and say, "God has abandoned him. Run after him and seize him, because there's no deliverer."

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

God, you taught me from my youth, so I am still declaring your awesome deeds.

Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.

My lips would fain sing praises unto thee; and so would my soul whom thou hast delivered.

{A Psalm for Solomon.} Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

They shall fear thee while the sun endureth, And so long as the moon, throughout all generations.

May he come down like rain on the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

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.

Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

This ends the prayers of Jesse's son David. A song of Asaph.

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

And this is the cause that they be so puffed up in pride, and overwhelmed with cruelty and unrighteousness.

Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.

Therefore God's people return there and drink it all in like water until they're satiated.

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

until I entered God’s sanctuary.
Then I understood their destiny.

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

But as for me, God’s presence is my good.
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
so I can tell about all You do.

{An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations];
You have made summer and winter.

Do not disregard what your enemies say, or the unceasing shouts of those who defy you.

{To the Chanter, Destroy Not, a Psalm and song of Asaph} Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks; yea, unto thee do we give thanks. Thy Name also is so nigh; and that do thy wondrous works declare.

I say to the boastful, 'Do not boast!' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up [your] horn!

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

For there is a cup in the Lord’s hand,
full of wine blended with spices, and He pours from it.
All the wicked of the earth will drink,
draining it to the dregs.

There He broke the flaming arrows,
The shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

In God's rising up to judgment, to save all the poor of the earth. Silence.

Look what ye promise unto the LORD your God: see that ye keep it, all ye that be round about him; bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

When I remember God, then I am disturbed;
When I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

And I say: 'My weakness is, The changes of the right hand of the Most High.'

I will remember the Lord’s works;
yes, I will remember Your ancient wonders.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

A Maskil of Asaph.My people, hear my instruction;
listen to what I say.

I will open my mouth in parable{s (LXX/NT)}. I will utter dark sayings of old,

we will not hide from their descendants. We will tell the next generation about the Lord's praiseworthy acts, about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

For He established a testimony (a specific precept) in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach to their children [the great facts of God’s transactions with Israel],

So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

so that they might put their confidence in God
and not forget God’s works,
but keep His commands.

They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.

They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

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

He caused the rocks to split in the wilderness, and gave them water as from an abundant sea.

He brought waters out of the stony rock, so that it gushed out like the rivers.

Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

So he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of heaven.

And He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them the grain of heaven.

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

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

The wrath of God rose against them
And killed some of the strongest of them,
And subdued the choice young men of Israel.

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

So they spake him fair with their mouth, And, with their tongue, did promise him falsely;

But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise.

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

So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel.

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

So he smote, Every first-born in Egypt, The beginning of their strength, in the tents of Ham;

But God led His own people forward like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like [a good shepherd with] a flock.

And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

So he brought them to his holy territory, this mountain his right hand acquired.

So he drave out, before them, whole nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.

They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].

And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.

When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely;

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

So the LORD awakened as one out of sleep, and like a giant refreshed with wine.

So he smote his adversaries in the rear, Reproach age-abiding, laid he upon them.

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

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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.

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

O Lord God of hosts,
How long will You be angry with the prayers of Your people?

Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.