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.
54:1Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might. 54:2Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth. 54:3For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah. 54:4Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul. 54:5He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth. 54:6With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good. 54:7For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.
55:1Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication. 55:2Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan, 55:3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me. 55:4My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me. 55:5Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me. 55:6I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest. 55:7Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah. 55:8“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.” 55:9Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city. 55:10Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her. 55:11Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets. 55:12For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him. 55:13But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend. 55:14We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company. 55:15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling. 55:16As for me, I will call on God. Yahweh will save me. 55:17Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress. He will hear my voice. 55:18He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me. 55:19God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God. 55:20He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant. 55:21His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords. 55:22Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved. 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
56:1Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me. 56:2My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me. 56:3When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. 56:4In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? 56:5All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil. 56:6They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life. 56:7Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God. 56:8You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren’t they in your book? 56:9Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me. 56:10In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word. 56:11I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? 56:12Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you. 56:13For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.
57:1Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed. 57:2I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me. 57:3He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth. 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. 57:5Be exalted, God, above the heavens! Let your glory be above all the earth! 57:6They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into the middle of it themselves. Selah. 57:7My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises. 57:8Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp! I will wake up the dawn. 57:9I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to you among the nations. 57:10For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens, and your truth to the skies. 57:11Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.
58:1Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men? 58:2No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth. 58:3The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies. 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear, 58:5which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be. 58:6Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh. 58:7Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt. 58:8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun. 58:9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike. 58:10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked; 58:11so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
59:1Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me. 59:2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men. 59:3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh. 59:4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me! 59:5You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah. 59:6They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city. 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?” 59:8But you, Yahweh, laugh at them. You scoff at all the nations. 59:9Oh, my Strength, I watch for you, for God is my high tower. 59:10My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph. 59:11Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield. 59:12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter. 59:13Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah. 59:14At evening let them return. Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city. 59:15They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied. 59:16But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress. 59:17To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
60:1God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again. 60:2You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes. 60:3You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger. 60:4You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah. 60:5So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us. 60:6God has spoken from his sanctuary: “I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. 60:7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim also is the defense of my head. Judah is my scepter. 60:8Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my shoe on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.” 60:9Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom? 60:10Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God. 60:11Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain. 60:12Through God we shall do valiantly, for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
61:1Hear my cry, God. Listen to my prayer. 61:2From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. 61:3For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy. 61:4I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah. 61:5For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. 61:6You will prolong the king’s life; his years shall be for generations. 61:7He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him. 61:8So I will sing praise to your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily.
62:1My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him. 62:2He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress— I will never be greatly shaken. 62:3How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence? 62:4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. 62:5My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him. 62:6He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken. 62:7With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah. 62:9Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath. 62:10Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them. 62:11God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God. 62:12Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
63:1God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. 63:2So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory. 63:3Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you. 63:4So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. 63:5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips, 63:6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches. 63:7For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings. 63:8My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up. 63:9But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 63:10They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food. 63:11But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
64:1Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 64:2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil; 64:3who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words, 64:4to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly. 64:5They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?” 64:6They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning. 64:7But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow. 64:8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads. 64:9All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done. 64:10The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!
65:1Praise waits for you, God, in Zion. To you shall vows be performed. 65:2You who hear prayer, to you all men will come. 65:3Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions. 65:4Blessed is one whom you choose, and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple. 65:5By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us, God of our salvation. You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, of those who are far away on the sea; 65:6Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength; 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations. 65:8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy. 65:9You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. 65:10You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. 65:11You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance. 65:12The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. 65:13The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.
66:1Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! 66:2Sing to the glory of his name! Offer glory and praise! 66:3Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds! Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you. 66:4All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name.” Selah. 66:5Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men. 66:6He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him. 66:7He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah. 66:8Praise our God, you peoples! Make the sound of his praise heard, 66:9who preserves our life among the living, and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved. 66:10For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined. 66:11You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs. 66:12You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance. 66:13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you, 66:14which my lips promised, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress. 66:15I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah. 66:16Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul. 66:17I cried to him with my mouth. He was extolled with my tongue. 66:18If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened. 66:19But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer. 66:20Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.