When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works.

Your adversaries roared in the meeting place
where You met with us.
They set up their emblems as signs.

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

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

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

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

The earth and all dwelling in it being melted: I made even its pillars. Silence.

Thou art of more honour and might than the hills of the robbers.

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Then I said, "I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive.

Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples.

With your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.)

We will not hide them from their children,
But [we will] tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
And [tell of] His great might and power and the wonderful works that He has done.

He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

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 brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Yes, he struck [the] rock and water flowed and streams gushed out, [but] can he also give food or provide meat for his people?"

Therefore Jehovah heard, and was made furious; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,

Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

He made the east wind blow in the skies
and drove the south wind by His might.

Then he rained meat on them like dust, even winged birds like [the] sand of [the] seas.

He made them fall in His camp,
all around His tent.

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.

When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

He turned their rivers into blood and made their streams undrinkable.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.

Then he sent his might into captivity and his glory into the control of the adversary.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

He drove his enemies back; he made them a permanent target for insults.

But made choice of the tribe of Judah, The mountain of Zion, which he loved;

And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

And made choice of David his servant, And took him from among the folds of the sheep:

He took him away from following the mother sheep, and made him the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and of Israel, his chosen nation.

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

For one hath devoured Jacob, And his habitation they have made desolate.

Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

Thou hast made us a strife unto our neighbours, and our enemies mock among themselves.

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

Even the stock which Your right hand has planted,
And [look down on] the son that You have reared and strengthened for Yourself.

It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.

For this was made a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

He made it a statute in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, [where] I heard a language I did not know.

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

You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.

Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord.

Will you stay mad at us forever? Will you remain angry throughout future generations?

Will you not again revive us, that your people might rejoice in you?

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Grant Your strength [Your might and the power to resist temptation] to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.

O Yahweh, God of my salvation, By day, have I made outcry, In the night, also before thee.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help;
And in the morning my prayer will come to You.

Upon me thy burnings passed over; thy terrors made me silent

They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

Thine is the arm of might: strong is thy hand, high is thy right hand.

Righteousness and justice make up the foundation of your throne; gracious love and truth meet before you.

I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.

"Indeed, I myself made him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

Age-abidingly, will I keep for him my lovingkindness, And, my covenant, hath been made steadfast for him;

I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David.

Like the moon, shall it be established unto times age-abiding, And, a witness, in the skies, hath been made sure. Selah.

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.

Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?