Bible in 90 Days

25 To you, O Yahweh, I lift up my soul.
² O my God, I trust you; let me not be put to shame.
Do not let my enemies exult over me.
³ Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame.
Those who betray without cause should be put to shame.
⁴ Make me know your ways, O Yahweh.
Teach me your paths.
⁵ Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me,
because you are the God of my salvation.
I await you all day long.^[b]
6 Remember your compassion, O Yahweh,
and your acts of loyal love,
because they are from of old.
⁷ Do not remember
the sins of my youth or my transgressions.
According to your loyal love remember me if you will,
for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.
⁸ Good and right is Yahweh;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
⁹ He causes the humble to walk in justice,
and teaches the humble his way.
¹⁰ All the paths of Yahweh are loyal love and faithfulness
for those who keep his covenant and statutes.^[c]
11 Also, for the sake of your name, O Yahweh,
forgive my sin, because it is great.
¹² Who is the man fearing Yahweh?
He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
¹³ His soul will lodge in prosperity,
and his offspring will possess the land.
¹⁴ Intimate fellowship with Yahweh is for those who fear him,
and he makes known his covenant to them.
¹⁵ My eyes are continually toward Yahweh,
because he will take my feet from the net.
¹⁶ Turn to me and have mercy on me
because I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷ Remove the troubles of my heart;
bring me out from my distresses.
¹⁸ Consider my affliction and trouble,
and forgive^[d] all my sins.
¹⁹ Consider that my enemies are many,
and they hate me with violent hatred.
²⁰ Protect my life and deliver me.
Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you.
²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,
because I wait for you.
²² O God, redeem Israel
from all its troubles.

26 Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity,
and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.
² Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me.
Try my innermost being^[f] and my mind.^[g]
3 Because your loyal love is before my eyes,
and I walk about in your faithfulness.
⁴ I do not sit with deceitful people,
nor will I go about with hypocrites.
⁵ I hate the crowd of evildoers,
and with the wicked I will not sit.
⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence,
and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh,
⁷ to declare with a voice of thanksgiving,
and tell of all your wondrous deeds.
⁸ O Yahweh, I love the dwelling of your house,^[h]
and the place where your glory abides.^[i]
9 Do not destroy me^[j] with the sinners,
nor my life with men of bloodshed,
¹⁰ in whose hands is an evil plan,
and whose right hand is full of bribes.^[k]
11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity.
Redeem me and be gracious to me.
¹² My foot stands on level ground.
In assemblies I will bless Yahweh.

27 Yahweh is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
Yahweh is the refuge of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
² When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh—
my adversaries and my enemies who drew near to me—
they themselves stumbled and fell.
³ Though an army encamp against me,
my heart will not fear.
Though war arise against me,
even in this I will remain confident.
⁴ One thing I have asked from Yahweh;
it I will seek:
that I may dwell in the house^[m] of Yahweh all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of Yahweh,
and to consider^[n] his temple.
⁵ Because he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble.
He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent.
He will set me high upon a rock.
⁶ And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me.
And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy.
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
⁷ Hear, O Yahweh, my voice when I call,
and be gracious to me and answer me.
⁸ On your behalf my heart says, “Seek my face.”
Your face, O Yahweh, I do seek.
⁹ Do not hide your face from me;
do not turn your servant away in anger.
You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation.
¹⁰ If my father or my mother forsake me,
then Yahweh will receive me.
¹¹ Teach me, O Yahweh, your way,
and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
¹² Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies,
because false witnesses have arisen against me,
and each breathing out violence.^[o]
13 Surely^[p] I believe that I will see the goodness of Yahweh
in the land of the living.
¹⁴ Wait for Yahweh.
Be strong and let your heart show strength,
and wait for Yahweh.

28 To you, O Yahweh, I call.
O my rock, do not be deaf to me.
Or else, if you are silent to me,
then I will become like those descending to the pit.
² Hear the voice of my supplications
when I cry to you for help,
when I lift up my hands
toward your holy inner sanctuary.
³ Do not drag me away with the wicked
or with the workers of evil,
who speak of peace with their neighbors,
while evil is in their heart.
⁴ Give to them according to their work,
even according to the evil of their deeds.
Give to them according to the work of their hands;
repay them their rightful due.
⁵ Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh,
nor the work of his hands,
he will destroy them
and not rebuild them.
⁶ Blessed is Yahweh,
because he has heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷ Yahweh is my strength and my shield.
My heart trusts him and I am helped.
So my heart rejoices,
and with my song I will give thanks to him.
⁸ Yahweh is their strength,
and he is the refuge for the salvation of his anointed one.
⁹ Save your people
and bless your heritage.
Shepherd them also and carry them always.

29 Ascribe to Yahweh, O sons of God,^[s]
ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
² Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due^[t] his name.
Worship Yahweh in holy array.
³ The voice of Yahweh is over the waters;
the God of glory thunders.
Yahweh is over many waters.
⁴ The voice of Yahweh is powerful.
The voice of Yahweh is majestic.
⁵ The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars.
Yahweh shatters even the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ And he makes them skip like a calf;
Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
⁷ The voice of Yahweh flashes^[u] flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of Yahweh shakes the wilderness.
Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of Yahweh causes deer^[v] to give birth
and strips the forests bare.
And at his temple all in it say, “Glory!”
¹⁰ Yahweh sits enthroned at the flood,
and Yahweh sits as king forever.
¹¹ May Yahweh give strength to his people.
May Yahweh bless his people with peace.

30 I will exalt you, O Yahweh,
because you have drawn me up,
and have not made my enemies rejoice over me.
² O Yahweh, my God,
I cried for help to you,
and you healed me.
³ O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol.
You preserved me alive
from among those going down ^[y] to the pit.
⁴ Sing praises to Yahweh, you his faithful ones,
and give thanks to his holy fame.^[z]
5 For there is a moment in his anger;
there is a lifetime in his favor.
Weeping lodges for the evening,
but in the morning comes rejoicing.
⁶ But as for me, I had said in my prosperity,
“I shall not be moved ever.”
⁷ O Yahweh, by your favor
you caused my strong mountain to stand.
You hid your face. I was bewildered.
⁸ To you, O Yahweh, I called,
and to the Lord I pleaded for grace saying,
⁹ “What gain is there in my death,^[aa]
in my going down into the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
¹⁰ “O Yahweh, hear and be gracious to me.
O Yahweh, be my helper.”
¹¹ You have turned my wailing into my dancing.
You have removed my sackcloth
and clothed me with joy
¹² so that I^[ab] may sing praises to you
and not be quiet.
O Yahweh, my God,
I will give thanks to you forever.

31 In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge.
Let me not be put to shame ever.
Deliver me by your righteousness.
² Incline your ear to me.
Quickly deliver me.
Become my rock of refuge,
a fortified keep^[ad] to save me.
³ For you are my rock and my fortress.
So, for the sake of your name,
lead me and guide me.
⁴ Bring me out of the net that they have secretly set for me,
for you are my refuge.
⁵ Into your hand I commit my spirit.
You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.^[ae]
6 I hate those devoted to useless idols,
but I trust Yahweh.
⁷ I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love.
Because you have seen my misery,
you know the distresses of my life.^[af]
8 And you have not delivered me
into the hand of the enemy.
You have set my feet in a broad place.
⁹ Be gracious to me, O Yahweh,
because I have distress.
My eye wastes away because of vexation,
along with my soul and my body.^[ag]
10 For my life is at an end with sorrow,
and my years with sighing.
My strength stumbles because of my iniquity,
and my bones waste away.
¹¹ Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace,
especially to my neighbors,
and a dread to my acquaintances.
Those who see me in the street flee from me.
¹² I have become forgotten like one dead, out of mind.^[ah]
I am like a destroyed vessel.
¹³ For I hear the rumor of many,
“Terror on every side!”
When conspiring together against me,
they have plotted to take my life.
¹⁴ But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh.
I say, “You are my God.”
¹⁵ My times^[ai] are in your hand.
Deliver me from the hand of my enemies
and from those who pursue me.
¹⁶ Shine your face upon your servant.
Save me by your loyal love.
¹⁷ O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you.
Let the wicked be put to shame.
Let them go silently^[aj] to Sheol.
¹⁸ Let lying lips be dumb,
that speak against the righteous^[ak] unrestrained
with arrogance and contempt.
¹⁹ How abundant is your goodness
that you have stored up for those who fear you,
that you perform for those who take refuge in you
before the children of humankind.
²⁰ You will hide them in the protection of your presence
from the plots of man.
You will hide them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
²¹ Blessed is Yahweh,
because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me
in a besieged city.
²² As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before your eyes.”
However you heard the voice of my supplications
when I cried to you for help.
²³ Love Yahweh, all you his faithful ones.
Yahweh preserves the faithful
but repays abundantly the one who acts arrogantly.
²⁴ Be strong and let your^[al] heart show strength,
all you who wait for Yahweh.

32 Happy is he whose transgression is taken away,
whose sin is covered.
² Happy is a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity
and in whose spirit there is not deceit.
³ When I kept silent, my bones were worn out
due to my groaning all the day.
⁴ For day and night your hand was heavy upon me.
My vigor was changed into the dry heat of summer. Selah
⁵ I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover.
I said, “I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh,”
and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah
⁶ Therefore let all the faithful pray to you
at the time for finding you.
Surely at the flood of many waters they will not reach him.
⁷ You are my hiding place;
from trouble you preserve me.
With cries of deliverance you surround me. Selah
⁸ I^[an] will instruct you and teach you
in the way that you should go.
I will advise you with my eye upon you.
⁹ Do not be like a horse or like a mule, without understanding;
that needs his tackle—bridle and rein—for restraint
or he would not come near you.
¹⁰ Many are the pains of the wicked,
but for the one who trusts Yahweh
loyal love surrounds him.
¹¹ Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, you righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright of heart.

33 Exult in Yahweh, O you righteous,
for praise is fitting for the upright.
² Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre;
with a harp of ten strings play to him.
³ Sing to him a new song;
play skillfully with jubilant shout.
⁴ For the word of Yahweh is upright,
and all his work is done in faithfulness.
⁵ He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loyal love of Yahweh.
⁶ By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made,
and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
⁷ He gathered the waters of the sea like a heap.
He put the deeps in storehouses.
⁸ Let all the earth fear Yahweh.
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
⁹ For he himself spoke^[ao] and it came to pass.
He himself commanded^[ap] and it stood firm.
¹⁰ Yahweh brings to nothing^[aq] the plan of nations;
he frustrates^[ar] the intents of peoples.
¹¹ The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever,
the intents of his heart from one generation to the next.^[as]
12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,
the people he has chosen for his inheritance.
¹³ From heaven Yahweh looks;
he sees all the children of humankind.
¹⁴ From his dwelling place^[at] he gazes
on all the inhabitants of the earth,
¹⁵ he who fashions altogether their heart,
he who understands all their works.
¹⁶ The king is not saved by the greatness of an army.
The warrior is not delivered by the greatness of strength.
¹⁷ The horse is a false hope for victory,
nor can it save by the greatness of its power.
¹⁸ Behold, the eye of Yahweh is on those who fear him,
on those who hope^[au] for his loyal love
¹⁹ to deliver their soul from death
and to keep them alive in famine.
²⁰ Our soul waits for Yahweh;
he is our help and our shield.
²¹ For in him our heart rejoices
because in his holy name we trust.
²² Let your loyal love, O Yahweh, be upon us,
even as^[av] we hope in you.

34 I will bless Yahweh at all times;
his praise shall be in my mouth continually.
² My soul makes its boast in Yahweh;
let the humble hear and be glad.
³ Magnify Yahweh with me,
and let us exalt his name together.
⁴ I sought Yahweh and he answered me,
and from all my terrors he delivered me.
⁵ They looked to him and were radiant,
and their faces shall not be ashamed.^[az]
6 This poor man called and Yahweh heard,
and saved him from all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of Yahweh encamps
around those who fear him,
and he rescues them.
⁸ Taste and see that Yahweh is good;
blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
⁹ Fear Yahweh, you his saints,^[ba]
for there is no lack for those who fear him.
¹⁰ The young lions are in want and suffer hunger,
but those who seek Yahweh will not lack for any good thing.
¹¹ Come, you children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
¹² Who is the man who desires life,
who loves many days in order to see good?
¹³ Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from speaking deceit.
¹⁴ Turn from evil and do good.
Seek peace and pursue it.
¹⁵ The eyes of Yahweh are toward the righteous,
and his ears toward their cry for help.
¹⁶ The face of Yahweh is against evildoers,
to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
¹⁷ They^[bb] cry out and Yahweh hears
and delivers them from all of their troubles.
¹⁸ Yahweh is near to those who are heartbroken
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
¹⁹ Many are the distresses of the righteous,
but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
²⁰ He protects all his bones;
not one of them is broken.
²¹ Evil will slay the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will incur guilt.
²² Yahweh redeems the life of his servants,
and none who take refuge in him will incur guilt.

35 Contend, O Yahweh, with my contenders;
fight those who fight me.
² Grasp buckler and shield
and rise to my aid.
³ And draw the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me.
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”
⁴ Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated.
Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.
⁵ Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of Yahweh driving them.^[bd]
6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
⁷ For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me;
without cause they dug it for my life.
⁸ Let unforeseen ruin^[be] come on him,
and his net that he hid, let it catch him.
Let him fall into it in ruin.
⁹ Then my soul will rejoice in Yahweh;
it will rejoice in his salvation.
¹⁰ All of my bones shall say, “O Yahweh, who is like you,
who delivers the poor from one stronger than he
and the poor and needy from the one who robs him?”
¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up;
they ask me concerning what I do not know.
¹² They repay me evil in place of good.
It is bereavement to my soul.
¹³ But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.
I weakened my soul with fasting,
and my prayer returned to me unanswered.^[bf]
14 I behaved^[bg] as though he were a friend or as a brother to me.
As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down in mourning.
¹⁵ But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together;
smiters whom I did not know gathered against me.
They tore and did not cease.
¹⁶ Among the ungodly of the mockers at feasts,^[bh]
they gnashed at me with their teeth.
¹⁷ My Lord, how long will you watch?
Restore my life from their ravages,^[bi]
my only life from the young lions.
¹⁸ I will give thanks to you in the great assembly;
among the mighty people I will praise you.
¹⁹ Let not those who are wrongfully my enemies^[bj] rejoice over me.
Nor let those who hate me without cause wink the eye.
²⁰ For they do not speak peace,
but against the quiet ones of the land
they plan deceitful words.
²¹ They also made wide their mouths^[bk] against me.
They said, “Aha! Aha!
Our eyes have seen it.”
²² You have seen, O Yahweh. Do not be deaf.
O Lord, do not be far from me.
²³ Wake up and rouse yourself for my right,
for my cause, O my God and my Lord.
²⁴ Vindicate me according to your righteousness,
O Yahweh my God,
and do not let them rejoice over me.
²⁵ Do not let them say in their hearts,^[bl] “Aha, our desire.”
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”
²⁶ Let them be shamed and abashed altogether,
who rejoice at my misfortune.
Let them put on shame and insult,
who magnify themselves against me.
²⁷ Let them shout for joy and be glad,
who delight in my vindication;
and let them say continually, “Yahweh is great,
who delights in the welfare of his servant.”
²⁸ Then my tongue will proclaim your righteousness,
and your praise all day.

36 An oracle: the wicked has rebellion
in the midst of his^[bn] heart.
There is no fear of God before his eyes.
² For he flatters himself in his eyes,
hating to detect his iniquity.^[bo]
3 The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit.
He has ceased to have insight and to do good.
⁴ He plans sin on his bed.
He puts himself on a way that is not good.
He does not reject evil.
⁵ O Yahweh, your loyal love extends into the heavens,
your faithfulness unto the clouds.
⁶ Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,^[bp]
your judgments like the great deep.
You save man and beast, O Yahweh.
⁷ How precious is your loyal love, O God,
and the children of humankind
take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
⁸ They are refreshed with the fullness^[bq] of your house,^[br]
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.
⁹ For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light.
¹⁰ Prolong your loyal love to those who know you,
and your righteousness to the upright of heart.
¹¹ Do not let a foot of pride come against me,
nor let a wicked hand make me to wander homeless.
¹² There doers of evil have fallen;
they are thrust down and not able to rise.

37 Do not fret because of evildoers;
do not be envious of doers of wickedness.
² For like the grass they will dry up quickly,
and like green vegetation they will wither.
³ Trust Yahweh and do good.
Abide in the land and feed on faithfulness.^[bt]
4 Take pleasure in Yahweh as well,
and he will give to you the requests of your heart.
⁵ Commit to^[bu] Yahweh your way;
Trust also on him and he will act.
⁶ Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light,
and your justice like the noonday.
⁷ Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him.
Do not fret about one who succeeds in his way,
about a man making plots.
⁸ Refrain from anger and forsake wrath.
Do not fret; it only brings evil.
⁹ For evildoers will be cut off,
but those who wait for Yahweh—
they will possess the land.
¹⁰ And^[bv] yet a little while and the wicked will not be,
and you will look carefully upon his place, but he will not be.
¹¹ But the afflicted will possess the land,
and they will take pleasure in an abundance of peace.
¹² The wicked plans evil against the righteous,
and gnashes at him with his teeth.
¹³ The Lord laughs at him,
for he sees that his day is coming.
¹⁴ The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow
to throw down the poor and the needy,
to kill those upright in their way.
¹⁵ Their sword will enter into their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.
¹⁶ The little belonging to the righteous is better
than the wealth of many wicked.
¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but Yahweh supports the righteous.
¹⁸ Yahweh knows the days of the blameless,
and their inheritance will be forever.
¹⁹ They will not be put to shame in distressing times,^[bw]
and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.
²⁰ But the wicked will perish,
and the enemies of Yahweh will be like the splendor of the pastures.
They vanish; in smoke they vanish.
²¹ The wicked borrows and does not repay,
but the righteous is gracious and gives.
²² For those blessed by him shall possess the land,
but those cursed by him shall be cut off.
²³ The steps of a man are established by Yahweh,
and he takes pleasure in his way.
²⁴ Though he fall, he will not be cast headlong,
for Yahweh supports him with his hand.
²⁵ I was a youth, but I am now old;
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
or his children begging for^[bx] bread.
²⁶ All the day he is gracious and lends,
and his children are a blessing.
²⁷ Turn aside from evil and do good
and so abide forever.
²⁸ For Yahweh loves justice
and will not forsake his faithful ones.
They are protected forever.
But the children of the wicked will be cut off.
²⁹ The righteous will possess the land
and abide in it forever.
³⁰ The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,
and his tongue speaks justice.
³¹ The law of his God is in his heart.
His steps will not slip.
³² The wicked watches for the righteous
and seeks to kill him.
³³ Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand,
and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged.
³⁴ Wait for Yahweh and keep his way,
and he will exalt you to possess the land.
When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
³⁵ I have seen the wicked acting violently
and spreading himself out
like a luxuriant native tree.
³⁶ Then he passed on^[by] and behold, he was not.
And I sought him, but he could not be found.
³⁷ Observe the blameless and look at the upright,
for there is a future for a man of peace.
³⁸ But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether.
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
³⁹ And^[bz] the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh,
their refuge in the time of trouble.
⁴⁰ And Yahweh helps them and he rescues them.
He rescues them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.

38 O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger
or chastise me in your wrath.
² For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has pressed down on me.
³ There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation.
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
⁴ For my iniquities have passed over my head;
like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
⁵ My wounds start to stink; they rot
because of my foolishness.
⁶ I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly.
All the day I go about mourning.
⁷ For my loins are full of burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸ I am faint and crushed greatly;
I groan because of the roaring of my heart.
⁹ O Lord, all my longing is before you,
and my sighing is not hidden from you.
¹⁰ My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me;
and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.
¹¹ My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction,
and my relatives stand afar off.
¹² Those who seek my life lay snares as well,
and those intent on my harm speak threats.
They also plot deceit all day.
¹³ But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear,
and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth.
¹⁴ And so I am like a man who hears not,
and in whose mouth there are no retorts.
¹⁵ Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh.
You will answer, O Lord my God.
¹⁶ For I said, “Help, lest they rejoice over me,
lest they boast against me when my foot slips.”
¹⁷ For I am ready to stumble,
and my pain is before me continually.
¹⁸ For my iniquity I confess;
I am anxious because of my sin.
¹⁹ And my enemies without cause^[cb] are numerous,
and those who hate me wrongfully^[cc] are many.
²⁰ And those who repay evil in return for good
accuse me in return for my pursuing good.
²¹ Do not forsake me, O Yahweh.
O my God, do not be far from me.
²² Hurry to help me,
O Lord, my salvation.

39 I said, “I will guard my ways
that I may not sin^[cf] with my tongue.
I will keep a muzzle over my mouth
as long as the wicked are before me.”
² I was mute with silence. I was silent even from saying good things,
and my pain was stirred up.
³ My heart grew hot inside me;
in my sighing a fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue,
⁴ “Let me know, O Yahweh, my end,
and what is the measure of my days.
Let me know how transient I am.”
⁵ Look, you have made my days mere handbreadths,
and my lifespan as nothing next to you.
Surely every person standing firm is complete vanity. Selah
⁶ Surely a man walks about as a mere shadow;^[cg]
surely in vain they bustle about.
He heaps up possessions but does not know who will gather them in.
⁷ And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is for you.
⁸ From all my transgressions deliver me;
do not make me the taunt of the fool.
⁹ I am mute. I do not open my mouth,
for you, yourself, have done it.
¹⁰ Remove from me your affliction.
By the opposition of your hand I perish.
¹¹ When with rebukes you chastise a man for sin,
you^[ch] consume^[ci] like a moth his delightful things.
Surely everyone is a mere vapor.^[cj] Selah
¹² Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen to my cry for help;
do not be deaf to my tears.
For I am an alien^[ck] with you,
a sojourner like all my ancestors.^[cl]
13 Look away from me that I may be cheerful,
before I depart and I am no more.

40 I waited patiently for Yahweh,
And he inclined to me
and heard my cry for help.
² And so he brought me up from the roaring pit,^[cn]
from the miry clay.
And he put my feet upon a rock;
he made my steps steady.
³ Then he put a new song in my mouth,
a praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
and will trust Yahweh.
⁴ Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust
and does not turn to the proud and to those who fall away to a lie.^[co]
5 Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done—
your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us.
There is none to compare with you.
If I tried to proclaim and tell of them,
they would be too numerous to count.
⁶ A sacrifice and offering you do not desire.
My ears you have opened.^[cp]
Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.
⁷ Then I said, “Look, I come.
In the scroll of the book
it is written concerning me:
⁸ ‘I delight to do your will, O my God,
and your law is deep within me.’”^[cq]
9 I have brought good tidings of righteousness in the great congregation.
Look, I have not shut my lips.
O Yahweh, you surely know that.^[cr]
10 Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.
I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation.
I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness
from the great congregation.
¹¹ As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me.
Let your loyal love and your faithfulness
continually preserve me.
¹² For evils without number have encompassed me.
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my heart fails me.
¹³ Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me.
O Yahweh, hurry to help me.
¹⁴ Let them be shamed and abashed altogether
who seek to take away my life.^[cs]
Let them be repulsed and humiliated
who desire my harm.
¹⁵ Let them be appalled because of their shame,
those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”
¹⁶ Let them rejoice and be glad in you,
all those who seek you.
Let them say continually, “Yahweh is great!”
—those who love your salvation.
¹⁷ But I am poor and needy.
Let my Lord consider me.
You are my help and my deliverer.
O my God, do not delay.

41 Blessed is the one who has regard for the poor;
in the day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.
² Yahweh protects him and keeps him alive;
he is blessed in the land,
and you do not give him
into the will^[cu] of his enemies.
³ Yahweh sustains him on his sick bed.
In his illness, you restore to health.^[cv]
4 As for me, I said, “O Yahweh, be gracious to me.
Heal me,^[cw] for I have sinned against you.”
⁵ My enemies speak evil about me,
“When will he die and his name perish?”
⁶ And when one comes to see me, he speaks falsely;
his heart gathers disaster for itself.
He goes out to the street; he speaks.
⁷ All who hate me speak together against me.
Against me they assume the worst^[cx] for me:
⁸ “A ruinous thing is poured out on him,
and now that he lies down, he will not rise up again.”
⁹ Even my close friend,^[cy] whom I trusted,
who ate my bread,
has lifted his heel against me.
¹⁰ But you, O Yahweh, be gracious to me and raise me up
that I may repay them.
¹¹ By this I know that you delight in me:
because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.
¹² As for me, you have upheld me in my integrity,
and you have set me in your presence forever.
¹³ Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and Amen.

42 As a deer longs for streams of water,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?^[da]
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
while they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”
⁴ These I remember and I pour out my soul within me:
that I would go with the multitude;
I led them in procession to the house^[db] of God,
with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving,
a crowd celebrating a festival.
⁵ Why are you in despair,^[dc] O my soul,
and disturbed within me?
Hope in God, because I will again praise him,
for the salvation of his presence.
⁶ O my God, within me my soul is in despair;^[dd]
therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan
and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar.
⁷ Deep is calling to deep
at^[de] the thunder of your waterfalls.
All your breakers and your waves
have passed over me.
⁸ By day Yahweh commands his loyal love,
and in the night his song is with me,
a prayer to the God of my life.
⁹ I say to God, my rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰ As with a shattering in my bones
my oppressors taunt me,
while they say to me all day,^[df]
“Where is your God?”
¹¹ Why are you in despair,^[dg] O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, because I shall again praise him,
my salvation^[dh] and my God.

43 Judge me, O God, and plead my case
against^[di] an unfaithful^[dj] nation.
From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,
² because you are the God of my refuge.
Why have you rejected me?
Why must I go about mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
³ Send your light and your truth;
they shall lead^[dk] me.
They shall bring me to your holy mountain^[dl]
and to your dwelling places.
⁴ Then^[dm] I will go to the altar of God,
to God, my surpassing joy,^[dn]
and I will praise you with lyre,
O God, my God.
⁵ Why are you in despair,^[do] O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, because I will again praise him,
my salvation^[dp] and my God.

44 O God, we have heard with our ears;
our ancestors^[dr] have told us
of work you worked in their days,
in days of old.
² You with your hand drove out the nations,
but them^[ds] you planted.
You harmed the peoples,
but them^[dt] you let spread out.
³ For not with their sword
did they possess the land,
and their arm did not give them victory.
Rather it was your right hand and your arm
and the light of your presence,
because you delighted in them.
⁴ You are my king, O God.
Command^[du] victories for Jacob.
⁵ By you we push down our enemies;
by your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
⁶ For I do not trust my bow,
and my sword cannot give me victory.
⁷ Rather you have saved us from our enemies,^[dv]
and have humiliated those who hate us.
⁸ In God we boast all the day,
and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah
⁹ Surely you have rejected and disgraced us,
and have not gone out with our armies.
¹⁰ You have caused us to pull back from the enemy,
and so those who hate us have plundered for themselves.
¹¹ You have given us as sheep for food,
and among the nations you have scattered us.
¹² You have sold your people cheaply,^[dw]
and did not profit by their price.
¹³ You have made us a taunt to our neighbors,
a derision and a scorn to those around us.
¹⁴ You have made us a byword among the nations,
a shaking of the head among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long^[dx] my disgrace is before me,
and the shame of my face covers me,
¹⁶ because of the voice of the taunter and the reviler,
because of the enemy and the avenger.
¹⁷ All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you,
and we have not been false to your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back,
and our steps have not turned aside from your way.
¹⁹ But you have crushed us in a place of jackals,
and have covered us with deep shadow.
²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God,
or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god,
²¹ would not God discover this,
for he knows the secrets of the heart?
²² Rather, on account of you we are killed all day long;^[dy]
we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
²³ Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Awake! Do not reject forever.
²⁴ Why do you hide your face?
Have you forgotten our misery and our oppression?
²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust.
Our body^[dz] clings to the ground.
²⁶ Rise up! Be a help for us,
and redeem us for the sake of your loyal love.

45 My heart is moved with a good word;
I recite my compositions^[eb] to the king.
My tongue is the pen of a skilled scribe.
² You are the most handsome of the sons of humankind;
grace is poured out on your lips;
therefore God has blessed you forever.
³ Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
in your splendor and your majesty.
⁴ And in your majesty ride victoriously,^[ec]
because of truth and humility and righteousness.
And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds.
⁵ Your arrows are sharp;
peoples fall under you
in the midst of the king’s enemies.
⁶ Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
A scepter of uprightness is
the scepter of your kingdom.
⁷ You love righteousness and hate wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
from among your companions with festive oil.
⁸ All your robes are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia.
From palaces of ivory stringed instruments gladden you.
⁹ Kings’ daughters are among your noble ladies.
The queen stands at your right hand in gold of Ophir.
¹⁰ Hear, O daughter, and discern^[ed] and incline your ear,
and forget your people and your father’s house.
¹¹ Let the king desire your beauty.^[ee]
Because he is your lord, therefore^[ef] bow down to him.
¹² Even the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift.
The rich from among people will seek your favor.^[eg]
13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within;^[eh]
her garment is of gold embroidered cloth.
¹⁴ She is brought to the king in colorful garments.
The young women behind her, her attendants,
are being brought to you.