web - Psalms:86-89

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.