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For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
and the sky
BOOK I
(Psalms 1–41)
who does not follow
or take
or join a group
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
exalted among the nations, exalted on the earth.”
For the choir director. A song of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.
a helper who is always found
in times of trouble.
renewing one’s life;
the testimony of the Lord is trustworthy,
making the inexperienced wise.
For the choir director. Davidic.
They are corrupt; they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.
Davidic.
whom should I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—
of whom should I be afraid?
A Davidic psalm.
the world and its inhabitants,
belong to the Lord;
A Davidic psalm.
to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”
The one who lives under the protection of the Most High
dwells in the shadow of the Almighty.
before You gave birth to the earth and the world,
from eternity to eternity, You are God.
He said to Me, “You are My Son;
today I have become Your
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You,
Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
because I have been remarkably and wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful,
and I know this very well.
I fear no danger,
for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff
in Your presence is abundant joy;
in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.
A Solomonic song of ascents.
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had gone to Bathsheba.
according to Your faithful love;
according to Your abundant compassion,
blot out my rebellion.
all who follow His instructions
His praise endures forever.
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You set in place,
For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.”
Why are You so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?
like silver refined in an earthen furnace,
purified seven times.
BOOK II
(Psalms 42–72)For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
so I long for You, God.
and give thanks to Your name
for Your constant love and truth.
You have exalted Your name
and Your promise above everything else.
Concerning David, when he pretended to be insane in the presence of Abimelech,
His praise will always be on my lips.
Davidic. A Maskil.
whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered!
with My eye on you, I will give counsel.
and he meditates on it day and night.
A Davidic song of ascents.
when brothers live together in harmony!
You will not allow Your Faithful One to see decay.
A song of ascents.
Where will my help come from?
it is what I desire:
to dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
gazing on the beauty of the Lord
and seeking Him in His temple.
to protect you in all your ways.
instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.
and He will sustain you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
Lord, I seek refuge in You;
let me never be disgraced.
A Davidic psalm. When he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
I thirst for You;
my body faints for You
in a land that is dry, desolate, and without water.
א Alef
who live according to the Lord’s instruction!
my fortress, and my deliverer,
my God, my mountain where I seek refuge,
my shield
my stronghold.
but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
and He turned to me and heard my cry for help.
the people He has chosen to be His own possession!
The Lord gives grace and glory;
He does not withhold the good
from those who live with integrity.
For the choir director: on the Gittith. Of Asaph.
shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.
BOOK V
(Psalms 107–150)
His faithful love endures forever.
Come, let us shout joyfully to the Lord,
shout triumphantly to the rock of our salvation!
and sinners will not be in the community of the righteous.
and all the stars, by the breath of His mouth.
Because He is at my right hand,
I will not be shaken.
that bears its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
All you descendants of Jacob, honor Him!
All you descendants of Israel, revere Him!
vindicate me, Lord,
according to my righteousness and my integrity.
the torment of the afflicted.
He did not hide His face from him
but listened when he cried to Him for help.
by the abundance of Your faithful love;
I bow down toward Your holy temple
in reverential awe of You.
because of my adversaries;
make Your way straight before me.
according to my righteousness;
He repaid me
according to the cleanness of my hands.
but establish the righteous.
The One who examines the thoughts and emotions
is a righteous God.
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.
You will strengthen their hearts.
You will listen carefully,
their refuge in a time of distress.
He has executed justice,
striking down
by the work of their hands.
their foot is caught in the net they have concealed.
God
He has strung
let them fall by their own schemes.
Drive them out
for they rebel against You.
let the nations be judged in Your presence.
so that men of the earth may terrify them no more.
than they have when their grain and new wine abound.
Lord, I cry out to You all day long;
I spread out my hands to You.
and have not turned from my God to wickedness.
about His righteousness—
what He has done.
those who seek the Lord will praise Him.
May your hearts live forever!
the next generation will be told about the Lord.
consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me.
Lift me up from the gates of death,
the promise He ordained
for a thousand generations
let them shout for joy forever.
May You shelter them,
and may those who love Your name boast about You.
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.
I will rejoice in Your salvation
within the gates of Daughter Zion.
who have taken their stand against me on every side.
in all the places where He rules.
My soul, praise Yahweh!
You prove Yourself faithful;
with the blameless man
You prove Yourself blameless;
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”
Rise up, ancient doors!
Then the King of glory will come in.
For the choir director: with stringed instruments.
God, who vindicates me.
You freed me from affliction;
be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
the hope of the afflicted
Save me, my God!
You strike all my enemies on the cheek;
You break the teeth of the wicked.
A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.
There are many who attack me.
For the choir director: according to Sheminith.
the loyal have disappeared from the human race.
because of You;
I will fulfill my vows
before those who fear You.
For the choir director. Davidic.
How can you say to me,
“Escape to the mountain like a bird!
they will turn back
the wicked arrogantly thinks:
“There is no accountability,
since God does not exist.”
call his wickedness into account
until nothing remains of it.
the Lord’s throne is in heaven.
His eyes watch; He examines
You surround him with favor like a shield.
The upright will see His face.
and the fish of the sea
that pass through the currents of the seas.
and the groaning of the poor,
I will now rise up,” says the Lord.
“I will put the one who longs for it in a safe place.”
a scorching wind will be their portion.
A Shiggaion
save me from all my pursuers and rescue me
the one who is greedy curses
to the Pit of destruction;
men of bloodshed and treachery
will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have erased their name forever and ever.
You have uprooted the cities,
and the very memory of them has perished.
For the choir director: with stringed instruments, according to Sheminith.
do not discipline me in Your wrath.
In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
Your right hand upholds me,
and Your humility exalts me.
as well as the animals in the wild,
trouble and malice are under his tongue.
conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.
He executes judgment on the nations with fairness.
You are seated on Your throne as a righteous judge.
they put the
to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
How long will you love what is worthless
and pursue a lie?Selah
the faithful for Himself;
the Lord will hear when I call to Him.
our lips are our own—who can be our master?”
You subdue my adversaries beneath me.
He lurks in order to seize the afflicted;
he seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.
from generation to generation without calamity.”
Your lofty judgments are beyond his sight;
he scoffs at all his adversaries.
and turn to the Lord.
All the families of the nations
will bow down before You,
I will sing about the name of Yahweh the Most High.
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;
and have not disregarded His statutes.
with my tears I dampen my pillow
and drench my bed every night.
A Davidic song of ascents.
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”
and his violence falls on the top of his head.
and His courts with praise.
Give thanks to Him and praise His name.
or have plundered
a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;
they pierced
all my days were written in Your book and planned
before a single one of them began.
God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.
For the choir director. Of the servant of the Lord, David, who spoke the words of this song to the Lord on the day the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
so far has He removed
our transgressions from us.
“Forever, You are a priest
like Melchizedek.”
and gives understanding to the inexperienced.
one who ate my bread,
has raised his heel against me.
For the choir director: on the Gittith.
how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!
but His favor, a lifetime.
Weeping may spend the night,
but there is joy in the morning.
He will deliver them from the wicked and will save them
because they take refuge in Him.
For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.”
who leads Joseph like a flock;
You who sit enthroned on the cherubim,
rise up
may he trample me to the ground
and leave my honor in the dust.
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in
as long as I live.
In wisdom You have made them all;
the earth is full of Your creatures.
A Maskil of Asaph.
listen to what I say.
lift Yourself up against the fury of my adversaries;
awake for me;
You have ordained
I will be with him in trouble.
I will rescue him and give him honor.
and all Your righteous judgments endure forever.
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.
whose name is Yahweh—
are the Most High over all the earth.
who love Your instruction;
nothing makes them stumble.
and we are the people of His pasture,
the sheep under His care.
in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
the scepter of Your
A psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.
to sing praise to Your name, Most High,
Not to us, Yahweh, not to us,
but to Your name give glory
because of Your faithful love, because of Your truth.
He made us, and we are His
His people, the sheep of His pasture.
A Davidic psalm.
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
You have established a stronghold
from the mouths of children and nursing infants
to silence the enemy and the avenger.
BOOK IV
(Psalms 90–106)A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
in every generation.
For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm. A song.
look on us with favor
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty;
The Lord is robed, enveloped in strength.
The world is firmly established;
it cannot be shaken.
A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations
with my mouth.
and I will make the nations Your
and the ends of the earth Your
For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
shout to God with a jubilant cry.
do not be agitated by one who prospers in his way,
by the man who carries out evil plans.
For the choir director: according to Jeduthun.
my salvation comes from Him.
A psalm of Asaph.
He summons the earth from east to west.
but the Lord delivers him from them all.
Solomonic.
and Your righteousness to the king’s son.
You open my ears to listen.
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.
and I will live by Your truth.
Give me an undivided mind to fear Your name.
and done this evil in Your sight.
So You are right when You pass sentence;
You are blameless when You judge.
and you will perish in your rebellion,
for His
All those who take refuge in Him
Hallelujah!
Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
His faithful love endures forever.
A song. A Davidic psalm.
I will sing; I will sing praises
with the whole of my being.
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.
For the choir director: with the flutes. A Davidic psalm.
consider my sighing.
A song of ascents.
who walks in His ways!
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
worship Yahweh
in the splendor of His holiness.
for You alone, Lord, make me live in safety.
BOOK III
(Psalms 73–89)A psalm of Asaph.
to the pure in heart.
and You teach me wisdom deep within.
You received gifts from
even from the rebellious,
so that the Lord God might live there.
my glory,
For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.”
for I take refuge in You.
I will seek refuge in the shadow of Your wings
until danger passes.
making the heart glad;
the command of the Lord is radiant,
making the eyes light up.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
the Lord will save him in a day of adversity.
My soul, praise Yahweh!
Lord my God, You are very great;
You are clothed with majesty and splendor.
Davidic.
who trains my hands for battle
and my fingers for warfare.
the word of the Lord is pure.
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.
You put everything under his feet:
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.
Davidic.
I will sing Your praise before the heavenly beings.
and did not conceal my iniquity.
I said,
“I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and You took away the guilt of my sin.
and their words to the ends of the world.
For the choir director: on Mahalath.
They are corrupt, and they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.
You understand my thoughts from far away.
because You have not abandoned
those who seek You, Yahweh.
He leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but the rebellious live in a scorched land.
For the choir director: according to Muth-labben.
I will declare all Your wonderful works.
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.
Lord, Your love is eternal;
do not abandon the work of Your hands.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
Forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?
because I am in distress;
my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—
my whole being
Day after day He bears our burdens;
God is our salvation.
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped.
Therefore my heart rejoices,
and I praise Him with my song.
Let them praise His name with dancing
and make music to Him with tambourine and lyre.
A psalm.
for He has performed wonders;
His right hand and holy arm
have won Him victory.
enduring forever;
the ordinances of the Lord are reliable
and altogether righteous.
A Davidic hymn.
and praise Your name forever and ever.
but we take pride in the name of Yahweh our God.
and the insults of those who insult You
have fallen on me.
For the choir director. A psalm of David, the Lord’s servant.
concerning the transgression of the wicked person:
There is no dread of God before his eyes,
than a thousand anywhere else.
I would rather be at the door of the house of my God
than to live in the tents of wicked people.
His faithfulness endures through all generations.
is for those who fear Him,
and He reveals His covenant to them.
I will deliver him;
I will protect him because he knows My name.
or repaid us according to our offenses.
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.
Exalt Him who rides on the clouds
His name is Yahweh
For the choir director: on the Gittith.
Lord of Hosts.
pour out your hearts before Him.
God is our refuge.
The kings of the earth take their stand,
and the rulers conspire together
against the Lord and His Anointed One:
A Davidic psalm.
Who can live on Your holy mountain?
He protects the lives of His godly ones;
He rescues them from the power of the wicked.
A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain,
at daybreak I plead my case to You
who secretly slanders his neighbor;
I cannot tolerate anyone
with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.
so great is His faithful love
toward those who fear Him.
for You are my God.
May Your gracious Spirit
lead me on level ground.
A Davidic psalm.
In Your faithfulness listen to my plea,
and in Your righteousness answer me.
and His ears are open to their cry for help.
when I awake, I will be satisfied with Your presence.
A psalm of Asaph.
He judges among the gods:
you will take refuge under His wings.
His faithfulness will be a protective shield.
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your records?
For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph.
aloud to God, and He will hear me.
For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.”
as I recite my verses to the king;
my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
A song of ascents.
we were like those who dream.
The Lord protects the loyal,
but fully repays the arrogant.
all His angels of great strength,
who do His word,
obedient to His command.
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.
For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.”
for the water has risen to my neck.
Hallelujah!
Happy is the man who fears the Lord,
taking great delight in His commands.
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
let me never be disgraced.
Save me by Your righteousness.
A Davidic prayer.
pay attention to my cry;
listen to my prayer—
from lips free of deceit.
“You
Lord, I will seek Your face.
You removed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
but God is the strength
my portion forever.
uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
in the day of adversity;
He will hide me under the cover of His tent;
He will set me high on a rock.
of the Lord is blessed.
From the house of the Lord we bless you.
on Your day of battle.
In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,
the dew of Your youth belongs to You.
For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
listen, all who inhabit the world,
A song of ascents.
It cannot be shaken; it remains forever.
my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance.
and all my bones are disjointed;
my heart is like wax,
melting within me.
A psalm; a dedication song for the house. Davidic.
because You have lifted me up
and have not allowed my enemies
to triumph over me.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. A song.
and those who hate Him flee from His presence.
therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy
more than your companions.
the Lord’s faithful love is toward those who fear Him,
and His righteousness toward the grandchildren
out of the muddy clay,
and set my feet on a rock,
making my steps secure.
I hate the practice of transgression;
it will not cling to me.
that He has redeemed them from the hand of the foe
A psalm of Asaph.
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
and delivers them from all their troubles.
than an abundance of pure gold;
and sweeter than honey,
which comes from the honeycomb.
Your faithful love in the morning,
for I trust in You.
Reveal to me the way I should go
because I long for You.
You protect me from trouble.
You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance.Selah
according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
but must tell a future generation
the praises of the Lord,
His might, and the wonderful works
He has performed.
You are not pleased with a burnt offering.
of Your throne;
faithful love and truth go before You.
“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:
and set up a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers
to teach to their children
For the choir director. A psalm of the sons of Korah.
You restored Jacob’s prosperity.
that people take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
working hard to have enough food—
yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.
to God, my greatest joy.
I will praise You with the lyre,
God, my God.
Hallelujah!
I will praise the Lord with all my heart
in the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.
For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
our ancestors have told us—
the work You accomplished in their days,
in days long ago:
and provides crops for man to cultivate,
producing food from the earth,
the raising of my hands as the evening offering.
all those who go down to the dust
will kneel before Him—
even the one who cannot preserve his life.
slow to anger and rich in faithful love and truth.
the plans of His heart from generation to generation.
but those who put their hope in the Lord
will inherit the land.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.
I kept silent, even from speaking good,
and my pain intensified.
Davidic.
my rock, do not be deaf to me.
If You remain silent to me,
I will be like those going down to the Pit.
shout for joy and be glad;
let them continually say,
“The Lord be exalted.
He takes pleasure in His servant’s well-being.”
ג Gimel
so that I might live;
then I will keep Your word.
but honors those who fear the Lord,
who keeps his word whatever the cost,
Let them bring me to Your holy mountain,
to Your dwelling place.
Davidic.
because I have lived with integrity
and have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
it is written about me in the volume of the scroll.
surely the Lord will declare peace
to His people, His godly ones,
and not let them go back to foolish ways.
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man’s heart.
and will proclaim Your mighty acts.
and the number of my days.
Let me know how short-lived I am.
His song will be with me in the night—
a prayer to the God of my life.
that You have stored up for those who fear You
and accomplished in the sight of everyone
for those who take refuge in You.
For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”
making her the joyful mother of children.
Hallelujah!
For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”
God’s faithful love is constant.
whose hope is in the Lord his God,
For the choir director: on stringed instruments. Davidic.
pay attention to my prayer.
whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
and whoever orders his conduct,
I will show him the salvation of God.”
You made me stand like a strong mountain;
when You hid Your face, I was terrified.
The Lord reigns! Let the peoples tremble.
He is enthroned above the cherubim.
Let the earth quake.
י Yod
give me understanding
so that I can learn Your commands.
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.
my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.
do not let them rule over me.
Then I will be innocent
and cleansed from blatant rebellion.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
How greatly he rejoices in Your victory!
do not be agitated—it can only bring harm.
for You are the God of my salvation;
I wait for You all day long.
and I cried to my God for help.
From His temple He heard my voice,
and my cry to Him reached His ears.
The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken.
He judges the peoples fairly.”
in heaven and on earth,
in the seas and all the depths.
those who depend on His faithful love
I have leaned on You from birth;
You took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is always about You.
Your rule is for all generations.
The Lord is faithful in all His words
and gracious in all His actions.
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.
Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your presence.
Who takes a stand for me against evildoers?
and my life span as nothing in Your sight.
Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.
I will enter through them
and give thanks to the Lord.
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
so I can tell about all You do.
A Davidic song of ascents.
my eyes are not haughty.
I do not get involved with things
too great or too difficult for me.
or take a bribe against the innocent
the one who does these things will never be moved.
but those who seek the Lord
will not lack any good thing.
the foundations of the mountains trembled;
they shook because He burned with anger.
When the Lord restores the fortunes of His people,
Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be glad.
the Lord answered me
and put me in a spacious place.
establish for us the work of our hands—
establish the work of our hands!
For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.”
we give thanks to You, for Your name is near.
People tell about Your wonderful works.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. A song.
God, in Zion;
vows to You will be fulfilled.
though you look for him, he will not be there.
the Lord does not charge with sin
and in whose spirit is no deceit!
A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
I cry out before You day and night.
and acknowledges the truth in his heart
tremble before Him, all the earth.
I will sing; I will sing praises.
but the righteous one is gracious and giving.
therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan
and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
for His faithful love
and His wonderful works for all humanity.
For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic Maskil.
and do not ignore
when my heart is without strength.
Lead me to a rock that is high above me,
like a little weaned child with its mother;
I am like a little child.
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
For You repay each according to his works.
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
who has not set his mind
and who has not sworn deceitfully.
You will preserve my life
from the anger of my enemies.
You will extend Your hand;
Your right hand will save me.
carrying the bag of seed,
he will surely come back with shouts of joy,
carrying his sheaves.
the torrents of destruction terrified me.
and bring near to live in Your courts!
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
the holiness of Your temple.
a promise He will not abandon:
“I will set one of your descendants
on your throne.
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
A Maskil of Asaph.
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?
He has ordained His covenant forever.
His name is holy and awe-inspiring.
deliver me from the power of my enemies
and from my persecutors.
in the house of God;
I trust in God’s faithful love forever and ever.
Your wonderful works and Your plans for us;
none can compare with You.
If I were to report and speak of them,
they are more than can be told.
A song. A psalm of Asaph.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be idle.
and the coasts and islands bring tribute,
the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
I will sing about Your name.
within your house,
your sons, like young olive trees
around your table.
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
is the joy of the whole earth.
Mount Zion on the slopes of the north
is the city of the great King.
Your judgments, like the deepest sea.
Lord, You preserve man and beast.
and a newly created people will praise the Lord:
and a double-edged sword in their hands,
A Davidic psalm for remembrance.
or discipline me in Your wrath.
nor any of those descending into the silence of death.
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen
they make it a source of springwater;
even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings.
who has put his trust in the Lord
and has not turned to the proud
or to those who run after lies!
A prayer of an afflicted person who is weak and pours out his lament before the Lord.
let my cry for help come before You.
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.
grace flows from your lips.
Therefore God has blessed you forever.
You will clothe Yourself
with their remaining wrath.
You let them drink from Your refreshing stream,
Vindicate me, God, and defend my cause
against an ungodly nation;
rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.
For the choir director: according to “A Silent Dove Far Away.”
he fights and oppresses me all day long.
the earth is full of the Lord’s unfailing love.
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.
for themselves will multiply;
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
and I will not speak their names with my lips.
my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting,
and my prayer was genuine.
it rejoices like an athlete running a course.
He shatters bows and cuts spears to pieces;
He burns up the chariots.
its streams delight the city of God,
the holy dwelling place of the Most High.
you thought I was just like you.
But I will rebuke you
and lay out the case before you.
many troubles and misfortunes,
but You will revive me again.
You will bring me up again,
even from the depths of the earth.
Devouring fire precedes Him,
and a storm rages around Him.
The God of glory thunders—
the Lord, above vast waters,
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
more awe-inspiring than
from ivory palaces harps bring you joy.
and let it be a trap for their allies.
He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,
You have rescued
from the horns of the wild oxen.
and ten thousand at your right hand,
the pestilence will not reach you.
For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.”
protect me from those who rise up against me.
in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
at a time that You may be found.
When great floodwaters come,
they will not reach him.
you righteous ones;
shout for joy,
all you upright in heart.
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
A psalm of the sons of Korah. A song.
Restore brightness to my eyes;
otherwise, I will sleep in death.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
Keep me safe from violent men
will come and bow down before You, Lord,
and will honor Your name.
so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.
those who boast in idols, will be put to shame.
All the gods
and giving food to the hungry.
The Lord frees prisoners.
but the one who trusts in the Lord
will have faithful love surrounding him.
For the choir director: according to “The Lily of Testimony.”
You have broken out
You have been angry. Restore us!
to those who keep His covenant and decrees.
Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
For there is faithful love with the Lord,
and with Him is redemption in abundance.
forget your people and your father’s house,
those who put their hope in His faithful love.
He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.”
Do you judge people fairly?
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a mountain fortress to save me.
righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
A Davidic Maskil. When he was in the cave.
I plead aloud to the Lord for mercy.
שׂ Sin/ שׁ Shin
but my heart fears only Your word.
though the earth trembles
and the mountains topple
into the depths of the seas,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.
and will not abandon His faithful ones.
They are kept safe forever,
but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.
and He will exalt you to inherit the land.
You will watch when the wicked are destroyed.
Who among the heavenly beings
You prove Yourself pure,
but with the crooked
You prove Yourself shrewd.
A Davidic psalm.
I will sing praise to You, Lord.
are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me,
are powerful.
Though I did not steal, I must repay.
for false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing violence.
let Him rescue him;
let the Lord
since He takes pleasure in him.”
A Davidic psalm.
Listen to my voice when I call on You.
and the light around me will be night”
“What right do you have to recite My statutes
and to take My covenant on your lips?
For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic Maskil. When the Ziphites went and said to Saul, “Is David not hiding among us?”
and vindicate me by Your might!
in God I trust; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?
You smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the waters;
thousands and thousands;
the Lord is among them in the sanctuary
as He was at Sinai.
will be disgraced;
those who act treacherously without cause
will be disgraced.
they are the noble ones.
All my delight is in them.
there is great reward in keeping them.
and will joyfully proclaim
Your faithful love in the morning.
For You have been a stronghold for me,
a refuge in my day of trouble.
otherwise I could bear it;
it is not a foe who rises up against me—
otherwise I could hide from him.
and lift the banner in the name of our God.
May Yahweh fulfill all your requests.
all His instructions are trustworthy.
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.
God, do not abandon me.
Then I will
to another generation,
Your strength to all who are to come.
all of them will wear out like clothing.
You will change them like a garment,
and they will pass away.
Let us enter His presence with thanksgiving;
let us shout triumphantly to Him in song.
bow in worship at His holy mountain,
for the Lord our God is holy.
laying the beams of His palace
on the waters above,
making the clouds His chariot,
walking on the wings of the wind,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
I meditate on You during the night watches
Your constant love and truth will always guard me.
the Lord thinks of me.
You are my helper and my deliverer;
my God, do not delay.
that day
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”
He takes note of the humble;
but He knows the haughty from a distance.
as long as the sun shines,
may his fame increase.
May all nations be blessed by him
and call him blessed.
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth
providing people with grain.
for it is time to show favor to her—
the appointed time has come.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
Protect my life from the terror of the enemy.
his righteousness endures forever.
His horn will be exalted in honor.
For His faithful love to us is great;
the Lord’s faithfulness endures forever.
Hallelujah!
see, I do not keep my mouth closed
as You know, Lord.
and their inheritance will last forever.
“I am severely afflicted.”
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.
Be a rock of refuge for me,
where I can always go.
Give the command to save me,
for You are my rock and fortress.
For the choir director. Davidic. To bring remembrance.
Hurry to help me, Lord!
as sharp as a snake’s bite;
viper’s venom is under their lips.
You spared me from among those
going down
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise You?
Will it proclaim Your truth?
The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle.
Your faithfulness also—
in the assembly of the holy ones.
when I cry to You for help,
when I lift up my hands
toward Your holy sanctuary.
Lord my God, I will praise You forever.
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on the Lord.
“Lord, who is like You,
rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,
the poor or the needy from one who robs him?”
When will You come to me?
I will live with a heart of integrity in my house.
For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph.
His name is great in Israel.
the God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing of Your righteousness.
A song of ascents.
all you servants of the Lord
who stand in the Lord’s house at night!
for the world and everything in it is Mine.
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?
Do not let me be disgraced;
do not let my enemies gloat over me.
Rule
let the sea and all that fills it resound.
I do not turn back until they are wiped out.
the Lord’s enemies, like the glory of the pastures,
will fade away—
they will fade away like smoke.
because You will answer me;
listen closely to me; hear what I say.
and will honor Your name forever.
you will trample the young lion and the serpent.
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.
and a swallow, a nest for herself
where she places her young—
near Your altars, Lord of Hosts,
my King and my God.
who does not harm his friend
or discredit his neighbor,
You conceal them in a shelter
from the schemes of men,
from quarrelsome tongues.
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.
and our tongues with shouts of joy.
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
and Your faithful love,
for they have existed from antiquity.
and my relatives stand at a distance.
and the torments of Sheol overcame me;
I encountered trouble and sorrow.
or false hope in robbery.
If wealth increases,
pay no attention to it.
that I have lived among the tents of Kedar!
Savior of all who seek refuge
from those who rebel against Your right hand.
and consuming fire came from His mouth;
coals were set ablaze by it.
Rahab, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—
each one was born there.”
I will testify against you, Israel.
I am God, your God.
during the new moon
and during the full moon.
and no one among His tribes stumbled.
and helps the fatherless and the widow,
but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The world and everything in it—You founded them.
and You deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”
my heart is not afraid;
though a war breaks out against me,
still I am confident.
Indeed, they frantically rush around in vain,
gathering possessions
without knowing who will get them.
Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?
and will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.