40:1<To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm.> When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry. 40:2He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain. 40:3And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith in the Lord. 40:4Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit. 40:5O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say. 40:6You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request. 40:7Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book, 40:8My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart. 40:9I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words. 40:10Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting. 40:11Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever. 40:12For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them. 40:13Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help. 40:14Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble. 40:15Let those who say to me, Aha, aha! be surprised because of their shame. 40:16Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May the Lord be great. 40:17Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.
41:1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble. 41:2The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters. 41:3The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength. 41:4I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you. 41:5My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end? 41:6If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place. 41:7All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall. 41:8They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again. 41:9Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me. 41:10But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, lifting me up, so that I may give them their punishment. 41:11By this I see that you have pleasure in me, because my hater does not overcome me. 41:12And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever. 41:13May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.
42:1<To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah.> Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God. 42:2My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God? 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God? 42:4Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast. 42:5Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God. 42:6My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar. 42:7Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me. 42:8But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. 42:9I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters? 42:10The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God? 42:11Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
43:1Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man. 43:2You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters? 43:3O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents. 43:4Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God. 43:5Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
44:1<To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil.> It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times, 44:2Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people. 44:3For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them. 44:4You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob. 44:5Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us. 44:6I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation. 44:7But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us. 44:8Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.) 44:9But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies. 44:10Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves. 44:11You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations. 44:12You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price. 44:13You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us. 44:14Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples. 44:15My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face; 44:16Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment. 44:17All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word. 44:18Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way; 44:19Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade. 44:20If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god, 44:21Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart. 44:22Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction. 44:23Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever. 44:24Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate? 44:25For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth. 44:26Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.
45:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.> My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 45:2You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever. 45:3Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power. 45:4And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear. 45:5Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you. 45:6Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour. 45:7You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings. 45:8Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad. 45:9Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir. 45:10O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house; 45:11So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour. 45:12And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval. 45:13In the great house the king's daughter is all shining: her clothing is worked with gold. 45:14She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you. 45:15With joy and rapture will they come; they will go into the king's house. 45:16Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth. 45:17I will keep the memory of your name living through all generations; and because of this the people will give you praise for ever.
46:1<To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble. 46:2For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea; 46:3Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.) 46:4There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High. 46:5God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning. 46:6The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax. 46:7The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.) 46:8Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth. 46:9He puts an end to wars over all the earth; by him the bow is broken, and the spear cut in two, and the carriage burned in the fire. 46:10Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth. 46:11The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
47:1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy. 47:2For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth. 47:3He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet. 47:4He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.) 47:5God has gone up with a glad cry, the Lord with the sound of the horn. 47:6Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise. 47:7For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge. 47:8God is the ruler over the nations; God is on the high seat of his holy rule. 47:9The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.
48:1<A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain. 48:2Beautiful in its high position, the joy of all the earth, is the mountain of Zion, the mountain of God, the town of the great King. 48:3In its buildings God is seen to be a high tower. 48:4For see! the kings came together by agreement, they were joined together. 48:5They saw it, and so were full of wonder; they were troubled, and went quickly away in fear. 48:6Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth. 48:7By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind. 48:8As it came to our ears so have we seen it, in the town of the Lord of armies, in the town of our God; God will keep it fixed for ever. (Selah.) 48:9Our thoughts were of your mercy, O God, while we were in your Temple. 48:10As your name is, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth; your right hand is full of righteousness. 48:11Let there be joy in the mountain of Zion, and let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your wise decisions. 48:12Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers. 48:13Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after. 48:14Because this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide.
49:1<Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.> Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world. 49:2High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth. 49:3From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge. 49:4I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music. 49:5What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me? 49:6Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores. 49:7Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself; 49:8(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.) 49:9So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld. 49:10For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others. 49:11The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands. 49:12But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts. 49:13This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.) 49:14Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever. 49:15But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.) 49:16Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased; 49:17For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him. 49:18Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself, 49:19He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again. 49:20Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
50:1<A Psalm. Of Asaph.> The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down. 50:2From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light. 50:3Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him. 50:4His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people: 50:5Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings. 50:6And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. (Selah.) 50:7Give ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God. 50:8I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me. 50:9I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks; 50:10For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. 50:11I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine. 50:12If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth. 50:13Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink? 50:14Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High; 50:15Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me. 50:16But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth? 50:17Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words. 50:18When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives. 50:19You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit. 50:20You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son. 50:21These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes. 50:22Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help: 50:23Whoever makes an offering of praise gives glory to me; and to him who is upright in his ways I will make clear the salvation of God.
51:1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin. 51:2Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil. 51:3For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me. 51:4Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging. 51:5Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth. 51:6Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom. 51:7Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow. 51:8Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad. 51:9Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins. 51:10Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again. 51:11Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me. 51:12Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support. 51:13Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you. 51:14Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness. 51:15O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise. 51:16You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings. 51:17The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you. 51:18Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem. 51:19Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.
52:1<To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day? 52:2Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade. 52:3You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.) 52:4Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue. 52:5But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.) 52:6The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you: 52:7See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth. 52:8But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever. 52:9I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.
53:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good. 53:2God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God. 53:3Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one. 53:4Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God. 53:5They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them. 53:6May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.
54:1<To the chief music-maker; on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. When the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Is not David keeping himself secret among us?> Let your name be my salvation, O God; let my cause be judged by your strength. 54:2Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. 54:3For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.) 54:4See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul. 54:5Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith. 54:6Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good. 54:7Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.
55:1<To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David.> Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request. 55:2Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow; 55:3I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me. 55:4My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me. 55:5Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered. 55:6And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest. 55:7I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.) 55:8I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind. 55:9Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town. 55:10By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it. 55:11Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets. 55:12For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place; 55:13But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend. 55:14We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company. 55:15Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts. 55:16As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour. 55:17In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears. 55:18He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me. 55:19God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God. 55:20He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement. 55:21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords. 55:22Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved. 55:23But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
56:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath.> Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me. 56:2My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me. 56:3In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you. 56:4In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me. 56:5Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. 56:6They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul. 56:7By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low. 56:8You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record? 56:9When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me. 56:10In God will I give praise to his word; in the Lord will I give praise to his word. 56:11In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me. 56:12I keep the memory of my debt to you, O God; I will give you the offerings of praise. 56:13Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.
57:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past. 57:2I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me. 57:3He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith. 57:4My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword. 57:5O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth. 57:6They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.) 57:7My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise. 57:8You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn. 57:9I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make songs to you among the nations. 57:10For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds. 57:11Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth.
58:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David.> Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men? 58:2The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth. 58:3The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words. 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut; 58:5Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers. 58:6O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord. 58:7Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way. 58:8Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun. 58:9Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth. 58:10The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer. 58:11So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.
59:1<To the chief music-maker; put to At-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When Saul sent, and they were watching the house, to put him to death.> Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me. 59:2Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood. 59:3For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord. 59:4For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see. 59:5You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.) 59:6They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town. 59:7See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it? 59:8But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations. 59:9O my strength, I will put my hope in you; because God is my strong tower. 59:10The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters. 59:11Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour. 59:12Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit, 59:13Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.) 59:14And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town. 59:15Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough. 59:16But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble. 59:17To you, O my strength, will I make my song: because God is my high tower, even the God of my mercy.