My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,
and my relatives stand at a distance.

I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.

Let those who seek to take my life
be disgraced and confounded.
Let those who wish me harm
be driven back and humiliated.

But you, LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up so that I may pay them back!

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. BOOK II For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.

BOOK THE SECOND As, the hart, cometh panting up to the channels of water, So my soul, panteth for thee, O God.

Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live.

Through You we drive back our foes;
through Your name we trample our enemies.

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

You hate instruction
and turn your back on My words.

Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.

[Then] I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Turn back doth the evil thing to mine enemies, In Thy truth cut them off.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Upon me, O God, are thy vows, I will pay back praises unto thee.

O God, break their teeth in their mouth; break out the big teeth of the young lions, O Jehovah.

They turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And go round about the city.

And they turn back at evening, They make a noise like a dog, And they go round about the city.

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

And, thine, O My Lord, is lovingkindness, - For, thou, wilt pay back unto every man - according to his deed.

Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.

The Lord said: 'From Bashan I bring back, I bring back from the depths of the sea.

Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away -- I bring back.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and {bow down their back (LXX/NT)} continually.

Add [unforgiven] iniquity to their iniquity [in Your book],
And may they not come into Your righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

Let those who seek my life
be disgraced and confounded;
let those who wish me harm
be driven back and humiliated.

Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

Kings of Tarshish and of the isles send back a present. Kings of Sheba and Seba a reward bring near.

This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse. BOOK III A Psalm by Asaph.

BOOK THE THIRD Nothing but good, is God, Unto Israel, Unto the pure in heart.

For this, his people will turn back here: and full water shall be sucked out to them.

Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? Pluck it out of thy bosom and consume them .

Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,

My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

The clouds poured down water.
The storm clouds thundered;
Your arrows flashed back and forth.

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

If He slew them, then they sought Him, And turned back, and sought God earnestly,

And He -- the Merciful One, Pardoneth iniquity, and destroyeth not, And hath often turned back His anger, And waketh not up all His fury.

And he will remember that they are flesh; a spirit going and not turning back.

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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

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

And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.

O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

Why have You broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

God of Hosts, turn back, we beseech Thee, Look from heaven, and see, and inspect this vine,

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

O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!

I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets.

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

They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Thou hast gathered up all Thy wrath, Thou hast turned back from the fierceness of Thine anger.

Bring us back, O God of our salvation, and cause thine indignation toward us to cease.

Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

I hear what God Jehovah speaketh, For He speaketh peace unto His people, And unto His saints, and they turn not back to folly.

The Lord writes in the census book of the nations, "This one was born there." (Selah)

Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.)

I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.

Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle.

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.

BOOK THE FOURTH Lord! a dwelling-place, hast, thou, become to us, From generation to generation:

Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

Only observe it with your eyes, and you will see how the wicked are paid back.

Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.

For to righteousness judgment turneth back, And after it all the upright of heart,

And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!

because of your anger and raging fury. Indeed, you pick me up and throw me away.

He keeps back your life from destruction, crowning you with mercy and grace.

A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.

Thou hidest Thy face -- they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit -- they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.

He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,

And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.

Be our saviour, O Lord our God, and let us come back together from among the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name, and have glory in your praise.

May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised
from everlasting to everlasting.
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Hallelujah!

BOOK THE FIFTHO give thanks to Yahweh - For he is good, For, age-abiding, is his lovingkindness.

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

For my love they give me back hate; but I have given myself to prayer.

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.