Psalm 90-106

Tree of Life Version

⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger
and terrified by Your wrath.
⁸ You have set our iniquities before You,
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
⁹ For all our days have passed away under Your wrath.
We spent our years like a sigh.
¹⁰ The span of our years is seventy
—or with strength, eighty—
yet at best they are trouble and sorrow.
For they are soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹ Who knows the power of Your anger?
Your fury leads to awe of you.

¹² So teach us to number our days,
so that we may get a heart of wisdom.
¹³ Relent, Adonai! How long?
Have compassion on Your servants.
¹⁴ Satisfy us in the morning with Your love,
so we may sing for joy
and be glad all our days.
¹⁵ Gladden us for as many days as You have humbled us,
as many years as we have seen misery.
¹⁶ Let Your work appear to Your servants,
and Your splendor on their children.
¹⁷ Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us.
Establish the work of our hands for us—
yes, establish the work of our hands.

¹⁴ “Because he has devoted his love to Me,
    I will deliver him.
I will set him securely on high,
    because he knows My Name.
¹⁵ When he calls on Me, I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble, rescue him, and honor him.
¹⁶ With long life will I satisfy him
and show him My salvation.”

⁹ But You, Adonai, are exalted forever.
¹⁰ For behold, Your enemies, Adonai
—behold Your enemies perish—
all evildoers are scattered.
¹¹ But You exalted my horn like that of a wild ox.
I am anointed with fresh oil.
¹² My eye can gaze on those lying in wait for me.
My ears hear about evildoers rising up against me.
¹³ The righteous will flourish like a palm tree.
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹⁴ Planted in the House of Adonai,
they will flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁵ They will still yield fruit in old age.
They will be full of sap and freshness.
¹⁶ They declare, “Adonai is upright, my Rock
—there is no injustice in Him.”

⁸ Pay attention, stupid among the people!
Fools, when will you comprehend?
⁹ He who planted the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?
¹⁰ He who chastens nations, will He not rebuke—
One who teaches humanity knowledge?
¹¹ Adonai knows human thoughts—
    they are but a breath.

¹² Blessed is the one You discipline, Adonai,
and teach him from Your Torah,
¹³ to give him rest from days of trouble
—until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For Adonai will not forsake His people.
He will never abandon His inheritance.^[b]
15 For rightness will be restored to justice,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ Unless Adonai had been my help,
my soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
¹⁸ If I say: “My foot has slipped,”
Your mercy, Adonai, will hold me up.
¹⁹ When my troubling thoughts multiply within me,
Your consolations comfort my soul.
²⁰ Can a throne of corruption be aligned
with You—planning distress by decree?
²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous,
and condemn innocent blood.^[c]
22 But Adonai has been my fortress
and my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ He will repay them for their wickedness,
and will annihilate them in their evil.
Adonai our God will annihilate them.

¹⁰ You who love Adonai, hate evil!
He watches over the souls of His godly ones.
He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous
and gladness for the upright in heart.
¹² Rejoice in Adonai, you righteous ones,
and praise His holy Name.

⁶ Moses and Aaron were among His kohanim—
    also Samuel among those calling on His Name.
They called on Adonai and He answered them.
⁷ He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud.
They kept His testimonies, and the decree that He gave them.
⁸ Adonai our God, You answered them.
A forgiving God You were to them, though You avenged their misdeeds.
⁹ Exalt Adonai our God,
and worship at His holy hill,
for holy is Adonai our God.

² Adonai, hear my prayer,
let my cry come to You.
³ Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress.
Turn Your ear to me—in the day I call,
answer me quickly.
⁴ For my days vanished like smoke,
and my bones were burned like coals.
⁵ My heart is stricken and withered like grass,
so that I even forget to eat my bread.
⁶ Because of the sound of my groaning,
my bones cling to my flesh.
⁷ I am like a pelican of the desert,
like an owl of the waste places.
⁸ I lie awake, like a lonely bird on a roof.
⁹ My enemies taunt me all day.
My deriders use my name to curse.
¹⁰ For I have eaten ashes like bread,
and mixed my drink with tears—
¹¹ because of Your indignation and wrath,
for You have picked me up and tossed me aside.
¹² My days are like a lengthening shadow,
and I wither away like grass.

¹³ But You, Adonai, sit enthroned forever.
Your renown is from generation to generation.
¹⁴ You will arise and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to show favor to her,
for the appointed time has come,
¹⁵ for her stones are dear to Your servants,
and they cherish her dust.
¹⁶ So the nations will fear Adonai’s Name
and all the kings of the earth Your glory.
¹⁷ For Adonai has rebuilt Zion.
He has appeared in His glory.
¹⁸ He has turned to the prayer of the destitute,
and has not despised their prayer.
¹⁹ Let it be written for a generation to come,
that a people to be created may praise Adonai.
²⁰ For He looks down from His holy height,
from heaven Adonai gazes on the earth,
²¹ to hear the groaning of the prisoner,
to set free those condemned to death,
²² to declare the Name of Adonai in Zion
and His praise in Jerusalem,
²³ when the peoples and the kingdoms
assemble to worship Adonai.

²⁴ He brought down my strength in midcourse.
He shortened my days.
²⁵ I say, “My God,
do not take me up in the middle of my days.
Your years endure through all generations!
²⁶ Long ago You founded the earth,
the heavens are the work of Your hands.
²⁷ They will perish, but You will remain.
All of them will wear out like a garment.
Like clothing You change them, so they change.
²⁸ But You are the same,
and Your years will never end.
²⁹ The children of Your servants will live.
Their descendants will be established before You.”

⁶ Adonai executes justice—
judgments for all who are oppressed.
⁷ He made His ways known to Moses,
His deeds to the children of Israel.
⁸ Adonai is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, and plentiful in mercy.
⁹ He will not always accuse,
nor will He keep His anger forever.
¹⁰ He has not treated us according to our sins,
or repaid us according to our iniquities.
¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is His mercy for those who fear Him.
¹² As far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
¹³ As a father has compassion on his children,
so Adonai has compassion on those who fear Him.
¹⁴ For He knows our frame.
He remembers that we are but dust.
¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass—
he flourishes like a flower of the field,
¹⁶ but when the wind blows over it, it is gone,
    and its place is no longer known.
¹⁷ But the mercy of Adonai is from everlasting to everlasting
    on those who revere Him,
His righteousness to children’s children,
¹⁸ to those who keep His covenant,
who remember to observe His instructions.

¹⁹ Adonai has set up His throne in the heavens,
and His kingdom rules over all.
²⁰ Bless Adonai, you angels of His:
mighty in strength, performing His word,
upon hearing the utterance of His word.
²¹ Bless Adonai, all you His armies,
His servants who do His will.
²² Bless Adonai, all His works everywhere in His dominion.
Bless Adonai, O my soul!

¹⁹ He made the moon for appointed times,
the sun knows its going down.
²⁰ You bring darkness, so it becomes night,
when all the beasts of the forest prowl.
²¹ The young lions roar for prey,
seeking their food from God.
²² But when the sun rises, they gather
and lie down in their dens.
²³ Man goes out to his work,
and to his labor until the evening.

²⁴ Adonai, how countless are Your works!
In wisdom You made them all—
the earth is full of Your creatures.
²⁵ There is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with gliding things innumerable,
living creatures, both small and large.
²⁶ There, ships go to and fro.
Leviathan—You formed to frolic there.
²⁷ They all look to You to give them
their food at the right time.
²⁸ When You give it to them, they gather it up.
When You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good.
²⁹ But when You hide Your face—they are dismayed.
You take away their breath—they perish,
and return to their dust.
³⁰ You send forth Your Ruach—they are created,
and You renew the face of the earth.

³¹ May the glory of Adonai endure forever!
May Adonai rejoice in His works!
³² He looks at the earth, and it trembles.
He touches the mountains, and they smoke.
³³ I will sing to Adonai as long as I live!
I will sing praise to my God yet again!
³⁴ Let my meditation be sweet to Him.
I—I will rejoice in Adonai.
³⁵ Let sinners vanish from the earth
    and let the wicked be no more.
Bless Adonai, O my soul. Halleluyah!

⁷ He is Adonai our God.
His judgments are in all the earth.
⁸ He remembers His covenant forever—
the word He commanded for a thousand generations—
⁹ which He made with Abraham,
    and swore to Isaac,
¹⁰ and confirmed to Jacob as a decree,
to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
¹¹ saying, “To you I give the land of Canaan,
the portion of your inheritance.”
¹² When they were but few in number,
    few indeed, and foreigners in it,^[f]
13 wandering from nation to nation,
    from one kingdom to another people,
¹⁴ He allowed no one to oppress them—
    for their sake He rebuked kings:
¹⁵ “Touch not My anointed ones,
    and do My prophets no harm.”

¹⁶ He called down a famine on the land.
He broke the whole supply of bread.
¹⁷ He sent a man before them—
    Joseph, sold as a slave.
¹⁸ They hurt His feet with shackles,
he was put in irons—
¹⁹ till the time that his word came true—
    the word of Adonai proved him true!
²⁰ The king sent and released him.
The ruler of the peoples set him free.
²¹ He made him lord of his house,
ruler over all his possessions,
²² to discipline his princes at his will,
and teach his elders wisdom.
²³ Then Israel came into Egypt,
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
²⁴ He made His people very fruitful,
and made them more numerous than their foes.
²⁵ He turned their hearts to hate His people,
to deal shrewdly with His servants.
²⁶ He sent Moses His servant,
and Aaron, whom He had chosen.
²⁷ They performed His signs among them
—miracles in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness, and it was dark,
so they did not rebel against His words.
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood,
causing their fish to die.
³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs,
even in their royal chambers.
³¹ He spoke, and a swarm of gnats came
within all their borders.
³² He gave them a rain of hail,
flames of fire throughout their land.
³³ He struck their vines and their fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came
—young locusts without number—
³⁵ to eat up every green thing in their land
and eat up the fruit of their ground.
³⁶ Then He struck all the firstborn in their land,
the firstfruits of all their vigor.

³⁷ Then He brought them out with silver and gold,
and no one among His tribes faltered.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they left—
for dread of them had fallen on them.
³⁹ He spread a cloud as a covering
and fire to give light at night.
⁴⁰ They asked, and He brought quail,
and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.^[g]
41 He opened a rock, and waters gushed out,
flowed as a river in dry places.
⁴² For He remembered His holy word
to Abraham His servant.
⁴³ So He brought forth His people with joy,
His chosen ones with singing.
⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of the nations,
so they inherited the labor of the peoples
⁴⁵ so that they might keep His statutes
and observe His laws.
Halleluyah!

³ Blessed are those who maintain justice,
who do what is right at all times.
⁴ Remember me, Adonai,
when You show favor to Your people.
Visit me with Your salvation,
⁵ so I may behold the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
exult in the joy of Your nation,
and give praise with Your inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned with our fathers,
we have committed iniquity,
we have acted wickedly.
⁷ Our fathers in Egypt did not ponder Your wonders.
Nor did they remember Your abundant lovingkindness,
but rebelled by the sea—at the Sea of Reeds.
⁸ Yet He saved them for His Name’s sake,
to make His mighty power known.
⁹ He rebuked the Sea of Reeds
and it dried up,
and He led them through the depths as through a wilderness.
¹⁰ So He saved them from the hand of those who hated them,
redeemed them from the enemy’s hand.
¹¹ The waters covered their adversaries—
not one of them was left.
¹² Then they believed His words.
They were singing His praise.

¹³ How quickly they forgot His works,
and would not wait for His counsel!
¹⁴ In the wilderness they craved ravenously,
in the desert they tested God.
¹⁵ So He gave them what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease among them.
¹⁶ Then they envied Moses in the camp,
and also Aaron, the holy one of Adonai.
¹⁷ The earth opened up, swallowed Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.
¹⁸ Also a fire blazed in their company,
a flame consumed the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb
and worshipped a molten image.
²⁰ Thus they exchanged their glory
for an image of a grass-eating ox.
²¹ They forgot God their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt—
²² miracles in the land of Ham,
awesome things by the Sea of Reeds.
²³ So He commanded their extermination,
had not Moses, His chosen one,
stood in the breach before Him,
to turn His wrath from destroying them.

²⁴ Then they scorned the pleasing land—
they did not trust in His word.
²⁵ Instead, they grumbled in their tents.
They would not listen to Adonai’s voice.
²⁶ Therefore He swore to them
that He would make them fall in the desert,
²⁷ and disperse their offspring among the nations,
and scatter them through the lands.

²⁸ Then they yoked themselves to Baal of Peor,
and ate the sacrifices of dead things.
²⁹ So they provoked Him with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
³⁰ But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
so the plague was stopped.
³¹ It was credited to him as righteousness,
from generation to generation forever.

³² By the waters of Meribah they angered Him,
and trouble came on Moses because of them.
³³ For they embittered his spirit
and he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the peoples,
as Adonai had commanded them.
³⁵ Instead they mingled with the nations
and learned their practices.
³⁶ They worshipped their idols,
which became a snare to them.
³⁷ They even sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to demons.
³⁸ They shed innocent blood—
the blood of their sons and their daughters,
sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.
So the land was desecrated with blood.
³⁹ So they defiled themselves by their deeds,
and prostituted themselves by their practices.
⁴⁰ Therefore the anger of Adonai was kindled against His people,
and He abhorred His inheritance.
⁴¹ He handed them to the nations—
those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies oppressed them,
so they were subdued under their hand.
⁴³ Many times He delivered them,
but they kept rebelling deliberately,
and so sank low into their iniquity.
⁴⁴ Yet He saw their distress,
when He heard their cry,
⁴⁵ remembered His covenant to them,^[h]
and relented in the greatness of His mercy.
⁴⁶ He caused them to be pitied
in the presence of all their captors.

⁴⁷ Save us, Adonai our God,
and gather us from the nations,
so we may praise Your holy Name
and triumph in Your praise.
⁴⁸ Blessed be Adonai, the God of Israel,
from everlasting even to everlasting!
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Halleluyah!