I will tell the decree; Yahweh said to me: "You are my son; today I have begotten you.

You enlarged my step under me, and my ankles did not slip.

I chased my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were finished [off].

They cried out but there was no rescuer, [even] to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.

You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me;

I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.

For not with their sword did they possess [the] land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather [it was] your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.

You have sold your people {cheaply}, and did not profit by their price.

More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.

In front of their ancestors he did a wonder, in the land of Egypt, [in] the region of Zoan.

because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation.

In spite of all this they sinned further and did not believe his wonders.

But he [was] compassionate; he pardoned [their] guilt and did not destroy [them]. And many [times] he turned back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath,

And they did not remember his {power} {when} he redeemed them from the enemy,

He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague.

But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.

His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep.

And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not chose the tribe of Ephraim,

He made it a statute in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language I did not know.

But my people did not listen to my voice, and Israel did not yield to me.

Do to them as [you did with] Midian, as [with] Sisera, as [with] Jabin at the wadi of Kishon.

set free among the dead, like [the] slain lying in [the] grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand.

Do you work wonders for the dead? Or do [the] departed spirits rise up [to] praise you? Selah

And [so the] heavens will praise your wonderful deed, O Yahweh, even your faithfulness, in [the] assembly of [the] holy ones.

[The] righteous will flourish like the date palm. They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

For he [is] our God, and we [are] the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. {Today} if you will hear his voice:

He sent darkness and made [it] dark, and they did not rebel against his words.

Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works. They did not remember your many acts of loyal love, and [so] they rebelled by [the] sea at {the Red Sea}.

They quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.

Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word,

but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh.

They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to [the] dead.

They did not exterminate the peoples, as Yahweh had commanded them,

because he did not remember to show loyal love, but he pursued anyone, poor or needy or brokenhearted, to slay [them].

Because he loved cursing, let it come [upon] him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him.

The dead do not praise Yah, nor any descending into silence.

Yah has disciplined me severely, but he did not consign me to death.

By your ordinances they stand today, for all [are] your servants.

For [the] enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places like [those] long dead.