So may he live, and may gold from Sheba be given to him, and may prayers be offered for him continually. May blessings be invoked for him {all day long}.

May there be an abundance of grain in the land [even] on [the] top of [the] mountains. May his crop sway like the [trees of] Lebanon, and may [those] from [the] city blossom like the grass of the earth.

But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:

They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

They set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue swaggers through the earth.

I kept my heart pure for nothing and kept my hands clean from guilt.

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

Who to me in the heavens? and from thee I desired nothing in the earth.

My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the rock and strength of my heart and my portion forever.

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it.

But God [has been] my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth; summer and winter thou didst form them.

Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.

While the earth and all its inhabitants melt away, it is I who keep its pillars firm." Interlude

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

For a cup [of His wrath] is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed and fully spiced, and He pours out from it;
And all the wicked of the earth must drain it and drink down to its dregs.

Glorious art thou and excellent, From the mountains of prey.

From Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both rider and horse have been fast asleep.

Thou art feared, thou: and who shall stand before thee from the time of thine anger?

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I think about [the] days from long ago, [the] years of ancient times.

Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath his word come to an end from generation to generation?

I will remember the deeds of Yah. Surely I will remember your wonders from long ago.

Your way, O God, is holy [far from sin and guilt].
What god is great like our God?

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

And they shall not be as their fathers, a generation turning away and bitter, a generation it prepared not its heart, and its spirit was not firm with God.

He split the sea and brought them across;
the water stood firm like a wall.

He led them with a cloud during the day, and during the night with light from the fire.

He caused rocks to split in the wilderness and provided drink abundantly as [from the] depths.

And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers.

And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.

He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power.

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

And turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

And casteth out nations from before them, And causeth them to fall in the line of inheritance, And causeth the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents,

When God heard, He was angry, and turned away from Israel;

So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;

His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.

And the Lord waketh as a sleeper, As a mighty one crying aloud from wine.

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

And we, thy people and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks unto thee for ever; we will shew forth thy praise from generation to generation.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out [the] nations and planted it.

Why have You broken down its walls and hedges,
So that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Swine from the forests devour it and creatures of [the] field feed on it.

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

Burnt with fire -- cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

You called out in distress, and I rescued you;
I answered you from the thundercloud.
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.Selah

I [am] Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.

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.