Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. A contemplation by Asaph.

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them!

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever.

Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.

Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."

For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.

Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth. For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.

My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High."

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. A Psalm by Asaph.

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Lilies of the Covenant." A Psalm by Asaph.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.

"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers."

God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

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

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.