speaks deceit, / And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12 May our sons be like plants / Grown up in their youth; / May our daughters be like corner pillars / Hewn out in fashion for a palace;
13 May our barns be full, / Furnishing produce of all kinds; / May our sheep bring forth thousands / And ten thousands in our fields;
14 May our oxen be fully laden; / May there be no breaking in to rob or going forth to fight, / Or outcry in our streets.
15 Blessed are the people who are so; / Blessed are the people whose God is Jehovah.

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1 I will extol You, O my God and King; / And I will bless Your name forever and ever.
2 Every day I will bless You, / And I will praise Your name forever and ever.
3 Great is Jehovah, and much to be praised; / And His greatness is unsearchable.
4 One generation will laud Your works to another, / And they will declare Your mighty acts.
5 Upon the glorious splendor of Your majesty / And upon Your wondrous works I will muse.
6 And men will speak of the might of Your awesome deeds, / And I will declare Your greatness.
7 They will utter the memory of Your great goodness / And will sing for joy of Your righteousness.
8 Jehovah is gracious and compassionate, / Long-suffering and great in lovingkindness.
9 Jehovah is good to all, / And His compassions are upon all His works.
10 All Your works will praise You, O Jehovah; / And Your faithful ones will bless You.
11 They will speak of the glory of Your kingdom / And tell of Your power,
12 To make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts / And the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.
13 Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, / And Your dominion is throughout all generations.
14 Jehovah upholds all who are falling / And raises up all who are bowed down.
15 The eyes of everyone wait for You, / And You give them their food in due season.
16 You open up Your hand / And satisfy the desire of every living thing.
17 Jehovah is righteous in all His ways, / And faithfully kind in all His doings.
18 Jehovah is near to all who call upon Him, / To all who call upon Him in truth.
19 He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him, / And He will hear their cry and save them.
20 Jehovah preserves all who love Him, / But He will destroy all the wicked.
21 My mouth will speak the praise of Jehovah, / And all flesh will bless His holy name forever and ever.

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1 Hallelujah! / Praise Jehovah, O my soul!
2 I will praise Jehovah while I live; / I will sing psalms to my God while I yet have being.
3 Do not trust in princes, / In a son of man, with whom there is no salvation.
4 His breath goes forth; he returns to his earth; / On that day his plans perish.
5 Blessed is the man whose help is the God of Jacob, / Whose hope is in Jehovah his God,
6 Who made heaven and earth / And the sea, and all that is in them; / Who keeps faith forever;
7 Who executes judgment for the oppressed; / Who gives food to the famished. / Jehovah frees the prisoners;
8 Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind; / Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down; / Jehovah loves the righteous;
9 Jehovah preserves the sojourners; / He upholds the orphan and the widow; / But He subverts the way of the wicked.
10 Jehovah will reign forever, / Your God, O Zion, forever and ever. / Hallelujah!

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1 Hallelujah! / For it is good to sing psalms to our God; / For it is pleasant; praise is fitting.
2 Jehovah builds up Jerusalem; / He gathers the outcasts of Israel.
3 He heals the brokenhearted / And binds up their wounds.
4 He counts the number of the stars; / He calls them all by their names.
5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; / His understanding is infinite.
6 Jehovah uplifts the lowly; / He brings the wicked down to the ground.
7 Sing unto Jehovah with thanksgiving; / Sing psalms to our God with the lyre;
8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, / Who prepares rain for the earth, / Who causes grass to grow on the mountains,
9 Who gives to the beast its food, / And to the young ravens who cry.
10 He takes no delight in the strength of horses; / Nor pleasure in the legs of man.
11 Jehovah takes pleasure in those who fear Him, / In those who hope in His lovingkindness.
12 Laud Jehovah, O Jerusalem; / Praise your God, O Zion;
13 For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; / He has blessed your children within you.
14 He makes peace in your borders; / He satisfies you with the finest wheat.
15 He sends forth His command to the earth; / His word runs very swiftly.
16 He gives snow like wool; / He scatters frost like ashes;
17 He casts His hail like crumbs — / Who can stand before His cold?
18 He sends forth His word and melts them; / He causes His wind to blow; the waters flow.
19 He declares His word to Jacob, / His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.
20 He has not dealt so with any other nation; / And as for His ordinances, they have not known them. / Hallelujah!

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1 Hallelujah! / Praise Jehovah from the heavens; / Praise Him in the heights.
2 Praise Him, all His angels; / Praise Him, all His hosts.
3 Praise Him, sun and moon; / Praise Him, all stars of light.
4 Praise Him, you heaven of heavens, / And you waters that are above the heavens.
5 Let them praise the name of Jehovah; / For He commanded, and they were created.
6 And He established them forever and ever; / He gave the decree which shall not pass away.
7 Praise Jehovah from the earth, / You sea monsters and all the depths;
8 Fire and hail, snow and smoke; / Stormy wind that executes His word;
9 Mountains and all hills; / Fruit trees and all cedars;
10 All animals wild and tame; / Creeping things and birds of flight;
11 Kings of the earth and all peoples; / Princes and all judges of the earth;
12 Choice young men as well as virgins; / Old men with young men.
13 Let them praise the name of Jehovah, / For His name alone is exalted; / His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
14 And He has raised up a horn for His people, / The praise of all His faithful ones, / The children of Israel, a people near to Him. / Hallelujah!

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1 Hallelujah! / Sing a new song to Jehovah; / Sing His praise in the congregation of His faithful ones.
2 Let Israel rejoice in his Maker; / Let the children of Zion exult in their King.
3 Let them praise His name with dancing; / Let them sing psalms to Him with the tambourine and the lyre.
4 For Jehovah takes pleasure in His people; / He adorns the lowly with salvation.
5 Let the faithful ones exult in glory; / Let them give a ringing shout upon their beds.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats, / And a two-edged sword in their hand,
7 To execute vengeance on the nations / And punishment among the peoples;
8 To bind their kings with fetters / And their nobles with chains of iron;
9 To execute upon them the judgment written. / This honor is for all His faithful ones. / Hallelujah!

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1 Hallelujah! / Praise God in His sanctuary; / Praise Him in the expanse that manifests His power.
2 Praise Him for His mighty acts; / Praise Him according to His vast greatness.
3 Praise Him with the blast of the trumpet; / Praise Him with the harp and lyre;
4 Praise Him with the tambourine and with dancing; / Praise Him with the stringed instrument and the pipe.
5 Praise Him with the loud cymbals; / Praise Him with the loud clanging cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath praise Jehovah. / Hallelujah!