Bible in 90 Days

¹⁵ They are led with joy and gladness.
They enter the palace of the king.
¹⁶ In place of your^[a] fathers will be your sons.
You will make them princes in all the land.^[b]
17 I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;
therefore peoples will praise you forever and ever.

46 God is our refuge and strength,
a very sufficient help in troubles.
² Therefore we will not fear though the earth change,
and though the mountains totter into the midst^[d] of the sea,
³ though its waters roar and foam,
though mountains shake with its surging water. Selah
⁴ There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God,
the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High.
⁵ God is in the midst of her;
she will not be made to totter.
God will help her at daybreak.^[e]
6 Nations roar, kingdoms shake;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
⁷ Yahweh of hosts is with us;
our high stronghold is the God of Jacob. Selah
⁸ Come, see the works of Yahweh,
who has placed desolations on the earth.
⁹ He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
he breaks the bow and cuts off the spear.
The wagons of war he burns with fire.
¹⁰ Be still, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations;
I will be exalted in the earth.
¹¹ Yahweh of Hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our high stronghold.

47 All you peoples, clap your hands.^[g]
Shout to God with a voice of rejoicing.
² For Yahweh Most High is awesome,^[h]
a great king over all the earth.
³ He subdues peoples under us
and nations under our feet.
⁴ He chooses for us our inheritance,
the pride of Jacob whom he loves.
⁵ God has gone up with a shout,
Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
⁶ Sing praises to God, sing praises.
Sing praises to our king, sing praises.
⁷ For God is king of all the earth.
Sing praises with understanding.^[i]
8 God reigns over nations;
God sits on his holy throne.
⁹ The princes of the peoples are gathered together
with the people of Abraham’s God.
For the shields of the earth belong to God.
He is very exalted.

48 Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise
in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.^[k]
2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
is Mount Zion,^[l] in the far north,^[m]
the city of the great king.
³ God is in her citadels;
he is known as a high stronghold.
⁴ For see, the kings assembled;^[n]
they advanced together.
⁵ They themselves saw^[o] it, so they were astonished.
They were terrified; they ran off.
⁶ Trembling seized them there—
pain as of a woman in labor.
⁷ With an east wind
you shatter^[p] the ships of Tarshish.^[q]
8 As we have heard, so we have seen
in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God.
God will establish her forever. Selah
⁹ We have pondered your loyal love, O God,
in the midst of your temple.
¹⁰ As is your name, O God, so is your praise
to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹ Let Mount Zion^[r] rejoice;
let the daughters of Judah rejoice
because of your judgments.
¹² Walk about Zion and circle it;
count her towers.
¹³ Consider well^[s] her ramparts.
Go through her citadels
so that you can tell the next generation
¹⁴ that this is God, our God forever and ever.
He himself^[t] will guide us until death.

49 Hear this, all you peoples;
give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,
² both low and high,
rich and poor together.
³ My mouth will speak wisdom,
and the meditation of my heart will be understanding.
⁴ I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will propound^[v] my riddle on a lyre.
⁵ Why should I fear in times of calamity,^[w]
when iniquity surrounds me at my heels,
⁶ those who trust their wealth
and boast about the abundance of their riches?
⁷ Surely a man cannot redeem a brother.
He cannot give to God his ransom
⁸ (since^[x] the redemption price for their life is costly
and it always fails),
⁹ so that he may stay alive forever
and not see the pit.
¹⁰ For he sees that the wise die,
together with the fool and brute they perish,
and leave their wealth to the next generation.
¹¹ Within them they think their houses are forever,
their dwelling places from generation to generation.
They name^[y] their lands by their own names.
¹² But man cannot continue in his pomp.
He is like the beasts that perish.
¹³ This is the journey^[z] of those who have foolish confidence,
and those after them who accept their sayings. Selah
¹⁴ Like sheep they are destined to Sheol;
death will shepherd them.
But the upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their forms will be for Sheol to consume,
far from his lofty abode.
¹⁵ Surely God will ransom my life
from the power^[aa] of Sheol,
because he will receive me. Selah
¹⁶ Do not fear when a man becomes rich,
when the wealth^[ab] of his house increases,
¹⁷ because when he dies he will not take away any of it.
His wealth will not follow down after him.
¹⁸ Though he congratulated his soul while he was living
—and people will praise you when you do well for yourself—
¹⁹ it^[ac] will go to the generation of his fathers.
Never will they see light.
²⁰ Humankind in its pomp, but does not understand,
is like the beasts that perish.

50 The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken
and summoned the earth,
from the rising of the sun
to its setting.
² From Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
³ Our God comes and he is not silent.
Before him fire devours,
and around him it is very tempestuous.
⁴ He summons the heavens above
and the earth that he might judge his people:
⁵ “Gather to me my loyal ones,
those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
⁶ And the heavens declare his righteousness,
because God himself is judge. Selah
⁷ “Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, and I will testify against you.
I am God, your God.
⁸ It is not concerning a lack of your sacrifices that I rebuke you,
and your burnt offerings are before me continually.
⁹ I will not take from your house a bull
or from your stalls a he-goat,
¹⁰ because every animal of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹ I know every bird of the mountains,
and every moving creature in the field is mine.
¹² If I were hungry I would not tell you,
because the world and its fullness are mine.
¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴ Offer to God a thank offering
and pay your vows to the Most High.
¹⁵ And call me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.”
¹⁶ But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to recite my statutes
and mention my covenant with your mouth,^[ae]
17 while you yourself hate discipline,
and cast my words behind you?
¹⁸ When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him,
and your association is with adulterers.
¹⁹ You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and you harness your tongue to deceit.
²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your mother’s son.
²¹ These things you have done, and I have been silent;
You imagined that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you and present an argument before your eyes.
²² Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there will be none to deliver.
²³ He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me,
and he who orders his way;
I will show him the salvation of God.”

51 Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love.
According to your abundant mercies,
blot out my transgressions.
² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and from my sin cleanse me.
³ For I myself know^[ag] my transgressions,^[ah]
and my sin is ever before me.
⁴ Against you, only you, I have sinned
and have done this evil^[ai] in your eyes,
so that you are correct when you speak,
you are blameless when you judge.
⁵ Behold, in iniquity I was born,
and in sin my mother conceived me.
⁶ Behold, you delight in truth in the inward parts,
and in the hidden parts you make me to know wisdom.
⁷ Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
⁸ Make me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
⁹ Hide your face from my sins,
and all my iniquities blot out.
¹⁰ Create a clean heart for me, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.^[aj]
11 Do not cast me away from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
¹² Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and with a willing spirit sustain me.
¹³ Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will turn back to you.
¹⁴ Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
the God of my salvation;
then my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
¹⁵ O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will proclaim your praise.
¹⁶ For you do not delight in sacrifice or I would give it.
With a burnt offering you are not pleased.
¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and contrite heart,
O God, you will not despise.
¹⁸ Do good in your favor toward Zion.
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
¹⁹ Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices,
burnt offering and whole burnt offering.
Then bulls will be offered on your altar.

52 Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man?
The loyal love of God endures continually.^[al]
2 Your tongue plans destruction,
like a sharp razor, working deceit.
³ You love evil more than good,
a lie more than speaking what is right.^[am] Selah
⁴ You love all devouring words,
O deceitful tongue,
⁵ but God will pull you down forever.
He will snatch you and tear you away from your tent,
and he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
⁶ And the righteous will see and fear,
and will laugh at him, saying,
⁷ “Look, the man who would not make God his refuge,
but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth;
he took refuge in his destructiveness.”
⁸ But I am like an olive tree flourishing
in the house^[an] of God.
I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.
⁹ I will give thanks to you forever, because of what you have done,
and I will wait on your name, because it is good,
in the presence of your faithful ones.

53 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity.
There is none who does good.
² God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind
to see whether there is one who has insight,
one who seeks God.
³ All of them^[ap] have turned back.
They are altogether corrupt.
There is none who does good;
there is not even one.
⁴ Do not evildoers know,
they who eat my people as though they were eating bread?
They do not call on God.
⁵ There they are very fearful^[aq]
where no fear had been,
because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
⁶ Oh, that from Zion^[ar] would come salvation for Israel!
When God returns the fortunes^[as] of his people,
let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

54 O God, by your name save me,
and by your power vindicate me.
² O God, hear my prayer;
heed the words of my mouth.
³ For foreigners have risen against me,
and ruthless men seek my life.
They have not set God before them. Selah
⁴ See, God is my helper;
The Lord is with those who sustain my life.^[au]
5 He will repay^[av] my enemies for their^[aw] evil;
in your faithfulness destroy them.
⁶ I will freely sacrifice to you;
I will give thanks to your name,
O Yahweh, because it is good.
⁷ Because he has delivered me from all trouble,
and my eye has looked with satisfaction on my enemies.

55 Give ear, O God, to my prayer,
and do not hide yourself from my plea.
² Attend to me and answer me.
I am restless in my lamenting and I groan,
³ because of the voice of an enemy,
because of the oppression of the wicked,
because they bring down evil on me,
and in anger they hold a grudge against me.
⁴ My heart trembles within me,
and deathly terrors fall on me.
⁵ Fear and trembling come on me,
and horror overwhelms me.
⁶ So I say, “Oh, that^[ay] I had wings like a dove.
I would fly away and be at rest.
⁷ Look, I would flee far away.
I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah
⁸ I would hurry to my refuge
from the raging wind and storm.”
⁹ Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech,
because I see violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰ Day and night they go around it on its walls,
and iniquity and trouble are in its midst.
¹¹ Destruction is within it,
and oppression and deceit
do not depart from its public square.
¹² For it is not an enemy that taunts me,
or I could bear it.
It is not one who hates me that magnifies himself over me,
or I could hide myself from him.
¹³ But it is you, a man my equal,
my friend and confidant.
¹⁴ We who would take sweet counsel together;
in the house^[az] of God
we would walk with the throng.
¹⁵ Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive,
because evil is in their home and heart.^[ba]
16 As for me, I will call to God,
and Yahweh will save me.
¹⁷ Morning, noon and night^[bb] I will lament and groan loudly,
and he will hear my voice.
¹⁸ He safely redeems my life from the battle against me,^[bc]
because those standing against me are among many.
¹⁹ God will hear and answer them,^[bd]
he who is enthroned from of old, Selah
Because they do not change,
and they do not fear God.
²⁰ He has put forth his hands against his friends;^[be]
he has defiled his covenant.
²¹ The buttery words^[bf] of his mouth were smooth,
but there was battle in his heart.
His words were smoother than oil,
but they were drawn swords.
²² Cast your burden on Yahweh,
and he will sustain you.
He will never allow the righteous to be moved.^[bg]
23 But you, O God, you will bring them down to the pit of corruption.
The men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days,
but I will trust you.

56 Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me;
fighting all the day he oppresses me.
² My enemies^[bi] trample all day,
because many are attacking me proudly.
³ When^[bj] I fear, I trust you.
⁴ God, whose word I praise,
God I trust; I do not fear.
What can mere flesh do to me?
⁵ All day they twist my words;
all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶ They attack,^[bk] they hide, they watch my steps,^[bl]
as they lie in wait for my life.
⁷ Because of iniquity will they escape?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
⁸ You have kept count of my wonderings.
Put my tears in your bottle;
are they not in your book?
⁹ Then my enemies will turn back when^[bm] I call.^[bn]
This I know because^[bo] God is for me.
¹⁰ God, whose word I praise,
Yahweh, whose word I praise,
¹¹ God I trust; I do not fear.
What can mere humankind do to me?
¹² My vows to you, O God, are binding upon me.
I will pay thank offerings to you,
¹³ because you have delivered my soul from death.
Have you not kept my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before God
in the light of the living?

57 Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
because in you my soul takes refuge.
In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge
until destruction passes by.
² I will call to God Most High,
to God who accomplishes things concerning me.
³ He will send from heaven and save me;
he will reproach the one who tramples me. Selah
God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness.
⁴ My soul is among lions.
I lie down among those who devour—
the children^[bq] of humankind whose teeth are spears and arrows
and whose tongues are sharp swords.
⁵ Be exalted above the heavens, O God.
Let your glory be above all the earth.
⁶ They have set a net for my steps;
my soul is bowed down.
They have dug a pit before me;
they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah
⁷ My heart is steadfast, O God;
My heart is steadfast.
I will sing and give praise.
⁸ Awake, my glory;
Awake, harp and lyre.
I will awake the dawn.^[br]
9 I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Lord;
I will give you praise among the nations.
¹⁰ Because your loyal love is high to the heavens,
and your faithfulness to the clouds.
¹¹ Be exalted above the heavens, O God.
Let your glory be above all the earth.

58 Do you really speak what is right when silent?^[bt]
Do you judge fairly the children of humankind?^[bu]
2 No, in your heart you plan injustices;
in the land^[bv] you weigh out the violence of your hands.
³ The wicked are estranged from the womb.
They go astray from the belly, speaking lies.
⁴ Their venom is like snake venom;
They are like a deaf viper that closes its ear
⁵ so that it does not hear the voice of charmers
or the skilled caster of spells.
⁶ O God, break their teeth in their mouth.
Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh.
⁷ Let them run away like water that runs off.
When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off.^[bw]
8 Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes;
like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun.
⁹ Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush,
whether green or dry,^[bx] he will sweep it away.^[by]
10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
¹¹ And people^[bz] will say, “Surely there is a reward^[ca] for the righteous.
Surely there is a God who judges in the land.”^[cb]

59 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God.
Protect^[cd] me from those who rise up against me.
² Deliver me from workers of iniquity,
and from men of bloodshed save me.
³ For look, they lie in wait for my life.^[ce]
The mighty attack^[cf] against me,
not because of my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.
⁴ Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves.
Awake to meet me and see.
⁵ And you, Yahweh, God of hosts, are the God of Israel.
Rouse yourself to punish all the nations.
Do not be gracious to any who treacherously plot evil. Selah
⁶ They return at evening; they howl like dogs^[cg]
while they prowl the city.
⁷ Look, they pour out talk with their mouth.
Swords are on their lips,
for they say, “Who hears?”
⁸ But you, O Yahweh, will laugh at them;
you will mock all the nations.
⁹ O my strength,^[ch] I will watch for you,
because you, O God, are my (high) stronghold.
¹⁰ My^[ci] God of loyal love will meet me;
God will cause me to look in triumph on my enemies.
¹¹ Do not kill them, lest my people forget.
Make them to wander by your power,
and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
¹² By the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
even in their pride, let them be trapped,
and for the curses^[cj] and lies^[ck] they proclaim.
¹³ Destroy in anger; destroy so they are no more,
so that they may know that God is ruling in Jacob
to the ends of the earth. Selah
¹⁴ They return at evening; they howl like dogs^[cl]
while they prowl the city.
¹⁵ As for them, they wander for food.
If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.^[cm]
16 But as for me, I will sing of your strength,
and I will hail your loyal love in the morning,
because you have been my high stronghold
and a refuge in my time^[cn] of trouble.
¹⁷ O my strength, to you I will give praise,
because God is my high stronghold,
my God of loyal love.

60 O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us.
You have been angry. Restore us!
² You have made the land quake. You have split it open.
Heal its fissures, because it totters.
³ You have shown your people hard things;
You have given us wine that staggers.
⁴ You have rallied those who fear you round a banner
out of bowshot,^[cq] Selah
⁵ so that your beloved ones may be rescued.
Save by your right hand and answer us.
⁶ God has spoken in his holiness,
“I will rejoice;
I will divide up Shechem,
and portion out the valley of Succoth.
⁷ Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine,
and Ephraim is the helmet for^[cr] my head;
Judah is my scepter.^[cs]
8 Moab is my washing pot;
over Edom, I will cast my sandal.
On account of me, O Philistia, raise a shout.”
⁹ Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
¹⁰ Have not you yourself rejected us, O God,
and not gone out with our armies, O God?
¹¹ Give us help against the adversary,
for the help of humankind is futile.
¹² Through God we will do valiantly,^[ct]
and it is he who will tread down our enemies.

61 Hear, O God, my cry;
attend to my prayer.
² From the end of the earth^[cw] I call to you
when my heart grows faint.
You will lead me to a rock that is higher than I.
³ For you have been my refuge,
a strong tower from the enemy.
⁴ Let me reside in your tent forever.
Let me take refuge under the covering of your wings. Selah
⁵ For you, O God, you have heard my vows.
You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.
⁶ You will add days to the days of the king,
his years like those of many generations.^[cx]
7 May he live^[cy] forever in the presence of God.
Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him.
⁸ So I will sing the praise of your name forever,
that I may fulfill^[cz] my vows daily.^[da]

62 Only for God my soul waits in silence.
From him is my salvation.
² Only he is my rock and my salvation,
my high stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.
³ How long will you attack a man?
All of you will be shattered^[dd]
like a leaning wall, a tottering fence.
⁴ They only^[de] plan to thrust him down from his high position;
they are pleased with deception.
With their mouths^[df] they bless,
but inwardly^[dg] they curse. Selah
⁵ Only for God wait in silence, O my soul,
because my hope is from him.
⁶ Only he is my rock and my salvation,
my high stronghold; I shall not be shaken.
⁷ On God rests my salvation and my glory;
God^[dh] is my strong rock, my refuge.
⁸ Trust him at all times, O people;
pour out before him your heart.
God is a refuge for us. Selah
⁹ Only a vapor^[di] are men of low degree,
a deception are men of high degree.
Weighed^[dj] in a balance,
together they are lighter than a vapor.
¹⁰ Do not trust in extortion,
and do not put vain confidence in robbery.
If wealth increases,
do not set your heart on it.
¹¹ Once God has spoken;
twice I have heard this:
that strength belongs to God.
¹² And to you belongs loyal love, O Lord,
because you will render to each according to his work.

63 O God, you are my God;
I will seek you diligently.
My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you
as in a dry and weary land without water.
² Thus I have seen you in the sanctuary,
beholding your strength and glory.
³ Because your loyal love is better than life,
my lips will praise you.
⁴ So I will bless you while I live.
I will lift up my hands^[dl] in your name.
⁵ My soul will be satisfied as with the best and richest food,
and with joyful lips my mouth will praise.
⁶ When I remember you on my bed,
I meditate on you in the night watches.
⁷ Because you have been my help,
therefore^[dm] in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
⁸ My soul clings to^[dn] you;
your right hand upholds me.
⁹ But as for them who seek my life for ruin,
they will go into the depths of the earth.
¹⁰ They who would deliver him to the sword^[do]
will become a portion for jackals.
¹¹ However, the king will rejoice in God.
Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast,
because the mouth of the liars will be stopped.

64 Hear my voice, O God, in my lamenting.
Preserve my life from the fear of the enemy.
² Hide me from the secret plots^[dq] of evildoers,
from the unrest of those who do iniquity,
³ who sharpen their tongue like a sword.
They bend their bow to shoot their arrows—bitter words,
⁴ to shoot from^[dr] their^[ds] hiding places at the blameless.
Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.
⁵ They encourage themselves in the evil matter.
They talk of secretly laying snares.
They say, “Who will see them?”
⁶ They carefully plot^[dt] injustices saying,
“We have perfected the perfect plot!”^[du]
Both the inner thought^[dv] and heart of a man are deep.
⁷ But God will shoot them;
with an arrow they will suddenly be wounded.
^8 [dw] And they who would cause him^[dx] to stumble,
their own tongue will be against them.
All who gaze on them will shake.^[dy]
9 And then^[dz] all men^[ea] will fear,
and will declare the working of God,
and will understand his doing.
¹⁰ The righteous will rejoice in Yahweh and take refuge in him,
and all the upright in heart will boast.

65 Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion,
and to you the vow shall be fulfilled.
² O you who hear prayer,
to you all flesh will come.
³ Iniquities^[ec] prevail over me.
As for our transgressions, you will forgive^[ed] them.
⁴ Blessed is one whom you choose and bring near,
that he may abide in your courts.
We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
your holy temple.
⁵ By awesome deeds in righteousness you will answer us,
O God of our salvation,
you who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth
and of the far-off seas,
⁶ who established the mountains by his strength,
the one who is girded with might,
⁷ who stills the roar of the seas,
the roar of their waves,
and the commotion of the peoples,
⁸ so that^[ee] the inhabitants of the farthest reaches are in awe of your signs.
You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy.
⁹ You care for^[ef] the land^[eg] and water it;
you greatly enrich it.
The stream of God is filled with waters.
You provide their grain,
for so you have established it.
¹⁰ You drench its furrows,
penetrating its ridges.
With rains you soften it;
its growth you bless.
¹¹ You crown the year with your bounty,^[eh]
and your wagon paths drip with richness.^[ei]
12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness,
and the hills gird themselves with joy.
¹³ The pasturelands put on flocks,
and the valleys clothe themselves with grain.
They shout in triumph;
they even sing.

66 Shout joyfully to God, all the earth.
² Sing the glory of his name.
Set forth his glorious praise.^[ek]
3 Say to God, “How awesome are your works!
Because of the greatness of your strength,
your enemies will cringe before you.
⁴ All the earth will bow in worship to you,
and sing praise to you.
They will sing the praise of your name.” Selah
⁵ Come and consider^[el] the works of God;
he is awesome in his dealings^[em] with the children of humankind.
⁶ He turned the sea into dry ground;
they passed through the river on foot.
There we rejoiced in him.
⁷ He rules by his might forever;
his eyes keep watch on the nations.
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.^[en] Selah
⁸ Bless our God, O peoples,
and cause the sound of his praise to be heard,
⁹ the one who has kept our soul among the living,
and has not allowed our foot to slip.
¹⁰ For you have tested us, O God;
you have tried us as silver is tried.
¹¹ You brought us into the net;
you placed a heavy burden^[eo] on our backs.
¹² You let men^[ep] ride over our heads.
We went through fire and through water,
but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.^[eq]
13 I will come into your house^[er] with burnt offerings.
I will pay to you my vows
¹⁴ that my lips uttered,
and my mouth spoke in my distress.
¹⁵ Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you,
with the smoke of rams.
I will do^[es] cattle with rams. Selah
¹⁶ Come and hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell
what he has done for me.^[et]
17 I called to him with my mouth,
and he was extolled with my tongue.^[eu]
18 If I had considered evil in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
¹⁹ However, God has listened;
he has attended to the sound of my prayer.
²⁰ Blessed be God,
who has not turned aside my prayer,
or his loyal love from me.

67 May God be gracious to us and bless us.
May he cause his face to shine toward us, Selah
² that your way may be known on the earth,
your salvation among all nations.
³ Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all of the peoples praise you.
⁴ Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
because you judge the peoples with equity
and guide the nations on the earth. Selah
⁵ Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all the peoples praise you.
⁶ The earth has yielded its produce.
God, our God, will bless us.
⁷ God will bless us,
and all the ends of the earth will fear him.

68 God will arise; his enemies will be scattered,
and those who hate him will flee from before him.
² As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off.
As wax melts before fire,
the wicked will perish before God.
³ But the righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God,
and will rejoice with joy.
⁴ Sing to God, sing praises to his name.
Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds—his name is Yah—^[ex]
and rejoice before him.
⁵ A father to orphans and a judge for widows
is God in his holy habitation.
⁶ God settles the lonely in a home;
he brings prisoners out into prosperity.
But the rebellious abide in a barren land.
⁷ O God, when you went out before your people,
when you marched through the desert, Selah
⁸ the earth shook; the heavens also dripped rain
at the presence of God who was at Sinai,
at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
⁹ You caused abundant rain to fall, O God.
When your inheritance was weary you revived it.
¹⁰ Your community dwelled in it.
You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God.
¹¹ The Lord gives the word.
Great is the company of women who announce:
¹² “The kings of armies flee, they flee,
and she who remains at home divides the spoil.
¹³ Though you men lie down between the sheepfolds,
you will be like the wings of a dove covered in silver
and its pinions in yellow gold.”
¹⁴ When Shaddai scattered kings on it,
on Zalmon it snowed.^[ey]
15 A mountain of God^[ez] is the mountain of Bashan;
a mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.
¹⁶ Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains?
This^[fa] mountain God desires for his dwelling.
Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever.
¹⁷ The chariots of God
are twice ten thousand, with thousands doubled.
The Lord is among them at Sinai, distinctive in victory.^[fb]
18 You have ascended on high; you have led away captives.
You have received gifts from among humankind,
and even from the rebellious, so that Yah^[fc] God may dwell there.
¹⁹ Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us with benefits,^[fd]
the God of our salvation.^[fe] Selah
²⁰ Our God is a God of deliverances,
and to the Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.
²¹ But God will shatter the head of his enemies,
the hairy scalp of the one who continues on^[ff] in his guilt.
²² The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
²³ so that your foot may shatter them bloody
for the tongues of your dogs to have their share from the enemies.”
²⁴ They have seen your processions, O God,
the processions of my God, my king, distinctive in victory.^[fg]
25 Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last,
between them young women playing tambourines.
²⁶ Bless God in the assemblies,
Yahweh from the fountain of Israel.
²⁷ There is little Benjamin ruling them,
with the princes of Judah in their throng,
the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.
²⁸ Your God has commanded your strength.
Show yourself strong, O God, by what you perform^[fh] for us.
²⁹ Because your temple is above Jerusalem,
kings will bring tribute to you.
³⁰ Rebuke the beasts in^[fi] the reeds,
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
trampling the pieces of silver.^[fj]
Scatter the nations who delight in battles.
³¹ Ambassadors^[fk] will come from Egypt;
Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.
³² O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God;
sing praise to the Lord, Selah
³³ to the one who rides in the highest heavens of old.
See, he gives forth his voice, a mighty voice.
³⁴ Ascribe strength to God.
His majesty is over Israel,
and his strength is in the clouds.
³⁵ Awesome are you, O God, from your sanctuary.^[fl]
The God of Israel, it is he who gives strength and might to the people.
Blessed be God.

69 Save me, O God,
because waters have come up to my neck.^[fn]
2 I sink in the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold.
I have come to watery depths,
and the torrent floods over me.
³ I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched.
My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God.
⁴ More numerous than the hairs of my head
are those hating me without a cause.
Those who are destroying me—my enemies wrongfully^[fo]— are mighty.
What I did not steal, I then must restore.
⁵ O God, you yourself know^[fp] my foolishness,
and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.
⁶ Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me,
O Lord Yahweh of hosts.
Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me,
O God of Israel.
⁷ Because on account of you I have borne reproach;
disgrace has covered my face.
⁸ I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
⁹ because the zeal for your house^[fq] has consumed me,
and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.
¹⁰ When I wept in the fasting of my soul,
it became reproaches for me.
¹¹ When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became for them a byword.
¹² Those sitting at the gate talk about me
as also^[fr] the songs of the drunkards.
¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time,
O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love.
Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.
¹⁴ Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink.
Let me be delivered from those who hate me
and from the watery depths.
¹⁵ Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me,
or the deep swallow me,
or the pit close its mouth over me.
¹⁶ Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love is good;
according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,
¹⁷ and do not hide your face from your servant.
Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.
¹⁸ Draw near to my soul; redeem it.
Because of my enemies, ransom me.
¹⁹ You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace.
Fully known^[fs] to you are all my adversaries.
²⁰ Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick.
And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none,
and for comforters, but I found none.
²¹ They also gave me gall for food,^[ft]
and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.