Psalms:42-72
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To the chief musician .
A Contemplation for the sons of Korah .
As the deer pants after the channels of water ,
so my soul pants after You ,
O God .
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My soul thirsts for God ,
for the living God ;
when shall I come and appear before God ?
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My tears have been my food by day and by night ,
while they say to me all the day long ,
Where is your God ?
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When I remember these things and I pour out my soul on me (
for I passed over with the throng ;
I led them to the house of God with the voice of rejoicing and praise ,
a host keeping the feast ).
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Oh my soul ,
why are you cast down and moan within me ?
Hope in God ,
for I shall yet thank Him for the salvation of His presence .
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O my God ,
my soul is cast down within me ;
on account of this I remember You from Jordan-land and from the Hermons ,
from Mount Mizar .
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Deep calls to deep through the voice of Your waterfalls ;
all Your waves and Your billows have passed over me .
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Jehovah will command His loving-kindness by day ,
and His song shall be with me in the night ,
a prayer to the God of my life .
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I will say to God my Rock ,
Why have You forgotten me ?
Why do I go mourning when the enemy oppresses me ?
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My oppressors reproach me with crushing in my bones .
when they say to me every day ,
Where is your God ?
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O my soul ,
why are you cast down ?
And why do you moan within me ?
Hope in God ,
for I yet thank Him for the salvation of my face and my God .
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Judge me ,
O God ,
and strive for my cause against a nation not godly .
Deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man .
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For You are the God of my strength .
Why have You cast me off ?
Why do I go mourning when the enemy oppresses ?
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Oh send out Your light and Your truth ;
let them lead me and bring me to the mount of Your holiness and to Your tabernacles .
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Then I will go to the altar of God ,
to God ,
the joy of my delight ,
and I will thank with the lyre ,
O God ,
my God .
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Why are you cast down ,
O my soul ,
and why do you moan within me ?
Hope in God ,
for I will still thank Him ,
the salvations of my face ,
and my God .
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To the chief musician .
A Contemplation for the Sons of Korah .
We have heard with our ears ,
O God ;
our fathers have told us the work You did in their days ,
in the days of old .
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You drove out nations with Your hand and planted them .
You brought evil on peoples and expelled them .
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For they did not inherit the land with their own sword ;
yea ,
their own arm did not save them .
But it was Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your face ,
because You favored them .
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You are He ,
my King ,
O God ;
command deliverances for Jacob .
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Through You we will push our enemies ;
through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us .
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For I will not trust in my bow ,
and my sword shall not save me .
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But You have saved us from our adversaries and have put to shame those who hate us .
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We boast in God all the day long ;
and we praise Your name forever .
Selah .
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Now You have cast us off and have shamed us .
And You do not go forth with our armies .
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You make us turn back from the oppressor ;
yea ,
our haters plunder for themselves .
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You have given us like sheep for food and have scattered us among the nations .
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For no gain You have sold Your people ,
and You are not increased by their price .
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You made us a disgrace to our neighbors ,
a scorn and a mockery to those around us .
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You make us a byword among the nations ,
a shaking of the head among the peoples .
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My humiliation is before me all the day ;
yea ,
the shame of my face covers me ,
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because of the slanderer '
s voice and the blasphemer ,
before the face of the enemy and avenger .
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All this has come upon us ,
and we have not forgotten You nor dealt falsely with Your covenant .
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Our heart has not turned back ,
and our steps have not swerved from Your way ,
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though You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us over with the death-shade .
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If we have forgotten the name of our God ,
and have spread our hands to an alien god ,
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shall not God search out this ?
For He knows the secrets of the heart .
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Yea ,
for Your sake we are slain all the day long ;
we are counted as sheep of slaughter .
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Be aroused !
Why do You sleep ,
O God ?
Awake !
Do not cast us off forever .
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Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and distress ?
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For our soul bows down to the dust ;
our belly holds fast to the earth .
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Arise for our help and redeem us for the sake of Your mercy .
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To the Chief Musician ,
Concerning the Lilies .
For the sons of Korah .
A Poem ;
a Song of the Beloved .
My heart is overflowing with a good matter .
I am speaking of my works to the King ;
my tongue is the pen of a rapid writer .
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You are the fairest of the sons of man ;
grace has poured into Your lips ;
on this account God has blessed You forever .
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Gird Your sword on Your thigh ,
Mighty One ;
with Your glory and Your majesty .
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And ride prosperously in Your majesty ,
on the matter of truth and meekness and right ,
and Your right hand shall teach You fearful things .
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Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King '
s enemies ;
peoples fall under You .
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Your throne ,
O God ,
is forever and ever ;
the scepter of Your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness .
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You love righteousness and hate wickedness ;
on account of this God ,
Your God ,
has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your fellows .
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All Your garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of ivory palaces ,
by which they make You glad .
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King '
s daughters are among Your precious ones ;
the queen stands at Your right hand in gold of Ophir .
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Listen ,
O daughter ,
and look ,
and incline your ear ,
and forget your people and your father '
s house .
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And the King will desire your beauty ,
for He is your Lord ,
and you shall worship Him .
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And the daughter of Tyre will stroke Your face with a gift ,
the rich among the peoples .
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The king '
s daughter is all glorious within ,
her clothing braided gold .
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She shall be led to the King in embroidered work ;
her companions ,
the virgins ,
shall be brought to You after her .
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They shall be led with gladness and rejoicing ;
they shall go in to the King '
s palace .
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Your sons shall be in the place of your fathers ;
You will make them for rulers in all the earth .
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I will make remembered Your name in every generation and generation ;
on this account people shall thank You forever and ever .
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To the chief musician .
For the sons of Korah ;
A song .
For the Virgins .
God is our refuge and strength ,
very much found to be a help in distresses .
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On account of this we will not fear when the earth changes and when mountains are slipping into the heart of the seas .
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Let its waters foam ;
let the mountains shake in its swelling .
Selah .
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There is a river ,
its channels gladden the city of God ,
the holy tabernacles of the Most High .
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God is in the midst of her ;
she shall not be shaken ;
God will help her at the turning of the morning .
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The nations roared ;
kingdoms were shaken ;
He gave forth His voice and the earth melted .
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Jehovah of hosts is with us ;
the God of Jacob is a refuge for us .
Selah .
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Come ,
behold the works of Jehovah ,
who sets ruins on the earth ,
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causing to cease wars to the end of the earth ;
He breaks the bow and cuts apart spears ;
He burns the chariots in the fire .
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Be still and know that I am God !
I will be exalted among the nations ;
I will be exalted in the earth .
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Jehovah of hosts is with us ;
the God of Jacob is a refuge for us .
Selah .
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To the chief musician .
A Psalm for the Sons of Korah .
All the peoples clap the hand ;
shout aloud to God with the voice of shouting .
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For Jehovah Most High is awesome ,
a great king over all the earth .
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He shall speak peoples under us ,
even nations under our feet .
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He chooses our inheritance for us ,
the majesty of Jacob whom He loved .
Selah .
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God has gone up with a shout ,
Jehovah with the sound of a ram '
s horn .
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Sing praise ;
sing praise ;
sing praise to our King ,
sing praise !
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For God is the king of all the earth ;
sing a psalm for edification .
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God reigns over the nations ;
God sits on the throne of His holiness .
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The nobles of peoples gather together ,
the people of the God of Abraham .
For the shields of the earth are God '
s ;
He is greatly lifted up .
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A Song ,
A Psalm for the Sons of Korah .
Great is Jehovah ,
and exceedingly to be praised in the city of our God ,
His holy mountain .
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Beautiful on high ,
the joy of all the earth ,
is Mount Zion ,
in the sides of the north ,
the city of the great King .
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God is known in her strongholds for a refuge .
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For ,
lo ,
the kings met together ;
they passed by together ;
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they saw ,
so they marveled ;
they were troubled and fled away .
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Trembling and pain seized them there ,
like a woman in labor .
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You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind .
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As we have heard ,
so we have seen in the city of Jehovah of hosts ,
in the city of our God .
God establishes it forever .
Selah .
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We have thought on Your lovingkindness ,
O God ,
in the midst of Your temple .
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According to Your name ,
O God ,
so is Your praise to the ends of the earth ;
Your right hand is full of righteousness .
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Mount Zion shall be glad ;
the daughters of Judah shall shout for joy because of Your judgments .
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Walk around Zion ;
yea ,
go all around it ;
count its towers ;
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set your heart on its ramparts ;
pass between its strongholds ;
in order that you may report to the coming generation .
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For this God is our God forever and ever ;
He will be our guide even unto death .
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To the chief musician ,
A Psalm for the Sons of Korah .
Hear this all peoples listen ,
all inhabitants of the world .
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Both sons of mankind and sons of man together ,
rich and poor :
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My mouth shall speak wisdoms ;
and the thoughts of my heart shall be of understanding .
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I will bow down my ear to a parable ;
I will open my dark saying on the harp .
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Why should I fear in the days of evil ,
when the perversity of my ambushers will surround me ?
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Those who trust in their wealth ,
and in their many riches ,
boast themselves .
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A man cannot at all redeem a brother ,
nor give to God a ransom for him ,
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for the redemption of their soul is precious ,
and it ceases forever ,
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for he shall yet live forever ;
he shall never see corruption .
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For he sees wise men die ;
together the fool and the animal-like ones perish and leave their riches to others .
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Their inward thought is that their houses shall last forever ,
their dwelling-places to all generations ;
they call lands after their own names .
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But man shall not remain high in honor ;
he is like the animals ;
they shall be cut off .
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This way of theirs is folly to them ,
yet their followers shall be pleased by their mouth .
Selah .
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Like sheep ,
they are appointed to Sheol ;
death shall reign for them ;
and upright ones shall rule over them in the morning ;
and their form is for rotting ;
Sheol is home for him .
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But God will redeem my soul from the hand of Sheol ;
for He will take me .
Selah .
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Do not be afraid when one becomes rich ,
when the glory of his house increases ;
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for when he dies ,
he shall take nothing ;
his glory shall not go down after him .
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For in his life he blessed his soul ;
yea ,
men praise you when you do well for yourself .
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He shall go to the generation of his fathers ;
they shall not see light forever .
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Man ,
though high in honor ,
but understanding not ,
is like the animals ;
they shall be cut off .
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A Psalm of Asaph God ,
Jehovah God has spoken ,
and calls to the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting .
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Out of Zion ,
the perfection of beauty ,
God has shone .
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Our God comes ,
and He is not silent ;
a fire shall devour before Him ;
and it shall be very stormy around Him .
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He shall call to the heavens from above ,
and to the earth ,
to judge His people .
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Gather My saints together to Me ,
those who cut My covenant by sacrifice .
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And the heavens shall declare His righteousness ,
for God Himself is judge .
Selah .
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Hear ,
My people ,
and I will speak ;
O Israel ,
and I will testify against you ;
I am God ,
your God .
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I will not reprove you for your sacrifices ;
yea ,
your burnt offerings are continually before Me ;
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I will take no bull out of your house ,
nor he-goats out of your folds ,
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for every beast of the forest is Mine ;
the cattle on a thousand hills ;
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I know all the birds of the mountains ;
and all moving in My fields are Mine ;
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if I were hungry ,
I would not tell you ;
for the world is Mine ,
and the fullness of it .
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Will I eat the flesh of mighty ones ,
and will I drink the blood of he-goats ?
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Offer thanksgiving to God ;
and pay your vows to the Most High .
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And call on Me in the day of distress ;
and I will save you ;
and you shall glorify Me .
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But to the wicked ,
God says ,
What is it to you to proclaim My statutes ,
and to take up My covenant on your mouth ?
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Yea ,
you hate instruction ,
and toss My words behind you ?
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When you saw a thief ,
you were pleased with him ;
and you have taken part with adulterers .
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You give your mouth to evil ,
and your tongue frames deceit .
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You sit ;
you speak against your brother ;
the son of your mother ;
you give slander .
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You have done these things ,
and I have kept silence ;
you thought that surely I would be like you ;
but I will rebuke you and set in order before your eyes .
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Now think of this ,
you who forget God ,
lest I tear ,
and not any to deliver :
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Whoever offers thanks glorifies Me ;
and he who prepares a way ,
I will show the salvation of God to him .
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To the chief musician ,
A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to him ,
after he had gone in to Bathsheba .
Be gracious to me ,
O God ,
according to Your loving-kindness ,
according to the multitude of Your tender mercies ;
blot out my transgressions .
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Wash me completely from my iniquity ,
and cleanse me from my sin .
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For I know my transgressions ;
and my sin is ever before me .
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Against You ,
You only ,
I have sinned ,
and done evil in Your eyes ;
that You might be justified in Your speaking and be clear when You judge .
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Behold ,
I was brought forth in iniquity ,
and in sin my mother conceived me .
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Behold ,
You desire truth in the inward parts ;
and in the hidden parts You teach me wisdom .
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Purge me with hyssop ,
and I shall be clean ;
wash me ,
and I shall be whiter than snow .
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Cause me to hear joy and gladness ;
that the bones You have crushed may rejoice .
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Hide Your face from my sins ,
and blot out all my iniquities .
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Create in me a clean heart ,
O God ;
and renew a steadfast spirit within me .
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Do not cast me out from Your presence ,
and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me .
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Restore to me the joy of Your salvation ,
and uphold me with a willing spirit .
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Then I will teach transgressors Your ways ;
and sinners will turn back to You .
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Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood ,
O God ,
O God of my salvation ;
my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness .
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O Lord ,
open my lips and my mouth shall declare Your praise .
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For you do not desire sacrifice ,
or I would give it ;
You do not delight in burnt offering .
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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit ;
a broken and a contrite heart ,
O God ,
You will not despise .
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Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion ;
build the walls of Jerusalem .
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Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness ,
with burnt offering and whole offering ;
then they shall offer bulls on Your altar .
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To the chief musician .
A Contemplation .
A Psalm of David when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul ,
and said to him ,
David has come to the house of Ahimelech .
Why do you boast yourself in evil ,
O hero ?
The mercy of God is all the day .
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Like a sharp razor ,
your tongue devises ruin ,
working deceit .
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You love evil more than good ;
lying more than to speak righteousness .
Selah .
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You love all devouring words ,
O deceitful tongue !
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God will likewise break you forever ;
He shall take you away ,
even pluck you from your tent ,
and uproot you out of the land of the living .
Selah .
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And the righteous shall see and fear ;
yea ,
they will laugh over him ,
saying ,
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Behold ,
the man who did not make God his strength ;
but he trusted in his many riches ;
he was strong in his destruction .
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But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God ;
I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever .
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I will thank You forever ,
because You have done it ;
and I will hope in Your name ,
for it is good before Your saints .
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To the Chief musician on Mahalath .
A Contemplation ;
A Psalm of David .
The fool has said in his heart ,
There is no God !
They have done corruptly ;
they have committed abominable wickedness ;
there is not one doing good !
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God looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind ,
to see if there was any discerning ,
who was seeking God :
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Every one has turned away ;
together they are filthy ;
not one is doing good ;
not even one !
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Have the workers of evil not known ,
eating up My people as they eat bread ?
They have not called on God .
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There they dreaded with dread ,
where no dread was ;
for God has scattered the bones of the one who besieges you ;
you have put them to shame because God rejects them .
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Who gives from Zion the salvation of Israel ?
When God brings back the captivity of His people ,
Jacob shall rejoice ;
Israel shall be glad .
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To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .
A Contemplation ;
A Psalm of David ,
when the Ziphites came and said to Saul ,
Does not David hide himself among us ?
Save me ,
O God ,
by Your name ;
and judge me by Your strength .
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Hear my prayer ,
O God ;
listen to the words of my mouth .
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For strangers have risen up against me ;
and terrifying men seek after my soul ;
they have not set God before them .
Selah .
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Behold ,
God is my helper .
The Lord is with those who uphold my soul .
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He shall reward evil to my enemies ;
cut them off in Your truth .
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I will freely sacrifice to You ;
I will praise Your name ,
O Jehovah ,
for it is good .
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For He has delivered me out of all trouble ;
and my eye has seen its desire on my enemies .
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To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .
A Contemplation .
A Psalm of David .
Give ear to my prayer ,
O God ;
and do not hide Yourself from my cry .
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Pay attention to me ,
and answer me ;
I wander and I moan in my complaint ,
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from the voice of the enemy ,
from the oppression of the wicked ;
for they shake trouble over me ,
and in anger they hate me .
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My heart is pained within me ,
and the terrors of death have fallen on me .
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Fear and trembling come on me ;
and honor has covered me .
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And I said ,
Who will give to me wings like a dove ?
I would fly away and be at rest .
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I would rove far away ,
fleeing ;
I would lodge in the desert .
Selah .
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I would hasten to my escape from the rushing wind ,
from the tempest .
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Swallow up ,
O Lord ;
divide their tongue ;
for I see violence and strife in the city .
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They go around her on her walls by day and night ;
and trouble and mischief are in her midst .
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Covetings are in her midst ;
oppression and guile will not depart from her streets .
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For it is not an enemy reproaching me ,
or I could bear it ;
it is not one who hates me who is magnifying himself against me ;
or I would hide myself from him .
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But it is you ,
a man of my rank ,
my friend and my associate .
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We sweetened counsel together ;
we marched into the house of God with the throng .
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Desolation be upon them !
They go down into Sheol alive ,
for evils are among them in their dwelling .
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I ,
even I ,
will call to God ,
and Jehovah will save me .
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Evening and morning ,
and at noon ,
I will complain and cry aloud ;
and He shall hear my voice .
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He redeems my soul in peace from the war being waged against me for they were many with me .
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God shall hear and answer them ,
even He who is enthroned of old .
Selah .
There are no changes to them ;
yea ,
they do not fear God .
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He sent out his hand against those who wish him well ;
he polluted his covenant .
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The butterings of his mouth were smooth ,
and war was in his heart ;
his words were softer than oil ,
but they were as drawn swords .
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Cast on Jehovah what He has given ,
and He will keep you ;
He will not give the righteous to waver ,
forever .
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But You ,
O God ,
will bring them down to the pit of destruction ;
men of blood and deceit will not live out half their days ;
but I will trust in You .
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To the chief musician .
Concerning the silent dove ,
those far off .
Of David ,
a secret treasure (
when the Philistines seized him in Gath ).
Favor me ,
O God ,
for man snuffs me up ;
all the day fighting oppresses me .
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My watchers panted for me all the day ;
for many are proudly fighting against me .
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The day I am afraid ,
I will trust in You .
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In God I will praise His word ;
in God I have trusted ;
I will not fear ;
what will flesh do to me ?
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All the day they pervert my words ;
all their thoughts are against me for evil .
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They stir up strife ;
they hide ;
they observe my footprints as they wait for my soul .
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Is escape for them by iniquity ?
In anger the peoples cast down ,
O God .
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You have counted my wandering ;
O put my tears in Your bottle ;
are they not in Your Book ?
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Then my enemies will turn back in the day I call ;
this I know ,
for God is for me .
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In God I will praise the Word ;
in Jehovah I will praise the Word .
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In God I have trusted ;
I will not fear ;
what will man do to me ?
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On me ,
O God ,
are Your vows ;
I will render to You thank offerings .
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For You have delivered my soul from death .
Do You not keep my feet from falling ,
so that I may walk before God in the light of the living ?
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To the chief musician .
Do not destroy .
A secret treasure of David ,
when he fled from Saul in the cave .
Be merciful to me ,
O God ,
be merciful to me ,
for my soul trusts in You ;
yea ,
in the shadow of Your wings I will make my hiding place ,
until the great destruction passes by .
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I will cry to God most High ,
to God who works for me .
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He shall send from Heaven and save me ;
He will shame the one who crushes me .
Selah .
God shall send His mercy and His truth .
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My soul is among lions ;
I lie among those on fire ,
the sons of men ,
whose teeth are spears and arrows ,
and their tongue a sharp sword .
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Be praised above the heavens ,
O God ;
let Your glory be over the whole earth .
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They have prepared a net for my steps ;
my soul is bowed down ;
they have dug a pit before me ;
they have fallen into it .
Selah .
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My heart is fixed ,
O God ,
my heart is fixed ;
I will sing and give praise .
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Wake up my glory !
Wake up ,
harp and lyre !
I will stir the morning dawn with praise .
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I will praise You among the peoples ,
O Lord ,
I will sing to You among the nations .
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For Your mercy is great to the heavens ,
and Your truth to the clouds .
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Be exalted above the heavens ,
O God ;
Your glory over the whole earth .
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To the chief musician .
Do not destroy .
A secret treasure of David .
Will you indeed speak righteousness in silence ?
Do you judge uprightly ,
O sons of men ?
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Yes ,
in heart you work the evil ,
you weigh the violence of your hands in the land .
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The wicked are estranged from the womb ;
they go astray from the belly ,
speaking lies .
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Their poison is like the poison of a snake ;
like the deaf adder ,
he stops his ear ,
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which will not hear the charmer '
s voice ,
skillful caster of spells .
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O God ,
break their teeth in their mouth ;
break out the big teeth of the young lions ,
O Jehovah .
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Let them melt away like waters ;
they flow off to them ;
he treads his arrows ;
let them be as though they were cut off ;
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Let them be as a snail goes into melting ,
a miscarriage of a woman ;
they do not see the sun .
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Before your pots can feel the thorns ,
whether green or glowing ,
He shall sweep it away .
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The righteous shall rejoice when he sees vengeance ;
he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked .
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And man will say ,
Truly ,
a fruit is to the righteous ;
truly ,
there is a God judging in the earth .
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To the chief musician .
Do not destroy .
A secret treasure of David ,
when Saul sent ,
and they watched the house to kill him .
Deliver me from my enemies ,
O my God ;
set me on high from the ones who rise up against me .
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Deliver me from the workers of evil ,
and save me from bloody men .
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For lo ,
they lie in wait for my soul ,
mighty ones gather against me ;
not for my transgression ,
and not my sin ,
O Jehovah .
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Without my fault they run and prepare themselves ;
awaken to help me ,
and look on me .
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And You ,
O Jehovah God of hosts ,
the God of Israel :
Awake to visit all the nations ;
be not merciful to any plotting evil .
Selah .
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They return at evening ;
they howl like a dog ,
and go around the city .
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Behold ,
they bellow with their mouth ;
swords are in their lips ;
for they say ,
Who hears ?
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But You ,
O Jehovah ,
shall laugh at them ;
you shall mock at all the nations .
*
O my Strength ,
let me look to You ;
for God is my strong tower .
*
The God of my mercy shall meet me ;
God shall let me see my desire on my enemies .
*
Do not kill them ,
lest my people forget ;
scatter them by Your power and bring them down ,
O Jehovah our shield .
*
For the sin of their mouth is the word of their lips ,
even let them be captured in their pride ,
and for cursing and the lying which they utter .
*
Consume them in Your anger ;
consume ,
so that they may not be ;
and they shall know that God is ruling in Jacob ,
to the ends of the earth .
Selah .
*
Yes ,
they shall return at evening ;
let them howl like the dog and go around the city ;
*
let them wander up and down for food ,
and growl if they are not satisfied .
*
But I will sing of Your power ;
yes ,
I will sing of Your mercy in the morning .
For You have been my strong tower ,
and my hiding place in the day of my trouble .
*
To You ,
O my strength ,
I will sing ;
for God is my strong tower ,
the God of my mercy .
*
To the chief musician .
On the Lily of Testimony .
A secret treasure of David ,
to teach ;
when he struggled with Aram-naharaim ,
and with Aram-zobah ;
when Joab returned ,
and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt .
O God !
You cast us off ;
You broke us ;
You who were angry ;
take us back .
*
You made the earth tremble ;
You tore it ;
heal its breaks ,
for it is shaking .
*
You have shown Your people hardship ;
You made us drink the wine of trembling .
*
You have given a banner to those who fear You ,
to lift it up because of the truth .
Selah .
*
Save with Your right hand and answer me ,
that Your beloved may be delivered .
*
God has spoken in His holiness ;
I will rejoice ;
I will divide Shechem ,
and measure out the valley of Succoth .
*
Gilead is Mine ,
and Manasseh is Mine ;
Ephraim is the strength of My head ;
Judah is My lawgiver ;
*
Moab is My washpot ;
over Edom I will cast out My shoe ;
over me ,
Philistia ,
shout in triumph .
*
Who will bring me into the strong city ?
Who will lead me into Edom ?
*
Have not You ,
O God ,
cast us aside ?
And will You not go forth with our armies ,
O God ?
*
Give us help against our foe ,
for vain is the deliverance of man .
*
Through God we shall do mighty things ;
for He shall tread on our foes .
*
To the chief musician .
On stringed instruments .
Of David .
Hear my cry ,
O God ,
and listen to my prayer .
*
From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart faints ;
Oh lead me to the Rock that is higher than I .
*
For You have been my shelter ,
a strong tower before the enemy .
*
I will dwell in Your tabernacle forever ;
I will trust in the shelter of Your wings .
Selah .
*
For You ,
O God ,
have heard my vows ;
You appointed the inheritance of those who fear Your name .
*
You will add days to the days of the king ;
his years will be as generations to generations .
*
He shall abide forever before God ;
appoint mercy and truth to preserve him .
*
So I will sing praise to Your name forever ,
so that I may pay my vows day by day .
*
To the chief musician .
To Jeduthun .
A Psalm of David .
Only to God is my soul silent ;
from Him comes my salvation .
*
He alone is my rock and my salvation ,
my strong tower ;
I shall not be greatly moved .
*
Until when will you break in against a man ?
You will shatter him ,
all of you ,
like a bowing wall ,
a tottering fence .
*
Surely ,
they plotted to cast him down from his excellent dignity ;
they delight in lies ;
they bless with their mouth ,
but they curse in their heart .
Selah .
*
Only be silent to God ,
O my soul ,
for my hope comes from Him .
*
He alone is my rock and my salvation ,
my strong tower ;
I shall not be shaken .
*
On God is my salvation and my glory ;
my strong rock ,
my refuge is in God .
*
Trust in Him at every time ,
you people ;
pour out your heart before Him ;
God is a refuge for us .
Selah .
*
Surely the sons of men are vanity ,
the sons of man are a lie ;
they go up in the scales ;
they are higher than vanity together .
*
Trust not in oppression ,
and do not be vain in robbery ;
if riches increase to you ,
do not set your heart on them .
*
God has spoken once ;
twice I have heard this ,
that power belongs to God ;
*
Also mercy belongs to You ,
O Lord ,
for You reward a man according to his work .
*
A Psalm of David ,
when he was in the wilderness of Judah .
O God ,
You are my God ;
I earnestly seek You ;
my soul thirsts for You ;
my flesh longs for You ,
as in a dry and weary land without water .
*
Therefore I have seen you in the holy place ,
seeing Your power and Your glory .
*
For Your loving-kindness is better than life ;
my lips give praise to You .
*
So I will bless You while I live ;
I will lift up my hands in Your name .
*
My soul shall be satisfied ,
as with marrow and fatness ;
and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips ,
*
when I remember You upon my bed .
I will meditate on You in the night watches .
*
For You have been a help to me ,
and I will rejoice under the shadow of Your wings .
*
My soul is cleaved after You ;
Your right hand upholds me .
*
And those who seek to destroy my life shall go into the depths of the earth .
*
They shall pour him out by the sword ;
they shall be a serving for jackals .
*
But the king shall rejoice in God ;
everyone who swears by Him shall glory ,
because the mouth of the one speaking a lie will be stopped .
*
To the chief musician .
A Psalm of David .
O God ,
hear my voice in my complaint ;
guard my life from the terror of the enemy .
*
Hide me from the council of those who injure ,
from the tumult of evildoers ,
*
who sharpen their tongue like a sword ;
they tread their arrows ,
a bitter word ,
*
so that they may shoot at the innocent from a lurking place ;
suddenly they shoot at him ,
and fear not .
*
They make themselves strong in an evil plan ;
they talk of laying snares secretly ;
they say ,
Who shall see them ?
*
They search into injustice ,
saying ,
We have finished a well laid plan .
Yea ,
the inward part of man and the heart are deep !
*
But God shall shoot an arrow at them ;
their wounds shall suddenly appear .
*
So they shall be confounded ;
their tongue falls upon themselves ;
everyone seeing them shall flee .
*
And all men shall fear and shall declare the work of God ;
yea ,
they shall in wisdom consider His work .
*
The righteous shall rejoice in Jehovah ,
and shall trust in Him ;
and all the upright in heart shall glory .
*
To the chief musician .
A Psalm and Song of David .
To You silence is praise ,
O God ,
in Zion ;
and to You is a vow paid .
*
To You who hears prayer ,
all flesh comes .
*
Things of iniquity ,
our transgressions ,
are mightier than I ;
You atone for them .
*
Blessed is the one You choose and cause to come near You ;
he shall dwell in Your courts ;
we shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house ,
Your holy temple .
*
You will answer us in righteousness by awesome things ,
O God of our salvation ;
the Confidence of all the ends of the earth and the sea ,
of those afar off .
*
By Your strength the mountains are established ,
banded together with might .
*
You still the roaring of the sea ,
the roar of their waves ,
and the tumult of the peoples .
*
And the inhabitants of the uttermost parts are afraid of Your signs ;
You make the outgoings of the morning and the evening to rejoice .
*
You visit the earth and water it ;
You greatly enrich it ;
the river of God is full of water .
You provide their grain ,
for in this way You have prepared it .
*
You fill its terraces with water .
You deepen its furrows .
You make it soft with showers .
You bless the sprouting of it .
*
You crown the year of Your goodness ,
and Your tracks drop with fruitfulness .
*
The pastures of the wilderness drop ,
and the little hills gird themselves with joy .
*
The meadows are outfitted with flocks ;
the valleys are also covered with grain ;
they shout for joy and sing .
*
To the chief musician .
A Songs .
A Psalm .
Make a joyful noise to God ,
all the earth ;
*
Sing out the honor of His name ;
give glory to His praise .
*
Say to God ,
How fearful are Your works !
Through the greatness of Your power ,
Your enemies pretend obedience to You .
*
All the earth shall worship You ;
and they sing to You ;
they praise Your name .
Selah .
*
Come and see God '
s works ,
who is awesome in His acts toward the sons of men .
*
He turns the sea into dry land ;
they go through the river on foot ;
there we will rejoice with Him .
*
He rules by His power forever ;
His eyes search out the nations ;
let not the rebels exalt themselves .
Selah .
*
Bless our God ,
O peoples ,
and make heard the voice of His praise ;
*
Who holds our soul in life and does not allow our foot to slide .
*
For You ,
O God ,
have proved us ;
You have tested us as silver is refined .
*
You have brought us into the net ;
You laid afflictions on our loins .
*
You have let men ride at our head ;
we went through fire and through water ,
but You brought us out to plenty .
*
I will go into Your house with burnt offerings ;
I will pay You my vows ,
*
which my lips have opened ,
and my mouth has spoken in my trouble .
*
I will offer burnt sacrifices of fatlings to You ,
with the incense of rams ;
I will offer bulls with goats .
Selah .
*
Come ,
hear ,
and let me tell ,
all you who fear God ,
what He has done for my soul .
*
I cried to Him with my mouth ,
and exaltations were under my tongue .
*
If I had regarded iniquity in my heart ,
Jehovah would not have heard .
*
Surely ,
God has heard ;
He has attended to the voice of my prayer .
*
Blessed be God ,
who has not turned away my prayer and His mercy from me !
*
To the chief musician ,
for stringed instruments .
A Psalm .
A song .
May God be merciful to us and bless us ,
and cause His face to shine upon us .
Selah .
*
That Your way may be known on earth ,
Your salvation among all nations .
*
Let the peoples thank You ,
O God ;
let all the peoples thank You .
*
Oh let the peoples be glad and sing for joy ;
for You shall judge the peoples uprightly and govern the peoples on earth .
Selah .
*
Let the peoples give thanks to You ,
O God ;
let all the peoples give thanks to You .
*
The earth has given its increase ;
God ,
our own God ,
shall bless us .
*
God shall bless us ;
and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him .
*
To the chief musician .
A Psalm of David .
A Songs .
God rises up and His enemies are scattered ;
and those who hate Him flee from His face .
*
As smoke is driven away ,
You drive them away ;
as wax melts before the fire ,
the wicked perish in God '
s presence .
*
But the righteous are glad ;
they shout for joy before God ;
yea ,
they exult with gladness .
*
Sing to God ,
sing praise to His name ;
lift up for Him who rides in the deserts ;
by His name Jehovah ;
yea ,
exult in His presence .
*
In His holy dwelling God is a father of the fatherless ,
and a judge of the widows .
*
God causes the lonely to live at home ;
He brings out those who are bound with chains ,
while the rebellious dwell in a dry land .
*
O God ,
when You marched before Your people ,
when You walked on through the wilderness .
Selah .
*
The earth shook ,
and the heavens dropped before God ,
this Sinai before God ,
the God of Israel .
*
O God ,
You sent down a shower of plenty ,
by which You upheld Your inheritance when it was weary .
*
Your flock lived in it .
You ,
O God ,
have prepared for the poor in Your goodness .
*
Jehovah gave the word ;
the bearers of it were a great army .
*
Kings of armies fled ,
they ran away ;
yea ,
she who stayed home has divided the plunder .
*
When you lie among the sheepfolds ,
the wings of a dove are covered with silver ,
and its feathers with gleaming gold .
*
When the Almighty scatters kings in it ,
it snows on Mount Salmon .
*
The mountain of Bashan is God '
s mountain ;
the Bashan range is a mountain of peaks .
*
Why do you gaze in envy ,
O mountain range ,
at the mountain God desired for His dwelling ?
Yea ,
Jehovah will dwell in it forever .
*
The chariots of God are myriads ,
thousands of changes ,
the Lord is among them ,
in Sinai ,
in the holy place .
*
You have gone up on high ;
You have led captivity captive ;
You have received gifts among men ;
yea ,
to dwell among the rebellious ,
O Jehovah God .
*
Blessed be the Lord :
day by day He bears burdens for us ,
the God of our salvation .
Selah .
*
Our God is the God of salvation ;
and to Jehovah the Lord are the issues of death .
*
Yea ,
God will crush the head of His enemies ,
the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt .
*
The Lord said ,
I will bring back from Bashan ;
I will bring back My people from the depths of the sea ;
*
so that your foot may be dashed in the blood of your enemies ,
the tongue of your dogs in it .
*
They have seen Your processions ,
O God ;
the goings of my God ,
my King ,
in the holy place .
*
The singers went before ,
then the musicians came ;
among them were the virgins playing the timbrels .
*
O bless God in the congregations ,
the Lord ,
from the fountain of Israel .
*
There is little Benjamin their ruler ;
the leaders of Judah in their crowd ,
and the leaders of Zebulun ,
the leaders of Naphtali .
*
Your God has commanded your strength ;
O God ,
be strong ,
in this that You have worked out for us .
*
Because of Your temple over Jerusalem ,
kings shall bring a present to You .
*
Oh rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds ,
the herd of bulls ,
with the calves of the peoples ,
trampling down with pieces of silver .
He scatters the people who delight in war .
*
Let nobles be brought out of Egypt ;
Ethiopia shall run up her hands to God .
*
Sing to God ,
kingdoms of the earth ,
praises to the Lord .
Selah .
*
To Him who rides on the heavens of heavens of old ;
lo ,
He sends out His voice ,
a mighty voice .
*
Ascribe strength to God over Israel ;
His majesty and His strength in the skies .
*
O God ,
You are awesome out of Your holy places ;
the God of Israel is He who gives strength and powers to the people .
Blessed be God !
*
To the chief musician .
Concerning the Lilies .
Of David .
Save me ,
O God ,
for the waters have come in to my soul .
*
I sink in deep mire ,
and there is no standing ;
I have come into deep waters where the floods overflow me .
*
I am weary from my crying ,
my throat is scorched ;
my eyes fail while I wait for my God .
*
They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head ;
they who would destroy me are mighty ,
my lying enemies ;
then I restored what I did not take by violence .
*
O God ,
You know my foolishness ,
and my guiltiness is not hidden from You .
*
O Jehovah of hosts ,
do not let those who wait on You be ashamed for my sake ;
let not the ones who seek You be ashamed for my sake ,
O God of Israel .
*
Because I suffered reproach for Your sake ,
shame has covered my face .
*
I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother '
s children .
*
For the zeal of Your house has consumed Me ;
and the reproaches of the ones who reproach You have fallen on Me .
*
When I humbled my soul with fasting ,
it also was to my reproach ;
*
I also made sackcloth my clothing ,
and I became a mockery to them .
*
They who sit in the gate spoke of me ;
and I was the song of drunkards .
*
But as for me ,
my prayer is to You ,
O Jehovah ,
at a time of favor ,
O God !
in the plentitude of Your mercy answer me ,
in the truth of Your salvation .
*
Deliver me out of the mire ,
that I may not sink ;
let me be delivered from those who hate me ,
and out of the deep waters .
*
Let not the flood waters overflow me ,
nor let the deep swallow me up ;
and let not the pit shut its mouth on me .
*
Hear me ,
O Jehovah ,
for Your mercy is good ;
in the plentitude of Your tender mercies ,
turn toward me .
*
And do not hide Your face from Your servant ;
for I am distressed ;
hear me quickly ;
*
draw near my soul ;
redeem it ;
ransom me because of my enemies .
*
You know my reproach and my shame ,
and my dishonor ;
my enemies are all before You .
*
Reproach has broken my heart ,
and I am faint ;
and I waited for one to show pity ,
but there was no one ;
and for comforters ,
but I found none .
*
They also gave Me gall in my food ;
and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink .
*
Let their table be a trap before them ,
and to those at ease a snare .
*
Let their eyes be darkened from seeing ,
and cause their loins to quiver continually .
*
Pour out Your wrath on them ;
and let the glow of Your anger overtake them .
*
Let their home be made desolate ;
let no one dwell in their tents .
*
For whom You have stricken ,
they have persecuted ;
and they gossip to the pain of those You pierced .
*
Put iniquity to their iniquity ,
and do not let them enter into Your righteousness .
*
Blot them out from the Book of Life ;
yea ,
let them not be written with the righteous .
*
But I am poor and in pain ;
O God ,
Your salvation shall set me on high .
*
I will praise God '
s name in a song ;
and I will magnify Him with thanks .
*
And it shall please Jehovah more than bulls ,
horned or hoofed bull .
*
The humble have seen and are glad ;
you who seek God ,
your heart shall live .
*
For Jehovah hears the needy ,
and He does not despise His prisoners .
*
Let the heavens and the earth praise Him ;
the seas ,
and everything that moves in them .
*
For God will save Zion ;
and He will build the cities of Judah ,
and they shall live there and possess it .
*
And His servants '
seed shall inherit ;
and they who love His name shall live in it .
*
To the chief musician .
A Psalm of David ,
to bring to remembrance .
O God ,
deliver me !
Hurry ,
O Jehovah ,
to help me !
*
Let those who seek after my soul be ashamed and turned pale ;
let them be turned backward and shamed ,
those who desire my evil .
*
Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame ,
those who say ,
Aha ,
aha !
*
Let all those who seek You rejoice ,
and be glad in You ;
and let those who love Your salvation forever say ,
Let God be magnified .
*
But I am poor and needy ,
come quickly to me ,
O God ;
You are my help and my deliverer ;
O Jehovah ,
do not wait any longer .
*
I put my trust in You ,
O Jehovah ,
let me not be put to shame forever .
*
In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me ;
bow down Your ear to me and save me .
*
Be a rock of strength for me ,
to which I may always go ;
You have given a command to save me ;
for You are my rock and my fortress .
*
O my God ,
deliver me out of the hand of the wicked ,
and out of the palm of the unjust and the ruthless .
*
For You are my hope ,
O Lord Jehovah ,
my trust from my youth .
*
I have rested on You from the belly ;
You are He who took me out of my mother '
s womb ;
my praise shall be always of You .
*
I am like a wonder to many ,
but You are my strong tower .
*
My mouth is filled with Your praise ,
with your glory all the day long .
*
Do not cast me off now at the time of my old age .
Do not forsake me when my strength fails .
*
For my enemies speak against me ;
and those who lurk for my soul plot together .
*
And they say ,
God has forsaken him ;
pursue him and take him ,
for there is no one to deliver .
*
O God ,
do not be far from me ;
Oh my God come quickly to help me .
*
Let them be ashamed ;
let those who are enemies of my soul be consumed ;
let them be covered with reproach ,
and let those seeking evil for me be dishonored ;
*
and I will hope without ceasing ,
and I will add more on all Your praise .
*
My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness and Your salvation all the day ;
for I do not know the numbers .
*
I will come in the strength of the lord Jehovah ;
I will speak of Your righteousness ,
of Yours alone .
*
O God ,
You have taught me from my youth ;
and until now I have declared Your wonders .
*
And now that I am old and grayheaded ,
O God ,
do not leave me until I have manifested Your strength to the generation ,
Your power to everyone who is to come .
*
And ,
Your righteousness ,
O God ,
is to the heights ,
You who have done great things .
O God ,
who is like You ?
*
Who has shown me great and evil distresses ;
You will turn me ;
You will make me live ;
and You will bring me up from the depths of the earth .
*
You will multiply my greatness and surround and comfort me .
*
I will also thank You with a harp ,
O my God ;
I will sing Your truth ;
I will sing to You with the lyre ,
O Holy One of Israel .
*
My lips shall shout for joy ,
for I will sing praise to You ;
also my soul which you have redeemed .
*
And my tongue shall muse on Your righteousness all the day ;
because those seeking my evil are disgraced ;
they are put to shame .
*
Of Solomon .
Give the King Your judgments ,
O God ;
and Your righteousness to the King '
s son .
*
Your people He shall judge in righteousness ,
and Your poor in justice .
*
The mountains will lift up peace to the people ;
and the little hills through righteousness .
*
He shall judge the poor of the people ;
and He shall save the sons of the needy ;
and He shall crush the oppressor .
*
They shall fear You with the sun ,
and before the moon in all generations .
*
He shall descend like rain on the mown grass ,
like showers that water the earth .
*
In His days the righteous shall flourish ,
and plenty of peace ,
till the moon is not .
*
He shall also rule from sea to sea ,
and from the River to the ends of the earth .
*
Those dwelling in the desert will bow before Him ,
and His enemies will lick the dust .
*
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents ;
the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts .
*
Yea ,
all kings shall fall down before Him ;
all nations shall serve Him .
*
For He shall save the needy who cries ,
and the poor with no helper .
*
He shall have pity on the poor and needy ;
and He saves the souls of the needy ones .
*
He shall redeem their souls from oppression and violence ;
and their blood shall be precious in His eyes .
*
And He shall live ,
and the gold of Sheba shall be given to Him ;
and prayer shall be made for Him continually ;
He shall bless Him all the day long .
*
A fullness of grain shall be in the earth on top of the mountains ;
its fruit shall shake like Lebanon ;
and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth .
*
His name shall be forever ;
His name shall continue before the sun ;
and they shall bless themselves by Him ;
all nations shall call Him blessed .
*
Blessed is Jehovah God ,
the God of Israel ,
who alone does wonderful things .
*
And blessed is His glorious name forever ;
and the whole earth is filled with His glory !
Amen and amen !
*
The prayers of David the son of Jesse have ended .
*
A Psalm of Asaph .
Truly God is good to Israel ,
to those who are of a pure heart .
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