Mount Bashan is God’s towering mountain;
Mount Bashan is a mountain of many peaks.

Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,
at the mountain God desired for His dwelling?
The Lord will live there forever!

God’s chariots are tens of thousands,
thousands and thousands;
the Lord is among them in the sanctuary
as He was at Sinai.

You ascended to the heights, taking away captives;
You received gifts from people,
even from the rebellious,
so that the Lord God might live there.

May the Lord be praised!
Day after day He bears our burdens;
God is our salvation.Selah

Our God is a God of salvation,
and escape from death belongs to the Lord God.

Surely God crushes the heads of His enemies,
the hairy head of one who goes on in his guilty acts.

People have seen Your procession, God,
the procession of my God,
my King, in the sanctuary.

Praise God in the assemblies;
praise the Lord from the fountain of Israel.

Your God has decreed your strength.
Show Your strength, God,
You who have acted on our behalf.

Ambassadors will come from Egypt;
Cush will stretch out its hands to God.

Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth;
sing praise to the Lord,Selah

Ascribe power to God.
His majesty is over Israel,
His power among the clouds.

God, You are awe-inspiring in Your sanctuaries.
The God of Israel gives power and strength to His people.
May God be praised!

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Davidic.Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.

I am weary from my crying;
my throat is parched.
My eyes fail, looking for my God.

God, You know my foolishness,
and my guilty acts are not hidden from You.

Do not let those who put their hope in You
be disgraced because of me,
Lord God of Hosts;
do not let those who seek You
be humiliated because of me,
God of Israel.

Those who sit at the city gate talk about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.

But as for me, Lord,
my prayer to You is for a time of favor.
In Your abundant, faithful love, God,
answer me with Your sure salvation.

Answer me, Lord,
for Your faithful love is good;
in keeping with Your great compassion,
turn to me.

But as for me—poor and in pain—
let Your salvation protect me, God.

I will praise God’s name with song
and exalt Him with thanksgiving.

The humble will see it and rejoice.
You who seek God, take heart!

for God will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah.
They will live there and possess it.

For the choir director. Davidic. To bring remembrance.God, deliver me.
Hurry to help me, Lord!

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
let those who love Your salvation
continually say, “God is great!”

I am afflicted and needy;
hurry to me, God.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Lord, do not delay.

Deliver me, my God, from the power of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and oppressive.

For You are my hope, Lord God,
my confidence from my youth.

saying, “God has abandoned him;
chase him and catch him,
for there is no one to rescue him.”

God, do not be far from me;
my God, hurry to help me.

I come because of the mighty acts of the Lord God;
I will proclaim Your righteousness, Yours alone.

God, You have taught me from my youth,
and I still proclaim Your wonderful works.

Even when I am old and gray,
God, do not abandon me.
Then I will proclaim Your power
to another generation,
Your strength to all who are to come.

Your righteousness reaches heaven, God,
You who have done great things;
God, who is like You?

Therefore, I will praise You with a harp
for Your faithfulness, my God;
I will sing to You with a lyre,
Holy One of Israel.

Solomonic.God, give Your justice to the king
and Your righteousness to the king’s son.

May he be like rain that falls on the cut grass,
like spring showers that water the earth.

May the Lord God, the God of Israel,
who alone does wonders, be praised.

BOOK III
(Psalms 73–89)A psalm of Asaph. God is indeed good to Israel,
to the pure in heart.

The wicked say, “How can God know?
Does the Most High know everything?”

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

My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart,
my portion forever.

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.

A Maskil of Asaph.Why have You rejected us forever, God?
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?

They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned down every place throughout the land
where God met with us.

God, how long will the enemy mock?
Will the foe insult Your name forever?

God my King is from ancient times,
performing saving acts on the earth.

Rise up, God, defend Your cause!
Remember the insults
that fools bring against You all day long.

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph. A song.We give thanks to You, God;
we give thanks to You, for Your name is near.
People tell about Your wonderful works.

for God is the Judge:
He brings down one and exalts another.

As for me, I will tell about Him forever;
I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.

“I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,
but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.God is known in Judah;
His name is great in Israel.

At Your rebuke, God of Jacob,
both chariot and horse lay still.

From heaven You pronounced judgment.
The earth feared and grew quiet

when God rose up to judge
and to save all the lowly of the earth.Selah

Make and keep your vows
to the Lord your God;
let all who are around Him bring tribute
to the awe-inspiring One.

For the choir director: according to Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.I cry aloud to God,
aloud to God, and He will hear me.

I think of God; I groan;
I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.Selah

Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger withheld His compassion?”Selah

God, Your way is holy.
What god is great like God?

You are the God who works wonders;
You revealed Your strength among the peoples.

The waters saw You, God.
The waters saw You; they trembled.
Even the depths shook.

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

Then they would not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not loyal
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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

They deliberately tested God,
demanding the food they craved.

They spoke against God, saying,
“Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?

because they did not believe God
or rely on His salvation.

God’s anger flared up against them,
and He killed some of their best men.
He struck down Israel’s choice young men.

When He killed some of them,
the rest began to seek Him;
they repented and searched for God.

They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their Redeemer.

They constantly tested God
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep His decrees.

God heard and became furious;
He completely rejected Israel.

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

God of our salvation, help us—
for the glory of Your name.
Deliver us and atone for our sins,
because of Your name.

Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.

Restore us, God;
look on us with favor,
and we will be saved.

Lord God of Hosts,
how long will You be angry
with Your people’s prayers?

Restore us, God of Hosts;
look on us with favor, and we will be saved.

Return, God of Hosts.
Look down from heaven and see;
take care of this vine,

It was cut down and burned up;
they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Restore us, Yahweh, the God of Hosts;
look on us with favor, and we will be saved.

For the choir director: on the Gittith. Of Asaph.Sing for joy to God our strength;
shout in triumph to the God of Jacob.

For this is a statute for Israel,
a judgment of the God of Jacob.

There must not be a strange god among you;
you must not bow down to a foreign god.

I am Yahweh your God,
who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

A psalm of Asaph.God has taken His place in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods:

Rise up, God, judge the earth,
for all the nations belong to You.

A song. A psalm of Asaph.God, do not keep silent.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be idle.

who said, “Let us seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.

I long and yearn
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for the living God.

Even a sparrow finds a home,
and a swallow, a nest for herself
where she places her young—
near Your altars, Lord of Hosts,
my King and my God.

They go from strength to strength;
each appears before God in Zion.

Lord God of Hosts, hear my prayer;
listen, God of Jacob.Selah

Consider our shield, God;
look on the face of Your anointed one.