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.
90:1Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations. 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. 90:3You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.” 90:4For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night. 90:5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 90:6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 90:9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 90:10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away. 90:11Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you? 90:12So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. 90:13Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants! 90:14Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 90:15Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil. 90:16Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children. 90:17Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.
91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. 91:2I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.” 91:3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence. 91:4He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart. 91:5You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day; 91:6nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday. 91:7A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. 91:8You will only look with your eyes, and see the recompense of the wicked. 91:9Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place, 91:10no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling. 91:11For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways. 91:12They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone. 91:13You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot. 91:14“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name. 91:15He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him. 91:16I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”
92:1It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High; 92:2to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night, 92:3with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre. 92:4For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands. 92:5How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep. 92:6A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this: 92:7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever. 92:8But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more. 92:9For, behold, your enemies, Yahweh, for, behold, your enemies shall perish. All the evildoers will be scattered. 92:10But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil. 92:11My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me. 92:12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 92:13They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts. 92:14They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green, 92:15to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
93:1Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved. 93:2Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting. 93:3The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. 93:4Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty. 93:5Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.
94:1Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out. 94:2Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve. 94:3Yahweh, how long will the wicked, how long will the wicked triumph? 94:4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast. 94:5They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, and afflict your heritage. 94:6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless. 94:7They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.” 94:8Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise? 94:9He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see? 94:10He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish? He who teaches man knows. 94:11Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile. 94:12Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law; 94:13that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. 94:14For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance. 94:15For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it. 94:16Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers? 94:17Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence. 94:18When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up. 94:19In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul. 94:20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute? 94:21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. 94:22But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge. 94:23He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.
95:1Oh come, let’s sing to Yahweh. Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation! 95:2Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let’s extol him with songs! 95:3For Yahweh is a great God, a great King above all gods. 95:4In his hand are the deep places of the earth. The heights of the mountains are also his. 95:5The sea is his, and he made it. His hands formed the dry land. 95:6Oh come, let’s worship and bow down. Let’s kneel before Yahweh, our Maker, 95:7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice! 95:8Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, 95:9when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work. 95:10Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.” 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
96:1Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth. 96:2Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! 96:3Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. 96:4For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! He is to be feared above all gods. 96:5For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens. 96:6Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. 96:7Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. 96:8Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come into his courts. 96:9Worship Yahweh in holy array. Tremble before him, all the earth. 96:10Say among the nations, “Yahweh reigns.” The world is also established. It can’t be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity. 96:11Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness! 96:12Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy 96:13before Yahweh; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, the peoples with his truth.
97:1Yahweh reigns! Let the earth rejoice! Let the multitude of islands be glad! 97:2Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. 97:3A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side. 97:4His lightning lights up the world. The earth sees, and trembles. 97:5The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth. 97:6The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory. 97:7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods! 97:8Zion heard and was glad. The daughters of Judah rejoiced, because of your judgments, Yahweh. 97:9For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods. 97:10You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked. 97:11Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. 97:12Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.
98:1Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him. 98:2Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations. 98:3He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 98:4Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises! 98:5Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody. 98:6With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh. 98:7Let the sea roar with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein. 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together. 98:9Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
99:1Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved. 99:2Yahweh is great in Zion. He is high above all the peoples. 99:3Let them praise your great and awesome name. He is Holy! 99:4The King’s strength also loves justice. You do establish equity. You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob. 99:5Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy! 99:6Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on Yahweh, and he answered them. 99:7He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them. 99:8You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings. 99:9Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy!
100:1Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! 100:2Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. 100:3Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 100:4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. 100:5For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.
101:1I will sing of loving kindness and justice. To you, Yahweh, I will sing praises. 101:2I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart. 101:3I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me. 101:4A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil. 101:5I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited. 101:6My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me. 101:7He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes. 101:8Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh’s city.
102:1Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you. 102:2Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call. 102:3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. 102:4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. 102:5By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin. 102:6I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places. 102:7I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop. 102:8My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse. 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears, 102:10Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away. 102:11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass. 102:12But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations. 102:13You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come. 102:14For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust. 102:15So the nations will fear Yahweh’s name; all the kings of the earth your glory. 102:16For Yahweh has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory. 102:17He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer. 102:18This will be written for the generation to come. A people which will be created will praise Yah. 102:19For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth; 102:20to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death; 102:21that men may declare Yahweh’s name in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem; 102:22when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh. 102:23He weakened my strength along the course. He shortened my days. 102:24I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations. 102:25Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the work of your hands. 102:26They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed. 102:27But you are the same. Your years will have no end. 102:28The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”
103:1Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! 103:2Praise Yahweh, my soul, and don’t forget all his benefits; 103:3who forgives all your sins; who heals all your diseases; 103:4who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies; 103:5who satisfies your desire with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. 103:6Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed. 103:7He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel. 103:8Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness. 103:9He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever. 103:10He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities. 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him. 103:12As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. 103:13Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. 103:14For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. 103:15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 103:16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more. 103:17But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children; 103:18to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts. 103:19Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all. 103:20Praise Yahweh, you angels of his, who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word, obeying the voice of his word. 103:21Praise Yahweh, all you armies of his, you servants of his, who do his pleasure. 103:22Praise Yahweh, all you works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise Yahweh, my soul!
104:1Bless Yahweh, my soul. Yahweh, my God, you are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty. 104:2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. 104:4He makes his messengers winds; his servants flames of fire. 104:5He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever. 104:6You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. 104:7At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. 104:8The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them. 104:9You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don’t turn again to cover the earth. 104:10He sends springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains. 104:11They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. 104:12The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches. 104:13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works. 104:14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may produce food out of the earth: 104:15wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart. 104:16Yahweh’s trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted; 104:17where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the cypress trees. 104:18The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers. 104:19He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set. 104:20You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl. 104:21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. 104:22The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens. 104:23Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening. 104:24Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches. 104:25There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals. 104:26There the ships go, and leviathan, whom you formed to play there. 104:27These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season. 104:28You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good. 104:29You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust. 104:30You send out your Spirit and they are created. You renew the face of the ground. 104:31Let Yahweh’s glory endure forever. Let Yahweh rejoice in his works. 104:32He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke. 104:33I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. 104:34Let my meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in Yahweh. 104:35Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. Let the wicked be no more. Bless Yahweh, my soul. Praise Yah!
105:1Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples. 105:2Sing to him, sing praises to him! Tell of all his marvelous works. 105:3Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. 105:4Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more. 105:5Remember his marvelous works that he has done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth, 105:6you offspring of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones. 105:7He is Yahweh, our God. His judgments are in all the earth. 105:8He has remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, 105:9the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac, 105:10and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant, 105:11saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance”; 105:12when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it. 105:13They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people. 105:14He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, 105:15“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!” 105:16He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies. 105:17He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave. 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons, 105:19until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true. 105:20The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free. 105:21He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions; 105:22to discipline his princes at his pleasure, and to teach his elders wisdom. 105:23Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham. 105:24He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries. 105:25He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants. 105:26He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, whom he had chosen. 105:27They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham. 105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn’t rebel against his words. 105:29He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish. 105:30Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the rooms of their kings. 105:31He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders. 105:32He gave them hail for rain, with lightning in their land. 105:33He struck their vines and also their fig trees, and shattered the trees of their country. 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number, 105:35ate up every plant in their land; and ate up the fruit of their ground. 105:36He struck also all the firstborn in their land, the first fruits of all their manhood. 105:37He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes. 105:38Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them. 105:39He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night. 105:40They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky. 105:41He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places. 105:42For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham, his servant. 105:43He brought his people out with joy, his chosen with singing. 105:44He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession, 105:45that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
106:1Praise Yahweh! Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. 106:2Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, or fully declare all his praise? 106:3Blessed are those who keep justice. Blessed is one who does what is right at all times. 106:4Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation, 106:5that I may see the prosperity of your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation, that I may glory with your inheritance. 106:6We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly. 106:7Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea. 106:8Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known. 106:9He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert. 106:10He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. 106:11The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left. 106:12Then they believed his words. They sang his praise. 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel, 106:14but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland. 106:15He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. 106:16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint. 106:17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. 106:18A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked. 106:19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image. 106:20Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass. 106:21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, 106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea. 106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them. 106:24Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word, 106:25but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. 106:26Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness, 106:27that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations, and scatter them in the lands. 106:28They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. 106:29Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them. 106:30Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment, so the plague was stopped. 106:31That was credited to him for righteousness, for all generations to come. 106:32They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes; 106:33because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips. 106:34They didn’t destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them, 106:35but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works. 106:36They served their idols, which became a snare to them. 106:37Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. 106:38They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood. 106:39Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds. 106:40Therefore Yahweh burned with anger against his people. He abhorred his inheritance. 106:41He gave them into the hand of the nations. Those who hated them ruled over them. 106:42Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand. 106:43He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. 106:44Nevertheless he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry. 106:45He remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses. 106:46He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive. 106:47Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise! 106:48Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise Yah!
107:1Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. 107:2Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary, 107:3And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. 107:4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in. 107:5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. 107:6Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses, 107:7he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in. 107:8Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good. 107:10Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, 107:11because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High. 107:12Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was no one to help. 107:13Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. 107:14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains. 107:15Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! 107:16For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron. 107:17Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience, and because of their iniquities. 107:18Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death. 107:19Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses. 107:20He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves. 107:21Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men! 107:22Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his deeds with singing. 107:23Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters; 107:24These see Yahweh’s deeds, and his wonders in the deep. 107:25For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves. 107:26They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble. 107:27They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end. 107:28Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress. 107:29He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still. 107:30Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven. 107:31Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men! 107:32Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders. 107:33He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground, 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it. 107:35He turns a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into water springs. 107:36There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in, 107:37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase. 107:38He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease. 107:39Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow. 107:40He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. 107:41Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock. 107:42The upright will see it, and be glad. All the wicked will shut their mouths. 107:43Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.