He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

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

And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth,

And they remember that God is their rock, And God Most High their redeemer.

Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

He destroyed their vines with [great] hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.

Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.

His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

And causeth His people to journey as a flock, And guideth them as a drove in a wilderness,

He led them to safety so they would not fear. As for their enemies, the sea covered them.

He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].

They fell away and were as disloyal as their ancestors. They became unreliable, like a defective bow;

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

He drove His enemies backward;
He subjected them to lasting shame and dishonor.

But He chose the tribe of Judah [as Israel’s leader],
Mount Zion, which He loved [to replace Shiloh as His capital].

And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.

As he was following the ewes great with young, he took him, that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food to the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

Listen to the painful cries of the prisoners! Use your great strength to set free those condemned to die!

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were as the great cedars.

It thrust forth its branches as far as the sea, - And, unto the River, its shoots.

It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

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

Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Blow the ram's horn when there is a New Moon, when there is a full moon, on our festival day,

For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

He set it up as an ordinance for Joseph
when He went throughout the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar language:

When thou calledest upon me in trouble, I delivered thee, and heard thee, what time as the storm fell upon thee. I proved thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.

Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!

There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.

As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,

Those hating Jehovah feign obedience to Him, But their time is -- to the age.

God stands in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods (divine beings).

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

I said, “You are gods;
Indeed, all of you are sons of the Most High.

But as man ye die, and as one of the heads ye fall,

Arise, O God, judge the earth!
For it is You who possesses all the nations.

A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!

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.

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

For the choir director: on the Gittith. A psalm of the sons of Korah.How lovely is Your dwelling place,
Lord of Hosts.

My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Passing through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The early rain covers [it with] blessings as well.

They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.

See our shield, O God,
And look at the face of Your anointed [the king as Your representative].

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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 of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

Keep my soul, for I am pious, Save Thy servant -- who is trusting to Thee, O Thou, my God.

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

{A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah.} His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Jehovah is loving the gates of Zion Above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This one was born there.

And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.

The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.)

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

Is Thy kindness recounted in the grave? Thy faithfulness in destruction?

May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.