For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

The Lord said,
“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:

'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

You have a mighty arm;
Your hand is powerful;
Your right hand is lifted high.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

I have found David My servant;
I have anointed him with My sacred oil.

I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.

Once and for all
I have sworn an oath by My holiness;
I will not lie to David.

But You have spurned and rejected him;
You have become enraged with Your anointed.

You have repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have completely dishonored his crown.

You have broken down all his walls;
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.

Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

You have lifted high the right hand of his foes;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.

You have also turned back his sharp sword
and have not let him stand in battle.

You have made his splendor cease
and have overturned his throne.

You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame.Selah

Remember how short my life is.
Have You created everyone for nothing?

Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

how Your enemies have ridiculed, Lord,
how they have ridiculed every step of Your anointed.

BOOK IV
(Psalms 90–106)A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, You have been our refuge
in every generation.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

You have set our unjust ways before You,
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

Lord—how long?
Turn and have compassion on Your servants.

Make us rejoice for as many days as You have humbled us,
for as many years as we have seen adversity.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

Because you have made the Lord—my refuge,
the Most High—your dwelling place,

For You have made me rejoice, Lord,
by what You have done;
I will shout for joy
because of the works of Your hands.

How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.

When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

You have lifted up my horn
like that of a wild ox;
I have been anointed with oil.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.

Your throne has been secure from ancient times; you have always been king.

The floods have lifted up, Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their pounding waves.

Thy testimonies have been very stedfast, To Thy house comely is holiness, O Jehovah, for length of days!

How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

LORD, they have crushed your people, afflicting your heritage.

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

Yet have they said - Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.

He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear? Or, that fashioneth the eye, shall he not have power to see?

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

Lightened have His lightnings the world, The earth hath seen, and is pained.

The mountains, like wax, have melted, At the presence of Yahweh, At the presence, of the Lord of all the earth.

The heavens declared His righteousness, And all the peoples have seen His honour.

Zion, hath heard and rejoiced, And the daughters of Judah, have exulted, Because of thy righteous decisions, O Yahweh:

A psalm.Sing a new song to the Lord,
for He has performed wonders;
His right hand and holy arm
have won Him victory.

He has remembered His love
and faithfulness to the house of Israel;
all the ends of the earth
have seen our God’s victory.

The mighty King loves justice.
You have established fairness;
You have administered justice
and righteousness in Jacob.

In a pillar of cloud He speaketh unto them, They have kept His testimonies, And the statute He hath given to them.

O let me have understanding in the ways of Godliness, until the time that thou come unto me! I will walk in my house with a perfect heart.

I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.

I have watched, and I am As a bird alone on the roof.

All the day mine enemies reproached me, Those mad at me have sworn against me.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

because of Your indignation and wrath;
for You have picked me up and thrown me aside.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to show favor to her—
the appointed time has come.

For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.

when the peoples and the kingdoms have gathered together to serve Jehovah.

Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.

But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

Bless Jehovah, O my soul. O Jehovah my God, You are very great; You have put on honor and majesty,

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

that all the beasts of the field may have drink, and that the wild asses may quench their thirst.

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people's lives.

Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

How countless are Your works, Lord!
In wisdom You have made them all;
the earth is full of Your creatures.

There go the ships: there is that leviathan, which you have made to play therein.

Let the glory of the Lord be for ever; let the Lord have joy in his works:

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.