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and how he made a vow to the Lord, and swore an oath to the powerful ruler of Jacob.
Yes, look! Those far from you die; you destroy everyone who is unfaithful to you.
For God will deliver Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, and his people will again live in them and possess Zion.
because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.
foreigners lose their courage; they shake with fear as they leave their strongholds.
For he makes the bars of your gates strong. He blesses your children within you.
A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.
For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say, "May there be peace in you!"
Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. Yet I do not turn aside from your law.
because they had rebelled against God's commands, and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king.
He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.
They spend all their time planning how to bring him down. They love to use deceit; they pronounce blessings with their mouths, but inwardly they utter curses. (Selah)
They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.
Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools' insults!
Moab is my wash basin. I will make Edom serve me. I will shout in triumph over Philistia."
Who can adequately recount the Lord's mighty acts, or relate all his praiseworthy deeds?
You delivered your people by your strength -- the children of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah)
(May those who hate the Lord cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)
Zion hears and rejoices, the towns of Judah are happy, because of your judgments, O Lord.
O Lord God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!
He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.
For they do not understand the Lord's actions, or the way he carries out justice. The Lord will permanently demolish them.
For foreigners attack me; ruthless men, who do not respect God, seek my life. (Selah)
You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.
You have repudiated your covenant with your servant; you have thrown his crown to the ground.
Reach down from above! Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, from the power of foreigners,
May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.
This is the Lord's gate -- the godly enter through it.
"You aggressively attacked me and tried to knock me down, but the Lord helped me.
in order to hear the painful cries of the prisoners, and to set free those condemned to die,
When the Lord heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,
Make us happy in proportion to the days you have afflicted us, in proportion to the years we have experienced trouble!
They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.
and all people will fear. They will proclaim what God has done, and reflect on his deeds.
For look, they wait to ambush me; powerful men stalk me, but not because I have rebelled or sinned, O Lord.
Consider its defenses! Walk through its fortresses, so you can tell the next generation about it!
They executed his miraculous signs among them, and his amazing deeds in the land of Ham.
Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.
May I experience your compassion, so I might live! For I find delight in your law.
My accusers will be covered with shame, and draped in humiliation as if it were a robe.
He spoke to them from a pillar of cloud; they obeyed his regulations and the ordinance he gave them.
There he shattered the arrows, the shield, the sword, and the rest of the weapons of war. (Selah)
They kill the widow and the one residing outside his native land, and they murder the fatherless.
He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.
The Lord deserves praise in Zion -- he who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!
The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.
He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.
I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me; I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me.
Hurry and look at the permanent ruins, and all the damage the enemy has done to the temple!
All who hate me whisper insults about me to one another; they plan ways to harm me.
When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying:
All day long my enemies taunt me; those who mock me use my name in their curses.
Will you stay mad at us forever? Will you remain angry throughout future generations?
They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.
They say, 'An awful disease overwhelms him, and now that he is bed-ridden he will never recover.'
Mount Zion rejoices; the towns of Judah are happy, because of your acts of judgment.
I have prayed for deliverance, because otherwise they will gloat over me; when my foot slips they will arrogantly taunt me.
I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.
in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.
you kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and all you leaders on the earth,
He delivered them from the power of the one who hated them, and rescued them from the power of the enemy.
O Lord, for the sake of your reputation, revive me! Because of your justice, rescue me from trouble!
Are your amazing deeds experienced in the dark region, or your deliverance in the land of oblivion?
They are immune to the trouble common to men; they do not suffer as other men do.
Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners! Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!
Do not hand the life of your dove over to a wild animal! Do not continue to disregard the lives of your oppressed people!
He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy.
He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. Let us rejoice in him there!
All those who behave wickedly do not understand -- those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to God.
For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.
Protect me from the wicked men who attack me, my enemies who crowd around me for the kill.
and execute the judgment to which their enemies have been sentenced. All his loyal followers will be vindicated. Praise the Lord!
They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.
Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.
Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares.
because they did not have faith in God, and did not trust his ability to deliver them.
O Lord, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! Teach me your regulations!
He brought the east wind through the sky, and by his strength led forth the south wind.
He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.
when God arose to execute judgment, and to deliver all the oppressed of the earth. (Selah)
Many are appalled when they see me, but you are my secure shelter.
All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.
where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.
May his children roam around begging, asking for handouts as they leave their ruined home!
No enemy will be able to exact tribute from him; a violent oppressor will not be able to humiliate him.
You shine brightly and reveal your majesty, as you descend from the hills where you killed your prey.
But those who are my enemies for no reason are numerous; those who hate me without cause outnumber me.
They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.
Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?"
You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.
when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.
Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.
The Lord says, "I will retrieve them from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
Angrily wipe them out! Wipe them out so they vanish! Let them know that God rules in Jacob and to the ends of the earth! (Selah)
He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number.
I take note of the treacherous and despise them, because they do not keep your instructions.
Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.
Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.
At the sound of your battle cry, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse "fell asleep."
As for me, I will continually tell what you have done; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob!
May those who wait to ambush me be repaid for their evil! As a demonstration of your faithfulness, destroy them!
May those who want to harm me be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation!
Here's how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.
May my accusers be humiliated and defeated! May those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace!
You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.
Our storehouses will be full, providing all kinds of food. Our sheep will multiply by the thousands and fill our pastures.
Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,
The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who are loyal to him will live in it.
Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!
Each one will be handed over to the sword; their corpses will be eaten by jackals.
Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say, "Who hears?"
Because they are bent on violence, do not let them escape! In your anger bring down the nations, O God!
Rouse yourself, wake up and vindicate me! My God and Lord, defend my just cause!
but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
which cannot fill the reaper's hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!
As a demonstration of your loyal love, destroy my enemies! Annihilate all who threaten my life, for I am your servant.
The tribes go up there, the tribes of the Lord, where it is required that Israel give thanks to the name of the Lord.
They made the Lord angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.
He rained down meat on them like dust, birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores.
Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.
They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.
Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.
until I find a place for the Lord, a fine dwelling place for the powerful ruler of Jacob."
I mourned for them as I would for a friend or my brother. I bowed down in sorrow as if I were mourning for my mother.
May his ancestors' sins be remembered by the Lord! May his mother's sin not be forgotten!
so that your feet may stomp in their blood, and your dogs may eat their portion of the enemies' corpses."
so that mankind might acknowledge your mighty acts, and the majestic splendor of your kingdom.
His resolve is firm; he will not succumb to fear before he looks in triumph on his enemies.
O Lord, do not let the wicked have their way! Do not allow their plan to succeed when they attack! (Selah)
because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.
Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.
For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.
He pronounces this blessing on himself while he is alive: "May men praise you, for you have done well!"
They provide water for all the animals in the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. I say, "When will you comfort me?"
Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.
They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man's inner thoughts cannot be discovered.
As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.
saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance."
From heaven you announced what their punishment would be. The earth was afraid and silent
Do not let the afflicted be turned back in shame! Let the oppressed and poor praise your name!
How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!
They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession and enter the royal palace.
They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors' strength left them because the danger was so great.
As for the heads of those who surround me -- may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them!
He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of their reproductive power.
The Lord made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies.
For my enemies talk about me; those waiting for a chance to kill me plot my demise.
For they harass the one whom you discipline; they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish.
Have you not rejected us, O God? O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.
Support me, so that I will be delivered. Then I will focus on your statutes continually.
For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.
May his descendants be cut off! May the memory of them be wiped out by the time the next generation arrives!
in the courts of the Lord's temple, in your midst, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!
Have you not rejected us, O God? O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.
Let the loyal followers of the Lord say, "Yes, his loyal love endures!"
Your enemies roar in the middle of your sanctuary; they set up their battle flags.
All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice, for those who want to harm me will be embarrassed and ashamed.
Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan.
who serve in the Lord's temple, in the courts of the temple of our God.
We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.
He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.
But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.
They return in the evening; they growl like a dog and prowl around outside the city.
you mountains and all you hills, you fruit trees and all you cedars,
You have broken down all his walls; you have made his strongholds a heap of ruins.
Listen to me because of your loyal love! O Lord, revive me, as you typically do!
They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.
They say, "God has abandoned him. Run and seize him, for there is no one who will rescue him!"
Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his loyal love endures,
He performed awesome deeds and acts of judgment in your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.
so I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones, rejoice along with your nation, and boast along with the people who belong to you.
He handed the territory of nations over to them, and they took possession of what other peoples had produced,
Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!
Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.
I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
Though I have done nothing wrong, they are anxious to attack. Spring into action and help me! Take notice of me!
They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.
hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.
They curse, but you will bless. When they attack, they will be humiliated, but your servant will rejoice.
How long must your servant endure this? When will you judge those who pursue me?
They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.
He announced that he would do mighty deeds for his people, giving them a land that belonged to other nations.
make their descendants die among the nations, and scatter them among foreign lands.
May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually!
I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices, along with the smell of sacrificial rams. I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah)
We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
As soon as they see, they are shocked; they are terrified, they quickly retreat.
But the Lord does not surrender the godly, or allow them to be condemned in a court of law.
Let the family of Aaron say, "Yes, his loyal love endures!"
O family of Israel, praise the Lord! O family of Aaron, praise the Lord!
in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.
Then they will realize this is your work, and that you, Lord, have accomplished it.
All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.
Og, king of Bashan, for his loyal love endures,
to the one who led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love endures,
O family of Levi, praise the Lord! You loyal followers of the Lord, praise the Lord!
He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.
You have brought to an end his splendor, and have knocked his throne to the ground.
He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.
They will be thrown down the side of a cliff by their judges. They will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.
They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.
You turn back his sword from the adversary, and have not sustained him in battle.
Do not let them say to themselves, "Aha! We have what we wanted!" Do not let them say, "We have devoured him!"
He delivered his people over to the sword, and was angry with his chosen nation.
May the Lord be constantly aware of them, and cut off the memory of his children from the earth!
May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children!
Do not disregard what your enemies say, or the unceasing shouts of those who defy you.
You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious, and all his enemies to rejoice.
He caused them to fall right in the middle of their camp, all around their homes.