DASV: Psalm 18

For the music director; A psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who sang to the LORD the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:

¹ I love you, O LORD, my strength.

² The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;

my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge;

my shield and the horn of my salvation,

my stronghold.

³ I called on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised,

so I was saved from my enemies.

⁴ The cords of death surrounded me,

and the floods of destruction overwhelmed me.

⁵ The cords of Sheol wrapped around me;

the snares of death trapped me.

⁶ In my distress I called upon the LORD,

and cried for help to my God.

He heard my voice from his temple,

and my cry for help came to his ears.

⁷ Then the earth shook and trembled;

the foundations of the mountains quaked and shook

because he was angry.

⁸ Smoke went up out of his nostrils,

and fire from his mouth devoured,

flaming coals were kindled by it.

⁹ The heavens bent down as he descended,

and thick darkness was under his feet.

¹⁰ He mounted a cherub, and flew;

he soared upon the wings of the wind.

¹¹ He made darkness his covering;

his canopy around him was dark rain clouds.

¹² From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed by,

with hailstones and coals of fire.

¹³ The LORD thundered in the heavens,

and the Most High uttered his voice,

hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴ He shot his arrows, and scattered them;

he flashed lightning bolts, and routed them.

¹⁵ Then the channels of sea were seen,

and the foundations of the world were laid bare,

at your rebuke, O LORD,

at the blast of the breath from your nostrils.

¹⁶ He reached down from on high, he took hold of me;

he pulled me out of deep waters.

¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy,

and from those who hated me,

for they were too strong for me.

¹⁸ They attacked me in the day of my calamity,

but the LORD was my support.

¹⁹ He brought me out into the open;

he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰ The LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness;

according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of the LORD,

and have not wickedly departed from my God.

²² For all his regulations were before me,

and I have not rejected his statutes.

²³ I was blameless before him,

and I kept myself from sin.

²⁴ Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,

according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

²⁵ To the faithful you show yourself faithful;

to the blameless you show yourself blameless;

²⁶ to the pure you show yourself pure,

and to the twisted you show yourself cunning.

²⁷ You save the humble,

but those with haughty eyes you humble.

²⁸ For you light my lamp;

the LORD, my God lights up my darkness.

²⁹ For by you I can attack an army,

and by my God I can leap over a wall.

³⁰ As for God, his way is perfect;

the word of the LORD is tried and true.

He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

³¹ For who is God, except the LORD?

Who is a rock, besides our God?

³² God equips me with strength,

and makes my way perfect.

³³ He makes my feet like the feet of a deer,

and sets me on high places.

³⁴ He trains my hands for war,

so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

³⁵ You have given me the shield of your salvation,

and your right hand has held me up,

and your support has made me great.

³⁶ You have widened the path for my steps under me,

and my feet have not slipped.

³⁷ I pursued my enemies and overtook them;

I did not turn back until they were destroyed.

³⁸ I struck them through, so that they were not able to rise;

they fell under my feet.

³⁹ For you have equipped me with strength for the battle;

those who rose up against me, you have subdued under me.

⁴⁰ You have made my fleeing enemies turn their backs to me,

and I destroyed those who hated me.

⁴¹ They cried for help, but there was no one to save them;

they cried out to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

⁴² I beat them as fine as the dust blown by the wind;

I swept them out like mud from the streets.

⁴³ You have delivered me from people accusing me;

you have made me the head of the nations,

a people whom I did not know serve me.

⁴⁴ As soon as they hear about me, they obey me;

foreigners helplessly cringe before me.

⁴⁵ Foreigners lose their courage,

and come trembling out of their fortified enclosures.

⁴⁶ The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock!

May the God of my salvation be exalted.

⁴⁷ It is God who avenges me,

and subdues the people under me.

⁴⁸ He rescues me from my enemies;

yes, you lifted me up above those who rose up against me;

you delivered me from the violent.

⁴⁹ Therefore I will give thanks to you, O LORD,

among the nations,

and will sing praises to your name.

⁵⁰ He gives great victories to his king;

and shows loyal love to his anointed,

to David and his descendants forever.

DASV: Psalm 22

For the music director, according to The Deer of the Dawn, a psalm of David.

¹ My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from helping me,

so far from the words of my groaning?

² O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer;

by night, I find no relief.

³ Yet you are holy,

the one enthroned on the praises of Israel.

⁴ Our fathers trusted in you;

they trusted, and you delivered them.

⁵ They cried out to you, and were rescued;

they trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

⁶ But I am a worm, and not a man,

scorned by men and despised by the people.

⁷ All who see me mock me;

they shoot out the lip;

they shake their heads, saying,

⁸ "He trusts in to the LORD.

Let him deliver him;

let him rescue him,

seeing he delights in him."

⁹ Yet you are the one who brought me out of the womb;

you made me trust when I was at my mother's breasts.

¹⁰ I was cast on you from birth;

you have been my God since my mother bore me.

¹¹ Do not stay far away from me;

for trouble is near and there is no one to help.

¹² Many bulls have surrounded me;

strong bulls of Bashan have hemmed me in.

¹³ They open their mouths wide against me,

like a ravening and roaring lion.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water,

and all my bones are out of joint.

My heart is like wax;

it is melted within me.

¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a piece of pottery,

and my tongue sticks to my gums,

and you lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶ For dogs surround me;

a pack of evildoers encircles me,

they pierce my hands and my feet.

¹⁷ I can count all my bones;

they stare and gloat over me.

¹⁸ They divide my clothes among them,

and cast lots for my clothes.

¹⁹ But you, O LORD, do not stay far away!

O my help, come quickly to help me.

²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword,

my life from the power of the dog.

²¹ Save me from the lion's mouth;

rescue me from the horns of the wild oxen.

²² I will declare your name to my brothers;

in the middle of the assembly I will praise you.

²³ You who fear the LORD, praise him;

all you, the seed of Jacob, glorify him;

stand in awe of him, all you the descendants of Israel.

²⁴ For he has not despised or abhorred the suffering of the afflicted;

he did not hide his face from him,

but when he cried out to him, he listened.

²⁵ You are the reason for my praise in the great assembly;

I will fulfill my vows before those who fear him.

²⁶ The poor will eat and be satisfied;

those who seek the LORD will praise him;

may your hearts live forever.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD,

and all the families of nations will worship before you.

²⁸ For the kingship belongs to the LORD,

he is ruler over the nations.

²⁹ All those flourishing on the earth will eat and worship;

all those who go down to the dust will bow before him--

the one who cannot keep himself alive.

³⁰ An entire generation will serve him;

it will tell the next generation about the Lord.

³¹ They will come and declare his righteousness

to a people who have yet to be born, telling what he has done.

DASV: Psalm 35

Of David

¹ Oppose, O LORD, those who oppose me;

fight against those who fight against me.

² Take hold of shield and buckler;

rise up to help me.

³ Draw out the spear and javelin against those who pursue me.

Say to my soul, "I am your salvation."

⁴ Let them be put to shame and disgrace who seek my life;

turn them back and humiliate those plotting to harm me.

⁵ Let them be like chaff before the wind,

with the angel of the LORD driving them away.

⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery,

with the angel of the LORD pursuing them.

⁷ For no reason they hid their net for me;

for no reason they dug a pit for my life.

⁸ Let destruction come on him by surprise,

and let the net he hid snare himself,

with destruction let him fall into the pit.

⁹ Then I will be joyful in the LORD;

I will rejoice in his salvation.

¹⁰ All my bones will say, "O LORD, who is like you?"

You deliver the poor from the one who is too strong for him,

the poor and the needy from the one who attempts to rob him.

¹¹ Malicious witnesses rise up;

they accuse me of things that I know nothing about.

¹² They repay me evil for good;

I am overcome with sorrow.

¹³ But when they were sick, I put on sackcloth;

I afflicted myself with fasting,

and I prayed with my head bowed low on my chest.

¹⁴ I grieved for them as if they had been my friend or my brother;

I bowed down mourning, as one who laments for his own mother.

¹⁵ But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together against me,

attackers I do not even know;

they tear me apart without stopping.

¹⁶ Like the profane mockers at feasts,

they gnash on me with their teeth.

¹⁷ O Lord, how long will you just look on?

Rescue me from their devastating attacks;

save my precious life from the lions.

¹⁸ I will give you thanks in the great assembly;

I will praise you among many people.

¹⁹ Do not let those who are my treacherous enemies rejoice over me;

do not let those who hate me for no reason wink with the eye.

²⁰ For they do not speak peace,

but they devise deceitful words

against those who live quietly in the land.

²¹ They open their mouth wide against me;

they say, "Aha, aha, our own eyes have seen him do it."

²² You have seen it, O LORD;

do not remain silent, O Lord;

do not stay far away from me.

²³ Rouse yourself, and wake up for my justice;

defend my cause, my God and my Lord.

²⁴ Vindicate me, O LORD my God,

according to your righteousness;

do not let them rejoice over me.

²⁵ Do not let them say in their heart,

"Aha, we got what we wanted."

Do not let them say,

"We have swallowed him up."

²⁶ Let those who rejoice at my harm

be put to shame and disgrace;

let those who exalt themselves against me

be clothed with shame and dishonor.

²⁷ Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause;

let them continually say, "The LORD is great,

who delights in the prosperity of his servant."

²⁸ My tongue will tell of your righteousness

and speak of your praises all day long.

DASV: Psalm 37

Of David

¹ Do not fret yourself because of evildoers,
or envy those who do wrong.

² For they will soon wither like the grass,

and wilt like a green plant.

³ Trust in the LORD and do good;

dwell in the land and pasture securely.

⁴ Delight yourself in the LORD,

and he will give you the desires of your heart.

⁵ Commit your way to the LORD;

trust in him, and he will make it happen.

⁶ He will make your righteousness beam like the light,
and your justice like the noonday.

⁷ Be still before the LORD, and wait patiently for him;

do not fret because of one who prospers in his way,

because of one who implements wicked schemes.

⁸ Stop being angry, and forsake wrath;

do not fret, it only leads to evil.

⁹ For evildoers will be cut off,

but those who expectantly wait on the LORD will inherit the land.

¹⁰ In just a little while, the wicked will be no more;

though you look carefully for his place, he will not be there.

¹¹ But the meek will inherit the land,

and will delight themselves in the abundant prosperity.

¹² The wicked plots against the just,

and gnashes their teeth at him.

¹³ The Lord will laugh at him,

for he sees that his day is coming.

¹⁴ The wicked draw the sword,

and bend their bows,

to bring down the poor and needy,

to slaughter those whose way is upright.

¹⁵ Their sword will pierce their own heart,

and their bows will be broken.

¹⁶ Better is the little that the righteous has

than the abundance of many wicked.

¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked will be broken,

but the LORD supports the righteous.

¹⁸ The LORD knows the days of the blameless,

and their inheritance will last forever.

¹⁹ They will not be shamed in the times of trouble,

and in the days of famine they will have plenty.

²⁰ But the wicked will perish,

and the enemies of the LORD will be like a flourishing pasture

that vanishes like smoke.

²¹ The wicked borrows, and does not repay,

but the righteous is generous and gives.

²² Those blessed by the LORD will inherit the land,

and those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

²³ The LORD makes a person's steps successful,

when he delights in his way.

²⁴ Even if he stumbles, he will not fall headlong,

for the LORD holds onto him with his hand.

²⁵ I have been young, and now am old,

yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,

or his children begging for bread.

²⁶ All day long he is generous and lends,

and his children are blessed.

²⁷ Turn away from evil and do good,

then you will live in the land forever.

²⁸ For the LORD loves justice;

he never abandons his faithful ones;

they are protected forever,

but the children of the wicked will be cut off.

²⁹ The righteous will inherit the land,

and live in it forever.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,

and his tongue speaks justice.

³¹ The law of his God is in his heart;
not one of his steps slip.

³² The wicked stalk the righteous,

and seek to kill him.

³³ The LORD will not abandon him into his hand,

or let him be condemned when he is judged.

³⁴ Wait expectantly for the LORD, and keep his way,

and he will exalt you to inherit the land;

when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

³⁵ I have seen the wicked flourishing,

and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

³⁶ But he passed away and was no more;

I searched for him, but he could not be found.

³⁷ Observe the blameless, and look carefully at the upright,

for there is a future for the person of peace.

³⁸ As for transgressors, they will be absolutely destroyed;

the future of the wicked will be cut off.

³⁹ But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD;

he is their fortress in the time of trouble.

⁴⁰ The LORD helps them, and rescues them;

he rescues them from the wicked, and saves them,

because they seek refuge in him.

DASV: Psalm 68

For the music director, of David, a psalm, a song

¹ Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered;

let those who hate him flee before him.

² Blow them away like smoke,

like wax melting before the fire,

so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

³ But let the righteous be glad;

let them rejoice before God;

let them rejoice with gladness.

⁴ Sing to God, sing praises to his name;

exalt the one who rides on the clouds;

his name is the LORD,

and rejoice before him.

⁵ A father for the fatherless,

and an advocate for the widows,

is God in his holy habitation.

⁶ God puts the lonely in families;

he brings out the prisoners to prosperity,

but the rebellious dwell in a scorched desert.

⁷ O God, when you went out before your people,

when you marched through the desert, Selah

⁸ the earth quaked,

the heavens poured rain at the presence of God,

the God of Sinai,

at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

⁹ You, O God, sent plentiful rain;

you refreshed your inheritance when it was weary.

¹⁰ Your creatures settled in it;

you provided your goodness for the poor, O God.

¹¹ The Lord gives the word,

and a great army proclaims the news.

¹² Kings of armies flee, they flee,

while the women at home divide the spoil.

¹³ When you lie among the sheepfolds,

the wings of a dove are covered with silver,

her wings with glittering gold.

¹⁴ When the Almighty scattered kings there,

it was like snow falling on Mount Zalmon.

¹⁵ The mighty mountain of Bashan,

a mountain with many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.

¹⁶ Why do you look with envy, O many-peaked mountain,

at the mountain God has desired for his abode?

Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.

¹⁷ The countless thousands of God's chariots,

the Lord comes from Sinai into his holy place.

¹⁸ You have ascended on high;

you have led away captives;

you have received gifts from men,

even the rebellious,

now the LORD God dwells there.

¹⁹ Praise the Lord, who daily carries our burden;

God is our salvation. Selah

²⁰ Our God is a God who delivers;

the LORD, the sovereign Lord, rescues from death.

²¹ But God will shatter the head of his enemies,

the hairy crown of the one who walks on in his guilty way.

²² The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan;

I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,

²³ so that you may trample your foot in their blood,

that the tongue of your dogs may get a piece of your enemies."

²⁴ They see your processions, O God,

even the processions of my God,

my King, into the sanctuary.

²⁵ The singers walk before,

the musicians follow behind,

in the middle the young women play the tambourines.

²⁶ Praise God in the congregation,

the Lord, in the multitude of Israel.

²⁷ There is little Benjamin as their leader,

the princes of Judah in their throng,

the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

²⁸ Summon your power, O God;

show your strength, O God,

just as you did for us before.

²⁹ Because of your temple at Jerusalem,

kings will bring tribute to you.

³⁰ Rebuke the wild beasts that live in the reeds,

the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples.

Trample underfoot those who bring silver tribute;

scatter the peoples that delight in war.

³¹ Ambassadors will come out of Egypt;

Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

³² Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth;

sing praises to the Lord. Selah

³³ To him who rides through the sky from ancient times;

he utters his voice, a mighty thunder.

³⁴ Ascribe strength to God;

his majesty is over Israel,

and his power is in the skies.

³⁵ O God, you are awesome emerging from your sanctuary;

the God of Israel, gives strength and power to his people.

Praise be to God.

DASV: Psalm 69

For the music director, according to Lilies, of David

¹ Save me, O God,

for the waters have reached up to my neck.

² I sink in deep mire, where there is no solid foothold;

I am in deep waters, where the floods wash over me.

³ I am weary from crying for help;

my throat is dry;

my eyes fail from waiting for my God.

⁴ Those who hate me without a cause

are more numerous than the hairs of my head;

those who want to deceitfully destroy me,

my enemies, are many;

I am forced to repay what I did not steal.

⁵ O God, you know my foolishness;

my sins are not hidden from you.

⁶ Do not allow those who hope in you to be put to shame because of me,

O Lord God of hosts.

Do not allow those who seek you be dishonored because of me,

O God of Israel.

⁷ Because for your sake I have borne insults;

shame has covered my face.

⁸ I am treated like a stranger by my own brothers,

and an alien by my mother's children.

⁹ For the zeal of your house has consumed me;

the insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.

¹⁰ I weep with fasting,

yet they insult me.

¹¹ When I wear sackcloth,

I have become a standing joke to them.

¹² Those who sit in the city gate slander me;

I have become the song of the drunkards.

¹³ But as for me, my prayer is to you, O LORD,

hoping for a time of your favor;

O God, in the greatness of your loyal love,

answer me with your faithful salvation.

¹⁴ Save me from the mire, and do let me sink;

deliver me from those who hate me,

and from the deep waters.

¹⁵ Do not allow the floods to sweep over me,

or the deep to shallow me up,

or the pit to shut its mouth over me.

¹⁶ Answer me, O LORD;

your loyal love is good;

according to the greatness of your mercy, turn toward me.

¹⁷ Do not hide your face from your servant;

I am in trouble;

answer me quickly.

¹⁸ Draw near to me, and redeem me;

pay the ransom for me because of my enemies.

¹⁹ You know my reproach, my shame and my dishonor;

my foes are before your face.

²⁰ Insults have broken my heart

so that I am in despair;

I looked for someone to show pity,

but there was no one,

for comforters,

but found none.

²¹ They put bitter gall in my food;

for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²² Let their dining table before them become a snare,

and their prosperity become a trap.

²³ Let their eyes go blind, so that they cannot see,

and make their loins shake continually.

²⁴ Pour out your indignation on them,

and let your raging anger overtake them.

²⁵ Let their camp be desolate,

with no one dwelling in their tents.

²⁶ For they persecute him whom you have punished;

they recount the pain of those you have wounded.

²⁷ Add punishment onto their punishment;

do not let them enter your vindication.

²⁸ Let them be blotted out of the book of life,
and not be listed with the righteous.

²⁹ I am oppressed and suffering;

let your salvation, O God, set me on high.

³⁰ I will praise the name of God with song,
and magnify him with thanksgiving.

³¹ This will please the LORD more than an ox,

or a bull that has horns and hooves.

³² Let the oppressed see it and be glad;

you who seek after God, let your hearts revive.

³³ For the LORD hears the needy,

and does not despise his imprisoned people.

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him,

the seas and everything that moves in them.

³⁵ For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah,

his people will again live there and take possession of it.

³⁶ The children of his servants will inherit it;

those who love his name will dwell in it.

DASV: Psalm 78

A Maskil of Asaph

¹ Give ear to my instruction, O my people;

incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter insightful secrets from the past,

³ which we have heard and known,

and our fathers have told us about.

⁴ We will not hide them from their children.

We will tell the next generation of the glorious deeds of the LORD,

and his power and wondrous works that he has done.

⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob,

and appointed a law in Israel.

He commanded our fathers,

that they should teach them to their children,

⁶ so that the next generation might know them,

even the children not yet born,

who should rise and tell them to their children.

⁷ Then they will set their hope in God

and not forget the works of God,

but keep his commandments,

⁸ so that they might not be like their forefathers,

a stubborn and rebellious generation,

a generation whose heart was not committed,

and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹ The Ephraimites were armed with bows,

but they turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰ They did not keep the covenant of God,

and refused to walk according to his law;

¹¹ they forgot his doings,

and his wondrous works that he had shown them.

¹² He performed wonders in the sight of their fathers,

in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

¹³ He split the sea, and caused them to pass through;

he made the waters to stand in a heap.

¹⁴ In the daytime he led them with a cloud,

and all night with a light of fire.

¹⁵ He split rocks in the wilderness,

and gave them drink abundantly as the ocean depths.

¹⁶ He brought streams out of the rock,

and caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁷ Yet they still continued to sin against him,

to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

¹⁸ They tested God in their heart

by demanding food to satisfy their appetite.

¹⁹ They spoke against God;

They said, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?

²⁰ Yes, he struck a rock so that waters gushed out,

and streams overflowed.

Can he also give bread?

Can he provide meat for his people?"

²¹ When the LORD heard it, he was enraged;

a fire was kindled against Jacob,

and anger flared up against Israel,

²² because they did not believe in God,

and did not trust in his salvation.

²³ Yet he commanded the skies above,

and opened the doors of heaven;

²⁴ he rained down manna for them to eat,

and gave them grain from heaven.

²⁵ Humans ate the bread of the angels;

he sent them food until they were full.

²⁶ He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens;

by his power he guided the south wind.

²⁷ He rained meat on them as the dust,

and winged birds as numerous as the sand of the seas;

²⁸ he had them fall in the middle of their camp,

all around their tents.

²⁹ They ate until they were gorged;

he gave them what they craved.

³⁰ While they had not yet satisfied their craving,

while their food was still in their mouths,

³¹ the anger of God rose up against them,

and slew the strongest of them,

and struck down the young men of Israel.

³² In spite of all this, they continued sinning,

and did not believe in his wondrous works.

³³ So he made their days vanish like a vapor

and their years in terror.

³⁴ When he slew them, then they sought after him,

and repented and desired God.

³⁵ They remembered that God was their rock,

and the Most High God was their redeemer.

³⁶ But they flattered him with their mouths,
and lied to him with their tongues.

³⁷ For their heart was not committed to him,

nor were they faithful to his covenant.

³⁸ Yet he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity,

and did not destroy them;

many times he held back his anger,

and did not stir up all his wrath.

³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh,

a breeze that blows by never to return.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,

and grieved him in the desert!

⁴¹ They turned again and tested God,

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

⁴² They did not remember his powerful hand,

nor the day when he redeemed them from the enemy;

⁴³ when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt,

and his wonders in the fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴ He turned their rivers into blood,

so that they could not drink from their streams.

⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of flies, which bit them;

and frogs, which ruined them.

⁴⁶ He gave their crops to the caterpillar,

and the produce of their toil to the locust.

⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail,

and their sycamore-fig trees with frost.

⁴⁸ He rained hail on their cattle,

and shot thunderbolts on their flocks.

⁴⁹ He unleashed his fierce anger on them,

wrath, indignation and trouble,
as messengers of disaster.

⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death,

but gave their life over to the plague.

⁵¹ He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,

the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.

⁵² Then he led forth his own people like sheep,

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³ He kept them safe, so that they were not afraid,

but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴ He brought them to the border of his holy land,

to this mountain which his right hand had won.

⁵⁵ He drove out the nations before them,

and allotted them for an inheritance by lot,

and made the tribes of Israel to settle in their tents.

⁵⁶ Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God.

They did not keep his decrees,

⁵⁷ but turned back and acted treacherously like their forefathers had,

as unreliable as a defective bow.

⁵⁸ They provoked him to anger with their high places,

and moved him to jealousy with their idols.

⁵⁹ When God heard this, he got angry,

and totally rejected Israel.

⁶⁰ He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,

the tent where he settled among humans.

⁶¹ He delivered the ark of his power into captivity,

and his glory into the enemy's hand.

⁶² He gave his people over to the sword,

and was angry with his inheritance.

⁶³ Fire devoured their young men;

their young women had no wedding songs.

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword;

their widows did not grieve.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,

like a warrior in a drunken rage.

⁶⁶ He drove his adversaries back;

he put them to perpetual shame.

⁶⁷ He rejected the tent of Joseph,

and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion which he loved.

⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary like the heights,

like the earth he founded it forever.

⁷⁰ He chose his servant David,

and took him from the sheepfolds;

⁷¹ from following mother sheep with their young,

he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,

and his inheritance Israel.

⁷² He cared for them according to the integrity of his heart,
and guided them with skillful hands.

DASV: Psalm 89

A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite

¹ I will sing of the loyal love of the LORD forever;

with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.

² For I said, "Loyal love is built to last forever;

in the heavens you established your faithfulness."

³ For the LORD said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one;

I have made a promise to David my servant.

⁴ Your descendants I will establish forever,

and build your throne to last for all generations." Selah

⁵ The heavens praise your wonders, O LORD,

your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones.

⁶ For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD?

Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

⁷ God is greatly revered in the council of the holy ones,

more awesome than all those who surround him.

⁸ O LORD God of hosts, who is a mighty one, like you, O LORD?

Your faithfulness surrounds you.

⁹ You rule the swelling of the sea;

when its waves surge, you calm them.

¹⁰ You crushed Rahab as one who is slain;

you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.

¹¹ The heavens are yours, the earth is also yours;

the world and everything in it, you founded it all.

¹² The north and the south, you have created them;

Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

¹³ You have a mighty arm;

strong is your hand,

and high is your right hand.

¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;

loyal love and faithfulness go before your face.

¹⁵ Blessed is the people that know the joyful shout,

those who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face.

¹⁶ In your name they rejoice all day;

in your righteousness they are exalted.

¹⁷ For you are the glory of their strength;

through your favor our horn is exalted.

¹⁸ For our shield belongs to the LORD;

our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹ Then you spoke in a vision to your devoted ones,

you declared, "I give help to one who is mighty;

I have exalted one chosen among the people.

²⁰ I have found David my servant;

with my holy oil I have anointed him.

²¹ My hand will establish him;

my arm also will strengthen him.

²² The enemy will not exact tribute from him;

the wicked will not oppress him.

²³ I will crush his adversaries before him,

and strike down the ones who hate him.

²⁴ But my faithfulness and my loyal love will be with him;

in my name his horn will be exalted.

²⁵ I will set his hand over the sea,

and his right hand over the rivers.

²⁶ He will cry out to me, 'You are my Father,

my God, and the Rock of my salvation.'

²⁷ I also will make him my firstborn,

the highest of the kings of the earth.

²⁸ I will retain my loyal love for him forever;

my covenant with him will never cease.

²⁹ His descendants I will make to last forever,

and his throne as long as the days of heaven.

³⁰ If his children forsake my law,
and refuse to walk in my regulations;

³¹ if they break my statutes,

and do not keep my commands;

³² then I will visit their transgression with the rod,
and their iniquity with lashes.

³³ But your loyal love I will not totally remove from him,

or betray my faithful promise.

³⁴ I will not break my covenant,

or alter the promise that has gone out of my lips.

³⁵ Once and for all I have promised by my holiness;

I will not lie to David.

³⁶ His descendants will endure forever,

and his throne as the sun before me.

³⁷ It will be established forever as the moon,

and as the faithful witness in the sky." Selah

³⁸ But you have abandoned and rejected him;

you are furious with your anointed one.

³⁹ You have abhorred the covenant of your servant;

you have defiled his crown in the dirt.

⁴⁰ You have broken down all his hedges;

you have brought down his strongholds to ruins.

⁴¹ All who pass by the way plunder him;

he has become a laughingstock to his neighbors.

⁴² You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;

you have made all his enemies rejoice.

⁴³ Yes, you turned back the edge of his sword,

and have not made him victorious in the battle.

⁴⁴ You have made his splendor to cease,

and have thrown down his throne to the ground.

⁴⁵ The days of his youth you have cut short;

you have covered him with shame. Selah

⁴⁶ How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself, forever?

How long will your wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷ Remember how brief my life is;

for what emptiness you have created all human beings!

⁴⁸ What person is there that will live and not experience death?

Who can deliver his own life from the power of Sheol? Selah

⁴⁹ Lord, where is your former loyal love,

which you swore to David in your faithfulness?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the disgrace of your servants,

how I bear in my heart the insults of so many peoples,

⁵¹ by which your enemies have insulted, O LORD,

by which they have insulted the footsteps of your anointed one.

⁵² Praise be the LORD forever.

Amen, and Amen.

DASV: Psalm 104

¹ Praise the LORD, O my soul.

O LORD my God, you are very great;

you are clothed with honor and majesty.

² He covers himself with light as with a garment;

he stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain.

³ He sets the rafters of his palace in the rain clouds;

he makes the clouds his chariot;

he rides on the wings of the wind.

⁴ He makes the winds his messengers;

flames of fire are his attendants.

⁵ He laid the foundations of the earth,

so that it will never move.

⁶ You cover it with the deep as with a garment;

the waters stood above the mountains.

⁷ At your rebuke they fled;

at the sound of your thunder they hurry away.

⁸ The mountains rose, the valleys sank down,

to the place you had determined for them.

⁹ You have set a boundary that they may not cross over,

so that they would never again cover the earth.

¹⁰ He makes springs stream into the valleys;

they flow between the mountains.

¹¹ They give drink to all the animals of the field;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

¹² Beside the streams the birds of the heavens make their nests;

they sing among the branches.

¹³ He waters the mountains from his heavenly chambers;

the earth is filled with the fruit of his work.

¹⁴ He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,

and plants for the people to cultivate,

so that he may bring food out of the earth,

¹⁵ and wine that makes glad the human heart,

oil to make his face to shine,

and bread to strengthen his heart.

¹⁶ The trees of the LORD are well cared for,

the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,

¹⁷ where the birds make their nests,

and the stork makes its nest in the fir trees.

¹⁸ The high mountains are for the wild goats;

the rocks are a refuge for the rock badger.

¹⁹ He appointed the moon for seasons;

the sun knows when it's time to set.

²⁰ You make darkness, and it is night,

when all the animals of the forest prowl around.

²¹ The young lions roar after their prey,

and seek their food from God.

²² The sun rises, they retire,

and lay down in their dens.

²³ A person goes out to his work

and to his labor until evening.

²⁴ O LORD, how many things you have made!

In wisdom you have made them all;

the earth is full of your creatures.

²⁵ Over there is the sea, great and wide,

with innumerable moving creatures,

both small and great.

²⁶ There ships sail back and forth;

Leviathan, whom you made to play there.

²⁷ These all depend on you,

to give them their food at the right time.

²⁸ You give to them,

they gather;

you open your hand,

and they are satisfied with good.

²⁹ You hide your face,

and they are troubled;

you take away their breath,

they die and return to the dust.

³⁰ You send forth your Spirit,

and they are created;

you replenish the face of the ground.

³¹ May the glory of the LORD endure forever;

may the LORD rejoice in his works.

³² He looks on the earth, and it trembles;

he touches the mountains, and they smoke.

³³ I will sing to the LORD as long as I live;

I will sing praise to my God while I am alive.

³⁴ May my thoughts be pleasing to him,

for I will rejoice in the LORD.

³⁵ Let sinners be consumed from the earth.

Let the wicked be no more.

Praise the LORD, O my soul.

Praise the LORD.

DASV: Psalm 105

¹ Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;

make known his deeds among the peoples.

² Sing to him, sing praises to him;

talk of all his marvelous works.

³ Glory in his holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.

⁴ Seek the LORD and his strength;

seek his face continually.

⁵ Remember his marvelous works that he has done,

his wonders and the judgments of his mouth,

⁶ O descendants of his servant Abraham,

you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

⁷ He is the LORD our God;

his judgments are in all the earth.

⁸ He has remembered his covenant forever,

the word that he commanded to a thousand generations,

⁹ the covenant that he made with Abraham,

and his oath he promised to Isaac.

¹⁰ He confirmed the same to Jacob as a statute,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

¹¹ saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan,

as the portion of your inheritance."

¹² When they were but few in number,

yes, very few, and strangers in it,

¹³ they wandered from nation to nation,

from one kingdom to another people.

¹⁴ He suffered no one to do them wrong;

yes, he even rebuked kings for their sakes,

¹⁵ saying, "Do not touch my anointed ones,

do my prophets no harm."

¹⁶ He called for a famine on the land;

he broke the whole supply of food.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them;
Joseph was sold as a slave.

¹⁸ His feet they hurt with shackles;

his neck was put in an iron collar,

¹⁹ until the time that his word came to pass,

the word of the LORD tested him.

²⁰ The king sent and loosed him;

the ruler of peoples released him.

²¹ He made him lord of his house,

and ruler of all his possessions,

²² to instruct his princes as he wished

and teach his elders wisdom.

²³ Then Israel came to Egypt;

Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

²⁴ He increased his people greatly,

and made them stronger than their enemies.

²⁵ He turned their heart to hate his people,

to deal deceitfully with his servants.

²⁶ He sent Moses his servant,

and Aaron whom he had chosen.

²⁷ They performed his signs among them,

and wonders in the land of Ham.

²⁸ He sent darkness and it became dark--

did they not rebel against his words?

²⁹ He turned their waters into blood,

and killed their fish.

³⁰ Their land swarmed with frogs,

which even got into their king's chambers.

³¹ He spoke, and swarms of flies came,

then gnats in their whole territory.

³² He gave them hail for rain,

and flashes of lightning throughout their land.

³³ He destroyed their vines and their fig trees,

and broke the trees in their territory.

³⁴ He spoke, and the locust came,

and countless grasshoppers.

³⁵ They ate all the vegetation in their land,

and ate up the fruit of their ground.

³⁶ He struck down all the firstborn in their land,

the firstfruits of all their strength.

³⁷ He brought them out with silver and gold;

there was not one who stumbled among his tribes.

³⁸ Egypt was glad when they left,

for the fear of them had fallen on them.

³⁹ He spread a cloud for a covering,

and fire to give light at night.

⁴⁰ They asked, and he brought quails,

and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

⁴¹ He opened the rock, and waters gushed out;

it flowed like a stream in the desert.

⁴² For he remembered his sacred promise,

and Abraham his servant.

⁴³ He brought out his people with joy,

and his chosen with singing.

⁴⁴ He gave them the lands of the nations;

they took the wealth other peoples had produced,

⁴⁵ that they might keep his statutes,

and observe his laws.

Praise the LORD.

DASV: Psalm 106

¹ Praise the LORD.

O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;

his loyal love endures forever.

² Who can fully declare the mighty acts of the LORD,

or publish all his praise?

³ Blessed are those who promote justice,

and who do what is right at all times.

⁴ Remember me, O LORD,

when you show favor to your people;

help me when you rescue them,

⁵ so that I may see the prosperity of your chosen ones,

that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,

that I may give glory with the rest of your inheritance.

⁶ We have sinned along with our forefathers;

we have done wrong;

we have behaved wickedly.

⁷ Our forefathers did not understood your wonders in Egypt;

they did not remember the greatness of your loyal love,

but rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

⁸ Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake,

so that he might make his mighty power known.

⁹ He rebuked the Red Sea, and it was dried up;

he led them through the depths as through a desert.

¹⁰ He saved them from the hand of one who hated them,

and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

¹¹ The waters covered their adversaries;

not one of them was left.

¹² Then they believed his words;

they sang his praise.

¹³ Soon they forgot his works;

they refused to wait for his advice,

¹⁴ but in the wilderness their appetite was insatiable,

and tested God in the desert.

¹⁵ He gave them what they requested,

but sent a plague among them.

¹⁶ They were jealous of Moses in the camp,

and Aaron the holy priest of the LORD.

¹⁷ The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,

and covered the coterie of Abiram.

¹⁸ A fire ignited among their faction;

the flame burned up the wicked.

¹⁹ They made a calf in Horeb,

and worshipped a cast metal image.

²⁰ They traded their glorious God,

for the image of a bull that eats grass.

²¹ They forgot God their Savior,

who had done great things in Egypt,

²² wondrous works in the land of Ham,

and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.

²³ Therefore he threatened to destroy them,

had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the gap,

to turn back his wrath from destroying them.

²⁴ Yes, they despised the pleasant land;

they refused to believe his promise,

²⁵ but complained in their tents,

and refused to listen to the voice of the LORD.

²⁶ Therefore he swore to them

that he would destroy them in the desert,

²⁷ that he would exile their descendants among the nations,

and scatter them among the lands.

²⁸ They also joined in the worship of Baal-peor,

and ate the sacrifices offered to the dead.

²⁹ So they provoked him to anger by their actions;

the plague broke out on them.

³⁰ Then Phinehas stood up, and executed judgment,

and the plague was stopped.

³¹ So it was reckoned to him for righteousness,

to all generations forever.

³² They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,

so that even Moses suffered the consequences for their sakes;

³³ because they embittered his spirit,

he spoke rashly with his lips.

³⁴ They did not destroy the nations,

as the LORD had commanded them,

³⁵ but mingled with the nations,

and learned their ways.

³⁶ They served their idols,

which became a snare to them.

³⁷ Yes, they even sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to demons.

³⁸ They shed innocent blood,

even the blood of their sons and daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,

and the land was polluted with blood.

³⁹ Thus they were defiled by their actions,

and prostituted themselves by their practices.

⁴⁰ Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against his people,

and he abhorred the people of his inheritance.

⁴¹ He handed them over to the nations,

and those who hated them ruled over them.

⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them,

and brought them into subjection under their hand.

⁴³ Many times he delivered them,

but they were rebellious in their counsel,

and brought low by their sin.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless he saw their distress,

and heard their cry.

⁴⁵ He remembered his covenant with them,

and relented according to the greatness of his loyal love.

⁴⁶ He caused them to be pitied

by all those who had taken them captive.

⁴⁷ Save us, O LORD our God,

and regather us from among the nations,

to give thanks to your holy name,

and to glory in your praise.

⁴⁸ Praise the LORD, the God of Israel,

from everlasting to everlasting.

Let all the people say, "Amen."

Praise the LORD.

BOOK V: Psalms 107-150

DASV: Psalm 107

¹ Give thanks to the LORD,
for he is good,
for his loyal love endures forever.

² Let the redeemed of the LORD speak up,

those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

³ and gathered out of foreign lands,

from the east and from the west,

from the north and from the south.

⁴ They wandered in the desert wasteland;

they found no way to an inhabited city.

⁵ Hungry and thirsty,

their lives fainted within them.

⁶ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,

and he delivered them out of their distress.

⁷ He led them by a straight way,

that they might go to an inhabited city.

⁸ Let them praise the LORD for his loyal love,

and for his wonderful works for the children of humanity!

⁹ For he satisfies the one who thirsts,

he fills the hungry with good food.

¹⁰ Some sat in darkness even total darkness,
bound in misery and iron chains,

¹¹ because they rebelled against the words of God,

and despised the counsel of the Most High.

¹² Therefore he humbled their hearts with labor;

they fell down and there was no one to help them up.

¹³ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,

and he rescued them out of their distress.

¹⁴ He brought them out of darkness even total darkness,

and broke their chains apart.

¹⁵ Let them praise the LORD for his loyal love,

and for his wonderful works for the children of humanity!

¹⁶ He has broken the gates of bronze,

and cut the bars of iron in two.

¹⁷ Fools, because of their rebellion,

and because of their sins, they were afflicted.

¹⁸ They detested all kinds of food,

and they drew near to the gates of death.

¹⁹ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,

and he rescued them out of their distress.

²⁰ He sent his word and healed them,

and delivered them from their destruction.

²¹ Let them praise the LORD for his loyal love,

and for his wonderful works for the children of humanity!

²² Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,

and declare his deeds with singing.

²³ Those going down to the sea in ships,

who do business in great waters;

²⁴ these see the works of the LORD,

and his wonders in the deep.

²⁵ For he spoke and raised a stormy wind,

which stirred up the waves of the sea.

²⁶ They rose up to the heavens;

they drop down to the depths;

their courage melted away because of the danger.

²⁷ They teetered to and fro,

and staggered like a drunk,

and were at their wits' end.

²⁸ Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,

and he brought them out of their distress.

²⁹ He calmed the storm,

so that its waves were silenced.

³⁰ Then the sailors were glad because of the calm,

so he brought them to their desired haven.

³¹ Let them praise the LORD for his loyal love,

and for his wonderful works for the children of humanity!

³² Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people,

and praise him in the forum of the elders.

³³ He turns streams into a desert,

and springs of water into thirsty ground,

³⁴ a fruitful land into a salty wasteland,

because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

³⁵ He turns a wilderness into a pool of water,

and a dry land into springs of water.

³⁶ There he made the hungry to settle,

so that they prepared a city to live in,

³⁷ and sowed fields and planted vineyards,

and gathered a fruitful harvest.

³⁸ He blessed them so that they multiplied greatly,

and he did not allow their cattle to decrease.

³⁹ When they were diminished and brought low

through oppression, trouble, and sorrow,

⁴⁰ he poured contempt on princes,

and caused them to wander in roadless wastelands.

⁴¹ Yet he rescues the needy from affliction,

and makes families as numerous as a flock.

⁴² The upright will see it and be glad,

and all injustice will shut its mouth.

⁴³ Whoever is wise let him give careful attention to these things;

and consider the loyal love of the LORD.

DASV: Psalm 119

x Aleph section
(all eight verses in each acrostic section begin with the same Hebrew letter)¹ Blessed are those whose way is blameless,

who walk in the law of the LORD.

² Blessed are those who keep his regulations,

who seek him with all their heart.

³ Yes, they do nothing wrong;

they walk in his ways.

⁴ You have ordered your precepts,

to be diligently kept.

⁵ O that my ways were firmly directed

to keep your statutes!

⁶ Then I will not be put to shame

when I fix my gaze on all your commandments.

⁷ I will give you thanks with uprightness of heart,

when I learn your righteous regulations.

⁸ I will keep your statutes;

do not totally forsake me.

B Beth section ⁹ How can a young person maintain a pure path?

By carefully keeping it in line with your word!

¹⁰ With my whole heart I seek you.

Do not let me wander from your commandments.

¹¹ Your word I have hidden in my heart
that I might not sin against you.

¹² Blessed are you, O LORD;

teach me your statutes.

¹³ With my lips have I declared

all the regulations of your mouth.

¹⁴ I have rejoiced in the way of your decrees

as much as in all riches.

¹⁵ I will meditate on your precepts

and focus my gaze on your ways.

¹⁶ I will delight in your statutes;

I will not forget your word.

G Gimel section
¹⁷ Deal bountifully with your servant,

that I may live and keep your word.

¹⁸ Open my eyes so that I may see

wondrous things out of your law.

¹⁹ I am a sojourner in the earth;

do not hide your commandments from me.

²⁰ My soul is overwhelmed with longing

for your regulations at all times.

²¹ You have rebuked the proud who are cursed

who wander from your commandments.

²² Take away from me scorn and contempt,

for I have kept your decrees.

²³ Even though princes plot and slander me,

your servant will meditate on your statutes.

²⁴ Your decrees are my delight

and my counselors.

D Daleth section
²⁵ My life embraces the dust.

Revive me according to your word.

²⁶ I recounted my ways,

and you answered me;

teach me your statutes.

²⁷ Help me understand the way of your precepts,

so I will meditate on your wondrous works.

²⁸ I weep with sorrow,

strengthen me according to your word.

²⁹ Remove from me the way of deception,

and graciously grant me your law.

³⁰ I have chosen the way of faithfulness;

your regulations I have set before me.

³¹ I embrace your decrees, O LORD;
do not make me ashamed.

³² I will run in the way of your commandments,

for you increase my understanding.

h He section
³³ Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes,

and I will keep them to the end.

³⁴ Give me understanding so that I may keep your law;

I will keep it with my whole heart.

³⁵ Make me walk in the path of your commandments,

for I delight in it.

³⁶ Incline my heart to your decrees,

and not to wealth gained by injustice.

³⁷ Turn my eyes away from what is worthless,

and revive me in your ways.

³⁸ Keep your promise to your servant,

which you made to those who fear you.

³⁹ Turn away the ridicule I dread,

for your regulations are good.

⁴⁰ Look, I long for your precepts,

revive me with your righteousness.

v Waw section
⁴¹ Let you loyal love come to me, O LORD,

your salvation just as you promised.

⁴² Then I will have an answer for the one who ridicules me,

for I trust in your word.

⁴³ Do not take the word of truth completely out of my mouth,

for I have hoped in your regulations.

⁴⁴ Then I will keep your law continually

forever and ever.

⁴⁵ I will walk in freedom,

for I have sought your precepts.

⁴⁶ I will also speak of your decrees before kings,

and will not be put to shame.

⁴⁷ I delight in your commandments,

which I love.

⁴⁸ I will lift up my hands to your commandments,

which I love,

and I will meditate on your statutes.

z Zayin section
⁴⁹ Remember your word to your servant,

because you have given me hope.

⁵⁰ This is my comfort in my affliction,

that your promise will revive me.

⁵¹ The proud thoroughly mock me,

yet I have not turned from your law.

⁵² I remember your classic regulations, O LORD,

and have comforted myself with them.

⁵³ Burning rage has taken hold on me,

because of the wicked who forsake your law.

⁵⁴ Your statutes have been my songs,

in the house of my sojourning.

⁵⁵ I have remembered your name in the night, O LORD,

and keep your law.

⁵⁶ This has been my way of life:

I have kept your precepts.

H Heth section
⁵⁷ The LORD is my portion;

I have promised to keep your words.

⁵⁸ I seek your favor with my whole heart;

be merciful to me according to your promise.

⁵⁹ I reflect on my ways,

and turn my feet to your decrees.

⁶⁰ I quickly and without delay

keep your commandments.

⁶¹ The ropes of the wicked have wrapped me up,

but I do not forget your law.

⁶² At midnight I rise to give thanks to you,

because of your righteous regulations.

⁶³ I am a companion of all those who fear you,

of those who keep your precepts.

⁶⁴ The earth, O LORD, is full of your loyal love,

teach me your statutes.

F Teth section
⁶⁵ You have dealt well with your servant, O LORD,

according to your word.

⁶⁶ Teach me good judgment and knowledge,

for I believe in your commandments.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I went astray,

but now I keep your word.

⁶⁸ You are good and do good;

teach me your statutes.

⁶⁹ The proud have smeared me with lies;

with my whole heart will I keep your precepts.

⁷⁰ Their heart is as insensitive as fat,

but I delight in your law.

⁷¹ It was good for me to have been afflicted,

so that I might learn your statutes.

⁷² The law of your mouth is better to me

than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

y Yod section
⁷³ Your hands have made and fashioned me;

give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

⁷⁴ Those who fear you will see me and be glad,

because I hope in your word.

⁷⁵ I know, O LORD, that your regulations are righteous,

and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

⁷⁶ Let your loyal love comfort me,

just as you promised your servant.

⁷⁷ Let your compassion come to me that I may live,

for your law is my delight.

⁷⁸ Let the proud be put to shame,

for they have wronged me by lies,

but I will meditate on your precepts.

⁷⁹ Let those who fear you turn to me,

then they will know your decrees.

⁸⁰ May my heart be blameless in your statutes,

so that I will not be ashamed.

K Kaph section
⁸¹ My soul longs for your salvation;

I hope in your word.

⁸² My eyes strain to see the fulfillment of your promise,

asking, "When will you comfort me?"

⁸³ For I am like a wine-skin shriveled in the smoke,

yet I do not forget your statutes.

⁸⁴ How long must your servant hang on?

When will you judge those who persecute me?

⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me,

which is not according to your law.

⁸⁶ All your commandments are trustworthy,

but they persecute me for no reason. Help me!

⁸⁷ They have almost finished me from off the earth,

but I have not abandoned your precepts.

⁸⁸ Revive me by your loyal love,

then I will keep the decrees of your mouth.

l Lamed section
⁸⁹ Forever, O LORD,

your word stands secure in heaven.

⁹⁰ Your faithfulness lasts to all generations;

you have established the earth and it stands firm.

⁹¹ They stand firm to this day according to your regulations,

for all things are your servants.

⁹² If your law had not been my delight,

I would have perished in my affliction.

⁹³ I will never forget your precepts,

for by them you have given me life.

⁹⁴ I am yours, save me,

for I have sought your precepts.

⁹⁵ The wicked expectantly wait to destroy me,

but I will consider your decrees.

⁹⁶ I have seen the final limit of all perfection,

but your commandment is limitless.

⁹⁷ O how I love your law!

It is my meditation all day long.

m Mem section
⁹⁸ Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,

for they are always with me.

⁹⁹ I have more understanding than all my teachers,

for your decrees are my meditation.

¹⁰⁰ I understand more than the aged,

because I keep your precepts.

¹⁰¹ I have restrained my feet from every evil path,

so that I might keep your word.

¹⁰² I have not turned aside from your regulations,

for you have taught me.

¹⁰³ How sweet are your words to my taste,

more than honey to my mouth!

¹⁰⁴ Through your precepts I gain understanding,

therefore I hate every false way.

n Nun section
¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet,

and light to my path.

¹⁰⁶ I have promised and solemnly vowed,

that I will keep your righteous regulations.

¹⁰⁷ I am severely afflicted, O LORD;

revive me according to your word.

¹⁰⁸ Please accept the freewill offerings of praise, O LORD;

teach me your regulations.

¹⁰⁹ My life is continually held in my hand,

yet I do not forget your law.

¹¹⁰ The wicked have laid a trap for me,

yet I have not gone astray from your precepts.

¹¹¹ Your decrees are my heritage forever,

for they are the joy of my heart.

¹¹² I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes

forever, even to the end.

s Samek section ¹¹³ I hate those who are double-minded,

but I love your law.

¹¹⁴ You are my hidingplace and my shield;

I hope in your word.

¹¹⁵ Get away from me, you evildoers,

so that I may keep the commandments of my God.

¹¹⁶ Sustain me just as you have promised,

so that I may live;

do not let my hope be disappointed.

¹¹⁷ Support me and I will be safe,

and will concentrate on your statutes continually.

¹¹⁸ You have tossed aside all who wander from your statutes,

for their deceit is misleading.

¹¹⁹ You throw away all the wicked from the earth like dross,

therefore I love your decrees.

¹²⁰ My flesh trembles in fear of you,

and I am afraid of your judgments.

f Ayin section ¹²¹ I have done what is just and right;

do not abandon me to my oppressors.

¹²² Guarantee the good of your servant;

do not allow the arrogant to oppress me.

¹²³ My eyes are tired out from looking for your salvation,

and for your righteous promise.

¹²⁴ Deal with your servant according to your loyal love,

and teach me your statutes.

¹²⁵ I am your servant;
grant me understanding

that I may know your decrees.

¹²⁶ It is time for the LORD to act,

for they have broken your law.

¹²⁷ In this way I love your commandments,

more than gold, even fine gold.

¹²⁸ In this way I acknowledge all your precepts are right,

and I hate every false way.

P Pe section ¹²⁹ Your decrees are wonderful,

therefore I keep them.

¹³⁰ The revelation of your words gives light;

it gives understanding to the simple.

¹³¹ I open my mouth and pant,

for I long for your commandments.

¹³² Turn to me and have mercy on me,

as is your pattern for those who love your name.

¹³³ Guide my steps by your word;

do not let iniquity overpower me.

¹³⁴ Redeem me from human oppression,

so that I may keep your precepts.

¹³⁵ Make your face shine on your servant,

and teach me your statutes.

¹³⁶ My eyes shed streams of water,

because they do not keep your law.

s Tsade section ¹³⁷ You are righteous, O LORD,

and your judgments are just.

¹³⁸ You have commanded your regulations

in righteousness and absolute faithfulness.

¹³⁹ My zeal consumes me,

because my adversaries forget your words.

¹⁴⁰ Your promise has been tested by fire,

therefore your servant loves it.

¹⁴¹ I am small and despised,

yet I do not forget your precepts.

¹⁴² Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,

and your law is truth.

¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have found me,

yet your commandments are my delight.

¹⁴⁴ Your decrees are righteous forever;

give me understanding and I will live.

q Qoph section ¹⁴⁵ I have called out with my whole heart;

"Answer me, O LORD, I keep your statutes."

¹⁴⁶ I have called out to you;

"Save me, so that I may keep your decrees."

¹⁴⁷ I am up before the crack of dawn crying for help;

I hope in your words.

¹⁴⁸ My eyes are awake through the night-watches,

so I can meditate on your word.

¹⁴⁹ Hear my voice according to your loyal love;

revive me, O LORD, according to your regulations.

¹⁵⁰ Those plotting evil, eager to attack me, draw near;

they are far from your law.

¹⁵¹ You are near, O LORD,

and all your commandments are true.

¹⁵² Long ago I realized from your decrees

that you have established them forever.

r Resh section ¹⁵³ Consider my affliction and deliver me,

for I do not forget your law.

¹⁵⁴ Plead my cause and redeem me;

revive me just as you promised.

¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked,

for they do not seek your statutes.

¹⁵⁶ Great are your tender mercies, O LORD;

revive me according to your regulations.

¹⁵⁷ Many are my persecutors and my enemies,

yet I do not swerve from your decrees.

¹⁵⁸ I look at the treacherous with disgust,

because they do not keep your word.

¹⁵⁹ Consider how I love your precepts;

revive me, O LORD, according to your loyal love.

¹⁶⁰ The sum total of your words are true,

and every one of your righteous regulations lasts forever.

w/W Shin/Sin section ¹⁶¹ Rulers have persecuted me for no reason,

but my heart stands in awe of your words.

¹⁶² I rejoice at your word,

like one who finds a great fortune.

¹⁶³ I hate and abhor falsehood,

but I love your law.

¹⁶⁴ Seven times a day I praise you,

because of your righteous regulations.

¹⁶⁵ Those who love your law have great peace,

nothing makes them stumble.

¹⁶⁶ I hope for your salvation, O LORD,

and have done your commandments.

¹⁶⁷ I keep your decrees;

I absolutely love them.

¹⁶⁸ I keep your precepts and your decrees,

for all my ways are before you.

T Tav section ¹⁶⁹ Let my cry come before you, O LORD;

give me understanding just as you promised.

¹⁷⁰ Let my prayer come before you;

deliver me according to your word.

¹⁷¹ My lips will pour out praise,

for you teach me your statutes.

¹⁷² My tongue will sing of your word,

for all your commandments are righteous.

¹⁷³ May your hand be ready to help me,

for I have chosen your precepts.

¹⁷⁴ I long for your salvation, O LORD,

and your law is my delight.

¹⁷⁵ Let me live and I will praise you,

and let your regulations help me.

¹⁷⁶ I have gone astray like a lost sheep;

seek out your servant,

for I do not forget your commandments.