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.
81:1<To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob. 81:2Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments. 81:3Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day: 81:4For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 81:5He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears. 81:6I took the weight from his back; his hands were made free from the baskets. 81:7You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.) 81:8Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say! 81:9There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god. 81:10I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food. 81:11But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me. 81:12So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes. 81:13If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways! 81:14I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them. 81:15The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal. 81:16I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.
82:1<A Psalm. Of Asaph.> God is in the meeting-place of God; he is judging among the gods. 82:2How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.) 82:3Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights. 82:4Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers. 82:5They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved. 82:6I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High: 82:7But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth. 82:8Up! O God, come as judge of the earth; for all the nations are your heritage.
83:1<A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God. 83:2For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads. 83:3They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place. 83:4They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory. 83:5For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you: 83:6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites; 83:7Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre; 83:8Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.) 83:9Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon: 83:10Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste. 83:11Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna: 83:12Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God. 83:13O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind. 83:14As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains, 83:15So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm. 83:16Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord. 83:17Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction; 83:18So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.
84:1<To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies! 84:2The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God. 84:3The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God. 84:4Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.) 84:5Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion. 84:6Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain. 84:7They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion. 84:8O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you: give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.) 84:9O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king. 84:10For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin. 84:11The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright. 84:12O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.
85:1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah.> Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob. 85:2The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.) 85:3You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath. 85:4Come back to us, O God of our salvation, and be angry with us no longer. 85:5Will you go on being angry with us for ever? will you keep your wrath against us through all the long generations? 85:6Will you not give us life again, so that your people may be glad in you? 85:7Let us see your mercy, O Lord, and give us your salvation. 85:8I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways. 85:9Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land. 85:10Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss. 85:11Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven. 85:12The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase. 85:13Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.
86:1<A Prayer. Of David.> Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need. 86:2Keep my soul, for I am true to you; O my God, give salvation to your servant, whose hope is in you. 86:3Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day. 86:4Make glad the soul of your servant; for it is lifted up to you, O Lord. 86:5You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you. 86:6O Lord, give ear to my prayer; and take note of the sound of my requests. 86:7In the day of my trouble I send up my cry to you; for you will give me an answer. 86:8There is no god like you, O Lord; there are no works like your works. 86:9Let all the nations whom you have made come and give worship to you, O Lord, giving glory to your name. 86:10For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God. 86:11Make your way clear to me, O Lord; I will go on my way in your faith: let my heart be glad in the fear of your name. 86:12I will give you praise, O Lord my God, with all my heart; I will give glory to your name for ever. 86:13For your mercy to me is great; you have taken my soul up from the deep places of the underworld. 86:14O God, men of pride have come up against me, and the army of violent men would take my life; they have not put you before them. 86:15But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom. 86:16O be turned to me and have mercy on me: give your strength to your servant, and your salvation to the son of her who is your servant. 86:17Give me a sign for good; so that my haters may see it and be shamed; because you, Lord, have been my help and comfort.
87:1<Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. A Song.> This house is resting on the holy mountain. 87:2The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob. 87:3Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.) 87:4Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there. 87:5And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong. 87:6The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.) 87:7The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.
88:1<A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.> O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night: 88:2Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry: 88:3For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld. 88:4I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help: 88:5My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care. 88:6You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places. 88:7The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.) 88:8You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out. 88:9My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you. 88:10Will you do works of wonder for the dead? will the shades come back to give you praise? (Selah.) 88:11Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction? 88:12May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead? 88:13But to you did I send up my cry, O Lord; in the morning my prayer came before you. 88:14Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me? 88:15I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength. 88:16The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments. 88:17They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me. 88:18You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.
89:1<Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.> My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations. 89:2For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens. 89:3I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant; 89:4I will make your seed go on for ever, your kingdom will be strong through all generations. (Selah.) 89:5In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints. 89:6For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods? 89:7God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him. 89:8O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you. 89:9You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm. 89:10Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters. 89:11Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it. 89:12You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name. 89:13Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand. 89:14The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face. 89:15Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way. 89:16In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up. 89:17For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up. 89:18For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's. 89:19Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people. 89:20I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head. 89:21My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength. 89:22The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil. 89:23I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows. 89:24But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up. 89:25I will put his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. 89:26He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation. 89:27And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth. 89:28I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed. 89:29His seed will keep their place for ever; his kingdom will be eternal, like the heavens. 89:30If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions; 89:31If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept; 89:32Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing. 89:33But I will not take away my mercy from him, and will not be false to my faith. 89:34I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed. 89:35I have made an oath once by my holy name, that I will not be false to David. 89:36His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me. 89:37It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.) 89:38But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection. 89:39You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth. 89:40All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction. 89:41All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours. 89:42You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him. 89:43His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight. 89:44You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth. 89:45You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.) 89:46How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire? 89:47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose? 89:48What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.) 89:49Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith? 89:50Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; 89:51The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king. 89:52Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.