Which taketh away the breath of princes, and is wonderful among the kings of the earth.

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

I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world;

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known 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:

And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands.

Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle:

And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

They remembered not his hand the day which he redeemed them from the enemy;

He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

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

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold
The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

The rulers do not know nor do they understand;
They walk on in the darkness [of complacent satisfaction];
All the foundations of the earth [the fundamental principles of the administration of justice] are shaken.

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

You have withdrawn all Your wrath,
You have turned away from Your burning anger.

Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way [in which to walk].

Watch over my life because I [am] faithful. You [are] my God; save your servant. [I am] the one who trusts you.

All nations which you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name.

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob (Israel).

free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

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

Which my hand shall be prepared with him: also shall mine arm strengthen him.

Forever will I watch my mercy to him, and my covenant was firm to him.

If they shall profane my laws and watch not my commands;

I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.

“Once [for all] I have sworn by My holiness, [My vow which cannot be violated];
I will not lie to David.

Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord,
With which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

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.

Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have suffered evil.

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

For he will command his angels concerning you, to watch over you in all your ways.

The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, with which he hath girded himself: the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

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

Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

O ye that love the LORD, see that ye hate the thing which is evil. The LORD preserveth the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly.

Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path,
And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].

His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears

This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.

Not for ever doth He strive, Nor to the age doth He watch.

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

Thou hast set a bound which they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.

He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live.

You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night,
In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

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

There go the ships; there that leviathan, which thou hast formed to play therein.

They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

Which He confirmed to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

But he had sent a man before them, even Joseph which was sold to be a bond servant,

Their land was overrun by frogs, which even got into the rooms of their kings.

For why? He remembered his holy promise which he had made to Abraham his servant.

In order that they might observe his statutes, And, over his laws, might keep watch, Praise ye Yah.

They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

They destroyed not the peoples of which Yahweh had spoken to them;

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

And they will pour out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and their daughters which they sacrificed to the images of Canaan: and the land will be polluted with bloods.

Then looked he on the distress which befell them, - when he heard their loud cry;

They being redeemed of Jehovah shall say, Which he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

They wandered through the wilderness on a desert road; they found no city in which to live.

He led them on a level road, that they might find a city in which to live.

Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

which turneth floods into dry land, and drieth up the watersprings!

He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

Who the wise and will watch these, and they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah.