Chronological

^2 (1) Sing for joy to God our strength!
Shout to the God of Ya‘akov!
^3 (2) Start the music! Beat the drum!
Play the sweet lyre and the lute!
^4 (3) Sound the shofar at Rosh-Hodesh
and at full moon for the pilgrim feast,
^5 (4) because this is a law for Isra’el,
a ruling of the God of Ya‘akov.
^6 (5) He placed it as a testimony in Y’hosef
when he went out against the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar voice say,
^7 (6) “I lifted the load from his shoulder;
his hands were freed from the [laborer’s] basket.
^8 (7) You called out when you were in trouble,
and I rescued you;
I answered you from the thundercloud;
I tested you at the M’rivah Spring [by saying,] (Selah)

^9 (8) “‘Hear, my people, while I give you warning!
Isra’el, if you would only listen to me!
^10 (9) There is not to be with you any foreign god;
you are not to worship an alien god.
^11 (10) I am Adonai your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth, and I will fill it.’

^12 (11) “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Isra’el would have none of me.
^13 (12) So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to live by their own plans.
^14 (13) How I wish my people would listen to me,
that Isra’el would live by my ways!
^15 (14) I would quickly subdue their enemies
and turn my hand against their foes.
^16 (15) Those who hate Adonai would cringe before him,
while [Isra’el’s] time would last forever.
^17 (16) They would be fed with the finest wheat,
and I would satisfy you with honey from the rocks.”

88 ⁽⁰⁾ A song. A psalm of the sons of Korach. For the leader. Set to “Sickness that Causes Suffering.” A maskil of Heiman the Ezrachi.

^2 (1) Adonai, God of my salvation,
when I cry out to you in the night,
^3 (2) let my prayer come before you,
turn your ear to my cry for help!
^4 (3) For I am oversupplied with troubles,
which have brought me to the brink of Sh’ol.
^5 (4) I am counted among those going down to the pit,
like a man who is beyond help,
^6 (5) left by myself among the dead,
like the slain who lie in the grave —
you no longer remember them;
they are cut off from your care.

^7 (6) You plunged me into the bottom of the pit,
into dark places, into the depths.
^8 (7) Your wrath lies heavily on me;
your waves crashing over me keep me down. (Selah)
^9 (8) You separated me from my close friends,
made me repulsive to them;
I am caged in, with no escape;
^10 (9) my eyes grow dim from suffering.

I call on you, Adonai, every day;
I spread out my hands to you.
^11 (10) Will you perform wonders for the dead?
Can the ghosts of the dead rise up and praise you? (Selah)
^12 (11) Will your grace be declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
^13 (12) Will your wonders be known in the dark,
or your righteousness in the land of oblivion?

^14 (13) But I cry out to you, Adonai;
my prayer comes before you in the morning.
^15 (14) So why, Adonai, do you reject me?
Why do you hide your face from me?

^16 (15) Since my youth I have been miserable, close to death;
I am numb from bearing these terrors of yours.
^17 (16) Your fierce anger has overwhelmed me,
your terrors have shriveled me up.
^18 (17) They surge around me all day like a flood,
from all sides they close in on me.
^19 (18) You have made friends and companions shun me;
the people I know are hidden from me.

92 ⁽⁰⁾ A psalm. A song for Shabbat:

^2 (1) It is good to give thanks to Adonai
and sing praises to your name, ‘Elyon,
^3 (2) to tell in the morning about your grace
and at night about your faithfulness,
^4 (3) to the music of a ten-stringed [harp] and a lute,
with the melody sounding on a lyre.

^5 (4) For, Adonai, what you do makes me happy;
I take joy in what your hands have made.
^6 (5) How great are your deeds, Adonai!
How very deep your thoughts!

^7 (6) Stupid people can’t know,
fools don’t understand,
^8 (7) that when the wicked sprout like grass,
and all who do evil prosper,
it is so that they can be eternally destroyed,
^9 (8) while you, Adonai, are exalted forever.

^10 (9) For your enemies, Adonai,
your enemies will perish;
all evildoers will be scattered.
^11 (10) But you have given me
the strength of a wild bull;
you anoint me with fresh olive oil.
^12 (11) My eyes have gazed with pleasure on my enemies’ ruin,
my ears have delighted in the fall of my foes.

^13 (12) The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar in the L’vanon.
^14 (13) Planted in the house of Adonai,
they will flourish in the courtyards of our God.
^15 (14) Even in old age they will be vigorous,
still full of sap, still bearing fruit,
^16 (15) proclaiming that Adonai is upright,
my Rock, in whom there is no wrong.
93 Adonai is king, robed in majesty;
Adonai is robed, girded with strength;
The world is well established;
it cannot be moved.
² Your throne was established long ago;
you have existed forever.
³ Adonai, the deep is raising up,
the deep is raising up its voice,
the deep is raising its crashing waves.
⁴ More than the sound of rushing waters
or the mighty breakers of the sea,
Adonai on high is mighty.
⁵ Your instructions are very sure;
holiness befits your house,
Adonai, for all time to come.