69:1Save me, O God; For the waters are come in unto my soul. 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 69:3I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God. 69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore. 69:5O God, thou knowest my foolishness; And my sins are not hid from thee. 69:6Let not them that wait for thee be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts: Let not those that seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. 69:7Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face. 69:8I am become a stranger unto my brethren, And an alien unto my mother`s children. 69:9For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. 69:10When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach. 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them. 69:12They that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards. 69:13But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation. 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters. 69:15Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. 69:16Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me. 69:17And hide not thy face from thy servant; For I am in distress; answer me speedily. 69:18Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of mine enemies. 69:19Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee. 69:20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none. 69:21They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. 69:22Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, [let it become] a trap. 69:23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And make their loins continually to shake. 69:24Pour out thine indignation upon them, And let the fierceness of thine anger overtake them. 69:25Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents. 69:26For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded. 69:27Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness. 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous. 69:29But I am poor and sorrowful: Let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high. 69:30I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving. 69:31And it will please Jehovah better than an ox, [Or] a bullock that hath horns and hoofs. 69:32The meek have seen it, and are glad: Ye that seek after God, let your heart live. 69:33For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners. 69:34Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moveth therein. 69:35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession. 69:36The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; And they that love his name shall dwell therein. Psalm 70 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David; to bring to remembrance.
70:1[Make haste], O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help me, O Jehovah. 70:2Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt. 70:3Let them be turned back by reason of their shame That say, Aha, aha. 70:4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; And let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. 70:5But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying. Psalm 71
71:1In thee, O Jehovah, do I take refuge: Let me never be put to shame. 71:2Deliver me in thy righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down thine ear unto me, and save me. 71:3Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For thou art my rock and my fortress. 71:4Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 71:5For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: [Thou art] my trust from my youth. 71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother`s bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee. 71:7I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong refuge. 71:8My mouth shall be filled with thy praise, And with thy honor all the day. 71:9Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth. 71:10For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together, 71:11Saying, God hath forsaken him: Pursue and take him; for there is none to deliver. 71:12O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me. 71:13Let them be put to shame [and] consumed that are adversaries to my soul; Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt. 71:14But I will hope continually, And will praise thee yet more and more. 71:15My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, [And] of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers [thereof]. 71:16I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only. 71:17O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. 71:18Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come. 71:19Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee? 71:20Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth. 71:21Increase thou my greatness, And turn again and comfort me. 71:22I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [Even] thy truth, O my God: Unto thee will I sing praises with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. 71:23My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises unto thee; And my soul, which thou hast redeemed. 71:24My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long; For they are put to shame, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt. Psalm 72 [A Psalm] of Solomon.
72:1Give the king thy judgments, O God, And thy righteousness unto the king`s son. 72:2He will judge thy people with righteousness, And thy poor with justice. 72:3The mountains shall bring peace to the people, And the hills, in righteousness. 72:4He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor. 72:5They shall fear thee while the sun endureth, And so long as the moon, throughout all generations. 72:6He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth. 72:7In his days shall the righteous flourish, And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more. 72:8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River unto the ends of the earth. 72:9They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust. 72:10The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute: The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. 72:11Yea, all kings shall fall down before him; All nations shall serve him. 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he crieth, And the poor, that hath no helper. 72:13He will have pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he will save. 72:14He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight: 72:15And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: And men shall pray for him continually; They shall bless him all the day long. 72:16There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. 72:17His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun: And men shall be blessed in him; All nations shall call him happy. 72:18Blessed be Jehovah God, the God of Israel, Who only doeth wondrous things: 72:19And blessed be his glorious name for ever; And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen, and Amen. 72:20The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. BOOK III Psalm 73 A Psalm of Asaph.
73:1Surely God is good to Israel, [Even] to such as are pure in heart. 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped. 73:3For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 73:4For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm. 73:5They are not in trouble as [other] men; Neither are they plagued like [other] men. 73:6Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment. 73:7Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish. 73:8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily. 73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth. 73:10Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them. 73:11And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High? 73:12Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches. 73:13Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency; 73:14For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning. 73:15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children. 73:16When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me; 73:17Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end. 73:18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction. 73:19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors. 73:20As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image. 73:21For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart: 73:22So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast before thee. 73:23Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden my right hand. 73:24Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory. 73:25Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. 73:26My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. 73:27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, [departing] from thee. 73:28But 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. Psalm 74 Maschil of Asaph.
74:1O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 74:2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; [And] mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 74:3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary. 74:4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly; They have set up their ensigns for signs. 74:5They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees. 74:6And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers. 74:7They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name [by casting it] to the ground. 74:8They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. 74:9We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long. 74:10How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? 74:11Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? [Pluck it] out of thy bosom [and] consume [them]. 74:12Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth. 74:13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters. 74:14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces; Thou gavest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 74:15Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers. 74:16The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 74:17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter. 74:18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. 74:19Oh deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast: Forget not the life of thy poor for ever. 74:20Have respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence. 74:21Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name. 74:22Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day. 74:23Forget not the voice of thine adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against thee ascendeth continually. Psalm 75 For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a song.
75:1We give thanks unto thee, O God; We give thanks, for thy name is near: Men tell of thy wondrous works. 75:2When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly. 75:3The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. Selah 75:4I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 75:5Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck. 75:6For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, [cometh] lifting up. 75:7But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another. 75:8For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine foameth; It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them. 75:9But I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 75:10All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. Psalm 76 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a song.
76:1In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel. 76:2In Salem also is his tabernacle, And his dwelling-place in Zion. 76:3There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah 76:4Glorious art thou [and] excellent, From the mountains of prey. 76:5The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands. 76:6At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep. 76:7Thou, even thou, art to be feared; And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? 76:8Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven; The earth feared, and was still, 76:9When God arose to judgment, To save all the meek of the earth. Selah 76:10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee. 76:11Vow, and pay unto Jehovah your God: Let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. 76:12He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth. Psalm 77 For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of Asaph.
77:1I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me. 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted. 77:3I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah 77:4Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 77:5I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times. 77:6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search. 77:7Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more? 77:8Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? 77:9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah 77:10And I said, This is my infirmity; [But I will remember] the years of the right hand of the Most High. 77:11I will make mention of the deeds of Jehovah; For I will remember thy wonders of old. 77:12I will meditate also upon all thy work, And muse on thy doings. 77:13Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god like unto God? 77:14Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples. 77:15Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah 77:16The waters saw thee, O God; The waters saw thee, they were afraid: The depths also trembled. 77:17The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad. 77:18The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook. 77:19Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known. 77:20Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron. Psalm 78 Maschil of Asaph.
78:1Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, 78:3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 78:4We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done. 78:5For 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; 78:6That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children, 78:7That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments, 78:8And 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. 78:9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle. 78:10They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law; 78:11And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them. 78:12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 78:13He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap. 78:14In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire. 78:15He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 78:16He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers. 78:17Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert. 78:18And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire. 78:19Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 78:20Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people? 78:21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel; 78:22Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation. 78:23Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven; 78:24And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven. 78:25Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full. 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind. 78:27He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas: 78:28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations. 78:29So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire. 78:30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths, 78:31When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel. 78:32For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works. 78:33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror. 78:34When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly. 78:35And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer. 78:36But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue. 78:37For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant. 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath. 78:39And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 78:40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert! 78:41And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel. 78:42They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; 78:43How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan, 78:44And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink. 78:45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them. 78:46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust. 78:47He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost. 78:48He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 78:49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil. 78:50He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence, 78:51And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. 78:52But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 78:53And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 78:54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten. 78:55He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies; 78:57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 78:58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 78:59When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel; 78:60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men; 78:61And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary`s hand. 78:62He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance. 78:63Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song. 78:64Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation. 78:65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 78:66And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach. 78:67Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim, 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved. 78:69And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever. 78:70He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds: 78:71From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 78:72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. Psalm 79 A Psalm of Asaph.
79:1O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. 79:2The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 79:3Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them. 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us. 79:5How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou be angry for ever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? 79:6Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. 79:7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation. 79:8Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low. 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; And deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name`s sake. 79:10Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight. 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death; 79:12And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. 79:13So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture Will give thee thanks for ever: We will show forth thy praise to all generations. Psalm 80 For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph.
80:1Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth. 80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us. 80:3Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. 80:4O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? 80:5Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure. 80:6Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves. 80:7Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. 80:8Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it. 80:9Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land. 80:10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God. 80:11It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River. 80:12Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it? 80:13The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it. 80:14Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, 80:15And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. 80:16It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. 80:17Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself. 80:18So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name. 80:19Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. Psalm 81 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.
81:1Sing aloud unto God our strength: Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 81:2Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery. 81:3Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day. 81:4For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. 81:5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I knew not. 81:6I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket. 81:7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah 81:8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! 81:9There shall no strange god be in thee; Neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. 81:10I am Jehovah thy God, Who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 81:11But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me. 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. 81:13Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways! 81:14I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries. 81:15The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever. 81:16He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee. Psalm 82 A Psalm of Asaph.
82:1God standeth in the congregation of God; He judgeth among the gods. 82:2How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah 82:3Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. 82:4Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. 82:5They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken. 82:6I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High. 82:7Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes. 82:8Arise, O God, judge the earth; For thou shalt inherit all the nations. Psalm 83 A song. A Psalm of Asaph.
83:1O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 83:2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 83:3Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones. 83:4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 83:5For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant: 83:6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes; 83:7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre: 83:8Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah 83:9Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; 83:10Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth. 83:11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; 83:12Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God. 83:13O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind. 83:14As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire, 83:15So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them with thy storm. 83:16Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah. 83:17Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yea, let them be confounded and perish; 83:18That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth. Psalm 84 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
84:1How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts! 84:2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God. 84:3Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, My King, and my God. 84:4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee. Selah 84:5Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; In whose heart are the highways [to Zion]. 84:6Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings. 84:7They go from strength to strength; Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion. 84:8O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah 84:9Behold, O God our shield, And look upon the face of thine anointed. 84:10For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 84:11For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 84:12O Jehovah of hosts, Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. Psalm 85 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
85:1Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. 85:2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; Thou hast covered all their sin. Selah 85:3Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; Thou hast turned [thyself] from the fierceness of thine anger. 85:4Turn us, O God of our salvation, And cause thine indignation toward us to cease. 85:5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? 85:6Wilt thou not quicken us again, That thy people may rejoice in thee? 85:7Show us thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, And grant us thy salvation. 85:8I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: But let them not turn again to folly. 85:9Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, That glory may dwell in our land. 85:10Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 85:11Truth springeth out of the earth; And righteousness hath looked down from heaven. 85:12Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good; And our land shall yield its increase. 85:13Righteousness shall go before him, And shall make his footsteps a way [to walk in]. Psalm 86 A Prayer of David
86:1Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me; For I am poor and needy. 86:2Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee. 86:3Be merciful unto me, O Lord; For unto thee do I cry all the day long. 86:4Rejoice the soul of thy servant; For unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul. 86:5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee. 86:6Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer; And hearken unto the voice of my supplications. 86:7In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee; For thou wilt answer me. 86:8There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord; Neither [are there any works] like unto thy works. 86:9All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; And they shall glorify thy name. 86:10For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: Thou art God alone. 86:11Teach me thy way, O Jehovah; I will walk in thy truth: Unite my heart to fear thy name. 86:12I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart; And I will glorify thy name for evermore. 86:13For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. 86:14O God, the proud are risen up against me, And a company of violent men have sought after my soul, And have not set thee before them. 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth. 86:16Oh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; Give thy strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thy handmaid. 86:17Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me. Psalm 87 A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song.
87:1His foundation is in the holy mountains. 87:2Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob. 87:3Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah 87:4I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This one was born there. 87:5Yea, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; And the Most High himself will establish her. 87:6Jehovah will count, when he writeth up the peoples, This one was born there. Selah 87:7They that sing as well as they that dance [shall say], All my fountains are in thee. Psalm 88 A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
88:1O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee. 88:2Let my prayer enter into thy presence; Incline thine ear unto my cry. 88:3For my soul is full of troubles, And my life draweth nigh unto Sheol. 88:4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 88:5Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand. 88:6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps. 88:7Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, And thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah 88:8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 88:9Mine eye wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah; I have spread forth my hands unto thee. 88:10Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah 88:11Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction? 88:12Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 88:13But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee. 88:14Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me? 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. 88:16Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off. 88:17They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together. 88:18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness. Psalm 89 Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.