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.
77:1My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me. 77:2In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted. 77:3I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. 77:4You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak. 77:5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 77:6I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires: 77:7“Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? 77:8Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? 77:9Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah. 77:10Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.” 77:11I will remember Yah’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old. 77:12I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings. 77:13Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God? 77:14You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples. 77:15You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 77:16The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed. 77:17The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around. 77:18The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook. 77:19Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known. 77:20You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
78:1Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, 78:3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 78:4We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. 78:5For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; 78:6that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, 78:7that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments, 78:8and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God. 78:9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 78:10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law. 78:11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them. 78:12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 78:13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. 78:14In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. 78:15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 78:16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 78:17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. 78:18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. 78:19Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 78:20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?” 78:21Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, 78:22because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation. 78:23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. 78:24He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. 78:25Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind. 78:27He rained also meat on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas. 78:28He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations. 78:29So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. 78:30They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, 78:31when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel. 78:32For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works. 78:33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. 78:34When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly. 78:35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer. 78:36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. 78:37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. 78:38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath. 78:39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again. 78:40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert! 78:41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. 78:42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; 78:43how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, 78:44he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. 78:45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 78:46He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust. 78:47He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. 78:48He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 78:49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. 78:50He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, 78:51and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. 78:52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 78:53He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 78:54He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. 78:55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies; 78:57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow. 78:58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. 78:59When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel; 78:60So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 78:61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand. 78:62He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance. 78:63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. 78:64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep. 78:65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. 78:66He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. 78:67Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim, 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. 78:69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever. 78:70He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; 78:71from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. 78:72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
79:1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. 79:2They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. 79:3Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them. 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us. 79:5How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? 79:6Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name; 79:7For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland. 79:8Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need. 79:9Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake. 79:10Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out. 79:11Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death. 79:12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord. 79:13So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.
80:1Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine out. 80:2Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us! 80:3Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. 80:4Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? 80:5You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure. 80:6You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves. 80:7Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved. 80:8You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it. 80:9You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land. 80:10The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars. 80:11It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River. 80:12Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it? 80:13The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it. 80:14Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine, 80:15the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself. 80:16It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke. 80:17Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself. 80:18So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name. 80:19Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.
81:1Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob! 81:2Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp. 81:3Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. 81:4For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. 81:5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know. 81:6“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket. 81:7You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah. 81:8“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me! 81:9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god. 81:10I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 81:11But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels. 81:13Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways! 81:14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. 81:15The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. 81:16But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
82:1God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods. 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?” Selah. 82:3“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. 82:4Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.” 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. 82:6I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High. 82:7Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.” 82:8Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.
83:1God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. 83:2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. 83:3They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. 83:4“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” 83:5For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. 83:6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; 83:7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 83:8Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah. 83:9Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; 83:10who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. 83:11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; 83:12who said, “Let us take possession of God’s pasture lands.” 83:13My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind. 83:14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire, 83:15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. 83:16Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh. 83:17Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; 83:18that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
84:1How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! 84:2My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. 84:3Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God. 84:4Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah. 84:5Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage. 84:6Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings. 84:7They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion. 84:8Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah. 84:9Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed. 84:10For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly. 84:12Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
85:1Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob. 85:2You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah. 85:3You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger. 85:4Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease. 85:5Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations? 85:6Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? 85:7Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation. 85:8I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly. 85:9Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. 85:10Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 85:11Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven. 85:12Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase. 85:13Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.
86:1Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. 86:2Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you. 86:3Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long. 86:4Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul. 86:5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you. 86:6Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions. 86:7In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me. 86:8There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds. 86:9All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name. 86:10For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone. 86:11Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name. 86:12I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forever more. 86:13For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. 86:14God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them. 86:15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth. 86:16Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant. 86:17Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.