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.
45:1My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer. 45:2You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever. 45:3Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty. 45:4In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds. 45:5Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies. 45:6Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom. 45:7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows. 45:8All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad. 45:9Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir. 45:10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house. 45:11So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord. 45:12The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor. 45:13The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold. 45:14She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you. 45:15With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace. 45:16Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth. 45:17I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.
46:1God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 46:2Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas; 46:3though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah. 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High. 46:5God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn. 46:6The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted. 46:7Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. 46:8Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth. 46:9He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire. 46:10“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.” 46:11Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
47:1Oh clap your hands, all you nations. Shout to God with the voice of triumph! 47:2For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth. 47:3He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet. 47:4He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah. 47:5God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet. 47:6Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises. 47:7For God is the King of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. 47:8God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne. 47:9The princes of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted!
48:1Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. 48:2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King. 48:3God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge. 48:4For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together. 48:5They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away. 48:6Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail. 48:7With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish. 48:8As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah. 48:9We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple. 48:10As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness. 48:11Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments. 48:12Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers. 48:13Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation. 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
49:1Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world, 49:2both low and high, rich and poor together. 49:3My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart shall utter understanding. 49:4I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp. 49:5Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me? 49:6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches— 49:7none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him. 49:8For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough, 49:9that he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption. 49:10For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others. 49:11Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. 49:12But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish. 49:13This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah. 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion. 49:15But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah. 49:16Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; 49:17for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him. 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself— 49:19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light. 49:20A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
50:1The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out. 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him. 50:4He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people: 50:5“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” 50:6The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. 50:7“Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. 50:8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. 50:10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. 50:11I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. 50:13Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. 50:15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” 50:16But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, 50:17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? 50:18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. 50:19“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. 50:20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver. 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
51:1Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. 51:2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. 51:3For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me. 51:4Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge. 51:5Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me. 51:6Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place. 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 51:8Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice. 51:9Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities. 51:10Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me. 51:11Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me. 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit. 51:13Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you. 51:14Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. 51:15Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise. 51:16For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 51:18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. 51:19Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
52:1Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually. 52:2Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 52:3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah. 52:4You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue. 52:5God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah. 52:6The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying, 52:7“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.” 52:8But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house. I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever. 52:9I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.
53:1The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good. 53:2God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God. 53:3Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one. 53:4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God? 53:5There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. 53:6Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.