That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

You've grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.

Thy throne was prepared from then: thou art from forever.

Thy testimonies were very firm: holiness was becoming to thy house, O Jehovah, to length of days.

The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.

Light was sown for the just one, and gladness for the upright of heart

Jehovah is great in Zion, and he was raised up over all peoples.

Moses and Aaron were among His priests;
Samuel also was among those calling on His name.
They called to Yahweh and He answered them.

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

{A prayer of the afflicted, when he was in woe, and poured out his complaint before the Lord} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my crying come unto thee.

My heart was struck and dried up as grass, that I forget eating my bread.

I was like to the pelican of the desert: I was as the owl of the dry places.

For Jehovah built Zion, he was seen in his glory

but when the wind blows through it, it withers away and no one remembers where it was.

How thy works were multiplied. O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest them all: the earth was filled with thy possessions.

When there was yet but a few of them - and they strangers in the land -

He had sent a man ahead of them—
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

They hurt his feet with shackles;
his neck was put in an iron collar.

Till the time when his word came true; he was tested by the word of the Lord.

Then Israel came [to] Egypt, and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham.

He sent darkness, and it was dark; for they were not obedient unto his word.

Their land was overrun with frogs,
even in their royal chambers.

He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.

He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

Egypt was glad when they left,
for the dread of Israel had fallen on them.

A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.

But he was their saviour because of his name, so that men might see his great power.

He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

But their memory of his works was short; not waiting to be guided by him,

And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

And he was purposing to put an end to them if Moses, his special servant, had not gone up before him, between him and his people, turning back his wrath, to keep them from destruction.

Thus they provoked him unto anger with their own inventions; and the plague was great among them.

But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stopped.

It was credited to him as righteousness
throughout all generations to come.

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

Then remembered he, for them, his covenant, and was moved to pity, according to the abounding of his lovingkindnesses;

He broke their spirits with hard labor;
they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

They reached up to the sky, then dropped into the depths. The sailors' strength left them because the danger was so great.

they reeled and staggered like drunken men,
and all their skill was useless.

Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; over Philistia will I shout aloud.

For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:

Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.

Because he had no mercy, but was cruel to the low and the poor, designing the death of the broken-hearted.

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.

And I was a reproach to them: they will see me and they will shake the head.

When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;

Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.

The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?
Jordan, that you turned back?

But our God is in heaven: he has done whatever was pleasing to him.

The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.

The Lord guards the inexperienced;
I was helpless, and He saved me.

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

For his mercy was strengthened upon us, and the truth of Jehovah is forever. Praise ye Jah.

I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

The right hand of Jehovah was exalted: the right hand of Jehovah did strength.

This was from Jehovah; he was wonderful in our eyes.

My soul was crushed for the desire to thy judgments in all time.

This was done to me, because I kept Your Commandments.

I was quick to do your orders, and let no time be wasted.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word.

Their heart was fat as fatness; I delighted in thy law.

It was good for me to be afflicted
so that I could learn Your statutes.

I was as a bottle in smoke; I forgot not thy laws.

Forever, O Jehovah, thy word was set in the heavens.

Unless thy law was my delight I perished in mine affliction.

I was humbled even greatly: O Jehovah, cause me to live according to thy word,

Sinners have put a net to take me; but I was true to your orders.

My flesh stood erect from thy fear, and I was afraid of thy judgments.

Be the guarantee for Your servant for good [as Judah was the guarantee for Benjamin];
Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word.

Shin. Princes have pursued me without cause, And because of Thy words was my heart afraid.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

Jerusalem was built as a city, joined to it together.

To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

Much was our soul filled with it, a derision of those living at ease the contempt of the proud.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Our soul as a bird hath escaped from a snare of fowlers, The snare was broken, and we have escaped.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the nations, The LORD has done great things for them.

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

Song of ascensions to David. O Jehovah, my heart was not lifted up, and mine eyes were not exalted, and I went not in great things and in wonders above me.

The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

It was the LORD who struck down the firstborn of Egypt, including both men and animals.

To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!"

My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

I thank thee, in that fearfully was my being distinguished, Wonderful are thy works, and, mine own soul, is observing them intently!

My frame was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.