Psalm 6-10

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6 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. With stringed instruments. On sh’minit [low-pitched musical instruments?]. A psalm of David:

²⁽¹⁾Adonai, don’t rebuke me in your anger,
don’t discipline me in the heat of your fury.
³⁽²⁾Be gracious to me, Adonai,
because I am withering away;
heal me, Adonai,
because my bones are shaking;
⁴⁽³⁾I am completely terrified;
and you, Adonai — how long?
⁵⁽⁴⁾Come back, Adonai, and rescue me!
Save me for the sake of your grace;
⁶⁽⁵⁾for in death, no one remembers you;
in Sh’ol, who will praise you?

⁷⁽⁶⁾I am worn out with groaning;
all night I drench my bed with tears,
flooding my couch till it swims.
⁸⁽⁷⁾My vision is darkened with anger;
it grows weak because of all my foes.

⁹⁽⁸⁾Get away from me, all you workers of evil!
For Adonai has heard the sound of my weeping,
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾Adonai has heard my pleading,
Adonai will accept my prayer.
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾All my enemies will be confounded,
completely terrified;
they will turn back
and be suddenly put to shame.

7 ⁽⁰⁾A shiggayon of David, which he sang to Adonai because of Kush the Ben-Y’mini:

²⁽¹⁾Adonai my God, in you I take refuge.
Save me from all my pursuers, and rescue me;
³⁽²⁾otherwise, they will maul me like a lion
and tear me apart, with no rescuer present.

⁴⁽³⁾Adonai my God, if I have caused this,
if there is guilt on my hands,
⁵⁽⁴⁾if I paid back evil to him who was at peace with me,
when I even spared those who opposed me without cause;
⁶⁽⁵⁾then let the enemy pursue me
until he overtakes me
and tramples my life down into the earth;
yes, let him lay my honor in the dust. (Selah)

⁷⁽⁶⁾Rise up, Adonai, in your anger!
Arouse yourself against the fury of my foes.
Wake up for me; you commanded justice.
⁸⁽⁷⁾May the assembly of the peoples surround you;
may you return to rule over them from on high.
⁹⁽⁸⁾Adonai, who dispenses judgment to the peoples,
judge me, Adonai, according to my righteousness
and as my integrity deserves.
¹⁰⁽⁹⁾Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
and establish the righteous;
since you, righteous God,
test hearts and minds.
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾My shield is God,
who saves the upright in heart.

¹²⁽¹¹⁾God is a righteous judge,
a God whose anger is present every day.
¹³⁽¹²⁾If a person will not repent,
he sharpens his sword.
He has bent his bow, made it ready;
¹⁴⁽¹³⁾he has also prepared for him
weapons of death, his arrows,
which he has made into burning shafts.

¹⁵⁽¹⁴⁾Look how the wicked is pregnant with evil;
he conceives trouble, gives birth to lies.
¹⁶⁽¹⁵⁾He makes a pit, digs it deep,
and falls into the hole he made.
¹⁷⁽¹⁶⁾His mischief will return onto his own head,
his violence will recoil onto his own skull.

¹⁸⁽¹⁷⁾I thank Adonai for his righteousness
and sing praise to the name of Adonai ‘Elyon.

8 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. On the gittit. A psalm of David:

²⁽¹⁾Adonai! Our Lord! How glorious
is your name throughout the earth!
The fame of your majesty
spreads even above the heavens!

³⁽²⁾From the mouths of babies and infants at the breast
you established strength because of your foes,
in order that you might silence
the enemy and the avenger.

⁴⁽³⁾When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and stars that you set in place —
⁵⁽⁴⁾what are mere mortals, that you concern yourself with them;
humans, that you watch over them with such care?

⁶⁽⁵⁾You made him but little lower than the angels,
you crowned him with glory and honor,
⁷⁽⁶⁾you had him rule what your hands made,
you put everything under his feet —
⁸⁽⁷⁾sheep and oxen, all of them,
also the animals in the wilds,
⁹⁽⁸⁾the birds in the air, the fish in the sea,
whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

¹⁰⁽⁹⁾Adonai! Our Lord! How glorious
is your name throughout the earth!

9 ⁽⁰⁾For the leader. On the death of Labben. A psalm of David:

²⁽¹⁾I give thanks to Adonai with all my heart.
I will tell about all your wonderful deeds.
³⁽²⁾I will be glad and exult in you.
I will sing praise to your name, ‘Elyon.

⁴⁽³⁾When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before you.
⁵⁽⁴⁾For you upheld my cause as just,
sitting on the throne as the righteous judge.

⁶⁽⁵⁾You rebuked the nations, destroyed the wicked,
blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁷⁽⁶⁾The enemy is finished, in ruins forever;
you destroyed their cities; all memory of them is lost.

⁸⁽⁷⁾But Adonai is enthroned forever;
he has set up his throne for judgment.
⁹⁽⁸⁾He will judge the world in righteousness;
he will judge the peoples fairly.

¹⁰⁽⁹⁾Adonai is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a tower of strength in times of trouble.
¹¹⁽¹⁰⁾Those who know your name put their trust in you,
for you have not abandoned those who seek you, Adonai.

¹²⁽¹¹⁾Sing praises to Adonai, who lives in Tziyon;
proclaim his deeds among the peoples.
¹³⁽¹²⁾For the avenger of blood remembers them,
he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted:

¹⁴⁽¹³⁾“Have mercy on me, Adonai!
See how I suffer from those who hate me;
you raise me from the gates of death,
¹⁵⁽¹⁴⁾so that I can proclaim all your praises
at the gates of the daughter of Tziyon
and rejoice in this deliverance of yours.”

¹⁶⁽¹⁵⁾The nations have drowned in the pit they dug,
caught their own feet in the net they hid.
¹⁷⁽¹⁶⁾Adonai made himself known and executed judgment;
the wicked are ensnared in the work of their own hands. (Higgayon; Selah)

¹⁸⁽¹⁷⁾The wicked will return to Sh’ol,
all the nations that forget God.

¹⁹⁽¹⁸⁾For the poor will not always be forgotten
or the hope of the needy perish forever.

²⁰⁽¹⁹⁾Arise, Adonai! Don’t let mortals prevail!
Let the nations be judged in your presence.
²¹⁽²⁰⁾Strike them with terror, Adonai!
Let the nations know they are only human. (Selah)

10 Why, Adonai, do you stand at a distance?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
²The wicked in their arrogance hunt down the poor,
who get caught in the schemes they think up.

³For the wicked boasts about his lusts;
he blesses greed and despises Adonai.
⁴Every scheme of the wicked in his arrogance [says],
“There is no God, [so] it won’t be held against me.”
⁵His ways prosper at all times.
Your judgments are way up there,
so he takes no notice.
His adversaries? He scoffs at them all.
⁶In his heart he thinks, “I will never be shaken;
I won’t meet trouble, not now or ever.”
⁷His mouth is full of curses, deceit, oppression;
under his tongue, mischief and injustice.
⁸He waits near settlements in ambush
and kills an innocent man in secret;
his eyes are on the hunt for the helpless.
⁹Lurking unseen like a lion in his lair,
he lies in wait to pounce on the poor,
then seizes the poor and drags him off in his net.
¹⁰Yes, he stoops, crouches down low;
and the helpless wretch falls into his clutches.
¹¹He says in his heart, “God forgets,
he hides his face, he will never see.”

¹²Arise, Adonai! God, raise your hand!
Don’t forget the humble!
¹³Why does the wicked despise God
and say in his heart, “It won’t be held against me”?
¹⁴You have seen; for you look at mischief and grief,
so that you can take the matter in hand.
The helpless commits himself to you;
you help the fatherless.
¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked!
As for the evil man,
search out his wickedness
until there is none left.

¹⁶Adonai is king forever and ever!
The nations have vanished from his land.
¹⁷Adonai, you have heard what the humble want;
you encourage them and listen to them,
¹⁸to give justice to the fatherless and oppressed,
so that no one on earth will strike terror again.

Tehillim 6-10

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6 (For the one directing. With stringed instruments. Al HaSheminit. Mizmor Dovid) Hashem, rebuke me not in Thine anger, neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.

²⁽³⁾Have mercy upon me, Hashem; for I am weak: Hashem, heal me; for my atzmot are shaking.

³⁽⁴⁾My nefesh is also much shaken; but Thou, Hashem, ad mosai (how much longer)?

⁴⁽⁵⁾Turn, Hashem, deliver my nefesh; hoshieini (save me) for the sake of Thy chesed.

⁵⁽⁶⁾For in mavet there is no remembrance of Thee; in Sheol who shall give Thee thanks?

⁶⁽⁷⁾I am weary with my groaning; all the lailah flood I my mittah with weeping; I water my couch with my tears.

⁷⁽⁸⁾Mine eye is consumed because of ka’as (grief); it groweth old because of all mine enemies.

⁸⁽⁹⁾Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Hashem hath heard the voice of my weeping.

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾Hashem hath heard my techinnah (supplication); Hashem will receive my tefillah (prayer).

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾Let all mine oyevim be ashamed and much troubled; let them turn back and suddenly be ashamed.

7 (Shiggayon of Dovid, which he sang unto Hashem, regarding Kush of Binyamin) Hashem Elohai, in Thee do I seek refuge; hoshieini (save me) from all them that persecute me, and deliver me;

²⁽³⁾Lest he tear my nefesh like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to rescue.

³⁽⁴⁾Hashem Elohai, if I have done this; if there be guilt in my hands;

⁴⁽⁵⁾If I have recompensed with evil him that held out shalom unto me; or, without cause plundered my opposers,

⁵⁽⁶⁾Then let the enemy persecute my nefesh, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay mine kavod to sleep in the dust. Selah.

⁶⁽⁷⁾Arise, Hashem, in Thine anger, lift up Thyself because of the rage of mine enemies; awake, o my El, to the mishpat Thou hast decreed.

⁷⁽⁸⁾So let the Adat l’Umim surround Thee; and over it return Thou on high [to judge].

⁸⁽⁹⁾Hashem shall judge the people; judge me, Hashem, according to my tzedek, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾Oh let the wickedness of the resha’im come to an end; but make the tzaddik secure; for the Elohim Tzaddik trieth the minds and hearts.

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾My mogen (shield) is Elohim, Moshi’a of the upright in heart.

¹¹⁽¹²⁾Elohim is a Shofet Tzaddik, and El expresses wrath kol yom.

¹²⁽¹³⁾If He relent not, He will sharpen His cherev; He hath bent His keshet (bow) and made it ready.

¹³⁽¹⁴⁾He hath also prepared for Him the instruments of mavet; He ordaineth His flaming khitzim (arrows).

¹⁴⁽¹⁵⁾Hinei, he [an evil person] travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived trouble, and brought forth falsehood.

¹⁵⁽¹⁶⁾He makes a pit, and digs it, and is fallen into the shachat (pit) which he made.

¹⁶⁽¹⁷⁾His trouble shall return upon his own rosh, and his chamas shall come down upon his own kodkod (crown of the head).

¹⁷⁽¹⁸⁾I will give thanks to Hashem according to His tzedek; and will sing praise to the Shem of Hashem Elyon.

8 (For the one directing. According to the gittit. Mizmor of Dovid). Hashem Adoneinu, how excellent is Shimecha in kol ha’aretz Who hast set Thy glory above HaShomayim.

²⁽³⁾Out of the mouth of olelim and infants hast Thou established strength because of Thine enemies, that Thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

³⁽⁴⁾When I consider Thy heavens, the ma’asim of Thy fingers, the yarei’ach and the kokhavim, which Thou hast ordained;

⁴⁽⁵⁾What is enosh (mankind), that Thou art mindful of him? And the ben adam, that Thou visitest him?

⁵⁽⁶⁾For Thou hast made him a little lower than elohim [or Elohim, Gn 1:27], and hast crowned him with kavod and hadar.

⁶⁽⁷⁾Thou madest him to have dominion over the ma’asim of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

⁷⁽⁸⁾All sheep and oxen, yea, and the behemot sadeh;

⁸⁽⁹⁾The fowl of the air, and the dag (fish) of the yam, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾Hashem Adoneinu, how excellent is Shimecha in kol ha’aretz!

9 (For the one directing. To The Death of the Son. Mizmor of Dovid) I will give thanks to Thee, Hashem, with kol lev of me; I will show forth all Thy marvellous works.

²⁽³⁾I will be glad and rejoice in Thee; I will sing praise to Thy Shem, O Thou Elyon.

³⁽⁴⁾When mine oyevim are turned back, they shall fall and perish at Thy presence.

⁴⁽⁵⁾For Thou hast maintained my mishpat and my cause; Thou as Shofet Tzedek dost sit on the kisse.

⁵⁽⁶⁾Thou hast rebuked the Goyim, Thou hast destroyed the wicked, Thou hast blotted out their shem l’olam va’ed.

⁶⁽⁷⁾Choravot lanetzach (endless ruins) have come to the enemy: and Thou hast rooted out cities; their memory is perished with them.

⁷⁽⁸⁾But Hashem shall reign l’olam; He hath established His kisse (throne) for mishpat.

⁸⁽⁹⁾And He shall judge the tevel (world) in tzedek, He shall govern the nations with justice.

⁹⁽¹⁰⁾Hashem also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of tzoros.

¹⁰⁽¹¹⁾And they that know Shemecha will put their trust in Thee; for Thou, Hashem, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee.

¹¹⁽¹²⁾Sing praises to Hashem, enthroned in Tziyon; declare among the nations His deeds.

¹²⁽¹³⁾When He avenges [shefach] dahm, He remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the aniyim (humble, afflicted, the helpless ones).

¹³⁽¹⁴⁾Have mercy upon me, Hashem; consider my sufferings which I suffer of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the sha’arei mavet (gates of death);

¹⁴⁽¹⁵⁾That I may show forth all Thy praise in the Sha’arei Bat Tziyon. I will rejoice in Thy Yeshuah (salvation).

¹⁵⁽¹⁶⁾The Goyim are sunk down in the shachat (pit) that they dug; in the reshet (net) which they hid is their own foot caught.

¹⁶⁽¹⁷⁾Hashem is known by the mishpat which He executeth; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgayon. Selah.

¹⁷⁽¹⁸⁾The resha’im shall be turned into Sheol, and all the Goyim that forget Elohim.

¹⁸⁽¹⁹⁾For the needy shall not always be forgotten; the tikveh of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹⁽²⁰⁾Arise, Hashem; let not enosh (mankind) prevail; let the Goyim be judged in Thy sight.

²⁰⁽²¹⁾Put them in terror, Hashem; that the Goyim may know themselves to be but enosh. Selah.

10 Why standest Thou afar off, Hashem? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of tzoros?

²The reshah in his ga’avah (haughtiness) doth persecute the ani (poor, see Zech 9:9 where ani is Moshiach); let them be caught in the devices that they have schemed.

³For the reshah boasteth of his ta’avat nefesh (soul’s lust), and blesseth the covetous, whom Hashem abhorreth.

⁴The reshah, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after Him; Elohim is not in all his thoughts.

⁵His ways are always prosperous; Thy mishpatim are on high, out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

⁶He hath said in his lev, I shall not be shaken; throughout all generations I shall never be in trouble.

⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his leshon (tongue) is trouble and iniquity.

⁸He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in the places for ambush doth he murder the naki (innocent); his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

⁹He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his reshet.

¹⁰He crouches, and stoops, that the poor may fall by his atzum (might).

¹¹He hath said in his lev, El hath forgotten; He hideth his face; He will never see it.

¹²Arise, Hashem; O El, lift up Thine yad; forget not the aniyim.

¹³For why doth the reshah renounce Elohim? He hath said in his lev, Thou wilt not call me to account.

¹⁴Thou hast seen it; for Thou beholdest trouble and ka’as (grief), to requite it with Thy yad; the helpless committeth himself unto Thee; Thou art the Ozer (helper) of the yatom (orphan).

¹⁵Break Thou the zero’a of the reshah and the evil man; call to account his wickedness that would not be found out.

¹⁶Hashem is Melech olam va’ed; the Goyim are perished out of His land.

¹⁷Hashem, Thou hast heard the desire of the aniyim; Thou wilt strengthen their lev, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to hear;

¹⁸To judge the yatom (orphan) and the oppressed, that enosh of the earth may no more strike terror.

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Tehillim 6-10

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