Israel, hope in Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore. A Song of Ascents.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

May Yahweh bless you from Zion; even he who made heaven and earth.

who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, Who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise Yah!

And brought out Israel from among them; for his loving kindness endures forever;

And has delivered us from our adversaries; for his loving kindness endures forever:

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

Deliver me, Yahweh, from the evil man. Preserve me from the violent man;

Yahweh, keep me from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need. deliver me from my persecutors, For they are stronger than me.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights!

Praise Yahweh from the earth, you great sea creatures, and all depths!

My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Don't be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

Don't withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked devices.

The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, turning people from the snares of death.

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

A man's steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Don't withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both -- who knows?

Take away the dross from the silver, and material comes out for the refiner;

Take away the wicked from the king's presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

Many seek the ruler's favor, but a man's justice comes from Yahweh.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me;

There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.

What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

It is good that you should take hold of this. Yes, also from that don't withdraw your hand; for he who fears God will come forth from them all.

All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.