When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

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These things I remember
    as I pour out my soul:(A)
how I used to go to the house of God(B)
    under the protection of the Mighty One[a]
with shouts of joy(C) and praise(D)
    among the festive throng.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 42:4 See Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the mighty One of Israel.

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29 And you will sing
    as on the night you celebrate a holy festival;(A)
your hearts will rejoice(B)
    as when people playing pipes(C) go up
to the mountain(D) of the Lord,
    to the Rock(E) of Israel.

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122 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

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Psalm 122

A song of ascents. Of David.

I rejoiced with those who said to me,
    “Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

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Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

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Trust in him at all times, you people;(A)
    pour out your hearts to him,(B)
    for God is our refuge.

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15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

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15 “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled.(A) I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring(B) out my soul to the Lord. 16 Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief.”(C)

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15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

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15 Look, there on the mountains,
    the feet of one who brings good news,(A)
    who proclaims peace!(B)
Celebrate your festivals,(C) Judah,
    and fulfill your vows.
No more will the wicked invade you;(D)
    they will be completely destroyed.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:15 In Hebrew texts this verse (1:15) is numbered 2:1.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

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Enter his gates with thanksgiving(A)
    and his courts(B) with praise;
    give thanks to him and praise his name.(C)

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14 We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

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14 with whom I once enjoyed sweet fellowship(A)
    at the house of God,(B)
as we walked about
    among the worshipers.

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25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

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25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things,(A) but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.(B)

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19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

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19 Arise, cry out in the night,
    as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart(A) like water
    in the presence of the Lord.(B)
Lift up your hands(C) to him
    for the lives of your children,
who faint(D) from hunger
    at every street corner.

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81 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

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Psalm 81[a]

For the director of music. According to gittith.[b] Of Asaph.

Sing for joy to God our strength;
    shout aloud to the God of Jacob!(A)
Begin the music, strike the timbrel,(B)
    play the melodious harp(C) and lyre.(D)

Sound the ram’s horn(E) at the New Moon,(F)
    and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 81:1 In Hebrew texts 81:1-16 is numbered 81:2-17.
  2. Psalm 81:1 Title: Probably a musical term

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

30 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

“How I long for the months gone by,(A)
    for the days when God watched over me,(B)
when his lamp shone on my head
    and by his light I walked through darkness!(C)
Oh, for the days when I was in my prime,
    when God’s intimate friendship(D) blessed my house,(E)
when the Almighty was still with me
    and my children(F) were around me,(G)
when my path was drenched with cream(H)
    and the rock(I) poured out for me streams of olive oil.(J)

“When I went to the gate(K) of the city
    and took my seat in the public square,
the young men saw me and stepped aside(L)
    and the old men rose to their feet;(M)
the chief men refrained from speaking(N)
    and covered their mouths with their hands;(O)
10 the voices of the nobles were hushed,(P)
    and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.(Q)
11 Whoever heard me spoke well of me,
    and those who saw me commended me,(R)
12 because I rescued the poor(S) who cried for help,
    and the fatherless(T) who had none to assist them.(U)
13 The one who was dying blessed me;(V)
    I made the widow’s(W) heart sing.
14 I put on righteousness(X) as my clothing;
    justice was my robe and my turban.(Y)
15 I was eyes(Z) to the blind
    and feet to the lame.(AA)
16 I was a father to the needy;(AB)
    I took up the case(AC) of the stranger.(AD)
17 I broke the fangs of the wicked
    and snatched the victims(AE) from their teeth.(AF)

18 “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house,
    my days as numerous as the grains of sand.(AG)
19 My roots will reach to the water,(AH)
    and the dew will lie all night on my branches.(AI)
20 My glory will not fade;(AJ)
    the bow(AK) will be ever new in my hand.’(AL)

21 “People listened to me expectantly,
    waiting in silence for my counsel.(AM)
22 After I had spoken, they spoke no more;(AN)
    my words fell gently on their ears.(AO)
23 They waited for me as for showers
    and drank in my words as the spring rain.(AP)
24 When I smiled at them, they scarcely believed it;
    the light of my face(AQ) was precious to them.[a](AR)
25 I chose the way for them and sat as their chief;(AS)
    I dwelt as a king(AT) among his troops;
    I was like one who comforts mourners.(AU)

30 “But now they mock me,(AV)
    men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
    to put with my sheep dogs.(AW)
Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
    since their vigor had gone from them?
Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed[b] the parched land(AX)
    in desolate wastelands(AY) at night.(AZ)
In the brush they gathered salt herbs,(BA)
    and their food[c] was the root of the broom bush.(BB)
They were banished from human society,
    shouted at as if they were thieves.
They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
    among the rocks and in holes in the ground.(BC)
They brayed(BD) among the bushes(BE)
    and huddled in the undergrowth.
A base and nameless brood,(BF)
    they were driven out of the land.(BG)

“And now those young men mock me(BH) in song;(BI)
    I have become a byword(BJ) among them.
10 They detest me(BK) and keep their distance;
    they do not hesitate to spit in my face.(BL)
11 Now that God has unstrung my bow(BM) and afflicted me,(BN)
    they throw off restraint(BO) in my presence.
12 On my right(BP) the tribe[d] attacks;
    they lay snares(BQ) for my feet,(BR)
    they build their siege ramps against me.(BS)
13 They break up my road;(BT)
    they succeed in destroying me.(BU)
    ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach;(BV)
    amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 Terrors(BW) overwhelm me;(BX)
    my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
    my safety vanishes like a cloud.(BY)

16 “And now my life ebbs away;(BZ)
    days of suffering grip me.(CA)
17 Night pierces my bones;
    my gnawing pains never rest.(CB)
18 In his great power(CC) God becomes like clothing to me[e];
    he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,(CD)
    and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(CE)

20 “I cry out to you,(CF) God, but you do not answer;(CG)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;(CH)
    with the might of your hand(CI) you attack me.(CJ)
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(CK)
    you toss me about in the storm.(CL)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,(CM)
    to the place appointed for all the living.(CN)

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(CO)
    when he cries for help in his distress.(CP)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(CQ)
    Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(CR)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.(CS)
27 The churning inside me never stops;(CT)
    days of suffering confront me.(CU)
28 I go about blackened,(CV) but not by the sun;
    I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(CW)
29 I have become a brother of jackals,(CX)
    a companion of owls.(CY)
30 My skin grows black(CZ) and peels;(DA)
    my body burns with fever.(DB)
31 My lyre is tuned to mourning,(DC)
    and my pipe(DD) to the sound of wailing.

Footnotes

  1. Job 29:24 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
  2. Job 30:3 Or gnawed
  3. Job 30:4 Or fuel
  4. Job 30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  5. Job 30:18 Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothing

23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.

24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

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23 The whole assembly then agreed to celebrate(A) the festival seven more days; so for another seven days they celebrated joyfully. 24 Hezekiah king of Judah provided(B) a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep and goats for the assembly, and the officials provided them with a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep and goats. A great number of priests consecrated themselves. 25 The entire assembly of Judah rejoiced, along with the priests and Levites and all who had assembled from Israel(C), including the foreigners who had come from Israel and also those who resided in Judah. 26 There was great joy in Jerusalem, for since the days of Solomon(D) son of David king of Israel there had been nothing like this in Jerusalem.

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