To the Overseer, with stringed instruments. -- A Psalm, a Song. God doth favour us and bless us, Doth cause His face to shine with us. Selah.

Praise Thee do peoples, O God, Praise Thee do peoples, all of them.

Rejoice and sing do nations, For Thou judgest peoples uprightly, And peoples on earth comfortest. Selah.

Confess Thee do peoples, O God, Confess Thee do peoples -- all of them.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God -- scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.

Sing ye to God -- praise His name, Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, In Jah is His name, and exult before Him.

God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

Though ye do lie between two boundaries, Wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.

Why do ye envy, O high hills, The hill God hath desired for His seat? Jehovah also doth tabernacle for ever.

Blessed is the Lord, day by day He layeth on us. God Himself is our salvation. Selah.

God Himself is to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

Because of Thy temple at Jerusalem, To Thee do kings bring a present.

Come do fat ones out of Egypt, Cush causeth her hands to run to God.

Kingdoms of the earth, sing ye to God, Praise ye the Lord. Selah.

To him who is riding on the heavens of the heavens of old, Lo, He giveth with His voice a strong voice.

Ascribe ye strength to God, Over Israel is His excellency, and His strength in the clouds.

Fearful, O God, out of Thy sanctuaries, The God of Israel Himself, Giving strength and might to the people. Blessed is God!

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies,' by David. Save me, O God, for come have waters unto the soul.

A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

And I weep in the fasting of my soul, And it is for a reproach to me.

And I make my clothing sackcloth, And I am to them for a simile.

And I -- my prayer is to Thee, O Jehovah, A time of good pleasure, O God, In the abundance of Thy kindness, Answer me in the truth of Thy salvation.

Answer me, O Jehovah, for good is Thy kindness, According to the abundance Of Thy mercies turn Thou unto me,

And they give for my food gall, And for my thirst cause me to drink vinegar.

And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock -- horned -- hoofed.

The heavens and earth do praise Him, Seas, and every moving thing in them.

To the Overseer, by David. -- 'To cause to remember.' O God, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help, haste.

And I am poor and needy, O God, haste to me, My help and my deliverer art Thou, O Jehovah, tarry Thou not!

In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age.

In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

Be to me for a rock -- a habitation, To go in continually, Thou hast given command to save me, For my rock and my bulwark art Thou.

O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou art my strong refuge.

Filled is my mouth with Thy praise, All the day with Thy beauty.

Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise.

My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers.

And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

I also thank Thee with a vessel of psaltery, Thy truth, O my God, I sing to Thee with a harp, O Holy One of Israel,

My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed,

My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!

By Solomon. O God, Thy judgments to the king give, And Thy righteousness to the king's son.

The mountains bear peace to the people, And the heights by righteousness.

He judgeth the poor of the people, Giveth deliverance to the sons of the needy, And bruiseth the oppressor.

Before him bow do the inhabitants of the dry places, And his enemies lick the dust.

And all kings do bow themselves to him, All nations do serve him,

And he liveth, and giveth to him of the gold of Sheba, And prayeth for him continually, All the day he doth bless him.

His name is to the age, Before the sun is his name continued, And they bless themselves in him, All nations do pronounce him happy.

And blessed is the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled with His honour. Amen, and amen!

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.

And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.

And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.

And I -- nearness of God to me is good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name,

Thine is the day, also Thine is the night, Thou hast prepared a light giver -- the sun.

Give not up to a company, The soul of Thy turtle-dove, The company of Thy poor ones forget not for ever.

Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

Arise, O God, plead Thy plea, Remember Thy reproach from a fool all the day.

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not.' -- A Psalm of Asaph. -- A Song. We have given thanks to Thee, O God, We have given thanks, and near is Thy name, They have recounted Thy wonders.

When I receive an appointment, I -- I do judge uprightly.

I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.'

For a cup is in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine hath foamed, It is full of mixture, and He poureth out of it, Only its dregs wring out, and drink, Do all the wicked of the earth,

And I -- I declare it to the age, I sing praise to the God of Jacob.

To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- A Psalm of Asaph. -- A Song. In Judah is God known, in Israel His name is great.

In the rising of God to judgment, To save all the humble of earth. Selah.

Vow and complete to Jehovah your God, All ye surrounding him. They bring presents to the Fearful One.

He doth gather the spirit of leaders, Fearful to the kings of earth!

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of Asaph. My voice is to God, and I cry, my voice is to God, And He hath given ear unto me.

In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more?

Hath His kindness ceased for ever? The saying failed to all generations?

An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.

We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.

And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.

So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

He cleft a sea, and causeth them to pass over, Yea, He causeth waters to stand as a heap.

And leadeth them with a cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire.

And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers.

And they add still to sin against Him, To provoke the Most High in the dry place.

And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. 'Also -- bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

And He raineth on them manna to eat, Yea, corn of heaven He hath given to them.

Food of the mighty hath each eaten, Venison He sent to them to satiety.

He causeth an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leadeth by His strength a south wind,

And causeth it to fall in the midst of His camp, Round about His tabernacles.

And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them.

And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.

And -- they deceive Him with their mouth, And with their tongue do lie to Him,