Psalms:73-89
rsv@Psalms:73:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:73:2 @ Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.
rsv@Psalms:73:3 @ But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had well nigh slipped.
rsv@Psalms:73:4 @ For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
rsv@Psalms:73:5 @ For they have no pangs; their bodies are sound and sleek.
rsv@Psalms:73:6 @ They are not in trouble as other men are; they are not stricken like other men.
rsv@Psalms:73:7 @ Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
rsv@Psalms:73:8 @ Their eyes swell out with fatness, their hearts overflow with follies.
rsv@Psalms:73:9 @ They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
rsv@Psalms:73:10 @ They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
rsv@Psalms:73:11 @ Therefore the people turn and praise them; and find no fault in them.
rsv@Psalms:73:12 @ And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
rsv@Psalms:73:13 @ Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
rsv@Psalms:73:14 @ All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
rsv@Psalms:73:15 @ For all the day long I have been stricken, and chastened every morning.
rsv@Psalms:73:16 @ If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.
rsv@Psalms:73:17 @ But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
rsv@Psalms:73:18 @ until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.
rsv@Psalms:73:19 @ Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin.
rsv@Psalms:73:20 @ How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
rsv@Psalms:73:21 @ They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.
rsv@Psalms:73:22 @ When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
rsv@Psalms:73:23 @ I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.
rsv@Psalms:73:24 @ Nevertheless I am continually with thee; thou dost hold my right hand.
rsv@Psalms:73:25 @ Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.
rsv@Psalms:73:26 @ Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.
rsv@Psalms:73:27 @ My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
rsv@Psalms:73:28 @ For lo, those who are far from thee shall perish; thou dost put an end to those who are false to thee. [ (Psalms strkjv@73:29) But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works. ]
rsv@Psalms:74:1 @ A Maskil of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:74:2 @ O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
rsv@Psalms:74:3 @ Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thy heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where thou hast dwelt.
rsv@Psalms:74:4 @ Direct thy steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
rsv@Psalms:74:5 @ Thy foes have roared in the midst of thy holy place; they set up their own signs for signs.
rsv@Psalms:74:6 @ At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
rsv@Psalms:74:7 @ And then all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
rsv@Psalms:74:8 @ They set thy sanctuary on fire; to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of thy name.
rsv@Psalms:74:9 @ They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
rsv@Psalms:74:10 @ We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
rsv@Psalms:74:11 @ How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?
rsv@Psalms:74:12 @ Why dost thou hold back thy hand, why dost thou keep thy right hand in thy bosom?
rsv@Psalms:74:13 @ Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
rsv@Psalms:74:14 @ Thou didst divide the sea by thy might; thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters.
rsv@Psalms:74:15 @ Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
rsv@Psalms:74:16 @ Thou didst cleave open springs and brooks; thou didst dry up ever-flowing streams.
rsv@Psalms:74:17 @ Thine is the day, thine also the night; thou hast established the luminaries and the sun.
rsv@Psalms:74:18 @ Thou hast fixed all the bounds of the earth; thou hast made summer and winter.
rsv@Psalms:74:19 @ Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles thy name.
rsv@Psalms:74:20 @ Do not deliver the soul of thy dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of thy poor for ever.
rsv@Psalms:74:21 @ Have regard for thy covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
rsv@Psalms:74:22 @ Let not the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise thy name.
rsv@Psalms:74:23 @ Arise, O God, plead thy cause; remember how the impious scoff at thee all the day! [ (Psalms strkjv@74:24) Do not forget the clamor of thy foes, the uproar of thy adversaries which goes up continually! ]
rsv@Psalms:75:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Songs.
rsv@Psalms:75:2 @ We give thanks to thee, O God; we give thanks; we call on thy name and recount thy wondrous deeds.
rsv@Psalms:75:3 @ At the set time which I appoint I will judge with equity.
rsv@Psalms:75:4 @ When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:75:5 @ I say to the boastful, "Do not boast," and to the wicked, "Do not lift up your horn;
rsv@Psalms:75:6 @ do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with insolent neck."
rsv@Psalms:75:7 @ For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;
rsv@Psalms:75:8 @ but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
rsv@Psalms:75:9 @ For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, with foaming wine, well mixed; and he will pour a draught from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
rsv@Psalms:75:10 @ But I will rejoice for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. [ (Psalms strkjv@75:11) All the horns of the wicked he will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. ]
rsv@Psalms:76:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Songs.
rsv@Psalms:76:2 @ In Judah God is known, his name is great in Israel.
rsv@Psalms:76:3 @ His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
rsv@Psalms:76:4 @ There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:76:5 @ Glorious art thou, more majestic than the everlasting mountains.
rsv@Psalms:76:6 @ The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.
rsv@Psalms:76:7 @ At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse lay stunned.
rsv@Psalms:76:8 @ But thou, terrible art thou! Who can stand before thee when once thy anger is roused?
rsv@Psalms:76:9 @ From the heavens thou didst utter judgment; the earth feared and was still,
rsv@Psalms:76:10 @ when God arose to establish judgment to save all the oppressed of the earth. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:76:11 @ Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee; the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.
rsv@Psalms:76:12 @ Make your vows to the LORD your God, and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared, [ (Psalms strkjv@76:13) who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is terrible to the kings of the earth. ]
rsv@Psalms:77:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:77:2 @ I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me.
rsv@Psalms:77:3 @ In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.
rsv@Psalms:77:4 @ I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:77:5 @ Thou dost hold my eyelids from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
rsv@Psalms:77:6 @ I consider the days of old, I remember the years long ago.
rsv@Psalms:77:7 @ I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search my spirit:
rsv@Psalms:77:8 @ "Will the Lord spurn for ever, and never again be favorable?
rsv@Psalms:77:9 @ Has his steadfast love for ever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?
rsv@Psalms:77:10 @ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:77:11 @ And I say, "It is my grief that the right hand of the Most High has changed."
rsv@Psalms:77:12 @ I will call to mind the deeds of the LORD; yea, I will remember thy wonders of old.
rsv@Psalms:77:13 @ I will meditate on all thy work, and muse on thy mighty deeds.
rsv@Psalms:77:14 @ Thy way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
rsv@Psalms:77:15 @ Thou art the God who workest wonders, who hast manifested thy might among the peoples.
rsv@Psalms:77:16 @ Thou didst with thy arm redeem thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:77:17 @ When the waters saw thee, O God, when the waters saw thee, they were afraid, yea, the deep trembled.
rsv@Psalms:77:18 @ The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; thy arrows flashed on every side.
rsv@Psalms:77:19 @ The crash of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; thy lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
rsv@Psalms:77:20 @ Thy way was through the sea, thy path through the great waters; yet thy footprints were unseen. [ (Psalms strkjv@77:21) Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. ]
rsv@Psalms:78:1 @ A Maskil of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:78:2 @ Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
rsv@Psalms:78:3 @ I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
rsv@Psalms:78:4 @ things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
rsv@Psalms:78:5 @ We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought.
rsv@Psalms:78:6 @ He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;
rsv@Psalms:78:7 @ that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
rsv@Psalms:78:8 @ so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
rsv@Psalms:78:9 @ and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
rsv@Psalms:78:10 @ The E'phraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
rsv@Psalms:78:11 @ They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
rsv@Psalms:78:12 @ They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.
rsv@Psalms:78:13 @ In the sight of their fathers he wrought marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zo'an.
rsv@Psalms:78:14 @ He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
rsv@Psalms:78:15 @ In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
rsv@Psalms:78:16 @ He cleft rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
rsv@Psalms:78:17 @ He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
rsv@Psalms:78:18 @ Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
rsv@Psalms:78:19 @ They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
rsv@Psalms:78:20 @ They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
rsv@Psalms:78:21 @ He smote the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?"
rsv@Psalms:78:22 @ Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel;
rsv@Psalms:78:23 @ because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.
rsv@Psalms:78:24 @ Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
rsv@Psalms:78:25 @ and he rained down upon them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.
rsv@Psalms:78:26 @ Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
rsv@Psalms:78:27 @ He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
rsv@Psalms:78:28 @ he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
rsv@Psalms:78:29 @ he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.
rsv@Psalms:78:30 @ And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
rsv@Psalms:78:31 @ But before they had sated their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
rsv@Psalms:78:32 @ the anger of God rose against them and he slew the strongest of them, and laid low the picked men of Israel.
rsv@Psalms:78:33 @ In spite of all this they still sinned; despite his wonders they did not believe.
rsv@Psalms:78:34 @ So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
rsv@Psalms:78:35 @ When he slew them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
rsv@Psalms:78:36 @ They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
rsv@Psalms:78:37 @ But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
rsv@Psalms:78:38 @ Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
rsv@Psalms:78:39 @ Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.
rsv@Psalms:78:40 @ He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
rsv@Psalms:78:41 @ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
rsv@Psalms:78:42 @ They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
rsv@Psalms:78:43 @ They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
rsv@Psalms:78:44 @ when he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zo'an.
rsv@Psalms:78:45 @ He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
rsv@Psalms:78:46 @ He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
rsv@Psalms:78:47 @ He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
rsv@Psalms:78:48 @ He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
rsv@Psalms:78:49 @ He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
rsv@Psalms:78:50 @ He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
rsv@Psalms:78:51 @ He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
rsv@Psalms:78:52 @ He smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
rsv@Psalms:78:53 @ Then he led forth his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
rsv@Psalms:78:54 @ He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
rsv@Psalms:78:55 @ And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
rsv@Psalms:78:56 @ He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
rsv@Psalms:78:57 @ Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,
rsv@Psalms:78:58 @ but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
rsv@Psalms:78:59 @ For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
rsv@Psalms:78:60 @ When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
rsv@Psalms:78:61 @ He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men,
rsv@Psalms:78:62 @ and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
rsv@Psalms:78:63 @ He gave his people over to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.
rsv@Psalms:78:64 @ Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage song.
rsv@Psalms:78:65 @ Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
rsv@Psalms:78:66 @ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
rsv@Psalms:78:67 @ And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
rsv@Psalms:78:68 @ He rejected the tent of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of E'phraim;
rsv@Psalms:78:69 @ but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
rsv@Psalms:78:70 @ He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded for ever.
rsv@Psalms:78:71 @ He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
rsv@Psalms:78:72 @ from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance. [ (Psalms strkjv@78:73) With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skilful hand. ]
rsv@Psalms:79:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:79:2 @ O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; they have defiled thy holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
rsv@Psalms:79:3 @ They have given the bodies of thy servants to the birds of the air for food, the flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth.
rsv@Psalms:79:4 @ They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
rsv@Psalms:79:5 @ We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those round about us.
rsv@Psalms:79:6 @ How long, O LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?
rsv@Psalms:79:7 @ Pour out thy anger on the nations that do not know thee, and on the kingdoms that do not call on thy name!
rsv@Psalms:79:8 @ For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
rsv@Psalms:79:9 @ Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
rsv@Psalms:79:10 @ Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake!
rsv@Psalms:79:11 @ Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of thy servants be known among the nations before our eyes!
rsv@Psalms:79:12 @ Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee; according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die!
rsv@Psalms:79:13 @ Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted thee, O Lord! [ (Psalms strkjv@79:14) Then we thy people, the flock of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever; from generation to generation we will recount thy praise. ]
rsv@Psalms:80:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.
rsv@Psalms:80:2 @ Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
rsv@Psalms:80:3 @ before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!
rsv@Psalms:80:4 @ Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
rsv@Psalms:80:5 @ O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
rsv@Psalms:80:6 @ Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
rsv@Psalms:80:7 @ Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
rsv@Psalms:80:8 @ Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
rsv@Psalms:80:9 @ Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
rsv@Psalms:80:10 @ Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
rsv@Psalms:80:11 @ The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;
rsv@Psalms:80:12 @ it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
rsv@Psalms:80:13 @ Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
rsv@Psalms:80:14 @ The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
rsv@Psalms:80:15 @ Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
rsv@Psalms:80:16 @ the stock which thy right hand planted.
rsv@Psalms:80:17 @ They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
rsv@Psalms:80:18 @ But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
rsv@Psalms:80:19 @ Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name! [ (Psalms strkjv@80:20) Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved! ]
rsv@Psalms:81:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:81:2 @ Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
rsv@Psalms:81:3 @ Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
rsv@Psalms:81:4 @ Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
rsv@Psalms:81:5 @ For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
rsv@Psalms:81:6 @ He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
rsv@Psalms:81:7 @ "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
rsv@Psalms:81:8 @ In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:81:9 @ Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
rsv@Psalms:81:10 @ There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
rsv@Psalms:81:11 @ I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
rsv@Psalms:81:12 @ "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me.
rsv@Psalms:81:13 @ So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
rsv@Psalms:81:14 @ O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
rsv@Psalms:81:15 @ I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
rsv@Psalms:81:16 @ Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@81:17) I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you." ]
rsv@Psalms:82:1 @ A Psalm of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:82:2 @ God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
rsv@Psalms:82:3 @ "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:82:4 @ Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
rsv@Psalms:82:5 @ Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
rsv@Psalms:82:6 @ They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
rsv@Psalms:82:7 @ I say, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
rsv@Psalms:82:8 @ nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince." [ (Psalms strkjv@82:9) Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to thee belong all the nations! ]
rsv@Psalms:83:1 @ A Songs. A Psalm of Asaph.
rsv@Psalms:83:2 @ O God, do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!
rsv@Psalms:83:3 @ For lo, thy enemies are in tumult; those who hate thee have raised their heads.
rsv@Psalms:83:4 @ They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.
rsv@Psalms:83:5 @ They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
rsv@Psalms:83:6 @ Yea, they conspire with one accord; against thee they make a covenant--
rsv@Psalms:83:7 @ the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
rsv@Psalms:83:8 @ Gebal and Ammon and Am'alek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
rsv@Psalms:83:9 @ Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:83:10 @ Do to them as thou didst to Mid'ian, as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,
rsv@Psalms:83:11 @ who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
rsv@Psalms:83:12 @ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,
rsv@Psalms:83:13 @ who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."
rsv@Psalms:83:14 @ O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
rsv@Psalms:83:15 @ As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
rsv@Psalms:83:16 @ so do thou pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy hurricane!
rsv@Psalms:83:17 @ Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
rsv@Psalms:83:18 @ Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; let them perish in disgrace. [ (Psalms strkjv@83:19) Let them know that thou alone, whose name is the LORD, art the Most High over all the earth. ]
rsv@Psalms:84:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
rsv@Psalms:84:2 @ How lovely is thy dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
rsv@Psalms:84:3 @ My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
rsv@Psalms:84:4 @ Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
rsv@Psalms:84:5 @ Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:84:6 @ Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
rsv@Psalms:84:7 @ As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.
rsv@Psalms:84:8 @ They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.
rsv@Psalms:84:9 @ O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:84:10 @ Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!
rsv@Psalms:84:11 @ For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
rsv@Psalms:84:12 @ For the LORD God is a sun and shield; he bestows favor and honor. No good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly. [ (Psalms strkjv@84:13) O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee! ]
rsv@Psalms:85:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
rsv@Psalms:85:2 @ LORD, thou wast favorable to thy land; thou didst restore the fortunes of Jacob. ![[pBiblx2]](/img/menu.png)