88 ⁽⁰⁾ A song. A psalm of the sons of Korach. For the leader. Set to “Sickness that Causes Suffering.” A maskil of Heiman the Ezrachi.

^2 (1) Adonai, God of my salvation,
when I cry out to you in the night,
^3 (2) let my prayer come before you,
turn your ear to my cry for help!
^4 (3) For I am oversupplied with troubles,
which have brought me to the brink of Sh’ol.
^5 (4) I am counted among those going down to the pit,
like a man who is beyond help,
^6 (5) left by myself among the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave —
you no longer remember them;
they are cut off from your care.

^7 (6) You plunged me into the bottom of the pit,
into dark places, into the depths.
^8 (7) Your wrath lies heavily on me;
your waves crashing over me keep me down. (Selah)
^9 (8) You separated me from my close friends,
made me repulsive to them;
I am caged in, with no escape;
^10 (9) my eyes grow dim from suffering.

I call on you, Adonai, every day;
I spread out my hands to you.
^11 (10) Will you perform wonders for the dead?
Can the ghosts of the dead rise up and praise you? (Selah)
^12 (11) Will your grace be declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
^13 (12) Will your wonders be known in the dark,
or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

^14 (13) But I cry out to you, Adonai;
my prayer comes before you in the morning.
^15 (14) So why, Adonai, do you reject me?
Why do you hide your face from me?

^16 (15) Since my youth I have been miserable, close to death;
I am numb from bearing these terrors of yours.
^17 (16) Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me,
your terrors have shriveled me up.
^18 (17) They surge around me all day like a flood,
from all sides they close in on me.
^19 (18) You have made friends and companions shun me;
the people I know are hidden from me.

89 ⁽⁰⁾ A maskil of Eitan the Ezrachi:

^2 (1) I will sing about Adonai’s acts of grace forever,
with my mouth proclaim your faithfulness to all generations;
^3 (2) because I said, “Grace is built to last forever;
in the heavens themselves you established your faithfulness.”

^4 (3) You said, “I made a covenant with the one I chose,
I swore to my servant David,
^5 (4) ‘I will establish your dynasty forever,
build up your throne through all generations.’” (Selah)

^6 (5) Let the heavens praise your wonders, Adonai,
your faithfulness in the assembly of the angels.
^7 (6) For who in the skies can be compared with Adonai?
Which of these gods can rival Adonai,
^8 (7) a God dreaded in the great assembly of the holy ones
and feared by all around him?

^9 (8) Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot!
Who is as mighty as you, Yah?
Your faithfulness surrounds you.
^10 (9) You control the raging of the sea;
when its waves rear up, you calm them.
^11 (10) You crushed Rahav like a carcass;
with your strong arm you scattered your foes.
^12 (11) The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours;
you founded the world and everything in it.
^13 (12) You created north and south;
Tavor and Hermon take joy in your name.

^14 (13) Your arm is mighty, your hand is strong,
your right hand is lifted high.
^15 (14) Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
grace and truth attend you.

^16 (15) How happy are the people who know the joyful shout!
They walk in the light of your presence, Adonai.
^17 (16) They rejoice in your name all day
and are lifted up by your righteousness,
^18 (17) for you yourself are the strength in which they glory.
Our power grows by pleasing you,
^19 (18) for our shield comes from Adonai —
our king is from the Holy One of Isra’el.

^20 (19) There was a time when you spoke in a vision;
you declared to your loyal [prophets],
“I have given help to a warrior,
I have raised up someone chosen from the people.
^21 (20) I have found David my servant
and anointed him with my holy oil.
^22 (21) My hand will always be with him,
and my arm will give him strength.
^23 (22) No enemy will outwit him,
no wicked man overcome him.
^24 (23) I will crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.
^25 (24) My faithfulness and grace will be with him;
through my name his power will grow.
^26 (25) I will put his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.
^27 (26) He will call to me, ‘You are my father,
my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
^28 (27) I will give him the position of firstborn,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
^29 (28) I will keep my grace for him forever,
and in my covenant be faithful with him.
^30 (29) I will establish his dynasty forever,
and his throne as long as the heavens last.

^31 (30) “If his descendants abandon my Torah
and fail to live by my rulings,
^32 (31) if they profane my regulations
and don’t obey my mitzvot,
^33 (32) I will punish their disobedience with the rod
and their guilt with lashes.
^34 (33) But I won’t withdraw my grace from him
or be false to my faithfulness.
^35 (34) I will not profane my covenant
or change what my lips have spoken.
^36 (35) I have sworn by my holiness once and for all;
I will not lie to David —
^37 (36) his dynasty will last forever,
his throne like the sun before me.
^38 (37) It will be established forever, like the moon,
which remains a faithful witness in the sky.” (Selah)

^39 (38) But you spurned your anointed one,
rejected and vented your rage on him.
^40 (39) You renounced the covenant with your servant
and defiled his crown in the dust.
^41 (40) You broke through all his defenses
and left his strongholds in ruins.
^42 (41) All who pass by plunder him;
he is an object of scorn to his neighbors.
^43 (42) You raised up the right hand of his foes
and made all his enemies rejoice.
^44 (43) You drive back his drawn sword
and fail to support him in battle.
^45 (44) You brought an end to his splendor
and hurled his throne to the ground.
^46 (45) You cut short the days of his youth
and covered him with shame. (Selah)

^47 (46) How long, Adonai? Will you hide yourself forever?
How long will your fury burn like fire?
^48 (47) Remember how little time I have!
Was it for no purpose that you created all humanity?
^49 (48) Who can live and not see death?
Who can save himself from the power of the grave? (Selah)
^50 (49) Where, Adonai, are the acts of grace you once did,
those which, in your faithfulness, you swore to David?
^51 (50) Remember, Adonai, the taunts hurled at your servants,
which I carry in my heart [from] so many peoples!
^52 (51) Your enemies, Adonai, have flung their taunts,
flung them in the footsteps of your anointed one.

^53 (52) Blessed be Adonai forever.
Amen. Amen.

⁽¹⁾ Adonai, you have been our dwelling place
in every generation.
² Before the mountains were born,
before you had formed the earth and the world,
from eternity past to eternity future
you are God.

³ You bring frail mortals to the point of being crushed,
then say, “People, repent!”
⁴ For from your viewpoint a thousand years
are merely like yesterday or a night watch.
⁵ When you sweep them away, they become like sleep;
by morning they are like growing grass,
⁶ growing and flowering in the morning,
but by evening cut down and dried up.

⁷ For we are destroyed by your anger,
overwhelmed by your wrath.
⁸ You have placed our faults before you,
our secret sins in the full light of your presence.

⁹ All our days ebb away under your wrath;
our years die away like a sigh.
¹⁰ The span of our life is seventy years,
or if we are strong, eighty;
yet at best it is toil and sorrow,
over in a moment, and then we are gone.

¹¹ Who grasps the power of your anger and wrath
to the degree that the fear due you should inspire?
¹² So teach us to count our days,
so that we will become wise.

¹³ Return, Adonai! How long must it go on?
Take pity on your servants!
¹⁴ Fill us at daybreak with your love,
so that we can sing for joy as long as we live.
¹⁵ Let our joy last as long as the time you made us suffer,
for as many years as we experienced trouble.

¹⁶ Show your deeds to your servants
and your glory to their children.
¹⁷ May the favor of Adonai our God be on us,
prosper for us all the work that we do —
yes, prosper the work that we do.

91 You who live in the shelter of ‘Elyon,
who spend your nights in the shadow of Shaddai,
² who say to Adonai, “My refuge! My fortress!
My God, in whom I trust!” —
³ he will rescue you from the trap of the hunter
and from the plague of calamities;
⁴ he will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his truth is a shield and protection.

⁵ You will not fear the terrors of night
or the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ or the plague that roams in the dark,
or the scourge that wreaks havoc at noon.
⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand;
but it won’t come near you.
⁸ Only keep your eyes open,
and you will see how the wicked are punished.

⁹ For you have made Adonai, the Most High,
who is my refuge, your dwelling-place.
¹⁰ No disaster will happen to you,
no calamity will come near your tent;
¹¹ for he will order his angels to care for you
and guard you wherever you go.
¹² They will carry you in their hands,
so that you won’t trip on a stone.
¹³ You will tread down lions and snakes,
young lions and serpents you will trample underfoot.
¹⁴ “Because he loves me, I will rescue him;
because he knows my name, I will protect him.
¹⁵ He will call on me, and I will answer him.
I will be with him when he is in trouble.
I will extricate him and bring him honor.
¹⁶ I will satisfy him with long life
and show him my salvation.”

92 ⁽⁰⁾ A psalm. A song for Shabbat:

^2 (1) It is good to give thanks to Adonai
and sing praises to your name, ‘Elyon,
^3 (2) to tell in the morning about your grace
and at night about your faithfulness,
^4 (3) to the music of a ten-stringed [harp] and a lute,
with the melody sounding on a lyre.

^5 (4) For, Adonai, what you do makes me happy;
I take joy in what your hands have made.
^6 (5) How great are your deeds, Adonai!
How very deep your thoughts!

^7 (6) Stupid people can’t know,
fools don’t understand,
^8 (7) that when the wicked sprout like grass,
and all who do evil prosper,
it is so that they can be eternally destroyed,
^9 (8) while you, Adonai, are exalted forever.

^10 (9) For your enemies, Adonai,
your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered.
^11 (10) But you have given me
the strength of a wild bull;
you anoint me with fresh olive oil.
^12 (11) My eyes have gazed with pleasure on my enemies’ ruin,
my ears have delighted in the fall of my foes.

^13 (12) The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar in the L’vanon.
^14 (13) Planted in the house of Adonai,
they will flourish in the courtyards of our God.
^15 (14) Even in old age they will be vigorous,
still full of sap, still bearing fruit,
^16 (15) proclaiming that Adonai is upright,
my Rock, in whom there is no wrong.