Let them fear You [with awe-inspired reverence and worship You with obedience] while the sun endures,
And as long as the moon [reflects light], throughout all generations.

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

In his days may the righteous flourish,
And peace abound until the moon is no more.

May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River [Euphrates] to the ends of the earth.

For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

They say, “How does God know?
Is there knowledge [of us] with the Most High?”

Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,
O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

We do not see our symbols;
There is no longer any prophet [to guide us],
Nor does any among us know for how long.

You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

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.

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

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.

Your way [of escape for Your people] was through the sea,
And Your paths through the great waters,
And Your footprints were not traceable.

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],

He divided the [Red] Sea and allowed them to pass through it,
And He made the waters stand up like [water behind] a dam.

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out
And the streams overflowed;
Can He give bread also?
Or will He provide meat for His people?”

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

So they ate and were well filled,
He gave them what they craved.

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

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

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

He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies.

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].

So that He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
The tent in which He had dwelled among men,

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

So David shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart;
And guided them with his skillful hands.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;
Rescue us, forgive us our sins for Your name’s sake.

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],
Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

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

Israel sent out its branches to the [Mediterranean] Sea,
And its branches to the [Euphrates] River.

Why have You broken down its walls and hedges,
So that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.

Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves
The pastures of God.”

So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.

I will hear [with expectant hope] what God the Lord will say,
For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones—
But let them not turn again to folly.

Show me a sign of [Your] goodwill,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, helped and comforted me.

The singers as well as the players of flutes will say,
“All my springs and sources of joy are in you [Jerusalem, city of God].”

You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.

“I will also set his hand on the [Mediterranean] sea,
And his right hand on the rivers [the tributaries of the Euphrates].

What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.

So teach us to number our days,
That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
My God, in whom I trust [with great confidence, and on whom I rely]!”

More than the sounds of many waters,
More than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.

Yet they say, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob (Israel) notice it.”

He who made the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?

The sea is His, for He made it [by His command];
And His hands formed the dry land.

“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, even though they had seen My work [of miracles].

For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared above all gods.

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns;
Indeed, the world is firmly and securely established, it shall not be moved;
He will judge and rule the people with fairness.”

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
Let the sea roar, and all the things it contains;

The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples see His glory and brilliance.

Let the sea thunder and roar, and all the things it contains,
The world and those who dwell in it.

Enter His gates with a song of thanksgiving
And His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, bless and praise His name.

My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.

So the nations will fear the name of the Lord,
And all the kings of the earth [will recognize] Your glory.

So that people may declare the name of the Lord in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,

Who satisfies your years with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the [soaring] eagle.

For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear and worship Him [with awe-filled respect and deepest reverence].

As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Just as a father loves his children,
So the Lord loves those who fear and worship Him [with awe-filled respect and deepest reverence].

As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who [reverently] fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children,

And wine which makes the heart of man glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And bread to sustain and strengthen man’s heart.

There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Creatures both small and great.

There the ships [of the sea] sail,
And Leviathan [the sea monster], which You have formed to play there.

He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;
And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

He turned Egypt’s waters into blood
And caused their fish to die.

That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your inheritance.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand nor appreciate Your miracles;
They did not remember the abundance of Your mercies nor imprint Your lovingkindnesses on their hearts,
But they were rebellious at the sea, at the Red Sea.

Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
That He might make His [supreme] power known.

He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;
And He led them through the depths as through a pasture.

Wonders in the land of Ham,
Awesome things at the Red Sea.

Therefore He said He would destroy them,
[And He would have done so] had not Moses, His chosen one, stepped into the gap before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Then Phinehas [the priest] stood up and interceded,
And so the plague was halted.

They provoked Him to anger at the waters of Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
Moses spoke recklessly with his lips.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

And gathered them from the lands,
From the east and from the west,
From the north and from the south.

Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;

They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.

For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,
Which lifted up the waves of the sea.

He hushed the storm to a gentle whisper,
So that the waves of the sea were still.

And sow fields and plant vineyards,
And produce an abundant harvest.

Also He blesses them so that they multiply greatly,
And He does not let [the number of] their cattle decrease.

The upright see it and rejoice;
But all unrighteousness shuts its mouth.

God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will rejoice, I will portion out Shechem [as I divide Canaan among My people],
And measure out the Valley of Succoth.

But You, O God, the Lord, show kindness to me, for Your name’s sake;
Because Your lovingkindness (faithfulness, compassion) is good, O rescue me;

I also have become a reproach and an object of taunting to others;
When they see me, they shake their heads [in derision].

His heart is upheld, he will not fear
While he looks [with satisfaction] on his adversaries.

The wicked will see it and be angered,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away [in despair and death];
The desire of the wicked will perish and come to nothing.

Judah became His sanctuary,
And Israel His dominion.

The [Red] Sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back.