Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

26 (Of Dovid) Vindicate me, Hashem; for I have walked in mine tohm (guilelessness); I have trusted also in Hashem without wavering.

² Examine me, Hashem, and prove me; try my heart and my mind.

³ For Thy chesed is before mine eyes; and I have walked in Thy emes.

⁴ I do not sit with meteishav (men of vanity), neither will I go in with dissemblers.

⁵ I have hated the kehal mere’im (congregation of evil doers); and will not sit with the resha’im.

⁶ I will wash mine hands in nikkayon (innocency, cleanness, freedom from punishment); so will I encompass Thine Mizbe’ach, Hashem;

⁷ That I may publish with the voice of todah, and tell of all Thy wondrous works.

⁸ Hashem, I have loved the ma’on of Thy Bais [HaMikdash], and the Mishkan where Thine kavod dwelleth.

⁹ Take not away my nefesh with chatta’im (sinners), nor my Chai (life) with anshei damim;

¹⁰ In whose hands is zimmah (wicked plans), and their right hand is full of shochad (bribery).

¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in mine integrity; redeem me, v’chaneini (and be merciful and gracious unto me).

¹² My regel standeth on level ground; in the great assemblies unto Hashem will I render brocha.

7 Is there not a tzava (forced hard service in the army) to enosh (man) upon earth? Are not his days also like the yamim of a sachir (hired laborer)?

² As an eved earnestly longeth for tzel (shade), and as a sachir waiteth for the wage of his work,

³ So am I made to possess months of shav (vanity, futility), and lailot amal (nights of weariness) are appointed to me.

⁴ When I lie down, I say, Mosai (how long) till I arise? But the erev drags on, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto dawn.

⁵ My basar is clothed with worm and clod of aphar; my ohr (skin) is broken, and become loathsome.

⁶ My yamim are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without tikveh.

⁷ O remember that my life is ruach (wind); mine eye shall no more see tov.

⁸ The ayin (eye) of him that hath seen me shall see me no longer; thine eyes are upon me, and I am no more.

⁹ Like the anan that fades and vanisheth away, so he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

¹⁰ He shall return no more to his bais, neither shall his makom know him any more.

¹¹ Therefore I will not curb my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my ruach; I will complain in the mar (bitterness) of my nefesh.

¹² Am I a yam, or a tannin (monster of the yam [sea]), that Thou settest a mishmar (guard watch) over me?

¹³ When I say, My bed shall give me nachamah (comfort), my couch shall ease my complaint,

¹⁴ Then Thou frightenest me with chalomot (dreams), and terrifiest me through chezyonot (visions),

¹⁵ So that my nefesh chooseth machanak (strangling) and mavet (death) rather than this skeleton.

¹⁶ I loathe it; I would not live l’olam, let me alone; for my yamim are hevel (vanity, meaningless).

¹⁷ What is enosh (man), that Thou shouldest make much of him? And that Thou shouldest set Thine lev upon him?

¹⁸ And that Thou shouldest visit him every boker, and try him every moment?

¹⁹ How long dost Thou not look away from me? Nor let me alone till I swallow down my rok (spittle)?

²⁰ Chatati (I have sinned); what shall I do unto Thee, O Thou Notzer HaAdam (Observer of men)? Why hast Thou set me as a mifgah (mark, target, something to be hit) to Thee, so that I am a massa (burden) to Thee?

²¹ And why dost Thou not pardon my peysha (transgression), and take away my avon (iniquity)? For now shall I sleep in the aphar; and Thou shalt search for me, but I shall be no more.

¹⁴ And the Perushim, who were ohavei kesef (lovers of money), heard all this and they made leitzonus (fun) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

¹⁵ And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You are the ones who in the sight of Bnei Adam credit yourself as being yitzdak im Hashem (justified with G-d, IYOV 25:4), but Hashem has daas (knowledge) of your levavot. Because the thing highly esteemed among Bnei Adam is a to’eva (abomination) before Hashem.

¹⁶ The Torah and the Neviim were proclaimed until Yochanan; since then it is the Malchut Hashem that is being preached as Besuras HaGeulah, and anyone entering it must strive to do so.

¹⁷ But it is easier for HaShomayim and HaAretz to pass away than for one tag (ornamental flourish) of the Torah to fail.

¹⁸ Anyone giving the get to his isha and taking another wife commits ni’uf (adultery), and the one marrying a gerusha (divorcee) commits ni’uf (adultery).