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

² Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

³ Blow the trumpet in the new moon, at the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

⁴ For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

⁵ This He ordained in Joseph as a testimony, when He went out through the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I understood not:

⁶ “I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.

⁷ Thou called in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I tested thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah

⁸ Hear, O My people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto Me!

⁹ There shall be no strange god among thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

¹⁰ I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹ “But My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust, and they walked in their own counsels.

¹³ Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

¹⁴ I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned My and against their adversaries.”

¹⁵ The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto Him, but their time should have endured for ever.

¹⁶ He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and, “With honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.”

88 O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before Thee.

² Let my prayer come before Thee; incline Thine ear unto my cry.

³ For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

⁴ I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength,

⁵ cast among the dead like the slain that lie in the grave, whom Thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from Thy hand.

⁶ Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

⁷ Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and Thou hast afflicted me with all Thy waves. Selah

⁸ Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth;

⁹ mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction. Lord, I have called daily upon Thee; I have stretched out my hands unto Thee.

¹⁰ Wilt Thou show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise Thee? Selah

¹¹ Shall Thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or Thy faithfulness in destruction?

¹² Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³ But unto Thee have I cried, O Lord, and in the morning shall my prayer come before Thee.

¹⁴ Lord, why castest Thou off my soul? Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?

¹⁵ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Thy terrors I am distraught.

¹⁶ Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.

¹⁷ They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

¹⁸ Lover and friend hast Thou put far from me, and mine acquaintances into darkness.

92 It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High,

² to show forth Thy lovingkindness in the morning, and Thy faithfulness every night,

³ upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the psaltery, upon the harp with a solemn sound.

⁴ For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through Thy work; I will triumph in the works of Thy hands.

⁵ O Lord, how great are Thy works! And Thy thoughts are very deep.

⁶ A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand this:

⁷ when the wicked spring up as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever;

⁸ but Thou, Lord, art Most High for evermore.

⁹ For lo, Thine enemies, O Lord, for lo, Thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹⁰ But my horn shalt Thou exalt like the horn of a unicorn; I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

¹¹ Mine eye also shall see what I desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear what I desire upon the wicked that rise up against me.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³ Those that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴ They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing to show

¹⁵ that the Lord is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

93 The Lord reigneth; He is clothed with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith He hath girded Himself. The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.

² Thy throne is established of old; Thou art from everlasting.

³ The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

⁴ The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

⁵ Thy testimonies are very sure; holiness becometh Thine house, O Lord, for ever.