25:1To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul. 25:2My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me. 25:3Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause. 25:4Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths. 25:5Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long. 25:6Yahweh, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times. 25:7Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness’ sake, Yahweh. 25:8Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way. 25:9He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way. 25:10All the paths of Yahweh are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. 25:11For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. 25:12What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose. 25:13His soul shall dwell at ease. His offspring shall inherit the land. 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant. 25:15My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. 25:16Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. 25:17The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. 25:18Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins. 25:19Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred. 25:20Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you. 25:21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you. 25:22Redeem Israel, God, out of all his troubles.
26:1Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering. 26:2Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind. 26:3For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth. 26:4I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites. 26:5I hate the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked. 26:6I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh; 26:7that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous deeds. 26:8Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells. 26:9Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men; 26:10in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes. 26:11But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me. 26:12My foot stands in an even place. In the congregations I will bless Yahweh.
27:1Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. 27:3Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident. 27:4One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple. 27:5For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock. 27:6Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh. 27:7Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me. 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.” 27:9Don’t hide your face from me. Don’t put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don’t abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation. 27:10When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up. 27:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies. 27:12Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty. 27:13I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living. 27:14Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.
28:1To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit. 28:2Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place. 28:3Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts. 28:4Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve. 28:5Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up. 28:6Blessed be Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my petitions. 28:7Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him. 28:8Yahweh is their strength. He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed. 28:9Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.
29:1Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. 29:2Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array. 29:3Yahweh’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters. 29:4Yahweh’s voice is powerful. Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty. 29:5Yahweh’s voice breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. 29:6He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox. 29:7Yahweh’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning. 29:8Yahweh’s voice shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 29:9Yahweh’s voice makes the deer calve, and strips the forests bare. In his temple everything says, “Glory!” 29:10Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever. 29:11Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
30:1I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me. 30:2Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me. 30:3Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. 30:4Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name. 30:5For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning. 30:6As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.” 30:7You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled. 30:8I cried to you, Yahweh. I made supplication to the Lord: 30:9“What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? 30:10Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper.” 30:11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness, 30:12To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
31:1In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness. 31:2Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me. 31:3For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me. 31:4Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold. 31:5Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth. 31:6I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh. 31:7I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities. 31:8You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place. 31:9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. 31:10For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. 31:11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. 31:12I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. 31:13For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life. 31:14But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.” 31:15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. 31:16Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness. 31:17Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol. 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt. 31:19Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men! 31:20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues. 31:21Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city. 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you. 31:23Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly. 31:24Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh.
32:1Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. 32:2Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn’t impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit. 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 32:4For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah. 32:5I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah. 32:6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him. 32:7You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. 32:8I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you. 32:9Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you. 32:10Many sorrows come to the wicked, but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in Yahweh. 32:11Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, you righteous! Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!
33:1Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright. 33:2Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings. 33:3Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy! 33:4For Yahweh’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness. 33:5He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh. 33:6By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth. 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses. 33:8Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. 33:9For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm. 33:10Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect. 33:11The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations. 33:12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. 33:13Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. 33:14From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, 33:15he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works. 33:16There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 33:17A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power. 33:18Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness; 33:19to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine. 33:20Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield. 33:21For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. 33:22Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you.
34:1I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. 34:2My soul shall boast in Yahweh. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad. 34:3Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let us exalt his name together. 34:4I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. 34:5They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame. 34:6This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. 34:7Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. 34:8Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. 34:9Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him. 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing. 34:11Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh. 34:12Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? 34:13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies. 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it. 34:15Yahweh’s eyes are toward the righteous. His ears listen to their cry. 34:16Yahweh’s face is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth. 34:17The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. 34:18Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all. 34:20He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken. 34:21Evil shall kill the wicked. Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned. 34:22Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
35:1Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. 35:2Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. 35:3Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me. Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.” 35:4Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded. 35:5Let them be as chaff before the wind, Yahweh’s angel driving them on. 35:6Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them. 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. 35:8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction. 35:9My soul shall be joyful in Yahweh. It shall rejoice in his salvation. 35:10All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?” 35:11Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about. 35:12They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul. 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom. 35:14I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother. 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease. 35:16Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me. 35:17Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions. 35:18I will give you thanks in the great assembly. I will praise you among many people. 35:19Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes. 35:20For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land. 35:21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!” 35:22You have seen it, Yahweh. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me. 35:23Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me! 35:24Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me. 35:25Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!” 35:26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me. 35:27Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, “Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!” 35:28My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
36:1An inner sanctuary is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” 36:2For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin. 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. 36:4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil. 36:5Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies. 36:6Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal. 36:7How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings. 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures. 36:9For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light. 36:10Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart. 36:11Don’t let the foot of pride come against me. Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away. 36:12There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
37:1Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. 37:2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb. 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. 37:4Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart. 37:5Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this: 37:6he will make your righteousness go out as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun. 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen. 37:8Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret, it leads only to evildoing. 37:9For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land. 37:10For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there. 37:11But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 37:12The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. 37:13The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming. 37:14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path. 37:15Their sword shall enter into their own heart. Their bows shall be broken. 37:16Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked. 37:17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous. 37:18Yahweh knows the days of the perfect. Their inheritance shall be forever. 37:19They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied. 37:20But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish— vanish like smoke. 37:21The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously. 37:22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off. 37:23A man’s goings are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way. 37:24Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand. 37:25I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread. 37:26All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed. 37:27Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever. 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. 37:29The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever. 37:30The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. 37:31The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide. 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him. 37:33Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. 37:34Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. 37:35I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 37:36But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found. 37:37Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace. 37:38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off. 37:39But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble. 37:40Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
38:1Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure. 38:2For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me. 38:3There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin. 38:4For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me. 38:5My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. 38:6I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long. 38:7For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh. 38:8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart. 38:9Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you. 38:10My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me. 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away. 38:12They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long. 38:13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth. 38:14Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs. 38:15For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God. 38:16For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.” 38:17For I am ready to fall. My pain is continually before me. 38:18For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. 38:19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous. 38:20They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good. 38:21Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me. 38:22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
39:1I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.” 39:2I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred. 39:3My heart was hot within me. While I meditated, the fire burned. I spoke with my tongue: 39:4“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am. 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah. 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather. 39:7Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you. 39:8Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish. 39:9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it. 39:10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. 39:11When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah. 39:12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were. 39:13Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”
40:1I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. 40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. 40:3He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh. 40:4Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies. 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted. 40:6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. 40:7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.” 40:9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know. 40:10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly. 40:11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me. 40:13Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh. 40:14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. 40:15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!” 40:16Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!” 40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
41:1Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. 41:2Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies. 41:3Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. 41:4I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.” 41:5My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?” 41:6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. 41:7All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. 41:8“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.” 41:9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. 41:10But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. 41:11By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me. 41:12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. 41:13Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.
42:1As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. 42:2My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?” 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day. 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. 42:6My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. 42:7Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. 42:8Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. 42:9I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” 42:10As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?” 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
43:1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men. 43:2For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 43:3Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents. 43:4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God. 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
44:1We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old. 44:2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad. 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them. 44:4You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob! 44:5Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us. 44:6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 44:7But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us. 44:8In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah. 44:9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies. 44:10You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves. 44:11You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations. 44:12You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale. 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us. 44:14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. 44:15All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face, 44:16At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger. 44:17All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant. 44:18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path, 44:19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god; 44:21won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. 44:22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter. 44:23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever. 44:24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression? 44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth. 44:26Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.