^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.

^89:1I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah for ever: With my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. ^89:2For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens. ^89:3I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant: ^89:4Thy seed will I establish for ever, And build up thy throne to all generations. Selah ^89:5And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah; Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. ^89:6For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah, ^89:7A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him? ^89:8O Jehovah God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is round about thee. ^89:9Thou rulest the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. ^89:10Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength. ^89:11The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: The world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them. ^89:12The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name. ^89:13Thou hast a mighty arm; Strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. ^89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne: Lovingkindness and truth go before thy face. ^89:15Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance. ^89:16In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted. ^89:17For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted. ^89:18For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel. ^89:19Then thou spakest in vision to thy saints, And saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people. ^89:20I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him: ^89:21With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him. ^89:22The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. ^89:23And I will beat down his adversaries before him, And smite them that hate him. ^89:24But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name shall his horn be exalted. ^89:25I will set his hand also on the sea, And his right hand on the rivers. ^89:26He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation. ^89:27I also will make him [my] first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth. ^89:28My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand fast with him. ^89:29His seed also will I make to endure for ever, And his throne as the days of heaven. ^89:30If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances; ^89:31If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments; ^89:32Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes. ^89:33But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. ^89:34My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. ^89:35Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie unto David: ^89:36His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before me. ^89:37It shall be established for ever as the moon, And [as] the faithful witness in the sky. Selah ^89:38But thou hast cast off and rejected, Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. ^89:39Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant: Thou hast profaned his crown [by casting it] to the ground. ^89:40Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin. ^89:41All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors. ^89:42Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries; Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. ^89:43Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword, And hast not made him to stand in the battle. ^89:44Thou hast made his brightness to cease, And cast his throne down to the ground. ^89:45The days of his youth hast thou shortened: Thou hast covered him with shame. Selah ^89:46How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? [How long] shall thy wrath burn like fire? ^89:47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men! ^89:48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah ^89:49Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, Which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness? ^89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples, ^89:51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. ^89:52Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV Psalm 90 A Prayer of Moses the man of God.

^90:1Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations. ^90:2Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. ^90:3Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men. ^90:4For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. ^90:5Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. ^90:6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. ^90:7For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. ^90:8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. ^90:9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh. ^90:10The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away. ^90:11Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee? ^90:12So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom. ^90:13Return, O Jehovah; how long? And let it repent thee concerning thy servants. ^90:14Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days. ^90:15Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil. ^90:16Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory upon their children. ^90:17And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And establish thou the work of our hands upon us; Yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. Psalm 91

^91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ^91:2I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust. ^91:3For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the deadly pestilence. ^91:4He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shalt thou take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler. ^91:5Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; ^91:6For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. ^91:7A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; [But] it shall not come nigh thee. ^91:8Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked. ^91:9For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge! Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation; ^91:10There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. ^91:11For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. ^91:12They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. ^91:13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under foot. ^91:14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. ^91:15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him, and honor him. ^91:16With long life will I satisfy him, And show him my salvation. Psalm 92 A Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day.

^92:1It is a good thing to give thanks unto Jehovah, And to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High; ^92:2To show forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, And thy faithfulness every night, ^92:3With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; With a solemn sound upon the harp. ^92:4For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands. ^92:5How great are thy works, O Jehovah! Thy thoughts are very deep. ^92:6A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this: ^92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever. ^92:8But thou, O Jehovah, art on high for evermore. ^92:9For, lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, For, lo, thine enemies shall perish; All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. ^92:10But my horn hast thou exalted like [the horn of] the wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh oil. ^92:11Mine eye also hath seen [my desire] on mine enemies, Mine ears have heard [my desire] of the evil-doers that rise up against me. ^92:12The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. ^92:13They are planted in the house of Jehovah; They shall flourish in the courts of our God. ^92:14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and green: ^92:15To show that Jehovah is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. Psalm 93

^93:1Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength; he hath girded himself therewith: The world also is established, that it cannot be moved. ^93:2Thy throne is established of old: Thou art from everlasting. ^93:3The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. ^93:4Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty. ^93:5Thy testimonies are very sure: Holiness becometh thy house, O Jehovah, for evermore. Psalm 94

^94:1O Jehovah, thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth. ^94:2Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: Render to the proud [their] desert. ^94:3Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph? ^94:4They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. ^94:5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage. ^94:6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless. ^94:7And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider. ^94:8Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise? ^94:9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? ^94:10He that chastiseth the nations, shall not he correct, [Even] he that teacheth man knowledge? ^94:11Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, That they are vanity. ^94:12Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law; ^94:13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, Until the pit be digged for the wicked. ^94:14For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance. ^94:15For judgment shall return unto righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow it. ^94:16Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? ^94:17Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence. ^94:18When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up. ^94:19In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul. ^94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, Which frameth mischief by statute? ^94:21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood. ^94:22But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge. ^94:23And he hath brought upon them their own iniquity, And will cut them off in their own wickedness; Jehovah our God will cut them off. Psalm 95

^95:1Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah; Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. ^95:2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; Let us make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. ^95:3For Jehovah is a great God, And a great King above all gods. ^95:4In his hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the mountains are his also. ^95:5The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the dry land. ^95:6Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker: ^95:7For he is our God, And we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To-day, oh that ye would hear his voice! ^95:8Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness; ^95:9When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work. ^95:10Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways: ^95:11Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest. Psalm 96

^96:1Oh sing unto Jehovah a new song: Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth. ^96:2Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name; Show forth his salvation from day to day. ^96:3Declare his glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples. ^96:4For great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods. ^96:5For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens. ^96:6Honor and majesty are before him: Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. ^96:7Ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples, Ascribe unto Jehovah glory and strength. ^96:8Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name: Bring an offering, and come into his courts. ^96:9Oh worship Jehovah in holy array: Tremble before him, all the earth. ^96:10Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved: He will judge the peoples with equity. ^96:11Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; ^96:12Let the field exult, and all that is therein; Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy ^96:13Before Jehovah; for he cometh, For he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with his truth. Psalm 97