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.
87:1His foundation is in the holy mountains. 87:2Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 87:3Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah. 87:4I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.” 87:5Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her. 87:6Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah. 87:7Those who sing as well as those who dance say, “All my springs are in you.”
88:1Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you. 88:2Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry. 88:3For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol. 88:4I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help, 88:5set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand. 88:6You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths. 88:7Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. 88:8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape. 88:9My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you. 88:10Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you? Selah. 88:11Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction? 88:12Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 88:13But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you. 88:14Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? 88:15I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted. 88:16Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off. 88:17They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me. 88:18You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
89:1I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. 89:2I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.” 89:3“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, 89:4‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build up your throne to all generations.’” Selah. 89:5The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. 89:6For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh, 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him? 89:8Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you. 89:9You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them. 89:10You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm. 89:11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them. 89:12The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name. 89:13You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted. 89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face. 89:15Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh. 89:16In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted. 89:17For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted. 89:18For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel. 89:19Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people. 89:20I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil, 89:21with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him. 89:22No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him. 89:23I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him. 89:24But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted. 89:25I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. 89:26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’ 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. 89:28I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him. 89:29I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. 89:30If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances; 89:31if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments; 89:32then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. 89:33But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail. 89:34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered. 89:35Once I have sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David. 89:36His offspring will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. 89:37It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah. 89:38But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed. 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust. 89:40You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. 89:41All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors. 89:42You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice. 89:43Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven’t supported him in battle. 89:44You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground. 89:45You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah. 89:46How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire? 89:47Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men! 89:48What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. 89:49Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples, 89:51With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one. 89:52Blessed be Yahweh forever more. Amen, and Amen.