1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your mercy; According to the multitude of your mercy blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me more and more from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, against you alone, have I sinned, and done evil in your sight; So that you may be recognized as righteous in your word, and considered pure in your judgment.
5 Behold, I was formed in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
6 Behold, you love the truth inwardly, and in secret you have made me understand wisdom.
7 Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; Wash me and I’ll be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness, And the bones that you have crushed will be recreated.
9 Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a right spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me out from before you, And do not take your holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, And a noble spirit sustain me.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, And sinners will turn to you.
14 Deliver me from murder, O God, God of my salvation; My tongue will sing your justice.
15 Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 Because you do not want sacrifice, which I would give; You don’t want a holocaust.
17 And to the man he said, Because you obeyed the voice of your wife, and ate of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed will be the land because of you; In pain you will eat of it all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat plants of the field.
19 In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the land, because from it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you will return.
20 And Adam called the name of his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
21 And the LORD God made the man and his woman coats of skin, and clothed them.
22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is like one of us, knowing good and evil; Now therefore let him not stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.
23 And the LORD brought him out of the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
24 So he cast out the man, and placed cherubim on the east side of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword moving on every side, to guard the way to the tree of life.
1 Why do you boast of evil, O mighty one? God’s mercy is continuous.
2 Grievances devise your tongue; As a razor sharp knife makes cheating.
3 You loved evil more than good, The lie more than the truth. Selah
4 You have loved all kinds of pernicious words, a deceitful tongue.
5 Therefore God will destroy you forever; He will desolate you and uproot you from your dwelling, And he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
6 The righteous will see and fear; They will laugh at him, saying:
7 Behold the man who did not make God his strength, But trusted in the multitude of his riches, And abided in his wickedness.
8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God eternally and forever.
9 I will praise you forever, because you have done so; And I will wait in your name, for he is good, before your saints.
1 The fool says in his heart: There is no God. They have become corrupt, and have done abominable wickedness; There is no one who does good.
2 God looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there was any who understood who would seek God.
3 Each one had turned back; everyone had become corrupted; There is no one who does good, not even one.
4 Do not all those who do iniquity know, that they devour my people as if they ate bread, and do not call upon God?
5 There they were terrified with fear where there was no fear, For God has scattered the bones of him who laid siege against you; You shamed them, because God rejected them.
6 Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, Jacob will rejoice, and Israel will be glad.
1 O God, save me by your name, and defend me with your power.
2 O God, hear my prayer; Listen to the reasons from my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen against me, And violent men seek my life; They have not put God before them. Selah
4 Behold, God is the one who helps me; The Lord is with those who sustain my life.
5 He will return evil to my enemies; Cut them off for your truth.
6 I will willingly sacrifice to you; I will praise your name, O Lord, for he is good.
7 For he has delivered me from all distress, and my eyes have seen the ruin of my enemies.
1 Hear, O God, my prayer, And do not hide from my supplication.
2 Be attentive, and answer me; I cry out in my prayer, and I am moved,
3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they have cast iniquity upon me, And they persecute me with fury.
4 My heart is grieving within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
5 Fear and trembling came upon me, And terror has covered me.
6 And I said, “Who would give me wings like a dove!” I would fly, and rest.
7 Surely I would flee far away; I would die in the desert. Selah
8 I would hasten to escape From the stormy wind, from the tempest.
9 Destroy them, O Lord; confuses their language; Because I have seen violence and strife in the city.
10 Day and night they surround it on its walls, And iniquity and work are in its midst.
11 Evil is in its midst, and fraud and deceit do not depart from its streets.
12 For an enemy did not reproach me, Which I would have endured; Nor did he who hated me rise up against me, Because I would have hidden myself from him;
13 But you, man, apparently my intimate, My guide, and my familiar;
14 That together we sweetly communicated secrets, And we walked in friendship in the house of God.
15 May death surprise you; Go down alive to Sheol, For there is evil in their dwellings, among them.
16 As for me, I will cry to God; And the Lord will save me.
17 Evening and morning and noon I will pray and cry, And he will hear my voice.
18 He will redeem my soul in peace from the war against me, although there are many against me.
19 God will hear, and he will destroy them immediately, He who remains from ancient times; Because they do not change, nor fear God. Selah
20 The wicked one stretched out his hands against those who were at peace with him; He violated his covenant.
21 The words of his mouth are softer than butter, But there is war in his heart; He softens his words more than oil, But they are naked swords.
22 Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; He will not leave the righteous fallen forever.
23 But you, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not reach half their days; But I will trust in you.
1 Have mercy on me, O God, for man would devour me; It oppresses me, fighting me every day.
2 All day long my enemies trample on me; Because there are many who fight against me with pride.
3 On the day I fear, I trust in you.
4 In God I will praise his word; I have trusted in God; I will not fear; What can man do to me?
5 Every day they pervert my cause; Against me are all your thoughts to evil.
6 They gather, they hide, They watch carefully my steps, Like those who stalk my soul.
7 Weigh them according to their iniquity, O God, and strike down the people in your fury.
8 You have counted my escapes; Put my tears in your phial; Aren’t they in your book?
9 My enemies will soon be turned back in the day when I cry out; This I know, that God is for me.
10 In God I will praise his word; In the Lord I will praise his word.
11 I have trusted in God; I will not fear; What can man do to me?
12 Upon me, O God, are your vows; I will give you praise.
13 For you have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of those who live.
1 Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; Because my soul has trusted in you, And in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge Until the losses pass.
2 I will cry out to the Most High God, to the God who favors me.
3 He will send from heaven, and he will save me From the infamy of him who harasses me; Selah God will send mercy from him and truth from him.
4 My life is among lions; I am lying among the sons of men who vomit flames; His teeth are spears and arrows, and his tongue is a sharp sword.
5 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; Over all the earth be your glory.
6 They have set up a net for my steps; My soul has been cast down; They have dug a hole before me; In the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah
7 My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready; I will sing and sing psalms.
8 Awake, my soul; awake, psaltery and harp; I’ll get up in the morning.
9 I will praise you among the people, O Lord; I will sing of you among the nations.
10 For your mercy is great to the heavens, and your truth to the clouds.
11 Be exalted above the heavens, O God; Over all the earth be your glory.
1 O congregation, do you truly pronounce justice? Do you justly judge, sons of men?
2 But in your heart you devise iniquities; You make the violence of your hands weigh on the earth.
3 The wicked have turned away from the womb; They went astray speaking lies since they were born.
4 They have poison like snake venom; They are like the deaf asp that closes its ear,
5 That does not hear the voice of those who enchant, No matter how skillful the enchanter may be.
6 O God, break their teeth in their mouths; Break, O Lord, the teeth of the young lions.
7 Let them be scattered like flowing waters; When they shoot their arrows, let them be torn to pieces.
8 Let them pass by like a snail that slides; Like one who is born dead, do not see the sun.
9 Before your pots feel the flame of the thorns, So alive, so angry, he will snatch them away with a storm.
10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Then will man say, Surely there is a reward for the righteous; Certainly there is a God who judges on earth.
1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; Save me from those who rise up against me.
2 Deliver me from those who commit iniquity, And save me from bloodthirsty men.
3 For behold, they are stalking my life; They have come together against me mighty. Not for my fault, nor my sin, O Jehovah;
4 Without my crime they run and prepare themselves. She wakes up to come meet me, and look.
5 And you, Jehovah God of hosts, God of Israel, Awake to punish all nations; Have no mercy on all those who rebel in iniquity. Selah
6 They will return in the evening, they will bark like dogs, And they will surround the city.
7 Behold, they will utter with their mouth; There are swords on their lips, For they say: Who hears?
8 But you, Jehovah, will laugh at them; You will make fun of all nations.
9 Because of the power of the enemy I will wait on you, For God is my defense.
10 The God of my mercy will go before me; God will make me see my desire in my enemies.
11 Do not kill them, lest my people forget; Scatter them with your power, and destroy them, O Jehovah, our shield.
12 Because of the sin of their mouth, because of the word of their lips, Let them be prisoners in their pride, And because of the cursing and lies that they utter.
13 Finish them with fury, destroy them, so that they are no more; And let it be known that God rules in Jacob To the ends of the earth. Selah
14 So return in the evening and bark like dogs, and surround the city.
15 Let them wander to find what to eat; And if they don’t get enough, they spend the night complaining.
16 But I will sing of your power, And I will praise your mercy in the morning; Because you have been my refuge and refuge in the day of my trouble.
17 My strength, I will sing to you; For you are, O God, my refuge, the God of my mercy.
1 O God, you have rejected us, you have broken us; You have become angry; come back to us!
2 You have made the earth tremble, you have split it; Heals her brokenness, because she hesitates.
3 You have made your people see hard things; You made us drink stunning wine.
4 You have given those who fear you a flag Let them lift up for the truth’s sake. Selah
5 That your loved ones may be saved, Save with your right hand, and hear me.
6 God has said in his sanctuary: I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem, and measure the valley of Sukkot.
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; And Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my legislator.
8 Moab, a vessel for washing me; I will cast my shoes on Edom; I will rejoice over Philistia.
9 Who will take me to the fortified city? Who will take me to Edom?
10 Could it not be you, O God, who had rejected us, and did not go out, O God, with our armies?
11 Give us help against the enemy, For the help of men is in vain.
12 In God we will do mighty things, And he will trample down our enemies.
1 Hear, O God, my cry; Heed my prayer.
2 From the end of the earth I will cry to you, when my heart faints. Take me to the rock that is higher than I,
3 For you have been my refuge, and a strong tower from the enemy.
4 I will dwell in your tabernacle forever; I will be safe under the cover of your wings. Selah
5 For you, O God, have heard my vows; You have given me the inheritance of those who fear your name.
6 Days upon days you will add to the king; His years will be like generation and generation.
7 He will be before God forever; He prepares mercy and truth to preserve him.
8 Thus I will sing your name forever, Paying my vows every day.
1 In God alone my soul is quiet; My salvation comes from him.
2 He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my refuge, I will not slip much.
3 How long will you plot against a man, All of you trying to crush him Like a collapsed wall and like a torn down fence?
4 They only consult to throw him from his greatness. They love lies; With his mouth they bless, but they curse in his heart. Selah
5 My soul, rest in God alone, For my hope is from him.
6 He alone is my rock and my salvation. It is my refuge, I will not slip.
7 In God is my salvation and my glory; In God is my strong rock, and my refuge.
8 Hope in him at all times, O people; Pour out your heart before him; God is our refuge. Selah
9 Truly, the children of men are vanity, the children of man are lies; Weighing them all equally in the balance, They will be less than nothing.
10 Do not trust in violence, nor in plunder; do not be conceited; If riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
11 Once God spoke; Twice have I heard this: That power belongs to God,
12 And mercy belongs to you, O Lord;
1 God, my God you are; At dawn I will look for you; My soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you, In a dry and arid land where there is no water,
2 To see your power and your glory, Just as I have looked at you in the sanctuary.
3 For your mercy is better than life; My lips will praise you.
4 Thus I will bless you in my life; In your name I will raise my hands.
5 My soul will be satisfied as with core and fatness, And my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
6 When I remember you on my bed, When I meditate on you in the watches of the night.
7 For you have been my help, And so in the shadow of your wings I will rejoice.
8 My soul is attached to you; Your right hand upholds me.
9 But those who sought my soul for destruction will fall into the lower places of the earth.
10 They will destroy them with the edge of the sword; They will be part of the jackals.
11 But the king will rejoice in God; Anyone who swears by him will be praised; For the mouths of those who speak lies will be closed.
1 Hear, O God, the voice of my complaint; Save my life from the fear of the enemy.
2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, From the conspiracy of those who do iniquity,
3 Who sharpen their tongue like a sword; They shoot like their own arrow, a bitter word,
4 To secretly shoot the upright; Suddenly they shoot him, and they are not afraid.
5 Obstinate in their wicked design, They try to hide the ties, And say: Who will see them?
6 They investigate iniquities, they make an exact investigation; And the intimate thoughts of each one of them, as well as their hearts, are deep.
7 But God will strike them with an arrow; Suddenly they will be his pests.
8 Their own tongues will cause them to fall; Everyone who sees them will be scared.
9 Then all men will fear, And they will proclaim the work of God, And they will understand His deeds.
10 The righteous will rejoice in the Lord and trust in him; And all the upright in heart shall glory.
1 Yours is praise in Zion, O God, And to you will the vows be paid.
2 You hear the prayer; All flesh will come to you.
3 Iniquities prevail against me; But you will forgive our transgressions.
4 Blessed is he whom you choose and draw to yourself, to dwell in your courts; We will be satisfied with the good of your house, of your holy temple.
5 You will answer us with tremendous things in justice, O God of our salvation, Hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the most remote ends of the sea.
6 You, who establishes the mountains by his power, Gidded with courage;
7 He who quiets the roar of the seas, the noise of their waves, And the uproar of the nations.
8 Therefore the inhabitants of the ends of the earth fear your wonders. You make morning and afternoon outings happy.
9 You visit the earth, and water it; You greatly enrich it; With the river of God, full of waters, You prepare their grain, when you so arrange it.
10 You make their furrows soaked, You make their canals descend; You soften it with rains, You bless its shoots.
11 You crown the year with your good things, and your clouds drip with fatness.
12 They drip on the pastures of the desert, And the hills are girded with joy.
13 The plains are clothed with herds, And the valleys are covered with grain; They shout for joy, and still sing.
1 Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth.
2 Sing the glory of his name; Put glory in his praise.
3 Tell God: How amazing are your works! Because of the greatness of your power your enemies will submit to you.
4 All the earth will worship you, And sing to you; They will sing in your name. Selah
5 Come and see the works of God, Awesome in acts upon the children of men.
6 The sea turned dry; They crossed the river on foot; There in him we rejoice.
7 He rules with his power forever; His eyes watch over the nations; The rebels will not be exalted. Selah
8 Bless our God, people, and make the voice of his praise heard.
9 He is the one who preserved the life of our soul, And he did not allow our feet to slip.
10 For you have tested us, O God; You rehearsed us how silver is refined.
11 You brought us into the net; You put a heavy burden on our loins.
12 You made men ride on our heads; We went through fire and water, And you brought us out to abundance.
13 I will enter your house with burnt offerings; I will repay you my vows,
14 Which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress. I will offer you
15 Holocausts of fat animals, With incense of rams; I will offer you oxen and goats as a sacrifice. Selah
16 Come, listen, all you who fear God, And I will tell what he has done to my soul.
17 I cried to him with my mouth, and he was exalted with my tongue.
18 If I had regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have heard me.
19 But God certainly heard me; He heeded the voice of my supplication.
20 Blessed be God, who has not cast away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.
1 May God have mercy on us and bless us; May his face shine upon us; Selah
2 That your way may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations.
3 Let the people praise you, O God; All peoples praise you.
4 Let the nations be glad and rejoice, For you will judge the people with equity, And you will shepherd the nations in the land. Selah
5 Let the people praise you, O God; All peoples praise you.
6 The earth will bear its fruit; God, our God, will bless us.
7 May God bless us, and let all the ends of the earth fear him.
1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered, and let those who hate him flee from his presence.
2 As the smoke is released, you will release them; As wax melts before fire, so the wicked will perish before God.
3 But the righteous will rejoice; They will rejoice before God, And they will leap for joy.
4 Sing to God, sing psalms to his name; Exalt him who rides on the heavens. JAH is his name; rejoice before him.
5 Father of orphans and defender of widows He is God in his holy dwelling.
6 God makes the homeless live in families; He brings out the captives to prosperity; But the rebels dwell in dry land.
7 O God, when you went out before your people, When you walked in the desert, Selah
8 The earth shook; They also distilled the heavens before the presence of God; That Sinai trembled before God, the God of Israel.
9 You have scattered abundant rain, O God; To your inheritance exhausted you the reanimaste.
10 Those who are of your flock have lived in it; In your goodness, O God, you have provided for the poor.
11 The Lord gave word; There was a great multitude of those who brought good news.
12 Kings of armies fled, fled, and those who stayed at home divided the spoils.
13 Although you were cast among the potsherds, you will be like a dove’s wings covered with silver, and its feathers with golden yellowness.
14 When the Almighty scattered the kings there, it was as if it had snowed on Mount Salmon.
15 The mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; Mount Bashan is high.
16 Why do you observe, O high mountains, the mountain that God desired for his dwelling place? Surely Jehovah will dwell in him forever.
17 The chariots of God are numbered by scores of thousands of thousands; The Lord comes from Sinai to his sanctuary.
18 You went up on high, you took captivity, You took gifts for men, And also for the rebellious, so that JAH God might dwell among them.
19 Blessed be the Lord; Every day the God of our salvation fills us with benefits. Selah
20 God, our God, will save us, and it is the Lord God’s to deliver from death.
21 Surely God will bruise the head of his enemies, the hairy head of him who walks in his sins.
22 The Lord said, “I will bring you back from Bashan; I will bring you back from the depths of the sea;
23 For your foot will be red with the blood of your enemies, And the tongue of your dogs with it.
24 They have seen your ways, O God; The ways of my God, of my King, in the sanctuary.
25 The singers went before, the musicians behind; In the middle the maidens with tambourines.
26 Bless God in the congregations; To the Lord, you of the race of Israel.
27 There was young Benjamin, ruler over them, The princes of Judah in his congregation, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
28 Your God has ordained your strength; He confirms, O God, what you have done for us.
29 Because of your temple in Jerusalem Kings will offer you gifts.
30 Repress the gathering of armed people, The multitude of bulls with the calves of the people, Until everyone submits with their pieces of silver; Scatter the people who take pleasure in war.
31 Princes of Egypt will come; Ethiopia will rush to extend its hands towards God.
32 Kingdoms of the earth, sing to God, Sing to the Lord; Selah
33 To him who rides on the heavens of heavens, which have been of old; Behold, he will give his voice, a powerful voice.
34 Attribute power to God; His magnificence is upon Israel, and his power is in heaven.
35 You are fearsome, O God, from your sanctuaries; The God of Israel, he gives strength and vigor to his people. Blessed be God.
1 Save me, O God, For the waters have entered into my soul.
2 I am sunk in deep mire, where I cannot stand; I have come into deep waters, and the stream has overwhelmed me.
3 I am tired of calling; my throat has become hoarse; My eyes have failed waiting for my God.
4 Those who hate me without cause have increased more than the hairs of my head; My enemies have become powerful, those who destroy me without having to. And do I have to pay for what I did not steal?
5 God, you know my foolishness, And my sins are not hidden from you.
6 Let not those who trust in you be put to shame on my account, O Lord Jehovah of hosts; Let not those who seek you be confounded by me, O God of Israel.
7 For for your sake I have suffered disgrace; Confusion has covered my face.
8 I have been a stranger to my brothers, and unknown to my mother’s children.
9 Because zeal for your house consumed me; And the insults of those who reviled you fell on me.
10 I wept, afflicting my soul with fasting, and this was a disgrace to me.
11 I also put sackcloth on my clothing, and I came to be a proverb to them.
12 Those who sat at the door spoke against me, And the drinkers taunted me with their songs.
13 But I prayed to you, O Lord, at the time of your good pleasure; O God, for the abundance of your mercy, For the truth of your salvation, hear me.
14 Take me out of the mire, and let me not be submerged; May I be delivered from those who hate me, and from the depths of the waters.
15 Let not the flood of waters overwhelm me, Nor let the deep swallow me up, Nor let the well close its mouth over me.
16 Answer me, Jehovah, for your mercy is kind; Look upon me according to the multitude of your mercy.
17 Do not hide your face from your servant, For I am distressed; Hurry up, listen to me.
18 Come near to my soul, redeem it; Deliver me because of my enemies.
19 You know my disgrace, my confusion and my disgrace; Before you are all my adversaries.
20 Scorn has broken my heart, and I am grieved. I waited for someone to take pity on me, and there was none; And comforters, and I found none.
21 They also gave me gall for food, And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22 Let their invitation be a snare before them, and what is for good a stumbling block.
23 Let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, And make their loins tremble continually.
24 Pour out your wrath on them, and the fury of your anger overtakes them.
25 Let his palace be desolate; There is no inhabitant in their tents.
26 Because they persecuted him whom you wounded, And they tell of the pain of those whom you wounded.
27 Put evil on top of their evil, And let them not enter into your righteousness.
28 Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, And let them not be written among the righteous.
29 But as for me, afflicted and miserable, may Thy salvation, O God, lift me up.
30 I will praise the name of God with song, I will exalt him with praise.
31 And it will please the Lord more than an ox sacrifice, Or a calf that has horns and hooves;
32 The oppressed will see it and rejoice. Seek God, and your heart will live,
33 For the Lord hears the needy, and does not despise his prisoners.
34 Let the heavens and the earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moves in them.
35 For God will save Zion, and will rebuild the cities of Judah; And they shall dwell there, and possess it.
36 The descendants of her servants will inherit it, and those who love her name will live in it.
1 O God, come and rescue me; Make haste, oh God, to help me.
2 Let those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; Let those who wish my evil be turned back and put to shame.
3 Let those who say: Ah! Ah!
4 Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you, and let those who love your salvation always say: May God be magnified.
5 I am afflicted and needy; Make haste to me, oh God. My help and my liberator are you; O Jehovah, do not stop.
1 In you, O Jehovah, I have taken refuge; Let me never be ashamed.
2 Help me and deliver me in your justice; Tilt your ear and save me.
3 Be for me a rock of refuge, to which I continually turn. You have given a commandment to save me, Because you are my rock and my strength.
4 My God, deliver me from the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the wicked and violent.
5 For you, O Lord Jehovah, are my hope, my security from my youth.
6 In you I have been sustained from the womb; You were the one who took me out of my mother’s womb; My praise will always be yours.
7 I have been a wonder to many, and you are my strong refuge.
8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise, with your glory all day long.
9 Do not cast me away in the time of old age; When my strength faileth, forsake me not.
10 For my enemies speak of me, And they that lie in wait for my soul consulted together,
11 Saying, God has forsaken him; Pursue him and take him, because there is no one to rescue him.
12 O God, do not depart from me; My God, come quickly to my aid.
13 Let the adversaries of my soul be put to shame, let them perish; Let those who seek my evil be covered with shame and confusion.
14 But I will always wait, And I will praise you more and more.
15 My mouth will publish your righteousness And your saving deeds all day long, Although I do not know their number.
16 I will come to the mighty acts of the Lord God; I will remember your justice, yours alone.
17 O God, you taught me from my youth, and until now I have manifested your wonders.
18 Even in old age and gray hair, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare your power to posterity, And your power to all who are to come,
19 And your righteousness, O God, to the highest. You have done great things; Oh God, who like you?
20 You, who have made me see many anguish and evils, You will give me life again, And you will raise me again from the abysses of the earth.
21 You will increase my greatness, And you will comfort me again.
22 Likewise I will praise you with a psaltery instrument, O my God; I will sing your truth to you on the harp, O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will rejoice when I sing to you, and my soul, which you redeemed.
24 My tongue will also speak of your righteousness all day long; Because they have been put to shame, because those who sought my evil have been confounded.
1 O God, give your judgments to the king, And your justice to the king’s son.
2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your afflicted ones with judgment.
3 The mountains will bring peace to the people, and the hills justice.
4 He will judge the afflicted of the people, he will save the children of the needy, and he will crush the oppressor.
5 They will fear you as long as the sun and the moon last, from generation to generation.
6 It will descend like rain on cut grass; Like the dew that drips on the earth.
7 Justice will flourish in his days, And a multitude of peace, until there is no moon.
8 He will rule from sea to sea, And from the river to the ends of the earth. 72
10 The kings of Tarshish and the coasts will bring gifts; The kings of Sheba and Sheba will offer gifts.
11 All kings will bow down before him; All nations will serve him.
12 For he will deliver the needy who cries, and the afflicted who has no one to help him.
13 He will have mercy on the poor and needy, And he will save the lives of the poor.
14 From deceit and violence he will redeem their souls, and their blood will be precious in his sight.
15 He will live, and the gold of Sheba will be given to him, And he will be prayed for continually; All day long he will be blessed.
16 He will be thrown a handful of grain on the earth, on the tops of the mountains; Its fruit will make noise like Lebanon, and those in the city will flourish like the grass of the earth.
17 His name will be forever, His name will be perpetuated as long as the sun lasts. Blessed will all nations be in him; They will call him blessed.
18 Blessed is the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonders.
19 Blessed is his glorious name forever, and the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen.
20 Here end the prayers of David, son of Jesse.
1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
2 As for me, my feet almost slipped; My steps almost slipped.
3 For I was envious of the arrogant, Seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
4 Because they have no anguish over his death, for his strength is whole.
5 They do not suffer hardship like other mortals, nor are they beaten like other men.
6 Therefore pride crowns them; They cover themselves with clothing of violence.
7 Their eyes bulge with fat; They more than achieve the cravings of the heart.
8 They mock and speak evil of doing violence; They speak haughtily.
9 They set their mouth against the sky, And their tongue walks the earth.
10 Therefore God will bring his people back here, and abundant waters will be drawn for them.
11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these wicked ones, Without being troubled by the world, attained riches.
13 Truly in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence;
14 For I have been scourged all day, and punished every morning.
15 If I said, I will speak like them, Behold, I would deceive your children’s generation.
16 When I thought to know this, It was hard work for me,
17 Until entering the sanctuary of God, I understood their end.
18 Indeed you have placed them in slipways; In devastations you shalt thou make them fall.
19 How suddenly they have been devastated! They perished, were consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream of one who wakes up, So, Lord, when you wake up, you will despise its appearance.
21 My soul was filled with bitterness, and I felt pangs in my heart.
22 I was so stupid that I did not understand; It was like a beasst in fromt of you.
23 Yet I was always with you; You took my right hand.
24 You have guided me according to your advice, And afterward you will receive me in glory.
25 Whom do I have in heaven but you? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.
26 My flesh and my heart fail; But the rock of my heart and my portion is God forever.
27 For behold, those who turn away from you will perish; You will destroy everyone who turns away from you.
28 But as for me, drawing near to God is good; I have put my hope in the Lord God, to declare all your works.
1 Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why is your anger kindled against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation, which you acquired from ancient times, which you redeemed to make it the tribe of your inheritance; This mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
3 Direct your steps to eternal desolations, To all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
4 Your enemies shout in the midst of your assemblies; They have put their currencies as signs.
5 They look like those who lift the ax in the middle of a dense forest.
6 And now with axes and hammers They have broken all its carvings.
7 They have set your sanctuary on fire, They have desecrated the tabernacle of your name, casting it to the ground.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them at once; They have burned all the synagogues of God on earth.
9 We no longer see our signs; There is no more prophet, Nor among us is there anyone who knows how long.
10 How long, O God, will the distresser disgrace us? Shall the enemy perpetually blaspheme your name?
11 Why do you retract your hand? Why do you hide your right hand in your bosom?
12 But God has been my king since ancient times; The one who works salvation in the middle of the earth.
13 You divided the sea with your power; You broke the heads of monsters in the waters.
14 You bruised the heads of the leviathan, And gave it as food to the inhabitants of the desert.
15 You opened the fountain and the river; You dried up rushing rivers.
16 Yours is the day, yours also is the night; You established the moon and the sun.
17 You set all the boundaries of the earth; You formed summer and winter.
18 Remember this: that the enemy has insulted the Lord, and a foolish people has blasphemed your name.
19 Do not give the soul of your turtledove to the wild beasts, And do not forget forever the congregation of your afflicted ones.
20 Look to the covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of rooms of violence.
21 Let not the dejected return in shame; The afflicted and the needy will praise your name.
22 Arise, O God, plead your cause; Remember how the fool reviles you every day.
23 Do not forget the voices of your enemies; The uproar of those who rise up against you increases continually.
1 We thank you, oh God, we thank you, For your name is near; The mens count wonders.
2 At the time I will point out I will judge rightly.
3 The land and its inhabitants were ruined; I support its columns. Selah
4 I said to the foolish: Do not be arrogant; And to the wicked: Do not be proud;
5 Do not boast of your power; Do not speak with an erect neck.
6 For neither from the east nor from the west, nor from the desert does exaltation come.
7 But God is the judge; He humiliates this one, and exalts that one.
8 For the cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine is fermented, full of mixture; and he pours out of it; They will drain it to the bottom, and all the wicked of the earth will drink it.
9 But I will always announce And sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 I will break all the power of sinners, But the power of the righteous will be exalted.
