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.
67:1May God be merciful to us, bless us, and cause his face to shine on us. Selah. 67:2That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations, 67:3let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you. 67:4Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you will judge the peoples with equity, and govern the nations on earth. Selah. 67:5Let the peoples praise you, God. Let all the peoples praise you. 67:6The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us. 67:7God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
68:1Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him. 68:2As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. 68:3But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness. 68:4Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to Yah, his name! Rejoice before him! 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. 68:6God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land. 68:7God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah. 68:8The earth trembled. The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai— at the presence of God, the God of Israel. 68:9You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance, when it was weary. 68:10Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor. 68:11The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company. 68:12“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder, 68:13while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold. 68:14When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon. 68:15The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged. 68:16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever. 68:17The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary. 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there. 68:19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah. 68:20God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death. 68:21But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness. 68:22The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea; 68:23That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.” 68:24They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary. 68:25The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with tambourines, 68:26“Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!” 68:27There is little Benjamin, their ruler, the princes of Judah, their council, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali. 68:28Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us. 68:29Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bring presents to you. 68:30Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war. 68:31Princes shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God. 68:32Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth! Sing praises to the Lord! Selah. 68:33To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice. 68:34Ascribe strength to God! His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies. 68:35You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God!
69:1Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck! 69:2I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 69:3I am weary with my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail, looking for my God. 69:4Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away. 69:5God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you. 69:6Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord Yahweh of Armies. Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel. 69:7Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face. 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children. 69:9For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me. 69:10When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach. 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. 69:12Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards. 69:13But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation. 69:14Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters. 69:15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me. 69:16Answer me, Yahweh, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me. 69:17Don’t hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily! 69:18Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies. 69:19You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you. 69:20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none. 69:21They also gave me gall for my food. In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink. 69:22Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap. 69:23Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent. 69:24Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them. 69:25Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents. 69:26For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt. 69:27Charge them with crime upon crime. Don’t let them come into your righteousness. 69:28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous. 69:29But I am in pain and distress. Let your salvation, God, protect me. 69:30I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. 69:31It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs. 69:32The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live. 69:33For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people. 69:34Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein! 69:35For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it. 69:36The children also of his servants shall inherit it. Those who love his name shall dwell therein.
70:1Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh. 70:2Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace. 70:3Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, “Aha! Aha!” 70:4Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!” 70:5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.
71:1In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Never let me be disappointed. 71:2Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me. 71:3Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. 71:4Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. 71:5For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth. 71:6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you. 71:7I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge. 71:8My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long. 71:9Don’t reject me in my old age. Don’t forsake me when my strength fails. 71:10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together, 71:11saying, “God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.” 71:12God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me. 71:13Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me. 71:14But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise. 71:15My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure. 71:16I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone. 71:17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works. 71:18Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come. 71:19Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you? 71:20You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth. 71:21Increase my honor, and comfort me again. 71:22I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. 71:23My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you! 71:24My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
72:1God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son. 72:2He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. 72:3The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness. 72:4He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces. 72:5They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations. 72:6He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth. 72:7In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more. 72:8He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth. 72:9Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust. 72:10The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. 72:11Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him. 72:12For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper. 72:13He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy. 72:14He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight. 72:15They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long. 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field. 72:17His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed. 72:18Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds. 72:19Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen. 72:20This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.
73:1Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. 73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped. 73:3For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 73:4For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm. 73:5They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men. 73:6Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment. 73:7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit. 73:8They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression. 73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth. 73:10Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance. 73:11They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?” 73:12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches. 73:13Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence, 73:14For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning. 73:15If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children. 73:16When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; 73:17Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end. 73:18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. 73:19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. 73:20As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies. 73:21For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart. 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you. 73:23Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. 73:24You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. 73:25Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you. 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. 73:27For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you. 73:28But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? 74:2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived. 74:3Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary. 74:4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. 74:5They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. 74:6Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers. 74:7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. 74:8They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped. 74:9We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long. 74:10How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever? 74:11Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them! 74:12Yet God is my King of old, working salvation throughout the earth. 74:13You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. 74:14You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures. 74:15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers. 74:16The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun. 74:17You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter. 74:18Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. 74:19Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don’t forget the life of your poor forever. 74:20Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. 74:21Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name. 74:22Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day. 74:23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
75:1We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works. 75:2When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly. 75:3The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah. 75:4I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn. 75:5Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.” 75:6For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation. 75:7But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another. 75:8For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs. 75:9But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 75:10I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
76:1In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel. 76:2His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion. 76:3There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah. 76:4Glorious are you, and excellent, more than mountains of game. 76:5Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands. 76:6At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. 76:7You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry? 76:8You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent, 76:9when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah. 76:10Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained. 76:11Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared. 76:12He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.