web - Psalms:81-90

web@Psalms:81:1 @ For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph. Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

web@Psalms:81:2 @ Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

web@Psalms:81:3 @ Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

web@Psalms:81:4 @ For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

web@Psalms:81:5 @ He 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.

web@Psalms:81:6 @ "I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

web@Psalms:81:7 @ You 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.

web@Psalms:81:8 @ "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

web@Psalms:81:9 @ There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

web@Psalms:81:10 @ I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

web@Psalms:81:11 @ But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

web@Psalms:81:12 @ So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

web@Psalms:81:13 @ Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

web@Psalms:81:14 @ I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

web@Psalms:81:15 @ The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

web@Psalms:81:16 @ But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock."

web@Psalms:82:1 @ A Psalm by Asaph. God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods.

web@Psalms:82:2 @ "How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

web@Psalms:82:3 @ "Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.

web@Psalms:82:4 @ Rescue the weak and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked."

web@Psalms:82:5 @ They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

web@Psalms:82:6 @ I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

web@Psalms:82:7 @ Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers."

web@Psalms:82:8 @ Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

web@Psalms:83:1 @ A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.

web@Psalms:83:2 @ For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

web@Psalms:83:3 @ They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

web@Psalms:83:4 @ "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

web@Psalms:83:5 @ For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

web@Psalms:83:6 @ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

web@Psalms:83:7 @ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

web@Psalms:83:8 @ Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

web@Psalms:83:9 @ Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

web@Psalms:83:10 @ who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

web@Psalms:83:11 @ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

web@Psalms:83:12 @ who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."

web@Psalms:83:13 @ My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

web@Psalms:83:14 @ As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

web@Psalms:83:15 @ so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

web@Psalms:83:16 @ Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

web@Psalms:83:17 @ Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

web@Psalms:83:18 @ that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

web@Psalms:84:1 @ For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

web@Psalms:84:2 @ My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

web@Psalms:84:3 @ Yes, 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.

web@Psalms:84:4 @ Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.

web@Psalms:84:5 @ Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

web@Psalms:84:6 @ Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

web@Psalms:84:7 @ They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.

web@Psalms:84:8 @ Yahweh, God of Armies, hear my prayer. Listen, God of Jacob. Selah.

web@Psalms:84:9 @ Behold, God our shield, look at the face of your anointed.

web@Psalms:84:10 @ For 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.

web@Psalms:84:11 @ For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

web@Psalms:84:12 @ Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you.

web@Psalms:85:1 @ For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

web@Psalms:85:2 @ You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

web@Psalms:85:3 @ You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

web@Psalms:85:4 @ Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

web@Psalms:85:5 @ Will you be angry with us forever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations?

web@Psalms:85:6 @ Won't you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

web@Psalms:85:7 @ Show us your loving kindness, Yahweh. Grant us your salvation.

web@Psalms:85:8 @ I 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.

web@Psalms:85:9 @ Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

web@Psalms:85:10 @ Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

web@Psalms:85:11 @ Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

web@Psalms:85:12 @ Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

web@Psalms:85:13 @ Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

web@Psalms:86:1 @ A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

web@Psalms:86:2 @ Preserve my soul, for I am godly. You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.

web@Psalms:86:3 @ Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.

web@Psalms:86:4 @ Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

web@Psalms:86:5 @ For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

web@Psalms:86:6 @ Hear, Yahweh, my prayer. Listen to the voice of my petitions.

web@Psalms:86:7 @ In the day of my trouble I will call on you, for you will answer me.

web@Psalms:86:8 @ There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

web@Psalms:86:9 @ All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

web@Psalms:86:10 @ For you are great, and do wondrous things. You are God alone.

web@Psalms:86:11 @ Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

web@Psalms:86:12 @ I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart. I will glorify your name forevermore.

web@Psalms:86:13 @ For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.}.

web@Psalms:86:14 @ God, 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.

web@Psalms:86:15 @ But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

web@Psalms:86:16 @ Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

web@Psalms:86:17 @ Show 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.

web@Psalms:87:1 @ A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

web@Psalms:87:2 @ Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

web@Psalms:87:3 @ Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.

web@Psalms:87:4 @ I will record Rahab {Rahab is a reference to Egypt.} and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: "This one was born there."

web@Psalms:87:5 @ Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her"; the Most High himself will establish her.

web@Psalms:87:6 @ Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.

web@Psalms:87:7 @ Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you."

web@Psalms:88:1 @ A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite. Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

web@Psalms:88:2 @ Let my prayer enter into your presence. Turn your ear to my cry.

web@Psalms:88:3 @ For my soul is full of troubles. My life draws near to Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.}.

web@Psalms:88:4 @ I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

web@Psalms:88:5 @ set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

web@Psalms:88:6 @ You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

web@Psalms:88:7 @ Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

web@Psalms:88:8 @ You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

web@Psalms:88:9 @ My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

web@Psalms:88:10 @ Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.

web@Psalms:88:11 @ Is your loving kindness declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in Destruction?

web@Psalms:88:12 @ Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

web@Psalms:88:13 @ But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

web@Psalms:88:14 @ Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

web@Psalms:88:15 @ I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

web@Psalms:88:16 @ Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

web@Psalms:88:17 @ They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

web@Psalms:88:18 @ You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

web@Psalms:89:1 @ A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving kindness of Yahweh forever. With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.

web@Psalms:89:2 @ I indeed declare, "Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them."

web@Psalms:89:3 @ "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

web@Psalms:89:4 @ 'I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.

web@Psalms:89:5 @ The heavens will praise your wonders, Yahweh; your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

web@Psalms:89:6 @ For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

web@Psalms:89:7 @ a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

web@Psalms:89:8 @ Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

web@Psalms:89:9 @ You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

web@Psalms:89:10 @ You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

web@Psalms:89:11 @ The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

web@Psalms:89:12 @ The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

web@Psalms:89:13 @ You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

web@Psalms:89:14 @ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.

web@Psalms:89:15 @ Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you. They walk in the light of your presence, Yahweh.

web@Psalms:89:16 @ In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

web@Psalms:89:17 @ For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

web@Psalms:89:18 @ For our shield belongs to Yahweh; our king to the Holy One of Israel.

web@Psalms:89:19 @ Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

web@Psalms:89:20 @ I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

web@Psalms:89:21 @ with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.

web@Psalms:89:22 @ No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

web@Psalms:89:23 @ I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.

web@Psalms:89:24 @ But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.

web@Psalms:89:25 @ I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

web@Psalms:89:26 @ He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!'

web@Psalms:89:27 @ I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

web@Psalms:89:28 @ I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.

web@Psalms:89:29 @ I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

web@Psalms:89:30 @ If his children forsake my law, and don't walk in my ordinances;

web@Psalms:89:31 @ if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments;

web@Psalms:89:32 @ then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

web@Psalms:89:33 @ But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

web@Psalms:89:34 @ I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

web@Psalms:89:35 @ Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

web@Psalms:89:36 @ His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

web@Psalms:89:37 @ It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah.

web@Psalms:89:38 @ But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

web@Psalms:89:39 @ You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

web@Psalms:89:40 @ You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

web@Psalms:89:41 @ All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

web@Psalms:89:42 @ You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

web@Psalms:89:43 @ Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported him in battle.

web@Psalms:89:44 @ You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

web@Psalms:89:45 @ You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

web@Psalms:89:46 @ How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

web@Psalms:89:47 @ Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

web@Psalms:89:48 @ What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol {Sheol is the place of the dead.}? Selah.

web@Psalms:89:49 @ Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses, which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

web@Psalms:89:50 @ Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

web@Psalms:89:51 @ With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

web@Psalms:89:52 @ Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen. {}

web@Psalms:90:1 @ A Prayer by Moses, the man of GodThe Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim.". Lord, {The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."} you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

web@Psalms:90:2 @ Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

web@Psalms:90:3 @ You turn man to destruction, saying, "Return, you children of men."

web@Psalms:90:4 @ For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

web@Psalms:90:5 @ You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

web@Psalms:90:6 @ In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

web@Psalms:90:7 @ For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

web@Psalms:90:8 @ You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

web@Psalms:90:9 @ For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

web@Psalms:90:10 @ The 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.

web@Psalms:90:11 @ Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

web@Psalms:90:12 @ So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

web@Psalms:90:13 @ Relent, Yahweh! {"Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all caps) in other translations.} How long? Have compassion on your servants!

web@Psalms:90:14 @ Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

web@Psalms:90:15 @ Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

web@Psalms:90:16 @ Let your work appear to your servants; your glory to their children.

web@Psalms:90:17 @ Let 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.

web@Psalms:91:1 @ He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.