They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance against You—

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Who have said, 'Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Look at our shield, O God, and have regard for the face of your anointed one.

For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.

For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. The Lord bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry out to you all day long!

All the nations You have made
will come and bow down before You, Lord,
and will honor Your name.

because your loyal love [is] great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol below.

God, arrogant people have attacked me;
a gang of ruthless men seeks my life.
They have no regard for You.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

Show me a sign of Your goodness;
my enemies will see and be put to shame
because You, Lord, have helped and comforted me.

Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.

Your wrath weighs heavily on me;
You have overwhelmed me with all Your waves.Selah

You have distanced my friends from me;
You have made me repulsive to them.
I am shut in and cannot go out.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

From my youth,
I have been afflicted and near death.
I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

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

You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;
darkness is my only friend.

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

The Lord said,
“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:

'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

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.

You have a mighty arm;
Your hand is powerful;
Your right hand is lifted high.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

I have found David My servant;
I have anointed him with My sacred oil.

I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.

Once and for all
I have sworn an oath by My holiness;
I will not lie to David.

But You have spurned and rejected him;
You have become enraged with Your anointed.

You have repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have completely dishonored his crown.

You have broken down all his walls;
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.

Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

You have lifted high the right hand of his foes;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.

You have also turned back his sharp sword
and have not let him stand in battle.

You have made his splendor cease
and have overturned his throne.

You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame.Selah

Remember how short my life is.
Have You created everyone for nothing?

Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

how Your enemies have ridiculed, Lord,
how they have ridiculed every step of Your anointed.

BOOK IV
(Psalms 90–106)A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, You have been our refuge
in every generation.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

You have set our unjust ways before You,
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

Lord—how long?
Turn and have compassion on Your servants.

Make us rejoice for as many days as You have humbled us,
for as many years as we have seen adversity.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

Because you have made the Lord—my refuge,
the Most High—your dwelling place,

For You have made me rejoice, Lord,
by what You have done;
I will shout for joy
because of the works of Your hands.

How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.

When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

You have lifted up my horn
like that of a wild ox;
I have been anointed with oil.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.

Your throne has been secure from ancient times; you have always been king.

The floods have lifted up, Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their pounding waves.

Thy testimonies have been very stedfast, To Thy house comely is holiness, O Jehovah, for length of days!

How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

LORD, they have crushed your people, afflicting your heritage.

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

Yet have they said - Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.

He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear? Or, that fashioneth the eye, shall he not have power to see?

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.

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

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

Lightened have His lightnings the world, The earth hath seen, and is pained.

The mountains, like wax, have melted, At the presence of Yahweh, At the presence, of the Lord of all the earth.

The heavens declared His righteousness, And all the peoples have seen His honour.