Chronological

50 ⁽⁰⁾ A psalm of Asaf:

⁽¹⁾ The Mighty One, God, Adonai, is speaking,
summoning the world from east to west.
² Out of Tziyon, the perfection of beauty,
God is shining forth.
³ Our God is coming and not staying silent.
With a fire devouring ahead of him
and a great storm raging around him,
⁴ he calls to the heavens above and to earth,
in order to judge his people.
⁵ “Gather to me my faithful,
those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶ The heavens proclaim his righteousness,
for God himself is judge. (Selah)

⁷ “Listen, my people, I am speaking:
Isra’el, I am testifying against you,
I, God, your God.
⁸ I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are always before me.
⁹ I have no need for a bull from your farm
or for male goats from your pens;
¹⁰ for all forest creatures are mine already,
as are the animals on a thousand hills;
¹¹ I know all the birds in the mountains;
whatever moves in the fields is mine.
¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
for the world is mine, and everything in it.
¹³ Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴ Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God,
pay your vows to the Most High,
¹⁵ and call on me when you are in trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says:
“What right do you have to proclaim my laws
or take my covenant on your lips,
¹⁷ when you so hate to receive instruction
and fling my words behind you?
¹⁸ When you see a thief, you join up with him,
you throw in your lot with adulterers,
¹⁹ you give your mouth free rein for evil
and harness your tongue to deceit;
²⁰ you sit and speak against your kinsman,
you slander your own mother’s son.
²¹ When you do such things, should I stay silent?
You may have thought I was just like you;
but I will rebuke and indict you to your face.
²² Consider this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to save you.

²³ “Whoever offers thanksgiving
as his sacrifice honors me;
and to him who goes the right way
I will show the salvation of God.”

53 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. On machalat. A maskil of David:

^2 (1) A brutish fool tells himself,
“There isn’t any God.”
Such people are depraved, all their deeds are vile,
not one of them does what is good.
^3 (2) God looks out from heaven
upon the human race
to see if even one is wise,
if even one seeks God.
^4 (3) Every one of them is unclean,
altogether corrupt;
not one of them does what is good,
not a single one.

^5 (4) Won’t these evildoers ever learn?
They devour my people
as if they were eating bread,
and they never call on God!
^6 (5) They will be gripped with terror,
even though now they are not afraid;
for God will scatter the bones
of him who is besieging you.
You are putting them to shame,
because God has rejected them.

^7 (6) If only salvation for Isra’el
would come out of Tziyon!
When God restores his people’s fortunes,
what joy for Ya‘akov! what gladness for Isra’el!

60 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. Set to “Lily of Testimony.” A mikhtam of David for teaching about ² when he fought with Aram-Naharayim and with Aram-Tzovah, and Yo’av returned and killed 12,000 from Edom in the Salt Valley:

^3 (1) God, you rejected us; you crushed us;
you were angry; but now revive us.
^4 (2) You made the land shake, split it apart;
now repair the rifts, for it is collapsing.
^5 (3) You made your people suffer hard times,
had us drink a wine that made us stagger.

^6 (4) To those who fear you because of the truth
you gave a banner to rally around, (Selah)
^7 (5) so that those you love could be rescued;
so save with your right hand, and answer us!

^8 (6) God in his holiness spoke,
and I took joy [in his promise]:
“I will divide Sh’khem
and determine the shares in the Sukkot Valley.
^9 (7) Gil‘ad is mine and M’nasheh mine,
Efrayim my helmet, Y’hudah my scepter.
^10 (8) Mo’av is my washpot; on Edom I throw my shoe;
P’leshet, be crushed because of me!”

^11 (9) Who will bring me into the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
^12 (10) God, have you rejected us?
You don’t go out with our armies, God.
^13 (11) Help us against our enemy,
for human help is worthless.
^14 (12) With God’s help we will fight valiantly,
for he will trample our enemies.

75 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. Set to “Do Not Destroy!” A psalm of Asaf. A song:

^2 (1) We give thanks to you, God, we give thanks;
your name is near, people tell of your wonders.

^3 (2) “At the time of my own choice,
I will dispense justice fairly.
^4 (3) When the earth quakes, with all living on it,
it is I who hold its support-pillars firm.” (Selah)

^5 (4) To the boastful I say, “Do not boast!”
and to the wicked, “Don’t flaunt your strength!
^6 (5) Don’t flaunt your strength so proudly;
don’t speak arrogantly, with your nose in the air!
^7 (6) For you will not be raised to power
by those in the east, the west or the desert;
^8 (7) since God is the judge; and it is he
who puts down one and lifts up another.
^9 (8) In Adonai’s hand there is a cup of wine,
foaming, richly spiced;
when he pours it out, all the wicked of the earth
will drain it, drinking it to the dregs.”
^10 (9) But I will always speak out,
singing praises to the God of Ya‘akov.
^11 (10) I will break down the strength of the wicked,
but the strength of the righteous will be raised up.