Psalm 70-119

Amplified Bible

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May all those who seek You [as life’s first priority] rejoice and be glad in You;
May those who love Your salvation say continually,
“Let God be magnified!”
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But I am afflicted and needy;
Come quickly to me, O God!
You are my help and my rescuer;
O Lord, do not delay.

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I am as a wonder to many,
For You are my strong refuge.
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My mouth is filled with Your praise
And with Your glory all day long.
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Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;
Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.
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For my enemies have spoken against me;
Those who watch for my life have consulted together,
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Saying, “God has abandoned him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”

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O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, come quickly to help me!
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Let those who attack my life be ashamed and consumed;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.
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But as for me, I will wait and hope continually,
And will praise You yet more and more.
¹⁵ 
My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of Your [deeds of] salvation all day long,
For their number is more than I know.
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I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord God [and in His strength];
I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

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O God, You have taught me from my youth,
And I still declare Your wondrous works and miraculous deeds.
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And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,
Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.
¹⁹ 
Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?
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You who have shown ^[b]me many troubles and distresses
Will revive and renew me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
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May You increase my greatness (honor)
And turn to comfort me.

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I will also praise You with the harp,
Your truth and faithfulness, O my God;
To You I will sing praises with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
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My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You,
And my soul, which You have redeemed.
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My tongue also will speak of Your righteousness all day long;
For they are ashamed, for they are humiliated who seek my injury.

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Let them fear You [with awe-inspired reverence and worship You with obedience] while the sun endures,
And as long as the moon [reflects light], throughout all generations.
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May he come down like rain on the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.
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In his days may the righteous flourish,
And peace abound until the moon is no more.^(B)

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May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River [Euphrates] to the ends of the earth.^(C)
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The nomads of the desert will bow before him,
And his enemies will ^[c]lick the dust.
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The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring offerings;
The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts.
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Yes, all kings will bow down before him,
All nations will serve him.^(D)

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For he will rescue the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted and abused also, and him who has no helper.
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He will have compassion on the poor and needy,
And he will save the lives of the needy.
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He will redeem their life from oppression and fraud and violence,
And their blood will be precious in His sight.
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So may he live, and may the gold of Sheba be given to him;
And let them pray for him continually;
Let them bless and praise him all day long.

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There will be an abundance of grain in the soil on the top of the ^[d]mountains;
Its fruit will wave like [the cedars of] Lebanon,
And those of the city will flourish like grass of the earth.
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May his name endure forever;
May his name continue as long as the sun;
And let men bless themselves by him;
Let all nations call him blessed.

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Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,
Who alone does wonderful things.
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Blessed be His glorious name forever;
And may the whole earth be filled with His glory.
Amen and Amen.

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The prayers of David son of Jesse are ended.

¹⁰ 
Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance [offered by the irreverent] are [blindly] drunk by them.
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They say, “How does God know?
Is there knowledge [of us] with the Most High?”
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Behold, these are the ungodly,
Who always prosper and are at ease [in the world]; they have increased in wealth.
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Surely then in vain I have cleansed my heart
And washed my hands in innocence.^(F)
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For all the day long have I been stricken,
And punished every morning.

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If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
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When I considered how to understand this,
It was too great an effort for me and too painful
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Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood [for I considered] their end.
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Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
¹⁹ 
How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are completely swept away by sudden terrors!
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Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,
O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

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When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within [as with the fang of an adder],
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Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.
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Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You have taken hold of my right hand.
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You will guide me with Your counsel,
And afterward receive me to honor and glory.

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Whom have I in heaven [but You]?
And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.
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My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the rock and strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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For behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful and have abandoned You.
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But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have made the Lord God my refuge and placed my trust in Him,
That I may tell of all Your works.

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Yet God is my King of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
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You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the ^[f]sea monsters in the waters.^(G)
14 
You crushed the heads of ^[g]Leviathan (Egypt);
You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.^(H)
15 
You broke open fountains and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.^(I)
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The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.
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You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations];
You have made summer and winter.^(J)

¹⁸ 
Remember this, O Lord, the enemy has scoffed,
And a foolish and impious people has spurned Your name.
¹⁹ 
Oh, do not hand over the soul of your turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.
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Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
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Let not the oppressed return dishonored;
Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

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Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man scoffs at You all day long.
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Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually [to Your ears].

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For not from the east, nor from the west,
Nor from the desert comes exaltation.^(K)
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But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and lifts up another.
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For a cup [of His wrath] is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed and fully spiced, and He pours out from it;
And all the wicked of the earth must drain it and drink down to its dregs.^(L)

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But as for me, I will declare it and rejoice forever;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
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All the horns of the wicked He will cut off,
But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

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You are glorious and resplendent,
More majestic than the mountains of prey.
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The stouthearted have been stripped of their spoil,
They have slept the sleep [of death];
And none of the warriors could use his hands.
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At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep [of death].^(M)
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You, even You, are to be feared [with the submissive wonder of reverence];
Who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

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You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
The earth feared and was quiet
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When God arose to [establish] judgment,
To save all the humble of the earth. Selah.
¹⁰ 
For the wrath of man shall praise You;
With a remnant of wrath You will clothe and arm Yourself.

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Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them;
Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared [with awe-inspired reverence].
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He will cut off the spirit of princes;
He is awesome and feared by the kings of the earth.

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Will the Lord reject forever?
And will He never be favorable again?
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Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?
Have His promises ended for all time?
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Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.
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And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

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I will [solemnly] remember the deeds of the Lord;
Yes, I will [wholeheartedly] remember Your wonders of old.
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I will meditate on all Your works
And thoughtfully consider all Your [great and wondrous] deeds.
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Your way, O God, is holy [far from sin and guilt].
What god is great like our God?
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You are the [awesome] God who works [powerful] wonders;
You have demonstrated Your power among the people.
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You have with Your [great] arm redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

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The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.
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The clouds poured down water;
The skies sent out a sound [of rumbling thunder];
Your arrows (lightning) flashed here and there.
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The voice of Your thunder was in the ^[j]whirlwind;
The lightnings illumined the world;
The earth trembled and shook.
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Your way [of escape for Your people] was through the sea,
And Your paths through the great waters,
And Your footprints were not traceable.
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You led Your people like a flock
By the hand of Moses and Aaron [to the promised goal].

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For He established a testimony (a specific precept) in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach to their children [the great facts of God’s transactions with Israel],
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That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born
May arise and recount them to their children,
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That they should place their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments,
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And not be like their fathers—
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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The sons of Ephraim were armed as archers and carrying bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.
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They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk according to His law;
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And they forgot His [incredible] works
And His miraculous wonders that He had shown them.
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He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided].
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He divided the [Red] Sea and allowed them to pass through it,
And He made the waters stand up like [water behind] a dam.^(O)
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In the daytime He led them with a cloud
And all the night with a light of fire.^(P)
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He split rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant [water to] drink like the ocean depths.
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He brought streams also from the rock [at Rephidim and Kadesh]
And caused waters to run down like rivers.^(Q)

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Yet they still continued to sin against Him
By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
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And in their hearts they put God to the test
By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.
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Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare [food for] a table in the wilderness?
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“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out
And the streams overflowed;
Can He give bread also?
Or will He provide meat for His people?”

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Therefore, when the Lord heard, He was full of wrath;
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
And His anger mounted up against Israel,
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Because they did not believe in God [they did not rely on Him, they did not adhere to Him],
And they did not trust in His salvation (His power to save).
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Yet He commanded the clouds from above
And opened the doors of heaven;
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And He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them the grain of heaven.^(R)
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Man ate the bread of angels;
God sent them provision in abundance.
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He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens
And by His [unlimited] power He guided the south wind.
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He rained meat upon them like the dust,
And winged birds (quail) like the sand of the seas.^(S)
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And He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
Around their tents.
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So they ate and were well filled,
He gave them what they craved.
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Before they had satisfied their desire,
And while their food was in their mouths,^(T)
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The wrath of God rose against them
And killed some of the strongest of them,
And subdued the choice young men of Israel.
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In spite of all this they still sinned,
For they did not believe in His wonderful and extraordinary works.
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Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.

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When He killed [some of] them, then those remaining sought Him,
And they returned [to Him] and searched diligently for God [for a time].
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And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.
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Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouths
And lied to Him with their tongues.
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For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful to His covenant.^(U)
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[k]But He, the source of compassion and lovingkindness, forgave their wickedness and did not destroy them;
Many times He restrained His anger
And did not stir up all His wrath.
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For He [graciously] remembered that they were mere [human] flesh,
A wind that goes and does not return.

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How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!
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Again and again they tempted God,
And distressed the Holy One of Israel.
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They did not remember [the miracles worked by] His [powerful] hand,
Nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
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How He worked His miracles in Egypt
And His wonders in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided],
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And turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
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He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.
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He also gave their crops to the grasshopper,
And the fruit of their labor to the locust.
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He destroyed their vines with [great] hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.
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He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones,
And their flocks and herds to thunderbolts.^(V)
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He sent upon them His burning anger,^(W)
His fury and indignation and distress,
A band of angels of destruction [among them].
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He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];
He did not spare their souls from death,
But turned over their lives to the plague.
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He killed all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first and best of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.
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But God led His own people forward like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like [a good shepherd with] a flock.
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He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies.^(X)

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So He brought them to His holy land,
To this mountain [Zion] which His right hand had acquired.
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He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].
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Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies (laws).
⁵⁷ 
They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].
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For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship]
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].
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When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath;
And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],
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So that He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
The tent in which He had dwelled among men,
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And gave up His strength and power (the ark of the covenant) into captivity,
And His glory into the hand of the enemy (the Philistines).^(Y)
62 
He also handed His people over to the sword,
And was infuriated with His inheritance (Israel).^(Z)
63 
The fire [of war] devoured His young men,
And His [bereaved] virgins had no wedding songs.
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His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.^(AA)

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Then the Lord awakened as from sleep,
Like a [mighty] warrior who awakens from the sleep of wine [fully conscious of his power].
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He drove His enemies backward;
He subjected them to lasting shame and dishonor.
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Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].
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But He chose the tribe of Judah [as Israel’s leader],
Mount Zion, which He loved [to replace Shiloh as His capital].
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And He built His sanctuary [exalted] like the heights [of the heavens],
Like the earth which He has established forever.
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He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;^{(AB)
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[l]}From ^[m]tending the ewes with nursing young He brought him
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.^(AC)
72 
So David shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart;
And guided them with his skillful hands.

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O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.
Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,
For we have been brought very low.
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Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;
Rescue us, forgive us our sins for Your name’s sake.
¹⁰ 
Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],
Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.
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Let the groaning and sighing of the prisoner come before You;
According to the greatness of Your power keep safe those who are doomed to die.
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And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold
The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.
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So we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,
Will give You thanks forever;
We will declare and publish Your praise from generation to generation.

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O Lord God of hosts,
How long will You be angry with the prayers of Your people?
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You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
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You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.
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Restore us, O God of hosts;
And cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

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You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;
You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].
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You cleared away the ground before it,
And it took deep root and filled the land.
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The mountains were covered with its shadow,
And its branches were like the cedars of God.
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Israel sent out its branches to the [Mediterranean] Sea,
And its branches to the [Euphrates] River.^(AE)
12 
Why have You broken down its ^[o]walls and hedges,
So that all who pass by pick its fruit?
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A boar from the woods eats it away,
And the insects of the field feed on it.

¹⁴ 
Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,
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Even the stock which Your right hand has planted,
And [look down on] the son that You have reared and strengthened for Yourself.
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It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the rebuke of Your [angry] appearance.
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Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom You have made strong for Yourself.
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Then we shall not turn back from You;
Revive us and we will call on Your name.
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Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine on us [in favor and approval], and we shall be saved.

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“I removed the burden from his shoulder;
His hands were freed from the basket.
⁷ 
“You called in [the time of] trouble and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.^(AF) Selah.
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“Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you—
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
⁹ 
“Let there be no strange god among you,
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
¹⁰ 
“I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

¹¹ 
“But My people would not listen to My voice,
And Israel did not [consent to] obey Me.
¹² 
“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.^(AG)
13 
“Oh, that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
¹⁴ 
“Then I would quickly subdue and humble their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries;
¹⁵ 
Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.
¹⁶ 
“But I would feed Israel with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

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The rulers do not know nor do they understand;
They walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction];
All the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles of the administration of justice] are shaken.
⁶ 
I said, “You are ^[s]gods;
Indeed, all of you are sons of the Most High.^(AH)
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“Nevertheless you will die like men
And fall like any one of the princes.”
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Arise, O God, judge the earth!
For to You belong all the nations.^(AI)

⁹ 
Deal with them as [You did] with Midian,
As with Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon,^(AK)
10 
Who were destroyed at En-dor,
Who became like dung for the earth.
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb
And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,^(AL)
12 
Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves
The pastures of God.”

¹³ 
O my God, make them like ^[t]whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].
¹⁴ 
Like fire consumes the forest,
And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,
¹⁵ 
So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.
¹⁶ 
Fill their faces with shame and disgrace,
That they may [persistently] seek Your name, O Lord.
¹⁷ 
Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be humiliated and perish,
¹⁸ 
That they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord,
Are the Most High over all the earth.

⁵ 
Blessed and greatly favored is the man whose strength is in You,
In ^[v]whose heart are the highways to Zion.
⁶ 
Passing through the Valley of Weeping (^[w]Baca), they make it a place of springs;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.
⁷ 
They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power];
Each of them appears before God in Zion.

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O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Listen, O God of Jacob! Selah.
⁹ 
See our shield, O God,
And look at the face of Your anointed [the king as Your representative].
¹⁰ 
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else];
I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God
Than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹ 
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord bestows grace and favor and honor;
No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
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O Lord of hosts,
How blessed and greatly favored is the man who trusts in You [believing in You, relying on You, and committing himself to You with confident hope and expectation].

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Restore us, O God of our salvation,
And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.
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Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?
⁶ 
Will You not revive us and bring us to life again,
That Your people may rejoice in You?
⁷ 
Show us Your lovingkindness, O Lord,
And grant us Your salvation.

⁸ 
I will hear [with expectant hope] what God the Lord will say,
For He will speak peace to His people, to His ^[x]godly ones—
But let them not turn again to folly.
⁹ 
Surely His salvation is near to those who [reverently] fear Him [and obey Him with submissive wonder],
That glory [the manifest presence of God] may dwell in our land.
¹⁰ 
Steadfast love and truth and faithfulness meet together;
Righteousness and peace kiss each other.
¹¹ 
Truth springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.
¹² 
Indeed, the Lord will give what is good,
And our land will yield its produce.
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Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way [in which to walk].

¹¹ 
Teach me Your way, O Lord,
I will walk and live in Your truth;
Direct my heart to fear Your name [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].^(AM)
12 
I will give thanks and praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart;
And will glorify Your name forevermore.
¹³ 
For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me;
And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

¹⁴ 
O God, arrogant and insolent men have risen up against me;
A band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.
¹⁵ 
But You, O Lord, are a God [who protects and is] merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and truth.
¹⁶ 
Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Grant Your strength [Your might and the power to resist temptation] to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.
¹⁷ 
Show me a sign of [Your] goodwill,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, helped and comforted me.

¹⁰ 
Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Shall the departed spirits arise and praise You? Selah.
¹¹ 
Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?
¹² 
Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?

¹³ 
But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help;
And in the morning my prayer will come to You.
¹⁴ 
O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?^(AP)
15 
I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.
¹⁶ 
Your fierce wrath has swept over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.
¹⁷ 
They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long;
They have completely encompassed me.
¹⁸ 
Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.

⁵ 
The heavens (angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord,
Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
⁶ 
For who in the heavens can be compared to the Lord?
Who among the divine beings is like the Lord,
⁷ 
A God greatly feared and reverently worshiped in the council of the holy [angelic] ones,
And awesome above all those who are around Him?
⁸ 
O Lord God of hosts, who is like You, O mighty Lord?
Your faithfulness surrounds You [as an intrinsic, unchangeable part of Your very being].
⁹ 
You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.^(AR)
10 
You have crushed Rahab (Egypt) like one who is slain;
You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

¹¹ 
The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all that is in it, You have founded and established them.^(AS)
12 
The north and the south, You have created them;
Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon shout for joy at Your name.
¹³ 
You have a strong arm;
Mighty is Your hand, Your right hand is exalted.
¹⁴ 
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Lovingkindness and truth go before You.
¹⁵ 
Blessed and happy are the people who know the joyful sound [of the trumpet’s blast]!
They walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!
¹⁶ 
In Your name they rejoice all the day,
And in Your righteousness they are exalted.
¹⁷ 
For You are the glory of their strength [their proud adornment],
And by Your favor our horn is exalted.
¹⁸ 
For our shield belongs to the Lord,
And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ 
Once You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty [giving him the power to be a champion for Israel];
I have exalted one chosen from the people.
²⁰ 
“I have found David My servant;
With My holy oil I have anointed him,^(AT)
21 
With whom My hand shall be established and steadfast;
My arm also shall strengthen him.
²² 
“The enemy will not outwit him,
Nor will the wicked man afflict or humiliate him.
²³ 
“I will crush his adversaries before him,
And strike those who hate him.
²⁴ 
“My faithfulness and My steadfast lovingkindness shall be with him,
And in My name shall his horn be exalted [great power and prosperity shall be conferred upon him].
²⁵ 
“I will also ^[aa]set his hand on the [Mediterranean] sea,
And his right hand on the rivers [the tributaries of the Euphrates].
²⁶ 
“He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.’
²⁷ 
“I will also make him My firstborn (preeminent),
The highest of the kings of the earth.^(AU)
28 
“My lovingkindness I will keep for him forevermore,
And My covenant will be confirmed to him.
²⁹ 
“His descendants I will establish forever,
And his throne [will endure] as the days of heaven.^(AV)

³⁰ 
“If his children ^[ab]turn away from My law
And do not walk in My ordinances,
³¹ 
If they break My statutes
And do not keep My commandments,
³² 
Then I will punish their transgression with the rod [of discipline],
And [correct] their wickedness with stripes.^(AW)
33 
“Nevertheless, I will not break off My lovingkindness from him,
Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.
³⁴ 
“My covenant I will not violate,
Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.
³⁵ 
“Once [for all] I have sworn by My holiness, [My vow which cannot be violated];
I will not lie to David.
³⁶ 
“His ^[ac]descendants shall endure forever
And his throne [will continue] as the sun before Me.^(AX)
37 
“It shall be established forever like the moon,
And the witness in the heavens is ever faithful.”^(AY) Selah.

³⁸ 
But [in apparent contradiction of all this] You [the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected;
You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.
³⁹ 
You have spurned and repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have profaned his crown [by casting it] in the dust.
⁴⁰ 
You have broken down all his [city] walls;
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
⁴¹ 
All who pass along the road rob him;
He has become the scorn of his neighbors.
⁴² 
You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.
⁴³ 
Also, You have turned back the edge of his sword
And have not made him [strong enough] to stand in battle.
⁴⁴ 
You have put an end to his splendor
And have hurled his throne to the ground.
⁴⁵ 
You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame. Selah.

⁴⁶ 
How long, O Lord?
Will You hide Yourself forever?
Will Your wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷ 
Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!
⁴⁸ 
What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

⁴⁹ 
O Lord, where are Your former lovingkindnesses [so abundant in the days of David and Solomon],
Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?
⁵⁰ 
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];
How I bear in ^[ad]my heart the reproach of all the many peoples,
⁵¹ 
With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord,
With which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.

⁵² 
Blessed be the Lord forevermore!
Amen and Amen.

³ 
You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”
⁴ 
For a ^[ae]thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it is past,
Or as a watch in the night.^(AZ)
5 
You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—
⁶ 
In the morning it flourishes and springs up;
In the evening it wilts and withers away.

⁷ 
For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been terrified.
⁸ 
You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.
⁹ 
For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.^(BA)
10 
The days of our life are ^[af]seventy years—
Or even, if because of strength, eighty years;
Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone and we fly away.
¹¹ 
Who understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?]
And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?
¹² 
So teach us to number our days,
That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.

¹³ 
Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?
Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.
¹⁴ 
O satisfy us with Your lovingkindness in the morning [now, before we grow older],
That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ 
Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have suffered evil.
¹⁶ 
Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants
And Your [glorious] majesty to their children.
¹⁷ 
And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us;
Confirm for us the work of our hands—
Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

⁵ 
You will not be afraid of the terror of night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ 
Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.
⁷ 
A thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand,
But danger will not come near you.
⁸ 
You will only [be a spectator as you] look on with your eyes
And witness the [divine] repayment of the wicked [as you watch safely from the shelter of the Most High].
⁹ 
Because you have made the Lord, [who is] my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,^(BB)
10 
No evil will befall you,
Nor will any plague come near your tent.

¹¹ 
For He will command His angels in regard to you,
To protect and defend and guard you in all your ways [of obedience and service].
¹² 
They will lift you up in their hands,
So that you do not [even] strike your foot against a stone.^(BC)
13 
You will tread upon the lion and cobra;
The young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.^(BD)

¹⁴ 
“Because he set his love on Me, therefore I will save him;
I will set him [securely] on high, because he knows My name [he confidently trusts and relies on Me, knowing I will never abandon him, no, never].
¹⁵ 
“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.
¹⁶ 
“With a long life I will satisfy him
And I will let him see My salvation.”

⁵ 
How great are Your works, O Lord!
Your thoughts are very deep [beyond man’s understanding].
⁶ 
A senseless man [in his crude and uncultivated state] knows nothing,
Nor does a [self-righteous] fool understand this:
⁷ 
That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.
⁸ 
But You, Lord, are on high forever.
⁹ 
For behold, Your enemies, O Lord,
For behold, Your enemies will perish;
All who do evil will be scattered.

¹⁰ 
But my horn [my emblem of strength and power] You have exalted like that of a wild ox;
I am anointed with fresh oil [for Your service].
¹¹ 
My eye has looked on my foes;
My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.
¹² 
The righteous will flourish like the date palm [long-lived, upright and useful];
They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic and stable].
¹³ 
Planted in the house of the Lord,
They will flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ 
[Growing in grace] they will still thrive and bear fruit and prosper in old age;
They will flourish and be ^[ah]vital and fresh [rich in trust and love and contentment];
¹⁵ 
[They are living memorials] to declare that the Lord is upright and faithful [to His promises];
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.^(BE)

³ 
The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.
⁴ 
More than the sounds of many waters,
More than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.
⁵ 
Your precepts are fully confirmed and completely reliable;
Holiness adorns Your house,
O Lord, forever.

⁸ 
Consider thoughtfully, you senseless (stupid ones) among the people;
And you [dull-minded] fools, when will you become wise and understand?
⁹ 
He who made the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?
¹⁰ 
He who instructs the nations,
Does He not rebuke and punish,
He who teaches man knowledge?
¹¹ 
The Lord knows the thoughts of man,
That they are a mere breath (vain, empty, futile).^(BG)

¹² 
Blessed [with wisdom and prosperity] is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord,
And whom You teach from Your law,
¹³ 
That You may grant him [power to calm himself and find] peace in the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked and ungodly.
¹⁴ 
For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He abandon His inheritance.
¹⁵ 
For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
¹⁶ 
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Who will take a stand for me against those who do wickedness?

¹⁷ 
If the Lord had not been my help,
I would soon have dwelt in [the land of] silence.
¹⁸ 
If I say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.
¹⁹ 
When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your comforts delight me.
²⁰ 
Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?
²¹ 
They band themselves together against the life of the righteous
And condemn the innocent to death.
²² 
But the Lord has become my high tower and defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ 
He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.

⁶ 
O come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].
⁷ 
For He is our God
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice,^(BI)
8 
Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],
And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness,^(BJ)
9 
“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, even though they had seen My work [of miracles].
¹⁰ 
“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,
And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’
¹¹ 
“Therefore I swore [an oath] in My wrath,
‘They absolutely shall not enter My rest [the land of promise].’”^(BK)

^7 
[aj]Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
⁸ 
Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name;
Bring an offering and come into His courts.
⁹ 
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;
Tremble [in submissive wonder] before Him, all the earth.
¹⁰ 
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns;
Indeed, the world is firmly and securely established, it shall not be moved;
He will judge and rule the people with fairness.”^(BM)

¹¹ 
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
Let the sea roar, and all the things it contains;
¹² 
Let the field be exultant, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
¹³ 
Before the Lord, for He is coming,
For He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness
And the peoples in His faithfulness.^(BN)

⁷ 
Let all those be [deeply] ashamed who serve carved images,
Who boast in idols.
Worship Him, all you gods!^(BP)
8 
Zion heard this and was glad,
And the daughters (cities) of Judah rejoiced [in relief]
Because of Your judgments, O Lord.
⁹ 
For You are the Lord Most High over all the earth;
You are exalted far above all gods.

¹⁰ 
You who love the Lord, hate evil;
He protects the souls of His godly ones (believers),
He rescues them from the hand of the wicked.^(BQ)
11 
Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path,
And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].
¹² 
Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous ones [those whose moral and spiritual integrity places them in right standing with God],
And praise and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.

⁴ 
Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth;
Shout [in jubilation] and sing for joy and sing praises.
⁵ 
Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
With the lyre and the sound of melody.
⁶ 
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
Shout with joy before the King, the Lord.

⁷ 
Let the sea thunder and roar, and all the things it contains,
The world and those who dwell in it.
⁸ 
Let the rivers clap their hands;
Let the mountains sing together for joy and delight
⁹ 
Before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth;
He will judge the world with righteousness
And the peoples with fairness.

⁶ 
Moses and Aaron were among His priests,
And Samuel was among those who called on His name;
They called upon the Lord and He answered them.
⁷ 
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud;
They kept His testimonies
And the statutes that He gave them.^(BU)
8 
You answered them, O Lord our God;
You were a forgiving God to them,
And yet an avenger of their evil practices.
⁹ 
Exalt the Lord our God
And worship at His holy hill [Zion, the temple mount],
For the Lord our God is holy.

⁴ 
Enter His gates with a song of thanksgiving
And His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, bless and praise His name.
⁵ 
For the Lord is good;
His mercy and lovingkindness are everlasting,
His faithfulness [endures] to all generations.

⁶ 
My eyes will be on the faithful (honorable) of the land, that they may dwell with me;
He who walks blamelessly is the one who will minister to and serve me.
⁷ 
He who practices deceit will not dwell in my house;
He who tells lies and half-truths will not continue [to remain] in my presence.
⁸ 
Morning after morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land,
That I may cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do evil.

⁸ 
My enemies taunt me all day long;
Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse.
⁹ 
For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears^(BW)
10 
Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have lifted me up and thrown me away.
¹¹ 
My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.

¹² 
But You, O Lord, are enthroned forever [ruling eternally as sovereign];
And [the fame and glory of] Your name [endures] to all generations.
¹³ 
You will arise and have compassion on Zion,
For it is time to be gracious and show favor to her;
Yes, the appointed time [the moment designated] has come.^(BX)
14 
For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.
¹⁵ 
So the nations will fear the name of the Lord,
And all the kings of the earth [will recognize] Your glory.^(BY)
16 
For the Lord has built up Zion;
He has appeared in His glory and brilliance;
¹⁷ 
He has regarded the prayer of the destitute,
And has not despised their prayer.

¹⁸ 
Let this be recorded for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created will praise the Lord.
¹⁹ 
For He looked down from His holy height [of His sanctuary],
From heaven the Lord gazed on the earth,
²⁰ 
To hear the sighing of the prisoner,
To set free those who were doomed to death,
²¹ 
So that people may declare the name of the Lord in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,
²² 
When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

²³ 
He has exhausted my strength [humbling me with sorrow] in the way;
He has shortened my days.
²⁴ 
I said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days;
Your years are [eternal] throughout all generations.
²⁵ 
“At the beginning You founded the earth;
The heavens are the work of Your hands.
²⁶ 
“Even they will perish, but You endure;
Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment.
Like clothing You will change them and they shall be changed.
²⁷ 
“But You remain the same,
And Your years will never end.^(BZ)
28 
“The children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants will be established before You.”

⁶ 
The Lord executes righteousness
And justice for all the oppressed.
⁷ 
He made known His ways [of righteousness and justice] to Moses,
His acts to the children of Israel.
⁸ 
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in compassion and lovingkindness.^(CB)
9 
He will not always strive with us,
Nor will He keep His anger forever.
¹⁰ 
He has not dealt with us according to our sins [as we deserve],
Nor rewarded us [with punishment] according to our wickedness.
¹¹ 
For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear and worship Him [with awe-filled respect and deepest reverence].
¹² 
As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
¹³ 
Just as a father loves his children,
So the Lord loves those who fear and worship Him [with awe-filled respect and deepest reverence].
¹⁴ 
For He knows our [mortal] frame;
He remembers that we are [merely] dust.

¹⁵ 
As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
¹⁶ 
For the wind passes over it and it is no more,
And its place knows it no longer.
¹⁷ 
But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who [reverently] fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children,^(CC)
18 
To those who honor and keep His covenant,
And remember to do His commandments [imprinting His word on their hearts].

¹⁹ 
The Lord has established His throne in the heavens,
And His sovereignty rules over all [the universe].
²⁰ 
Bless the Lord, you His angels,
You mighty ones who do His commandments,
Obeying the voice of His word!
²¹ 
Bless the Lord, all you His hosts,
You who serve Him and do His will.
²² 
Bless the Lord, all you works of His, in all places of His dominion;
Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul!

⁵ 
He established the earth on its foundations,
So that it will not be moved forever and ever.^(CE)
6 
You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.^(CF)
7 
At Your rebuke they fled;
At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
⁸ 
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.
⁹ 
You set a boundary [for the waters] that they may not cross over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.

¹⁰ 
You send springs into the valleys;
Their waters flow among the mountains.
¹¹ 
They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst there.
¹² 
Beside them the birds of the heavens have their nests;
They lift up their voices and sing among the branches.^(CG)
13 
He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;
The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

¹⁴ 
He causes grass to grow for the cattle,
And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man,
So that he may bring food from the earth—
¹⁵ 
And wine which makes the heart of man glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And bread to sustain and strengthen man’s heart.
¹⁶ 
The trees of the Lord drink their fill,
The cedars of Lebanon which He has planted,
¹⁷ 
Where the birds make their nests;
As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

¹⁸ 
The high mountains are for the wild goats;
The rocks are a refuge for the ^[ao]shephanim.
¹⁹ 
He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the [exact] place of its setting.
²⁰ 
You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night,
In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.
²¹ 
The young lions roar after their prey
And seek their food from God.
²² 
When the sun arises, they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.
²³ 
Man goes out to his work
And remains at his labor until evening.

²⁴ 
O Lord, how many and varied are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all;
The earth is full of Your riches and Your creatures.
²⁵ 
There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Creatures both small and great.
²⁶ 
There the ships [of the sea] sail,
And Leviathan [the sea monster], which You have formed to play there.

²⁷ 
They all wait for You
To give them their food in its appointed season.
²⁸ 
You give it to them, they gather it up;
You open Your hand, they are filled and satisfied with good [things].
²⁹ 
You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their breath, they die
And return to their dust.
³⁰ 
You send out Your Spirit, they are created;
You renew the face of the ground.

³¹ 
May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
May the Lord rejoice and be glad in His works—
³² 
He looks at the earth, and it trembles;
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
³³ 
I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
³⁴ 
May my meditation be sweet and pleasing to Him;
As for me, I will rejoice and be glad in the Lord.
³⁵ 
Let sinners be consumed from the earth,
And let the wicked be no more.
Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

⁸ 
He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded and established to a ^[ap]thousand generations,
⁹ 
The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His sworn oath to Isaac,^(CI)
10 
Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ 
Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the measured portion of your inheritance.”
¹² 
When there were only a few men in number,
Very few [in fact], and strangers in it;
¹³ 
And they wandered from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴ 
He allowed no man to oppress them;
He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying,^(CJ)
15 
“Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”^(CK)

¹⁶ 
And He called for a famine upon the land [of Egypt];
He ^[aq]cut off every source of bread.^(CL)
17 
He sent a man before them,
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.^(CM)
18 
His feet they hurt with shackles;
^[ar]He was put in chains of iron,
¹⁹ 
Until the time that his word [of prophecy regarding his brothers] came true,
The word of the Lord tested and refined him.
²⁰ 
The king sent and released him,
The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.
²¹ 
He made Joseph lord of his house
And ruler of all his possessions,^(CN)
22 
To imprison his princes at his will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.
²³ 
Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.^(CO)
24 
There the Lord greatly increased [the number of] His people,
And made them more powerful than their enemies.

²⁵ 
He turned the heart [of the Egyptians] to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
²⁶ 
He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷ 
They exhibited His wondrous signs among them,
Great miracles in the land of Ham (Egypt).
²⁸ 
He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.^(CP)
29 
He turned Egypt’s waters into blood
And caused their fish to die.^(CQ)
30 
Their land swarmed with frogs,
Even in the chambers of their kings.^(CR)
31 
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies
And gnats in all their territory.^(CS)
32 
He gave them hail for rain,
With flaming fire in their land.^(CT)
33 
He struck their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the [ice-laden] trees of their territory.^(CU)
34 
He spoke, and the [migratory] locusts came,
And the young locusts, even without number,^(CV)
35 
And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ 
He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits and chief substance of all their strength.^(CW)

³⁷ 
He brought the sons of Israel out [of Egypt] with silver and gold,
And among their tribes there was not one who stumbled.^(CX)
38 
Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the dread and fear of them had fallen on the Egyptians.^(CY)
39 
The Lord spread a cloud as a covering [by day],
And a fire to illumine the night.^(CZ)
40 
The Israelites asked, and He brought quail,
And satisfied them with the bread of heaven.^(DA)
41 
He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.^(DB)
42 
For He remembered His holy word
To Abraham His servant;^(DC)
43 
He brought out His people with joy,
And His chosen ones with a joyful shout,
⁴⁴ 
He gave them the lands of the nations [of Canaan],
So that they would possess the fruits of those peoples’ labor,^(DD)
45 
So that they might observe His precepts
And keep His laws [obediently accepting and honoring and valuing them].
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

⁴ 
Remember me, O Lord, when You favor Your people.
Visit me with Your salvation [when You rescue them],
⁵ 
That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your inheritance.

⁶ 
We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.^(DF)
7 
Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles;
They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts,
But they were rebellious at the sea, at the ^[as]Red Sea.^(DG)
8 
Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
That He might make His [supreme] power known.
⁹ 
He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.^(DH)
10 
So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.^(DI)
11 
And the waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.^(DJ)
12 
Then Israel believed in [the validity of] His words;
They sang His praise.

¹³ 
But they quickly forgot His works;
They did not [patiently] wait for His counsel and purpose [to be revealed regarding them],
¹⁴ 
But lusted intensely in the wilderness
And tempted God [with their insistent desires] in the desert.^(DK)
15 
So He gave them their request,
But sent a wasting disease among them.^(DL)

¹⁶ 
They envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord,^(DM)
17 
Therefore the earth opened and swallowed Dathan,
And engulfed the company of Abiram.^(DN)
18 
And a fire broke out in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked.^(DO)

¹⁹ 
They made a calf in Horeb (Sinai)
And worshiped a cast image.^(DP)
20 
Thus they exchanged [the true God who was] their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ 
They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done such great things in Egypt,
²² 
Wonders in the land of Ham,
Awesome things at the Red Sea.
²³ 
Therefore He said He would destroy them,
[And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.^(DQ)
24 
Then they despised the pleasant land [of Canaan];
They did not believe in His word nor rely on it,
²⁵ 
But they sulked and complained in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.
²⁶ 
Therefore He lifted up His hand [swearing] to them,
That He would cause them to fall in the wilderness,
²⁷ 
And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations
And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].

²⁸ 
They joined themselves also to [the idol] Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
²⁹ 
Thus they provoked Him to anger with their practices,
And a plague broke out among them.
³⁰ 
Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and ^[at]interceded,
And so the plague was halted.^(DR)
31 
And that was credited to him for righteousness,
To all generations forever.

³² 
They provoked Him to anger at the waters of ^[au]Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;^(DS)
33 
Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.

³⁴ 
They did not destroy the [pagan] peoples [in Canaan],
As the Lord commanded them,
³⁵ 
But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations
And learned their ways,
³⁶ 
And served their idols,
Which became a [dreadful] snare to them.
³⁷ 
They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons^(DT)
38 
And shed innocent blood,
Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was polluted with their blood.
³⁹ 
In this way they became unclean in their practices;
They played the prostitute in their own deeds [by giving their worship, which belongs to God alone, to other “gods”].

⁴⁰ 
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He detested His own ^[av]inheritance.^(DU)
41 
He gave them into the hands of the nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² 
Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were subdued under the [powerful] hand of their enemies.
⁴³ 
Many times He rescued them;
But they were rebellious in their counsel,
And sank down in their wickedness.

⁴⁴ 
Nevertheless He looked [sympathetically] at their distress
When He heard their cry;
⁴⁵ 
And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],
⁴⁶ 
He also made them objects of compassion
Among those who had carried them away captive.^(DV)

⁴⁷ 
Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
That we may give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in praising You.
⁴⁸ 
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)^(DW)

⁴ 
They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region;
And did not find a way to an inhabited city.
⁵ 
Hungry and thirsty,
They fainted.
⁶ 
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He rescued them from their distresses.
⁷ 
He led them by the straight way,
To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes].
⁸ 
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
⁹ 
For He satisfies the parched throat,
And fills the hungry appetite with what is good.

¹⁰ 
Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,
Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,^(DX)
11 
Because they had rebelled against the precepts of God
And spurned the counsel of the Most High.
¹² 
Therefore He humbled their heart with hard labor;
They stumbled and there was no one to help.
¹³ 
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them from their distresses.
¹⁴ 
He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darkness
And broke their bonds apart.^(DY)
15 
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
¹⁶ 
For He has shattered the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron apart.

¹⁷ 
Fools, because of their rebellious way,
And because of their sins, were afflicted.
¹⁸ 
They detested all kinds of food,
And they drew near to the gates of death.
¹⁹ 
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them from their distresses.
²⁰ 
He sent His word and healed them,
And rescued them from their destruction.^(DZ)
21 
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!^(EA)
22 
And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
And speak of His deeds with shouts of joy!

²³ 
Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;
²⁴ 
They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.
²⁵ 
For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,
Which lifted up the waves of the sea.
²⁶ 
They went up toward the heavens [on the crest of the wave], they went down again to the depths [of the watery trough];
Their courage melted away in their misery.
²⁷ 
They staggered and trembled like a drunken man,
And were at their wits’ end [all their wisdom was useless].
²⁸ 
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He brought them out of their distresses.
²⁹ 
He hushed the storm to a gentle whisper,
So that the waves of the sea were still.^(EB)
30 
Then they were glad because of the calm,
And He guided them to their desired haven (harbor).
³¹ 
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
³² 
Let them exalt Him also in the congregation of the people,
And praise Him at the seat of the elders.

³³ 
He turns rivers into a wilderness,
And springs of water into a thirsty ground;^(EC)
34 
A productive land into a [barren] salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.^(ED)
35 
He turns a wilderness into a pool of water
And a dry land into springs of water;^(EE)
36 
And there He has the hungry dwell,
So that they may establish an inhabited city,
³⁷ 
And sow fields and plant vineyards,
And produce an abundant harvest.
³⁸ 
Also He blesses them so that they multiply greatly,
And He does not let [the number of] their cattle decrease.

³⁹ 
When they are diminished and bowed down (humbled)
Through oppression, misery, and sorrow,
⁴⁰ 
He pours contempt on princes
And makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.
⁴¹ 
Yet He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction,
And makes their families like a flock.
⁴² 
The upright see it and rejoice;
But all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.
⁴³ 
Who is wise? Let him observe and heed these things;
And [thoughtfully] consider the lovingkindness of the Lord.

⁷ 
God has spoken in His ^[ax]holiness:
“I will rejoice, I will portion out Shechem [as I divide Canaan among My people],
And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
⁸ 
“Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim also is the helmet of My head [My stronghold, My defense];
Judah is My ^[ay]scepter.^(EG)
9 
“Moab is My washbowl;
Over Edom I will throw My shoe [to show Edom is Mine];
Over Philistia I will shout [in triumph].”

¹⁰ 
Who will bring me into the fortified city [of Petra]?
Who will lead me to Edom?
¹¹ 
Have You not rejected us, O God?
And will You not go out, O God, with our armies?
¹² 
Give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].
^13 
[az]With God we will do valiantly,
For it is He who will trample down our enemies.^(EH)

⁶ 
Appoint a wicked man against him,
And let an attacker stand at his right hand [to kill him].
⁷ 
When he enters into dispute, let wickedness come about.
Let his prayer [for help] result [only] in sin.
⁸ 
Let his days be few;
And let another take his office.^(EI)
9 
Let his children be fatherless
And his wife a widow.
¹⁰ 
Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.^(EJ)
11 
Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder the product of his labor.
¹² 
Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,
Nor let anyone be gracious to his fatherless children.
¹³ 
Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

¹⁴ 
Let the wickedness of his fathers be remembered by the Lord;
And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.
¹⁵ 
Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;
¹⁶ 
Because the man did not remember to show kindness,
But persecuted the suffering and needy man,
And the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
¹⁷ 
He also loved cursing, and it came [back] to him;
He did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.
¹⁸ 
He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it seeped into his inner self like water
And like [anointing] oil into his bones.
¹⁹ 
Let it be to him as a robe with which he covers himself,
And as a sash with which he is constantly bound.
²⁰ 
Let this be the reward of my attackers from the Lord,
And of those who speak evil against my life.

²¹ 
But You, O God, the Lord, show kindness to me, for Your name’s sake;
Because Your lovingkindness (faithfulness, compassion) is good, O rescue me;
²² 
For I am suffering and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
²³ 
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.
²⁴ 
My knees are unsteady from fasting;
And my flesh is gaunt and without fatness.
²⁵ 
I also have become a reproach and an object of taunting to others;
When they see me, they shake their heads [in derision].^(EK)

²⁶ 
Help me, O Lord my God;
Save me according to Your lovingkindness—
²⁷ 
And let them know that this is Your hand;
You, Lord, have done it.
²⁸ 
Let them curse, but You bless.
When adversaries arise, let them be ashamed,
But let Your servant rejoice.
²⁹ 
Let my attackers be clothed with dishonor,
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

³⁰ 
I will give great praise and thanks to the Lord with my mouth;
And in the midst of many I will praise Him.
³¹ 
For He will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who judge his soul.

⁴ 
The Lord has sworn [an oath] and will not change His mind:
“^[ba]You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”^(EN)
5 
The Lord is at Your right hand,
He ^[bb]will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
⁶ 
He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;
He will fill them with corpses,
He will crush the chief men over a broad country.^(EO)
7 
He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head [triumphantly].

⁷ 
The works of His hands are truth and [absolute] justice;
All His precepts are sure (established, reliable, trustworthy).
⁸ 
They are upheld forever and ever;
They are done in [absolute] truth and uprightness.
⁹ 
He has sent redemption to His people;
He has ordained His covenant forever;
Holy and awesome is His name—[inspiring reverence and godly fear].
¹⁰ 
The [reverent] fear of the Lord is the beginning (the prerequisite, the absolute essential, the alphabet) of wisdom;
A good understanding and a teachable heart are possessed by all those who do the will of the Lord;
His praise endures forever.^(EQ)