He causeth him to eat of the fat of wheat, And with honey from a rock I satisfy thee!

Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance against You—

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

O Lord, You have [at last] shown favor to Your land [of Canaan];
You have restored [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob (Israel).

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

Turn us then, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger cease from us.

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger from generation to generation?

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob (Israel).

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

They surround me like water all day long;
they close in on me from every side.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

{An instruction. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the loving-kindness of Jehovah for ever; with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness from generation to generation.

I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne from generation to generation. Selah.

Once You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty [giving him the power to be a champion for Israel];
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

With whom my hand shall be firm, Yea, mine arm, shall strengthen him;

The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

And I will shatter, from before him, his adversaries, And, them who hate him, will I smite;

I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

It shall be established for ever as the moon, and the witness in the sky is firm. Selah.

You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown to the ground.

You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.

Hast caused him to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down.

How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire?

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Remember, Lord, the ridicule against Your servants—
in my heart I carry abuse from all the peoples—

BOOK THE FOURTH Lord! a dwelling-place, hast, thou, become to us, From generation to generation:

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.

Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?
Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Thou Shalt not be afraid from terror the night; from the arrow that will fly the day;

From the word that shall go in darkness: from the cutting off that shall lay waste the noon-day.

A thousand shall fall from thy side, and ten thousand from thy right hand; and to thee it shall not reach.

Because, on me, he hath set firm his love, Therefore will I deliver him, I will set him on high, Because he hath known my Name;

When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.

Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

Your precepts are fully confirmed and completely reliable;
Holiness adorns Your house,
O Lord, forever.

Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

Blessed [is] the man, O Yah, whom you instruct and teach from your law,

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?

Whose, is the sea, for, he, made it, And, the dry land, his hands, did form.

For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

Majestic splendor emanates from him; his sanctuary is firmly established and beautiful.

Worship ye to Jehovah in the ornaments of holiness: tremble ye from his face, all the earth.

Fire goes out from his presence to consume his enemies on every side.

The mountains melted as wax from before the face of Jehovah, from before the face of the Lord of all the earth.

Ye who love Jehovah, hate evil, He is keeping the souls of His saints, From the hand of the wicked he delivereth them.

Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path,
And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].

His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.

For Jehovah is good; his loving-kindness endureth for ever; and his faithfulness from generation to generation.

I will set no worthless or wicked thing before my eyes.
I hate the practice of those who fall away [from the right path];
It will not grasp hold of me.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will silence;
The one who has a haughty look and a proud (arrogant) heart I will not tolerate.

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.

From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.

From Thine indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast lifted me up, And dost cast me down.

But thou, Jehovah, abidest for ever, and thy memorial from generation to generation.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

I said, My God, take me not away in the midst of my days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation.

Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory.

Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

From Thy rebuke they flee, From the voice of Thy thunder haste away.

The birds of heaven dwell by them; they give forth their voice from among the branches.

He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.

Causing grass to spring up for cattle, And herb for the service of man, To bring forth bread from the earth,

And wine -- it rejoiceth the heart of man, To cause the face to shine from oil, And bread -- the heart of man it supporteth.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.

There the ships will go: the sea monster thou didst form to play in it

They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

Consumed are sinners from the earth, And the wicked are no more. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah. Praise ye Jehovah!

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

To give his chiefs teaching at his pleasure, and so that his law-givers might get wisdom from him.

They asked, and He brought quail
and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

So the waters covered their adversaries, Not one from among them, was left.

And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.

And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.

Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.