61:1<To the chief music-maker. On a corded instrument. Of David.> Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer. 61:2From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me. 61:3For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me. 61:4I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.) 61:5For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name. 61:6You will give the king long life; and make his years go on through the generations. 61:7May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe. 61:8So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.
62:1<To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David.> My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation. 62:2He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved. 62:3How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling? 62:4Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.) 62:5My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope. 62:6He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved. 62:7In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place. 62:8Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.) 62:9Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath. 62:10Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it. 62:11Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's: 62:12And mercy, O Lord, is yours, for you give to every man the reward of his work.
63:1<A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah.> O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is; 63:2To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place. 63:3Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise. 63:4So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name. 63:5My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy; 63:6When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time. 63:7Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings. 63:8My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support. 63:9But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth. 63:10They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes. 63:11But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.
64:1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me. 64:2Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil; 64:3Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words; 64:4So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen. 64:5They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it, 64:6Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep. 64:7But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded. 64:8The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them. 64:9And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom. 64:10The upright will be glad in the Lord and have hope in him; and all the lovers of righteousness will give him glory.
65:1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. A Song.> It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made. 65:2To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come. 65:3Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away. 65:4Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place. 65:5You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea; 65:6The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power: 65:7Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves. 65:8Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you. 65:9You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. 65:10You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. 65:11The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 65:12Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. 65:13The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
66:1<To the chief music-maker. A Song. A Psalm.> Send up a glad cry to God, all the earth: 66:2Make a song in honour of his name: give praise and glory to him. 66:3Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet. 66:4Let all the earth give you worship, and make songs to you; let them make songs to your name. (Selah.) 66:5Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men. 66:6The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him. 66:7He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.) 66:8Give blessings to our God, O you peoples, let the voice of his praise be loud; 66:9Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved. 66:10For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver. 66:11You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs. 66:12You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place. 66:13I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you, 66:14Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble. 66:15I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.) 66:16Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul. 66:17My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld. 66:18I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me: 66:19But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer. 66:20Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.
67:1<To the chief music-maker. With corded instruments. A Psalm. A Song.> May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.) 67:2So that men may see your way on the earth, and your salvation among all nations. 67:3Let the peoples give you praise, O God; let all the peoples give you praise. 67:4O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.) 67:5Let the peoples give you praise, O God; let all the peoples give you praise. 67:6The earth has given her increase; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing. 67:7God will give us his blessing; so let all the ends of the earth be in fear of him.
68:1<To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. A Song.> Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him. 68:2Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God. 68:3But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy. 68:4Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him. 68:5A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place. 68:6Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land. 68:7O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.) 68:8The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel. 68:9You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage. 68:10Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God. 68:11The Lord gives the word; great is the number of the women who make it public. 68:12Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods. 68:13Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold. 68:14When the Most High put the kings to flight, it was as white as snow in Salmon. 68:15A hill of God is the hill of Bashan; a hill with high tops is the hill of Bashan. 68:16Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever. 68:17The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place. 68:18You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power. 68:19Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.) 68:20Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death. 68:21The heads of the haters of God will be crushed; even the head of him who still goes on in his evil ways. 68:22The Lord said, I will make them come back from Bashan, and from the deep parts of the sea; 68:23So that your foot may be red with blood, and the tongues of your dogs with the same. 68:24We see your going, O God: even the going of my God, my King, into the holy place. 68:25The makers of songs go before, the players of music come after, among the young girls playing on brass instruments. 68:26Give praise to God in the great meeting; even the Lord, you who come from the fountain of Israel. 68:27There is little Benjamin ruling them, the chiefs of Judah and their army, the rulers of Zebulun and the rulers of Naphtali. 68:28O God, send out your strength; the strength, O God, with which you have done great things for us, 68:29Out of your Temple in Jerusalem. 68:30Say sharp words to the beast among the water-plants, the band of strong ones, with the lords of the peoples, put an end to the people whose delight is in war. 68:31Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God. 68:32Make songs to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O make songs of praise to the Lord; (Selah.) 68:33To him who goes or the clouds of heaven, the heaven which was from earliest times; he sends out his voice of power. 68:34Make clear that strength is God's: he is lifted up over Israel, and his power is in the clouds. 68:35O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.
69:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck. 69:2My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me. 69:3I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God. 69:4Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away. 69:5O God, you see how foolish I am; and my wrongdoing is clear to you. 69:6Let not those who have hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord God of armies: let not those who are waiting for you be made low because of me, O God of Israel. 69:7I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame. 69:8I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children. 69:9I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me. 69:10My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame. 69:11When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me. 69:12I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink. 69:13But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain. 69:14Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters. 69:15Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld. 69:16Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity. 69:17Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer. 69:18Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me. 69:19You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you. 69:20My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter. 69:21They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink. 69:22Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them. 69:23Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking. 69:24Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them. 69:25Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents. 69:26Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you. 69:27Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness. 69:28Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright. 69:29But I am poor and full of sorrow; let me be lifted up by your salvation, O Lord. 69:30I will give praise to the name of God with a song; I will give glory to him for what he has done. 69:31This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth. 69:32The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life. 69:33For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners. 69:34Let the heavens and the earth give praise to him, the seas, and everything moving in them. 69:35For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage. 69:36The seed of his servants will have their part in it, and there the lovers of his name will have rest.
70:1<To the chief music-maker. Of David. To keep in memory.> Let your salvation come quickly, O God; come quickly to my help, O Lord. 70:2Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish. 70:3Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame. 70:4Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great. 70:5But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.
71:1In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed. 71:2Keep me safe in your righteousness, and come to my help; give ear to my voice, and be my saviour. 71:3Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place. 71:4O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man. 71:5For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young. 71:6You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you. 71:7I am a wonder to all; but you are my strong tower. 71:8My mouth will be full of your praise and glory all the day. 71:9Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone. 71:10For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs, 71:11Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper. 71:12O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help. 71:13Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour. 71:14But I will go on ever hoping, and increasing in all your praise. 71:15My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured. 71:16I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only. 71:17O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now. 71:18Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come. 71:19Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you? 71:20You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld. 71:21You will make me greater than before, and give me comfort on every side. 71:22I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel. 71:23Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation. 71:24My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.
72:1<Of Solomon.> Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son. 72:2May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor. 72:3May the mountains give peace to the people, and the hills righteousness. 72:4May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed. 72:5May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations. 72:6May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth. 72:7In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven. 72:8Let his kingdom be from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth. 72:9Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust. 72:10Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores. 72:11Yes, let all kings go down before him; let all nations be his servants. 72:12For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper. 72:13He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need. 72:14He will keep their souls free from evil designs and violent attacks; and their blood will be of value in his eyes. 72:15May he have long life, and may gold from Sheba be given to him: may prayers be made for him at all times; may blessings be on him every day. 72:16May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth. 72:17May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name. 72:18Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders. 72:19Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it. 72:20The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended. <A Psalm. Of Asaph.>
73:1Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart. 73:2But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping; 73:3Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers. 73:4For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong. 73:5They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men. 73:6For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe. 73:7Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire. 73:8Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts. 73:9Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth. 73:10For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them. 73:11And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High? 73:12Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased. 73:13As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness; 73:14For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment. 73:15If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children. 73:16When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes; 73:17Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers. 73:18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. 73:19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction. 73:20As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over. 73:21My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief: 73:22As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you. 73:23But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand. 73:24Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour. 73:25Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth. 73:26My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage. 73:27For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you. 73:28But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.
74:1<Maschil. Of Asaph.> Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care? 74:2Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place. 74:3Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place; 74:4Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen. 74:5They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees. 74:6Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades. 74:7They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth. 74:8They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land. 74:9We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long. 74:10O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever? 74:11Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe? 74:12For from the past God is my King, working salvation in the earth. 74:13The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken. 74:14The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea. 74:15You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry. 74:16The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun. 74:17By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter. 74:18Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour. 74:19O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever. 74:20Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts. 74:21O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name. 74:22Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day. 74:23Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.
75:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song.> To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power. 75:2When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness. 75:3When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.) 75:4I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up. 75:5Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks. 75:6For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south; 75:7But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another. 75:8For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop. 75:9But I will ever be full of joy, making songs of praise to the God of Jacob. 75:10By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.
76:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Neginoth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song.> In Judah is the knowledge of God; his name is great in Israel, 76:2In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion. 76:3There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.) 76:4You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains. 76:5Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble. 76:6At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse. 76:7You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath? 76:8From heaven you gave your decision; the earth, in its fear, gave no sound, 76:9When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.) 76:10The ... will give you praise; the rest of ... 76:11Give to the Lord your God what is his by right; let all who are round him give offerings to him who is to be feared. 76:12He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.
77:1<To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me. 77:2In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted. 77:3I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.) 77:4You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come. 77:5My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone. 77:6The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care. 77:7Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer? 77:8Is his mercy quite gone for ever? has his word come to nothing? 77:9Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.) 77:10And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High. 77:11I will keep in mind the works of Jah: I will keep the memory of your wonders in the past. 77:12I will give thought to all your work, while my mind goes over your acts of power. 77:13Your way, O God, is holy: what god is so great as our God? 77:14You are the God who does works of power: you have made your strength clear to the nations. 77:15With your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.) 77:16The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled. 77:17The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide. 77:18The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking. 77:19Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps. 77:20You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
78:1<Maschil. Of Asaph.> Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth. 78:2Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times; 78:3Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers. 78:4We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done. 78:5He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children; 78:6So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children; 78:7So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws; 78:8And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God. 78:9The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight. 78:10They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law; 78:11They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see. 78:12He did great works before the eyes of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan. 78:13The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that. 78:14In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire. 78:15The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters. 78:16He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers. 78:17And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land; 78:18Testing God in their hearts, requesting meat for their desire. 78:19They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land? 78:20See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people? 78:21So these things came to the Lord's ears, and he was angry; and a fire was lighted against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel; 78:22Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation. 78:23And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open; 78:24And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven. 78:25Man took part in the food of strong ones; he sent them meat in full measure. 78:26He sent an east wind from heaven, driving on the south wind by his power. 78:27He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea, 78:28And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents. 78:29So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire; 78:30But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths, 78:31The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel. 78:32For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders. 78:33So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble. 78:34When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care; 78:35In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour. 78:36But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him; 78:37And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him. 78:38But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry. 78:39So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again. 78:40How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places! 78:41Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel. 78:42They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters; 78:43How he had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan; 78:44So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams. 78:45He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction. 78:46He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts. 78:47He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold. 78:48Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks. 78:49He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them. 78:50He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease. 78:51He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham; 78:52But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock. 78:53He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea. 78:54And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his; 78:55Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place. 78:56But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws; 78:57Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow. 78:58They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images. 78:59When this came to God's ears he was very angry, and gave up Israel completely; 78:60So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men; 78:61And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater. 78:62He gave his people up to the sword, and was angry with his heritage. 78:63Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song. 78:64Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them. 78:65Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine. 78:66His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever. 78:67And he put the tent of Joseph on one side, and took not the tribe of Ephraim; 78:68But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure. 78:69And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever. 78:70He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks; 78:71From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage. 78:72So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.
79:1<A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls. 79:2They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth. 79:3Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place. 79:4We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us. 79:5How long, O Lord? will you be angry for ever? will your wrath go on burning like fire? 79:6Let your wrath be on the nations who have no knowledge of you, and on the kingdoms who have not made prayer to your name. 79:7For they have taken Jacob for their meat, and made waste his house. 79:8Do not keep in mind against us the sins of our fathers; let your mercy come to us quickly, for we have been made very low. 79:9Give us help, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; take us out of danger and give us forgiveness for our sins, because of your name. 79:10Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes. 79:11Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death; 79:12And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord. 79:13So we your people, and the sheep of your flock, will give you glory for ever: we will go on praising you through all generations.
80:1<To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen. 80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation. 80:3Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe. 80:4O Lord God of armies, how long will your wrath be burning against the rest of your people? 80:5You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure. 80:6You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves. 80:7Take us back again, O God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe. 80:8You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land. 80:9You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land. 80:10The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches. 80:11It sent out its arms to the Sea, and its branches to the River. 80:12Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit? 80:13It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it. 80:14Come back, O God of armies: from heaven let your eyes be turned to this vine, and give your mind to it, 80:15Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself. 80:16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face. 80:17Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. 80:18So will we not be turned back from you; keep us in life, and we will give praise to your name. 80:19Take us back, O Lord God of armies; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.