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\c 1
\cl Psalm 1
\s1 The Ways of the Righteous and the Wicked
\q1 
\v 1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of \add the\add* wicked;
\q1 nor does he stand in \add the\add* way of sinners;
\q1 nor does he sit in \add the\add* assembly of mockers.
\q1 
\v 2 Instead, in the law of Yahweh \add is\add* his delight,
\q1 and on his law he meditates day and night.
\q1 
\v 3 And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water
\q1 that gives its fruit in its season;
\q1 its leaf also does not wither.
\q1 Therefore all that he does prospers.
\q1 
\v 4 Not so the wicked.
\q1 Instead, \add they are\add* like the chaff that \add the\add* wind scatters.
\q1 
\v 5 Therefore \add the\add* wicked will not stand in the judgment,
\q1 nor sinners in the congregation of \add the\add* righteous;
\q1 
\v 6 for Yahweh knows \add the\add* way of \add the\add* righteous,\f + \fr 1:6 \ft Plural \f*
\q1 but \add the\add* way of \add the\add* wicked will perish.
\c 2
\cl Psalm 2
\s1 The Messiah’s Reign
\q1 
\v 1 Why are nations in tumult,
\q1 and countries plotting\f + \fr 2:1 \ft Or “muttering” \f* in vain?\f + \fr 2:1 \ft Or “an empty thing” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 \add The\add* kings of \add the\add* earth establish themselves,
\q1 and the rulers conspire\f + \fr 2:2 \ft Or “make themselves firm” \f* together
\q1 against Yahweh and his anointed:
\q1 
\v 3 “Let us tear off their bonds,
\q1 and cast their cords from us!”
\q1 
\v 4 \add He who\add* sits \add enthroned\add* in the heavens laughs.
\q1 The Lord derides them.
\q1 
\v 5 Then he speaks to them in his wrath,
\q1 and in his fury he terrifies them:
\q1 
\v 6 “But as for me, I have set my king
\q1 on Zion, my holy mountain.”
\q1 
\v 7 I will tell the decree;
\q1 Yahweh said to me:
\q1 “You are my son;
\q1 today I have begotten you.
\q1 
\v 8 Ask from me and I will make \add the\add* nations your heritage,
\q1 and your possession \add the\add* ends of \add the\add* earth.
\q1 
\v 9 You will break them with an iron rod.
\q1 Like a potter’s vessel you will shatter them.”
\q1 
\v 10 So then, O kings, be wise.
\q1 Be warned, O rulers of \add the\add* earth.
\q1 
\v 11 Serve Yahweh with fear,
\q1 and rejoice with trembling.
\q1 
\v 12 Kiss the Son
\q1 lest he be angry and you perish \add on the\add* way,
\q1 for his anger burns quickly.
\q1 Blessed are all \add who\add* take refuge in him.
\c 3
\cl Psalm 3
\s1 A Call to Yahweh in Distress
\d A psalm of David at his fleeing from the presence of Absalom, his son.\f + \fr Ps 3 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Yahweh, how many are my enemies;
\q1 many \add are\add* rising against me.
\q1 
\v 2 Many \add are\add* saying about my soul,
\q1 “There is no deliverance for him from\f + \fr 3:2 \ft Or “in” \f* God. \qs Selah\qs*\f + \fr 3:2 \ft Meaning uncertain; probably a musical or liturgical direction \f*
\q1 
\v 3 But\f + \fr 3:3 \ft Or “And” \f* you, Yahweh, \add are\add* a shield around me,
\q1 my glory and the one who lifts up my head.
\q1 
\v 4 \add With\add* my voice I call to Yahweh
\q1 and he answers me from ⸤his holy hill⸥.\f + \fr 3:4 \ft Literally “the hill of his holiness” \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 I lay down and slept;
\q1 I woke up because Yahweh sustains me.
\q1 
\v 6 I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people
\q1 who all around have set themselves against me.
\q1 
\v 7 Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God;
\q1 for you strike all my enemies \add on the\add* cheek.
\q1 \add The\add* teeth of \add the\add* wicked you break.
\q1 
\v 8 To Yahweh belongs deliverance;
\q1 \add may\add* your blessing \add be\add* over your people. \qs Selah\qs*
\c 4
\cl Psalm 4
\s1 Safety in Yahweh
\d For the \add music\add* director; with stringed instruments. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 4 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness.\f + \fr 4:1 \ft Or “vindication” \f*
\q1 In trouble ⸤deliver me⸥.\f + \fr 4:1 \ft Literally “make wide for me” \f*
\q1 Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
\q1 
\v 2 O sons of man, how long will my honor\f + \fr 4:2 \ft Or “glory” \f* be a disgrace?
\q1 \add How long\add* will you love vanity?
\q1 \add How long\add* will you seek lies?\f + \fr 4:2 \ft Or “falsehood” \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 3 But know that Yahweh has set apart\f + \fr 4:3 \ft Or “treated specially” \f* for himself \add the\add* faithful one.\f + \fr 4:3 \ft Or “pious, godly one” \f*
\q1 Yahweh hears when I call to him.
\q1 
\v 4 Be disturbed but do not sin.
\q1 Commune in your heart\f + \fr 4:4 \ft That is, “think it over” \f* on your bed and be silent. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 Offer correct sacrifices,\f + \fr 4:5 \ft Or “right sacrifices” \f*
\q1 and ⸤trust in⸥\f + \fr 4:5 \ft Literally “trust to” \f* Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 6 Many are saying, “Who will show us \add something\add* good?”
\q1 Lift up over\f + \fr 4:6 \ft Or “upon” \f* us the light of your face, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 7 You have put gladness in my heart
\q1 more than ⸤when⸥\f + \fr 4:7 \ft Literally “the time of” \f* their grain and their wine abound.
\q1 
\v 8 In peace I will lie down and sleep ⸤at once⸥,\f + \fr 4:8 \ft Literally “together” \f*
\q1 for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.
\c 5
\cl Psalm 5
\s1 A Prayer for Guidance and Protection
\d For the \add music\add* director; with the flutes. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 5 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Hear my words, O Yahweh.
\q1 Give heed to my sighing.\f + \fr 5:1 \ft Or “murmuring” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 Listen to the sound of my pleading,\f + \fr 5:2 \ft Or “cry for help” \f* my king and my God,
\q1 for to you I pray.
\q1 
\v 3 O Yahweh, in \add the\add* morning you will hear my voice.
\q1 In \add the\add* morning I will set forth\f + \fr 5:3 \ft Or “present” \f* \add my case\add* to you and I will watch.\f + \fr 5:3 \ft Or “look expectantly” \f*
\q1 
\v 4 For you \add are\add* not a God \add who\add* desires\f + \fr 5:4 \ft Or “takes delight in” \f* wickedness.
\q1 Evil cannot dwell with you.
\q1 
\v 5 The boastful do not stand before\f + \fr 5:5 \ft Or “in front of” \f* your eyes.
\q1 You hate all evildoers.
\q1 
\v 6 You destroy speakers of lies.\f + \fr 5:6 \ft Hebrew “lie” \f*
\q1 ⸤A man of bloodshed⸥\f + \fr 5:6 \ft Literally “a man of bloods” \f* and deceit Yahweh abhors.
\q1 
\v 7 ⸤But as for me⸥,\f + \fr 5:7 \ft Literally “And I” \f* through the abundance of your steadfast love\f + \fr 5:7 \ft Or “covenant love” \f*
\q1 I will enter your house.\f + \fr 5:7 \ft Or “temple” \f*
\q1 I will bow down\f + \fr 5:7 \ft Or “I will worship” \f* toward ⸤your holy temple⸥\f + \fr 5:7 \ft Literally “the temple of your holiness” \f* in awe \add of\add* you.
\q1 
\v 8 O Yahweh, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies;
\q1 make straight before me your way.
\q1 
\v 9 For there is not \add anything\add* reliable in his mouth;
\q1 their inner part \add is\add* destruction.\f + \fr 5:9 \ft Hebrew “destructions” \f*
\q1 Their throat is an open grave;
\q1 \add with\add* their tongue they speak deceit.\f + \fr 5:9 \ft Or “flattery; smooth words” \f*
\q1 
\v 10 Treat them as guilty, O God;
\q1 let them fall because of their plans.
\q1 Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out,
\q1 for they have rebelled against you.
\q1 
\v 11 But let all who take shelter in you rejoice.
\q1 Let them ever\f + \fr 5:11 \ft Or “perpetually” \f* sing for joy,
\q1 ⸤because⸥\f + \fr 5:11 \ft Literally “and” \f* you spread protection over them;
\q1 And let those\f + \fr 5:11 \ft Or “So that those” \f* \add who\add* love your name exult in you.
\q1 
\v 12 For you bless \add the\add* righteous.
\q1 O Yahweh, like a\f + \fr 5:12 \ft Hebrew “the” \f* shield you surround him \add with\add* good favor.
\c 6
\cl Psalm 6
\s1 An Appeal for Forgiveness and Deliverance
\d For the \add music\add* director; with stringed instruments, on the Sheminith.\f + \fr Ps 6 \ft Hebrew “upon the eighth”; meaning uncertain \f*
\q1 A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 6 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger,
\q1 and do not discipline me in your wrath.
\q1 
\v 2 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I am feeble.
\q1 Heal me, O Yahweh, for my bones are terrified.
\q1 
\v 3 My soul is also very terrified.
\q1 But you, O Yahweh, how long?
\q1 
\v 4 Turn, O Yahweh; deliver my life.\f + \fr 6:4 \ft Or “my soul”; same word as in v. \xt 3 \ft \f*
\q1 Save me for the sake of your steadfast love.\f + \fr 6:4 \ft Or “loyal love” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 For there is no remembrance of you in death.
\q1 In Sheol, who will give thanks to you?
\q1 
\v 6 I am weary with my groaning;
\q1 ⸤I flood⸥\f + \fr 6:6 \ft Literally “I make my bed float” \f* my bed every night.
\q1 With my tears ⸤I drench⸥\f + \fr 6:6 \ft Literally “I cause to melt” \f* my couch.
\q1 
\v 7 My eye wastes away because of vexation;
\q1 it grows old because of all my oppressors.
\q1 
\v 8 Depart from me, all workers of evil,
\q1 for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.
\q1 
\v 9 Yahweh has heard my plea;
\q1 Yahweh has accepted my prayer.
\q1 
\v 10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and shall be very terrified.
\q1 They shall turn back; they shall suddenly be ashamed.
\c 7
\cl Psalm 7
\s1 Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
\d A Shiggaion\f + \fr Ps 7 \ft Meaning uncertain; perhaps a lamentation \f* of David which he sang to Yahweh
\q1 on account of Cush, a Benjaminite.\f + \fr Ps 7 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge.
\q1 Save me from all \add who\add* pursue me, and deliver me.
\q1 
\v 2 Or else he will tear me apart like a lion,
\q1 ripping to pieces, with none \add to\add* deliver.
\q1 
\v 3 O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
\q1 if there is wrong in my hands,
\q1 
\v 4 if I have repaid ⸤my ally⸥\f + \fr 7:4 \ft Literally “\fq one \ft being at peace with me” \f* \add with\add* harm,
\q1 or \add if\add* I have plundered my enemy without cause,
\q1 
\v 5 let the enemy of my soul pursue,
\q1 and overtake and trample my life into the ground,
\q1 and lay my honor in the dust. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 6 Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger,
\q1 and lift yourself up against the wrath\f + \fr 7:6 \ft Or “outbursts” \f* of my oppressors,
\q1 and awake for me,
\q1 since you have commanded judgment.
\q1 
\v 7 And let \add the\add* assembly of peoples surround you,
\q1 and over it return on high.
\q1 
\v 8 Yahweh judges the nations.
\q1 O Yahweh, vindicate me
\q1 according to my innocence\f + \fr 7:8 \ft Or “righteousness” \f* and according to my integrity within me.
\q1 
\v 9 Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
\q1 but establish \add the\add* righteous,
\q1 and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.
\q1 
\v 10 My shield \add is\add* with God
\q1 who saves the upright of heart.
\q1 
\v 11 God \add is\add* a righteous judge,
\q1 and a God who has indignation every day.
\q1 
\v 12 If he\f + \fr 7:12 \ft That is, a person \f* does not repent, he\f + \fr 7:12 \ft That is, God \f* will sharpen his sword.
\q1 He has bent his bow and he has ⸤strung⸥\f + \fr 7:12 \ft Literally “prepared” \f* it.
\q1 
\v 13 And he has prepared for him weapons of death.
\q1 He has made his arrows fiery shafts.
\q1 
\v 14 See, he\f + \fr 7:14 \ft That is, the wicked \f* travails with\f + \fr 7:14 \ft Or “conceives” \f* evil.
\q1 He is pregnant with trouble,
\q1 and he gives birth to deception.
\q1 
\v 15 He makes a pit and digs it out,
\q1 then falls in \add the\add* trap he has made.
\q1 
\v 16 His trouble comes back on his head,
\q1 and his violence comes down on his skull.
\q1 
\v 17 I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness,
\q1 and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, \add the\add* Most High.
\c 8
\cl Psalm 8
\s1 Yahweh’s Glory in Creation
\d For the \add music\add* director, on the Gittith.\f + \fr Ps 8 \ft Meaning uncertain \f* A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 8 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic \add is\add* your name in all the earth,
\q1 who put your splendor above the heavens.
\q1 
\v 2 From the mouth of children and infants you have founded\f + \fr 8:2 \ft Or “ordained” \f* strength
\q1 on account of your enemies,
\q1 to silence \add the\add* enemy and \add the\add* avenger.
\q1 
\v 3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
\q1 \add the\add* moon and \add the\add* stars which you set in place—
\q1 
\v 4 what \add is\add* a human being that you think of him?
\q1 and a child of humankind that you care for him?
\q1 
\v 5 And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings,\f + \fr 8:5 \ft Or “than God” \f*
\q1 and \add with\add* glory and \add with\add* majesty you crowned him.
\q1 
\v 6 You make him over the works of your hands;
\q1 all \add things\add* you have placed under his feet:
\q1 
\v 7 sheep and cattle, all of them,
\q1 and also \add the\add* wild animals of \add the\add* field,
\q1 
\v 8 \add the\add* birds of \add the\add* sky and the fish of the sea,
\q1 \add everything\add* that passes along the paths of seas.
\q1 
\v 9 Yahweh, our Lord,
\q1 how majestic \add is\add* your name in all of the earth!
\c 9
\cl Psalm 9
\s1 Praise for Yahweh’s Justice
\d For the \add music\add* director, according to Muth-labben.\f + \fr Ps 9 \ft Meaning uncertain \f* A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 9 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I will thank Yahweh with all my heart.
\q1 I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.
\q1 
\v 2 I will be glad and rejoice in you.
\q1 I will sing \add the praise of\add* your name, O Most High.
\q1 
\v 3 When my enemies turn back,
\q1 they will stumble and perish because of your presence.
\q1 
\v 4 For you have maintained my just cause;
\q1 you have sat on \add the\add* throne judging correctly.
\q1 
\v 5 You have rebuked \add the\add* nations;
\q1 you have destroyed \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 Their name you have blotted out
\q1 forever and ever.
\q1 
\v 6 The enemies are destroyed \add in\add* ruins forever,
\q1 and you have uprooted \add their\add* cities;
\q1 their very memory has perished.
\q1 
\v 7 But Yahweh sits \add enthroned\add* forever.
\q1 He has established his throne for judgment.
\q1 
\v 8 And he will judge \add the\add* world with righteousness.
\q1 He will judge \add the\add* peoples with equity.
\q1 
\v 9 And Yahweh will be a stronghold for the oppressed,
\q1 a stronghold in times of distress.
\q1 
\v 10 And those who know your name will trust in you,
\q1 for you do not forsake those \add who\add* seek you, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 11 Sing \add praises\add* to Yahweh \add who\add* sits \add enthroned\add*\f + \fr 9:11 \ft Or “who dwells” \f* in Zion.
\q1 Tell his deeds among the peoples,
\q1 
\v 12 for he \add who\add* ⸤avenges bloodshed⸥\f + \fr 9:12 \ft Literally “seeks bloods” \f* remembers them.
\q1 He does not forget the distressed cry of \add the\add* afflicted.
\q1 
\v 13 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh.
\q1 See my suffering from \add those who\add* hate me,
\q1 \add you who\add* lift me up from the gates of death,
\q1 
\v 14 so that I may tell of all your praises.
\q1 In the gates of the daughter of Zion
\q1 let me rejoice in your salvation.
\q1 
\v 15 \add The\add* nations have fallen in \add the\add* pit \add that\add* they made;
\q1 their foot is caught in \add the\add* net that they hid.
\q1 
\v 16 Yahweh has made himself known;
\q1 he has executed judgment.
\q1 The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. \qs Higgaion\qs*\f + \fr 9:16 \ft Hebrew musical term \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 17 \add The\add* wicked shall turn back to Sheol,
\q1 all \add the\add* nations forgetting God,
\q1 
\v 18 for \add the\add* needy shall not always be forgotten;
\q1 the hope of the poor shall never perish.
\q1 
\v 19 Rise up, O Yahweh, let not humans\f + \fr 9:19 \ft Hebrew “human” \f* prevail;
\q1 let \add the\add* nations be judged before you.
\q1 
\v 20 O Yahweh, put them in fear.
\q1 Let \add the\add* nations know they \add are merely\add* human. \qs Selah\qs*
\c 10
\cl Psalm 10
\s1 A Prayer for God to Throw down the Wicked
\q1 
\v 1 Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off?
\q1 \add Why\add* do you hide\f + \fr 10:1 \ft Or “shut \fq your eyes \ft ” \f* during times of distress?
\q1 
\v 2 In arrogance \add the\add* wicked persecutes\f + \fr 10:2 \ft Or “pursues” \f* \add the\add* poor.
\q1 Let them be caught in \add the\add* schemes that they devised,
\q1 
\v 3 for \add the\add* wicked boasts about the desire of his ⸤heart⸥,\f + \fr 10:3 \ft Literally “soul” \f*
\q1 and \add the\add* one greedy for gain curses \add and\add* treats Yahweh with contempt.
\q1 
\v 4 ⸤With bald-faced pride⸥\f + \fr 10:4 \ft Literally “According to the height of his nose” \f* \add the\add* wicked will not seek \add God\add*.
\q1 There is no God in any of his thoughts.
\q1 
\v 5 His ways\f + \fr 10:5 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* endure at all times.\f + \fr 10:5 \ft Hebrew “time” \f*
\q1 Your judgments are aloof from him.
\q1 \add As for\add* all his enemies, he scoffs at them.
\q1 
\v 6 He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved
\q1 ⸤throughout all generations⸥,\f + \fr 10:6 \ft Literally “for a generation and a generation” \f* \add during\add* which \add I will have\add* no trouble.”
\q1 
\v 7 His mouth is filled with cursing,
\q1 with deceits and oppression;
\q1 under his tongue are trouble and evil.
\q1 
\v 8 He sits in ambush in villages;
\q1 in the hiding places he kills \add the\add* innocent.
\q1 His eyes ⸤lurk⸥\f + \fr 10:8 \ft Literally “lie hid” \f* for \add the\add* helpless.
\q1 
\v 9 He lies in ambush ⸤secretly,⸥\f + \fr 10:9 \ft Literally “in the secret places” \f* like a lion in a thicket.
\q1 He lies in ambush to seize \add the\add* poor;
\q1 he seizes \add the\add* poor by catching him in his net.
\q1 
\v 10 He is crushed;\f + \fr 10:10 \ft Or “and he \fq the wicked \ft stoops” \f* he is bowed down;\f + \fr 10:10 \ft Or “he \fq the wicked \ft crouches” \f*
\q1 so\f + \fr 10:10 \ft Or “and” \f* the helpless host\f + \fr 10:10 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* falls by his ⸤might⸥.\f + \fr 10:10 \ft Literally “mighty ones” \f*
\q1 
\v 11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten.
\q1 He has hidden his face.
\q1 He never sees.”
\q1 
\v 12 Rise up, O Yahweh;
\q1 O God, lift up your hand.
\q1 Do not forget \add the\add* afflicted.
\q1 
\v 13 Why does the wicked treat God with contempt?
\q1 He says in his heart, “You will not call \add me\add* to account.”
\q1 
\v 14 \add But\add* you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief
\q1 to take \add it\add* into your hand.
\q1 The helpless abandons \add himself\add* upon you;
\q1 you have been \add the\add* helper \add for the\add* orphan.
\q1 
\v 15 Break \add the\add* arm of \add the\add* wicked,
\q1 and \add as for the\add* evil \add man\add*—
\q1 seek out his wickedness \add until\add* you find none.
\q1 
\v 16 Yahweh \add is\add* king forever and ever;
\q1 the nations have perished from his land.
\q1 
\v 17 \add The\add* longing of \add the\add* afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh.
\q1 You will make their heart secure. You will ⸤listen attentively⸥\f + \fr 10:17 \ft Literally “cause your ear to hear” \f*
\q1 
\v 18 to render judgment \add for the\add* fatherless and \add the\add* oppressed
\q1 \add so that\add* a \add mere\add* mortal from the earth will no longer cause terror.
\c 11
\cl Psalm 11
\s1 Confidence in Yahweh’s Righteousness
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of David.\f + \fr Ps 11 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 In Yahweh I have taken refuge;
\q1 how can you say to my soul,
\q1 “Flee to your mountain \add like\add* a bird”?
\q1 
\v 2 For look: The wicked ⸤string the bow⸥.\f + \fr 11:2 \ft Literally “tread the bow,” that is, placing the foot on the bow to bend and string it \f*
\q1 They have fitted their arrow to \add the\add* string,
\q1 to shoot from \add the\add* darkness
\q1 at the upright of heart.
\q1 
\v 3 When the foundations are destroyed
\q1 what can \add the\add* righteous do?\f + \fr 11:3 \ft Or “what has the righteous done” \f*
\q1 
\v 4 Yahweh \add is\add* in his holy temple;
\q1 Yahweh \add is\add* in the heavens \add on\add* his throne.
\q1 His eyelids see;
\q1 they test \add the\add* children of humankind.
\q1 
\v 5 Yahweh tests \add the\add* righteous,
\q1 but \add the\add* wicked and \add the\add* lover of violence
\q1 his soul hates.
\q1 
\v 6 He will rain coals\f + \fr 11:6 \ft According to Symmachus (compare also \fqa Targum Psalms \ft ) a form slightly different from the MT’s “snares” \f* on \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 Burning sulfur and scorching wind
\q1 \add will be\add* the portion of their cup.
\q1 
\v 7 For Yahweh \add is\add* righteous;
\q1 he loves righteous deeds.
\q1 \add The\add* upright shall see his face.
\c 12
\cl Psalm 12
\s1 Human Faithlessness and God’s Faithfulness
\d For the \add music\add* director; on the Sheminith.\f + \fr Ps 12 \ft Meaning uncertain \f* A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 12 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Save, O Yahweh, for \add the\add* pious have ceased \add to be\add*;
\q1 for \add the\add* faithful have vanished
\q1 from \add among the\add* children of humankind.
\q1 
\v 2 They speak falseness ⸤to each other⸥.\f + \fr 12:2 \ft Literally “each with his companion” \f*
\q1 \add With\add* flattering lips,
\q1 \add with\add* ⸤a double heart⸥\f + \fr 12:2 \ft Literally “a heart and a heart” \f* they speak.
\q1 
\v 3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
\q1 \add the\add* tongue speaking great boasts—
\q1 
\v 4 \add those\add* who say, “With our tongue we will prevail.
\q1 Our lips \add are\add* on our side.
\q1 Who \add is\add* master over us?”
\q1 
\v 5 “Because of \add the\add* oppression of \add the\add* afflicted,
\q1 because of \add the\add* groaning of \add the\add* poor,
\q1 now I will rise up,” Yahweh says.
\q1 “I shall put \add them\add* in \add the\add* safety \add for which\add* they\f + \fr 12:5 \ft Hebrew “he” \f* long.”
\q1 
\v 6 The words of Yahweh \add are\add* pure words
\q1 \add like\add* silver refined in the crucible on the ground,
\q1 refined seven times.
\q1 
\v 7 You, O Yahweh, will protect them.
\q1 You will preserve him\f + \fr 12:7 \ft Or “us” \f*
\q1 from this generation always.
\q1 
\v 8 \add The\add* wicked prowl about
\q1 when vileness \add is\add* exalted among \add the\add* children of humankind.
\c 13
\cl Psalm 13
\s1 Trust in the Salvation of Yahweh
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 13 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever?
\q1 How long will you hide your face from me?
\q1 
\v 2 How long must I take counsel\f + \fr 13:2 \ft Hebrew pl.; with a slight modification of the Hebrew this reads “set pains” \f* in my soul,
\q1 \add and\add* sorrow in my heart \add all the\add* day?
\q1 How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
\q1 
\v 3 Consider\f + \fr 13:3 \ft Literally “Look” \f* \add and\add* answer me, O Yahweh my God.
\q1 Give light to my eyes
\q1 lest I sleep \add the sleep of\add* death,
\q1 
\v 4 \add and\add* lest my enemy should say, “I have overcome him,”
\q1 \add lest\add* my enemies rejoice because I am shaken.
\q1 
\v 5 But as for me, I have trusted in your steadfast love.\f + \fr 13:5 \ft Or, “loyal love” \f*
\q1 My heart will rejoice in your deliverance.
\q1 
\v 6 \f + \fr 13:6 \ft In the Hebrew Bible, the previous verse continues \f* I will sing to Yahweh
\q1 because he has dealt bountifully with me.
\c 14
\cl Psalm 14
\s1 The Folly of the Godless and God’s Final Triumph
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of David.\f + \fr Ps 14 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 \add The\add* fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
\q1 They are corrupt.
\q1 They do abominable deeds.
\q1 There is none who does good.
\q1 
\v 2 Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind
\q1 to see whether there is one who has insight,
\q1 one who cares about God.
\q1 
\v 3 All have gone astray;
\q1 they are altogether corrupt.
\q1 There is not one who does good;
\q1 there is not even one.
\q1 
\v 4 All who do evil—do they not know,
\q1 \add they\add* who eat my people \add as though\add* they were eating bread?
\q1 They do not call on Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 5 There ⸤they are very fearful⸥\f + \fr 14:5 \ft Literally “they feared a fear” \f*
\q1 because God \add is\add* with \add the\add* generation of \add the\add* righteous.
\q1 
\v 6 You would put to shame \add the\add* plan of \add the\add* poor,
\q1 because\f + \fr 14:6 \ft Or “but” \f* Yahweh \add is\add* his refuge.
\q1 
\v 7 ⸤Oh that from Zion⸥\f + \fr 14:7 \ft Literally “Who will give \fq that \ft from Zion” \f* \add would come\add* salvation \add for\add* Israel!
\q1 When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people,
\q1 Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy.
\c 15
\cl Psalm 15
\s1 A Description of Those Who May Dwell with Yahweh
\d A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 15 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, who may reside in your tent?
\q1 Who may dwell on your holy mountain?
\q1 
\v 2 He who walks blamelessly and does what is right.
\q1 He who speaks honestly in his heart.
\q1 
\v 3 He does not slander with his tongue.
\q1 He does not harm his friend,
\q1 nor ⸤bring up⸥\f + \fr 15:3 \ft Literally “lift up” \f* a disgrace against his neighbor.
\q1 
\v 4 In his eyes a rejected one \add is\add* contemptible,
\q1 but he honors those who respect Yahweh.
\q1 He takes an oath to \add his own\add* injury and does not retract it.
\q1 
\v 5 He does not lend his money at interest,
\q1 and does not take a bribe against \add the\add* innocent.
\q1 He who does these \add things\add*
\q1 will never be shaken.
\c 16
\cl Psalm 16
\s1 Confidence in Yahweh
\d A miktam\f + \fr Ps 16 \ft Meaning uncertain \f* of David.\f + \fr Ps 16 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Protect me, O God,
\q1 for I take refuge in you.
\q1 
\v 2 \add Oh my soul\add* you have said\f + \fr 16:2 \ft Reading a feminine singular verb; some Hebrew manuscripts and translations read “I said” \f* to Yahweh, “You \add are\add* my Lord.
\q1 I have no good apart from you.”
\q1 
\v 3 With regard to \add the\add* saints who \add are\add* in the land,
\q1 they \add are the\add* noble ones in \add whom is\add* all my desire.
\q1 
\v 4 Those \add who\add* hurry \add after\add*\f + \fr 16:4 \ft Or “they who acquire” \f* another \add god\add* increase their sorrows.
\q1 I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
\q1 nor take up their names on my lips.
\q1 
\v 5 Yahweh \add is\add* the portion \add which is\add* my share and my cup.
\q1 You hold my lot.
\q1 
\v 6 \add The\add* measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places.
\q1 Yes, \add my\add* inheritance is delightful for me.
\q1 
\v 7 I will bless Yahweh who advises me;
\q1 yes, \add at\add* night my ⸤innermost being⸥\f + \fr 16:7 \ft Literally “kidneys” \f* instructs me.
\q1 
\v 8 I have set Yahweh before me always.
\q1 Because \add he is\add* at my right hand I will not be shaken.
\q1 
\v 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices.
\q1 Yes, my body will dwell in safety,
\q1 
\v 10 for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol;
\q1 you will not give your faithful one to see \add the\add* grave.
\q1 
\v 11 You will make known to me \add the\add* path of life.
\q1 In your presence \add is\add* fullness of joy.
\q1 At your right hand \add are\add* pleasures forever.
\c 17
\cl Psalm 17
\s1 Prayer for Vindication and Protection
\d A prayer of David.\f + \fr Ps 17 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, hear a just cause.
\q1 Hear my cry; heed my prayer
\q1 \add I make\add* without deceitful lips.
\q1 
\v 2 Let my vindication come forth from you;
\q1 let your eyes see fairness.
\q1 
\v 3 You have tried my heart;
\q1 you have examined \add me\add* by night;
\q1 you have tested me; you found nothing.
\q1 I have decided \add that\add* my mouth will not transgress.
\q1 
\v 4 As for \add the\add* works of humankind,
\q1 by the word of your lips,
\q1 I have kept \add from\add* the ways of \add the\add* violent.
\q1 
\v 5 \add I have\add* held my steps in your path
\q1 My feet will not slip.
\q1 
\v 6 As for me, I have called on you
\q1 because you will answer me, O God.
\q1 Incline your ear to me.
\q1 Hear my words.\f + \fr 17:6 \ft Hebrew “word” \f*
\q1 
\v 7 Show wondrously your acts of loyal love,
\q1 O Savior of those who take refuge
\q1 at your right hand\f + \fr 17:7 \ft Or “saving by your right hand those” \f*
\q1 from those who rise up against \add them\add*.
\q1 
\v 8 Keep me as ⸤the apple of your eye⸥.\f + \fr 17:8 \ft Literally “\fq the \ft little man of the daughter of \fq your \ft eye” \f*
\q1 Hide me in the shadow of your wings
\q1 
\v 9 from \add the\add* ⸤presence⸥\f + \fr 17:9 \ft Literally “face” \f* of \add the\add* wicked who destroy me,
\q1 \add those\add* enemies against my life,
\q1 \add they that\add* surround me.
\q1 
\v 10 They have shut off their calloused\f + \fr 17:10 \ft Or “fat” \f* \add heart\add*;
\q1 \add with\add* their mouth they speak arrogantly.
\q1 
\v 11 Now they surround us at our \add every\add* step.
\q1 They ⸤intend⸥\f + \fr 17:11 \ft Literally “set their eyes” \f*
\q1 ⸤to pin⸥\f + \fr 17:11 \ft Literally “to stretch” \f* \add me\add* to the ground.
\q1 
\v 12 ⸤He is like⸥\f + \fr 17:12 \ft Literally “His image” \f* a lion; he longs to tear apart,
\q1 and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.
\q1 
\v 13 Rise up, O Yahweh, confront ⸤him⸥.\f + \fr 17:13 \ft Literally “his face” \f*
\q1 Make him bow down.
\q1 Rescue with your sword my life from \add the\add* wicked,
\q1 
\v 14 from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of \add this\add* world.
\q1 Their share \add is\add* in ⸤this life⸥,\f + \fr 17:14 \ft Literally “the life” \f* and you fill their stomach \add with\add* your treasure.
\q1 They are satisfied \add with\add* children.
\q1 They bequeath their excess to their children.
\q1 
\v 15 \add By contrast,\add* I in righteousness shall see your face.
\q1 Upon awakening I will be satisfied \add seeing\add* your form.
\c 18
\cl Psalm 18
\s1 Praise to God for His Deliverance
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of David, the servant of Yahweh,
\q1 who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song
\q1 ⸤when⸥\f + \fr Ps 18 \ft Literally “on the day” \f* Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies,
\q1 and from the hand of Saul.\f + \fr Ps 18 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 And he said:
\q1 “I love you, O Yahweh, my strength.”
\q1 
\v 2 Yahweh \add is\add* my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
\q1 my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge,
\q1 my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.
\q1 
\v 3 I called upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised,
\q1 and I was saved from my enemies.
\q1 
\v 4 The ropes of death encircled me,
\q1 and streams of ruin overwhelmed me.
\q1 
\v 5 The ropes of Sheol surrounded me;
\q1 \add the\add* snares of death confronted me.
\q1 
\v 6 In my trouble I called on Yahweh,
\q1 and to my God I cried for help.
\q1 He heard my voice from his temple,
\q1 and my cry for help
\q1 came up before his presence into his ears.
\q1 
\v 7 Then the earth shook and quaked,
\q1 and \add the\add* foundations of \add the\add* mountains trembled,
\q1 and they staggered because he was angry.
\q1 
\v 8 Smoke went forth from his nose,
\q1 and fire from his mouth consumed.
\q1 Burning coals blazed from him.
\q1 
\v 9 So he bowed \add the\add* heavens and came down
\q1 with a thick cloud under his feet.
\q1 
\v 10 And he mounted a cherub and flew,
\q1 and he swooped down on wings of wind.
\q1 
\v 11 He made darkness his hiding place;
\q1 all about him his covering
\q1 \add was\add* a darkness of waters, ⸤thick clouds⸥.\f + \fr 18:11 \ft Literally “clouds of clouds” \f*
\q1 
\v 12 From the brightness before him
\q1 his clouds passed over
\q1 \add with\add* hail and coals of fire.
\q1 
\v 13 And Yahweh thundered from the heavens,
\q1 and the Most High uttered his voice
\q1 \add with\add* hail and coals of fire.
\q1 
\v 14 And he shot his arrows and scattered them,\f + \fr 18:14 \ft That is, the enemy \f*
\q1 and many lightning bolts and routed them.
\q1 
\v 15 Then the channels of \add the\add* sea became visible,
\q1 and \add the\add* foundations of \add the\add* world were uncovered
\q1 by your rebuke, O Yahweh,
\q1 by the ⸤blast⸥\f + \fr 18:15 \ft Or “breath” \f* of the wind of your nose.
\q1 
\v 16 He reached\f + \fr 18:16 \ft Or “sent” \f* from on high; he seized me.
\q1 He drew me from many waters.
\q1 
\v 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,
\q1 and from \add those who\add* hated me
\q1 because they were stronger than I.
\q1 
\v 18 They confronted me on the day of disaster,
\q1 but Yahweh was my support.
\q1 
\v 19 So he brought me out to a spacious place.
\q1 He delivered me because he delighted in me.
\q1 
\v 20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness;
\q1 According to the cleanness of my hands
\q1 he has repaid me.
\q1 
\v 21 Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh,
\q1 and have not acted wickedly against my God,
\q1 
\v 22 because all his ordinances \add are\add* before me,
\q1 and his statutes I have not removed from me,
\q1 
\v 23 and I was blameless before him,
\q1 and I kept myself from my guilt.
\q1 
\v 24 Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness,
\q1 according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
\q1 
\v 25 To \add the\add* loyal you show yourself loyal.
\q1 To \add the\add* blameless you show yourself blameless.
\q1 
\v 26 To \add the\add* pure you show yourself pure.
\q1 but to \add the\add* wicked you show yourself shrewd.
\q1 
\v 27 For you deliver humble people,
\q1 but haughty eyes you humiliate.
\q1 
\v 28 For you light my lamp;
\q1 Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.
\q1 
\v 29 For with you I can charge a troop,
\q1 and with my God I can scale a wall.
\q1 
\v 30 This\f + \fr 18:30 \ft Hebrew “The” \f* God—his way \add is\add* blameless.
\q1 The word of Yahweh \add is\add* flawless.\f + \fr 18:30 \ft Or “refined” \f*
\q1 He \add is\add* a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
\q1 
\v 31 For who \add is\add* God apart from Yahweh,
\q1 and who \add is\add* a rock except our God?
\q1 
\v 32 The God who girded me \add with\add* strength,
\q1 and made safe\f + \fr 18:32 \ft Or “blameless” \f* my way,
\q1 
\v 33 he made my feet like the deer’s,
\q1 and on my high places he makes me stand.
\q1 
\v 34 \add He\add* trains my hands for war,
\q1 so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
\q1 
\v 35 You also gave me the shield of your salvation,
\q1 and your right hand supported me,
\q1 and your humility made me great.
\q1 
\v 36 You enlarged my step under me,
\q1 and my ankles did not slip.
\q1 
\v 37 I chased my enemies and overtook them;
\q1 I did not turn back until they were finished \add off\add*.
\q1 
\v 38 I struck them and they were not able to stand up;
\q1 they fell under my feet.
\q1 
\v 39 And you girded me \add with\add* strength for the battle;
\q1 \add those\add* rising against me you made to kneel under me.
\q1 
\v 40 And you ⸤made my enemies turn their backs⸥,\f + \fr 18:40 \ft Literally “turned to me my enemies’ neck” \f*
\q1 then I destroyed those \add who\add* hated me.
\q1 
\v 41 They cried out but there was no rescuer,
\q1 \add even\add* to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.
\q1 
\v 42 And I ground them like dust ⸤in the wind⸥,\f + \fr 18:42 \ft Literally “on \fq the \ft face of \fq the \ft wind” \f*
\q1 I emptied them\f + \fr 18:42 \ft Many Hebrew manuscripts, the LXX, Syriac, and \xt 2 Sam 22:43 \ft read “I crushed them” \f* out like mud of \add the\add* streets.
\q1 
\v 43 You rescued me from strife with people;
\q1 you set me as head (over) nations.
\q1 People I did not know served me;
\q1 
\v 44 as soon as ⸤they heard⸥,\f + \fr 18:44 \ft Literally “hearing of ear” \f* they obeyed me.
\q1 \add The\add* children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me.
\q1 
\v 45 \add The\add* children of a foreign land ⸤lost heart⸥,\f + \fr 18:45 \ft Literally “sunk down” \f*
\q1 and they came trembling from their strongholds.
\q1 
\v 46 Yahweh lives, and blessed \add be\add* my rock,
\q1 and may the God of my salvation be exalted—
\q1 
\v 47 the God who executed vengeance for me,
\q1 and subdued peoples under me,
\q1 
\v 48 who delivered me from my enemies.
\q1 Indeed, you exalted me higher than \add those who\add* rose against me.
\q1 You delivered me from the man of violence.
\q1 
\v 49 Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations, O Yahweh,
\q1 and I will sing \add the praise\add* of your name:
\q1 
\v 50 the one who makes great victories for his king,
\q1 and \add who\add* shows loyal love for his anointed,
\q1 to David and to his descendants forever.
\c 19
\cl Psalm 19
\s1 Yahweh’s Creation and Law
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 19 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 The heavens \add are\add* telling the glory of God,
\q1 and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.
\q1 
\v 2 ⸤Every day⸥\f + \fr 19:2 \ft Literally “day to day” \f* \add they\add* pour forth speech,
\q1 and ⸤every night⸥\f + \fr 19:2 \ft Literally “night to night” \f* \add they\add* tell knowledge.
\q1 
\v 3 There is no speech and there are no words;
\q1 their sound is inaudible.
\q1 
\v 4 \add Yet\add* in all \add the\add* world their line\f + \fr 19:4 \ft LXX “line” \f* goes out,
\q1 and their words to \add the\add* end of \add the\add* world.
\q1 In them\f + \fr 19:4 \ft That is, the heavens \f* he has pitched a tent for the sun,
\q1 
\v 5 and it \add is\add* like a bridegroom
\q1 who comes out of his bridal chamber.
\q1 It is glad like a strong man
\q1 to run \add its\add* course.
\q1 
\v 6 Its rising \add is\add* from \add one\add*\f + \fr 19:6 \ft Hebrew “the” \f* end of the heavens
\q1 and its circuit to the \add other\add* end\f + \fr 19:6 \ft Hebrew “ends” \f* of them;
\q1 and nothing \add is\add* hidden from its heat.
\q1 
\v 7 The law of Yahweh \add is\add* perfect, reviving life.\f + \fr 19:7 \ft Or “soul” \f*
\q1 The testimony of Yahweh \add is\add* firm, making wise \add the\add* simple.
\q1 
\v 8 The precepts of Yahweh \add are\add* right, making \add the\add* heart rejoice.
\q1 The command of Yahweh \add is\add* pure, enlightening \add the\add* eyes.
\q1 
\v 9 The fear of Yahweh \add is\add* pure, enduring forever.
\q1 The ordinances of Yahweh \add are\add* true; they are righteous altogether,
\q1 
\v 10 more desirable than gold, even much fine gold;
\q1 and sweeter than honey, even honey \add in the\add* comb.
\q1 
\v 11 Moreover, your servant \add is\add* warned\f + \fr 19:11 \ft Or “illumined” \f* by them;
\q1 in keeping them \add is\add* great reward.
\q1 
\v 12 Who can perceive \add his\add* errors?
\q1 Acquit me from hidden \add faults\add*.
\q1 
\v 13 Also, keep back your servant from arrogant \add sins\add*;\f + \fr 19:13 \ft Usage elsewhere might suggest “arrogant people” \f*
\q1 let them not rule over me.
\q1 Then I shall be blameless,
\q1 and I shall be innocent of great transgression.
\q1 
\v 14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
\q1 be acceptable in your presence,
\q1 O Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer.
\c 20
\cl Psalm 20
\s1 God’s Blessing on the King
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 20 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 May Yahweh answer you in \add the\add* day of trouble.
\q1 May the name of Jacob’s God protect\f + \fr 20:1 \ft The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress \f* you.
\q1 
\v 2 May he send you help\f + \fr 20:2 \ft Hebrew “your help” \f* from \add the\add* sanctuary,
\q1 and from Zion may he sustain you.
\q1 
\v 3 May he remember all your offerings,
\q1 and your burnt offering may he ⸤regard favorably⸥.\f + \fr 20:3 \ft Literally “find \fq to be \ft fat” \f*
\q1 
\v 4 May he give to you ⸤your heart’s desire⸥,\f + \fr 20:4 \ft Literally “according to your heart” \f*
\q1 and your every plan may he fulfill. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 May we shout for joy over your victory,
\q1 and in the name of our God may we set up banners.
\q1 May Yahweh fulfill all your requests.
\q1 
\v 6 Now I know that Yahweh will help his anointed.\f + \fr 20:6 \ft Hebrew “messiah” \f*
\q1 He will answer him from his holy heaven
\q1 with the victorious power of his right hand.
\q1 
\v 7 ⸤Some boast in chariots and others in horses⸥,\f + \fr 20:7 \ft Literally “These in the chariots and those in the horses” \f*
\q1 but we boast in the name of Yahweh, our God.
\q1 
\v 8 They will collapse and fall,
\q1 and we will rise and stand firm.
\q1 
\v 9 Rescue,\f + \fr 20:9 \ft Or “Grant victory” \f* O Yahweh.
\q1 Let the king answer us when we call.
\c 21
\cl Psalm 21
\s1 Joy in the Salvation of Yahweh
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 21 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, \add the\add* king will rejoice in your strength,
\q1 and how greatly he will delight in your help.\f + \fr 21:1 \ft Or “victory” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 You have given him the desire of his heart,
\q1 and have not withheld the request of his lips. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 3 For you meet him \add with\add* blessings of good \add things\add*.
\q1 You set on his head a crown of fine gold.
\q1 
\v 4 He asked life from you; you gave \add it\add* to him—
\q1 length of days forever and ever.
\q1 
\v 5 His honor \add is\add* great because of your help.\f + \fr 21:5 \ft Or “victory” \f*
\q1 Splendor and majesty you have bestowed upon him.
\q1 
\v 6 For you set \add on\add* him blessings forever.
\q1 You make him glad with \add the\add* joy \add of\add* your presence.
\q1 
\v 7 Because the king trusts Yahweh,
\q1 and through the steadfast love\f + \fr 21:7 \ft Or “loyal love” \f* of the Most High
\q1 he shall not be moved.
\q1 
\v 8 Your hand will find all your enemies;
\q1 your right hand will find those who hate you.
\q1 
\v 9 You will make them like your fiery furnace
\q1 at the time of your appearance.
\q1 Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath
\q1 and fire will consume them.
\q1 
\v 10 You will destroy their ⸤offspring⸥\f + \fr 21:10 \ft Literally “fruit” \f* from \add the\add* earth,
\q1 and their ⸤descendants⸥\f + \fr 21:10 \ft Literally “seed” \f* from among \add the\add* children of humankind.
\q1 
\v 11 Though they have ⸤plotted⸥\f + \fr 21:11 \ft Literally “spread out” \f* evil against you,
\q1 \add though\add* they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.
\q1 
\v 12 For you will ⸤turn them to flight⸥;\f + \fr 21:12 \ft Literally “make them a shoulder” \f*
\q1 you will aim \add arrows\add* on your bowstrings at their faces.
\q1 
\v 13 Be exalted, O Yahweh, in your strength,
\q1 and we sing and praise your power.
\c 22
\cl Psalm 22
\s1 Suffering and Waiting for Deliverance
\d For the \add music\add* director; according to The Doe of the Dawn. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 22 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 My God, my God why have you forsaken me?
\q1 \add Why are you\add* far from helping me, \add far from\add* the words of my groaning?
\q1 
\v 2 O my God, I call by day and you do not answer,
\q1 and \add by\add* night but I have no rest.\f + \fr 22:2 \ft Or “I am not silent” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 Yet you \add are\add* holy,
\q1 enthroned on the praises of Israel.
\q1 
\v 4 Our ancestors\f + \fr 22:4 \ft Or “fathers” \f* trusted you;
\q1 they trusted and you delivered them.
\q1 
\v 5 They cried to you and were saved;
\q1 they trusted you and were not ashamed.
\q1 
\v 6 But I \add am\add* a worm and not a man,
\q1 scorned by humankind and despised by people.
\q1 
\v 7 All \add who\add* see me mock me.
\q1 They open wide \add their\add* lips;
\q1 they shake \add the\add* head, \add saying\add*:
\q1 
\v 8 “⸤He trusts Yahweh⸥.\f + \fr 22:8 \ft Literally “Commit to Yahweh” \f* Let him rescue him.
\q1 Let him deliver him because he delights in him.”
\q1 
\v 9 Yet \add you\add* took me from \add the\add* belly;
\q1 you made me trust \add while\add* on my mother’s breasts.
\q1 
\v 10 On you I was cast from \add the\add* womb.
\q1 From my mother’s belly you \add have been\add* my God.
\q1 
\v 11 Do not be far from me
\q1 because trouble \add is\add* near;
\q1 because there is no helper.
\q1 
\v 12 Many bulls have encircled me;
\q1 mighty \add bulls\add* of Bashan have surrounded me.
\q1 
\v 13 They open their mouth against me
\q1 \add like\add* a lion tearing and roaring.
\q1 
\v 14 I am poured out like water,
\q1 and all my bones are out of joint.
\q1 My heart is like wax;
\q1 it is melted ⸤within me⸥.\f + \fr 22:14 \ft Literally “in the midst of my intestines” \f*
\q1 
\v 15 My strength is dry like a potsherd,
\q1 and my tongue is sticking \add to\add* my jaws;
\q1 and you have placed me in \add the\add* dust of death.
\q1 
\v 16 Because dogs have surrounded me;
\q1 a gang of evildoers has encircled me.
\q1 Like the lion\f + \fr 22:16 \ft Or “they gouge out” or “they bind.” Not the same word for “lion” found in vv. \xt 14 \ft (13), 22(21). The Hebrew text presents such problems that any interpretation must be lightly held. \f* \add they are at\add* my hands and my feet.
\q1 
\v 17 I can count all my bones;
\q1 they gaze, they look at me.
\q1 
\v 18 They divide my garments among them,
\q1 and for my clothing they cast lots.\f + \fr 22:18 \ft Hebrew “lot” \f*
\q1 
\v 19 But you, O Yahweh, do not remain distant.
\q1 O my help, hasten to help me.
\q1 
\v 20 Rescue my life from \add the\add* sword,
\q1 my only \add life\add* from \add the\add* power of \add the\add* dogs.\f + \fr 22:20 \ft Hebrew “dog” \f*
\q1 
\v 21 Save me from \add the\add* mouth of \add the\add* lion,
\q1 and from \add the\add* horns of \add the\add* wild oxen answer me.
\q1 
\v 22 I will tell your name to my brothers;
\q1 inside \add the\add* assembly I will praise you.
\q1 
\v 23 You who revere Yahweh, praise him!
\q1 Glorify him, all \add you\add* seed of Jacob,
\q1 and be in awe of him, all \add you\add* seed of Israel,
\q1 
\v 24 because he has not despised nor abhorred \add the\add* affliction of \add the\add* afflicted,
\q1 and has not hid his face from him;
\q1 but he listened to him when he cried for help.
\q1 
\v 25 From you \add is\add* my praise.
\q1 In \add the\add* great assembly,
\q1 I will pay my vows before those who revere him.
\q1 
\v 26 \add The\add* afflicted will eat and will be satisfied.
\q1 Those who seek him will praise Yahweh.
\q1 May your\f + \fr 22:26 \ft Plural \f* heart live forever.
\q1 
\v 27 All \add the\add* ends of \add the\add* earth
\q1 will remember and turn to Yahweh.
\q1 All \add the\add* families of \add the\add* nations
\q1 will worship before you.
\q1 
\v 28 Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh,
\q1 and \add he\add* rules over the nations.
\q1 
\v 29 All \add the\add* ⸤healthy ones⸥\f + \fr 22:29 \ft Or “prosperous”; Literally “fat ones” \f* of \add the\add* earth will eat and worship.
\q1 Before him all \add of\add* those descending \add into the\add* dust will kneel,
\q1 even he \add who\add* cannot keep his soul alive.
\q1 
\v 30 Descendants\f + \fr 22:30 \ft Hebrew “Descendant” \f* will serve him.
\q1 Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the \add next\add* generation.
\q1 
\v 31 They will come and tell his saving\f + \fr 22:31 \ft Or “righteousness” \f* \add deeds\add*
\q1 to a people \add yet\add* to be born, that he has done \add it\add*.
\c 23
\cl Psalm 23
\s1 Yahweh the Shepherd
\d A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 23 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Yahweh is my shepherd;
\q1 I will not lack \add for anything\add*.
\q1 
\v 2 In grassy pastures he makes me lie down;
\q1 by quiet waters he leads me.
\q1 
\v 3 He restores my life.\f + \fr 23:3 \ft Or “my soul” \f*
\q1 He leads me in ⸤correct paths⸥\f + \fr 23:3 \ft Literally “paths of righteousness” \f*
\q1 for the sake of his name.
\q1 
\v 4 Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil
\q1 because you \add are\add* with me.
\q1 Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
\q1 
\v 5 You prepare before me a table
\q1 in the presence of my oppressors.
\q1 You anoint my head with oil;
\q1 my cup \add is\add* overflowing.
\q1 
\v 6 Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me
\q1 all the days of my life,
\q1 and I will stay\f + \fr 23:6 \ft Hebrew “return” \f* in the house\f + \fr 23:6 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh
\q1 ⸤for a very long time⸥.\f + \fr 23:6 \ft Literally “for length of days” \f*
\c 24
\cl Psalm 24
\s1 The King of Glory
\d A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 24 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness,
\q1 \add the\add* world and those who live in it,
\q1 
\v 2 because he has founded it on \add the\add* seas,
\q1 and has established it on \add the\add* rivers.
\q1 
\v 3 Who may ascend \add the\add* mountain of Yahweh?
\q1 And who may stand in his holy place?
\q1 
\v 4 He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart,
\q1 who does not lift up his soul to falseness,
\q1 and does not swear deceitfully.
\q1 
\v 5 He will receive blessing from Yahweh,
\q1 and justice\f + \fr 24:5 \ft Or “vindication” \f* from the God of his salvation.
\q1 
\v 6 Such \add is the\add* sort of those who seek\f + \fr 24:6 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere) \ft  \f* him,
\q1 those who seek your face, even Jacob. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 7 Lift up your heads, O gates,
\q1 and rise up, O ancient doorways,
\q1 that the king of glory\f + \fr 24:7 \ft Literally “the king of the glory” \f* may enter.
\q1 
\v 8 Who \add is\add* the king of glory?\f + \fr 24:8 \ft Literally “the king of the glory” \f*
\q1 Yahweh, strong and mighty;
\q1 Yahweh, mighty in war!
\q1 
\v 9 Lift up your heads, O gates,
\q1 and lift up, O ancient doorways,
\q1 that the king of glory\f + \fr 24:9 \ft Literally “the king of the glory” \f* may enter.
\q1 
\v 10 Who is the king of glory?\f + \fr 24:10 \ft Literally “the king of the glory” \f*
\q1 Yahweh of hosts,
\q1 He \add is\add* the king of glory!\f + \fr 24:10 \ft Literally “the king of the glory” \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\c 25
\cl Psalm 25
\s1 A Prayer for Guidance, Deliverance, and Forgiveness
\d Of David.\f + \fr Ps 25 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 To you, O Yahweh, I lift up my soul.
\q1 
\v 2 O my God, I trust you; let me not be put to shame.
\q1 Do not let my enemies exult over me.
\q1 
\v 3 Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame.
\q1 Those who betray without cause should be put to shame.
\q1 
\v 4 Make me know your ways, O Yahweh.
\q1 Teach me your paths.
\q1 
\v 5 Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me,
\q1 because you \add are\add* the God of my salvation.
\q1 I await you ⸤all day long⸥.\f + \fr 25:5 \ft Literally “all of the day” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 Remember your compassion, O Yahweh,
\q1 and your acts of loyal love,
\q1 because they \add are\add* from of old.
\q1 
\v 7 Do not remember
\q1 the sins of my youth or my transgressions.
\q1 According to your loyal love remember me \add if\add* you \add will\add*,
\q1 for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 8 Good and right \add is\add* Yahweh;
\q1 therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
\q1 
\v 9 He causes \add the\add* humble to walk in justice,
\q1 and teaches \add the\add* humble his way.
\q1 
\v 10 All the paths of Yahweh \add are\add* loyal love and faithfulness
\q1 for those who keep his covenant and statutes.\f + \fr 25:10 \ft Or “covenant statutes” \f*
\q1 
\v 11 Also, for the sake of your name, O Yahweh,
\q1 forgive my sin, because it \add is\add* great.
\q1 
\v 12 Who \add is\add* the man fearing Yahweh?
\q1 He will instruct him in \add the\add* way he should choose.
\q1 
\v 13 His soul will lodge in prosperity,
\q1 and his offspring will possess \add the\add* land.
\q1 
\v 14 Intimate fellowship with Yahweh \add is\add* for those who fear him,
\q1 and \add he\add* makes known his covenant to them.
\q1 
\v 15 My eyes \add are\add* continually toward Yahweh,
\q1 because he will take my feet from \add the\add* net.
\q1 
\v 16 Turn to me and have mercy on me
\q1 because I \add am\add* lonely and afflicted.
\q1 
\v 17 Remove the troubles of my heart;
\q1 bring me out from my distresses.
\q1 
\v 18 Consider my affliction and trouble,
\q1 and forgive\f + \fr 25:18 \ft Or “take away” \f* all my sins.
\q1 
\v 19 Consider that my enemies are many,
\q1 and they hate me \add with\add* violent hatred.
\q1 
\v 20 Protect my life and deliver me.
\q1 Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you.
\q1 
\v 21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
\q1 because I wait for you.
\q1 
\v 22 O God, redeem Israel
\q1 from all its troubles.
\c 26
\cl Psalm 26
\s1 A Prayer for Vindication
\d Of David.\f + \fr Ps 26 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity,
\q1 and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.
\q1 
\v 2 Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me.
\q1 Try my ⸤innermost being⸥\f + \fr 26:2 \ft Literally “kidneys,” the locus of intense thoughts and emotions in biblical Hebrew \f* and my ⸤mind⸥.\f + \fr 26:2 \ft Literally “heart” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 Because your loyal love \add is\add* before my eyes,
\q1 and I walk about in your faithfulness.
\q1 
\v 4 I do not sit with deceitful people,
\q1 nor will I go about with hypocrites.
\q1 
\v 5 I hate \add the\add* crowd of evildoers,
\q1 and with \add the\add* wicked I will not sit.
\q1 
\v 6 I will wash my hands in innocence,
\q1 and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh,
\q1 
\v 7 to declare with a voice of thanksgiving,
\q1 and tell of all your wondrous deeds.
\q1 
\v 8 O Yahweh, I love \add the\add* dwelling of your house,\f + \fr 26:8 \ft Or “temple” \f*
\q1 and ⸤the place where your glory abides⸥.\f + \fr 26:8 \ft Literally “the place of the dwelling place of your glory” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 Do not destroy me\f + \fr 26:9 \ft Or “gather my soul \fq for judgment \ft ” \f* with \add the\add* sinners,
\q1 nor my life with men of bloodshed,
\q1 
\v 10 in whose hands \add is\add* an evil plan,
\q1 and whose right hand is full of bribes.\f + \fr 26:10 \ft Hebrew “bribe” \f*
\q1 
\v 11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity.
\q1 Redeem me and be gracious to me.
\q1 
\v 12 My foot stands on level ground.
\q1 In assemblies I will bless Yahweh.
\c 27
\cl Psalm 27
\s1 A Declaration of Trust
\d Of David.\f + \fr Ps 27 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Yahweh \add is\add* my light and my salvation;
\q1 whom shall I fear?
\q1 Yahweh \add is\add* the refuge of my life;
\q1 of whom shall I be afraid?
\q1 
\v 2 When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh—
\q1 my adversaries and my enemies \add who drew near\add* to me—
\q1 they themselves stumbled and fell.
\q1 
\v 3 Though an army encamp against me,
\q1 my heart will not fear.
\q1 Though war arise against me,
\q1 \add even\add* in this I \add will\add* remain confident.
\q1 
\v 4 One \add thing\add* I have asked from Yahweh;
\q1 it I will seek:
\q1 \add that\add* I may dwell in the house\f + \fr 27:4 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh all the days of my life,
\q1 to behold the beauty of Yahweh,
\q1 and to consider\f + \fr 27:4 \ft Or “inquire in” \f* his temple.
\q1 
\v 5 Because he will hide me in his shelter in \add the\add* day of trouble.
\q1 He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent.
\q1 He will set me high upon a rock.
\q1 
\v 6 And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me.
\q1 And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy.
\q1 I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 7 Hear, O Yahweh, my voice \add when\add* I call,
\q1 and be gracious to me and answer me.
\q1 
\v 8 On your behalf my heart says, “Seek my face.”
\q1 Your face, O Yahweh, I do seek.
\q1 
\v 9 Do not hide your face from me;
\q1 do not turn your servant away in anger.
\q1 You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me,
\q1 O God of my salvation.
\q1 
\v 10 If my father or my mother forsake me,
\q1 then Yahweh will receive me.
\q1 
\v 11 Teach me, O Yahweh, your way,
\q1 and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
\q1 
\v 12 Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies,
\q1 because false witnesses have arisen against me,
\q1 and \add each\add* breathing out violence.\f + \fr 27:12 \ft Or “and \fq each \ft a witness of violence” \f*
\q1 
\v 13 Surely\f + \fr 27:13 \ft Hebrew text is uncertain \f* I believe \add that I will\add* see the goodness of Yahweh
\q1 in \add the\add* land of \add the\add* living.
\q1 
\v 14 Wait for Yahweh.
\q1 Be strong and let your heart show strength,
\q1 and wait for Yahweh.
\c 28
\cl Psalm 28
\s1 A Prayer for Help, and Joy in Its Answer
\d A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 28 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 To you, O Yahweh, I call.
\q1 O my rock, do not be deaf to me.
\q1 Or else, if you are silent to me,
\q1 then I will become like those descending to \add the\add* pit.
\q1 
\v 2 Hear the voice of my supplications
\q1 when I cry to you for help,
\q1 when I lift up my hands
\q1 toward your holy inner sanctuary.
\q1 
\v 3 Do not drag me away with \add the\add* wicked
\q1 or with \add the\add* workers of evil,
\q1 \add who\add* speak of peace with their neighbors,
\q1 while evil \add is\add* in their heart.
\q1 
\v 4 Give to them according to their work,
\q1 even according to the evil of their deeds.
\q1 Give to them according to the work of their hands;
\q1 repay them their rightful due.
\q1 
\v 5 Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh,
\q1 nor the work of his hands,
\q1 he will destroy them
\q1 and not rebuild them.
\q1 
\v 6 Blessed \add is\add* Yahweh,
\q1 because he has heard the voice of my supplications.
\q1 
\v 7 Yahweh \add is\add* my strength and my shield.
\q1 My heart trusts him and I am helped.
\q1 So my heart rejoices,
\q1 and with my song I will give thanks to him.
\q1 
\v 8 Yahweh \add is\add* their strength,
\q1 and he \add is\add* the refuge for the salvation of his anointed one.
\q1 
\v 9 Save your people
\q1 and bless your heritage.
\q1 Shepherd them also and carry them always.
\c 29
\cl Psalm 29
\s1 Praise to God for His Glory and Strength
\d A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 29 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Ascribe to Yahweh, O sons of God,\f + \fr 29:1 \ft Or “heavenly beings” \f*
\q1 ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
\q1 
\v 2 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory ⸤due⸥\f + \fr 29:2 \ft Literally “of” \f* his name.
\q1 Worship Yahweh in holy array.
\q1 
\v 3 The voice of Yahweh \add is\add* over the waters;
\q1 the God of glory thunders.
\q1 Yahweh \add is\add* over many waters.
\q1 
\v 4 The voice of Yahweh \add is\add* powerful.
\q1 The voice of Yahweh \add is\add* majestic.
\q1 
\v 5 The voice of Yahweh breaks \add the\add* cedars.
\q1 Yahweh shatters even the cedars of Lebanon.
\q1 
\v 6 And he makes them skip like a calf;
\q1 Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
\q1 
\v 7 The voice of Yahweh flashes\f + \fr 29:7 \ft Or “divides” \f* flames of fire.
\q1 
\v 8 The voice of Yahweh shakes \add the\add* wilderness.
\q1 Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
\q1 
\v 9 The voice of Yahweh causes deer\f + \fr 29:9 \ft A slightly different Hebrew word here yields, “makes the oaks tremble” \f* to give birth
\q1 and strips \add the\add* forests bare.
\q1 And at his temple all in it say, “Glory!”
\q1 
\v 10 Yahweh sits \add enthroned\add* at the flood,
\q1 and Yahweh sits \add as\add* king forever.
\q1 
\v 11 May Yahweh give strength to his people.
\q1 May Yahweh bless his people with peace.
\c 30
\cl Psalm 30
\s1 Thanksgiving for Answered Prayer
\d A psalm; a song for the dedication of the house.\f + \fr Ps 30 \ft Or “temple” \f* Of David.\f + \fr Ps 30 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I will exalt you, O Yahweh,
\q1 because you have drawn me up,
\q1 and have not made my enemies rejoice over me.
\q1 
\v 2 O Yahweh, my God,
\q1 I cried for help to you,
\q1 and you healed me.
\q1 
\v 3 O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol.
\q1 You preserved me alive
\q1 from among those going down \f + \fr 30:3 \ft According to the \fqa Kethib \ft ; the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) reads “so I would not go down” \f* to \add the\add* pit.
\q1 
\v 4 Sing praises to Yahweh, you his faithful ones,
\q1 and give thanks ⸤to his holy fame⸥.\f + \fr 30:4 \ft Literally “to the fame of his holiness” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 For \add there is\add* a moment in his anger;
\q1 \add there is\add* a lifetime in his favor.
\q1 Weeping lodges for the evening,
\q1 but in the morning \add comes\add* rejoicing.
\q1 
\v 6 But as for me, I had said in my prosperity,
\q1 “I shall not be moved ever.”
\q1 
\v 7 O Yahweh, by your favor
\q1 you caused my strong mountain to stand.
\q1 You hid your face. I was bewildered.
\q1 
\v 8 To you, O Yahweh, I called,
\q1 and to the Lord I pleaded for grace \add saying\add*,
\q1 
\v 9 “What gain \add is there\add* in my ⸤death⸥,\f + \fr 30:9 \ft Literally “blood” \f*
\q1 in my going down into \add the\add* pit?
\q1 Will \add the\add* dust praise you?
\q1 Will it tell of your faithfulness?
\q1 
\v 10 “O Yahweh, hear and be gracious to me.
\q1 O Yahweh, be my helper.”
\q1 
\v 11 You have turned my wailing into my dancing.
\q1 You have removed my sackcloth
\q1 and clothed me \add with\add* joy
\q1 
\v 12 so that ⸤I⸥\f + \fr 30:12 \ft Literally “my glory” \f* may sing praises to you
\q1 and not be quiet.
\q1 O Yahweh, my God,
\q1 I will give thanks to you forever.
\c 31
\cl Psalm 31
\s1 Yahweh Is a Fortress
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 31 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge.
\q1 Let me not be put to shame ever.
\q1 Deliver me by your righteousness.
\q1 
\v 2 Incline your ear to me.
\q1 Quickly deliver me.
\q1 Become my rock of refuge,
\q1 ⸤a fortified keep⸥\f + \fr 31:2 \ft Literally “a house of strongholds” \f* to save me.
\q1 
\v 3 For you \add are\add* my rock and my fortress.
\q1 So, for the sake of your name,
\q1 lead me and guide me.
\q1 
\v 4 Bring me out of \add the\add* net that they have secretly set for me,
\q1 for you \add are\add* my refuge.
\q1 
\v 5 Into your hand I commit my spirit.
\q1 You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.\f + \fr 31:5 \ft Or “God of truth” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 I hate those devoted to useless idols,
\q1 but I trust Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 7 I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love.
\q1 Because you have seen my misery,
\q1 you know the distresses of my life.\f + \fr 31:7 \ft Or “soul” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 And you have not delivered me
\q1 into \add the\add* hand of \add the\add* enemy.
\q1 You have set my feet in a broad place.
\q1 
\v 9 Be gracious \add to\add* me, O Yahweh,
\q1 because I have distress.
\q1 My eye wastes away because of vexation,
\q1 \add along with\add* my soul and my ⸤body⸥.\f + \fr 31:9 \ft Literally “belly” \f*
\q1 
\v 10 For my life is at an end with sorrow,
\q1 and my years with sighing.
\q1 My strength stumbles because of my iniquity,
\q1 and my bones waste away.
\q1 
\v 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace,
\q1 especially to my neighbors,
\q1 and a dread to my acquaintances.
\q1 \add Those who\add* see me in the street flee from me.
\q1 
\v 12 I have become forgotten like \add one\add* dead, out of ⸤mind⸥.\f + \fr 31:12 \ft Literally “heart” \f*
\q1 I am like a destroyed vessel.
\q1 
\v 13 For I hear \add the\add* rumor of many,
\q1 “Terror on every side!”
\q1 When conspiring together against me,
\q1 they have plotted to take my life.
\q1 
\v 14 But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh.
\q1 I say, “You \add are\add* my God.”
\q1 
\v 15 My times\f + \fr 31:15 \ft Or “destiny” \f* \add are\add* in your hand.
\q1 Deliver me from the hand of my enemies
\q1 and from \add those who\add* pursue me.
\q1 
\v 16 Shine your face upon your servant.
\q1 Save me by your loyal love.
\q1 
\v 17 O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you.
\q1 Let the wicked be put to shame.
\q1 Let them \add go\add* silently\f + \fr 31:17 \ft Or “let them \fq with \ft wailing \fq enter \ft ” \f* to Sheol.
\q1 
\v 18 Let lying lips be dumb,
\q1 that speak against \add the\add* righteous\f + \fr 31:18 \ft Or “the innocent one” \f* unrestrained
\q1 with arrogance and contempt.
\q1 
\v 19 How abundant \add is\add* your goodness
\q1 that you have stored up for \add those who\add* fear you,
\q1 that you perform for those who take refuge in you
\q1 before \add the\add* children of humankind.
\q1 
\v 20 You will hide them in the protection of your presence
\q1 from \add the\add* plots of man.
\q1 You will hide them in a shelter from \add the\add* strife of tongues.
\q1 
\v 21 Blessed \add is\add* Yahweh,
\q1 because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me
\q1 in a besieged city.
\q1 
\v 22 As for me, I said in my alarm,
\q1 “I am cut off from before your eyes.”
\q1 However you heard the voice of my supplications
\q1 when I cried to you for help.
\q1 
\v 23 Love Yahweh, all you his faithful ones.
\q1 Yahweh preserves \add the\add* faithful
\q1 but repays abundantly \add the\add* one who acts arrogantly.
\q1 
\v 24 Be strong and let your\f + \fr 31:24 \ft Plural \f* heart show strength,
\q1 all \add you\add* who wait for Yahweh.
\c 32
\cl Psalm 32
\s1 Thanksgiving for Forgiveness of Sins
\d Of David. A maskil.\f + \fr Ps 32 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Happy \add is\add* he whose transgression is taken away,
\q1 whose sin is covered.
\q1 
\v 2 Happy \add is\add* a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity
\q1 and in whose spirit there is not deceit.
\q1 
\v 3 When I kept silent, my bones were worn out
\q1 due to my groaning all the day.
\q1 
\v 4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me.
\q1 My vigor was changed into \add the\add* dry heat of summer. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover.
\q1 I said, “I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh,”
\q1 and you took away the guilt of my sin. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 6 Therefore let all \add the\add* faithful pray to you
\q1 at \add the\add* time \add for\add* finding \add you\add*.
\q1 Surely at \add the\add* flood of many waters they will not reach him.
\q1 
\v 7 You \add are\add* my hiding place;
\q1 from trouble you preserve me.
\q1 \add With\add* cries of deliverance you surround me. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 8 I\f + \fr 32:8 \ft Yahweh is speaking in vv. \xt 8–9 \ft \f* will instruct you and teach you
\q1 in \add the\add* way that you should go.
\q1 I will advise \add you\add* \add with\add* my eye upon you.
\q1 
\v 9 Do not be like a horse \add or\add* like a mule, without understanding;
\q1 \add that needs\add* his tackle—bridle and rein—for restraint
\q1 \add or he would not\add* come near you.
\q1 
\v 10 Many are \add the\add* pains of the wicked,
\q1 but \add for\add* the one who trusts Yahweh
\q1 loyal love surrounds him.
\q1 
\v 11 Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, \add you\add* righteous,
\q1 and shout for joy, all \add you\add* upright of heart.
\c 33
\cl Psalm 33
\s1 Praise to Yahweh for His Character and Creation
\q1 
\v 1 Exult in Yahweh, O \add you\add* righteous,
\q1 \add for\add* praise \add is\add* fitting for the upright.
\q1 
\v 2 Give thanks to Yahweh with \add the\add* lyre;
\q1 with a harp of ten strings play to him.
\q1 
\v 3 Sing to him a new song;
\q1 play skillfully with jubilant shout.
\q1 
\v 4 For the word of Yahweh \add is\add* upright,
\q1 and all his work \add is done\add* in faithfulness.
\q1 
\v 5 \add He\add* loves righteousness and justice.
\q1 The earth is full of the loyal love of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 6 By the word of Yahweh \add the\add* heavens were made,
\q1 and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
\q1 
\v 7 \add He\add* gathered the waters of the sea like a heap.
\q1 \add He\add* put \add the\add* deeps in storehouses.
\q1 
\v 8 Let all the earth fear Yahweh.
\q1 Let all \add the\add* inhabitants of \add the\add* world stand in awe of him.
\q1 
\v 9 For ⸤he himself spoke⸥\f + \fr 33:9 \ft Literally “he, he spoke” \f* and it came to pass.
\q1 ⸤He himself commanded⸥\f + \fr 33:9 \ft Literally “He, he commanded” \f* and it stood firm.
\q1 
\v 10 Yahweh brings to nothing\f + \fr 33:10 \ft Or “breaks” \f* \add the\add* plan of nations;
\q1 he frustrates\f + \fr 33:10 \ft Or “nullifies” \f* \add the\add* intents of peoples.
\q1 
\v 11 The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever,
\q1 the intents of his heart ⸤from one generation to the next⸥.\f + \fr 33:11 \ft Literally “to a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 
\v 12 Blessed \add is\add* the nation whose God \add is\add* Yahweh,
\q1 the people he has chosen for his inheritance.
\q1 
\v 13 From heaven Yahweh looks;
\q1 he sees all the children of humankind.
\q1 
\v 14 From his dwelling place\f + \fr 33:14 \ft Or “the place where he sits enthroned” \f* he gazes
\q1 on all the inhabitants of the earth,
\q1 
\v 15 he who fashions altogether their heart,
\q1 he who understands all their works.
\q1 
\v 16 The king \add is\add* not saved by \add the\add* greatness of an army.
\q1 The warrior is not delivered by \add the\add* greatness of strength.
\q1 
\v 17 The horse \add is\add* a false hope for victory,
\q1 nor can it save by the greatness of its power.
\q1 
\v 18 Behold, the eye of Yahweh \add is\add* on those who fear him,
\q1 on those who hope\f + \fr 33:18 \ft Or “wait expectantly” \f* for his loyal love
\q1 
\v 19 to deliver their soul from death
\q1 and to keep them alive in famine.
\q1 
\v 20 Our soul waits for Yahweh;
\q1 he \add is\add* our help and our shield.
\q1 
\v 21 For in him our heart rejoices
\q1 because in his holy name we trust.
\q1 
\v 22 Let your loyal love, O Yahweh, be upon us,
\q1 ⸤even as⸥\f + \fr 33:22 \ft Literally “as which” \f* we hope in you.
\c 34
\cl Psalm 34
\s1 Thanksgiving for Yahweh’s Deliverance
\d Of David, when he ⸤pretended to be crazy⸥\f + \fr Ps 34 \ft Literally “he changed his discernment” \f* in front of Abimelech\f + \fr Ps 34 \ft Literally “my father is king” whereas \xt 1 Sam 21:10 \ft (9) has “Achish.” “Abimelech” is perhaps an honorific title, since its literal meaning suggests a legitimate right to rule \f*
\q1 so that he drove him out, and \add so\add* he departed.\f + \fr Ps 34 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one\f*
\q1 
\v 1 I will bless Yahweh at all times;
\q1 his praise \add shall be\add* in my mouth continually.
\q1 
\v 2 My soul makes its boast in Yahweh;
\q1 let the humble hear and be glad.
\q1 
\v 3 Magnify Yahweh with me,
\q1 and let us exalt his name together.
\q1 
\v 4 I sought Yahweh and he answered me,
\q1 and from all my terrors he delivered me.
\q1 
\v 5 They looked to him and were radiant,
\q1 and their faces shall not be ashamed.\f + \fr 34:5 \ft Or “and let not their faces be ashamed” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 This poor \add man\add* called and Yahweh heard,
\q1 and saved him from all his troubles.
\q1 
\v 7 The angel of Yahweh encamps
\q1 around \add those who\add* fear him,
\q1 and he rescues them.
\q1 
\v 8 Taste and see that Yahweh \add is\add* good;
\q1 blessed \add is\add* the man \add who\add* takes refuge in him.
\q1 
\v 9 Fear Yahweh, \add you\add* his saints,\f + \fr 34:9 \ft Or “holy ones” \f*
\q1 for there is no lack for \add those who\add* fear him.
\q1 
\v 10 \add The\add* young lions are in want and suffer hunger,
\q1 but those who seek Yahweh will not lack for any good thing.
\q1 
\v 11 Come, \add you\add* children, listen to me;
\q1 I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 12 Who \add is\add* the man who desires life,
\q1 who loves \add many\add* days in order to see good?
\q1 
\v 13 Keep your tongue from evil
\q1 and your lips from speaking deceit.
\q1 
\v 14 Turn from evil and do good.
\q1 Seek peace and pursue it.
\q1 
\v 15 The eyes of Yahweh \add are\add* toward \add the\add* righteous,
\q1 and his ears toward their cry for help.
\q1 
\v 16 The face of Yahweh \add is\add* against evildoers,
\q1 to cut off the remembrance of them from \add the\add* earth.
\q1 
\v 17 They\f + \fr 34:17 \ft That is, the righteous \f* cry out and Yahweh hears
\q1 and delivers them from all \add of\add* their troubles.
\q1 
\v 18 Yahweh \add is\add* near to \add those who are\add* heartbroken
\q1 and saves \add those who are\add* crushed in spirit.
\q1 
\v 19 Many \add are the\add* distresses of \add the\add* righteous,
\q1 but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
\q1 
\v 20 \add He\add* protects all his bones;
\q1 not one of them is broken.
\q1 
\v 21 Evil will slay \add the\add* wicked,
\q1 and \add those who\add* hate \add the\add* righteous will incur guilt.
\q1 
\v 22 Yahweh redeems the life of his servants,
\q1 and none who take refuge in him will incur guilt.
\c 35
\cl Psalm 35
\s1 A Prayer for Rescue from Enemies
\d Of David.\f + \fr Ps 35 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Contend, O Yahweh, with my contenders;
\q1 fight \add those who\add* fight me.
\q1 
\v 2 Grasp buckler and shield
\q1 and rise to my aid.
\q1 
\v 3 And draw \add the\add* spear and javelin to meet \add those who\add* pursue me.
\q1 Say to my soul, “I \add am\add* your salvation.”
\q1 
\v 4 Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated.
\q1 Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.
\q1 
\v 5 Let them be like chaff before \add the\add* wind,
\q1 with the angel of Yahweh ⸤driving them⸥.\f + \fr 35:5 \ft Literally “pushing” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
\q1 with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
\q1 
\v 7 For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me;
\q1 without cause they dug \add it\add* for my life.
\q1 
\v 8 Let ⸤unforeseen ruin⸥\f + \fr 35:8 \ft Literally “ruin he does not know” \f* come on him,
\q1 and his net that he hid, let it catch him.
\q1 Let him fall into it in ruin.
\q1 
\v 9 Then my soul will rejoice in Yahweh;
\q1 it will rejoice in his salvation.
\q1 
\v 10 All of my bones shall say, “O Yahweh, who \add is\add* like you,
\q1 who delivers \add the\add* poor from \add one\add* stronger than he
\q1 and \add the\add* poor and needy from \add the one who\add* robs him?”
\q1 
\v 11 Violent witnesses rise up;
\q1 they ask me \add concerning\add* what I do not know.
\q1 
\v 12 They repay me evil in place of good.
\q1 \add It is\add* bereavement to my soul.
\q1 
\v 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing \add was\add* sackcloth.
\q1 I weakened my soul with fasting,
\q1 and my prayer ⸤returned to me unanswered⸥.\f + \fr 35:13 \ft Literally “upon my lap it will return” \f*
\q1 
\v 14 I ⸤behaved⸥\f + \fr 35:14 \ft Literally “walked about” \f* as \add though he were\add* a friend \add or\add* as a brother to me.
\q1 As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down \add in\add* mourning.
\q1 
\v 15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together;
\q1 smiters whom I did not know gathered against me.
\q1 They tore and did not cease.
\q1 
\v 16 Among \add the\add* ungodly of the mockers at feasts,\f + \fr 35:16 \ft With a slight change the Hebrew might read, “The ungodly boldly mocked” \f*
\q1 \add they\add* gnashed at me with their teeth.
\q1 
\v 17 My Lord, how long will you watch?
\q1 Restore my life from their ravages,\f + \fr 35:17 \ft Or “roaring” \f*
\q1 my only \add life\add* from \add the\add* young lions.
\q1 
\v 18 I will give thanks \add to\add* you in \add the\add* great assembly;
\q1 among \add the\add* mighty people I will praise you.
\q1 
\v 19 Let not those who \add are\add* wrongfully my enemies\f + \fr 35:19 \ft Or “those who oppose me \fq with \ft falsehood” \f* rejoice over me.
\q1 \add Nor let\add* those who hate me without cause wink \add the\add* eye.
\q1 
\v 20 For they do not speak peace,
\q1 but against \add the\add* quiet \add ones\add* of \add the\add* land
\q1 they plan deceitful words.
\q1 
\v 21 They also made wide their mouths\f + \fr 35:21 \ft Hebrew “mouth” \f* against me.
\q1 They said, “Aha! Aha!
\q1 Our eyes have seen \add it\add*.”
\q1 
\v 22 You have seen, O Yahweh. Do not be deaf.
\q1 O Lord, do not be far from me.
\q1 
\v 23 Wake up and rouse yourself for my right,
\q1 for my cause, O my God and my Lord.
\q1 
\v 24 Vindicate me according to your righteousness,
\q1 O Yahweh my God,
\q1 and do not let them rejoice over me.
\q1 
\v 25 Do not let them say in their hearts,\f + \fr 35:25 \ft Hebrew “heart” \f* “Aha, our desire.”
\q1 Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
\q1 
\v 26 Let them be shamed and abashed altogether,
\q1 who rejoice at my misfortune.
\q1 Let them put on shame and insult,
\q1 who magnify themselves against me.
\q1 
\v 27 Let them shout for joy and be glad,
\q1 who delight in my vindication;
\q1 and let them say continually, “Yahweh is great,
\q1 who delights in the welfare of his servant.”
\q1 
\v 28 Then my tongue will proclaim your righteousness,
\q1 \add and\add* your praise all day.
\c 36
\cl Psalm 36
\s1 Human Wickedness and God’s Love
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of David, the servant of Yahweh.\f + \fr Ps 36 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 An oracle: the wicked has rebellion
\q1 in the midst of his\f + \fr 36:1 \ft Reading with a few Hebrew manuscripts and some versions; MT reads “my” \f* heart.
\q1 There is no fear of God before his eyes.
\q1 
\v 2 For he flatters himself in his eyes,
\q1 hating to detect his iniquity.\f + \fr 36:2 \ft Or “when finding his iniquity and when hating” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 The words of his mouth \add are\add* wickedness and deceit.
\q1 He has ceased to have insight \add and\add* to do good.
\q1 
\v 4 He plans sin on his bed.
\q1 He puts himself on a way \add that is\add* not good.
\q1 He does not reject evil.
\q1 
\v 5 O Yahweh, your loyal love \add extends\add* into \add the\add* heavens,
\q1 your faithfulness unto \add the\add* clouds.
\q1 
\v 6 Your righteousness \add is\add* ⸤like the mighty mountains⸥,\f + \fr 36:6 \ft Literally “like the mountains of God” \f*
\q1 your judgments \add like the\add* great deep.
\q1 You save man and beast, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 7 How precious \add is\add* your loyal love, O God,
\q1 and the children of humankind
\q1 take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
\q1 
\v 8 They are refreshed with the ⸤fullness⸥\f + \fr 36:8 \ft Literally “fatness” \f* of your house,\f + \fr 36:8 \ft Or “temple” \f*
\q1 and you give them drink \add from\add* the river of your delights.
\q1 
\v 9 For with you is \add the\add* fountain of life;
\q1 in your light we see light.
\q1 
\v 10 Prolong your loyal love to those who know you,
\q1 and your righteousness to \add the\add* upright of heart.
\q1 
\v 11 Do not let a foot of pride come against me,
\q1 nor let a wicked hand make me to wander homeless.
\q1 
\v 12 There doers of evil have fallen;
\q1 they are thrust down and not able to rise.
\c 37
\cl Psalm 37
\s1 The Protection of the Righteous and the Destruction of the Wicked
\d Of David.\f + \fr Ps 37 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Do not fret because of evildoers;
\q1 do not be envious of doers of wickedness.
\q1 
\v 2 For like the grass they will dry up quickly,
\q1 and like green vegetation they will wither.
\q1 
\v 3 Trust Yahweh and do good.
\q1 Abide \add in the\add* land and feed on faithfulness.\f + \fr 37:3 \ft That is, God’s faithfulness \f*
\q1 
\v 4 Take pleasure in Yahweh as well,
\q1 and he will give to you the requests of your heart.
\q1 
\v 5 ⸤Commit to⸥\f + \fr 37:5 \ft Literally “Roll upon” \f* Yahweh your way;
\q1 Trust also on him and he will act.
\q1 
\v 6 Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light,
\q1 and your justice like the noonday.
\q1 
\v 7 Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him.
\q1 Do not fret about one who succeeds \add in\add* his way,
\q1 about a man making plots.
\q1 
\v 8 Refrain from anger and forsake wrath.
\q1 Do not fret; \add it\add* only brings evil.
\q1 
\v 9 For evildoers will be cut off,
\q1 but those who wait for Yahweh—
\q1 they will possess \add the\add* land.
\q1 
\v 10 And\f + \fr 37:10 \ft Or “But” \f* yet a little \add while\add* and the wicked will not be,
\q1 and you will look carefully upon his place, but he will not be.
\q1 
\v 11 But \add the\add* afflicted will possess \add the\add* land,
\q1 and they will take pleasure in an abundance of peace.
\q1 
\v 12 \add The\add* wicked plans \add evil\add* against the righteous,
\q1 and gnashes at him \add with\add* his teeth.
\q1 
\v 13 \add The\add* Lord laughs at him,
\q1 for he sees that his day is coming.
\q1 
\v 14 \add The\add* wicked have drawn \add the\add* sword and have bent their bow
\q1 to throw down \add the\add* poor and \add the\add* needy,
\q1 to kill \add those\add* upright in \add their\add* way.
\q1 
\v 15 Their sword will enter into their \add own\add* heart,
\q1 and their bows shall be broken.
\q1 
\v 16 \add The\add* little belonging to the righteous \add is\add* better
\q1 than \add the\add* wealth of many wicked.
\q1 
\v 17 For \add the\add* arms of \add the\add* wicked shall be broken,
\q1 but Yahweh supports \add the\add* righteous.
\q1 
\v 18 Yahweh knows \add the\add* days of \add the\add* blameless,
\q1 and their inheritance will be forever.
\q1 
\v 19 They will not be put to shame in distressing times,\f + \fr 37:19 \ft Hebrew “time” \f*
\q1 and in \add the\add* days of famine they will be satisfied.
\q1 
\v 20 But \add the\add* wicked will perish,
\q1 and the enemies of Yahweh \add will be\add* like \add the\add* splendor of \add the\add* pastures.
\q1 They vanish; in smoke they vanish.
\q1 
\v 21 \add The\add* wicked borrows and does not repay,
\q1 but \add the\add* righteous \add is\add* gracious and gives.
\q1 
\v 22 For those blessed \add by\add* him shall possess \add the\add* land,
\q1 but those cursed \add by\add* him shall be cut off.
\q1 
\v 23 \add The\add* steps of a man are established by Yahweh,
\q1 and he takes pleasure in his way.
\q1 
\v 24 Though he fall, he will not be cast headlong,
\q1 for Yahweh supports \add him with\add* his hand.
\q1 
\v 25 I was a youth, but I am \add now\add* old;
\q1 yet I have not seen \add the\add* righteous forsaken
\q1 or his children ⸤begging for⸥\f + \fr 37:25 \ft Literally “searching” \f* bread.
\q1 
\v 26 All the day he \add is\add* gracious and lends,
\q1 and his children \add are\add* a blessing.
\q1 
\v 27 Turn aside from evil and do good
\q1 and \add so\add* abide forever.
\q1 
\v 28 For Yahweh loves justice
\q1 and will not forsake his faithful ones.
\q1 They are protected forever.
\q1 But \add the\add* children of \add the\add* wicked will be cut off.
\q1 
\v 29 \add The\add* righteous will possess \add the\add* land
\q1 and abide in it forever.
\q1 
\v 30 \add The\add* mouth of \add the\add* righteous utters wisdom,
\q1 and his tongue speaks justice.
\q1 
\v 31 The law of his God \add is\add* in his heart.
\q1 His steps will not slip.
\q1 
\v 32 \add The\add* wicked watches for the righteous
\q1 and seeks to kill him.
\q1 
\v 33 Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand,
\q1 and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged.
\q1 
\v 34 Wait for Yahweh and keep his way,
\q1 and he will exalt you to possess \add the\add* land.
\q1 When \add the\add* wicked are cut off, you will see \add it\add*.
\q1 
\v 35 I have seen \add the\add* wicked acting violently
\q1 and spreading himself out
\q1 like a luxuriant native tree.
\q1 
\v 36 Then he passed on\f + \fr 37:36 \ft Dead Sea Scrolls and the versions read “I passed by” \f* and behold, he was not.
\q1 And I sought him, but he could not be found.
\q1 
\v 37 Observe \add the\add* blameless and look at \add the\add* upright,
\q1 for \add there is\add* a future for a man of peace.
\q1 
\v 38 But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether.
\q1 \add The\add* future of \add the\add* wicked shall be cut off.
\q1 
\v 39 And\f + \fr 37:39 \ft Some manuscripts omit “and,” preserving the acrostic \f* \add the\add* salvation of \add the\add* righteous \add is\add* from Yahweh,
\q1 their refuge in \add the\add* time of trouble.
\q1 
\v 40 And Yahweh helps them and he rescues them.
\q1 He rescues them from \add the\add* wicked and saves them,
\q1 because they take refuge in him.
\c 38
\cl Psalm 38
\s1 A Prayer of Repentance
\d A psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.\f + \fr Ps 38 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger
\q1 or chastise me in your wrath.
\q1 
\v 2 For your arrows have sunk into me,
\q1 and your hand has pressed down on me.
\q1 
\v 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation.
\q1 There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
\q1 
\v 4 For my iniquities have passed over my head;
\q1 like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
\q1 
\v 5 My wounds start to stink; they rot
\q1 because of my foolishness.
\q1 
\v 6 I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly.
\q1 All the day I go about mourning.
\q1 
\v 7 For my loins are full \add of\add* burning,
\q1 and there is no soundness in my flesh.
\q1 
\v 8 I am faint and crushed greatly;
\q1 I groan because of the roaring of my heart.
\q1 
\v 9 O Lord, all my longing is before you,
\q1 and my sighing is not hidden from you.
\q1 
\v 10 My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me;
\q1 and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
\q1 
\v 11 My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,
\q1 and my relatives stand afar off.
\q1 
\v 12 Those who seek my life lay snares as well,
\q1 and those intent on my harm speak threats.
\q1 They also plot deceit all day.
\q1 
\v 13 But as for me, like \add the\add* deaf I cannot hear,
\q1 and \add I am\add* like \add the\add* mute \add who\add* cannot open his mouth.
\q1 
\v 14 And \add so\add* I am like a man who hears not,
\q1 and in whose mouth there are no retorts.
\q1 
\v 15 Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh.
\q1 You will answer, O Lord my God.
\q1 
\v 16 For I said, “\add Help,\add* lest they rejoice over me,
\q1 \add lest\add* they boast against me when my foot slips.”
\q1 
\v 17 For I \add am\add* ready to stumble,
\q1 and my pain \add is\add* before me continually.
\q1 
\v 18 For my iniquity I confess;
\q1 I am anxious because of my sin.
\q1 
\v 19 And my enemies without cause\f + \fr 38:19 \ft Or “vigorous” \f* are numerous,
\q1 and those who hate me wrongfully\f + \fr 38:19 \ft Or “those who hate me \fq with \ft falsehood” \f* are many.
\q1 
\v 20 And those who repay evil in return for good
\q1 accuse me in return for my pursuing good.
\q1 
\v 21 Do not forsake me, O Yahweh.
\q1 O my God, do not be far from me.
\q1 
\v 22 Hurry to help me,
\q1 O Lord, my salvation.
\c 39
\cl Psalm 39
\s1 The Brevity of Human Life
\d For the \add music\add* director. For Jeduthun.\f + \fr Ps 39 \ft One of David’s musicians (\xt 1 Chr 16:41 \ft ) \f* A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 39 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I said, “I will guard my ways
\q1 ⸤that I may not sin⸥\f + \fr 39:1 \ft Literally “from sinning” \f* with my tongue.
\q1 I will keep a muzzle over my mouth
\q1 as long as \add the\add* wicked \add are\add* before me.”
\q1 
\v 2 I was mute \add with\add* silence. I was silent \add even\add* from \add saying\add* good \add things\add*,
\q1 and my pain was stirred up.
\q1 
\v 3 My heart grew hot inside me;
\q1 in my sighing a fire burned.
\q1 \add Then\add* I spoke with my tongue,
\q1 
\v 4 “Let me know, O Yahweh, my end,
\q1 and what is the measure of my days.
\q1 Let me know how transient I \add am\add*.”
\q1 
\v 5 Look, you have made my days \add mere\add* handbreadths,
\q1 and my lifespan as nothing next to you.
\q1 Surely every person standing firm \add is\add* complete vanity. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 6 Surely a man walks about as a \add mere\add* ⸤shadow⸥;\f + \fr 39:6 \ft Literally “image” \f*
\q1 surely in vain they bustle about.
\q1 He heaps up \add possessions\add* but does not know who \add will\add* gather them \add in\add*.
\q1 
\v 7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
\q1 My hope is for you.
\q1 
\v 8 From all my transgressions deliver me;
\q1 do not make me \add the\add* taunt of \add the\add* fool.
\q1 
\v 9 I am mute. I do not open my mouth,
\q1 for you, yourself, have done \add it\add*.
\q1 
\v 10 Remove from me your affliction.
\q1 By the opposition of your hand I perish.
\q1 
\v 11 \add When\add* with rebukes you chastise a man for sin,
\q1 you\f + \fr 39:11 \ft Hebrew “and/then you” \f* ⸤consume⸥\f + \fr 39:11 \ft Literally “cause to melt” \f* like a moth his delightful \add things\add*.
\q1 Surely everyone \add is\add* a \add mere\add* vapor.\f + \fr 39:11 \ft The word translated “vanity” in vv. \xt 6 \ft , 7 \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 12 Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen \add to\add* my cry for help;
\q1 do not be deaf to my tears.
\q1 For I \add am\add* an alien\f + \fr 39:12 \ft Or “stranger” \f* with you,
\q1 a sojourner like all my ancestors.\f + \fr 39:12 \ft Or “fathers” \f*
\q1 
\v 13 Look \add away\add* from me that I may be cheerful,
\q1 before I depart and I am no more.
\c 40
\cl Psalm 40
\s1 God’s Faithfulness and Deliverance
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of David. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 40 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I waited patiently for Yahweh,
\q1 And he inclined to me
\q1 and heard my cry for help.
\q1 
\v 2 And \add so\add* he brought me up from \add the\add* roaring pit,\f + \fr 40:2 \ft Some read “pit of destruction” \f*
\q1 from the miry clay.
\q1 And he put my feet upon a rock;
\q1 he made my steps steady.
\q1 
\v 3 Then he put a new song in my mouth,
\q1 a praise to our God.
\q1 Many will see and fear,
\q1 and will trust Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 4 Blessed \add is\add* the man who makes Yahweh his trust
\q1 and does not turn to \add the\add* proud and \add to those who\add* fall away \add to\add* a lie.\f + \fr 40:4 \ft Or “false god” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done—
\q1 your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us.
\q1 There is none to compare with you.
\q1 If I \add tried to\add* proclaim and tell \add of them\add*,
\q1 they would be too numerous to count.
\q1 
\v 6 A sacrifice and offering you do not desire.
\q1 ⸤My ears you have opened⸥.\f + \fr 40:6 \ft Literally “Ears you have dug for me.” \f*
\q1 Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.
\q1 
\v 7 Then I said, “Look, I come.
\q1 In \add the\add* scroll of \add the\add* book
\q1 it is written concerning me:
\q1 
\v 8 ‘I delight to do your will, O my God,
\q1 and your law \add is\add* ⸤deep within me⸥.’ ”\f + \fr 40:8 \ft Literally “in the midst of my intestines” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 I have brought good tidings \add of\add* righteousness in the great congregation.
\q1 Look, I have not shut my lips.
\q1 O Yahweh, ⸤you surely know that⸥.\f + \fr 40:9 \ft Literally “you, you know” \f*
\q1 
\v 10 Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.
\q1 I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation.
\q1 I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness
\q1 from \add the\add* great congregation.
\q1 
\v 11 As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me.
\q1 Let your loyal love and your faithfulness
\q1 continually preserve me.
\q1 
\v 12 For evils without number have encompassed me.
\q1 My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see.
\q1 They are more than the hairs of my head,
\q1 and my heart fails me.
\q1 
\v 13 Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me.
\q1 O Yahweh, hurry to help me.
\q1 
\v 14 Let them be shamed and abashed altogether
\q1 who seek to take away my life.\f + \fr 40:14 \ft Or “soul” \f*
\q1 Let them be repulsed and humiliated
\q1 \add who\add* desire my harm.
\q1 
\v 15 Let them be appalled because of their shame,
\q1 those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”
\q1 
\v 16 Let them rejoice and be glad in you,
\q1 all those who seek you.
\q1 Let them say continually, “Yahweh is great!”
\q1 —those who love your salvation.
\q1 
\v 17 But I \add am\add* poor and needy.
\q1 Let my Lord consider me.
\q1 You \add are\add* my help and my deliverer.
\q1 O my God, do not delay.
\c 41
\cl Psalm 41
\s1 Thanksgiving for God’s Provision in Time of Sickness
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 41 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Blessed \add is the one who\add* has regard for \add the\add* poor;
\q1 in \add the\add* day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.
\q1 
\v 2 Yahweh protects him and keeps him alive;
\q1 he is blessed in the land,
\q1 and you do not give him
\q1 into the will\f + \fr 41:2 \ft Hebrew “soul” \f* of his enemies.
\q1 
\v 3 Yahweh sustains him on \add his\add* sick bed.
\q1 In his illness, you ⸤restore to health⸥.\f + \fr 41:3 \ft Literally “his every bed you change” \f*
\q1 
\v 4 As for me, I said, “O Yahweh, be gracious \add to\add* me.
\q1 Heal me,\f + \fr 41:4 \ft Or “my soul” \f* for I have sinned against you.”
\q1 
\v 5 My enemies speak evil about me,
\q1 “When will he die and his name perish?”
\q1 
\v 6 And when one comes to see \add me\add*, he speaks falsely;
\q1 his heart gathers disaster for itself.
\q1 He goes out to the street; he speaks.
\q1 
\v 7 All who hate me speak together against me.
\q1 Against me they assume the ⸤worst⸥\f + \fr 41:7 \ft Literally “evil” \f* for me:
\q1 
\v 8 “A ruinous thing is poured out on him,
\q1 and \add now\add* that he lies down, he will not rise up again.”
\q1 
\v 9 Even ⸤my close friend⸥,\f + \fr 41:9 \ft Literally “the man of my peace” \f* whom I trusted,
\q1 \add who\add* ate my bread,
\q1 has lifted \add his\add* heel against me.
\q1 
\v 10 But you, O Yahweh, be gracious to me and raise me up
\q1 that I may repay them.
\q1 
\v 11 By this I know that you delight in me:
\q1 because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.
\q1 
\v 12 As for me, you have upheld me in my integrity,
\q1 and you have set me in your presence forever.
\q1 
\v 13 Blessed \add be\add* Yahweh, the God of Israel,
\q1 from everlasting to everlasting.
\q1 Amen and Amen.
\c 42
\cl Psalm 42
\s1 Hope in God in the Midst of Despair
\d For the \add music\add* director. A maskil of the sons of Korah.\f + \fr Ps 42 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 As a deer longs for streams of water,
\q1 so my soul longs for you, O God.
\q1 
\v 2 My soul thirsts for God, for \add the\add* living God.
\q1 When shall I come and appear before God?\f + \fr 42:2 \ft Some Hebrew manuscripts and versions read “and see the face of God?” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 My tears have been my food day and night,
\q1 while \add they\add* say to me all day \add long\add*,
\q1 “Where \add is\add* your God?”
\q1 
\v 4 These I remember and I pour out my soul within me:
\q1 that I would go with the multitude;
\q1 I led them \add in procession\add* to the house\f + \fr 42:4 \ft Or “temple” \f* of God,
\q1 with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving,
\q1 a crowd celebrating a festival.
\q1 
\v 5 Why are you ⸤in despair⸥,\f + \fr 42:5 \ft Literally “bowed down” \f* O my soul,
\q1 and disturbed within me?
\q1 Hope in God, because I will again praise him,
\q1 \add for\add* the salvation of his presence.
\q1 
\v 6 O my God, within me my soul is ⸤in despair⸥;\f + \fr 42:6 \ft Literally “bowed down” \f*
\q1 therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan
\q1 and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar.
\q1 
\v 7 Deep \add is\add* calling to deep
\q1 at\f + \fr 42:7 \ft Or “to” \f* the thunder of your waterfalls.
\q1 All your breakers and your waves
\q1 have passed over me.
\q1 
\v 8 By day Yahweh commands his loyal love,
\q1 and in the night his song \add is\add* with me,
\q1 a prayer to the God of my life.
\q1 
\v 9 I say to God, my rock,
\q1 “Why have you forgotten me?
\q1 Why must I walk about mourning
\q1 because of \add the\add* oppression of \add the\add* enemy?”
\q1 
\v 10 \add As\add* with a shattering in my bones
\q1 my oppressors taunt me,
\q1 while they say to me ⸤all day⸥,\f + \fr 42:10 \ft Literally “all the day” \f*
\q1 “Where \add is\add* your God?”
\q1 
\v 11 Why are you ⸤in despair⸥,\f + \fr 42:11 \ft Literally “bowed down” \f* O my soul?
\q1 And why are you disturbed within me?
\q1 Hope in God, because I shall again praise him,
\q1 ⸤my salvation⸥\f + \fr 42:11 \ft Literally “the salvation of my face” \f* and my God.
\c 43
\cl Psalm 43
\s1 A Prayer for Rescue
\q1 
\v 1 Judge me, O God, and plead my case
\q1 against\f + \fr 43:1 \ft Or “because of” \f* an unfaithful\f + \fr 43:1 \ft Or “disloyal” \f* nation.
\q1 From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,
\q1 
\v 2 because you \add are\add* the God of my refuge.
\q1 Why have you rejected me?
\q1 Why must I go about mourning
\q1 because of \add the\add* oppression of \add the\add* enemy?
\q1 
\v 3 Send your light and your truth;
\q1 they shall lead\f + \fr 43:3 \ft Or “let them lead” \f* me.
\q1 They shall bring me to ⸤your holy mountain⸥\f + \fr 43:3 \ft Literally “the mountain of your holiness” \f*
\q1 and to your dwelling places.
\q1 
\v 4 Then\f + \fr 43:4 \ft Or “And” \f* I will go to the altar of God,
\q1 to God, ⸤my surpassing joy⸥,\f + \fr 43:4 \ft Literally “the joy of my gladness” \f*
\q1 and I will praise you with lyre,
\q1 O God, my God.
\q1 
\v 5 Why are you ⸤in despair⸥,\f + \fr 43:5 \ft Literally “bowed down” \f* O my soul?
\q1 And why are you disturbed within me?
\q1 Hope in God, because I will again praise him,
\q1 ⸤my salvation⸥\f + \fr 43:5 \ft Hebrew “the salvation of my face” \f* and my God.
\c 44
\cl Psalm 44
\s1 Present Defeat and Past Deliverance
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of the sons of Korah. A maskil.\f + \fr Ps 44 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God, we have heard with our ears;
\q1 our ancestors\f + \fr 44:1 \ft Or “fathers” \f* have told us
\q1 of work you worked in their days,
\q1 in days of old.
\q1 
\v 2 You \add with\add* your hand drove out the nations,
\q1 but them\f + \fr 44:2 \ft That is, Israel \f* you planted.
\q1 You harmed \add the\add* peoples,
\q1 but them\f + \fr 44:2 \ft That is, Israel \f* you let spread out.
\q1 
\v 3 For not with their sword
\q1 did they possess \add the\add* land,
\q1 and their arm did not give them victory.
\q1 Rather \add it was\add* your right hand and your arm
\q1 and the light of your presence,
\q1 because you delighted in them.
\q1 
\v 4 You are my king, O God.
\q1 Command\f + \fr 44:4 \ft Or “who commands,” see LXX \f* victories for Jacob.
\q1 
\v 5 By you we push down our enemies;
\q1 by your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
\q1 
\v 6 For I do not trust my bow,
\q1 and my sword cannot give me victory.
\q1 
\v 7 Rather you have saved us from our enemies,\f + \fr 44:7 \ft Or “made us victorious over our enemies” \f*
\q1 and have humiliated those who hate us.
\q1 
\v 8 In God we boast all the day,
\q1 and we will give thanks \add to\add* your name forever. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 9 Surely you have rejected and disgraced us,
\q1 and have not gone out with our armies.
\q1 
\v 10 You have caused us to pull back from \add the\add* enemy,
\q1 and \add so\add* those who hate us have plundered for themselves.
\q1 
\v 11 You have given us as sheep \add for\add* food,
\q1 and among the nations you have scattered us.
\q1 
\v 12 You have sold your people ⸤cheaply⸥,\f + \fr 44:12 \ft Literally “for \fq what is \ft not wealth” \f*
\q1 and did not profit by their price.
\q1 
\v 13 You have made us a taunt to our neighbors,
\q1 a derision and a scorn to those around us.
\q1 
\v 14 You have made us a byword among the nations,
\q1 a shaking of \add the\add* head among \add the\add* peoples.
\q1 
\v 15 ⸤All day long⸥\f + \fr 44:15 \ft Literally “All of the day” \f* my disgrace \add is\add* before me,
\q1 and the shame of my face covers me,
\q1 
\v 16 because of \add the\add* voice of \add the\add* taunter and \add the\add* reviler,
\q1 because of \add the\add* enemy and \add the\add* avenger.
\q1 
\v 17 All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you,
\q1 and we have not been false to your covenant.
\q1 
\v 18 Our heart has not turned back,
\q1 and our steps have \add not\add* turned aside from your way.
\q1 
\v 19 But you have crushed us in a place of jackals,
\q1 and have covered us with deep shadow.
\q1 
\v 20 If we had forgotten the name of our God,
\q1 or had spread out our hands \add in prayer\add* to a foreign god,
\q1 
\v 21 would not God discover this,
\q1 for he knows \add the\add* secrets of \add the\add* heart?
\q1 
\v 22 Rather, on account of you we are killed ⸤all day long⸥;\f + \fr 44:22 \ft Literally “all of the day” \f*
\q1 we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
\q1 
\v 23 Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
\q1 Awake! Do not reject forever.
\q1 
\v 24 Why do you hide your face?
\q1 \add Have\add* you forgotten our misery and our oppression?
\q1 
\v 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust.
\q1 Our ⸤body⸥\f + \fr 44:25 \ft Literally “belly” \f* clings to the ground.
\q1 
\v 26 Rise up! \add Be a\add* help for us,
\q1 and redeem us for the sake of your loyal love.
\c 45
\cl Psalm 45
\s1 Celebration of a Royal Wedding
\d For the \add music\add* director; according to \add The\add* Lilies. Of the sons of Korah.
\q1 A maskil. A song of love.\f + \fr Ps 45 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 My heart is moved \add with\add* a good word;
\q1 I recite my ⸤compositions⸥\f + \fr 45:1 \ft Literally “works,” that is, the song he has composed \f* to \add the\add* king.
\q1 My tongue \add is the\add* pen \add of\add* a skilled scribe.
\q1 
\v 2 You are \add the most\add* handsome of \add the\add* sons of humankind;
\q1 grace is poured out on your lips;
\q1 therefore God has blessed you forever.
\q1 
\v 3 Gird your sword on \add your\add* thigh, O mighty one,
\q1 \add in\add* your splendor and your majesty.
\q1 
\v 4 And \add in\add* your majesty ⸤ride victoriously⸥,\f + \fr 45:4 \ft Literally “Succeed! Ride!” \f*
\q1 because of truth and humility \add and\add* righteousness.
\q1 And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds.
\q1 
\v 5 Your arrows \add are\add* sharp;
\q1 peoples fall under you
\q1 in the midst of the king’s enemies.
\q1 
\v 6 Your throne, O God, \add is\add* forever and ever.
\q1 A scepter of uprightness \add is\add*
\q1 the scepter of your kingdom.
\q1 
\v 7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness.
\q1 Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
\q1 from among your companions \add with\add* festive oil.
\q1 
\v 8 All your robes \add are scented with\add* myrrh and aloes \add and\add* cassia.
\q1 From palaces of ivory stringed instruments gladden you.
\q1 
\v 9 Kings’ daughters \add are\add* among your noble ladies.
\q1 The queen stands at your right hand in gold of Ophir.
\q1 
\v 10 Hear, O daughter, and ⸤discern⸥\f + \fr 45:10 \ft Literally “see” \f* and incline your ear,
\q1 and forget your people and your father’s house.
\q1 
\v 11 Let the king desire your beauty.\f + \fr 45:11 \ft Or “Should the king desire … then bow down …” \f*
\q1 Because he \add is\add* your lord, therefore\f + \fr 45:11 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* bow down to him.
\q1 
\v 12 Even the daughter of Tyre \add will come\add* with a gift.
\q1 \add The\add* rich from among people will seek your ⸤favor⸥.\f + \fr 45:12 \ft Literally “face” \f*
\q1 
\v 13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within;\f + \fr 45:13 \ft That is, within her bridal chamber \f*
\q1 her garment \add is\add* of gold embroidered cloth.
\q1 
\v 14 She is brought to the king \add in\add* colorful garments.
\q1 \add The\add* young women behind her, her attendants,
\q1 \add are\add* being brought to you.
\q1 
\v 15 They are led with joy and gladness.
\q1 They enter \add the\add* palace of \add the\add* king.
\q1 
\v 16 In place of your\f + \fr 45:16 \ft The pronouns and verbal forms are masculine in this verse \f* fathers will be your sons.
\q1 You will make them princes in all the land.\f + \fr 45:16 \ft Or “earth” \f*
\q1 
\v 17 I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;
\q1 therefore peoples will praise you forever and ever.
\c 46
\cl Psalm 46
\s1 God Provides for and Protects His People
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of the sons of Korah.
\q1 According to Alamoth. A song.\f + \fr Ps 46 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 God \add is\add* our refuge and strength,
\q1 a very sufficient help in troubles.
\q1 
\v 2 Therefore we will not fear though \add the\add* earth change,
\q1 and though the mountains totter into \add the\add* ⸤midst⸥\f + \fr 46:2 \ft Literally “heart” \f* of \add the\add* sea,
\q1 
\v 3 though its waters roar \add and\add* foam,
\q1 though mountains shake with its surging \add water\add*. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 4 \add There is\add* a river whose streams gladden the city of God,
\q1 the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High.
\q1 
\v 5 God \add is\add* in the midst of her;
\q1 she will not be made to totter.
\q1 God will help her ⸤at daybreak⸥.\f + \fr 46:5 \ft Literally “at the turning of the morning” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 Nations roar, kingdoms shake;
\q1 he utters his voice, \add the\add* earth melts.
\q1 
\v 7 Yahweh of hosts \add is\add* with us;
\q1 our \add high\add* stronghold \add is\add* the God of Jacob. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 8 Come, see the works of Yahweh,
\q1 who has placed desolations on the earth.
\q1 
\v 9 \add He\add* makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
\q1 he breaks \add the\add* bow and cuts off \add the\add* spear.
\q1 \add The\add* wagons \add of war\add* he burns with fire.
\q1 
\v 10 Be still, and know that I \add am\add* God.
\q1 I will be exalted among the nations;
\q1 I will be exalted in the earth.
\q1 
\v 11 Yahweh of Hosts \add is\add* with us;
\q1 the God of Jacob \add is\add* our \add high\add* stronghold.
\c 47
\cl Psalm 47
\s1 God Is King over All the Earth
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 47 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 All \add you\add* peoples, clap \add your\add* hands.\f + \fr 47:1 \ft Hebrew “hand” \f*
\q1 Shout to God with a voice of rejoicing.
\q1 
\v 2 For Yahweh Most High \add is\add* awesome,\f + \fr 47:2 \ft Or “to be feared” \f*
\q1 a great king over all the earth.
\q1 
\v 3 He subdues peoples under us
\q1 and nations under our feet.
\q1 
\v 4 He chooses for us our inheritance,
\q1 the pride of Jacob whom he loves.
\q1 
\v 5 God has gone up with a shout,
\q1 Yahweh with \add the\add* sound of a trumpet.
\q1 
\v 6 Sing praises \add to\add* God, sing praises.
\q1 Sing praises to our king, sing praises.
\q1 
\v 7 For God \add is\add* king of all the earth.
\q1 Sing praises with understanding.\f + \fr 47:7 \ft Or “sing a maskil” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 God reigns over nations;
\q1 God sits on his holy throne.
\q1 
\v 9 \add The\add* princes of \add the\add* peoples are gathered together
\q1 \add with\add* the people of Abraham’s God.
\q1 For \add the\add* shields of \add the\add* earth belong to God.
\q1 He is very exalted.
\c 48
\cl Psalm 48
\s1 The Greatness of God in Zion
\d A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.\f + \fr Ps 48 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Yahweh \add is\add* great and very worthy of praise
\q1 in the city of our God, in his ⸤holy mountain⸥.\f + \fr 48:1 \ft Literally “mountain of holiness” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
\q1 \add is\add* ⸤Mount Zion⸥,\f + \fr 48:2 \ft Literally “the mountain of Zion” \f* ⸤in the far north⸥,\f + \fr 48:2 \ft Literally “far of north”; the word translated “north” could refer to Mount Zaphon \f*
\q1 \add the\add* city of \add the\add* great king.
\q1 
\v 3 God \add is\add* in her citadels;
\q1 he is known as a \add high\add* stronghold.
\q1 
\v 4 For see, the kings assembled;\f + \fr 48:4 \ft That is, preparing for battle \f*
\q1 they advanced together.
\q1 
\v 5 ⸤They themselves saw⸥\f + \fr 48:5 \ft Literally “They, they saw” \f* \add it\add*, so they were astonished.
\q1 They were terrified; they ran off.
\q1 
\v 6 Trembling seized them there—
\q1 pain as of a woman in labor.
\q1 
\v 7 With an east wind
\q1 you shatter\f + \fr 48:7 \ft A few Hebrew manuscripts read “like an east wind \fq that \ft shatters” \f* the ships of Tarshish.\f + \fr 48:7 \ft That is, ships \fq that can sail to \ft Tarshish, i.e. well built, able to traverse great distances \f*
\q1 
\v 8 As we have heard, so we have seen
\q1 in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God.
\q1 God will establish her forever. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 9 We have pondered your loyal love, O God,
\q1 in the midst of your temple.
\q1 
\v 10 As \add is\add* your name, O God, so \add is\add* your praise
\q1 to \add the\add* ends of \add the\add* earth.
\q1 Your right hand is full of righteousness.
\q1 
\v 11 Let ⸤Mount Zion⸥\f + \fr 48:11 \ft Literally “the mountain of Zion” \f* rejoice;
\q1 let the daughters of Judah rejoice
\q1 because of your judgments.
\q1 
\v 12 Walk about Zion and circle it;
\q1 count her towers.
\q1 
\v 13 ⸤Consider well⸥\f + \fr 48:13 \ft Literally “Set your heart to” \f* her ramparts.
\q1 Go through her citadels
\q1 so that you can tell \add the\add* next generation
\q1 
\v 14 that this \add is\add* God, our God forever and ever.
\q1 ⸤He himself⸥\f + \fr 48:14 \ft Literally “he, he will …” \f* will guide us until death.
\c 49
\cl Psalm 49
\s1 Wealth and the Fate of the Wicked
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 49 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Hear this, all \add you\add* peoples;
\q1 give ear, all \add you\add* inhabitants of \add the\add* world,
\q1 
\v 2 both low and high,
\q1 rich and poor together.
\q1 
\v 3 My mouth will speak wisdom,
\q1 and the meditation of my heart \add will be\add* understanding.
\q1 
\v 4 I will incline my ear to a proverb;
\q1 I will ⸤propound⸥\f + \fr 49:4 \ft Literally “open” \f* my riddle on a lyre.
\q1 
\v 5 Why should I fear in ⸤times of calamity⸥,\f + \fr 49:5 \ft Literally “the days of evil” \f*
\q1 \add when\add* iniquity surrounds me at my heels,
\q1 
\v 6 those who trust their wealth
\q1 and boast about the abundance of their riches?
\q1 
\v 7 Surely a man cannot redeem a brother.
\q1 He cannot give to God his ransom
\q1 
\v 8 (since\f + \fr 49:8 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* the redemption price for their life is costly
\q1 and it always fails),
\q1 
\v 9 so that he may stay alive forever
\q1 \add and\add* not see the pit.
\q1 
\v 10 For he sees \add that\add* the wise die,
\q1 together \add with the\add* fool and brute they perish,
\q1 and leave their wealth to the next \add generation\add*.
\q1 
\v 11 Within them \add they think\add* their houses \add are\add* forever,
\q1 their dwelling places from generation to generation.
\q1 They ⸤name⸥\f + \fr 49:11 \ft Literally “call” \f* \add their\add* lands by their \add own\add* names.
\q1 
\v 12 But man cannot continue in \add his\add* pomp.
\q1 He is like the beasts \add that\add* perish.
\q1 
\v 13 This \add is\add* the journey\f + \fr 49:13 \ft Hebrew “way” \f* \add of those who\add* have foolish \add confidence\add*,
\q1 and those after them \add who\add* accept their sayings. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 14 Like sheep they are destined to Sheol;
\q1 death will shepherd them.
\q1 But the upright will rule over them in the morning,
\q1 and their forms \add will be for\add* Sheol to consume,
\q1 \add far from\add* his lofty abode.
\q1 
\v 15 Surely God will ransom my life
\q1 from the ⸤power⸥\f + \fr 49:15 \ft Literally “hand” \f* of Sheol,
\q1 because he will receive me. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 16 Do not fear when a man becomes rich,
\q1 when the wealth\f + \fr 49:16 \ft Or “honor” \f* of his house increases,
\q1 
\v 17 because when he dies he will not take \add away\add* any \add of it\add*.
\q1 His wealth will not follow down after him.
\q1 
\v 18 Though he congratulated his soul while he was living
\q1 —and \add people\add* will praise you when you do well for yourself—
\q1 
\v 19 it\f + \fr 49:19 \ft That is, his soul \f* will go to the generation of his fathers.
\q1 Never will they see light.
\q1 
\v 20 Humankind in \add its\add* pomp, but does not understand,
\q1 is like the beasts \add that\add* perish.
\c 50
\cl Psalm 50
\s1 An Oracle Concerning Sacrifices
\d A psalm of Asaph.\f + \fr Ps 50 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken
\q1 and summoned \add the\add* earth,
\q1 from \add the\add* rising of \add the\add* sun
\q1 to its setting.
\q1 
\v 2 From Zion, \add the\add* perfection of beauty,
\q1 God shines forth.
\q1 
\v 3 Our God comes and he is not silent.
\q1 Before him fire devours,
\q1 and around him it is very tempestuous.
\q1 
\v 4 He summons the heavens above
\q1 and the earth that he might judge his people:
\q1 
\v 5 “Gather to me my loyal ones,
\q1 \add those\add* who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
\q1 
\v 6 And \add the\add* heavens declare his righteousness,
\q1 because God himself is judge. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 7 “Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
\q1 O Israel, and I will testify against you.
\q1 I am God, your God.
\q1 
\v 8 It is not concerning \add a lack of\add* your sacrifices \add that\add* I rebuke you,
\q1 and your burnt offerings \add are\add* before me continually.
\q1 
\v 9 I will not take from your house a bull
\q1 \add or\add* from your stalls a he-goat,
\q1 
\v 10 because every animal of the forest is mine,
\q1 \add the\add* cattle on a thousand hills.
\q1 
\v 11 I know every bird of \add the\add* mountains,
\q1 and \add every\add* moving creature in \add the\add* field \add is\add* mine.
\q1 
\v 12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
\q1 because \add the\add* world and its fullness \add are\add* mine.
\q1 
\v 13 Do I eat \add the\add* flesh of bulls
\q1 or drink \add the\add* blood of goats?
\q1 
\v 14 Offer to God a thank offering
\q1 and pay your vows to \add the\add* Most High.
\q1 
\v 15 And call me in \add the\add* day of trouble;
\q1 I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.”
\q1 
\v 16 But to the wicked God says,
\q1 “What \add right\add* have you to recite my statutes
\q1 and ⸤mention my covenant with your mouth⸥,\f + \fr 50:16 \ft Literally “take my covenant on your mouth” \f*
\q1 
\v 17 while you yourself hate discipline,
\q1 and cast my words behind you?
\q1 
\v 18 When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him,
\q1 and your association \add is\add* with adulterers.
\q1 
\v 19 You give your mouth free rein for evil,
\q1 and you harness your tongue to deceit.
\q1 
\v 20 You sit and speak against your brother;
\q1 you slander your mother’s son.
\q1 
\v 21 These \add things\add* you have done, and I have been silent;
\q1 You imagined that I was just like you.
\q1 I will rebuke you and present \add an argument\add* before your eyes.
\q1 
\v 22 Now consider this, you who forget God,
\q1 lest I tear \add you\add* apart, and there \add will be\add* none to deliver.
\q1 
\v 23 He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me,
\q1 and he \add who\add* orders \add his\add* way;
\q1 I will show him the salvation of God.”
\c 51
\cl Psalm 51
\s1 A Prayer of Repentance and Plea for Mercy
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.
\q1 When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.\f + \fr Ps 51 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first two verses of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by two \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love.
\q1 According to your abundant mercies,
\q1 blot out my transgressions.
\q1 
\v 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
\q1 and from my sin cleanse me.
\q1 
\v 3 For ⸤I myself know⸥\f + \fr 51:3 \ft Literally “I, I know” \f* my transgressions,\f + \fr 51:3 \ft Or “rebellions” \f*
\q1 and my sin \add is\add* ever before me.
\q1 
\v 4 Against you, only you, I have sinned
\q1 and have done this evil\f + \fr 51:4 \ft Hebrew “the evil” \f* in your eyes,
\q1 so that you are correct when you speak,
\q1 you are blameless when you judge.
\q1 
\v 5 Behold, in iniquity I was born,
\q1 and in sin my mother conceived me.
\q1 
\v 6 Behold, you delight \add in\add* truth in the inward parts,
\q1 and in \add the\add* hidden \add parts\add* you make me to know wisdom.
\q1 
\v 7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.
\q1 Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
\q1 
\v 8 Make me hear joy and gladness;
\q1 let \add the\add* bones you have crushed rejoice.
\q1 
\v 9 Hide your face from my sins,
\q1 and all my iniquities blot out.
\q1 
\v 10 Create a clean heart for me, O God,
\q1 and renew a steadfast spirit ⸤within me⸥.\f + \fr 51:10 \ft Literally “in my inner parts” \f*
\q1 
\v 11 Do not cast me away from your presence,
\q1 and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
\q1 
\v 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
\q1 and with a willing spirit sustain me.
\q1 
\v 13 \add Then\add* I will teach transgressors your ways,
\q1 and sinners will turn back to you.
\q1 
\v 14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
\q1 the God of my salvation;
\q1 \add then\add* my tongue will sing aloud \add of\add* your righteousness.
\q1 
\v 15 O Lord, open my lips,
\q1 and my mouth will proclaim your praise.
\q1 
\v 16 For you do not delight \add in\add* sacrifice or I would give \add it\add*.
\q1 \add With\add* a burnt offering you are not pleased.
\q1 
\v 17 The sacrifices of God \add are\add* a broken spirit;
\q1 A broken and contrite heart,
\q1 O God, you will not despise.
\q1 
\v 18 Do good in your favor toward Zion.
\q1 Build the walls of Jerusalem.
\q1 
\v 19 Then you will delight \add in\add* righteous sacrifices,
\q1 burnt offering and whole burnt offering.
\q1 Then bulls will be offered on your altar.
\c 52
\cl Psalm 52
\s1 God’s Judgment on the Wicked and Love for the Faithful
\d For the \add music\add* director. A maskil of David.
\q1 When Doeg the Edomite came and informed Saul.
\q1 And he said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”\f + \fr Ps 52 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first two verses of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by two \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man?
\q1 The loyal love of God \add endures\add* ⸤continually⸥.\f + \fr 52:1 \ft Literally “all the day” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 Your tongue plans destruction,
\q1 like a sharp razor, working deceit.
\q1 
\v 3 You love evil more than good,
\q1 a lie more than speaking ⸤what is right⸥.\f + \fr 52:3 \ft Literally “righteousness” \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 4 You love all devouring words,
\q1 O deceitful tongue,
\q1 
\v 5 but God will pull you down forever.
\q1 He will snatch you and tear you away from \add your\add* tent,
\q1 and \add he\add* will uproot you from \add the\add* land of \add the\add* living. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 6 And \add the\add* righteous will see and fear,
\q1 and will laugh at him, \add saying\add*,
\q1 
\v 7 “Look, the man \add who\add* would not make God his refuge,
\q1 but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth;
\q1 he took refuge in his destructiveness.”
\q1 
\v 8 But I \add am\add* like an olive tree flourishing
\q1 in the house\f + \fr 52:8 \ft Or “temple” \f* of God.
\q1 I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.
\q1 
\v 9 I will give thanks to you forever, because \add of what\add* you have done,
\q1 and I will wait on your name, because \add it is\add* good,
\q1 in the presence of your faithful ones.
\c 53
\cl Psalm 53
\s1 The Folly of the Godless and Salvation for Israel
\d For the \add music\add* director, according to Mahalath.
\q1 A maskil of David.\f + \fr Ps 53 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 \add The\add* fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
\q1 They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity.
\q1 There is none who does good.
\q1 
\v 2 God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind
\q1 to see whether there is one who has insight,
\q1 one who seeks God.
\q1 
\v 3 ⸤All of them⸥\f + \fr 53:3 \ft Literally “The whole of it,” i.e. all of humankind \f* have turned back.
\q1 They are altogether corrupt.
\q1 There is none who does good;
\q1 there is not even one.
\q1 
\v 4 Do not evildoers know,
\q1 \add they\add* who eat my people \add as though\add* they were eating bread?
\q1 They do not call on God.
\q1 
\v 5 There ⸤they are very fearful⸥\f + \fr 53:5 \ft Literally “they feared a fear” \f*
\q1 \add where\add* no fear had been,
\q1 because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps \add against\add* you.
\q1 You have put \add them\add* to shame, because God has rejected them.
\q1 
\v 6 ⸤Oh, that from Zion⸥\f + \fr 53:6 \ft Literally “Who will give \fq that \ft from Zion” \f* would come salvation \add for\add* Israel!
\q1 When God returns the fortunes\f + \fr 53:6 \ft Or “captivity” \f* of his people,
\q1 let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
\c 54
\cl Psalm 54
\s1 Answered Prayer for Deliverance from Adversaries
\d For the \add music\add* director, with stringed instruments.
\q1 A maskil of David,
\q1 when the Ziphites went and said to Saul,
\q1 “Is not David hiding himself among us?”\f + \fr Ps 54 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God, by your name save me,
\q1 and by your power vindicate me.
\q1 
\v 2 O God, hear my prayer;
\q1 heed the words of my mouth.
\q1 
\v 3 For foreigners have risen against me,
\q1 and ruthless \add men\add* seek my life.
\q1 They have not set God before them. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 4 See, God \add is\add* my helper;
\q1 The Lord \add is\add* with those who sustain my life.\f + \fr 54:4 \ft Or “The Lord \fq is \ft the sustainer of my life.” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 He will repay\f + \fr 54:5 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* my enemies for their\f + \fr 54:5 \ft Hebrew “the” \f* evil;
\q1 in your faithfulness destroy them.
\q1 
\v 6 I will freely sacrifice to you;
\q1 I will give thanks \add to\add* your name,
\q1 O Yahweh, because \add it is\add* good.
\q1 
\v 7 Because he has delivered me from all trouble,
\q1 and my eye has looked \add with satisfaction\add* on my enemies.
\c 55
\cl Psalm 55
\s1 Betrayal of a Friend and Trust in God
\d For the \add music\add* director, with stringed instruments.
\q1 A maskil of David.\f + \fr Ps 55 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Give ear, O God, \add to\add* my prayer,
\q1 and do not hide yourself from my plea.
\q1 
\v 2 Attend to me and answer me.
\q1 I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,
\q1 
\v 3 because of \add the\add* voice \add of\add* an enemy,
\q1 because of the oppression of the wicked,
\q1 because they bring down evil on me,
\q1 and in anger they hold a grudge \add against\add* me.
\q1 
\v 4 My heart trembles within me,
\q1 and deathly terrors fall on me.
\q1 
\v 5 Fear and trembling come on me,
\q1 and horror overwhelms me.
\q1 
\v 6 So I say, “⸤Oh, that⸥\f + \fr 55:6 \ft Literally “Who will give that” \f* I had wings like a dove.
\q1 I would fly away and be at rest.
\q1 
\v 7 Look, I would flee far away.
\q1 I would dwell in the wilderness. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 8 I would hurry to my refuge
\q1 from \add the\add* raging wind \add and\add* storm.”
\q1 
\v 9 Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech,
\q1 because I see violence and strife in the city.
\q1 
\v 10 Day and night they go around it on its walls,
\q1 and iniquity and trouble \add are\add* in its midst.
\q1 
\v 11 Destruction \add is\add* within it,
\q1 and oppression and deceit
\q1 do not depart from its public square.
\q1 
\v 12 For \add it is\add* not an enemy \add that\add* taunts me,
\q1 or I could bear \add it\add*.
\q1 \add It is not\add* one who hates me \add that\add* magnifies himself over me,
\q1 or I could hide myself from him.
\q1 
\v 13 But \add it is\add* you, a man my equal,
\q1 my friend and confidant.
\q1 
\v 14 \add We\add* who would take sweet counsel together;
\q1 in the house\f + \fr 55:14 \ft Or “temple” \f* of God
\q1 we would walk with \add the\add* throng.
\q1 
\v 15 Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive,
\q1 because evil \add is\add* in their home \add and\add* ⸤heart⸥.\f + \fr 55:15 \ft Literally “inward part” \f*
\q1 
\v 16 As for me, I will call to God,
\q1 and Yahweh will save me.
\q1 
\v 17 ⸤Morning, noon and night⸥\f + \fr 55:17 \ft Literally “evening and morning and noon” \f* I will lament and groan loudly,
\q1 and he will hear my voice.
\q1 
\v 18 He safely redeems my life from \add the\add* battle against me,\f + \fr 55:18 \ft Or “my battle” \f*
\q1 because \add those standing\add* against me are among many.
\q1 
\v 19 God will hear and answer them,\f + \fr 55:19 \ft Or “and humble them” \f*
\q1 \add he\add* who \add is\add* enthroned from of old, \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 Because they do not change,
\q1 and they do not fear God.
\q1 
\v 20 He has put forth his hands against ⸤his friends⸥;\f + \fr 55:20 \ft Literally “those at peace with him” \f*
\q1 he has defiled his covenant.
\q1 
\v 21 The ⸤buttery words⸥\f + \fr 55:21 \ft Literally “butter” \f* of his mouth were smooth,
\q1 but \add there was\add* battle in his heart.
\q1 His words were smoother than oil,
\q1 but they \add were\add* drawn swords.
\q1 
\v 22 Cast your burden on Yahweh,
\q1 and he will sustain you.
\q1 He will never allow the righteous to be moved.\f + \fr 55:22 \ft Or “shaken” \f*
\q1 
\v 23 But you, O God, you will bring them down to \add the\add* pit of corruption.
\q1 \add The\add* men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days,
\q1 but I will trust you.
\c 56
\cl Psalm 56
\s1 Prayer for Deliverance and Confidence in God
\d For the \add music\add* director, according to The Silent Dove of Distant \add Lands\add*.
\q1 Of David. A miktam.
\q1 When \add the\add* Philistines seized him in Gath.\f + \fr Ps 56 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me;
\q1 fighting all the day he oppresses me.
\q1 
\v 2 My enemies\f + \fr 56:2 \ft Or “lurking foes” \f* trample all day,
\q1 because many \add are\add* attacking me proudly.
\q1 
\v 3 ⸤When⸥\f + \fr 56:3 \ft Literally “\fq The \ft day” \f* I fear, I trust you.
\q1 
\v 4 God, whose word I praise,
\q1 God I trust; I do not fear.
\q1 What can \add mere\add* flesh do to me?
\q1 
\v 5 All day they twist my words;
\q1 all their thoughts \add are\add* against me for evil.
\q1 
\v 6 They attack,\f + \fr 56:6 \ft Or “they stir up strife” \f* they hide, they watch my ⸤steps⸥,\f + \fr 56:6 \ft Literally “heels” \f*
\q1 as they \add lie in\add* wait for my life.
\q1 
\v 7 Because of iniquity will they escape?
\q1 In anger cast down \add the\add* peoples, O God.
\q1 
\v 8 You have kept count of my wonderings.
\q1 Put my tears in your bottle;
\q1 \add are they\add* not in your book?
\q1 
\v 9 Then my enemies will turn back ⸤when⸥\f + \fr 56:9 \ft Literally “in the day” \f* I call.\f + \fr 56:9 \ft i.e., call on God \f*
\q1 This I know because\f + \fr 56:9 \ft Or “that” \f* God \add is\add* for me.
\q1 
\v 10 God, \add whose\add* word I praise,
\q1 Yahweh, \add whose\add* word I praise,
\q1 
\v 11 God I trust; I do not fear.
\q1 What can \add mere\add* humankind do to me?
\q1 
\v 12 \add My\add* vows \add to you\add*, O God, \add are binding\add* upon me.
\q1 I will pay thank offerings to you,
\q1 
\v 13 because you have delivered my soul from death.
\q1 \add Have you\add* not \add kept\add* my feet from stumbling,
\q1 that I may walk before God
\q1 in the light of the living?
\c 57
\cl Psalm 57
\s1 Prayer for Rescue from Enemies
\d For the \add music\add* director, \add according to\add* Do Not Destroy.
\q1 Of David. A miktam.
\q1 When he fled from Saul into the cave.\f + \fr Ps 57 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
\q1 because in you my soul takes refuge.
\q1 In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge
\q1 until destruction passes by.
\q1 
\v 2 I will call to God Most High,
\q1 to God who accomplishes \add things\add* concerning me.
\q1 
\v 3 He will send from heaven and save me;
\q1 he will reproach \add the\add* one who tramples me. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness.
\q1 
\v 4 My soul \add is\add* among lions.
\q1 I lie down \add among those who\add* devour—
\q1 the children\f + \fr 57:4 \ft Or “sons” \f* of humankind whose teeth \add are\add* spears and arrows
\q1 and whose tongues \add are\add* sharp swords.
\q1 
\v 5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God.
\q1 \add Let\add* your glory \add be\add* above all the earth.
\q1 
\v 6 They have set a net for my steps;
\q1 my soul is bowed down.
\q1 They have dug a pit before me;
\q1 they have fallen into the midst of it. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 7 My heart \add is\add* steadfast, O God;
\q1 My heart \add is\add* steadfast.
\q1 I will sing and give praise.
\q1 
\v 8 Awake, my glory;
\q1 Awake, harp and lyre.
\q1 I will awake \add the\add* dawn.\f + \fr 57:8 \ft Or “\fq at \ft dawn” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Lord;
\q1 I will give you praise among \add the\add* nations.
\q1 
\v 10 Because your loyal love \add is\add* high to \add the\add* heavens,
\q1 and your faithfulness to \add the\add* clouds.
\q1 
\v 11 Be exalted above \add the\add* heavens, O God.
\q1 \add Let\add* your glory \add be\add* above all the earth.
\c 58
\cl Psalm 58
\s1 Judgment on the Wicked
\d For the \add music\add* director, \add according to\add* Do not Destroy.
\q1 Of David. A miktam.\f + \fr Ps 58 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Do you really speak \add what is\add* right \add when\add* silent?\f + \fr 58:1 \ft A slight emendation of the Hebrew text yields “what is right, O gods,” or “O mighty ones” \f*
\q1 \add Do\add* you judge fairly the children of humankind?\f + \fr 58:1 \ft Or “Do you judge fairly, O sons of humankind?” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 No, in \add your\add* heart you plan injustices;
\q1 in the land\f + \fr 58:2 \ft Or “on the earth” \f* you weigh out the violence of your hands.
\q1 
\v 3 The wicked are estranged from \add the\add* womb.
\q1 They go astray from \add the\add* belly, speaking lies.
\q1 
\v 4 Their venom \add is\add* like snake venom;
\q1 \add They are\add* like a deaf viper that closes its ear
\q1 
\v 5 so that it does not hear \add the\add* voice of charmers
\q1 \add or the\add* skilled caster of spells.
\q1 
\v 6 O God, break their teeth in their mouth.
\q1 Break off \add the\add* fangs of \add the\add* young lions, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 7 Let them run \add away\add* like water \add that\add* runs off.
\q1 \add When\add* he bends \add the bow\add*, let his arrows \add be\add* as though they were cut off.\f + \fr 58:7 \ft Or “as though they were withered \fq stalks \ft ” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 \add Let them be\add* like a snail \add that\add* melts away \add as\add* it goes;
\q1 \add like the\add* stillborn of woman \add that\add* do not see \add the\add* sun.
\q1 
\v 9 Before your pots can feel \add the heat of\add* a thornbush,
\q1 whether green \add or\add* ⸤dry⸥,\f + \fr 58:9 \ft Literally “burning” \f* he will sweep it away.\f + \fr 58:9 \ft The Hebrew of this verse is difficult to interpret \f*
\q1 
\v 10 \add The\add* righteous will rejoice when he sees \add the\add* vengeance;
\q1 he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
\q1 
\v 11 And people\f + \fr 58:11 \ft Hebrew “a person” \f* will say, “Surely \add there is\add* a ⸤reward⸥\f + \fr 58:11 \ft Literally “fruit” \f* for the righteous.
\q1 Surely there is a God \add who\add* judges in the land.”\f + \fr 58:11 \ft Or “on the earth” \f*
\c 59
\cl Psalm 59
\s1 A Prayer for Protection
\d For the \add music\add* director, \add according to\add* Do Not Destroy.
\q1 Of David. A miktam.
\q1 When Saul dispatched \add men\add* and they watched the house to kill him.\f + \fr Ps 59 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God.
\q1 Protect\f + \fr 59:1 \ft The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress \f* me from those who rise up against me.
\q1 
\v 2 Deliver me from workers of iniquity,
\q1 and from men of bloodshed save me.
\q1 
\v 3 For look, they lie in wait for my life.\f + \fr 59:3 \ft Hebrew “soul” \f*
\q1 The mighty attack\f + \fr 59:3 \ft Or “stir up strife” \f* against me,
\q1 not \add because of\add* my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 4 Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves.
\q1 Awake to meet me and see.
\q1 
\v 5 And you, Yahweh, God \add of\add* hosts, \add are\add* the God of Israel.
\q1 Rouse yourself to punish all the nations.
\q1 Do not be gracious to any \add who\add* treacherously plot evil. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 6 They return at evening; they howl like dogs\f + \fr 59:6 \ft Hebrew “dog” \f*
\q1 while they prowl \add the\add* city.
\q1 
\v 7 Look, they pour out \add talk\add* with their mouth.
\q1 Swords \add are\add* on their lips,
\q1 for \add they say\add*, “Who hears?”
\q1 
\v 8 But you, O Yahweh, will laugh at them;
\q1 you will mock all \add the\add* nations.
\q1 
\v 9 O my strength,\f + \fr 59:9 \ft Reading with a few Hebrew manuscripts and the LXX, Targum and v. \xt 17 \ft \f* I will watch for you,
\q1 because \add you\add*, O God, \add are\add* my (high) stronghold.
\q1 
\v 10 My\f + \fr 59:10 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ), some Hebrew manuscripts and the LXX \f* God of loyal love will meet me;
\q1 God will cause me to look \add in triumph\add* on my enemies.
\q1 
\v 11 Do not kill them, lest my people forget.
\q1 Make them \add to\add* wander by your power,
\q1 and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
\q1 
\v 12 \add By\add* the sin of their mouth \add and\add* the words of their lips,
\q1 even in their pride, let them be trapped,
\q1 and for \add the\add* curses\f + \fr 59:12 \ft Hebrew “curse” \f* and lies\f + \fr 59:12 \ft Hebrew “lie” \f* they proclaim.
\q1 
\v 13 Destroy in anger; destroy so they are no more,
\q1 so that they may know that God \add is\add* ruling in Jacob
\q1 to the ends of the earth. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 14 They return at evening; they howl like dogs\f + \fr 59:14 \ft Hebrew “dog” \f*
\q1 while they prowl \add the\add* city.
\q1 
\v 15 As for them, they wander for food.
\q1 If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.\f + \fr 59:15 \ft Or “then they growl” \f*
\q1 
\v 16 But as for me, I will sing \add of\add* your strength,
\q1 and I will hail your loyal love in the morning,
\q1 because you have been my \add high\add* stronghold
\q1 and a refuge in my ⸤time⸥\f + \fr 59:16 \ft Literally “day” \f* of trouble.
\q1 
\v 17 O my strength, to you I will give praise,
\q1 because God \add is\add* my \add high\add* stronghold,
\q1 my God of loyal love.
\c 60
\cl Psalm 60
\s1 A Lament After a Defeat and a Prayer for Restoration
\d For the \add music\add* director, according to Shushan Eduth.\f + \fr Ps 60 \ft Perhaps “The Lily of Testimony” \f*
\q1 A miktam of David. To teach.
\q1 When he fought Mesopotamia and Aram Zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand \add persons\add*.\f + \fr Ps 60 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first two verses of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by two \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us.
\q1 You have been angry. Restore us!
\q1 
\v 2 You have made \add the\add* land quake. You have split it open.
\q1 Heal its fissures, because it totters.
\q1 
\v 3 You have shown your people hard \add things\add*;
\q1 You have given us wine that staggers.
\q1 
\v 4 You have rallied those who fear you round a banner
\q1 ⸤out of bowshot⸥,\f + \fr 60:4 \ft Literally “from \fq the \ft presence of \fq the \ft bow” \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 so that your beloved ones may be rescued.
\q1 Save by your right hand and answer us.
\q1 
\v 6 God has spoken in his holiness,
\q1 “I will rejoice;
\q1 I will divide up Shechem,
\q1 and portion out the valley of Succoth.
\q1 
\v 7 Gilead \add is\add* mine, and Manasseh \add is\add* mine,
\q1 and Ephraim \add is\add* the ⸤helmet for⸥\f + \fr 60:7 \ft Literally “protection of” \f* my head;
\q1 Judah \add is\add* my scepter.\f + \fr 60:7 \ft Or “commander’s rod” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 Moab \add is\add* my washing pot;
\q1 over Edom, I will cast my sandal.
\q1 On account of me, O Philistia, raise a shout.”
\q1 
\v 9 Who will bring me to \add the\add* fortified city?
\q1 Who will lead me to Edom?
\q1 
\v 10 Have not you yourself rejected us, O God,
\q1 and not gone out with our armies, O God?
\q1 
\v 11 Give us help against \add the\add* adversary,
\q1 for the help of humankind \add is\add* futile.
\q1 
\v 12 Through God we will do ⸤valiantly⸥,\f + \fr 60:12 \ft Literally “might” \f*
\q1 and \add it is\add* he \add who\add* will tread down our enemies.
\c 61
\cl Psalm 61
\s1 Confidence in God’s Protection
\d For the \add music\add* director, upon stringed instruments.\f + \fr Ps 61 \ft Reading with many Hebrew manuscripts and several translations \f* Of David.\f + \fr Ps 61 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Hear, O God, my cry;
\q1 attend to my prayer.
\q1 
\v 2 From the end of the earth\f + \fr 61:2 \ft Or “the far reaches of the land” \f* I call to you
\q1 when my heart grows faint.
\q1 You will lead me to a rock \add that is\add* higher than I.
\q1 
\v 3 For you have been my refuge,
\q1 a strong tower from the enemy.
\q1 
\v 4 Let me reside in your tent forever.
\q1 Let me take refuge under the covering of your wings. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 For you, O God, you have heard my vows.
\q1 You have given \add me\add* the heritage of those who fear your name.
\q1 
\v 6 You will add days to the days of the king,
\q1 his years like \add those of\add* ⸤many generations⸥.\f + \fr 61:6 \ft Literally “a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 
\v 7 May he live\f + \fr 61:7 \ft Or “be enthroned” \f* forever in the presence of God.
\q1 Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him.
\q1 
\v 8 So I will sing the praise of your name forever,
\q1 that I may fulfill\f + \fr 61:8 \ft Or “pay” \f* my vows ⸤daily⸥.\f + \fr 61:8 \ft Literally “day, day” \f*
\c 62
\cl Psalm 62
\s1 Confidence in God’s Salvation
\d For the \add music\add* director, on Jeduthun.\f + \fr Ps 62 \ft One of David’s musicians (\xt 1 Chr 16:41 \ft ) \f*
\q1 A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 62 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Only for God my soul \add waits in\add* silence.
\q1 From him \add is\add* my salvation.
\q1 
\v 2 Only he \add is\add* my rock and my salvation,
\q1 my \add high\add* stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.
\q1 
\v 3 How long will you attack a man?
\q1 All of you will be shattered\f + \fr 62:3 \ft Or “All of you shatter \fq him \ft ” \f*
\q1 like a leaning wall, a tottering fence.
\q1 
\v 4 They only\f + \fr 62:4 \ft This word appears first in the Hebrew verse. \f* plan to thrust \add him\add* down from his high position;
\q1 they are pleased \add with\add* deception.
\q1 With their mouths\f + \fr 62:4 \ft Hebrew “his mouth” \f* they bless,
\q1 but ⸤inwardly⸥\f + \fr 62:4 \ft Literally “in the midst of them” \f* they curse. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 Only for God wait in silence, O my soul,
\q1 because my hope \add is\add* from him.
\q1 
\v 6 Only he \add is\add* my rock and my salvation,
\q1 my \add high\add* stronghold; I shall not be shaken.
\q1 
\v 7 On God \add rests\add* my salvation and my glory;
\q1 God\f + \fr 62:7 \ft Or “In God” \f* is my strong rock, my refuge.
\q1 
\v 8 Trust him at all times, O people;
\q1 pour out before him your heart.
\q1 God \add is\add* a refuge for us. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 9 Only a vapor\f + \fr 62:9 \ft Or “breath” \f* \add are\add* men of low degree,
\q1 a deception \add are\add* men of high degree.
\q1 ⸤Weighed⸥\f + \fr 62:9 \ft Literally “To go up” \f* in a balance,
\q1 together they \add are lighter\add* than a vapor.
\q1 
\v 10 Do not trust in extortion,
\q1 and do not put vain \add confidence\add* in robbery.
\q1 If wealth increases,
\q1 do not set \add your\add* heart \add on it\add*.
\q1 
\v 11 Once God has spoken;
\q1 twice I have heard this:
\q1 that strength \add belongs\add* to God.
\q1 
\v 12 And to you \add belongs\add* loyal love, O Lord,
\q1 because you will render to each according to his work.
\c 63
\cl Psalm 63
\s1 Longing for God
\d A psalm of David, when \add he\add* was in the wilderness of Judah.\f + \fr Ps 63 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God, you \add are\add* my God;
\q1 I will seek you diligently.
\q1 My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you
\q1 \add as\add* in a dry and weary land without water.
\q1 
\v 2 Thus I have seen you in the sanctuary,
\q1 beholding your strength and glory.
\q1 
\v 3 Because your loyal love \add is\add* better than life,
\q1 my lips will praise you.
\q1 
\v 4 So I will bless you while I live.
\q1 I will lift up my ⸤hands⸥\f + \fr 63:4 \ft Hebrew “palms” \f* in your name.
\q1 
\v 5 My soul will be satisfied \add as with the\add* best and richest \add food\add*,
\q1 and \add with\add* joyful lips my mouth will praise.
\q1 
\v 6 When I remember you on my bed,
\q1 I meditate on you in \add the\add* night watches.
\q1 
\v 7 Because you have been my help,
\q1 therefore\f + \fr 63:7 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
\q1 
\v 8 My soul clings to\f + \fr 63:8 \ft Or “follows hard after” \f* you;
\q1 your right hand upholds me.
\q1 
\v 9 But as for them \add who\add* seek my life for ruin,
\q1 they will go into the depths of the earth.
\q1 
\v 10 They \add who\add* would ⸤deliver him to the sword⸥\f + \fr 63:10 \ft Literally “pour him out to the hands of the sword” \f*
\q1 will become a portion for jackals.
\q1 
\v 11 However, the king will rejoice in God.
\q1 Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast,
\q1 because \add the\add* mouth of \add the\add* liars will be stopped.
\c 64
\cl Psalm 64
\s1 A Plea for Divine Retribution
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 64 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Hear my voice, O God, in my lamenting.
\q1 Preserve my life from \add the\add* fear of \add the\add* enemy.
\q1 
\v 2 Hide me from \add the\add* secret plots\f + \fr 64:2 \ft Hebrew “plot” \f* of evildoers,
\q1 from \add the\add* unrest of \add those who\add* do iniquity,
\q1 
\v 3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword.
\q1 They bend \add their bow to shoot\add* their arrows—bitter words,
\q1 
\v 4 to shoot from\f + \fr 64:4 \ft Hebrew “in” \f* their\f + \fr 64:4 \ft Hebrew “the” \f* hiding places \add at the\add* blameless.
\q1 Suddenly they shoot \add at\add* him and do not fear.
\q1 
\v 5 They encourage themselves \add in the\add* evil matter.
\q1 They talk of secretly laying snares.
\q1 They say, “Who will see them?”
\q1 
\v 6 ⸤They carefully plot⸥\f + \fr 64:6 \ft Literally “They search out” \f* injustices \add saying\add*,
\q1 “We have perfected ⸤the perfect plot⸥!”\f + \fr 64:6 \ft Literally “a plotted plot” \f*
\q1 Both \add the\add* ⸤inner thought⸥\f + \fr 64:6 \ft Literally “inward part” \f* and heart of \add a\add* man \add are\add* deep.
\q1 
\v 7 But God will shoot them;
\q1 with an arrow they will suddenly be wounded.
\q1 
\v 8 \f + \fr 64:8 \ft The Hebrew of this verse is very difficult \f* And they \add who\add* would cause him\f + \fr 64:8 \ft That is, the psalmist \f* to stumble,
\q1 their \add own\add* tongue \add will be\add* against them.
\q1 All who gaze on them will shake.\f + \fr 64:8 \ft Perhaps a shaking of the head; a similar Hebrew form could be translated “will flee” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 And then\f + \fr 64:9 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* all men\f + \fr 64:9 \ft Hebrew “man” \f* will fear,
\q1 and will declare the working of God,
\q1 and will understand his doing.
\q1 
\v 10 \add The\add* righteous will rejoice in Yahweh and take refuge in him,
\q1 and all \add the\add* upright in heart will boast.
\c 65
\cl Psalm 65
\s1 Thanksgiving for God’s Provision
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David. A song.\f + \fr Ps 65 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion,
\q1 and to you \add the\add* vow shall be fulfilled.
\q1 
\v 2 O \add you who\add* hear prayer,
\q1 to you all flesh will come.
\q1 
\v 3 Iniquities\f + \fr 65:3 \ft Hebrew “matters of iniquities” \f* prevail over me.
\q1 As for our transgressions, you will ⸤forgive⸥\f + \fr 65:3 \ft Literally “provide atonement for” \f* them.
\q1 
\v 4 Blessed \add is one whom\add* you choose and bring near,
\q1 \add that\add* he may abide in your courts.
\q1 We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
\q1 your holy temple.
\q1 
\v 5 By awesome deeds in righteousness you will answer us,
\q1 O God of our salvation,
\q1 \add you who are the\add* confidence \add of\add* all \add the\add* ends of \add the\add* earth
\q1 and \add of\add* the far-off seas,
\q1 
\v 6 \add who\add* established the mountains by his strength,
\q1 \add the one who\add* is girded with might,
\q1 
\v 7 \add who\add* stills \add the\add* roar of \add the\add* seas,
\q1 the roar of their waves,
\q1 and \add the\add* commotion of \add the\add* peoples,
\q1 
\v 8 so that\f + \fr 65:8 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* \add the\add* inhabitants of \add the\add* farthest reaches are in awe of your signs.
\q1 You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy.
\q1 
\v 9 You care for\f + \fr 65:9 \ft Or “visit” \f* the land\f + \fr 65:9 \ft Or “earth” \f* and water it;
\q1 you greatly enrich it.
\q1 The stream of God \add is\add* filled with waters.
\q1 You provide their grain,
\q1 for so you have established it.
\q1 
\v 10 You drench its furrows,
\q1 penetrating its ridges.
\q1 With rains you soften it;
\q1 its growth you bless.
\q1 
\v 11 You crown the year with your ⸤bounty⸥,\f + \fr 65:11 \ft Literally “goodness” \f*
\q1 and your wagon paths drip with ⸤richness⸥.\f + \fr 65:11 \ft Literally “fatness” \f*
\q1 
\v 12 They drop \add on the\add* pastures of \add the\add* wilderness,
\q1 and the hills gird themselves with joy.
\q1 
\v 13 \add The\add* pasturelands put on flocks,
\q1 and \add the\add* valleys clothe themselves with grain.
\q1 They shout in triumph;
\q1 they even sing.
\c 66
\cl Psalm 66
\s1 Thanksgiving to God for His Works
\d For the \add music\add* director. A song. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 66 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.
\q1 
\v 2 Sing the glory of his name.
\q1 ⸤Set forth his glorious praise⸥.\f + \fr 66:2 \ft Literally “set for glory—his praise” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 Say to God, “How awesome are your works!
\q1 Because of the greatness of your strength,
\q1 your enemies will cringe before you.
\q1 
\v 4 All the earth will bow in worship to you,
\q1 and sing \add praise\add* to you.
\q1 They will sing \add the praise of\add* your name.” \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 Come and ⸤consider⸥\f + \fr 66:5 \ft Literally “see” \f* the works of God;
\q1 \add he is\add* awesome \add in his\add* dealings\f + \fr 66:5 \ft Hebrew “dealing” \f* with the children of humankind.
\q1 
\v 6 He turned \add the\add* sea into dry ground;
\q1 they passed through the river on foot.
\q1 There we rejoiced in him.
\q1 
\v 7 \add He\add* rules by his might forever;
\q1 his eyes keep watch on the nations.
\q1 Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.\f + \fr 66:7 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 8 Bless our God, O peoples,
\q1 and cause the sound of his praise to be heard,
\q1 
\v 9 the one who has kept our soul among the living,
\q1 and has not allowed our foot to slip.
\q1 
\v 10 For you have tested us, O God;
\q1 you have tried us as silver is tried.
\q1 
\v 11 You brought us into the net;
\q1 you placed a ⸤heavy burden⸥\f + \fr 66:11 \ft Literally “oppression” \f* on our backs.
\q1 
\v 12 You let men\f + \fr 66:12 \ft Hebrew “man” \f* ride over our heads.
\q1 We went through fire and through water,
\q1 but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.\f + \fr 66:12 \ft A slightly different Hebrew word yields “a broad place” \f*
\q1 
\v 13 I will come into your house\f + \fr 66:13 \ft Or “temple” \f* with burnt offerings.
\q1 I will pay to you my vows
\q1 
\v 14 that my lips uttered,
\q1 and my mouth spoke in my distress.
\q1 
\v 15 Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you,
\q1 with \add the\add* smoke of rams.
\q1 I will do\f + \fr 66:15 \ft That is, “offer” \f* cattle with rams. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 16 Come \add and\add* hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell
\q1 what he has done for me.\f + \fr 66:16 \ft Hebrew “my soul” \f*
\q1 
\v 17 I called to him with my mouth,
\q1 and he was extolled with my tongue.\f + \fr 66:17 \ft A slightly different Hebrew word yields “his exaltation was under my tongue” \f*
\q1 
\v 18 If I had considered evil in my heart,
\q1 the Lord would not have listened.
\q1 
\v 19 However, God has listened;
\q1 he has attended to the sound of my prayer.
\q1 
\v 20 Blessed be God,
\q1 who has not turned aside my prayer,
\q1 or his loyal love from me.
\c 67
\cl Psalm 67
\s1 A Prayer of Blessing
\d For the \add music\add* director, with stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.\f + \fr Ps 67 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 May God be gracious to us and bless us.
\q1 May he cause his face to shine toward us, \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 2 that your way may be known on the earth,
\q1 your salvation among all nations.
\q1 
\v 3 Let the peoples praise you, O God;
\q1 let all of the peoples praise you.
\q1 
\v 4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
\q1 because you judge \add the\add* peoples with equity
\q1 and guide the nations on the earth. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 Let \add the\add* peoples praise you, O God;
\q1 let all \add the\add* peoples praise you.
\q1 
\v 6 \add The\add* earth has yielded its produce.
\q1 God, our God, will bless us.
\q1 
\v 7 God will bless us,
\q1 and all \add the\add* ends of \add the\add* earth will fear him.
\c 68
\cl Psalm 68
\s1 Praise to God for Providing Victory
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of David. A psalm. A song.\f + \fr Ps 68 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 God will arise; his enemies will be scattered,
\q1 and those who hate him will flee from before him.
\q1 
\v 2 As smoke is driven off, you will drive \add them\add* off.
\q1 As wax melts before fire,
\q1 \add the\add* wicked will perish before God.
\q1 
\v 3 But \add the\add* righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God,
\q1 and will rejoice with joy.
\q1 
\v 4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name.
\q1 Lift up \add a song\add* to \add the\add* rider on the clouds—his name is Yah—\f + \fr 68:4 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 and rejoice before him.
\q1 
\v 5 A father to orphans and a judge for widows
\q1 \add is\add* God in his holy habitation.
\q1 
\v 6 God settles the lonely in a home;
\q1 he brings prisoners out into prosperity.
\q1 But the rebellious abide in a barren land.
\q1 
\v 7 O God, when you went out before your people,
\q1 when you marched through \add the\add* desert, \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 8 \add the\add* earth shook; \add the\add* heavens also dripped \add rain\add*
\q1 at the presence of God who \add was\add* at Sinai,
\q1 at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
\q1 
\v 9 You caused abundant rain to fall, O God.
\q1 When your inheritance was weary you revived it.
\q1 
\v 10 Your community dwelled in it.
\q1 You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God.
\q1 
\v 11 The Lord gives \add the\add* word.
\q1 Great is the company of women who announce:
\q1 
\v 12 “\add The\add* kings of armies flee, they flee,
\q1 and she \add who\add* remains at home divides \add the\add* spoil.
\q1 
\v 13 Though you \add men\add* lie down between the sheepfolds,
\q1 \add you will be like the\add* wings of a dove covered in silver
\q1 and its pinions in yellow gold.”
\q1 
\v 14 When Shaddai scattered kings on it,
\q1 on Zalmon it snowed.\f + \fr 68:14 \ft Or “you caused it to snow on” \f*
\q1 
\v 15 A mountain of God\f + \fr 68:15 \ft Or “A mighty mountain” \f* \add is\add* the mountain of Bashan;
\q1 a mountain of \add many\add* peaks \add is\add* the mountain of Bashan.
\q1 
\v 16 Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains?
\q1 This\f + \fr 68:16 \ft Hebrew “The” \f* mountain God desires for his dwelling.
\q1 Yes, Yahweh will abide \add in it\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 17 The chariots of God
\q1 \add are\add* twice ten thousand, \add with\add* thousands doubled.
\q1 The Lord \add is\add* among them \add at\add* Sinai, distinctive \add in victory\add*.\f + \fr 68:17 \ft Or “\fq as at \ft Sinai, in the sanctuary” \f*
\q1 
\v 18 You have ascended on high; you have led away captives.
\q1 You have received gifts \add from\add* among humankind,
\q1 and even \add from the\add* rebellious, so that Yah\f + \fr 68:18 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f* God may dwell \add there\add*.
\q1 
\v 19 Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us \add with benefits\add*,\f + \fr 68:19 \ft Or “daily carries our burden” \f*
\q1 the God \add of\add* our salvation.\f + \fr 68:19 \ft Or “victory” \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 20 Our God \add is\add* a God of deliverances,
\q1 and to \add the\add* Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.
\q1 
\v 21 But God will shatter the head of his enemies,
\q1 the hairy scalp \add of the one who\add* ⸤continues on⸥\f + \fr 68:21 \ft Literally “is walking about” \f* in his guilt.
\q1 
\v 22 The Lord said, “I will bring \add them\add* back from Bashan;
\q1 I will bring \add them\add* back from \add the\add* depths of \add the\add* sea,
\q1 
\v 23 so that your foot may shatter \add them\add* bloody
\q1 \add for\add* the tongues of your dogs \add to have\add* their share from \add the\add* enemies.”
\q1 
\v 24 They have seen your processions, O God,
\q1 the processions of my God, my king, distinctive \add in victory\add*.\f + \fr 68:24 \ft Or “into the sanctuary” \f*
\q1 
\v 25 Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last,
\q1 between \add them\add* young women \add playing\add* tambourines.
\q1 
\v 26 Bless God in \add the\add* assemblies,
\q1 Yahweh from the fountain of Israel.
\q1 
\v 27 There \add is\add* little Benjamin ruling them,
\q1 \add with\add* the princes of Judah \add in\add* their throng,
\q1 the princes of Zebulun \add and\add* the princes of Naphtali.
\q1 
\v 28 Your God has commanded your strength.
\q1 Show yourself strong, O God, \add by\add* what you perform\f + \fr 68:28 \ft Or “you who have worked” \f* for us.
\q1 
\v 29 Because your temple \add is\add* above Jerusalem,
\q1 kings will bring tribute to you.
\q1 
\v 30 Rebuke \add the\add* beasts in\f + \fr 68:30 \ft Hebrew “of” \f* \add the\add* reeds,
\q1 \add the\add* herd of bulls with \add the\add* calves of \add the\add* peoples,
\q1 trampling the pieces of silver.\f + \fr 68:30 \ft Or “\fq until each \ft humbles himself \fq by offering \ft pieces of silver” \f*
\q1 Scatter \add the\add* nations \add who\add* delight in battles.
\q1 
\v 31 Ambassadors\f + \fr 68:31 \ft Reading with the LXX; meaning uncertain \f* will come from Egypt;
\q1 Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
\q1 
\v 32 O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;
\q1 sing praise to \add the\add* Lord, \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 33 to the one who rides in the highest heavens of old.
\q1 See, he gives forth his voice, a mighty voice.
\q1 
\v 34 Ascribe strength to God.
\q1 His majesty \add is\add* over Israel,
\q1 and his strength \add is\add* in the clouds.
\q1 
\v 35 Awesome \add are you\add*, O God, from your sanctuary.\f + \fr 68:35 \ft Hebrew “sanctuaries” \f*
\q1 The God of Israel, \add it is\add* he who gives strength and might to the people.
\q1 Blessed be God.
\c 69
\cl Psalm 69
\s1 A Plea for Deliverance from Persecution
\d For the \add music\add* director, according to \add The\add* Lilies. Of David.\f + \fr Ps 69 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Save me, O God,
\q1 because waters have come up to \add my\add* neck.\f + \fr 69:1 \ft Hebrew “soul” or “life” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 I sink in \add the\add* mud of the deep, and there is no foothold.
\q1 I have come to watery depths,
\q1 and \add the\add* torrent floods over me.
\q1 
\v 3 I am weary with my calling \add out\add*; my throat is parched.
\q1 My eyes are exhausted \add in my\add* waiting for my God.
\q1 
\v 4 More numerous than the hairs of my head
\q1 are \add those\add* hating me without a cause.
\q1 \add Those who are\add* destroying me—my enemies wrongfully\f + \fr 69:4 \ft Or, “those who oppose me \fq with \ft falsehood” \f*— are mighty.
\q1 What I did not steal, I then must restore.
\q1 
\v 5 O God, ⸤you yourself know⸥\f + \fr 69:5 \ft Literally “you, you know” \f* my foolishness,
\q1 and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.
\q1 
\v 6 Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me,
\q1 O Lord Yahweh \add of\add* hosts.
\q1 Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me,
\q1 O God of Israel.
\q1 
\v 7 Because on account of you I have borne reproach;
\q1 disgrace has covered my face.
\q1 
\v 8 I have become a stranger to my brothers
\q1 and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
\q1 
\v 9 because the zeal for your house\f + \fr 69:9 \ft Or “temple” \f* has consumed me,
\q1 and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.
\q1 
\v 10 When I wept in the fasting of my soul,
\q1 it became reproaches for me.
\q1 
\v 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing,
\q1 I became for them a byword.
\q1 
\v 12 Those sitting at \add the\add* gate talk about me
\q1 \add as\add* also\f + \fr 69:12 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* \add the\add* songs of \add the\add* drunkards.
\q1 
\v 13 But as for me, my prayer \add is\add* to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time,
\q1 O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love.
\q1 Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.
\q1 
\v 14 Deliver me from \add the\add* mud and do not let me sink.
\q1 Let me be delivered from \add those who\add* hate me
\q1 and from \add the\add* watery depths.
\q1 
\v 15 Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me,
\q1 or \add the\add* deep swallow me,
\q1 or the pit close its mouth over me.
\q1 
\v 16 Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love \add is\add* good;
\q1 according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,
\q1 
\v 17 and do not hide your face from your servant.
\q1 Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.
\q1 
\v 18 Draw near to my soul; redeem it.
\q1 Because of my enemies, ransom me.
\q1 
\v 19 You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace.
\q1 ⸤Fully known⸥\f + \fr 69:19 \ft Literally “\fq right \ft in front of” \f* to you are all my adversaries.
\q1 
\v 20 Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick.
\q1 And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none,
\q1 and for comforters, but I found none.
\q1 
\v 21 They also gave me gall for food,\f + \fr 69:21 \ft Or “they put poison in my food” \f*
\q1 and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
\q1 
\v 22 Let their table before them be a trap,
\q1 and their \add times of\add* peace a snare.
\q1 
\v 23 Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see,
\q1 and make their loins continually tremble.
\q1 
\v 24 Pour out your indignation on them,
\q1 and let your burning anger overtake them.
\q1 
\v 25 Let their camp be desolate.
\q1 Let none dwell in their tents,
\q1 
\v 26 because they persecute \add those\add* whom you, yourself, have struck,
\q1 and they tell of the pain of \add those\add* you have wounded.
\q1 
\v 27 ⸤Add guilt on top of their guilt⸥,\f + \fr 69:27 \ft Literally “Give guilt on their guilt” \f*
\q1 and do not let them ⸤be acquitted⸥.\f + \fr 69:27 \ft Literally “come into your righteousness” \f*
\q1 
\v 28 Let them be blotted out of \add the\add* book of \add the\add* living,
\q1 and let them not be recorded with \add the\add* righteous.
\q1 
\v 29 But as for me, \add though\add* I \add am\add* afflicted and pained,
\q1 your salvation will protect\f + \fr 69:29 \ft The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress \f* me, O God.
\q1 
\v 30 I will praise the name of God in song,
\q1 and magnify him with thanksgiving.
\q1 
\v 31 For Yahweh it will be better than an ox \add or\add* bull,
\q1 horned \add and\add* hoofed.\f + \fr 69:31 \ft That is, mature and ritually clean \f*
\q1 
\v 32 \add The\add* afflicted will see \add and\add* rejoice.
\q1 O God seekers, let your heart revive,\f + \fr 69:32 \ft Or “live” \f*
\q1 
\v 33 because Yahweh hears \add the\add* needy
\q1 and does not despise his \add own who are\add* prisoners.
\q1 
\v 34 Let heavens and earth praise him,
\q1 \add the\add* seas and all that moves in them,
\q1 
\v 35 because God will save Zion
\q1 and build the cities of Judah,
\q1 that they may dwell there and possess it.
\q1 
\v 36 And the offspring of his servants will inherit it,
\q1 and \add those who\add* love his name will abide in it.
\c 70
\cl Psalm 70
\s1 A Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of David. To bring to remembrance.\f + \fr Ps 70 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God, \add make haste\add* to deliver me.
\q1 O Yahweh, make haste to help me.
\q1 
\v 2 Let them be ashamed and abashed
\q1 who seek my life.
\q1 Let them be repulsed and humiliated
\q1 \add who\add* desire my harm.
\q1 
\v 3 let them turn back because of their shame,
\q1 those who say, “Aha! Aha!”
\q1 
\v 4 Let them rejoice and be glad in you,
\q1 all those who seek you.
\q1 Let them say continually, “God is great!”
\q1 \add those\add* who love your salvation.
\q1 
\v 5 But I \add am\add* poor and needy;
\q1 O God hasten to me.
\q1 You \add are\add* my help and my deliverer.
\q1 O Yahweh, do not delay.
\c 71
\cl Psalm 71
\s1 A Prayer to God the Rock of Refuge
\q1 
\v 1 In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge;
\q1 let me never be put to shame.
\q1 
\v 2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
\q1 incline your ear to me and save me.
\q1 
\v 3 Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always;
\q1 you have ordained\f + \fr 71:3 \ft Or “commanded” \f* to save me,
\q1 because you \add are\add* my rock and my fortress.
\q1 
\v 4 My God, rescue me from \add the\add* hand of \add the\add* wicked,
\q1 from \add the\add* ⸤grasp⸥\f + \fr 71:4 \ft Literally “palm” \f* of \add the\add* evildoer and \add the\add* oppressor,
\q1 
\v 5 because you \add are\add* my hope,
\q1 O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.
\q1 
\v 6 Upon you I have leaned ⸤from birth⸥.\f + \fr 71:6 \ft Literally “from the belly” \f*
\q1 \add It was\add* you who ⸤took⸥\f + \fr 71:6 \ft Literally “cut,” that is, the umbilical cord \f* me from the womb of my mother.
\q1 My praise \add is\add* of you continually.
\q1 
\v 7 I have become a wonder to many,
\q1 but you \add are\add* my strong refuge.
\q1 
\v 8 My mouth is filled with your praise,
\q1 with your glory all the day.
\q1 
\v 9 Do not cast me away in the time of old age;
\q1 when my strength fails do not abandon me.
\q1 
\v 10 For my enemies talk concerning me,
\q1 and those who watch for my life conspire together,
\q1 
\v 11 saying, “His God has abandoned him.
\q1 Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer.”
\q1 
\v 12 O God, do not be far from me.
\q1 My God, hurry to help me.
\q1 
\v 13 Let them be ashamed; let them perish
\q1 who are ⸤my adversaries⸥.\f + \fr 71:13 \ft Literally “adversaries of my soul” \f*
\q1 Let \add them\add* wrap themselves with scorn and disgrace
\q1 who seek my harm.
\q1 
\v 14 But as for me, I will hope continually
\q1 and increase your praise.
\q1 
\v 15 My mouth will tell of your righteousness,
\q1 your salvation ⸤all day long⸥,\f + \fr 71:15 \ft Literally “all the day” \f*
\q1 though I do not know \add the full\add* sum \add of them\add*.
\q1 
\v 16 I will come in \add to tell\add* the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh.
\q1 I will ⸤make known⸥\f + \fr 71:16 \ft Literally “bring to remembrance” \f* your righteousness, yours only.
\q1 
\v 17 O God, you have taught me from my youth,
\q1 and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.
\q1 
\v 18 And even when \add I am\add* old and gray,
\q1 O God, do not abandon me
\q1 until I proclaim your ⸤strength⸥\f + \fr 71:18 \ft Literally “arm” \f* to \add this\add* generation,
\q1 your power to every \add one that\add* comes \add after\add*.
\q1 
\v 19 And your righteousness, O God, \add is\add* to \add the\add* height \add of heaven\add*.
\q1 You who have done great things,
\q1 O God, who \add is\add* like you?
\q1 
\v 20 You who have caused me\f + \fr 71:20 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* to see many troubles and evils,
\q1 you will again revive me.\f + \fr 71:20 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f*
\q1 And from the depths of the earth
\q1 you will again bring me up.
\q1 
\v 21 You will increase my greatness,
\q1 and you will comfort me all around.\f + \fr 71:21 \ft A slightly different vocalization yields, “… comfort me again”; compare the LXX. \f*
\q1 
\v 22 On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument,
\q1 \add and\add* your faithfulness, O my God.
\q1 I will sing praises to you with a lyre,
\q1 O Holy One of Israel.
\q1 
\v 23 My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you,
\q1 and my soul, which you have redeemed.
\q1 
\v 24 My tongue also
\q1 will speak of your righteousness all the day,
\q1 because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated
\q1 who seek my harm.
\c 72
\cl Psalm 72
\s1 A Prayer for the Prosperity of God’s Anointed King
\d Of Solomon.\f + \fr Ps 72 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God, give your judgments to \add the\add* king,
\q1 and your righteousness to \add the\add* king’s son.
\q1 
\v 2 May he judge your people with righteousness,
\q1 and your poor with justice.
\q1 
\v 3 Let \add the\add* mountains yield prosperity\f + \fr 72:3 \ft Or “peace” \f* for the people,
\q1 and \add the\add* hills in righteousness.
\q1 
\v 4 May he provide justice \add for the\add* poor of \add the\add* people,
\q1 save \add the\add* children of \add the\add* needy,
\q1 and crush \add the\add* oppressor.
\q1 
\v 5 May he live long\f + \fr 72:5 \ft This presupposes the reading, suggested by the LXX, that might indicate that two of the Hebrew root letters have been inverted. The Hebrew reads “They will/Let them fear” \f* ⸤while the sun endures⸥\f + \fr 72:5 \ft Literally “with \fq the \ft sun” \f*
\q1 ⸤as long as the moon⸥\f + \fr 72:5 \ft Literally “in the presence of the moon” \f* ⸤for all generations⸥.\f + \fr 72:5 \ft Literally “generation of generations” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 May he descend like rain on mown grass,
\q1 like showers watering \add the\add* earth.
\q1 
\v 7 May \add what is\add* right blossom in his days
\q1 and an abundance of peace, until \add the\add* moon is no more.
\q1 
\v 8 And may he rule from sea up to sea,
\q1 and from \add the\add* River\f + \fr 72:8 \ft That is, the Euphrates \f* to \add the\add* edges of \add the\add* land.
\q1 
\v 9 Let \add the\add* desert dwellers bow down before him,
\q1 and his enemies lick the dust.
\q1 
\v 10 Let the kings of Tarshish and \add the\add* islands bring tribute.
\q1 Let the kings of Sheba and Seba present gifts,
\q1 
\v 11 and let all kings bow down to him.
\q1 Let all nations serve him.
\q1 
\v 12 Indeed he will deliver \add the\add* needy \add who is\add* crying for help,
\q1 and \add the\add* afflicted \add who\add* has no helper.
\q1 
\v 13 He will take pity on \add the\add* helpless and needy,
\q1 and \add the\add* lives of \add the\add* needy he will save.
\q1 
\v 14 From oppression and from violence
\q1 he will redeem their lives,
\q1 and their blood will be precious in his eyes.
\q1 
\v 15 So may he live, and may gold from Sheba be given to him,
\q1 and may prayers be offered for him continually.
\q1 May blessings be invoked for him ⸤all day long⸥.\f + \fr 72:15 \ft Literally “all the day” \f*
\q1 
\v 16 May there be an abundance of grain in the land
\q1 \add even\add* on \add the\add* top of \add the\add* mountains.
\q1 May his crop\f + \fr 72:16 \ft Or “May his descendants” \f* sway like the \add trees of\add* Lebanon,
\q1 and may \add those\add* from \add the\add* city blossom like the grass of the earth.
\q1 
\v 17 May his name endure forever.
\q1 May his name increase ⸤as long as the sun shines⸥,\f + \fr 72:17 \ft Literally “\fq in the \ft presence of the sun” \f*
\q1 and let them be blessed in him.
\q1 Let all nations call him blessed.
\q1 
\v 18 Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel,
\q1 \add who\add* alone does wonderful things.
\q1 
\v 19 And blessed be his glorious name forever,
\q1 and may the whole earth be filled with his glory.
\q1 Amen and Amen.
\q1 
\v 20 The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are completed.
\c 73
\cl Psalm 73
\s1 The Wicked and the Righteous Contrasted
\d A song of Asaph.\f + \fr Ps 73 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Surely God is good to Israel,
\q1 to those pure of heart.
\q1 
\v 2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled.
\q1 My steps had nearly slipped,
\q1 
\v 3 because I envied the boastful
\q1 \add when\add* I saw \add the\add* well-being\f + \fr 73:3 \ft Or “peace” or “prosperity” \f* of \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 
\v 4 For there are no pains up to their death,
\q1 and their bodies \add are\add* ⸤healthy⸥.\f + \fr 73:4 \ft Literally “fat” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 They do not have ⸤ordinary trouble⸥,\f + \fr 73:5 \ft Literally “the trouble of man” \f*
\q1 and they are not plagued as \add other\add* people.\f + \fr 73:5 \ft Hebrew “humankind” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 Therefore pride is their necklace;
\q1 an outfit of violence covers them.
\q1 
\v 7 Their eye bulges from fat.\f + \fr 73:7 \ft A slightly different Hebrew reading might be reflected in the LXX’s “their iniquity comes out of fatness” \f*
\q1 Imaginings overflow \add their\add* heart.
\q1 
\v 8 They mock and speak maliciously of oppression;
\q1 they speak \add as though\add* from on high.
\q1 
\v 9 They set their mouth against the heavens,
\q1 and their tongue roams the earth.
\q1 
\v 10 Therefore his people turn there,\f + \fr 73:10 \ft That is, toward the wicked \f*
\q1 and abundant waters are slurped up by them.
\q1 
\v 11 And they say, “How does God know?”
\q1 and, “Does the Most High have knowledge?”
\q1 
\v 12 See, these \add are the\add* wicked,
\q1 and they increase wealth, ever carefree.
\q1 
\v 13 Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure,
\q1 and washed my hands in innocence.
\q1 
\v 14 And I have been plagued all day
\q1 and rebuked ⸤every morning⸥.\f + \fr 73:14 \ft Literally “to the mornings” \f*
\q1 
\v 15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
\q1 behold, I would have acted treacherously
\q1 against your children’s generation.
\q1 
\v 16 When I thought about \add how\add* to understand this,
\q1 it \add was\add* troubling in my eyes
\q1 
\v 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God.
\q1 \add Then\add* I understood their fate.
\q1 
\v 18 Surely you set them on slippery places.
\q1 You cause them to fall onto ruin.\f + \fr 73:18 \ft Or “fall for deceptions” \f*
\q1 
\v 19 How they become a desolation in a moment!
\q1 They come to a complete end by terrors.
\q1 
\v 20 Like a dream upon awakening,
\q1 when \add you\add* wake up, O Lord,
\q1 you will despise their fleeting form.\f + \fr 73:20 \ft Or “image” \f*
\q1 
\v 21 When my heart was embittered
\q1 and I felt stabbed in my kidneys,
\q1 
\v 22 then I was brutish and ignorant.
\q1 With you I was \add like\add* the beasts.
\q1 
\v 23 But I \add am\add* continually with you;
\q1 you have hold of my right hand.
\q1 
\v 24 You will guide me with your advice,
\q1 and afterward you will take me \add into\add* honor.\f + \fr 73:24 \ft Or “\fq to \ft glory” \f*
\q1 
\v 25 Whom do I have in the heavens \add except you\add*?
\q1 And with you I have no \add other\add* desire on earth.
\q1 
\v 26 My flesh and heart failed,
\q1 \add but\add* God \add is\add* the ⸤strength⸥\f + \fr 73:26 \ft Literally “rock” \f* of my heart and my reward forever.
\q1 
\v 27 For indeed, \add those\add* distancing themselves from you will be ruined.
\q1 You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.
\q1 
\v 28 But as for me, the approach to God \add is\add* for my good.
\q1 I have set the Lord Yahweh \add as\add* my refuge,
\q1 in order to tell all your works.
\c 74
\cl Psalm 74
\s1 A Lament in Time of National Defeat
\d A maskil of Asaph.\f + \fr Ps 74 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Why, O God, have you rejected \add us\add* forever?
\q1 \add Why\add* does your anger smoke
\q1 against the sheep of your pasture?
\q1 
\v 2 Remember your congregation \add that\add* you bought long ago,
\q1 \add when\add* you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance.
\q1 \add Remember\add* ⸤Mount Zion⸥\f + \fr 74:2 \ft Literally “the mountain of Zion” \f* where you have dwelt.
\q1 
\v 3 Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins,
\q1 \add to\add* all \add that the\add* enemy has ruined in the sanctuary.
\q1 
\v 4 Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place;
\q1 they have set up their signs \add for\add* signs.
\q1 
\v 5 They are\f + \fr 74:5 \ft Hebrew “He is” \f* known \add to be\add* like \add those who\add* ⸤wield⸥\f + \fr 74:5 \ft Literally “lift up” \f*
\q1 axes in a thicket of trees.
\q1 
\v 6 And now\f + \fr 74:6 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* its\f + \fr 74:6 \ft That is, the temple’s \f* carved works altogether
\q1 they have smashed with axe and hammer.
\q1 
\v 7 They have set fire to your sanctuary.
\q1 They have defiled to the ground,
\q1 the dwelling place for your name.
\q1 
\v 8 They have said in their heart,
\q1 “We will completely\f + \fr 74:8 \ft Hebrew “altogether” \f* oppress them.”
\q1 They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
\q1 
\v 9 We do not see our signs,
\q1 and there is no longer a prophet.
\q1 No one with us knows how long.
\q1 
\v 10 How long, O God, will \add the\add* adversary taunt?
\q1 Will \add the\add* enemy treat your name with contempt forever?
\q1 
\v 11 Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?
\q1 \add Take it\add* from your bosom;\f + \fr 74:11 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* destroy \add them\add*!
\q1 
\v 12 But God \add has been\add* my king from long ago,
\q1 working salvation in the midst of the earth.
\q1 
\v 13 You split open \add the\add* sea by your strength;
\q1 You broke \add the\add* heads of \add the\add* sea monsters in the waters.
\q1 
\v 14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
\q1 you gave him \add as\add* food to \add the\add* desert dwelling creatures.
\q1 
\v 15 You split open spring and wadi.\f + \fr 74:15 \ft A seasonal stream that is often dry \f*
\q1 You dried up ever-flowing rivers.
\q1 
\v 16 Yours \add is the\add* day, yours \add is the\add* night also.
\q1 You established light and \add the\add* sun.
\q1 
\v 17 You defined\f + \fr 74:17 \ft Or “set” \f* all \add the\add* boundaries of \add the\add* earth;
\q1 Summer and winter—you formed them.
\q1 
\v 18 O Yahweh, remember this: \add the\add* enemy taunts,
\q1 and foolish people treat your name with contempt.
\q1 
\v 19 Do not give to beasts the life of your dove;
\q1 do not ever forget the life of your afflicted ones.
\q1 
\v 20 Have regard for the covenant,
\q1 because \add the\add* dark places of \add the\add* land are full of
\q1 \add the\add* haunts of violence.
\q1 
\v 21 Do not let \add the\add* oppressed turn back humiliated;
\q1 let \add the\add* poor and needy praise your name.
\q1 
\v 22 Rise up, O God, plead your cause;
\q1 remember the reproaching of you by \add the\add* foolish ⸤all day long⸥.\f + \fr 74:22 \ft Literally “all the day” \f*
\q1 
\v 23 Do not forget the sound of your adversaries,
\q1 the roar of those rising up against you ascending continually.
\c 75
\cl Psalm 75
\s1 Thanksgiving for God’s Future Help
\d For the \add music\add* director, \add according to\add* Do Not Destroy.
\q1 A psalm of Asaph. A song.\f + \fr Ps 75 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 We give thanks to you, O God;
\q1 we give thanks, and your name is near.
\q1 Your wonderful deeds are told.\f + \fr 75:1 \ft Hebrew “They tell your wonderful deeds” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 “I will indeed set an appointed time;
\q1 I will judge fairly.\f + \fr 75:2 \ft Hebrew “I, I will judge” might be emphatic \f*
\q1 
\v 3 \add The\add* earth and all its inhabitants \add are\add* shaking;\f + \fr 75:3 \ft Or “melting away” \f*
\q1 I steady\f + \fr 75:3 \ft Hebrew “I, I steady” might be emphatic \f* its columns. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 4 I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast!’
\q1 and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up \add your\add* horn!
\q1 
\v 5 Do not lift up high your\f + \fr 75:5 \ft Plural \f* horn.
\q1 Do \add not\add* speak with ⸤arrogant pride⸥.’ ”\f + \fr 75:5 \ft Hebrew “an unrestrained neck” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 For \add it is\add* not from \add the\add* east or \add the\add* west
\q1 and not from \add the\add* south\f + \fr 75:6 \ft Hebrew “wilderness” \f* \add that\add* lifting up \add comes\add*,
\q1 
\v 7 rather God \add is the\add* judge;
\q1 one he brings low, and another he lifts up.
\q1 
\v 8 For \add there is\add* a cup in the hand of Yahweh
\q1 with\f + \fr 75:8 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* wine \add that\add* foams, fully mixed,
\q1 and he pours out from this.
\q1 Surely all \add the\add* wicked of \add the\add* land
\q1 ⸤will quaff it down \add to\add* its dregs⸥. \f + \fr 75:8 \ft Literally “they will drain, they will drink its dregs” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 But as for me, I will proclaim forever;
\q1 I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.
\q1 
\v 10 “And all \add the\add* horns of \add the\add* wicked I will cut off.
\q1 \add The\add* horns of \add the\add* righteous will be lifted up.”
\c 76
\cl Psalm 76
\s1 Praise to God for His Rescue of Israel
\d For the \add music\add* director, with stringed instruments.
\q1 A psalm of Asaph. A song.\f + \fr Ps 76 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 God \add is\add* known in Judah.
\q1 His name \add is\add* great in Israel.
\q1 
\v 2 His den\f + \fr 76:2 \ft Or “shelter”; but the image of the lion appears in view \f* has been in Salem,
\q1 his lair\f + \fr 76:2 \ft Or “refuge” \f* in Zion.
\q1 
\v 3 There he broke \add the\add* flames of \add the\add* bow,
\q1 \add the\add* shield and sword and battle. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 4 Radiant\f + \fr 76:4 \ft A possible change in the Hebrew text yields, “You are feared, majestic …” a form found in vv. \xt 8 \ft (7), 13(12). This is possibly reflected in the reading of Theodotian \f* you \add are\add*, majestic,
\q1 from\f + \fr 76:4 \ft Or “more than” \f* \add the\add* mountains of prey.
\q1 
\v 5 \add The\add* stouthearted are plundered;
\q1 they sleep their sleep,
\q1 and all \add the\add* able men cannot ⸤use⸥\f + \fr 76:5 \ft Literally “find” \f* their hands.
\q1 
\v 6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
\q1 both rider\f + \fr 76:6 \ft Hebrew “chariot,” that is, charioteer \f* and horse slumber.
\q1 
\v 7 ⸤You, indeed, are to be feared⸥,\f + \fr 76:7 \ft Literally “You, feared you \fq are \ft ” \f*
\q1 and who can stand before you
\q1 when you \add are\add* angry? \f + \fr 76:7 \ft A slight change in the vocalization of the MT yields, “from the strength of your anger” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 From heaven you proclaimed judgment.
\q1 \add The\add* earth feared and was still
\q1 
\v 9 when God rose for justice,
\q1 to save all \add the\add* afflicted of \add the\add* land. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 10 For the anger of humankind will praise you.
\q1 You will put on \add the\add* remnant of anger.\f + \fr 76:10 \ft Hebrew “angers” \f*
\q1 
\v 11 Make vows and fulfill them to Yahweh, your God;
\q1 let all surrounding him
\q1 bring tribute to the \add one to be\add* feared.\f + \fr 76:11 \ft Hebrew “to the fear” \f*
\q1 
\v 12 He cuts off \add the\add* spirit of leaders.
\q1 \add He is to be\add* feared by \add the\add* kings of \add the\add* earth.
\c 77
\cl Psalm 77
\s1 Remembering God’s Help for Israel
\d For the \add music\add* director, on Jeduthun.\f + \fr Ps 77 \ft One of David’s musicians (\xt 1 Chr 16:41 \ft ) \f*
\q1 Of Asaph. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 77 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I cry out with my voice to God;
\q1 with my voice to God, that he may hear me.
\q1 
\v 2 In the day I \add have\add* trouble, I seek\f + \fr 77:2 \ft Or “make supplication to” \f* the Lord.
\q1 At night my hand stretches out ⸤continually⸥;\f + \fr 77:2 \ft Literally “it does not grow weary” \f*
\q1 my soul refuses to be comforted.
\q1 
\v 3 I remember God and I groan loudly;
\q1 I meditate and my spirit grows faint.
\q1 
\v 4 You hold \add open\add* my eyelids.
\q1 I am troubled and cannot speak.
\q1 
\v 5 I think about \add the\add* days from long ago,
\q1 \add the\add* years of ancient times.
\q1 
\v 6 I remember my song in the night.
\q1 With my heart I meditate,
\q1 and my spirit searches \add to understand\add*.
\q1 
\v 7 Will the Lord reject \add us\add* forever,
\q1 and will he never be pleased \add with us\add* again?
\q1 
\v 8 Has his loyal love ceased forever?
\q1 Is \add his\add* promise\f + \fr 77:8 \ft Hebrew “word” \f* ended throughout generations?
\q1 
\v 9 Has God forgotten to have compassion?
\q1 Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 10 So I said, “This pierces me—\f + \fr 77:10 \ft Or “this is my sickness” \f*
\q1 the right \add hand\add* of the Most High \add has\add* changed.”
\q1 
\v 11 I will remember the deeds of Yah.\f + \fr 77:11 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 Surely I will remember your wonders\f + \fr 77:11 \ft Hebrew “wonder” \f* from long ago.
\q1 
\v 12 I will also muse on all your work,
\q1 and meditate on your deeds.
\q1 
\v 13 O God, your way \add is\add* distinctive.\f + \fr 77:13 \ft Or “holy” or “set apart” \f*
\q1 Who \add is\add* a great god like \add our\add* God?
\q1 
\v 14 You \add are\add* the God who works wonders;\f + \fr 77:14 \ft Hebrew “wonder” \f*
\q1 you have made known your might among the peoples.
\q1 
\v 15 With \add your\add* arm you redeemed your people,
\q1 the children of Jacob and Joseph. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 16 Waters saw you, O God;
\q1 waters saw you \add and\add* they trembled.
\q1 Surely \add the\add* deeps shook.
\q1 
\v 17 \add The\add* clouds poured out water.
\q1 \add The\add* skies ⸤thundered⸥.\f + \fr 77:17 \ft Literally “gave voice” \f*
\q1 Your arrows also ⸤flew about⸥.\f + \fr 77:17 \ft Literally “walked back and forth” \f*
\q1 
\v 18 The sound of your thunder \add was\add* in the whirlwind;\f + \fr 77:18 \ft Or “in \fq your chariot \ft wheel” \f*
\q1 lightnings lit \add the\add* world;
\q1 the earth shook and quaked.
\q1 
\v 19 Your way \add was\add* through the sea,
\q1 and your path\f + \fr 77:19 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* through many waters.
\q1 Yet your footprints were not discerned.\f + \fr 77:19 \ft Hebrew “were not known” \f*
\q1 
\v 20 You led your people like a flock
\q1 by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
\c 78
\cl Psalm 78
\s1 God’s Faithfulness in Israel’s History
\d A maskil of Asaph.\f + \fr Ps 78 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Listen, O my people, to my teaching.
\q1 Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
\q1 
\v 2 I will offer\f + \fr 78:2 \ft Hebrew “open” \f* a parable \add with\add* my mouth.
\q1 I will pour out riddles from long ago,
\q1 
\v 3 that we have heard and known,
\q1 and our ancestors\f + \fr 78:3 \ft Or “fathers” \f* have told us.
\q1 
\v 4 We will not hide \add them\add* from their children,\f + \fr 78:4 \ft Or “descendants” \f*
\q1 telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh,
\q1 and his power and his wonders that he has done.
\q1 
\v 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob,
\q1 and appointed a law\f + \fr 78:5 \ft Hebrew \fqa torah \ft  \f* in Israel,
\q1 which he commanded our ancestors\f + \fr 78:5 \ft Or “fathers” \f*
\q1 to teach to their children,
\q1 
\v 6 so that \add the\add* next generation might know—
\q1 children \add yet to\add* be born—
\q1 \add that\add* they might rise up and tell their children,
\q1 
\v 7 that they might set their confidence in God,
\q1 and not forget the deeds of God,
\q1 but keep his commandments,
\q1 
\v 8 and not be like their ancestors,\f + \fr 78:8 \ft Or “fathers” \f*
\q1 a stubborn and rebellious generation,
\q1 a generation \add that\add* did not make ready its heart,
\q1 whose spirit was not faithful \add to\add* God.
\q1 
\v 9 The sons of Ephraim, ⸤armed with archers⸥,\f + \fr 78:9 \ft Literally “armed with shooters of the bow” \f*
\q1 turned back on \add the\add* day of battle.
\q1 
\v 10 They did not keep the covenant of God
\q1 and refused to go in his law.\f + \fr 78:10 \ft Hebrew \fqa torah \ft  \f*
\q1 
\v 11 They also forgot his deeds,
\q1 and his wonders that he had shown them.
\q1 
\v 12 In front of their ancestors\f + \fr 78:12 \ft Or “fathers” \f* he did a wonder,
\q1 in the land of Egypt, \add in\add* the region of Zoan.
\q1 
\v 13 He split the sea and caused them to go over,
\q1 and he caused waters to stand like a heap.
\q1 
\v 14 And he led them with the cloud by day,
\q1 and all night with a fiery light.
\q1 
\v 15 He caused rocks to split in the wilderness
\q1 and provided drink abundantly as \add from the\add* depths.
\q1 
\v 16 And he brought streams out of \add the\add* rock
\q1 and caused water to flow down like rivers.
\q1 
\v 17 But they sinned still further against him
\q1 by rebelling \add against the\add* Most High in the desert.
\q1 
\v 18 And they tested God in their heart
\q1 \add by\add* asking food ⸤for their craving⸥.\f + \fr 78:18 \ft Literally “for their soul” \f*
\q1 
\v 19 And they spoke against God.
\q1 They said, “Is God able
\q1 to prepare a table in the wilderness?
\q1 
\v 20 Yes, he struck \add the\add* rock and water flowed
\q1 and streams gushed out,
\q1 \add but\add* can he also give food
\q1 or provide meat for his people?”
\q1 
\v 21 Therefore Yahweh heard
\q1 and he was very angry,
\q1 and a fire was kindled against Jacob,
\q1 and \add his\add* anger also rose up against Israel,
\q1 
\v 22 because they did not believe God,
\q1 and they did not trust his salvation.
\q1 
\v 23 Nevertheless, he commanded \add the\add* skies above
\q1 and opened \add the\add* doors of heaven,
\q1 
\v 24 and rained down on them manna to eat
\q1 and gave them the grain of heaven.
\q1 
\v 25 Humankind ate \add the\add* bread of ⸤angels⸥.\f + \fr 78:25 \ft Literally “mighty ones” \f*
\q1 He sent them food \add enough\add* to be satisfied.
\q1 
\v 26 He caused \add the\add* east wind to blow in the heavens
\q1 and drove along \add the\add* south wind by his strength.
\q1 
\v 27 Then he rained meat on them like dust,
\q1 even winged birds\f + \fr 78:27 \ft Hebrew “bird” \f* like \add the\add* sand of \add the\add* seas.
\q1 
\v 28 He caused \add them\add* to fall in the midst of his camp,
\q1 all around his dwellings.
\q1 
\v 29 So they ate and were well filled,
\q1 and he brought about \add what\add* they craved.
\q1 
\v 30 They had not yet turned aside from their craving,
\q1 \add while\add* their food \add was\add* still in their mouth,
\q1 
\v 31 the anger of God rose against them,
\q1 and he killed some of the stoutest of them,
\q1 even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down \add in death\add*.
\q1 
\v 32 In spite of all this they sinned further
\q1 and did not believe his wonders.
\q1 
\v 33 And he consumed their days with futility \f + \fr 78:33 \ft Or “he ended their days like a breath” \f*
\q1 their years with terror.\f + \fr 78:33 \ft Or “and their years suddenly” \f*
\q1 
\v 34 When he killed \add some of\add* them, then they sought him,
\q1 and repented and earnestly sought God.
\q1 
\v 35 And they remembered that God \add was\add* their rock,
\q1 and God Most High their redeemer.
\q1 
\v 36 But they enticed him with their mouth
\q1 and lied to him with their tongue.
\q1 
\v 37 For their heart was not steadfast with him,
\q1 nor were they faithful to his covenant.
\q1 
\v 38 But he \add was\add* compassionate; he pardoned\f + \fr 78:38 \ft Or “covered,” or “atoned for” \f* \add their\add* guilt
\q1 and did not destroy \add them\add*.
\q1 And many \add times\add* he turned back his anger
\q1 and did not stir up all his wrath,
\q1 
\v 39 for he remembered that they \add were\add* flesh,
\q1 a passing wind that does not return.
\q1 
\v 40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
\q1 and vexed him in \add the\add* wasteland!
\q1 
\v 41 So they again tested God
\q1 and distressed\f + \fr 78:41 \ft Or perhaps, “pressed to the limit” \f* the Holy One of Israel.
\q1 
\v 42 And they did not remember his ⸤power⸥\f + \fr 78:42 \ft Literally “hand” \f*
\q1 ⸤when⸥\f + \fr 78:42 \ft Literally “the day that” \f* he redeemed them from the enemy,
\q1 
\v 43 how he performed\f + \fr 78:43 \ft Hebrew “set” \f* his signs in Egypt
\q1 and his wonders in the region of Zoan,
\q1 
\v 44 when he turned their rivers\f + \fr 78:44 \ft Normally the word for the Nile, with the plural here suggesting perhaps it and its canals \f* to blood
\q1 so they could not drink \add from\add* their streams.
\q1 
\v 45 He sent among them flies that devoured them
\q1 and frogs that destroyed them.
\q1 
\v 46 And he gave their crop to the locusts
\q1 and their labor to the locust.\f + \fr 78:46 \ft Two different words translated “locusts” \f*
\q1 
\v 47 He destroyed their vines with hail
\q1 and their sycamore trees with sleet.\f + \fr 78:47 \ft The word for “sleet” is only used here, and the translation is a guess based on context \f*
\q1 
\v 48 He also handed their cattle over to the hail
\q1 and their livestock to the lightning bolts.
\q1 
\v 49 He sent against them his fierce anger,
\q1 rage and indignation and trouble,
\q1 a band of ⸤destroying⸥\f + \fr 78:49 \ft Literally “evil” \f* angels.
\q1 
\v 50 He cleared a path for his anger.
\q1 He did not spare them\f + \fr 78:50 \ft Hebrew “their soul” \f* from death
\q1 but handed their life over to the plague.
\q1 
\v 51 And he struck down all \add the\add* firstborn in Egypt,
\q1 \add the\add* first of \add their\add* virility in the tents of Ham.
\q1 
\v 52 Then he led out his people like sheep
\q1 and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.
\q1 
\v 53 And he led them safely and they were not afraid,
\q1 but the sea covered their enemies.
\q1 
\v 54 So he brought them to his holy territory,\f + \fr 78:54 \ft Hebrew “border” \f*
\q1 this mountain his right hand acquired.\f + \fr 78:54 \ft Or “had created” \f*
\q1 
\v 55 And he drove out nations before them
\q1 and allocated them for an inheritance by \add boundary\add* line,
\q1 and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
\q1 
\v 56 But they tested and rebelled against God Most High
\q1 and did not keep his statutes.
\q1 
\v 57 And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors.\f + \fr 78:57 \ft Or “fathers” \f*
\q1 They twisted like a crooked\f + \fr 78:57 \ft Or “deceitful” \f* bow.
\q1 
\v 58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places,
\q1 and made him jealous with their images.
\q1 
\v 59 God heard and he was very angry
\q1 and rejected Israel utterly.
\q1 
\v 60 So he abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
\q1 \add the\add* tent he had placed among humankind.
\q1 
\v 61 And he gave his strength into captivity
\q1 and his splendor into \add the\add* hand of \add the\add* enemy.
\q1 
\v 62 He also handed his people over to the sword,
\q1 and he was very angry with his inheritance.
\q1 
\v 63 Fire devoured his young men,
\q1 and his young women\f + \fr 78:63 \ft Or “virgins” \f* were not praised.
\q1 
\v 64 His priests fell by the sword,
\q1 and his widows did not weep.
\q1 
\v 65 Then the Lord awoke like \add one who had been\add* asleep,
\q1 \add awoke\add* like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.\f + \fr 78:65 \ft Or “like a warrior shouting because of wine” \f*
\q1 
\v 66 And he beat back his enemies;
\q1 he gave them over to perpetual scorn.
\q1 
\v 67 And he rejected the tent of Joseph,
\q1 and did not chose the tribe of Ephraim,
\q1 
\v 68 but chose the tribe of Judah,
\q1 ⸤Mount Zion⸥\f + \fr 78:68 \ft Literally “the mountain of Zion” \f* that he loved.
\q1 
\v 69 And he built his sanctuary like \add the\add* heights,
\q1 like \add the\add* earth that he established forever.
\q1 
\v 70 And he chose David his servant
\q1 and took him from \add the\add* sheepfolds.
\q1 
\v 71 He brought him from following nursing ewes
\q1 to shepherd Jacob, his people,
\q1 and Israel, his inheritance.
\q1 
\v 72 And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,
\q1 and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.
\c 79
\cl Psalm 79
\s1 A Lament for Jerusalem after Its Destruction
\d A psalm of Asaph.\f + \fr Ps 79 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God, \add the\add* nations have entered your inheritance;
\q1 they have defiled your holy temple;
\q1 they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
\q1 
\v 2 They have given the bodies of your servants
\q1 as food for the birds of the heavens,
\q1 the flesh of your faithful to \add the\add* beasts of \add the\add* earth.
\q1 
\v 3 They have poured out their blood like water
\q1 all around Jerusalem,
\q1 and there was none to bury \add them\add*.
\q1 
\v 4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
\q1 a derision and a scorn to those around us.
\q1 
\v 5 How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever?
\q1 Will your jealousy burn like fire?
\q1 
\v 6 Pour out your anger on the nations
\q1 that do not know you,
\q1 and on \add the\add* kingdoms
\q1 that do not call on your name,
\q1 
\v 7 because they\f + \fr 79:7 \ft Hebrew “he” \f* have devoured Jacob
\q1 and have laid waste his habitation.
\q1 
\v 8 Do not remember against us former iniquities;
\q1 let your mercies meet us quickly
\q1 because we are brought very low.
\q1 
\v 9 Help us, O God of our salvation,
\q1 for the glory of your name;
\q1 and deliver us and forgive\f + \fr 79:9 \ft Hebrew “make atonement for” \f* our sins
\q1 for the sake of your name.
\q1 
\v 10 Why should the nations say,
\q1 “Where \add is\add* their God?”
\q1 Let it\f + \fr 79:10 \ft That is, God’s name \f* be known among the nations before our eyes,
\q1 \add by\add* the avenging of the blood of your servants
\q1 that was poured out.
\q1 
\v 11 Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you.
\q1 According to the greatness of your ⸤power⸥,\f + \fr 79:11 \ft Literally “arm” \f*
\q1 spare\f + \fr 79:11 \ft Or “leave a remnant of” \f* \add the\add* children \add appointed to\add* death.
\q1 
\v 12 And return to our neighbors sevenfold ⸤upon them⸥\f + \fr 79:12 \ft Hebrew “into their bosom” \f*
\q1 their taunts \add with\add* which they taunted you, O Lord.
\q1 
\v 13 Then we, your people and the flock of your pasture,
\q1 we will give thanks to you forever.
\q1 ⸤Generation after generation⸥\f + \fr 79:13 \ft Literally “to a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 we will tell of your praise.
\c 80
\cl Psalm 80
\s1 A Prayer to Restore Israel
\d For the \add music\add* director, according to \add The\add* Lilies.
\q1 A testimony. Of Asaph. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 80 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Give ear, O shepherd of Israel,
\q1 \add who\add* leads Joseph like a flock.
\q1 Shine forth, \add you who\add* sits \add enthroned above\add* the cherubim.
\q1 
\v 2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh,
\q1 stir up your power
\q1 and come for our salvation.
\q1 
\v 3 O God, restore us,
\q1 and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.
\q1 
\v 4 O Yahweh God \add of\add* hosts,
\q1 ⸤how long will you be angry⸥\f + \fr 80:4 \ft Literally “until when \fq your anger \ft smoke” \f*
\q1 against the prayer of your people?
\q1 
\v 5 You have fed them \add the\add* bread of tears;
\q1 you have given them tears to drink in full measure.\f + \fr 80:5 \ft The Hebrew “threefold” or “a third of a measure” is difficult \f*
\q1 
\v 6 You have made us \add an object of\add* strife to our neighbors,
\q1 and our enemies mock among themselves.
\q1 
\v 7 O God \add of\add* hosts, restore us
\q1 and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.
\q1 
\v 8 You uprooted a vine from Egypt;
\q1 you drove out \add the\add* nations and planted it.
\q1 
\v 9 You prepared \add a place\add* before it,
\q1 and ⸤it took deep root⸥\f + \fr 80:9 \ft Literally “its root rooted” \f* and filled \add the\add* land.
\q1 
\v 10 \add The\add* mountains were covered with its shade,
\q1 and \add the\add* mighty cedars \add with\add* its boughs.
\q1 
\v 11 It spread its branches to \add the\add* sea
\q1 and its shoots to \add the\add* river.
\q1 
\v 12 Why have you broken down its walls,
\q1 so that all \add who\add* pass on \add the\add* road pluck \add fruit from\add* it?
\q1 
\v 13 Swine from the forests devour\f + \fr 80:13 \ft Hebrew “devours” \f* it
\q1 and creatures of \add the\add* field feed on it.
\q1 
\v 14 Please return, O God \add of\add* hosts.
\q1 Observe from heaven and see,
\q1 and pay attention to this vine,
\q1 
\v 15 even\add the\add* stalk that your right hand planted,
\q1 and concerning \add the\add* shoot\f + \fr 80:15 \ft Hebrew “son” \f* you strengthened for yourself.
\q1 
\v 16 \add It is\add* burned with fire, cut down.
\q1 They perish at the rebuke of your face.
\q1 
\v 17 Let your hand be on the man of your right hand,
\q1 on \add the\add* son of humankind \add whom\add* you made strong for yourself.
\q1 
\v 18 Then we will not turn back from you.
\q1 Restore us to life, and we will proclaim your name.
\q1 
\v 19 O Yahweh God \add of\add* hosts, restore us;
\q1 cause your face to shine that we may be saved.
\c 81
\cl Psalm 81
\s1 An Appeal from God to Israel
\d For the \add music\add* director; on the Gittith. Of Asaph.\f + \fr Ps 81 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Shout out to God our strength;
\q1 shout joyfully to the God of Jacob.
\q1 
\v 2 Lift up a song and strike\f + \fr 81:2 \ft Hebrew “give” \f* \add the\add* tambourine,
\q1 \add the\add* pleasant lyre, together with \add the\add* harp.
\q1 
\v 3 Blow \add the\add* horn at new moon,
\q1 at full moon, for our feast day,
\q1 
\v 4 because it \add is\add* a statute for Israel,
\q1 an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
\q1 
\v 5 He made it a statute\f + \fr 81:5 \ft Hebrew “testimony” or “witness” \f* in Joseph
\q1 when he went out against the land of Egypt,
\q1 \add where\add* I heard a language I did not know.\f + \fr 81:5 \ft The meaning of this line is uncertain. The above is based on perhaps a similar thought in \xt Psa 114:1 \ft \f*
\q1 
\v 6 “I removed his shoulder from a burden.
\q1 His hands were freed from \add the\add* basket.
\q1 
\v 7 In this\f + \fr 81:7 \ft Hebrew “the” \f* trouble you called, and I rescued you.
\q1 Within \add the\add* secret place of thunder I answered you;
\q1 I tested you at the waters of Meribah. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 8 Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you;
\q1 O Israel, if you would \add but\add* listen to me.
\q1 
\v 9 There shall be no strange god among you,
\q1 and you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
\q1 
\v 10 I \add am\add* Yahweh your God,
\q1 who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
\q1 Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
\q1 
\v 11 But my people did not listen to my voice,
\q1 and Israel did not yield to me.
\q1 
\v 12 So I let them\f + \fr 81:12 \ft Hebrew “him” \f* go in the stubbornness of their heart;
\q1 they walked in their counsels.
\q1 
\v 13 Oh that my people would listen to me;
\q1 \add that\add* Israel would walk in my ways.
\q1 
\v 14 I would subdue their enemies quickly,
\q1 and turn my hand against their adversaries.
\q1 
\v 15 Those who hate Yahweh would cringe before him,
\q1 and their fate\f + \fr 81:15 \ft Hebrew “time” \f* would be forever.
\q1 
\v 16 But he would feed him\f + \fr 81:16 \ft That is, Israel \f* from \add the\add* choicest wheat,\f + \fr 81:16 \ft Hebrew “\fq the \ft fat of wheat” \f*
\q1 and I would satisfy you with honey from a rock.”
\c 82
\cl Psalm 82
\s1 God Commands Justice
\d A psalm of Asaph.\f + \fr Ps 82 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 God stands in the divine assembly;\f + \fr 82:1 \ft Or “assembly of \fqa El \ft ” \f*
\q1 he administers judgment in the midst of \add the\add* gods.\f + \fr 82:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa elohim \ft  \f*
\q1 
\v 2 “How long will you judge unjustly
\q1 and ⸤show favoritism to the wicked⸥?\f + \fr 82:2 \ft Literally “lift up the faces of the wicked” \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 3 Judge \add on behalf of the\add* helpless and \add the\add* orphan;
\q1 provide justice \add to the\add* afflicted and \add the\add* poor.
\q1 
\v 4 Rescue \add the\add* helpless and \add the\add* needy;
\q1 deliver \add them\add* from the hand of \add the\add* wicked.”
\q1 
\v 5 They do not know or consider.\f + \fr 82:5 \ft Or “understand” \f*
\q1 They go about in the darkness,
\q1 \add so that\add* all \add the\add* foundations of \add the\add* earth are shaken.
\q1 
\v 6 I have said,\f + \fr 82:6 \ft Hebrew “I, I have said” \f* “You \add are\add* gods,
\q1 and sons of the Most High, all of you.
\q1 
\v 7 However, you will die like men,\f + \fr 82:7 \ft Singular \f*
\q1 and you will fall like one of the princes.”
\q1 
\v 8 Rise up, O God, judge the earth,
\q1 because you shall inherit\f + \fr 82:8 \ft Or “receive an inheritance” \f* all the nations.
\c 83
\cl Psalm 83
\s1 A Request to Act against Israel’s Neighbors
\d A song. A psalm of Asaph.\f + \fr Ps 83 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God, do not rest \add silently\add*.
\q1 Do not keep silent or be still, O God.
\q1 
\v 2 For look, your enemies roar,
\q1 and those who hate you have lifted \add their\add* head.
\q1 
\v 3 They devise cunning schemes\f + \fr 83:3 \ft Hebrew “scheme” \f* against your people,
\q1 and consult together against your protected ones.\f + \fr 83:3 \ft Or “your treasured ones” \f*
\q1 
\v 4 They say, “Come, let us annihilate them from \add being\add* a nation,
\q1 so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
\q1 
\v 5 For they have consulted together ⸤with a unified purpose⸥.\f + \fr 83:5 \ft Literally “with a heart together” \f*
\q1 They have made a covenant against you:
\q1 
\v 6 the tents of Edom and \add the\add* Ishmaelites,
\q1 Moab and \add the\add* Hagrites,
\q1 
\v 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
\q1 Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
\q1 
\v 8 Assyria also has joined with them.
\q1 They ⸤provide help⸥\f + \fr 83:8 \ft Literally “they have become an arm for” \f* to the children of Lot. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 9 Do to them as \add you did with\add* Midian,
\q1 as \add with\add* Sisera, as \add with\add* Jabin at the wadi of Kishon.
\q1 
\v 10 They were destroyed at En-dor;
\q1 they became dung for the ground.
\q1 
\v 11 Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb,
\q1 and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna,
\q1 
\v 12 who said, “Let us take \add as\add* our possession
\q1 the pastures of God.”
\q1 
\v 13 O my God, make them like the tumbleweed,
\q1 like the chaff before wind.
\q1 
\v 14 As fire burns a forest,
\q1 and as a flame sets afire mountains,
\q1 
\v 15 so pursue them with your tempest
\q1 and terrify them with your storm.
\q1 
\v 16 Fill their faces with shame,
\q1 that they may seek your name, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 17 Let them be ashamed and terrified forever,
\q1 and let them be humiliated and perish
\q1 
\v 18 that they may know that you,
\q1 \add whose\add* name \add is\add* Yahweh, you alone,
\q1 \add are the\add* Most High over the whole earth.
\c 84
\cl Psalm 84
\s1 The Joy of Worshiping in the Temple
\d For the \add music\add* director; on the Gittith.
\q1 Of the sons of Korah. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 84 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 How lovely \add are\add* your dwelling places,
\q1 O Yahweh of hosts!
\q1 
\v 2 My soul longs and even fails
\q1 for the courtyards of Yahweh.
\q1 My heart and flesh sing for joy
\q1 to the living God.
\q1 
\v 3 Even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself,
\q1 where she may lay her young,
\q1 near your altars, O Yahweh \add of\add* hosts,
\q1 my king and my God.
\q1 
\v 4 Blessed \add are\add* those who dwell in your house;\f + \fr 84:4 \ft Or “temple” \f*
\q1 they can ever praise you. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 Blessed \add is the\add* man whose strength \add is\add* in you;
\q1 in their heart \add are the\add* highways \add to Zion\add*.
\q1 
\v 6 Passing through the Valley of Baca,\f + \fr 84:6 \ft Or “Valley of Weeping” \f*
\q1 they make it a spring.
\q1 The early rain covers \add it with\add* blessings\f + \fr 84:6 \ft A change in vocalization of the Hebrew yields “\fq it with \ft pools” \f* as well.
\q1 
\v 7 They go from strength to strength,
\q1 \add until each\add* appears before God in Zion.\f + \fr 84:7 \ft Or “the God of gods will be seen in Zion” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 O Yahweh, God of hosts, hear my prayer;
\q1 give ear, O God of Jacob. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 9 Look at our shield, O God,
\q1 and have regard for the face of your anointed one.
\q1 
\v 10 Because better \add is\add* a day in your courtyards
\q1 than a thousand \add elsewhere\add*.
\q1 I would rather be at the threshold of the house\f + \fr 84:10 \ft Or “temple” \f* of my God
\q1 than to dwell in \add the\add* tents of wickedness.
\q1 
\v 11 Because Yahweh God \add is\add* a sun and a shield;
\q1 Yahweh gives grace and honor.
\q1 He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly.
\q1 
\v 12 O Yahweh \add of\add* hosts,
\q1 blessed \add is the\add* man who trusts you.
\c 85
\cl Psalm 85
\s1 Hope in God’s Future Help
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 85 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, you favored your land.
\q1 You restored the fortunes\f + \fr 85:1 \ft Or “captivity” \f* of Jacob.
\q1 
\v 2 You took away the guilt\f + \fr 85:2 \ft Or “You forgave the iniquity” \f* of your people;
\q1 you covered all their sin. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 3 You withdrew all your wrath;
\q1 you turned from your burning anger.
\q1 
\v 4 Restore us, O God of our salvation,
\q1 and annul your vexation with us.
\q1 
\v 5 Will you be angry against us forever?
\q1 Will you prolong your anger generation after generation?
\q1 
\v 6 Will you not again revive us,
\q1 that your people might rejoice in you?
\q1 
\v 7 Show us, O Yahweh, your loyal love,
\q1 and grant us your salvation.
\q1 
\v 8 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak,
\q1 because he will speak peace
\q1 to his people, even his faithful \add ones\add*,\f + \fr 85:8 \ft Hebrew “and to his faithful” \f*
\q1 but let them not return to folly.
\q1 
\v 9 Surely his salvation \add is\add* near for those who fear him,
\q1 that glory may abide in our land.
\q1 
\v 10 Loyal love and faithfulness\f + \fr 85:10 \ft Or “truth” \f* will meet one another;
\q1 righteousness and peace will kiss.
\q1 
\v 11 Faithfulness\f + \fr 85:11 \ft Or “Truth” \f* will sprout from \add the\add* ground,
\q1 and righteousness will look down from heaven.
\q1 
\v 12 Yes, Yahweh will give \add what is\add* good,
\q1 and our land will give its produce.
\q1 
\v 13 Righteousness will go before him,
\q1 and it will make his steps a pathway.
\c 86
\cl Psalm 86
\s1 A Prayer for Help against Ruthless Men
\d A prayer of David.\f + \fr Ps 86 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Incline, O Yahweh, your ear \add and\add* answer me,
\q1 because I \add am\add* poor and needy.
\q1 
\v 2 Watch over my life because I \add am\add* faithful.
\q1 You \add are\add* my God; save your servant.
\q1 \add I am\add* the one who trusts you.
\q1 
\v 3 Be gracious to me, O Lord,
\q1 because I call to you ⸤all day long⸥.\f + \fr 86:3 \ft Literally “all the day” \f*
\q1 
\v 4 Make glad the soul of your servant,
\q1 because ⸤I desire you⸥,\f + \fr 86:4 \ft Literally “I lift up my soul to you” \f* O Lord.
\q1 
\v 5 For you, O Lord, \add are\add* good and forgiving,
\q1 and abundant in loyal love\f + \fr 86:5 \ft Hebrew “and great with respect to loyal love” \f* for all who call to you.
\q1 
\v 6 Heed, O Yahweh, my prayer,
\q1 and attend to the voice of my supplications.
\q1 
\v 7 In the day of my trouble I call to you,
\q1 because you answer me.
\q1 
\v 8 There is none like you among the gods, O Lord,
\q1 and there are no works like yours.
\q1 
\v 9 All \add the\add* nations that you have made will come
\q1 and bow down\f + \fr 86:9 \ft Or “worship” \f* before you, O Lord,
\q1 and glorify your name.
\q1 
\v 10 For you \add are\add* great and doing wondrous things;
\q1 you alone \add are\add* God.
\q1 
\v 11 Teach me, O Yahweh, your way,
\q1 \add that\add* I may walk in your truth.
\q1 Unite my heart\f + \fr 86:11 \ft That is, give singleness of heart \f* to fear your name.
\q1 
\v 12 I will give you thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart,
\q1 and glorify your name forever,
\q1 
\v 13 because your loyal love \add is\add* great toward me,
\q1 and you will have delivered my life from Sheol\f + \fr 86:13 \ft The nether world, the place of departed spirits. \f* below.
\q1 
\v 14 O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,
\q1 even a gang of ruthless men seek my life,
\q1 but they do not set you before them.\f + \fr 86:14 \ft That is, they do not factor God into their actions \f*
\q1 
\v 15 But you, O Lord, \add are\add* a compassionate and gracious God,
\q1 ⸤slow to anger⸥\f + \fr 86:15 \ft Literally “long of nostrils” \f* and abundant in loyal love and faithfulness.
\q1 
\v 16 Turn to me and be gracious to me.
\q1 Give your strength to your servant,
\q1 and grant victory to the son\f + \fr 86:16 \ft Or “Save the son” \f* of your maidservant.
\q1 
\v 17 Do a sign \add that\add* benefits me,
\q1 that those who hate me may see and be put to shame,
\q1 because you, O Yahweh, have helped me and comforted me.
\c 87
\cl Psalm 87
\s1 Foreign Nations Come to Worship in Jerusalem
\d Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. A song.\f + \fr Ps 87 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 His foundation \add is\add* on \add the\add* holy mountains.
\q1 
\v 2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion
\q1 more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
\q1 
\v 3 Glorious things \add are\add* spoken about\f + \fr 87:3 \ft Or “in” \f* you,
\q1 O city of God. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 4 I will record\f + \fr 87:4 \ft Or “mention” \f* those who know me
\q1 \add in\add* Rahab\f + \fr 87:4 \ft That is, Egypt; compare \xt Isa 30:7 \ft \f* and Babylon,
\q1 behold \add in\add* Philistia and Tyre with Cush,
\q1 “This one was born there.”
\q1 
\v 5 But with respect to Zion it shall be said,
\q1 “⸤Each one⸥\f + \fr 87:5 \ft Literally “A man and a man” \f* was born in her,”
\q1 for the Most High himself will establish her.
\q1 
\v 6 Yahweh will record in writing \add the\add* peoples,
\q1 “This \add one\add* was born there.” \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 7 And while dancing, singers \add will sing\add*,
\q1 “All my springs \add are\add* in you.”
\c 88
\cl Psalm 88
\s1 A Prayer for Help in Despair
\d A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
\q1 For the \add music\add* director; according to Mahalath Leannoth.
\q1 A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.\f + \fr Ps 88 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, God of my salvation,
\q1 I cry out by day \add and\add* through the night before you.
\q1 
\v 2 Let my prayer come before you;
\q1 incline your ear to my cry.
\q1 
\v 3 For my soul is full with troubles,
\q1 and my life approaches Sheol.
\q1 
\v 4 I am reckoned with \add those\add* descending to \add the\add* pit.
\q1 I am like a man\f + \fr 88:4 \ft The Hebrew suggests a strong, vigorous man \f* without strength,\f + \fr 88:4 \ft Or “without help” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 set free\f + \fr 88:5 \ft Or “forsaken” \f* among the dead,
\q1 like \add the\add* slain lying in \add the\add* grave,
\q1 whom you no longer remember,
\q1 even those cut off from your hand.
\q1 
\v 6 You have set me in \add the\add* pit below,
\q1 in dark places, in \add the\add* depths.
\q1 
\v 7 Your wrath presses upon me,
\q1 and you afflict \add me with\add* all your waves. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 8 You have removed my acquaintances far from me.
\q1 You have made me detestable\f + \fr 88:8 \ft Hebrew “an abomination” \f* to them.
\q1 \add I am\add* confined and cannot go out.
\q1 
\v 9 My eye languishes from misery.
\q1 I call on you, O Yahweh, every day;
\q1 I spread out my hands\f + \fr 88:9 \ft Hebrew “palms” \f* to you.
\q1 
\v 10 Do you work wonders\f + \fr 88:10 \ft Hebrew “wonder” \f* for the dead?
\q1 Or do \add the\add* departed spirits\f + \fr 88:10 \ft Hebrew \fqa rephaim \ft , sometimes translated “shades”; the weakened state of those who have died \f* rise up \add to\add* praise you? \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 11 Is your loyal love told in the grave,
\q1 \add or\add* your faithfulness in the underworld?\f + \fr 88:11 \ft Hebrew \fqa abaddon \ft , the place of destruction \f*
\q1 
\v 12 Are your wonders\f + \fr 88:12 \ft Hebrew “wonder” \f* known in the darkness,
\q1 \add or\add* your righteousness\f + \fr 88:12 \ft Or “deed of justice” \f* in \add the\add* land of forgetfulness?
\q1 
\v 13 But as for me, I cry for help to you, O Yahweh,
\q1 and in the morning my prayer comes before you.
\q1 
\v 14 Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh?
\q1 \add Why\add* do you hide your face from me?
\q1 
\v 15 I \add am\add* afflicted and perishing from \add my\add* youth.
\q1 I bear your terrors. I am distraught.\f + \fr 88:15 \ft Hebrew meaning uncertain \f*
\q1 
\v 16 Your burning anger has passed over me;
\q1 your sudden fears have destroyed me.
\q1 
\v 17 They surround me like water all the day;
\q1 they circle about me altogether.
\q1 
\v 18 You have removed loved one and friend far from me,
\q1 my acquaintances \add far from my\add* darkness.
\c 89
\cl Psalm 89
\s1 Remembering the Covenant with David, and Sorrow for Lost Blessings
\d A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.\f + \fr Ps 89 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I will sing forever of Yahweh’s acts of loyal love.
\q1 ⸤From generation to generation⸥\f + \fr 89:1 \ft Literally “To a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth.
\q1 
\v 2 For I say, “Forever \add your\add* loyal love is built up.
\q1 \add The\add* heavens you have established \add with\add* your faithfulness in them.”
\q1 
\v 3 “I made a covenant with my chosen one;
\q1 I swore \add an oath\add* to David my servant:
\q1 
\v 4 ‘I will establish your descendants forever,
\q1 and I will build up your throne ⸤from generation to generation⸥.’ ”\f + \fr 89:4 \ft Literally “To a generation and a generation” \f* \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 5 And \add so the\add* heavens will praise your wonderful deed, O Yahweh,
\q1 even your faithfulness, in \add the\add* assembly of \add the\add* holy ones.
\q1 
\v 6 For who in the sky\f + \fr 89:6 \ft Hebrew singular collective “clouds” \f* is equal to Yahweh?
\q1 \add Who is\add* like Yahweh among the sons of God,
\q1 
\v 7 a God feared greatly in the council of \add the\add* holy ones,
\q1 and awesome above all surrounding him?
\q1 
\v 8 O Yahweh God \add of\add* hosts,
\q1 who \add is\add* mighty like you, O Yah,
\q1 with\f + \fr 89:8 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* your faithfulness surrounding you?
\q1 
\v 9 You are ruling the surging of the sea.
\q1 When its waves rise, ⸤you yourself still⸥\f + \fr 89:9 \ft Literally “you, you calm” \f* them.
\q1 
\v 10 ⸤You yourself crushed⸥\f + \fr 89:10 \ft Literally “You, you crushed” \f* Rahab like one \add who is\add* slain;
\q1 you scattered your enemies with your strong arm.
\q1 
\v 11 \add The\add* heavens are yours, \add the\add* earth yours as well,
\q1 \add the\add* world with its fullness, \add because\add* you founded them.
\q1 
\v 12 North and south, you created them;
\q1 Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name.
\q1 
\v 13 You have a mighty arm;
\q1 Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high.
\q1 
\v 14 Righteousness and justice \add are\add* the foundation of your throne.
\q1 Loyal love and faithfulness\f + \fr 89:14 \ft Or “truth” \f* come before your face.\f + \fr 89:14 \ft That is, enjoy continual access \f*
\q1 
\v 15 Blessed \add are\add* the people who know \add the\add* joyful shout;
\q1 O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.
\q1 
\v 16 In your name they rejoice all the day,
\q1 and in your righteousness they rise up.
\q1 
\v 17 For you \add are\add* the glory of their strength,
\q1 and by your favor our horn rises up,\f + \fr 89:17 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ). The \fqa Kethib \ft reads “you exalt our horn” \f*
\q1 
\v 18 because our shield belongs to Yahweh,\f + \fr 89:18 \ft Or “Yahweh \fq is \ft our shield.” \f*
\q1 and our king to the Holy One of Israel.\f + \fr 89:18 \ft Or “The Holy One of Israel \fq is \ft our king.” \f*
\q1 
\v 19 Formerly you spoke in a vision
\q1 to your faithful ones, and said,
\q1 “I have bestowed help on a mighty man;
\q1 I have exalted one chosen from \add the\add* people.
\q1 
\v 20 I have found David, my servant.
\q1 With my holy oil I have anointed him,
\q1 
\v 21 with whom my hand will be steadfast.
\q1 Surely my arm will strengthen him.
\q1 
\v 22 \add The\add* enemy will not deceive him,
\q1 and no ⸤evil man⸥\f + \fr 89:22 \ft Literally “a son of wickedness” \f* will afflict him.
\q1 
\v 23 But I will crush his adversaries before him,
\q1 and I will strike those who hate him.
\q1 
\v 24 And \add so\add* my faithfulness
\q1 and my loyal love \add will be\add* with him,
\q1 and in my name his horn will rise up.
\q1 
\v 25 And I will set his hand on the sea
\q1 and his right hand on the rivers.
\q1 
\v 26 He will call out \add to\add* me, ‘You \add are\add* my Father,
\q1 my God, and the rock of my salvation.’
\q1 
\v 27 I will also make him \add the\add* firstborn,
\q1 \add the\add* highest of \add the\add* kings of \add the\add* earth.
\q1 
\v 28 Forever I will keep my loyal love for him,
\q1 and my covenant \add will be\add* reliable for him.
\q1 
\v 29 I will also establish his offspring forever,
\q1 and his throne as \add the\add* days of \add the\add* heavens.
\q1 
\v 30 If his sons forsake my law
\q1 and do not walk in my judgments,
\q1 
\v 31 if they defile\f + \fr 89:31 \ft Hebrew “profane; treat as common” \f* my statutes
\q1 and do not keep my commandments,
\q1 
\v 32 then I will punish their transgression with \add a\add* rod,
\q1 and their guilt with wounds.
\q1 
\v 33 But I will not break off my loyal love from him,
\q1 and I will not be false against my faithfulness.
\q1 
\v 34 I will not defile\f + \fr 89:34 \ft Hebrew “profane; treat as common” \f* my covenant,
\q1 or alter what proceeded from my lips.
\q1 
\v 35 Once\f + \fr 89:35 \ft Hebrew “One” \f* I have sworn by my holiness,
\q1 ‘I will surely not lie to David,
\q1 
\v 36 His offspring will endure\f + \fr 89:36 \ft Hebrew “be” \f* forever,
\q1 and his throne as the sun before me.
\q1 
\v 37 Like \add the\add* moon it will be steadfast forever,
\q1 and \add like\add* an enduring witness in the sky.’ ” \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 38 But you have spurned and rejected;
\q1 you are very angry with your anointed one.
\q1 
\v 39 You have repudiated the covenant with your servant;
\q1 you have defiled\f + \fr 89:39 \ft Hebrew “profane; treat as common” \f* his crown in\f + \fr 89:39 \ft Hebrew “to” \f* the dirt.
\q1 
\v 40 You have broken down all his walls;
\q1 you have made his fortifications a ruin.
\q1 
\v 41 All passing along \add the\add* road plunder him;
\q1 he has become a taunt to his neighbors.
\q1 
\v 42 You have raised the right hand\f + \fr 89:42 \ft That is, given them victory \f* of his adversaries.
\q1 You have made all his enemies rejoice.
\q1 
\v 43 You have also turned back the edge of his sword
\q1 and have not helped him stand \add his ground\add* in the battle.
\q1 
\v 44 You have made his splendor to cease,
\q1 and cast his throne to the ground.
\q1 
\v 45 You have cut short the days of his youth;
\q1 you have covered him with shame. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 46 How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever?
\q1 Will your wrath burn like fire \add forever\add*?
\q1 
\v 47 Remember what my lifespan \add is\add*.
\q1 \add Remember\add* for what vanity
\q1 you have created all \add the\add* children of humankind.
\q1 
\v 48 What man can live \add on\add* and not see death?
\q1 Can he deliver his life from the ⸤power⸥\f + \fr 89:48 \ft Literally “hand”” \f* of Sheol? \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 49 Where \add are\add* your former acts of loyal love, O Lord,
\q1 \add that\add* you swore to David by your faithfulness?
\q1 
\v 50 Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants,
\q1 \add how\add* I bear in my bosom \add the taunts of\add* all \add the\add* many peoples,
\q1 
\v 51 \add by\add* which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh,
\q1 \add by\add* which they taunt the steps of your anointed one.
\q1 
\v 52 Blessed be Yahweh forever.
\q1 Amen and Amen.
\c 90
\cl Psalm 90
\s1 God’s Eternity and Human Frailty
\d A prayer of Moses, the man of God.\f + \fr Ps 90 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Lord, you have been our help\f + \fr 90:1 \ft Or “dwelling place” \f* ⸤in all generations⸥.\f + \fr 90:1 \ft Literally “in a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 Before \add the\add* mountains were born
\q1 and you brought forth \add the\add* earth and \add the\add* world,
\q1 even from everlasting to everlasting, you \add are\add* God.
\q1 
\v 3 You return man to \add the\add* dust,
\q1 ⸤saying⸥,\f + \fr 90:3 \ft Literally “and you say” \f* “Return, O sons of man.”
\q1 
\v 4 For a thousand years in your eyes
\q1 \add are\add* like yesterday when it passes,
\q1 or \add like\add* a watch in the night.
\q1 
\v 5 You sweep them away \add like a flood\add*.
\q1 They fall asleep.\f + \fr 90:5 \ft The interpretation of 5a is difficult \f*
\q1 In the morning \add they are\add* like grass \add that\add* sprouts anew.
\q1 
\v 6 In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew;
\q1 by evening it withers and dries up.
\q1 
\v 7 For we are brought to an end by your anger,
\q1 and we hasten \add off\add*\f + \fr 90:7 \ft Or “we are terrified” \f* by your wrath.
\q1 
\v 8 You have put our iniquities before you,
\q1 our hidden \add sins\add* into the light of your countenance.
\q1 
\v 9 For all of our days dwindle away in your rage;
\q1 we complete our years like a sigh.
\q1 
\v 10 As for the days of our years, within them \add are\add* seventy years
\q1 or if by strength eighty years, and their pride\f + \fr 90:10 \ft Or “span” \f* \add is\add* trouble and disaster,
\q1 for it passes quickly and we fly \add away\add*.
\q1 
\v 11 Who knows the strength of your anger,
\q1 and your rage consistent with\f + \fr 90:11 \ft Hebrew “according to” \f* \add the\add* fear due you?
\q1 
\v 12 So teach \add us\add* to number our days
\q1 that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
\q1 
\v 13 Return,\f + \fr 90:13 \ft Or “Turn back \fq your wrath \ft ” \f* O Yahweh. How long?
\q1 And have compassion on\f + \fr 90:13 \ft Or “change your mind concerning” \f* your servants.
\q1 
\v 14 Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love,
\q1 that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
\q1 
\v 15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
\q1 \add for as many\add* years \add as\add* we have seen calamity.
\q1 
\v 16 Let your work be visible to your servants,
\q1 and your majesty to their children.
\q1 
\v 17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us,
\q1 and establish for us the work of our hands,
\q1 yes, the work of our hands, establish it.
\c 91
\cl Psalm 91
\s1 God’s Protection in Times of Crisis
\q1 
\v 1 \add One who\add* lives in the secret place\f + \fr 91:1 \ft Or “shelter” \f* of the Most High
\q1 will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai.\f + \fr 91:1 \ft Often translated “the Almighty,” this is perhaps better understood as “\fq God of the \ft Mountain” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 I will say to Yahweh, “\add You are\add* my refuge and my fortress,
\q1 my God \add in whom\add* I trust.”
\q1 
\v 3 For he will deliver\f + \fr 91:3 \ft Hebrew “he, he will deliver” is perhaps emphatic, “He will certainly deliver” \f* you from \add the\add* snare of \add the\add* fowler,
\q1 from \add the\add* plague of destruction.
\q1 
\v 4 With his feathers he will cover you,
\q1 and under his wings you can take refuge.
\q1 His faithfulness \add will be\add* a shield and a buckler.\f + \fr 91:4 \ft That is, a small, round shield, or perhaps a surrounding bulwark \f*
\q1 
\v 5 You need not fear \add the\add* terror of \add the\add* night,
\q1 \add or the\add* arrow \add that\add* flies by day,
\q1 
\v 6 \add or the\add* plague \add that\add* spreads in the darkness,
\q1 \add or the\add* destruction \add that\add* devastates at noon.
\q1 
\v 7 A thousand may fall at your side,
\q1 and ten thousand at your right \add hand\add*,
\q1 \add but\add* it will not come near you.
\q1 
\v 8 You will only look with your eyes,
\q1 and see \add the\add* punishment of \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 
\v 9 For you, O Yahweh, \add are\add* my refuge.
\q1 You have made the Most High your dwelling place.\f + \fr 91:9 \ft This is the most straightforward translation of the Hebrew, though the “you” of each line would refer to a different person. A more unusual rendering would be “Because Yahweh, my refuge, even the Most High, you have made your dwelling place …” \f*
\q1 
\v 10 No harm will befall you,
\q1 and no plague will come near your tent.
\q1 
\v 11 For he will command his angels concerning you,
\q1 to watch over you in all your ways.
\q1 
\v 12 In \add their\add* hands they will bear you up,
\q1 lest you strike your foot against a stone.
\q1 
\v 13 You will tread on lion and viper;
\q1 you will trample young lion and serpent.
\q1 
\v 14 Because he loves me, therefore I will deliver him;
\q1 I will protect\f + \fr 91:14 \ft The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress \f* him because he knows my name.
\q1 
\v 15 He will call upon me and I will answer him;
\q1 I \add will be\add* with him in trouble;
\q1 I will rescue and honor him.
\q1 
\v 16 \add With\add* ⸤long life⸥\f + \fr 91:16 \ft Literally “a length of days” \f* I will satisfy him,
\q1 and show him my salvation.
\c 92
\cl Psalm 92
\s1 Thanksgiving to Yahweh for Victory
\d A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day.\f + \fr Ps 92 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 \add It is\add* good to give thanks to Yahweh,
\q1 and to sing praise concerning your name, O Most High;
\q1 
\v 2 to declare in the morning your loyal love
\q1 and your faithfulness in the night,
\q1 
\v 3 on \add the\add* ten \add string\add*, and on \add the\add* harp,
\q1 with a melody on \add the\add* lyre.
\q1 
\v 4 For you, O Yahweh, have made me glad by your work;
\q1 by the deeds of your hands I sing for joy.
\q1 
\v 5 How great are your deeds, O Yahweh;
\q1 \add how\add* very deep are your thoughts.
\q1 
\v 6 \add The\add* brutish man does not know,
\q1 and \add the\add* fool cannot understand this.
\q1 
\v 7 When the wicked flourish like grass
\q1 and all \add the\add* workers of evil blossom,
\q1 \add it is\add* so they can be destroyed forever.
\q1 
\v 8 But you \add are\add* on high forever, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 9 For behold, your enemies, O Yahweh,
\q1 for behold, your enemies will perish.
\q1 All \add the\add* workers of evil will be scattered.
\q1 
\v 10 But you have exalted my horn like \add that of\add* a wild ox;
\q1 you have anointed me\f + \fr 92:10 \ft The Hebrew’s “\fq that \ft I have moistened with fresh oil” seems unlikely. The above translation presupposes the loss of a letter in the Hebrew textual tradition (\fqa ballotani \ft for the MT’s \fqa balloti \ft ) \f* with fresh oil.
\q1 
\v 11 And \add so\add* my eye looks on my enemies.\f + \fr 92:11 \ft This word for “enemies” suggests those watching for any advantage \f*
\q1 My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me.
\q1 
\v 12 \add The\add* righteous\f + \fr 92:12 \ft Hebrew singular, but used as a collective. The verbs of this verse are also singular \f* will flourish like the date palm.
\q1 They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
\q1 
\v 13 Planted in the house\f + \fr 92:13 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh,
\q1 they will flourish in the courts of our God.
\q1 
\v 14 They will still prosper in old age.
\q1 They will be fat and luxuriant,\f + \fr 92:14 \ft This is the same word used of the oil in v. \xt 11 \ft and translated “fresh” \f*
\q1 
\v 15 to declare that Yahweh \add is\add* upright.
\q1 \add He is\add* my rock, and \add there is\add* no injustice\f + \fr 92:15 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* in him.
\c 93
\cl Psalm 93
\s1 Yahweh Is King Over All the Earth
\q1 
\v 1 Yahweh is king; he clothes himself with majesty.
\q1 Yahweh clothes himself; he girds himself with might.
\q1 Yes, \add the\add* world is established \add so that\add* it will not be moved.
\q1 
\v 2 Your throne \add is\add* established from of old;
\q1 you \add are\add* from everlasting.
\q1 
\v 3 \add The\add* rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh;
\q1 \add the\add* rivers have lifted up their ⸤rumbling⸥;\f + \fr 93:3 \ft Literally “voice” \f*
\q1 \add the\add* rivers have lifted up their pounding.
\q1 
\v 4 \add Mightier\add* than the rumblings of many waters,
\q1 \add mightier\add* than \add the\add* mighty breakers of \add the\add* sea,
\q1 Yahweh on high \add is\add* mighty.
\q1 
\v 5 Your testimonies are fully reliable.
\q1 Holiness is fitting for your house,\f + \fr 93:5 \ft Or “temple” \f*
\q1 O Yahweh, ⸤forever⸥.\f + \fr 93:5 \ft Literally “for a length of days” \f*
\c 94
\cl Psalm 94
\s1 A Prayer for Retribution against Oppressors
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, God of vengeance,
\q1 God of vengeance, shine forth.
\q1 
\v 2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth.
\q1 Repay upon the proud what is \add their\add* rightful due.
\q1 
\v 3 How long \add will the\add* wicked, O Yahweh,
\q1 how long will \add the\add* wicked exult?
\q1 
\v 4 ⸤They gush words⸥\f + \fr 94:4 \ft Literally “They gush, they speak,” which is probably a hendiadys \f* unrestrained.
\q1 All \add the\add* evildoers boast.
\q1 
\v 5 They crush your people, O Yahweh;
\q1 they oppress your inheritance.
\q1 
\v 6 They kill widow and stranger,
\q1 and they murder orphans,
\q1 
\v 7 while\f + \fr 94:7 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* they say, “Yah\f + \fr 94:7 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f* does not see,”
\q1 and “The God of Jacob does not pay attention.”
\q1 
\v 8 You pay attention, O brutes among the people.
\q1 And \add you\add* fools, when you will show insight?
\q1 
\v 9 Will \add the\add* one who planted \add the\add* ear not hear?
\q1 Will \add the\add* one who formed \add the\add* eye not see?
\q1 
\v 10 Will \add the\add* one who instructs nations not rebuke,
\q1 the one who teaches humankind knowledge?
\q1 
\v 11 Yahweh knows \add the\add* thoughts of humankind,
\q1 that ⸤they \add are\add* to no purpose⸥.\f + \fr 94:11 \ft Literally “they \fq are \ft a breath” or “a vanity” \f*
\q1 
\v 12 Blessed \add is\add* the man, O Yah, whom you instruct
\q1 and teach from your law,
\q1 
\v 13 to give him rest from days of trouble,
\q1 until a pit is dug for the wicked.
\q1 
\v 14 For Yahweh will not abandon his people,
\q1 nor forsake his inheritance.
\q1 
\v 15 For judgment will return to righteousness,\f + \fr 94:15 \ft That is, the court system will operate correctly \f*
\q1 and all the upright in heart \add will follow\add* after it.
\q1 
\v 16 Who rose up for me against \add the\add* wicked?
\q1 Who stood up for me against \add the\add* workers of iniquity?
\q1 
\v 17 If Yahweh had not been my help,
\q1 my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.
\q1 
\v 18 When I thought,\f + \fr 94:18 \ft Hebrew “If/When I said,” that is, said to myself \f* “My foot is slipping,”
\q1 your loyal love, O Yahweh, supported me.
\q1 
\v 19 When my troubled thoughts were many ⸤within me⸥,\f + \fr 94:19 \ft Literally “in my inward parts” \f*
\q1 your consolations cheered my soul.
\q1 
\v 20 Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction,
\q1 one that forms trouble based on statute?
\q1 
\v 21 They band together against \add the\add* life of \add the\add* righteous,
\q1 and declare \add the\add* blameless guilty of blood.\f + \fr 94:21 \ft Or “condemn innocent blood” \f*
\q1 
\v 22 But Yahweh has become my \add high\add* stronghold,
\q1 and my God \add has become\add* my rock of refuge.
\q1 
\v 23 And he will repay on them their iniquity,
\q1 and by\f + \fr 94:23 \ft Or “in” \f* their evil he will destroy them.
\q1 Yahweh our God will destroy them.
\c 95
\cl Psalm 95
\s1 A Call to Worship and Obey
\q1 
\v 1 Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh;
\q1 let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.
\q1 
\v 2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving;
\q1 with songs let us shout joyfully to him.
\q1 
\v 3 For Yahweh \add is\add* \add the\add*\f + \fr 95:3 \ft The Hebrew does not have the definite article used twice in the translation of this verse \f* great God,
\q1 and \add the\add* great king over all gods,
\q1 
\v 4 in whose hand \add are the\add* unexplored places\f + \fr 95:4 \ft Or “the deep places” \f* of \add the\add* earth,
\q1 and \add the\add* heights of \add the\add* mountains \add are\add* his,
\q1 
\v 5 to whom belongs the sea that he made, \f + \fr 95:5 \ft Hebrew “and he made it” \f*
\q1 and \add the\add* dry land \add that\add* his hands formed.
\q1 
\v 6 Come in, let us worship and bow down;
\q1 let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker.
\q1 
\v 7 For he \add is\add* our God,
\q1 and we \add are\add* the people of his pasture
\q1 and the sheep of his hand.
\q1 ⸤Today⸥\f + \fr 95:7 \ft Literally “The day” \f* if you will hear his voice:\f + \fr 95:7 \ft Or “If only you would hear his voice today” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 “Do not harden your heart as \add at\add* Meribah,
\q1 as \add in\add* the day of Massah in the wilderness,
\q1 
\v 9 when your ancestors\f + \fr 95:9 \ft Or “fathers” \f* tried me.
\q1 They put me to the test,
\q1 \add even\add* though they had seen my work.
\q1 
\v 10 For forty years I loathed \add that\add* generation,
\q1 and said, ‘\add They are\add* a people \add whose\add* heart wanders.
\q1 And my ways they do not know.’
\q1 
\v 11 Therefore I swore in my anger,
\q1 ‘They shall surely not enter into my rest.’ ”
\c 96
\cl Psalm 96
\s1 Yahweh the King Comes in Judgment
\q1 
\v 1 Sing to\f + \fr 96:1 \ft Or “concerning” \f* Yahweh a new song;
\q1 sing to\f + \fr 96:1 \ft Or “concerning” \f* Yahweh, all the earth.
\q1 
\v 2 Sing to\f + \fr 96:2 \ft Or “concerning” \f* Yahweh; bless his name.
\q1 Announce\f + \fr 96:2 \ft Or “bring good news concerning” \f* his salvation from day to day.
\q1 
\v 3 Tell his glory among the nations,
\q1 his marvelous works among all the peoples.
\q1 
\v 4 For Yahweh \add is\add* great and very worthy of praise;
\q1 he \add is to be\add* feared above all gods.
\q1 
\v 5 For all the gods of the peoples \add are\add* idols,\f + \fr 96:5 \ft This word for idols suggests something worthless or insignificant \f*
\q1 but Yahweh made \add the\add* heavens.
\q1 
\v 6 Splendor and majesty \add are\add* before him;
\q1 strength and beauty \add are\add* in his sanctuary.
\q1 
\v 7 Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of \add the\add* peoples,
\q1 ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
\q1 
\v 8 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due his name;
\q1 bring an offering and come into his courts.
\q1 
\v 9 Worship Yahweh in holy array;
\q1 tremble before him, all the earth.
\q1 
\v 10 Say among the nations, “Yahweh is king!
\q1 Yes, \add the\add* world is established \add so that\add* it will not be moved.
\q1 He will judge \add the\add* peoples fairly.”
\q1 
\v 11 Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice.
\q1 Let the sea with\f + \fr 96:11 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* its fullness roar.
\q1 
\v 12 Let \add the\add* field with\f + \fr 96:12 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* all that \add is\add* in it exult.
\q1 Then all \add the\add* trees of \add the\add* forests will sing for joy
\q1 
\v 13 before Yahweh, for he is coming;
\q1 for he is coming to judge the earth.
\q1 He will judge \add the\add* world with righteousness,
\q1 and \add the\add* peoples with his faithfulness.
\c 97
\cl Psalm 97
\s1 Yahweh’s Glorious Reign
\q1 
\v 1 Yahweh is king! Let the earth rejoice;
\q1 let many coastlands be glad.
\q1 
\v 2 Cloud and thick darkness \add are\add* surrounding him;
\q1 righteousness and justice \add are\add* the foundation of his throne.
\q1 
\v 3 Fire goes before him,
\q1 and devours his enemies round about.
\q1 
\v 4 His lightnings light \add the\add* world;
\q1 the earth sees and trembles.
\q1 
\v 5 \add The\add* mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh,
\q1 at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.
\q1 
\v 6 The heavens declare his righteousness,
\q1 and all the peoples see his glory.
\q1 
\v 7 Let all who serve an image be ashamed,
\q1 those who boast about idols.\f + \fr 97:7 \ft This word for idols suggests something worthless or insignificant \f*
\q1 Worship him, all you gods.
\q1 
\v 8 Zion hears and is glad,
\q1 and the daughters of Judah rejoice
\q1 because of your judgments, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 9 For you, O Yahweh, \add are\add* most high over all the earth.
\q1 You are highly\f + \fr 97:9 \ft Hebrew “very” \f* exalted above all gods.
\q1 
\v 10 You who love Yahweh, hate evil.
\q1 He protects the lives of his faithful;
\q1 he delivers them from \add the\add* hand of \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 
\v 11 Light \add is\add* sown for the righteous,
\q1 and joy for \add the\add* upright in heart.
\q1 
\v 12 Be glad in Yahweh, \add you\add* righteous,
\q1 and give thanks ⸤to his holy name⸥.\f + \fr 97:12 \ft Literally “to his holy remembrance” or “to his memorable holiness” \f*
\c 98
\cl Psalm 98
\s1 Praise to Yahweh for His Salvation and Judgment
\d A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 98 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Sing to\f + \fr 98:1 \ft Or “sing concerning” \f* Yahweh a new song, for he has done wonders.
\q1 His right hand and his holy arm have secured his victory.
\q1 
\v 2 Yahweh has made known his salvation;\f + \fr 98:2 \ft Or “victory” \f*
\q1 to the eyes of the nations he has revealed his righteousness.
\q1 
\v 3 He has remembered his loyal love and his faithfulness
\q1 to the house of Israel.
\q1 All \add the\add* ends of the earth have seen
\q1 the salvation\f + \fr 98:3 \ft Or “victory” \f* of our God.
\q1 
\v 4 Shout joyfully to Yahweh, all the earth.
\q1 Be cheerful\f + \fr 98:4 \ft Or “Burst forth” \f* and sing for joy and sing praises.
\q1 
\v 5 Sing praises to Yahweh with lyre,
\q1 with lyre and melodious sound.
\q1 
\v 6 With trumpets and sound of horn,
\q1 shout joyfully before the king, Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 7 Let the sea with\f + \fr 98:7 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* its fullness roar,
\q1 \add the\add* world and those who live in it.
\q1 
\v 8 Let \add the\add* rivers clap \add their\add* hands.
\q1 Let \add the\add* hills sing joyfully together
\q1 
\v 9 before Yahweh, for \add he is\add* coming
\q1 to judge the earth.
\q1 He will judge \add the\add* world with righteousness
\q1 and \add the\add* peoples with equity.
\c 99
\cl Psalm 99
\s1 Yahweh Is a Holy King
\q1 
\v 1 Yahweh is king; let \add the\add* peoples tremble.
\q1 \add He\add* sits enthroned\f + \fr 99:1 \ft Or “dwells” \f* \add between the\add* cherubim. Let the earth shake.
\q1 
\v 2 Yahweh \add is\add* great in Zion,
\q1 and he \add is\add* exalted over all the peoples.
\q1 
\v 3 Let them praise your great and fearful name.
\q1 He \add is\add* holy.
\q1 
\v 4 And \add the\add* strength of \add the\add* king loves justice.\f + \fr 99:4 \ft The interpretation of this line is uncertain \f*
\q1 You have established equity;
\q1 you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
\q1 
\v 5 Exalt Yahweh our God,
\q1 and worship at his footstool.
\q1 He \add is\add* holy.
\q1 
\v 6 Moses and Aaron \add were\add* among his priests;
\q1 Samuel also \add was\add* among \add those who\add* called on his name.
\q1 They called to Yahweh, and he answered them.
\q1 
\v 7 He spoke to them in \add the\add* pillar of cloud.
\q1 They kept his testimonies and \add the\add* statute he gave to them.
\q1 
\v 8 O Yahweh our God, you answered them.
\q1 You were a forgiving God to them,
\q1 but an avenger of their \add wrong\add* deeds.
\q1 
\v 9 Exalt Yahweh our God,
\q1 and worship at his holy mountain,
\q1 for Yahweh our God \add is\add* holy.
\c 100
\cl Psalm 100
\s1 Worship God with Joy
\d A psalm of thanksgiving.\f + \fr Ps 100 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Shout in triumph to Yahweh, all the earth.
\q1 
\v 2 Serve\f + \fr 100:2 \ft Or “Worship” \f* Yahweh with joy;
\q1 come into his presence with exultation.
\q1 
\v 3 Know that Yahweh, he \add is\add* God;
\q1 he made us and we are his.\f + \fr 100:3 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ); the \fqa Kethib \ft reads “and not we \fq ourselves \ft ” \f*
\q1 \add We are\add* his people and the sheep of his pasture.
\q1 
\v 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
\q1 his courts with praise.
\q1 Give thanks to him; bless his name.
\q1 
\v 5 For Yahweh \add is\add* good; his loyal love is forever,
\q1 and his faithfulness \add is\add* ⸤from generation to generation⸥.\f + \fr 100:5 \ft Literally “unto a generation and a generation” \f*
\c 101
\cl Psalm 101
\s1 A Promise to Act with Integrity
\d Of David. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 101 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I will sing of loyal love and justice;
\q1 I will sing praises to you, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 2 I will give attention to \add the\add* way of integrity.
\q1 When will you come to me?
\q1 I will walk in the integrity of my heart
\q1 in the midst of my house.
\q1 
\v 3 I will not set before my eyes
\q1 any wicked thing.
\q1 I hate the work of those who fall away;\f + \fr 101:3 \ft The term “those who fall away” is a rare noun. The verb from the same root is found in \xt Psa 40:5 \ft (4) \f*
\q1 it will not cling to me.
\q1 
\v 4 A perverse heart will depart from me;
\q1 I will not know evil.
\q1 
\v 5 One who slanders his neighbor in secret,
\q1 him I will destroy.
\q1 \add One\add* haughty of eyes and ⸤arrogant⸥\f + \fr 101:5 \ft Literally “wide” \f* of heart,
\q1 him I will not endure.
\q1 
\v 6 My eyes \add will be\add* on \add the\add* faithful of \add the\add* land,
\q1 that \add they may\add* live with me.
\q1 \add He who\add* walks in \add the\add* way of integrity,
\q1 he shall minister to me.
\q1 
\v 7 There will not live in the midst of my house
\q1 a worker of deceit.
\q1 One who speaks lies
\q1 will not remain\f + \fr 101:7 \ft Hebrew “be established” \f* before my eyes.
\q1 
\v 8 ⸤Each morning⸥,\f + \fr 101:8 \ft Literally “to the mornings” \f*
\q1 I will destroy all \add the\add* wicked of \add the\add* land,
\q1 cutting off from the city of Yahweh all evildoers.
\c 102
\cl Psalm 102
\s1 A Plea for Personal and National Help
\d A prayer of \add one\add* afflicted, when he grows faint
\q1 and pours out his lament before Yahweh.\f + \fr Ps 102 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, hear my prayer,
\q1 and let my cry for help come to you.
\q1 
\v 2 Do not hide your face from me
\q1 in \add the\add* day \add of\add* my trouble.
\q1 Incline your ear to me.
\q1 In the day I call, answer me quickly,
\q1 
\v 3 for my days vanish in smoke,
\q1 and my bones are charred like a hearth.
\q1 
\v 4 My heart is struck like grass and withers.
\q1 Indeed, I forget to eat\f + \fr 102:4 \ft A rare homonym might yield “I am too wilted to eat” \f* my bread.
\q1 
\v 5 Because of the sound of my groaning
\q1 my bones\f + \fr 102:5 \ft Hebrew “bone” \f* cling to my skin.\f + \fr 102:5 \ft Hebrew “flesh” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 I am like an owl\f + \fr 102:6 \ft The identity of the birds in this verse is uncertain \f* of \add the\add* wilderness;
\q1 I am like a little owl of \add the\add* ruins.
\q1 
\v 7 I lie awake and I am
\q1 like a lone bird on a roof.
\q1 
\v 8 All the day my enemies reproach me;
\q1 those who mock me swear \add oaths\add* against me.
\q1 
\v 9 Indeed, I eat ashes like bread
\q1 and mix my drink with tears\f + \fr 102:9 \ft Hebrew “weeping” \f*
\q1 
\v 10 because of your indignation and anger,
\q1 for you have picked me up and thrown me away.
\q1 
\v 11 My days \add are\add* like a lengthened shadow,
\q1 and I wither like grass.
\q1 
\v 12 But you, O Yahweh, abide\f + \fr 102:12 \ft Or “sit enthroned” \f* forever,
\q1 and your remembrance\f + \fr 102:12 \ft Or “name” \f* ⸤from generation to generation⸥.\f + \fr 102:12 \ft Literally “to a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 
\v 13 You rise up and take pity on Zion,
\q1 because \add it is\add* time to favor it,
\q1 for \add the\add* appointed time has come.
\q1 
\v 14 Your servants take pleasure in her stones,
\q1 and show favor to its dust.
\q1 
\v 15 Then \add the\add* nations will fear the name of Yahweh,
\q1 and all the kings of the earth your glory.
\q1 
\v 16 For Yahweh will rebuild Zion;
\q1 he will appear in his glory.
\q1 
\v 17 He will turn his attention to the prayer of the destitute
\q1 and will not despise their prayer.
\q1 
\v 18 Let this be written for \add the\add* next generation,
\q1 so that a people \add yet\add* to be created may praise Yah,\f + \fr 102:18 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 
\v 19 that he looked down from his holy height.
\q1 Yahweh looked from heaven over \add the\add* earth
\q1 
\v 20 to hear \add the\add* groaning of \add the\add* prisoner,
\q1 to liberate ⸤those destined to die⸥,\f + \fr 102:20 \ft Hebrew “\fq the \ft sons of death” \f*
\q1 
\v 21 so that \add they\f + \fr 102:21 \ft That is, the generation that reads what is written \f* may\add* make known in Zion the name of Yahweh,
\q1 and his praise in Jerusalem,
\q1 
\v 22 when the peoples assemble,
\q1 together with\f + \fr 102:22 \ft Hebrew “and” \f* kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 23 He has broken my strength along the way;
\q1 he has cut short my days.
\q1 
\v 24 I say, “My God, do not carry me off
\q1 from my life in the middle of my days.”
\q1 Your years \add continue\add* throughout all generations.
\q1 
\v 25 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
\q1 and \add the\add* heavens \add are\add* the work of your hands.
\q1 
\v 26 They will perish, but you will endure.
\q1 And like a garment they will all wear out,
\q1 you will replace them like clothing, and they will be set aside.
\q1 
\v 27 But you \add are\add* the same,
\q1 and your years do not end.
\q1 
\v 28 The children of your servants will continue,
\q1 and their ⸤descendants⸥\f + \fr 102:28 \ft Literally “seed” \f* will be established before you.
\c 103
\cl Psalm 103
\s1 Thanksgiving for Yahweh’s Compassion
\d Of David.\f + \fr Ps 103 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Bless Yahweh, O my soul,
\q1 and all within me, \add bless\add* his holy name.
\q1 
\v 2 Bless Yahweh, O my soul,
\q1 and do not forget all his benefits:
\q1 
\v 3 who forgives all your iniquity,
\q1 who heals all your diseases,
\q1 
\v 4 who redeems your life from \add the\add* pit,
\q1 who crowns you with loyal love and mercies,
\q1 
\v 5 who satisfies your life with good
\q1 so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
\q1 
\v 6 Yahweh does deeds of justice
\q1 and judgments for all \add who\add* are oppressed,
\q1 
\v 7 \add who\add* made known his ways to Moses,
\q1 his deeds to the ⸤people⸥\f + \fr 103:7 \ft Literally “sons” \f* of Israel.
\q1 
\v 8 Yahweh \add is\add* compassionate and gracious,
\q1 ⸤slow to anger⸥\f + \fr 103:8 \ft Literally “long of nostrils” \f* and abundant in loyal love.
\q1 
\v 9 He does not dispute continually,
\q1 nor keep \add his anger\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
\q1 nor repaid us according to our iniquities.
\q1 
\v 11 For as \add the\add* heavens are high above the earth,
\q1 \add so\add* his loyal love prevails over those who fear him.
\q1 
\v 12 As far as east \add is\add* from west,
\q1 \add so\add* he has removed far from us \add the guilt of\add* our transgressions.
\q1 
\v 13 As a father pities\f + \fr 103:13 \ft Or “shows compassion to” \f* \add his\add* children,
\q1 \add so\add* Yahweh pities\f + \fr 103:13 \ft Or “shows compassion to” \f* those who fear him.
\q1 
\v 14 For he knows our frame.\f + \fr 103:14 \ft That is, how we are formed \f*
\q1 He remembers that we \add are\add* dust.
\q1 
\v 15 As for man, his days \add are\add* like the grass.
\q1 As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.
\q1 
\v 16 When \add the\add* wind passes over it, it is no more,
\q1 and its place knows it no longer.
\q1 
\v 17 But the loyal love of Yahweh
\q1 \add is\add* from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
\q1 and his righteousness to \add their\add* children’s children,
\q1 
\v 18 to those who keep his covenant
\q1 and remember to do his precepts.
\q1 
\v 19 Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens,
\q1 and his kingdom rules over all.
\q1 
\v 20 Bless Yahweh, you his angels,
\q1 \add you\add* mighty heroes who do his word
\q1 by ⸤obeying⸥\f + \fr 103:20 \ft Literally “hearing” \f* the sound of his word.
\q1 
\v 21 Bless Yahweh, all you his hosts,
\q1 \add you\add* his attendants who do his will.
\q1 
\v 22 Bless Yahweh, all his works,\f + \fr 103:22 \ft That is, created things \f*
\q1 in all the places of his dominion.
\q1 Bless Yahweh, O my soul.
\c 104
\cl Psalm 104
\s1 Praise to Yahweh for His Creation and Providence
\q1 
\v 1 Bless Yahweh, O my soul.
\q1 O Yahweh my God, you are very great.
\q1 You clothe yourself \add with\add* splendor and majesty,
\q1 
\v 2 \add you\add* who cover \add yourself\add* with light as \add with\add* a garment,
\q1 who stretch out \add the\add* heavens like a tent curtain,
\q1 
\v 3 the one who sets beams in the waters \add for\add* his upper chambers,
\q1 who makes clouds his chariot,
\q1 who rides\f + \fr 104:3 \ft Hebrew “goes” \f* on \add the\add* wings of \add the\add* wind,
\q1 
\v 4 who makes his messengers \add the\add* winds,
\q1 his attendants a flame of fire.
\q1 
\v 5 He established \add the\add* earth on her foundations,
\q1 \add so that\add* it will not be moved forever and ever.
\q1 
\v 6 You covered it with \add the\add* deep as with a garment.
\q1 \add The\add* waters stood above \add the\add* mountains.
\q1 
\v 7 At your rebuke they fled;
\q1 at the sound of your thunder they ran off.
\q1 
\v 8 They ascended \add the\add* mountains \add and\add* drained though the valleys
\q1 to \add the\add* place that you established\f + \fr 104:8 \ft Or “appointed” \f* for them.
\q1 
\v 9 You set a boundary that they may not cross over,
\q1 \add so that\add* they would not return to cover the earth.
\q1 
\v 10 \add You are\add* the one who sends forth springs into the valleys;
\q1 they flow between \add the\add* mountains.
\q1 
\v 11 They give drink for every beast of \add the\add* field.
\q1 \add The\add* wild donkeys ⸤quench⸥\f + \fr 104:11 \ft Literally “break” \f* their thirst.
\q1 
\v 12 Along them the birds of the heavens abide.
\q1 From among \add the\add* branches they ⸤sing⸥.\f + \fr 104:12 \ft Literally “give voice” \f*
\q1 
\v 13 \add You are the one who\add* ⸤waters⸥\f + \fr 104:13 \ft Literally “give drink” \f* \add the\add* mountains
\q1 from his upper chambers.
\q1 The earth is full\f + \fr 104:13 \ft Or “is sated” \f* with the fruit of your labors:
\q1 
\v 14 \add who\add* causes grass to grow for the cattle
\q1 and herbs for the service of humankind,
\q1 to bring forth food from the earth,
\q1 
\v 15 and wine \add that\add* makes glad \add the\add* heart of man,
\q1 so that \add their\add* faces shine from oil,
\q1 and bread \add that\add* strengthens the heart of man.
\q1 
\v 16 The trees of Yahweh drink their fill,
\q1 the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,
\q1 
\v 17 where birds make \add their\add* nest.
\q1 \add The\add* stork \add has\add* its home in \add the\add* fir trees.
\q1 
\v 18 The high mountains \add are\add* for the wild goats;
\q1 \add the\add* cliffs \add are\add* a refuge for the rock badgers.
\q1 
\v 19 He made \add the\add* moon for appointed times;
\q1 \add the\add* sun knows its \add time for\add* setting.
\q1 
\v 20 You make darkness, and it is night,
\q1 when\f + \fr 104:20 \ft Hebrew “in it” \f* all \add the\add* animals of the forest creep about.
\q1 
\v 21 The young lions \add are\add* roaring for the prey
\q1 and seeking their food from God.
\q1 
\v 22 \add When\add* the sun rises, they gather together
\q1 and lie down in their dens.
\q1 
\v 23 Humankind goes out to its work,
\q1 and to its labor until evening.
\q1 
\v 24 How many are your works, O Yahweh;
\q1 all of them you have done in wisdom.
\q1 The earth is full of your creatures.
\q1 
\v 25 This \add is\add* the great and ⸤wide⸥\f + \fr 104:25 \ft Literally “broad of hands” \f* sea,
\q1 in which \add are\add* moving animals without number,
\q1 living things small and great.
\q1 
\v 26 There \add the\add* ships sail.
\q1 Leviathan \add is there\add* that you formed to play with.\f + \fr 104:26 \ft For this construction meaning “to play with,” see Job 40:29 (Eng: 41:5) \f*
\q1 
\v 27 They all wait for you
\q1 to give \add them\add* their food ⸤at the proper time⸥.\f + \fr 104:27 \ft Literally “in its season” \f*
\q1 
\v 28 You give to them; they gather \add it\add*.
\q1 You open your hand, they are filled with \add what is\add* good.
\q1 
\v 29 You hide your face, they are terrified.
\q1 You take away their breath, they die
\q1 and return to their dust.
\q1 
\v 30 You send forth your Spirit,\f + \fr 104:30 \ft Or “breath” \f* they are created,
\q1 and you renew the face of \add the\add* ground.
\q1 
\v 31 May the glory of Yahweh endure forever.
\q1 May Yahweh be glad in his works,
\q1 
\v 32 the one who looks at the earth and it quakes,
\q1 and touches the mountains and they smoke.
\q1 
\v 33 I will sing to Yahweh throughout my life;
\q1 I will sing praise to my God while ⸤I remain alive⸥.\f + \fr 104:33 \ft Literally “while I am still” \f*
\q1 
\v 34 May my meditation be pleasing to him.
\q1 I will be glad in Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 35 Let sinners perish completely from the earth,
\q1 and \add the\add* wicked ⸤not remain alive⸥.\f + \fr 104:35 \ft Literally “they are not still” \f*
\q1 Bless Yahweh, O my soul.
\q1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 104:35 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 105
\cl Psalm 105
\s1 Praise to Yahweh for His Work on Behalf of Israel
\q1 
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim his name;
\q1 make known his deeds among the peoples.
\q1 
\v 2 Sing to him; sing praises concerning him;
\q1 tell of all his wonderful works.
\q1 
\v 3 Boast about his holy name.
\q1 Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
\q1 
\v 4 Make supplication to Yahweh and his might;
\q1 seek his face continually.
\q1 
\v 5 Remember his wonders that he has done,
\q1 his signs and the judgments of his mouth,
\q1 
\v 6 O offspring of Abraham his servant,
\q1 \add you\add* descendants\f + \fr 105:6 \ft Or “children,” or “sons” \f* of Jacob, his chosen ones.
\q1 
\v 7 He \add is\add* Yahweh our God;
\q1 his judgments \add are\add* in all the earth.
\q1 
\v 8 He remembers his covenant forever,
\q1 \add the\add* word \add that\add* he commanded
\q1 for a thousand generations,
\q1 
\v 9 that he made with Abraham,
\q1 and by his oath \add swore\add* to Isaac.
\q1 
\v 10 He then confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
\q1 to Israel \add as\add* an everlasting covenant,
\q1 
\v 11 saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
\q1 \add as\add* the allotment \add that is\add* your\f + \fr 105:11 \ft Hebrew plural \f* inheritance.”
\q1 
\v 12 When they were ⸤few in number⸥\f + \fr 105:12 \ft Literally “men of number,” that is, so few you could count them \f*—
\q1 a trifle—and \add were\add* sojourners in it,
\q1 
\v 13 and they wandered about ⸤among the nations⸥,\f + \fr 105:13 \ft Literally “from people to people” \f*
\q1 from \add one\add* kingdom to another people,
\q1 
\v 14 he allowed no one to oppress them,
\q1 and he rebuked kings on account of them,
\q1 
\v 15 “Do not touch my anointed ones,
\q1 nor harm my prophets.”
\q1 
\v 16 Then he called for a famine upon the land;
\q1 he broke every ⸤supply⸥\f + \fr 105:16 \ft Literally “staff” \f* of bread.
\q1 
\v 17 He sent a man on ahead of them;
\q1 Joseph was sold as a slave.
\q1 
\v 18 They clamped\f + \fr 105:18 \ft Hebrew “oppressed, hurt” \f* his feet in fetters.\f + \fr 105:18 \ft Hebrew “fetter” \f*
\q1 His neck\f + \fr 105:18 \ft Hebrew \fqa nephesh \ft can designate the life, soul, appetite, desire, or throat/neck. \f* went into irons.\f + \fr 105:18 \ft Hebrew “iron” \f*
\q1 
\v 19 Until \add the\add* time his word came about,
\q1 the word of Yahweh tested\f + \fr 105:19 \ft Or “refined” \f* him.
\q1 
\v 20 \add The\add* king sent and he freed him;
\q1 \add the\add* ruler of \add the\add* peoples \add sent\add* and let him loose.
\q1 
\v 21 He made him lord of his house
\q1 and ruler of all his possessions,
\q1 
\v 22 to obligate\f + \fr 105:22 \ft Hebrew “to bind, imprison” The LXX’s “to instruct” presupposes \fqa ysr \ft instead of \fqa 'sr \ft , and might be correct in light of the parallelism that is fairly tight in this psalm \f* his officials ⸤as he saw fit⸥\f + \fr 105:22 \ft Literally “in his desire \fq soul \ft ” \f*
\q1 and teach his elders wisdom.
\q1 
\v 23 Then Israel came \add to\add* Egypt,
\q1 and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham.
\q1 
\v 24 And he\f + \fr 105:24 \ft That is, God \f* made his people very fruitful.
\q1 He also made them\f + \fr 105:24 \ft Hebrew “him” \f* stronger than their\f + \fr 105:24 \ft Hebrew “his” \f* enemies.
\q1 
\v 25 He turned their heart to hate his people,
\q1 to deal deceitfully against his servants.
\q1 
\v 26 He sent his servant Moses,
\q1 together with Aaron whom he had chosen.
\q1 
\v 27 They set before them the words concerning his signs
\q1 and portents in the land of Ham.
\q1 
\v 28 He sent darkness and made \add it\add* dark,
\q1 and they did not rebel against his words.
\q1 
\v 29 He turned their waters into blood
\q1 and it killed their fish.
\q1 
\v 30 Their land swarmed with frogs,
\q1 \add even\add* in the chambers of their kings.
\q1 
\v 31 He spoke, and there came flies
\q1 \add and\add* gnats throughout all their territory.\f + \fr 105:31 \ft Hebrew “borders” \f*
\q1 
\v 32 He gave hail for their rains
\q1 \add and the\add* fire of lightning in their land.
\q1 
\v 33 And he struck their vines and fig trees,
\q1 and shattered the trees of their territory.
\q1 
\v 34 He spoke and there came locusts
\q1 and young locusts without number.
\q1 
\v 35 And they ate up all \add the\add* vegetation in their land,
\q1 and they ate up the fruit of their ground.
\q1 
\v 36 And he struck down all \add the\add* firstborn in their land,
\q1 \add the\add* first of all their virility.
\q1 
\v 37 Then he brought them out with silver and gold,
\q1 and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.
\q1 
\v 38 Egypt was glad when they departed,
\q1 because the fear of them\f + \fr 105:38 \ft That is, Israel \f* had fallen upon them.
\q1 
\v 39 He spread out a cloud for a covering,
\q1 and fire to give light at night.
\q1 
\v 40 They\f + \fr 105:40 \ft Hebrew “He” \f* asked, and he brought quail,
\q1 and satisfied them with \add the\add* bread of heaven.
\q1 
\v 41 He opened \add the\add* rock and waters flowed;
\q1 they coursed\f + \fr 105:41 \ft Or “surged” \f* through the dry places \add like\add* a river.
\q1 
\v 42 For he remembered his holy ⸤promise⸥;\f + \fr 105:42 \ft Literally “word” \f*
\q1 \add he remembered\add* Abraham his servant.
\q1 
\v 43 And \add so\add* he brought out his people with joy,
\q1 his chosen ones with rejoicing.
\q1 
\v 44 And he gave to them \add the\add* lands of \add the\add* nations,
\q1 and they inherited \add the\add* labor of \add the\add* peoples,
\q1 
\v 45 so that they might observe his statutes,
\q1 and keep his laws.
\q1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 105:45 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 106
\cl Psalm 106
\s1 Praise to Yahweh for His Faithfulness in Israel’s History
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 106:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f* Give thanks to Yahweh, for \add he is\add* good,
\q1 for his loyal love \add is\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 2 Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh,
\q1 \add or\add* proclaim all his praise?
\q1 
\v 3 Blessed are \add those who\add* observe justice,
\q1 \add he who\add* does righteousness at all times.
\q1 
\v 4 Remember me, O Yahweh, when \add you show\add* favor to your people.
\q1 Look after me when you deliver,
\q1 
\v 5 that \add I\add* may see the good \add done\add* your chosen ones,
\q1 to be glad in the joy of your nation,
\q1 to glory together with your inheritance.
\q1 
\v 6 We have sinned \add along\add* with our ancestors.\f + \fr 106:6 \ft Or “fathers” \f*
\q1 We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.
\q1 
\v 7 Our ancestors\f + \fr 106:7 \ft Or “fathers” \f* in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works.
\q1 They did not remember your many acts of loyal love,
\q1 and \add so\add* they rebelled by \add the\add* sea at ⸤the Red Sea⸥.\f + \fr 106:7 \ft Literally “sea of reed” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 Yet he saved them for the sake of his name,
\q1 to make known his might.
\q1 
\v 9 So he rebuked ⸤the Red Sea⸥,\f + \fr 106:9 \ft Literally “sea of reed” \f* and it dried up,
\q1 and he led them through the deep as \add through\add* a desert.
\q1 
\v 10 Thus he saved them from \add the\add* hand of \add the\add* hater
\q1 and redeemed them from \add the\add* hand of \add the\add* enemy.
\q1 
\v 11 But waters covered their adversaries;
\q1 not one of them survived.
\q1 
\v 12 Then they believed his words;
\q1 they sang his praise.
\q1 
\v 13 They quickly forgot his works;
\q1 they did not wait for his counsel.
\q1 
\v 14 And they ⸤craved intensely⸥\f + \fr 106:14 \ft Literally “craved a craving” \f* in the wilderness,
\q1 and tested God in \add the\add* desert.
\q1 
\v 15 So he gave to them their request,
\q1 but he sent leanness into their souls.\f + \fr 106:15 \ft Hebrew “soul” or “inner self” \f*
\q1 
\v 16 And they were jealous of Moses in the camp,
\q1 \add and\add* of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 17 \add The\add* earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
\q1 and it covered over the gang of Abiram.
\q1 
\v 18 Also fire burned in their assembly;
\q1 \add the\add* flame devoured \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 
\v 19 They made a calf at Horeb
\q1 and bowed down to a cast image.
\q1 
\v 20 And \add so\add* they exchanged their glory
\q1 for an image of an ox that eats grass.
\q1 
\v 21 They forgot God their Savior,
\q1 who had done great things in Egypt,
\q1 
\v 22 wonders in the land of Ham,
\q1 awesome deeds by ⸤the Red Sea⸥.\f + \fr 106:22 \ft Literally “sea of reed” \f*
\q1 
\v 23 So he said he would exterminate them,
\q1 had not Moses, his chosen one,
\q1 stood in the breach before him,
\q1 to reverse his wrath from destroying \add them\add*.
\q1 
\v 24 Then they refused the desirable land;
\q1 they did not believe his word,
\q1 
\v 25 but grumbled in their tents.
\q1 They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 26 So ⸤he made an oath⸥\f + \fr 106:26 \ft Literally “he lifted his hand,” an act accompanying an oath \f* against them,
\q1 to make them drop in the wilderness,
\q1 
\v 27 and to disperse\f + \fr 106:27 \ft Or “let drop” \f* their ⸤descendants⸥\f + \fr 106:27 \ft Literally “seed” \f* among the nations
\q1 and to scatter them among the lands.
\q1 
\v 28 They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor,
\q1 and they ate sacrifices offered to \add the\add* dead.\f + \fr 106:28 \ft Hebrew “sacrifices of dead” \f*
\q1 
\v 29 Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds,
\q1 and a plague broke out among them.
\q1 
\v 30 Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
\q1 and \add so\add* the plague was stopped,
\q1 
\v 31 and it was reckoned to him as righteousness
\q1 ⸤throughout all generations⸥.\f + \fr 106:31 \ft Literally “for a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 
\v 32 They also angered \add God\add* at the waters of Meribah,
\q1 and it went badly for Moses on account of them,
\q1 
\v 33 because they rebelled against his Spirit,\f + \fr 106:33 \ft A slightly different verbal form yields “they embittered his spirit” \f*
\q1 and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.
\q1 
\v 34 They did not exterminate the peoples,
\q1 as Yahweh had commanded them, \f + \fr 106:34 \ft Hebrew “said to them” \f*
\q1 
\v 35 but they mingled with the nations
\q1 and learned their works,
\q1 
\v 36 and served their idols,
\q1 which became\f + \fr 106:36 \ft Hebrew “and they became” \f* a snare to them.
\q1 
\v 37 They even sacrificed their sons and daughters
\q1 to the demons,
\q1 
\v 38 and they poured out innocent blood,
\q1 the blood of their sons and daughters,
\q1 whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
\q1 and \add so\add* the land was defiled with the blood.\f + \fr 106:38 \ft Hebrew “bloods,” that is, bloodshed \f*
\q1 
\v 39 And they became unclean by their works,
\q1 and were unfaithful in their deeds.
\q1 
\v 40 So Yahweh’s anger burned against his people,
\q1 and he abhorred his inheritance.
\q1 
\v 41 Then he gave them into \add the\add* hand of \add the\add* nations,
\q1 and those who hated them ruled over them.
\q1 
\v 42 And their enemies oppressed them,
\q1 and they were subdued under their hand.
\q1 
\v 43 Many times he delivered them,
\q1 but they rebelled in their counsel,
\q1 and were brought low by their iniquity.
\q1 
\v 44 Yet he looked upon their distress
\q1 when he heard their cry.
\q1 
\v 45 And he remembered his covenant with them,
\q1 and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love.
\q1 
\v 46 And he ⸤let them find compassion⸥\f + \fr 106:46 \ft Literally “gave them to \fq have \ft mercies” \f*
\q1 before all their captors.
\q1 
\v 47 Save us, O Yahweh our God,
\q1 and gather us from the nations,
\q1 so that \add we may\add* give thanks to your holy name
\q1 \add and\add* boast in your praise.
\q1 
\v 48 Blessed \add is\add* Yahweh, the God of Israel,
\q1 from everlasting and to everlasting.
\q1 And let all the people say, “Amen!”
\q1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 106:48 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 107
\cl Psalm 107
\s1 Thanksgiving to Yahweh for His of Deliverance
\q1 
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for \add he is\add* good,
\q1 for his loyal love \add is\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 2 Let the redeemed of Yahweh declare\f + \fr 107:2 \ft Hebrew “say” \f* \add it\add*,
\q1 \add those\add* whom he has redeemed from \add the\add* hand of \add the\add* enemy
\q1 
\v 3 and gathered from \add the\add* lands,
\q1 from east and from west, from north and from south.\f + \fr 107:3 \ft Hebrew “sea” (\fqa yam \ft ), which usually means “west” in a listing of directions. The word “south” is expected (Hebrew \fqa yamin \ft ). Either the MT was corrupted early (along with \xt Isa 49:12; \ft the LXX reads “sea” in both) or it looks to the bodies of waters to the south (see also the Targum) \f*
\q1 
\v 4 They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert.
\q1 They could find no way\f + \fr 107:4 \ft The MT reads “way” with the previous line. \f* to a city to inhabit.
\q1 
\v 5 Hungry and thirsty,
\q1 their soul grew faint within them.
\q1 
\v 6 Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble.
\q1 He delivered them from their distresses
\q1 
\v 7 and led them by a straight way
\q1 to get to a city to inhabit.
\q1 
\v 8 Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love,
\q1 and his wonderful deeds for \add the\add* children of humankind,
\q1 
\v 9 for he satisfies \add the\add* longing soul,\f + \fr 107:9 \ft Thirst is perhaps in view \f*
\q1 and \add the\add* hungry soul he fills with good.
\q1 
\v 10 \add Those who\add* sat in darkness and gloom,
\q1 prisoners of misery and iron—
\q1 
\v 11 because they rebelled against the words of God
\q1 and spurned the counsel of the Most High,
\q1 
\v 12 he therefore humbled their heart with trouble.
\q1 They stumbled and there was no helper.
\q1 
\v 13 Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble;
\q1 he saved them from their distresses.
\q1 
\v 14 He brought them out of darkness and gloom,
\q1 and tore off their bonds.
\q1 
\v 15 Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love
\q1 and his wonderful deeds for \add the\add* children of humankind,
\q1 
\v 16 for he shatters \add the\add* doors of bronze,
\q1 and cuts through \add the\add* bars of iron.
\q1 
\v 17 Fools, because of their rebellious way
\q1 and their iniquities, were afflicted.
\q1 
\v 18 Their soul abhorred all food,
\q1 and they approached \add the\add* gates of death.
\q1 
\v 19 Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble.
\q1 He saved them from their distresses.
\q1 
\v 20 He sent his word and healed them,
\q1 and he delivered \add them\add* from their pits.\f + \fr 107:20 \ft This word is only found elsewhere in \xt Lam 4:20 \ft with the sense of “traps” \f*
\q1 
\v 21 Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love,
\q1 and his wonderful deeds for \add the\add* children of humankind,
\q1 
\v 22 and let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,
\q1 and tell of his works with rejoicing.
\q1 
\v 23 \add Those who\add* went down to the sea into ships,
\q1 doing business on \add the\add* ⸤high seas⸥,\f + \fr 107:23 \ft Literally “many waters” \f*
\q1 
\v 24 they saw the works of Yahweh,
\q1 and his wonderful deeds in \add the\add* deep.
\q1 
\v 25 For he spoke and raised up a stormy wind,
\q1 and it whipped up its waves.
\q1 
\v 26 They rose to the heavens; they plunged to \add the\add* depths.
\q1 Their soul melted in their calamity.
\q1 
\v 27 They reeled and staggered like a drunkard,
\q1 and ⸤they were at their wits’ end⸥.\f + \fr 107:27 \ft Literally “all their wisdom was swallowed up” \f*
\q1 
\v 28 Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble,
\q1 and he brought them out of their distresses.
\q1 
\v 29 He made \add the\add* storm be still
\q1 and their waves became calm.
\q1 
\v 30 Then they were glad because they grew silent,
\q1 so he guided them to their desired harbor.
\q1 
\v 31 Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love
\q1 and his wonderful deeds for \add the\add* children of humankind,
\q1 
\v 32 and let them exalt him in \add the\add* congregation of \add the\add* people,
\q1 and praise him in \add the\add* assembly of \add the\add* elders.
\q1 
\v 33 He turns rivers into a wilderness
\q1 and springs of water into thirsty ground,
\q1 
\v 34 a fruitful land into a salty place,
\q1 because of the evil of its inhabitants.
\q1 
\v 35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water
\q1 and a dry land into springs of water.
\q1 
\v 36 And he settles \add the\add* hungry there,
\q1 so that they may establish a city to inhabit,
\q1 
\v 37 and sow fields and plant vineyards,
\q1 ⸤that they may yield fruit at harvest⸥.\f + \fr 107:37 \ft Hebrew “and make a fruit of produce” \f*
\q1 
\v 38 And he blesses them and they multiply greatly,
\q1 and he does not let their cattle become few.
\q1 
\v 39 When they become few and they are bent down
\q1 from \add the\add* oppression of calamity and grief,
\q1 
\v 40 \add he\add* pours contempt on princes
\q1 and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.
\q1 
\v 41 But he protects\f + \fr 107:41 \ft The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress \f* \add the\add* needy from misery,
\q1 and he makes \add their\add* families like a flock.
\q1 
\v 42 \add The\add* upright see \add it\add* and are glad,
\q1 and all wickedness shuts its mouth.
\q1 
\v 43 Whoever \add is\add* wise, then let him observe these \add things\add*,
\q1 and let them consider Yahweh’s acts of loyal love.
\c 108
\cl Psalm 108
\s1 Prayer to Yahweh for Victory over Enemies
\d A song. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 108 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 My heart \add is\add* steadfast, O God.
\q1 I will sing and give praise, even \add with\add* my glory.
\q1 
\v 2 Awake, harp and lyre.
\q1 I will awake \add the\add* dawn.\f + \fr 108:2 \ft Or “I will awake at dawn” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Yahweh;
\q1 I will give you praise among the nations,
\q1 
\v 4 because your loyal love \add is\add* great above \add the\add* heavens,
\q1 and your faithfulness \add reaches\add* to \add the\add* clouds.
\q1 
\v 5 Be exalted above \add the\add* heavens, O God,
\q1 and \add let\add* your glory \add be\add* above all the earth,
\q1 
\v 6 so that your beloved ones may be rescued.
\q1 Save by your right hand and answer me.
\q1 
\v 7 God has spoken in his holiness,
\q1 “I will exult, I will divide up Shechem,
\q1 and portion out the valley of Succoth.
\q1 
\v 8 Gilead \add is\add* mine. Manasseh \add is\add* mine.
\q1 And Ephraim \add is\add* the ⸤helmet for⸥\f + \fr 108:8 \ft Literally “protection of” \f* my head.
\q1 Judah \add is\add* my scepter;\f + \fr 108:8 \ft Or “commander’s rod” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 Moab \add is\add* my washing pot.
\q1 Over Edom I will cast my sandal;
\q1 Over Philistia I will shout in triumph.”
\q1 
\v 10 Who will bring me to \add the\add* fortified city?
\q1 Who will lead me to Edom?
\q1 
\v 11 Have you not rejected us, O God,
\q1 and not gone out with our armies, O God?
\q1 
\v 12 Give us help against \add the\add* enemy,
\q1 for the help of humankind \add is\add* futile.
\q1 
\v 13 Through God we will do valiantly,\f + \fr 108:13 \ft Hebrew “do might” \f*
\q1 and \add it is\add* he \add who\add* will tread down our enemies.
\c 109
\cl Psalm 109
\s1 A Prayer for Help against Enemies
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 109 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O God of my praise, do not keep silent,
\q1 
\v 2 for ⸤wicked and deceitful mouths⸥\f + \fr 109:2 \ft Literally “a wicked mouth and a deceitful mouth” \f*
\q1 have opened against me.
\q1 They speak to me with a lying tongue.
\q1 
\v 3 They also surround me with words of hate,
\q1 and fight me without cause.
\q1 
\v 4 In return for my love they accuse me,
\q1 though I \add am in\add* prayer.\f + \fr 109:4 \ft Or perhaps “I \fq have \ft a plea \fq of innocence \ft ” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 So they inflicted evil against me in return for good
\q1 and hatred in return for my love.
\q1 
\v 6 Appoint over him a wicked \add man\add*,
\q1 and let an accuser stand at his right \add hand\add*.
\q1 
\v 7 When he is judged, let him come out guilty,
\q1 and let his prayer\f + \fr 109:7 \ft Or perhaps “plea \fq of innocence \ft ” \f* become as sin.
\q1 
\v 8 Let his days be few;
\q1 let another take his office.
\q1 
\v 9 Let his children be orphans,
\q1 and his wife a widow,
\q1 
\v 10 and let his children wander aimlessly and beg,
\q1 and let them plead from their ruins.
\q1 
\v 11 Let \add the\add* creditor seize all that \add is\add* his,
\q1 and let strangers plunder his property.
\q1 
\v 12 Let there be none \add who\add* extend to him loyal love,
\q1 nor any who pities his orphans.
\q1 
\v 13 Let his descendants\f + \fr 109:13 \ft Or “posterity”; Hebrew is singular \f* be cut off.
\q1 Let their name be blotted out in \add the\add* next generation.
\q1 
\v 14 Let the iniquity of his ancestors\f + \fr 109:14 \ft Or “fathers” \f* be remembered before Yahweh,
\q1 and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out.
\q1 
\v 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually,
\q1 that he may cut off their\f + \fr 109:15 \ft That is, the family \f* memory from \add the\add* earth,
\q1 
\v 16 because he did not remember to show loyal love,
\q1 but he pursued anyone,\f + \fr 109:16 \ft Hebrew “a man” \f* poor or needy
\q1 or brokenhearted, to slay \add them\add*.
\q1 
\v 17 Because he loved cursing, let it come \add upon\add* him.
\q1 Because he did not delight in blessing,
\q1 let it be far from him.
\q1 
\v 18 Because he wore a curse as his robe,
\q1 let it enter ⸤his body⸥\f + \fr 109:18 \ft Literally “his inward part” \f* like water,
\q1 and into his bones like oil.
\q1 
\v 19 May it be for him like a garment \add in which\add* he wraps,
\q1 and a belt ⸤he continually wears⸥.\f + \fr 109:19 \ft Literally “continually he girds it” \f*
\q1 
\v 20 Let this \add be\add* the punishment for my accusers from Yahweh,
\q1 even those who speak evil against my life.
\q1 
\v 21 But you, O Yahweh my Lord,
\q1 deal with me for your name’s sake.
\q1 Because your loyal love \add is\add* good, deliver me,
\q1 
\v 22 for I \add am\add* poor and needy,
\q1 and my heart is wounded within me.
\q1 
\v 23 Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away;
\q1 I am shaken off like a locust.
\q1 
\v 24 My knees ⸤buckle⸥\f + \fr 109:24 \ft Literally “stumble” \f* from fasting,
\q1 and my body grows lean without fat.
\q1 
\v 25 And \add so\add* I am a disgrace to them;
\q1 \add when\add* they see me, they shake their heads.\f + \fr 109:25 \ft Hebrew “head” \f*
\q1 
\v 26 Help me, O Yahweh my God;
\q1 save me according to your loyal love,
\q1 
\v 27 that they may know that this \add is\add* your hand,
\q1 \add that\add* you, O Yahweh, you have done it.
\q1 
\v 28 Let them curse, but you bless.
\q1 \add When\add* they arise, let them be put to shame,
\q1 that your servant may be glad.
\q1 
\v 29 Let my accusers put on disgrace,
\q1 and let them cover \add themselves\add* with their shame as with a robe.
\q1 
\v 30 I will give thanks to Yahweh exceedingly with my mouth,
\q1 and in \add the\add* midst of many I will praise him,
\q1 
\v 31 for he stands at \add the\add* right \add hand\add* of \add the\add* needy,
\q1 to save \add him\add* from those judging his life.\f + \fr 109:31 \ft Or “soul” \f*
\c 110
\cl Psalm 110
\s1 Yahweh Gives Authority to His Messiah
\d Of David. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 110 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 A declaration of Yahweh to my lord,
\q1 “Sit at my right \add hand\add*
\q1 until I make your enemies your footstool.”
\q1 
\v 2 Yahweh will send out your mighty scepter from Zion;
\q1 rule in the midst of your enemies.
\q1 
\v 3 Your people ⸤will volunteer⸥\f + \fr 110:3 \ft Literally “will \fq be \ft freewill offerings”; see the related verbal form in \xt Judg 5:2 \ft \f* in the day of your power.\f + \fr 110:3 \ft Or “day of your army,” or “day of battle” \f*
\q1 In holy splendor, from \add the\add* womb of \add the\add* dawn,
\q1 you will have the dew of your youth.\f + \fr 110:3 \ft The meaning of this verse is obscure \f*
\q1 
\v 4 Yahweh has sworn and he will not change \add his mind\add*,
\q1 “You \add are\add* a priest forever
\q1 according to the manner of Melchizedek.”
\q1 
\v 5 O Lord, at your right \add hand\add*
\q1 he will shatter kings in the day of his anger.
\q1 
\v 6 He will judge among the nations;
\q1 he will fill \add them\add* with corpses.
\q1 He will shatter \add the\add* ⸤rulers⸥\f + \fr 110:6 \ft Literally “head” \f* of many countries.
\q1 
\v 7 He will drink from \add the\add* stream by the road;
\q1 therefore he will lift up \add his\add* head.
\c 111
\cl Psalm 111
\s1 Praise to God for His Work and Commands
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 111:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\q1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with all \add my\add* heart,
\q1 in \add the\add* assembly of \add the\add* upright and \add the\add* congregation.
\q1 
\v 2 The works of Yahweh \add are\add* great,
\q1 studied\f + \fr 111:2 \ft Or “pondered” \f* by all \add who\add* delight \add in\add* them.
\q1 
\v 3 \add Full of\add* splendor and majesty \add is\add* his work,
\q1 and his righteousness endures forever.
\q1 
\v 4 He has made his wonders ⸤to be remembered⸥;\f + \fr 111:4 \ft Literally “a remembrance” \f*
\q1 Yahweh \add is\add* gracious and compassionate.
\q1 
\v 5 He gives food to those who fear him;
\q1 he remembers his covenant forever.
\q1 
\v 6 He has declared the power of his works for his people,
\q1 by giving to them \add the\add* inheritance of \add the\add* nations.
\q1 
\v 7 The works of his hands \add are\add* faithfulness and justice;
\q1 all his precepts \add are\add* reliable.
\q1 
\v 8 \add They are\add* sustained forever \add and\add* ever,
\q1 done with faithfulness and uprightness.
\q1 
\v 9 He has sent redemption to his people;
\q1 he has commanded his covenant forever;
\q1 holy and fearful \add is\add* his name.
\q1 
\v 10 The fear of Yahweh \add is the\add* beginning of wisdom;
\q1 all who do them\f + \fr 111:10 \ft That is, his precepts (v. \xt 7 \ft ), or the stipulations of his covenant (v. \xt 9 \ft ) \f* have a good understanding.
\q1 His praise endures forever.
\c 112
\cl Psalm 112
\s1 The Path of the Righteous and the Path of the Wicked
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 112:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\q1 Blessed \add is the\add* man \add who\add* fears Yahweh;
\q1 he takes great delight in his commands.
\q1 
\v 2 His ⸤descendants⸥\f + \fr 112:2 \ft Literally “seed” \f* will be mighty in the land;
\q1 \add the\add* generation of \add the\add* upright will be blessed.
\q1 
\v 3 Wealth and riches \add are\add* in his house,
\q1 and his righteousness endures forever.
\q1 
\v 4 \add His\add* light rises in the darkness for the upright;
\q1 \add he is\add* gracious and compassionate and righteous.
\q1 
\v 5 \add It goes\add* well \add for\add* a man \add who\add* is gracious and lends,
\q1 \add who\add* conducts his ⸤business properly⸥.\f + \fr 112:5 \ft Literally “matters in justice” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 For he will not be shaken forever;
\q1 \add the\add* righteous ⸤will be remembered forever⸥.\f + \fr 112:6 \ft Literally “will be for an eternal remembrance” \f*
\q1 
\v 7 He is not afraid of bad news;
\q1 his heart \add is\add* steadfast, secure\f + \fr 112:7 \ft Or “full of trust” \f* in Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 8 His heart \add is\add* sustained; he will not be afraid,
\q1 until he looks \add in triumph\add* on his enemies.
\q1 
\v 9 ⸤He gives lavishly⸥\f + \fr 112:9 \ft Literally “He distributes freely, he gives” \f* to the needy;
\q1 his righteousness endures forever.
\q1 His horn rises high in honor.
\q1 
\v 10 \add The\add* wicked\f + \fr 112:10 \ft Singular \f* sees \add it\add* and is vexed.
\q1 He gnashes his teeth and ⸤becomes weak⸥.\f + \fr 112:10 \ft Literally “and melts” \f*
\q1 \add The\add* desire of \add the\add* wicked\f + \fr 112:10 \ft Plural \f* perishes.
\c 113
\cl Psalm 113
\s1 God’s Majesty and Care for the Needy
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 113:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\q1 Praise, O servants of Yahweh,
\q1 praise the name of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 2 Let the name of Yahweh be blessed,
\q1 from now until forever.
\q1 
\v 3 From \add the\add* rising of \add the\add* sun to its setting,
\q1 \add let\add* the name of Yahweh be blessed.
\q1 
\v 4 Yahweh \add is\add* high above all nations;
\q1 his glory \add is\add* above the heavens.
\q1 
\v 5 Who \add is\add* like Yahweh our God,
\q1 who \add is\add* enthroned on high,\f + \fr 113:5 \ft Or “who dwells on high” \f*
\q1 
\v 6 who ⸤condescends to look at⸥\f + \fr 113:6 \ft Hebrew “makes low to see” \f*
\q1 \add what is\add* in the heavens and in the earth?
\q1 
\v 7 \add He\add* raises \add the\add* helpless from \add the\add* dust;
\q1 he lifts \add the\add* needy from \add the\add* ash heap,
\q1 
\v 8 to seat \add them\add* with princes,
\q1 with the princes of his people.
\q1 
\v 9 \add He\add* causes the barren woman of the house to dwell
\q1 \add as\add* the happy mother of children.
\q1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 113:9 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 114
\cl Psalm 114
\s1 Praise to God for His Works During the Exodus
\q1 
\v 1 When Israel went out from Egypt,
\q1 the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language,
\q1 
\v 2 Judah became his sanctuary,
\q1 Israel his dominion.
\q1 
\v 3 The sea looked and fled;
\q1 the Jordan turned back.
\q1 
\v 4 The mountains skipped like rams,
\q1 \add the\add* hills like ⸤lambs⸥.\f + \fr 114:4 \ft Literally “sons of \fq the \ft flock” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 What’s with you, O sea, \add that\add* you fled?
\q1 O Jordan, \add that\add* you turned back?
\q1 
\v 6 O mountains, \add that\add* you skipped like rams?
\q1 O hills, like lambs?
\q1 
\v 7 At the presence of \add the\add* Lord writhe, O earth,\f + \fr 114:7 \ft Or “O land” \f*
\q1 at the presence of the God of Jacob,
\q1 
\v 8 who turned the rock into a pool of water,
\q1 flinty stone into a spring of water.
\c 115
\cl Psalm 115
\s1 Dead Idols and the Living God
\q1 
\v 1 Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us,
\q1 but to your name give glory,
\q1 because of your loyal love,
\q1 because of your faithfulness.
\q1 
\v 2 Why should the nations say,
\q1 “Where, ⸤pray tell⸥,\f + \fr 115:2 \ft Literally “please” \f* \add is\add* their God?”
\q1 
\v 3 But our God \add is\add* in the heavens;
\q1 all that he desires, he does.
\q1 
\v 4 Their idols \add are\add* silver and gold,
\q1 \add the\add* work of human hands.
\q1 
\v 5 They have mouths, but cannot speak;
\q1 they have eyes, but cannot see;
\q1 
\v 6 they have ears, but cannot hear;
\q1 they have noses, but cannot smell;
\q1 
\v 7 \add they have\add* their hands, but they cannot feel,
\q1 their feet, but they cannot walk;
\q1 they cannot utter a sound in their throats.
\q1 
\v 8 \add Those who\add* make them become like them,
\q1 \add as does\add* everyone who trusts in them.
\q1 
\v 9 O Israel, trust Yahweh;
\q1 he \add is\add* their help and their shield.
\q1 
\v 10 O house of Aaron, trust in Yahweh;
\q1 he \add is\add* their help and their shield.
\q1 
\v 11 \add You who\add* fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh;
\q1 he \add is\add* their help and their shield.
\q1 
\v 12 Yahweh remembers us; he will bless \add us\add*.
\q1 He will bless the house of Israel;
\q1 he will bless the house of Aaron.
\q1 
\v 13 He will bless \add those who\add* fear Yahweh,
\q1 the small with the great.
\q1 
\v 14 May Yahweh give you increase,
\q1 you and your children.
\q1 
\v 15 May you be blessed by Yahweh,
\q1 who made heaven and earth.
\q1 
\v 16 The heavens \add are\add* Yahweh’s heavens,
\q1 but the earth he has given to \add the\add* children of humankind.
\q1 
\v 17 The dead do not praise Yah,\f + \fr 115:17 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 nor any descending into silence.
\q1 
\v 18 \add It is\add* we, we will bless Yah\f + \fr 115:18 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 from now until forever.
\q1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 115:18 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 116
\cl Psalm 116
\s1 Thanksgiving for God’s Deliverance
\q1 
\v 1 I love \add him\add*, because Yahweh has heard
\q1 ⸤the voice of my supplications⸥.\f + \fr 116:1 \ft Literally “my voice, my supplications” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 Because he has inclined his ear to me,
\q1 I will call ⸤all my days⸥.\f + \fr 116:2 \ft Literally “in my days” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 \add The\add* ropes of death encircled me,
\q1 and the distresses of Sheol found me.
\q1 I found trouble and grief.
\q1 
\v 4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh:
\q1 “O Yahweh, please save my life!”
\q1 
\v 5 Gracious \add is\add* Yahweh and righteous,
\q1 and our God \add is\add* merciful.
\q1 
\v 6 Yahweh watches over \add the\add* simple.
\q1 I was brought low, but he gave me victory.
\q1 
\v 7 Return, O my soul, to your repose,
\q1 for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
\q1 
\v 8 For you have rescued me\f + \fr 116:8 \ft Hebrew “my soul.” If “soul” is accepted, then “death” means “\fq the place of \ft death,” that is, the netherworld. \f* from death,
\q1 my eyes\f + \fr 116:8 \ft Hebrew “eye” \f* from tears, my feet from stumbling.
\q1 
\v 9 I will walk before Yahweh
\q1 in the land\f + \fr 116:9 \ft Hebrew “lands” \f* of the living.
\q1 
\v 10 I believed when I spoke,
\q1 “I am afflicted greatly.”
\q1 
\v 11 I said in my haste,
\q1 “⸤Everyone⸥\f + \fr 116:11 \ft Literally “All \fq of \ft the humankind” \f* \add is\add* a liar.”
\q1 
\v 12 What shall I give back to Yahweh
\q1 \add for\add* all his benefits to me?
\q1 
\v 13 I will lift up \add the\add* cup of salvation
\q1 and proclaim the name of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 14 I will pay my vows \add made\add* to Yahweh
\q1 in the presence of all his people.
\q1 
\v 15 Costly ⸤in Yahweh’s view⸥\f + \fr 116:15 \ft Literally “in the eyes of Yahweh” \f* \add is\add*
\q1 the death of his faithful \add ones\add*.
\q1 
\v 16 Ah, Yahweh, I \add am\add* indeed your servant;
\q1 I am your servant, the child of your maidservant.
\q1 You have loosed my bonds.
\q1 
\v 17 I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
\q1 and proclaim the name of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 18 I will pay my vows \add made\add* to Yahweh
\q1 in the presence of all his people,
\q1 
\v 19 in the courts of the house\f + \fr 116:19 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh,
\q1 in the midst of you, O Jerusalem.
\q1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 116:19 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 117
\cl Psalm 117
\s1 Let All Peoples Praise Yahweh
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yahweh, all you nations;
\q1 extol him, all you peoples.
\q1 
\v 2 For his loyal love \add is\add* mighty on our behalf,
\q1 and the faithfulness of Yahweh \add is\add* forever.
\q1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 117:2 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 118
\cl Psalm 118
\s1 Praise to God for His Loyal Love
\q1 
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh for \add he is\add* good,
\q1 for his loyal love \add is\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 2 Let Israel say,
\q1 “His loyal love \add is\add* forever.”
\q1 
\v 3 Let the house of Aaron say,
\q1 “His loyal love \add is\add* forever.”
\q1 
\v 4 Let \add those who\add* fear Yahweh say,
\q1 “His loyal love \add is\add* forever.”
\q1 
\v 5 Out of \add my\add* distress I called to Yah.\f + \fr 118:5 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 Yah answered me, \add setting me\add* in a broad place.
\q1 
\v 6 Yahweh \add is\add* for me; I do not fear.
\q1 What can \add mere\add* humans\f + \fr 118:6 \ft Or “humankind” \f* do to me?
\q1 
\v 7 Yahweh \add is\add* for me as my helper,
\q1 and \add so\add* I will look \add in triumph\add* on those who hate me.
\q1 
\v 8 \add It is\add* better to take refuge in Yahweh
\q1 than to trust in humans.\f + \fr 118:8 \ft Or “humankind” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 \add It is\add* better to take refuge in Yahweh
\q1 than to trust princes.
\q1 
\v 10 All nations surrounded me.
\q1 In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.
\q1 
\v 11 They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me.
\q1 In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.
\q1 
\v 12 They surrounded me like bees;
\q1 they were extinguished like a fire of thorns.
\q1 In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.
\q1 
\v 13 You pushed me hard\f + \fr 118:13 \ft Hebrew intensive “pushing, you pushed me” \f* to \add make me\add* fall,
\q1 but Yahweh helped me.
\q1 
\v 14 Yah\f + \fr 118:14 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f* \add is\add* my strength and \add my\add* song,\f + \fr 118:14 \ft Or “\fq my \ft might” \f*
\q1 and he has become my salvation.\f + \fr 118:14 \ft Or “victory” \f*
\q1 
\v 15 \add The\add* sound of rejoicing and salvation\f + \fr 118:15 \ft Or “victory” \f*
\q1 \add is\add* in \add the\add* tents of \add the\add* righteous;
\q1 the right hand of Yahweh \add has\add* done valiantly.
\q1 
\v 16 The right hand of Yahweh \add has\add* exalted;
\q1 the right hand of Yahweh \add has\add* done valiantly.
\q1 
\v 17 I will not die but live,
\q1 and tell of the works of Yah.\f + \fr 118:17 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 
\v 18 Yah has disciplined me severely,
\q1 but he did not consign\f + \fr 118:18 \ft Hebrew “give” \f* me to death.
\q1 
\v 19 Open to me \add the\add* gates of righteousness,
\q1 that I may enter through them
\q1 \add and\add* give thanks to Yah.\f + \fr 118:19 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 
\v 20 This \add is\add* the gate of Yahweh,
\q1 through \add which the\add* righteous will enter.
\q1 
\v 21 I will give thanks \add to\add* you for you have answered me,
\q1 and you have become my salvation.\f + \fr 118:21 \ft Or “victory” \f*
\q1 
\v 22 \add The\add* stone the builders rejected
\q1 has become \add the\add* chief cornerstone.
\q1 
\v 23 This is from Yahweh;
\q1 it is wonderful in our eyes.
\q1 
\v 24 This \add is\add* the day Yahweh has worked;\f + \fr 118:24 \ft Or “made” \f*
\q1 let us rejoice and be glad in him.\f + \fr 118:24 \ft Or “in it” \f*
\q1 
\v 25 O Yahweh, please save;
\q1 O Yahweh, please grant success.
\q1 
\v 26 Blessed \add is\add* he who comes in the name of Yahweh.
\q1 We bless you\f + \fr 118:26 \ft Hebrew plural \f* from the house\f + \fr 118:26 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 27 Yahweh is God, and he has given us light.\f + \fr 118:27 \ft Or “made \fq his \ft light to shine upon \fq to \ft us” \f*
\q1 Bind \add the\add* festal sacrifice\f + \fr 118:27 \ft Or “festal procession” \f* with cords\f + \fr 118:27 \ft Or “branches” \f*
\q1 to the horns\f + \fr 118:27 \ft Or “\fq and lead up \ft to the horns” \f* of the altar.
\q1 
\v 28 You \add are\add* my God, and I will give thanks to you.
\q1 \add You are\add* my God; I will exalt you.
\q1 
\v 29 Give thanks to Yahweh for \add he is\add* good,
\q1 for his loyal love \add is\add* forever.
\c 119
\cl Psalm 119
\s1 Aleph\f + \fr 118:29 \ft \xt Psalm 119 \ft is an acrostic psalm, with twenty-two stanzas corresponding to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Blessed \add are those whose\add* way is blameless,
\q1 who walk in the law of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 2 Blessed \add are\add* those who keep his testimonies;
\q1 they seek him with a whole heart.
\q1 
\v 3 They also do no wrong;
\q1 they walk in his ways.
\q1 
\v 4 You have commanded\f + \fr 119:4 \ft Perhaps emphatic; Hebrew “you, you have commanded” \f* your precepts,
\q1 that \add we\add* should keep \add them\add* diligently.
\q1 
\v 5 Oh that my ways were steadfast,
\q1 to keep your statutes!
\q1 
\v 6 Then I would not be ashamed
\q1 when I look to all your commands.
\q1 
\v 7 I will give you thanks with an upright heart,
\q1 when I learn your righteous laws.
\q1 
\v 8 I will heed your statutes;
\q1 do not utterly forsake me.
\s1 Beth
\q1 
\v 9 How can a young man keep his way pure?
\q1 By taking heed according to your word.
\q1 
\v 10 With my whole heart I have sought you;
\q1 do not let me stray from your commands.
\q1 
\v 11 In my heart I have hidden your word,\f + \fr 119:11 \ft Or “promise” \f*
\q1 so that I may not sin against you.
\q1 
\v 12 Blessed \add are\add* you, O Yahweh.
\q1 Teach me your statutes.
\q1 
\v 13 With my lips I have told \add of\add*
\q1 all the ordinances of your mouth.
\q1 
\v 14 In the way of your testimonies I have rejoiced
\q1 as \add I would\add* over all riches.
\q1 
\v 15 I will meditate on your precepts
\q1 and look at\f + \fr 119:15 \ft That is, “examine” \f* your ways.
\q1 
\v 16 I will take delight in your statutes;
\q1 I will not forget your word.
\s1 Gimel
\q1 
\v 17 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live
\q1 and heed your word.
\q1 
\v 18 Uncover my eyes, that I may look at\f + \fr 119:18 \ft That is, “examine” \f*
\q1 wonderful things from your law.
\q1 
\v 19 I \add am\add* a sojourner on the earth;\f + \fr 119:19 \ft That is, “here for a short time” \f*
\q1 do not hide your commands from me.
\q1 
\v 20 My soul is crushed with longing
\q1 for your ordinances at all times.
\q1 
\v 21 You rebuke \add the\add* arrogant, \add the\add* accursed,
\q1 who stray from your commands.
\q1 
\v 22 ⸤Remove from⸥\f + \fr 119:22 \ft Literally “Roll off of” \f* me scorn and contempt,
\q1 for I have kept your testimonies.
\q1 
\v 23 Even \add though\add* princes sit \add and\add* speak against me,
\q1 your servant meditates on your statutes.
\q1 
\v 24 Your testimonies \add are\add* my delight,
\q1 ⸤my counselors⸥.\f + \fr 119:24 \ft Literally “the men of my counsel” \f*
\s1 Daleth
\q1 
\v 25 My soul clings to the dust;
\q1 revive me according to your word.
\q1 
\v 26 I told of my ways, and you answered me;
\q1 teach me your statutes.
\q1 
\v 27 Make me understand the way of your precepts,
\q1 that I may meditate on your wonderful things.
\q1 
\v 28 My soul weeps\f + \fr 119:28 \ft Or “is sleepless” \f* because of grief;
\q1 strengthen me according to your word.
\q1 
\v 29 Remove from me \add the\add* deceptive way,
\q1 and graciously give me your law.
\q1 
\v 30 I have chosen \add the\add* faithful way;
\q1 I have set your ordinances \add before me\add*.
\q1 
\v 31 I cling to your testimonies;
\q1 O Yahweh, do not let me be put to shame.
\q1 
\v 32 I will run the way of your commands,
\q1 for you will enlarge my heart.\f + \fr 119:32 \ft That is, “give greater understanding” \f*
\s1 Heʼ
\q1 
\v 33 Teach me, O Yahweh, the way of your statutes,
\q1 and I will keep it to the end.
\q1 
\v 34 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
\q1 and heed it with \add my\add* whole heart.
\q1 
\v 35 Cause me to walk in the path of your commands,
\q1 for I delight in it.
\q1 
\v 36 Incline my heart to your testimonies,
\q1 and not to \add dishonest\add* gain.
\q1 
\v 37 Turn away my eyes from looking at \add what is\add* worthless;
\q1 revive me in your ways.
\q1 
\v 38 Fulfill your word\f + \fr 119:38 \ft Or “your promise” \f* to your servant,
\q1 which \add is\add* to \add bring about\add* a reverence for you.
\q1 
\v 39 Turn away my disgrace that I dread,
\q1 for your ordinances \add are\add* good.
\q1 
\v 40 Look, I have longed for your precepts;
\q1 revive me in your righteousness.
\s1 Waw
\q1 
\v 41 Let your acts of loyal love also come to me, O Yahweh,
\q1 your salvation according to your word.\f + \fr 119:41 \ft Or “your promise” \f*
\q1 
\v 42 Then I will have an answer \add for the\add* one who taunts me,
\q1 for I trust your word.
\q1 
\v 43 And do not snatch \add the\add* word of truth utterly from my mouth,
\q1 for I hope in your ordinances.
\q1 
\v 44 So I will heed your law continually,
\q1 forever and ever.
\q1 
\v 45 And I will go about ⸤freely⸥,\f + \fr 119:45 \ft Literally “in the wide place” \f*
\q1 for I have sought your precepts.
\q1 
\v 46 And I will speak of your testimonies before kings,
\q1 and will not be ashamed.
\q1 
\v 47 And I will take delight in your commands,
\q1 which I love.
\q1 
\v 48 And I will lift up my hands\f + \fr 119:48 \ft Hebrew “palms” \f* to your commands, which I love,
\q1 and I will meditate on your statutes.
\s1 Zayin
\q1 
\v 49 Remember \add your\add* word to your servant,
\q1 upon which you have caused me to hope.
\q1 
\v 50 This \add is\add* my comfort in my misery:
\q1 that your word\f + \fr 119:50 \ft Or “your promise” \f* preserves my life.
\q1 
\v 51 \add The\add* arrogant utterly deride me;
\q1 I have not turned aside from your law.
\q1 
\v 52 I remember your ordinances of old, O Yahweh,
\q1 and I take comfort.
\q1 
\v 53 Rage seizes me because of \add the\add* wicked,
\q1 those who forsake your law.
\q1 
\v 54 Your statutes have been my songs
\q1 in the house of my sojourning.
\q1 
\v 55 I remember your name in the night, O Yahweh,
\q1 and I heed your law.
\q1 
\v 56 This has been mine,
\q1 that I have kept your precepts.
\s1 Heth
\q1 
\v 57 Yahweh \add is\add* my portion;
\q1 I intend to heed your words.
\q1 
\v 58 I ⸤seek your favor⸥\f + \fr 119:58 \ft Literally “entreat your face” \f* with my whole heart;
\q1 be gracious \add to\add* me according to your word.\f + \fr 119:58 \ft Or “your promise” \f*
\q1 
\v 59 I think about my ways,
\q1 and turn my feet to your testimonies.
\q1 
\v 60 I hurry and do not delay
\q1 to heed your commands.
\q1 
\v 61 \add The\add* cords of \add the\add* wicked surround me,
\q1 \add but\add* I do not forget your law.
\q1 
\v 62 \add In the\add* middle of \add the\add* night I rise to give you thanks,
\q1 because of your righteous ordinances.
\q1 
\v 63 I \add am\add* a companion of all \add who\add* fear you
\q1 and heed your precepts.
\q1 
\v 64 The earth, O Yahweh, is full of your loyal love.
\q1 Teach me your statutes.
\s1 Teth
\q1 
\v 65 You have dealt well with your servant,
\q1 O Yahweh, according to your word.
\q1 
\v 66 Teach me good discernment and knowledge,
\q1 for I believe your commands.
\q1 
\v 67 Before I was afflicted, I was going astray,
\q1 but now I heed your word.
\q1 
\v 68 You \add are\add* good and do good;
\q1 teach me your statutes.
\q1 
\v 69 \add The\add* arrogant smear me with lies;\f + \fr 119:69 \ft Hebrew “lie” \f*
\q1 I keep your precepts with \add my\add* whole heart.
\q1 
\v 70 Their heart \add is\add* insensitive like fat;\f + \fr 119:70 \ft See \xt Isa 6:10 \ft for a similar idea, but a different word for “fat” \f*
\q1 As for me, I take delight in your law.
\q1 
\v 71 \add It is\add* good for me that I was afflicted,
\q1 so that I might learn your statutes.
\q1 
\v 72 The law of your mouth \add is\add* better to me
\q1 than thousands of gold and silver \add coins\add*.
\s1 Yod
\q1 
\v 73 Your hands have made me and established me;
\q1 give me understanding that I may learn your commands.
\q1 
\v 74 Those who fear you will see me and be glad,
\q1 because I hope in your word.
\q1 
\v 75 I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments \add are\add* right,
\q1 and \add that\add* in faithfulness you afflicted me.
\q1 
\v 76 Please let your loyal love comfort me,
\q1 according to your word\f + \fr 119:76 \ft Or “your promise” \f* to your servant.
\q1 
\v 77 Let your mercies come \add to\add* me, that I may live,
\q1 for your law \add is\add* my delight.
\q1 
\v 78 Let the arrogant be put to shame,
\q1 because they have wronged me \add with\add* lies.\f + \fr 119:78 \ft Hebrew “lie” \f*
\q1 As for me, I will meditate on your precepts.
\q1 
\v 79 Let those who fear you turn to me,
\q1 even those who know\f + \fr 119:79 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* your testimonies.
\q1 
\v 80 May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
\q1 so that I may not be ashamed.
\s1 Kaph
\q1 
\v 81 My soul languishes for your salvation;
\q1 I hope in your word.
\q1 
\v 82 My eyes long for\f + \fr 119:82 \ft Or “long \fq to see \ft ” \f* your word,\f + \fr 119:82 \ft Or “your promise” \f*
\q1 saying, “When will you comfort me?”
\q1 
\v 83 For I have become like a wineskin in \add the\add* smoke,
\q1 \add yet\add* I have not forgotten your statutes.
\q1 
\v 84 How many \add are\add* the days of your servant?
\q1 When will you execute justice against those who persecute me?
\q1 
\v 85 \add The\add* arrogant have dug pits\f + \fr 119:85 \ft That is, traps \f* for me,
\q1 which \add is\add* not according to\f + \fr 119:85 \ft Or “who \fq are \ft not in accord with” \f* your law.
\q1 
\v 86 All your commands \add are\add* faithful.
\q1 They persecute me deceitfully; help me!
\q1 
\v 87 They have almost destroyed me on the earth,
\q1 but I have not forsaken your precepts.
\q1 
\v 88 According to your loyal love preserve me alive,
\q1 so that I may heed the testimony from your mouth.
\s1 Lamed
\q1 
\v 89 Forever, O Yahweh,
\q1 your word ⸤is settled⸥\f + \fr 119:89 \ft Literally “stands firm” \f* in heaven.
\q1 
\v 90 Your faithfulness \add endures\add* ⸤throughout all generations⸥.\f + \fr 119:90 \ft Literally “for a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 You have established \add the\add* earth and it stands.
\q1 
\v 91 By your ordinances they stand today,
\q1 for all \add are\add* your servants.
\q1 
\v 92 Unless your law \add had been\add* my delight,
\q1 then I would have perished in my misery.
\q1 
\v 93 I will not ever forget your precepts,
\q1 for by them you revive me.\f + \fr 119:93 \ft Or “give me life” \f*
\q1 
\v 94 I \add am\add* yours. Save me,
\q1 for I have sought your precepts.
\q1 
\v 95 For me \add the\add* wicked \add lie in\add* wait to destroy me.
\q1 I give attention to your testimonies.
\q1 
\v 96 I have seen a limit to every perfection;\f + \fr 119:96 \ft The meaning of this line is uncertain. \f*
\q1 your command \add is\add* very broad.
\s1 Mem
\q1 
\v 97 How I love your law!
\q1 The whole day it \add is\add* my meditation.
\q1 
\v 98 Your commands make me wiser than my enemies,
\q1 because they\f + \fr 119:98 \ft Hebrew “it \fq is \ft ” \f* \add are\add* ever with me.
\q1 
\v 99 I have more insight than all my teachers,
\q1 for your testimonies \add are\add* my meditation.
\q1 
\v 100 I understand more than \add the\add* elders,
\q1 for I keep your precepts.
\q1 
\v 101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
\q1 so that I may heed your word.
\q1 
\v 102 I have not turned aside from your ordinances,
\q1 for you have taught me.
\q1 
\v 103 How smooth\f + \fr 119:103 \ft Or “sweet” \f* \add are\add* your words\f + \fr 119:103 \ft Hebrew “word” \f* to my palate,
\q1 more than honey in my mouth.
\q1 
\v 104 From your precepts I get understanding,
\q1 therefore I hate every false way.
\s1 Nun
\q1 
\v 105 Your word \add is\add* a lamp to my feet
\q1 and a light to my path.
\q1 
\v 106 I have sworn \add an oath\add* and confirmed \add it\add*,
\q1 to heed ⸤your righteous ordinances⸥.\f + \fr 119:106 \ft Literally “the ordinances of your righteousness” \f*
\q1 
\v 107 I am very much afflicted;
\q1 O Yahweh, revive me according to your word.
\q1 
\v 108 Please accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Yahweh,
\q1 and teach me your ordinances.
\q1 
\v 109 My life \add is\add* ⸤in danger⸥\f + \fr 119:109 \ft Literally “in my hand” \f* continually,
\q1 yet I do not forget your law.
\q1 
\v 110 \add The\add* wicked have laid a snare for me,
\q1 yet I do not wander from your precepts.
\q1 
\v 111 I have taken as my own your testimonies forever,
\q1 for they \add are\add* the joy of my heart.
\q1 
\v 112 I have inclined my heart to do your statutes
\q1 forever, to the end.
\s1 Samek
\q1 
\v 113 I hate ⸤the double-minded⸥,\f + \fr 119:113 \ft Literally “\fq the \ft divided” \f*
\q1 but I love your law.
\q1 
\v 114 You \add are\add* my hiding place and my shield;
\q1 I hope in your word.
\q1 
\v 115 Turn aside from me, \add you\add* evildoers,
\q1 for I will keep the commands of my God.
\q1 
\v 116 Sustain me according to your word,\f + \fr 119:116 \ft Or “promise” \f* that I may live,
\q1 and do not let me be ashamed of my hope.
\q1 
\v 117 Uphold me, that I may be delivered,
\q1 and have regard for your statutes continually.
\q1 
\v 118 You reject all \add who\add* stray from your statutes,
\q1 for their deceit \add is\add* a breach of faith.
\q1 
\v 119 You remove all the wicked of \add the\add* earth \add like\add* dross,
\q1 therefore I love your testimonies.
\q1 
\v 120 My flesh trembles for fear of you,
\q1 and I am afraid of your judgments.
\s1 ʽAyin
\q1 
\v 121 I have done justice and righteousness;\f + \fr 119:121 \ft Or “done \fq what is \ft proper and right” \f*
\q1 do not leave me to my oppressors.
\q1 
\v 122 Pledge good for your servant;
\q1 do not let \add the\add* arrogant oppress me.
\q1 
\v 123 My eyes long for\f + \fr 119:123 \ft Or “long \fq to see \ft ” \f* your salvation,
\q1 and your righteous word.\f + \fr 119:123 \ft Or “promise” \f*
\q1 
\v 124 Deal with your servant according to your loyal love,
\q1 and teach me your statutes.
\q1 
\v 125 I \add am\add* your servant; give me understanding,
\q1 that I may know your statutes.
\q1 
\v 126 \add It is\add* time for Yahweh to act,\f + \fr 119:126 \ft Or “time to act, O Yahweh” \f*
\q1 \add for\add* they have broken your law.
\q1 
\v 127 Therefore I love your commands
\q1 more than gold, even fine gold.
\q1 
\v 128 Therefore all \add your\add* precepts of everything I regard as right;
\q1 I hate every false way.
\s1 Pe
\q1 
\v 129 Your testimonies \add are\add* miracles,
\q1 therefore my soul keeps them.
\q1 
\v 130 The unfolding of your words gives light,
\q1 giving understanding to \add the\add* simple.
\q1 
\v 131 I open my mouth and pant,
\q1 because I long for your commands.
\q1 
\v 132 Turn to me and be gracious to me,
\q1 as \add is\add* proper for those who love your name.
\q1 
\v 133 Direct my steps in your word,\f + \fr 119:133 \ft Or “through your promise” \f*
\q1 and do not let any iniquity gain power over me.
\q1 
\v 134 Redeem me from \add the\add* oppression of humankind,
\q1 that I may heed your precepts.
\q1 
\v 135 Shine your face on your servant,
\q1 and teach me your statutes.
\q1 
\v 136 Streams of water flow down \add from\add* my eyes,
\q1 because \add people\add* do not heed your law.
\s1 Tsade
\q1 
\v 137 You \add are\add* righteous, O Yahweh,
\q1 and your ordinances \add are\add* upright.
\q1 
\v 138 You have ordained your testimonies \add in\add* righteousness,
\q1 and \add in\add* exceeding faithfulness.
\q1 
\v 139 My zeal consumes me,
\q1 because my enemies have forgotten your words.
\q1 
\v 140 Your word \add is\add* very pure,
\q1 and your servant loves it.
\q1 
\v 141 I \add am\add* small and despised,
\q1 \add yet\add* I do not forget your precepts.
\q1 
\v 142 Your righteousness \add is\add* an everlasting righteousness,
\q1 and your law \add is\add* truth.
\q1 
\v 143 Trouble and anguish have found me;
\q1 your commands delight me.
\q1 
\v 144 The righteousness of your testimonies \add is\add* forever;
\q1 give me understanding that I may live.
\s1 Qoph
\q1 
\v 145 I call with \add my\add* whole heart; answer me, O Yahweh.
\q1 I will keep your statutes.
\q1 
\v 146 I call to you. Save me,
\q1 and I will heed your testimonies.
\q1 
\v 147 I rise early in the dawn and cry for help;
\q1 I hope in your word.\f + \fr 119:147 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f*
\q1 
\v 148 My eyes anticipate \add the\add* night watches,
\q1 that \add I may\add* meditate on your word.
\q1 
\v 149 Hear my voice according to your loyal love;
\q1 O Yahweh, preserve my life according to your justice.
\q1 
\v 150 \add Those who\add* pursue a \add wicked\add* purpose draw near;
\q1 they are far from your law.
\q1 
\v 151 You \add are\add* near, O Yahweh,
\q1 and all your commands \add are\add* truth.
\q1 
\v 152 Concerning your testimonies, I knew long ago
\q1 that you have established them forever.
\s1 Resh
\q1 
\v 153 See my misery and rescue me,
\q1 for I do not forget your law.
\q1 
\v 154 Plead my cause and redeem me;
\q1 preserve my life according to your word.\f + \fr 119:154 \ft Or “promise” \f*
\q1 
\v 155 Salvation \add is\add* far from \add the\add* wicked,
\q1 for they do not seek your statutes.
\q1 
\v 156 Your mercies \add are\add* great, O Yahweh;
\q1 preserve my life according to your ordinances.
\q1 
\v 157 My persecutors and enemies \add are\add* many,
\q1 \add yet\add* I do not turn aside from your testimonies.
\q1 
\v 158 I see \add the\add* treacherous and I feel disgust,
\q1 because they do not heed your word.
\q1 
\v 159 Consider\f + \fr 119:159 \ft Hebrew “See” \f* that I love your precepts;
\q1 O Yahweh, according to your loyal love preserve my life.
\q1 
\v 160 The ⸤whole⸥\f + \fr 119:160 \ft Literally “head” \f* of your word \add is\add* truth,
\q1 and your every righteous judgment \add endures\add* forever.
\s1 Sin/Shin
\q1 
\v 161 Princes persecute me without cause,
\q1 but my heart trembles because of your word.\f + \fr 119:161 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f*
\q1 
\v 162 I \add am\add* rejoicing over your word,
\q1 like one who finds great spoil.
\q1 
\v 163 I hate and abhor falsehood;
\q1 I love your law.
\q1 
\v 164 I praise you seven \add times\add* in the day
\q1 for your righteous ordinances.
\q1 
\v 165 Great peace \add is\add* for those who love your law,
\q1 and they do not have a cause for stumbling.
\q1 
\v 166 I hope for your salvation, O Yahweh,
\q1 and do your commands.
\q1 
\v 167 My soul heeds your testimonies,
\q1 and I love them exceedingly.
\q1 
\v 168 I heed your precepts and testimonies,
\q1 because all my ways \add are\add* before you.
\s1 Taw
\q1 
\v 169 Let my cry come before you, O Yahweh;
\q1 give me understanding according to your word.
\q1 
\v 170 Let my plea come before you;
\q1 Deliver me according to your word.\f + \fr 119:170 \ft Or “promise” \f*
\q1 
\v 171 Let my lips pour out praise,
\q1 because you teach me your statutes.
\q1 
\v 172 Let my tongue sing \add of\add* your word,\f + \fr 119:172 \ft Or “promise” \f*
\q1 because all your commands \add are\add* right.
\q1 
\v 173 Let your hand be my help,\f + \fr 119:173 \ft Hebrew “to help me” \f*
\q1 because I have chosen your precepts.
\q1 
\v 174 I long for your salvation, O Yahweh,
\q1 and your law \add is\add* my delight.
\q1 
\v 175 Let my soul\f + \fr 119:175 \ft Or “my life” \f* live that it may praise you,
\q1 and let your ordinances help me.
\q1 
\v 176 I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek your servant,
\q1 because I do not forget your commands.
\c 120
\cl Psalm 120
\s1 Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 120 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 In my distress I called to Yahweh,
\q1 and he answered me.
\q1 
\v 2 “Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips,
\q1 from a deceitful tongue.”
\q1 
\v 3 What shall be given to you,\f + \fr 120:3 \ft That is, by God against the false accuser \f*
\q1 and what more shall be done to you,
\q1 deceitful tongue?
\q1 
\v 4 \add The\add* sharpened arrows of a warrior,
\q1 with burning charcoals from broom trees.
\q1 
\v 5 Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech,
\q1 \add that\add* I dwell among the tents of Kedar.
\q1 
\v 6 Too long my soul has had its dwelling
\q1 near \add one who\add* hates peace.
\q1 
\v 7 I \add am for\add* peace, but when I speak,
\q1 they \add are\add* for war.
\c 121
\cl Psalm 121
\s1 Trust in God’s Protection
\d A song for the ascents.\f + \fr Ps 121 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains;
\q1 whence will my help come?
\q1 
\v 2 My help \add is\add* from Yahweh,
\q1 maker of heaven and earth.
\q1 
\v 3 He will not allow your foot to be moved;
\q1 he who protects you will not slumber.
\q1 
\v 4 Look, he will not slumber and he will not sleep—
\q1 he who protects Israel.
\q1 
\v 5 Yahweh \add is\add* your protector;
\q1 Yahweh \add is\add* your shade at your right hand.
\q1 
\v 6 The sun will not strike you by day,
\q1 nor \add the\add* moon by night.
\q1 
\v 7 Yahweh will protect you from all evil;\f + \fr 121:7 \ft Or “all calamity” \f*
\q1 he will protect your life.
\q1 
\v 8 Yahweh will protect your going out and your coming in
\q1 from now until forever.
\c 122
\cl Psalm 122
\s1 Jerusalem the Site of God’s Presence
\d A song of ascents. Of David.\f + \fr Ps 122 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I rejoiced in \add those who\add* said to me,
\q1 “Let us go to the house\f + \fr 122:1 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh.”
\q1 
\v 2 Our feet are standing
\q1 within your gates, O Jerusalem—
\q1 
\v 3 Jerusalem that is built
\q1 as a city that is joined together,
\q1 
\v 4 where \add the\add* tribes go up,
\q1 the tribes of Yah\f + \fr 122:4 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f* \add as\add* a testimony for Israel,
\q1 to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 5 For there \add the\add* thrones sit\f + \fr 122:5 \ft That is, rulers or judges on thrones \f* for judgment,
\q1 thrones of David’s house.
\q1 
\v 6 Pray\f + \fr 122:6 \ft Hebrew “Ask” \f* for the peace of Jerusalem:
\q1 “May those who love you be at ease.
\q1 
\v 7 May peace be within your walls,
\q1 security within your palaces.”
\q1 
\v 8 For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
\q1 I will say, “Peace \add be\add* within you.”
\q1 
\v 9 For the sake of the house\f + \fr 122:9 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh our God,
\q1 I will seek your good.
\c 123
\cl Psalm 123
\s1 Prayer for Yahweh’s Action in the Face of Scorn
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 123 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I lift up my eyes to you,
\q1 the one enthroned\f + \fr 123:1 \ft Or “the one who dwells” \f* in the heavens.
\q1 
\v 2 Behold, as \add the\add* eyes of servants
\q1 \add look\add* to the hand of their master,\f + \fr 123:2 \ft Hebrew “masters” \f*
\q1 as \add the\add* eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
\q1 so our eyes \add look\add* to Yahweh our God,
\q1 until he is gracious to us.
\q1 
\v 3 Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us,
\q1 for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.
\q1 
\v 4 For long enough our soul has had its fill of
\q1 the derision of the self-confident,
\q1 the contempt of \add the\add* arrogant.
\c 124
\cl Psalm 124
\s1 Thanksgiving for Yahweh’s Help
\d A song of ascents. Of David.\f + \fr Ps 124 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 “If \add it had\add* not \add been\add* Yahweh who was on our side,”
\q1 do let Israel say,
\q1 
\v 2 “If \add it had\add* not \add been\add* Yahweh who was on our side,
\q1 when men rose up against us,
\q1 
\v 3 then they would have swallowed us alive,
\q1 when their anger was kindled against us.
\q1 
\v 4 Then the waters would have flooded over us,
\q1 \add the\add* torrent would have passed over our soul.
\q1 
\v 5 Then over our soul would have passed
\q1 the raging waters.”
\q1 
\v 6 Blessed \add be\add* Yahweh,
\q1 who has not made\f + \fr 124:6 \ft Hebrew “given” \f* us prey for their teeth.
\q1 
\v 7 Our soul has escaped like a bird
\q1 from \add the\add* snare of fowlers.
\q1 The snare \add is\add* broken, and we have escaped.
\q1 
\v 8 Our help \add is\add* in the name of Yahweh,
\q1 maker of heaven and earth.
\c 125
\cl Psalm 125
\s1 Confidence in Yahweh’s Protection
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 125 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Those who trust in Yahweh
\q1 \add are\add* like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved,
\q1 \add but\add* abides forever.
\q1 
\v 2 \add As\add* mountains \add are\add* round about Jerusalem,
\q1 so Yahweh \add is\add* round about his people,
\q1 from now until forever.
\q1 
\v 3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest
\q1 on the ⸤land⸥\f + \fr 125:3 \ft Literally “lot,” that is, land allotted \f* of the righteous,
\q1 lest the righteous stretch out
\q1 their hands to do wickedness.\f + \fr 125:3 \ft Hebrew “in wickedness” \f*
\q1 
\v 4 Do good, O Yahweh, to the good,
\q1 and to \add those\add* upright in their hearts.
\q1 
\v 5 But regarding those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
\q1 Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers.
\q1 Peace \add be\add* upon Israel.
\c 126
\cl Psalm 126
\s1 A Prayer for Restoration
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 126 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 When Yahweh restored the fortunes\f + \fr 126:1 \ft Or “captivity” \f* of Zion,\f + \fr 126:1 \ft Or “\fq those \ft returned of \fq belonging to \ft Zion” \f*
\q1 we were like dreamers.
\q1 
\v 2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
\q1 and our tongue with rejoicing.
\q1 Then they said among the nations,
\q1 “Yahweh has done great \add things\add* for these \add people\add*.”
\q1 
\v 3 Yahweh has done great \add things\add* for us;
\q1 we are glad.
\q1 
\v 4 Restore, O Yahweh, our fortunes\f + \fr 126:4 \ft Or “captivity” \f*
\q1 like the streams in the Negeb.\f + \fr 126:4 \ft Or “South” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 Those who sow with tears
\q1 shall reap with rejoicing.
\q1 
\v 6 He who diligently goes \add out\add* with weeping,
\q1 carrying the seed bag,
\q1 shall certainly come \add in\add* with rejoicing,
\q1 carrying his sheaves.
\c 127
\cl Psalm 127
\s1 A Prayer for Protection and Prosperity
\d A song of ascents. Of Solomon.\f + \fr Ps 127 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Unless Yahweh builds a house,
\q1 its builders labor at it in vain.
\q1 Unless Yahweh guards a city,
\q1 a guard watches in vain.
\q1 
\v 2 \add It is\add* in vain for you who rise early \add and\add* sit late,
\q1 eating the bread of anxious toil,
\q1 \add when\add* thus he\f + \fr 127:2 \ft That is, Yahweh \f* provides\f + \fr 127:2 \ft Hebrew “gives” \f* for his beloved in \add his\add* sleep.\f + \fr 127:2 \ft Or “so he gives sleep to his beloved” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 Look, children\f + \fr 127:3 \ft Hebrew “sons” \f* \add are\add* the heritage\f + \fr 127:3 \ft That is, gift \f* of Yahweh;
\q1 the fruit of the womb \add is\add* a reward.
\q1 
\v 4 Like arrows in \add the\add* hand of a warrior,
\q1 so \add are\add* the children\f + \fr 127:4 \ft Hebrew “sons” \f* of \add one’s\add* youth.
\q1 
\v 5 Blessed \add is\add* the man who fills his quiver with them.\f + \fr 127:5 \ft Or “whose quiver he \fq Yahweh \ft fills with them” \f*
\q1 They shall not be put to shame
\q1 when they speak with enemies at the gate.
\c 128
\cl Psalm 128
\s1 Blessed Is Everyone Who Fears Yahweh
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 128 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Blessed \add is\add* everyone who fears Yahweh,
\q1 who walks in his ways.
\q1 
\v 2 You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands;
\q1 you \add will be\add* happy and \add it will be\add* well with you.
\q1 
\v 3 Your wife \add will be\add* like a fruitful vine
\q1 ⸤within⸥\f + \fr 128:3 \ft Literally “in the recesses of” \f* your house.
\q1 Your children\f + \fr 128:3 \ft Hebrew “sons” \f* \add will be\add* like olive shoots
\q1 about your table.
\q1 
\v 4 Look, for thus shall a man be blessed
\q1 ⸤who fears Yahweh⸥.\f + \fr 128:4 \ft Literally “a fearer of Yahweh” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 May Yahweh bless you from Zion,
\q1 that you may see the good of Jerusalem
\q1 all the days of your life,
\q1 
\v 6 and that you may see your children’s children.
\q1 \add May\add* peace \add be\add* upon Israel.
\c 129
\cl Psalm 129
\s1 Victory Over the Enemies of Zion
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 129 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 “Too often\f + \fr 129:1 \ft Or “Greatly” \f* they have attacked me from my youth.”
\q1 Let Israel say,
\q1 
\v 2 “Too often\f + \fr 129:2 \ft Or “Greatly” \f* they have attacked me from my youth,
\q1 yet they have not prevailed against me.
\q1 
\v 3 On my back plowmen have plowed.
\q1 They have made their furrows\f + \fr 129:3 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* long.”
\q1 
\v 4 Yahweh \add is\add* righteous.
\q1 He has cut \add the\add* ropes\f + \fr 129:4 \ft That is, the yoke and tackle on a beast of burden \f* of \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 
\v 5 Let all be put to shame and repulsed
\q1 who hate Zion.
\q1 
\v 6 Let them be like grass on \add the\add* housetops,
\q1 that withers before it grows up,
\q1 
\v 7 \add with\add* which a reaper cannot fill his hand,
\q1 nor the binder of sheaves his ⸤arms⸥,\f + \fr 129:7 \ft Literally “bosom” \f*
\q1 
\v 8 so that passersby do not say,
\q1 “The blessing of Yahweh \add be\add* upon you.
\q1 We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”
\c 130
\cl Psalm 130
\s1 Hope for the Redemption of Yahweh
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 130 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Out of \add the\add* depths I call to you, O Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 2 “O Lord, hear my voice.
\q1 Let your ears be attentive
\q1 to the voice of my supplications.
\q1 
\v 3 If you, O Yah,\f + \fr 130:3 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f* should ⸤keep track of⸥\f + \fr 130:3 \ft Literally “keep” \f* iniquities,
\q1 O Lord, who could stand?
\q1 
\v 4 But with you \add is\add* forgiveness,
\q1 so that you may be feared.”
\q1 
\v 5 I await Yahweh; my soul awaits,
\q1 and I wait\f + \fr 130:5 \ft Or “hope,” here and v. \xt 7 \ft , though the Hebrew uses a different verbal stem in v. \xt 7 \ft \f* for his word.
\q1 
\v 6 My soul \add waits\add* for the Lord
\q1 more than watchmen for the morning.
\q1 Yes, \add more than\add* watchmen for the morning.
\q1 
\v 7 O Israel, wait\f + \fr 130:7 \ft Or “hope” \f* for Yahweh.
\q1 For with Yahweh \add there is\add* loyal love,
\q1 and with him \add there is\add* abundant redemption.
\q1 
\v 8 And he will redeem Israel
\q1 from all its iniquities.
\c 131
\cl Psalm 131
\s1 Calm Trust in Yahweh
\d A song of ascents. Of David.\f + \fr Ps 131 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 My heart is not haughty nor my eyes ⸤arrogant⸥.\f + \fr 131:1 \ft Literally “raised” \f*
\q1 And I do not ⸤concern myself⸥\f + \fr 131:1 \ft Literally “walk about” \f*
\q1 with things too great and difficult for me.
\q1 
\v 2 Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul,
\q1 like a weaned child with its mother,
\q1 like the weaned child \add is\add* my soul with me.
\q1 
\v 3 O Israel, hope in Yahweh
\q1 from now until forever.
\c 132
\cl Psalm 132
\s1 Yahweh Dwells in Zion
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 132 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, remember with regard to David
\q1 all his affliction.\f + \fr 132:1 \ft Hebrew “his being afflicted” \f*
\q1 
\v 2 How he swore to Yahweh,
\q1 he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
\q1 
\v 3 “I will not enter into the tent of my house,
\q1 I will not go up to the couch of my bed,
\q1 
\v 4 I will give no sleep to my eyes,
\q1 \add no\add* slumber to my eyelids,
\q1 
\v 5 until I find a place for Yahweh,
\q1 a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
\q1 
\v 6 Look, we heard of it in Ephrathah;
\q1 we found her in the fields of Jaar.\f + \fr 132:6 \ft Or “the fields of the woods” \f*
\q1 
\v 7 Let us go to his dwelling places;\f + \fr 132:7 \ft That is, the temple \f*
\q1 Let us worship at his footstool.
\q1 
\v 8 Arise, O Yahweh, to your resting place,
\q1 you and your mighty ark.
\q1 
\v 9 Let your priests clothe themselves with righteousness,
\q1 and let your faithful sing for joy.
\q1 
\v 10 For the sake of your servant David,
\q1 do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
\q1 
\v 11 Yahweh swore \add in\add* truth to David;
\q1 he will not turn back from it.
\q1 “One from the fruit of your ⸤body⸥\f + \fr 132:11 \ft Literally “belly” \f*
\q1 I will set on your throne.
\q1 
\v 12 If your sons will heed my covenant
\q1 and my testimonies that I will teach them,
\q1 their sons also forever
\q1 will sit on your throne.”
\q1 
\v 13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion;
\q1 he has desired it for his habitation.
\q1 
\v 14 “This \add is\add* my resting place forever;
\q1 here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
\q1 
\v 15 I will bless its provisions abundantly;
\q1 I will satisfy its poor with bread.
\q1 
\v 16 I will also clothe its priests with salvation,
\q1 and its faithful will shout exuberantly for joy.
\q1 
\v 17 There I will cause a horn to grow for David;
\q1 I will set a lamp for my anointed one.
\q1 
\v 18 I will clothe his enemies with shame,
\q1 but on him his crown will flourish.”\f + \fr 132:18 \ft Or “shine” \f*
\c 133
\cl Psalm 133
\s1 The People of God Dwell in Unity
\d A song of ascents. Of David.\f + \fr Ps 133 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Look, how good and how pleasant \add it is\add*
\q1 \add when\add* brothers dwell together in unity.
\q1 
\v 2 \add It is\add* like the fragrant oil upon the head,
\q1 running down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron,
\q1 that runs down upon the edges of his robes.
\q1 
\v 3 \add It is\add* like the dew of Hermon that runs down
\q1 upon the mountains of Zion,
\q1 because there Yahweh commanded the blessing—
\q1 life forever.
\c 134
\cl Psalm 134
\s1 Praising Yahweh in the Temple at Night
\d A song of ascents.\f + \fr Ps 134 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Look, bless Yahweh, all \add you\add* the servants of Yahweh,
\q1 who ⸤serve⸥\f + \fr 134:1 \ft Literally “stand” \f* in the house\f + \fr 134:1 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh by night.
\q1 
\v 2 Lift up your hands in \add the\add* sanctuary
\q1 and bless Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 3 May Yahweh bless you from Zion,
\q1 \add he who\add* made heaven and earth.
\c 135
\cl Psalm 135
\s1 Praise to God for His Power and Redemption
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah!\f + \fr 135:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f* Praise the name of Yahweh.
\q1 Praise \add him\add*, O servants of Yahweh,
\q1 
\v 2 who stand in the house\f + \fr 135:2 \ft Or “temple” \f* of Yahweh,
\q1 in the courts of the house\f + \fr 135:2 \ft Or “temple” \f* of our God.
\q1 
\v 3 Praise Yah,\f + \fr 135:3 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f* for Yahweh \add is\add* good.
\q1 Sing praises concerning his name, for \add it is\add* pleasant.
\q1 
\v 4 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself,
\q1 Israel as his special possession.
\q1 
\v 5 For I know that Yahweh \add is\add* great,
\q1 and our Lord \add is greater\add* than all gods.
\q1 
\v 6 All that Yahweh desires, he does,
\q1 in heaven and on earth,
\q1 in the seas and all \add the\add* depths.
\q1 
\v 7 \add He\add* causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth;
\q1 he makes lightnings for the rain;
\q1 \add he\add* brings out \add the\add* wind from his storehouses.
\q1 
\v 8 Who struck the firstborn of Egypt,
\q1 both of humans\f + \fr 135:8 \ft Hebrew “human” \f* and animals.\f + \fr 135:8 \ft Hebrew “animal” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt,
\q1 against Pharaoh and all his servants.
\q1 
\v 10 Who struck many nations
\q1 and killed mighty kings—
\q1 
\v 11 Sihon the king of the Amorites,
\q1 and Og the king of Bashan,
\q1 and all the kingdoms of Canaan—
\q1 
\v 12 and he gave their land as an inheritance,
\q1 an inheritance for his people Israel.
\q1 
\v 13 O Yahweh, your name \add endures\add* forever,
\q1 your ⸤renown⸥\f + \fr 135:13 \ft Literally “remembrance” \f* ⸤throughout all generations⸥,\f + \fr 135:13 \ft Literally “for a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 
\v 14 for Yahweh will plead \add the\add* cause \add of\add* his people
\q1 and will have compassion on his servants.
\q1 
\v 15 The idols of the nations \add are\add* silver and gold,
\q1 \add the\add* work of the hands of humankind.
\q1 
\v 16 They have mouths, but cannot speak;
\q1 they have eyes, but cannot see;
\q1 
\v 17 they have ears, but cannot hear;
\q1 there is not even breath in their mouths.
\q1 
\v 18 \add Those who\add* make them become like them,
\q1 \add as does\add* everyone who trusts in them.
\q1 
\v 19 O house of Israel, bless Yahweh.
\q1 O house of Aaron, bless Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 20 O house of Levi, bless Yahweh.
\q1 \add You who\add* fear Yahweh, bless Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 21 Blessed \add be\add* Yahweh from Zion,
\q1 who dwells \add in\add* Jerusalem. Praise Yah!\f + \fr 135:21 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 136
\cl Psalm 136
\s1 Praise to God for His Creation and Deliverance
\q1 
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh, for \add he is\add* good,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 2 Give thanks to the God of gods,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 3 Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 4 To \add him who\add* alone does great wonders,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 5 To \add him who\add* made the heavens with skill,\f + \fr 136:5 \ft Or “understanding” \f*
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 6 To \add him who\add* spread out the earth above the waters,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 7 To \add him who\add* made \add the\add* great lights,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 8 The sun to rule the day,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 9 The moon and stars to rule the night,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 10 To \add him who\add* struck Egypt through their firstborn,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 11 And he brought Israel out from among them,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 12 With a strong hand and an outstretched arm,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 13 To \add him who\add* divided \add the\add* ⸤Red Sea⸥\f + \fr 136:13 \ft Literally “sea of reed” \f* in two,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 14 And he let Israel cross over through the midst of it,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 15 But he tossed Pharaoh and his army into \add the\add* ⸤Red Sea⸥,\f + \fr 136:15 \ft Literally “sea of reed” \f*
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 16 To \add him who\add* led his people through the wilderness,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 17 To \add him who\add* struck great kings,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 18 And he killed mighty kings,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 19 Sihon the king of the Amorites,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 20 And Og the king of Bashan,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 21 And he gave their land as an inheritance,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 22 An inheritance to Israel his servant,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 23 Who remembered us in our low estate,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 24 And he rescued us from our enemies,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 25 \add The one who\add* gives food to all flesh,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\q1 
\v 26 Give thanks to the God of heaven,
\q1 for his loyal love \add endures\add* forever.
\c 137
\cl Psalm 137
\s1 Lament During the Babylonian Exile
\q1 
\v 1 By the rivers of Babylon,
\q1 there we sat, yes, we wept,
\q1 when we remembered Zion.
\q1 
\v 2 On \add the\add* willows\f + \fr 137:2 \ft Species of tree uncertain \f* in her midst,
\q1 we hung up our lyres.
\q1 
\v 3 For there our captors asked of us
\q1 words of a song,
\q1 and our tormentors\f + \fr 137:3 \ft Only occurring once in the MT, this interpretation is uncertain. The LXX’s “carried us captive” is a guess. If related to the Hebrew root \fqa yll \ft it might have the idea of “mockers/yammerers” \f* \add asked of us\add* jubilation,
\q1 “Sing for us from a song of Zion.”
\q1 
\v 4 How could we sing the song of Yahweh
\q1 in ⸤a foreign land⸥?\f + \fr 137:4 \ft Literally “a land of a foreigner” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
\q1 let my right hand forget.\f + \fr 137:5 \ft That is, how to play a musical instrument \f*
\q1 
\v 6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth,
\q1 if I do not remember you,
\q1 if do not I exalt Jerusalem
\q1 above my highest joy.
\q1 
\v 7 Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom
\q1 the day of Jerusalem,
\q1 the ones who said, “Lay \add it\add* bare! Lay \add it\add* bare
\q1 to its foundation!”
\q1 
\v 8 O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated,
\q1 happy \add shall be he\add* who pays back to you
\q1 ⸤what you paid out to us⸥.\f + \fr 137:8 \ft Literally “\fq with \ft what you treated us” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 Happy \add shall be he\add* who seizes
\q1 and smashes your children
\q1 against the rock.
\c 138
\cl Psalm 138
\s1 Thanksgiving for Yahweh’s Goodness
\d Of David.\f + \fr Ps 138 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I give you thanks with my whole heart;
\q1 before \add the\add* gods I sing your praise.
\q1 
\v 2 I bow down toward your holy temple
\q1 and give thanks to your name,
\q1 because of your loyal love and faithfulness,
\q1 for you have magnified your word\f + \fr 138:2 \ft Or “promise” \f* according to all your name.\f + \fr 138:2 \ft Or “beyond all your name” \f*
\q1 
\v 3 ⸤When⸥\f + \fr 138:3 \ft Literally “In the day” \f* I called and you answered me,
\q1 you emboldened me in my soul \add with\add* strength.
\q1 
\v 4 All \add the\add* kings of \add the\add* earth
\q1 will praise you, O Yahweh,
\q1 when they have heard the words\f + \fr 138:4 \ft Or “heard about the words” \f* of your mouth,
\q1 
\v 5 and they will sing of the ways of Yahweh,
\q1 because Yahweh’s glory \add is\add* great.
\q1 
\v 6 Though Yahweh \add is\add* high, yet he sees \add the\add* lowly,
\q1 but \add the\add* proud he perceives\f + \fr 138:6 \ft Hebrew “knows” \f* at a distance.
\q1 
\v 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
\q1 you preserve me alive.
\q1 You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies,
\q1 and you save me \add with\add* your right hand.
\q1 
\v 8 Yahweh accomplishes \add things\add* for my benefit.
\q1 O Yahweh, your loyal love \add endures\add* forever;
\q1 do not abandon the works of your hands.
\c 139
\cl Psalm 139
\s1 The Knowledge of God
\d For the \add music\add* director. Of David. A psalm.\f + \fr Ps 139 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know \add me\add*.
\q1 
\v 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.
\q1 You understand my thought from afar.
\q1 
\v 3 You search out\f + \fr 139:3 \ft Hebrew “winnow”; or perhaps from another root, “measure” \f* my wandering and my lying down,
\q1 and are acquainted with all my ways.
\q1 
\v 4 For \add there is\add* not a word \add yet\add* on my tongue,
\q1 \add but\add* behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely.
\q1 
\v 5 You barricade me behind and in front,
\q1 and set your hand upon me.
\q1 
\v 6 \add Such\add* knowledge is too wonderful for me.
\q1 It is set high; I cannot \add prevail\add* against it.
\q1 
\v 7 Where I can go from your Spirit,
\q1 or where can I flee from your presence?
\q1 
\v 8 If I ascend to heaven, there you \add are\add*,
\q1 and if I make my bed \add in\add* Sheol, look! \add There\add* you \add are\add*.
\q1 
\v 9 If I lift up \add the\add* wings of \add the\add* dawn,
\q1 \add and\add* I alight on \add the\add* far side of \add the\add* sea,
\q1 
\v 10 even there your hand would lead me,
\q1 and your right hand would hold me fast.
\q1 
\v 11 And if I should say, “Surely darkness will cover me,
\q1 and \add the\add* light around me \add will be as\add* night,”
\q1 
\v 12 even \add the\add* darkness is not too dark for you,\f + \fr 139:12 \ft Or “does not obscure from you” \f*
\q1 and \add the\add* night shines as the day—
\q1 the darkness \add and\add* the light are alike \add for you\add*.
\q1 
\v 13 Indeed you created my ⸤inward parts⸥;\f + \fr 139:13 \ft Literally “kidneys” \f*
\q1 you wove me in my mother’s womb.
\q1 
\v 14 I praise you, because I am fearfully
\q1 \add and\add* wonderfully \add made\add*.\f + \fr 139:14 \ft Or “I am made wonderful fearfully” \f*
\q1 Wonderful \add are\add* your works,
\q1 and my soul knows \add it\add* well.
\q1 
\v 15 My ⸤frame⸥\f + \fr 139:15 \ft Literally “bone” \f* was not hidden from you,
\q1 when I was created secretly,\f + \fr 139:15 \ft Or “in the secret \fq place \ft ” \f*
\q1 \add and\add* intricately woven
\q1 in \add the\add* depths of \add the\add* earth.
\q1 
\v 16 Your eyes saw my embryo,\f + \fr 139:16 \ft Hebrew “unformed substance” \f*
\q1 and in your book they all were written—
\q1 days fashioned \add for me\add* when \add there was\add* not one of them.
\q1 
\v 17 And to me, how precious\f + \fr 139:17 \ft Or “difficult” \f* are your thoughts, O God;
\q1 how vast is their sum.
\q1 
\v 18 If I should count them,
\q1 they would outnumber \add the\add* sand.
\q1 I awaken, and I \add am\add* still with you.
\q1 
\v 19 If only you would kill the wicked, O God—
\q1 so get away from me, \add you\add* ⸤bloodthirsty men⸥—\f + \fr 139:19 \ft Literally “men of bloods” \f*
\q1 
\v 20 who speak against you deceitfully.
\q1 Your enemies take \add your name\add* in vain.
\q1 
\v 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Yahweh?
\q1 And do I \add not\add* loathe those who rise up against you?
\q1 
\v 22 I hate them with a complete hatred;
\q1 they have become my enemies.
\q1 
\v 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
\q1 test me and know my anxious thoughts.
\q1 
\v 24 And see if \add there is\add* in me ⸤the worship of false gods⸥,\f + \fr 139:24 \ft Literally “a way of an idol” \f*
\q1 and lead me in \add the\add* way everlasting.
\c 140
\cl Psalm 140
\s1 Prayer for Help in the Face of Enemies
\d For the \add music\add* director. A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 140 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Rescue me, O Yahweh, from evil men.\f + \fr 140:1 \ft The several uses of the singular “man” in this psalm are probably collective \f*
\q1 Preserve me from violent men,
\q1 
\v 2 who plan evil \add things\add* in \add their\add* heart.
\q1 They stir up wars continually.
\q1 
\v 3 They sharpen their tongue as \add sharp as\add* a snake’s;
\q1 \add the\add* venom of a viper \add is\add* under their lips. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 4 Protect me, O Yahweh, from \add the\add* hands of \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 Preserve me from violent men,
\q1 who have planned to ⸤make me stumble⸥.\f + \fr 140:4 \ft Literally “push my steps” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 \add The\add* proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords.
\q1 They have spread out a net along \add the\add* ⸤side⸥\f + \fr 140:5 \ft Literally “hand” \f* of \add the\add* path.
\q1 They have set snares for me. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 6 I say to Yahweh, “You \add are\add* my God.”
\q1 Listen, O Yahweh, to the voice of my supplications.
\q1 
\v 7 O Yahweh, my Lord, the strength of my salvation,
\q1 you have covered my head in \add the\add* day of battle.
\q1 
\v 8 Do not grant, O Yahweh, \add the\add* desires of \add the\add* wicked.
\q1 Do not allow \add them\add* to attain their\f + \fr 140:8 \ft Hebrew “his” \f* plan, lest they be exalted. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 9 \add With respect to the\add* head of \add those who\add* surround me,
\q1 may the harm of their lips cover them.
\q1 
\v 10 Let burning coals fall on them;
\q1 let them be dropped into the fire,
\q1 into bottomless pits \add from which\add* they cannot rise.
\q1 
\v 11 Do not let a ⸤slanderer⸥\f + \fr 140:11 \ft Literally “man of tongue” \f* be established in the land;
\q1 as for \add the\add* man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.
\q1 
\v 12 I know\f + \fr 140:12 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f* that Yahweh will maintain \add the\add* cause of \add the\add* afflicted,
\q1 \add and\add* justice for \add the\add* needy.
\q1 
\v 13 Surely \add the\add* righteous will give thanks to your name;
\q1 \add the\add* upright will dwell in your presence.
\c 141
\cl Psalm 141
\s1 Prayer for God’s Help in Maintaining Integrity
\d A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 141 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I call on you, O Yahweh; hasten to me.
\q1 Listen to my voice when I call to you.
\q1 
\v 2 Let my prayer be set before you \add as\add* incense,
\q1 the lifting up of my palms \add as the\add* evening offering.
\q1 
\v 3 Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth;
\q1 keep watch over the door of my lips.
\q1 
\v 4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing,
\q1 to practice wicked deeds
\q1 with men \add who\add* do iniquity;
\q1 and do not let me eat of their delicacies.
\q1 
\v 5 Let a righteous one strike me in kindness,
\q1 and let him chasten me.
\q1 \add It is\add* oil for \add my\add* head;\f + \fr 141:5 \ft Or “It is choice oil” \f* let not my head refuse.
\q1 For still my prayer \add is\add* against their evil deeds.
\q1 
\v 6 \add When\add* their judges are thrown down \add the\add* sides of a cliff,\f + \fr 141:6 \ft Or “are dropped into the hands of \fq the \ft Rock,” that is, Yahweh. The interpretation of vv. \xt 6–7 \ft is uncertain. \f*
\q1 then they will understand that my words were pleasant.
\q1 
\v 7 As \add when one\add* plows and breaks up the earth,
\q1 \add so\add* our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
\q1 
\v 8 But\f + \fr 141:8 \ft Or “Because” \f* my eyes \add are\add* toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord;
\q1 I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul.\f + \fr 141:8 \ft Or “Do not raze my life” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 Protect me from \add the\add* ⸤grasp⸥\f + \fr 141:9 \ft Literally “hand” \f* of \add the\add* trap they have laid for me,
\q1 and \add from the\add* snares of evildoers.
\q1 
\v 10 Let \add the\add* wicked fall into their\f + \fr 141:10 \ft Hebrew “his” \f* nets,
\q1 while I escape altogether.
\c 142
\cl Psalm 142
\s1 A Prayer for Deliverance from Pursuers
\d A maskil of David.
\q1 When he was in the cave. A prayer.\f + \fr Ps 142 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I cry out with my voice to Yahweh;
\q1 I implore favor with my voice to Yahweh.
\q1 
\v 2 I pour out my complaint before him;
\q1 I declare my trouble before him.
\q1 
\v 3 When my spirit faints within me,
\q1 you know my way.
\q1 On the path where I walk,
\q1 they have hidden a trap for me;
\q1 
\v 4 look to \add my\add* right and see.
\q1 There is no one looking out for me;
\q1 there is no escape for me;\f + \fr 142:4 \ft Hebrew “a refuge has perished from me” \f*
\q1 no one cares for my soul.\f + \fr 142:4 \ft Or “life” \f*
\q1 
\v 5 I cry out to you, O Yahweh.
\q1 I say, “You \add are\add* my refuge,
\q1 my portion in the land of the living.”
\q1 
\v 6 Attend to my cry,
\q1 for I am brought very low.
\q1 Deliver me from my pursuers,
\q1 for they are stronger than I.
\q1 
\v 7 Bring me\f + \fr 142:7 \ft Hebrew “my soul” \f* out of prison,
\q1 that I may give thanks to your name.
\q1 \add The\add* righteous will encircle me,
\q1 because you will deal bountifully with me.
\c 143
\cl Psalm 143
\s1 A Prayer for Rescue from Enemies
\d A psalm of David.\f + \fr Ps 143 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 O Yahweh, hear my prayer;
\q1 listen to my supplications.
\q1 In your faithfulness answer me,
\q1 \add and\add* in your righteousness.
\q1 
\v 2 And do not enter into judgment with your servant,
\q1 because no one alive \add is\add* righteous before you.
\q1 
\v 3 For \add the\add* enemy has pursued my soul;
\q1 he has crushed my life to the ground.
\q1 He has made me dwell in dark places
\q1 like \add those\add* long dead.
\q1 
\v 4 And \add so\add* my spirit grows faint within me;
\q1 my heart ⸤within⸥\f + \fr 143:4 \ft Literally “in the midst of” \f* me is desolate.
\q1 
\v 5 I remember \add the\add* days of long ago;
\q1 I meditate on all your doings.\f + \fr 143:5 \ft Hebrew “doing” \f*
\q1 I muse on the labor of your hands.
\q1 
\v 6 I stretch out my hands to you;
\q1 my soul \add longs\add* for you like a dry land. \qs Selah\qs*
\q1 
\v 7 Quickly answer me, O Yahweh;
\q1 my spirit fails.
\q1 Do not hide your face from me,
\q1 or I will become
\q1 like \add those\add* descending to \add the\add* pit.
\q1 
\v 8 Cause me to hear your loyal love in the morning,
\q1 for I trust you.
\q1 Cause me to know the way that I should go,
\q1 for I lift up my soul to you.
\q1 
\v 9 Deliver me from my enemies, O Yahweh.
\q1 I take refuge in you.\f + \fr 143:9 \ft This reading for the difficult Hebrew “I cover to you” is suggested by the LXX \f*
\q1 
\v 10 Teach me to do your will, for you \add are\add* my God;
\q1 your Spirit \add is\add* good.
\q1 Lead me onto level ground.
\q1 
\v 11 For your name’s sake, O Yahweh, preserve my life;
\q1 in your righteousness bring me\f + \fr 143:11 \ft Hebrew “my soul” \f* out of trouble.
\q1 
\v 12 And in your loyal love destroy my enemies,
\q1 and exterminate all \add the\add* adversaries of my soul,
\q1 for I \add am\add* your servant.
\c 144
\cl Psalm 144
\s1 A Prayer for National Safety
\d Of David.\f + \fr Ps 144 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 Blessed be Yahweh, my rock,
\q1 the one who trains my hands for battle,
\q1 my fingers for war—
\q1 
\v 2 my loyal love and my fortress,
\q1 my stronghold and my deliverer,
\q1 my shield, and \add one\add* in whom I take refuge,
\q1 the one who subdues peoples\f + \fr 144:2 \ft Reading with many Hebrew manuscripts and versions; MT reads “my people” \f* under me.
\q1 
\v 3 O Yahweh, what \add is\add* humankind that you take knowledge of him,
\q1 \add or the\add* son of man that you take thought of him?
\q1 
\v 4 Humankind is like a breath,
\q1 his days like a passing shadow.
\q1 
\v 5 O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down;
\q1 touch the mountains so that they smoke.
\q1 
\v 6 Flash forth lightning and scatter them;
\q1 dispatch your arrows and rout them.
\q1 
\v 7 Stretch out your hands from on high;
\q1 Rescue me and deliver me from many waters,
\q1 from \add the\add* hand of foreigners,
\q1 
\v 8 whose mouth speaks falsely,
\q1 and their right hand \add is\add* a false right hand.
\q1 
\v 9 O God, I will sing a new song to you.
\q1 With a lyre of ten \add strings\add* I will sing praise to you,
\q1 
\v 10 who gives victory to kings,
\q1 who rescues David his servant
\q1 from \add the\add* evil sword.
\q1 
\v 11 Rescue me and deliver me
\q1 from \add the\add* hand of foreigners,
\q1 whose mouth speaks falsely,
\q1 and whose right hand \add is\add* a false right hand,
\q1 
\v 12 that our sons \add may be\add* like plants,
\q1 full grown in their youth,
\q1 our daughters like corner pillars,
\q1 carved in the style of a palace,
\q1 
\v 13 \add that\add* our granaries \add may be\add* full,
\q1 providing \add produce\add* of all kinds,\f + \fr 144:13 \ft Hebrew “from kind to kind” \f*
\q1 \add that\add* our sheep \add may\add* produce by the thousands,
\q1 by the tens of thousands in our open fields,
\q1 
\v 14 \add that\add* our cattle \add may be\add* pregnant;
\q1 \add that there be\add* no breach \add in our walls\add*,
\q1 and no going out \add in exile\add*,
\q1 and no outcry in our plazas.
\q1 
\v 15 Blessed \add are\add* the people who have \add it\add* thus.
\q1 Blessed \add are\add* the people whose God \add is\add* Yahweh.
\c 145
\cl Psalm 145
\s1 A Song of God’s Majesty and Love
\d A praise of David.\f + \fr Ps 145 \ft The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm \f*
\q1 
\v 1 I will exalt you, my God, O king,
\q1 and I will bless\f + \fr 145:1 \ft That is, praise; here and v. \xt 2 \ft \f* your name forever and ever.
\q1 
\v 2 Every day I will bless you
\q1 and praise your name forever and ever.
\q1 
\v 3 Great \add is\add* Yahweh, and very worthy of praise,
\q1 and his greatness is unsearchable.
\q1 
\v 4 One generation will laud your works to another,
\q1 and will declare your mighty deeds.
\q1 
\v 5 On the splendor of the glory of your majesty,
\q1 and on your wonderful deeds, I will meditate.
\q1 
\v 6 And they will speak of the power of your awesome deeds,\f + \fr 145:6 \ft That is, deeds that evoke a fearful reverence \f*
\q1 and I will tell of your greatness.\f + \fr 145:6 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f*
\q1 
\v 7 They will utter \f + \fr 145:7 \ft Hebrew “pour forth” \f* the renown of your abundant goodness,
\q1 and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness.
\q1 
\v 8 Yahweh \add is\add* gracious and compassionate,
\q1 ⸤slow to anger⸥\f + \fr 145:8 \ft Literally “long of nostrils” \f* and great in loyal love.
\q1 
\v 9 Yahweh \add is\add* good to all,
\q1 and his mercies \add are\add* over all his works.
\q1 
\v 10 All your works will praise you, O Yahweh,
\q1 and your faithful ones will bless\f + \fr 145:10 \ft That is, praise \f* you.
\q1 
\v 11 They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,
\q1 and talk of your power,
\q1 
\v 12 to make known to the children of humankind his mighty deeds,
\q1 and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
\q1 
\v 13 Your kingdom \add is\add* an everlasting kingdom,
\q1 and your dominion \add endures\add* ⸤throughout all generations⸥.\f + \fr 145:13 \ft Literally “for a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 
\v 14 Yahweh upholds all who are falling,
\q1 and raises up all who are bowed down.
\q1 
\v 15 \add The\add* eyes of all look hopefully to you,
\q1 and you give them their food in due time,
\q1 
\v 16 opening your hand,
\q1 and satisfying \add the\add* desire \add of\add* every living creature.
\q1 
\v 17 Yahweh \add is\add* righteous in all his ways,
\q1 and loyal in all his works.
\q1 
\v 18 Yahweh \add is\add* near to all who call on him,
\q1 to all who call on him in truth.
\q1 
\v 19 He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
\q1 he also hears their cry for help, and saves them.
\q1 
\v 20 Yahweh protects all those who love him,
\q1 but all the wicked he will exterminate.
\q1 
\v 21 My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh,
\q1 and all flesh will bless his holy name
\q1 forever and ever.
\c 146
\cl Psalm 146
\s1 Praise to Yahweh for His Help
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 146:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\q1 Praise Yahweh, O my soul.
\q1 
\v 2 I will praise Yahweh while I live;
\q1 I will sing praises to my God while I \add am\add* still \add alive\add*.
\q1 
\v 3 Do not place trust in princes,
\q1 in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.
\q1 
\v 4 His breath departs; he returns to his plot;\f + \fr 146:4 \ft A Hebrew wordplay: “humankind,” \fqa adam \ft (v. \xt 3 \ft ), returns to his ground/plot, \fqa adamah \ft  \f*
\q1 on that day his plans perish.
\q1 
\v 5 Blessed \add is the one\add* whose help \add is\add* the God of Jacob,
\q1 whose hope \add is\add* on Yahweh \add as\add* his God,
\q1 
\v 6 who made heaven and earth,
\q1 the sea and all that \add is\add* in them,
\q1 the one who keeps faith\f + \fr 146:6 \ft Or “remains faithful” \f* forever,
\q1 
\v 7 \add who\add* executes justice for the oppressed,
\q1 \add who\add* gives food for the hungry.
\q1 Yahweh sets prisoners free;
\q1 
\v 8 Yahweh opens \add the eyes of the\add* blind;
\q1 Yahweh raises up \add those\add* bowed down;
\q1 Yahweh loves \add the\add* righteous;
\q1 
\v 9 Yahweh protects\f + \fr 146:9 \ft Or “watches over” \f* \add the\add* strangers.
\q1 He helps up \add the\add* orphan and \add the\add* widow,
\q1 but \add the\add* way of \add the\add* wicked he ⸤thwarts⸥.\f + \fr 146:9 \ft Literally “makes crooked” \f*
\q1 
\v 10 Yahweh will reign forever,
\q1 Your God, O Zion, ⸤throughout all generations⸥.\f + \fr 146:10 \ft Literally “for a generation and a generation” \f*
\q1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 146:10 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 147
\cl Psalm 147
\s1 Praise to Yahweh for His Providence
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 147:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft ; here and v. \xt 20 \ft \f*
\q1 For \add it is\add* good to sing praises \add to\add* our God;
\q1 for \add it is\add* pleasant; praise is fitting.
\q1 
\v 2 Yahweh \add is\add* building Jerusalem;
\q1 he gathers \add the\add* scattered ones of Israel.
\q1 
\v 3 \add He is\add* the one who heals the brokenhearted,
\q1 and binds up their wounds.
\q1 
\v 4 \add He\add* counts \add the\add* number of the stars;
\q1 he gives names to all of them.
\q1 
\v 5 Great \add is\add* our Lord, and abundant in power;
\q1 his understanding is unlimited.
\q1 
\v 6 Yahweh helps the afflicted up;
\q1 \add he\add* brings \add the\add* wicked down to \add the\add* ground.
\q1 
\v 7 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving;
\q1 sing praises to our God with lyre,
\q1 
\v 8 who covers \add the\add* heavens with clouds,
\q1 who provides rain for the earth,
\q1 who causes grass to grow on the mountains.
\q1 
\v 9 \add He\add* gives to \add the\add* animal its food,
\q1 \add and\add* to \add the\add* young ravens that cry.
\q1 
\v 10 He does not delight in the strength of the horse;
\q1 he takes no pleasure in the legs of the man.
\q1 
\v 11 Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him,
\q1 the ones who hope\f + \fr 147:11 \ft That is, “wait expectantly” \f* for his loyal love.
\q1 
\v 12 Laud Yahweh, O Jerusalem;
\q1 praise your God, O Zion,
\q1 
\v 13 for he strengthens the bars of your gates.
\q1 He blesses your children within you;
\q1 
\v 14 \add he\add* makes your border peaceful;
\q1 he satisfies you with \add the\add* ⸤finest of wheat⸥.\f + \fr 147:14 \ft Literally “\fq the \ft fat of the wheat” \f*
\q1 
\v 15 \add He\add* sends out his command\f + \fr 147:15 \ft Or “utterance” \f* to \add the\add* earth;
\q1 his word runs swiftly.
\q1 
\v 16 \add He\add* gives snow like wool;
\q1 he scatters frost like ashes;
\q1 
\v 17 \add he\add* throws his hail like crumbs.
\q1 Who can stand before his cold?\f + \fr 147:17 \ft With slight alteration of the Hebrew, the line might read “before his cold water stands” \f*
\q1 
\v 18 He sends out his word and melts them;
\q1 he blows his breath, the water flows.
\q1 
\v 19 \add He\add* declares his word to Jacob,
\q1 his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
\q1 
\v 20 He has not done so for any nation,
\q1 and they do not know \add his\add* ordinances.
\q1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 147:20 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 148
\cl Psalm 148
\s1 Let All Creation Praise Yahweh
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 148:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\q1 Praise Yahweh from the heavens;
\q1 praise him in the heights.
\q1 
\v 2 Praise him, all his angels;
\q1 praise him, all his hosts.\f + \fr 148:2 \ft According to the reading tradition (\fqa Qere \ft ) \f*
\q1 
\v 3 Praise him, sun and moon;
\q1 praise him, all stars of light.
\q1 
\v 4 Praise him, ⸤highest heavens⸥,\f + \fr 148:4 \ft Literally “heaven\fq s \ft of the heavens” \f*
\q1 and waters above the heavens.
\q1 
\v 5 Let them praise the name of Yahweh,
\q1 because he commanded and they were created.
\q1 
\v 6 And he put them in place forever and ever,
\q1 \add by\add* a decree he gave that will not pass away.
\q1 
\v 7 Praise Yahweh from the earth—
\q1 great sea creatures and all deeps,
\q1 
\v 8 fire and hail, snow and cloud,\f + \fr 148:8 \ft The meaning of “cloud” is uncertain \f*
\q1 stormy wind doing his bidding,\f + \fr 148:8 \ft Hebrew “his word” \f*
\q1 
\v 9 the mountains and all hills,
\q1 fruit trees and all cedars,
\q1 
\v 10 beasts and all cattle,\f + \fr 148:10 \ft That is, wild and domesticated \f*
\q1 creeping things and ⸤flying birds⸥,\f + \fr 148:10 \ft Literally “bird of wing” \f*
\q1 
\v 11 kings of \add the\add* earth and all peoples,
\q1 princes and all judges of \add the\add* earth,
\q1 
\v 12 young men and young women as well,
\q1 \add the\add* old \add together\add* with \add the\add* young—
\q1 
\v 13 let them praise the name of Yahweh,
\q1 because his name alone \add is\add* is exalted.
\q1 His splendor \add is\add* above earth and heavens.
\q1 
\v 14 And he has raised high a horn for his people,
\q1 praise for all his faithful—
\q1 for the children of Israel,
\q1 a people close to him.
\q1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 148:14 \ft Hebew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 149
\cl Psalm 149
\s1 Praise to God for His Future Judgment
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 149:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\q1 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
\q1 his praise in \add the\add* assembly of \add the\add* faithful.
\q1 
\v 2 Let Israel be glad in its maker;
\q1 let the children of Zion rejoice in their king.
\q1 
\v 3 Let them praise his name with dancing;
\q1 let them sing praises to him with tambourine and lyre.
\q1 
\v 4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people;
\q1 he glorifies \add the\add* afflicted with salvation.
\q1 
\v 5 Let \add the\add* faithful exult in glory;
\q1 let them sing for joy on their beds.
\q1 
\v 6 Let the extolling of God \add be\add* in their throat,
\q1 and a double-edged sword in their hand,
\q1 
\v 7 to execute vengeance on the nations
\q1 \add and\add* punishment on \add the\add* peoples,\f + \fr 149:7 \ft Reading against the MT and with the LXX \f*
\q1 
\v 8 to bind their kings with chains
\q1 and their ⸤nobles⸥\f + \fr 149:8 \ft Literally “honorable ones” \f* with fetters of iron,
\q1 
\v 9 to execute on them \add the\add* judgment that is decreed.\f + \fr 149:9 \ft Hebrew “written” \f*
\q1 This \add will be\add* honor for all his faithful ones;
\q1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 149:9 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\c 150
\cl Psalm 150
\s1 Let Everything Praise Yahweh
\q1 
\v 1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 150:1 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*
\q1 Praise God in his sanctuary;
\q1 praise him in his mighty firmament.
\q1 
\v 2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
\q1 praise him according to the abundance of his greatness.
\q1 
\v 3 Praise him with blast of horn;
\q1 praise him with harp and lyre.
\q1 
\v 4 Praise him with tambourine and dancing;
\q1 praise him with strings and flute.
\q1 
\v 5 Praise him with sounding cymbals;
\q1 praise him with clashing cymbals.
\q1 
\v 6 Every breathing thing,
\q1 let it praise Yah.\f + \fr 150:6 \ft A shortened form of “Yahweh” \f*
\q1 Praise Yah.\f + \fr 150:6 \ft Hebrew \fqa hallelujah \ft  \f*