Psalms

[Psalm 1]
{1:1} Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the wicked, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.
{1:2} But his will is with the law of Yahweh, and he will meditate on his law, day and night.
{1:3} And he will be like a tree that has been planted beside running waters, which will provide its fruit in its time, and its leaf will not fall away, and all things whatsoever that he does will prosper.
{1:4} Not so the wicked, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth.
{1:5} Therefore, the wicked will not prevail again in judgment, nor sinners in the council of the just.
{1:6} For Yahweh knows the way of the just. And the path of the wicked will pass away.

[Psalm 2]
{2:1} Why have the Gentiles been seething, and why have the people been pondering nonsense?
{2:2} The kings of the earth have stood up, and the leaders have joined together as one, against Yahweh and against his Anointed:
{2:3} “Let us shatter their chains and cast their yoke away from us.”
{2:4} He who dwells in heaven will ridicule them, and Yahweh will mock them.
{2:5} Then will he speak to them in his anger and trouble them with his fury.
{2:6} Yet I have been appointed king by him over Zion, his holy mountain, preaching his precepts.
{2:7} Yahweh has said to me: You are my son, this day have I begotten you.
{2:8} Ask of me and I will give to you: the Gentiles for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.
{2:9} You will rule them with an iron rod, and you will shatter them like a potter’s vessel.
{2:10} And now, O kings, understand. Receive instruction, you who judge the earth.
{2:11} Serve Yahweh in fear, and exult in him with trembling.
{2:12} Embrace discipline, lest at any time Yahweh might become angry, and you would perish from the way of the just.
{2:13} Though his wrath can flare up in a short time, blessed are all those who trust in him.

[Psalm 3]
{3:1} A Psalm of David. When he fled from the face of his son, Absalom.
{3:2} Yahweh, why have those who trouble me been multiplied? Many rise up against me.
{3:3} Many say to my soul, “There is no salvation for him in his God.”
{3:4} But you, Yahweh, are my supporter, my glory, and the one who raises up my head.
{3:5} I have cried out to Yahweh with my voice, and he has heard me from his holy mountain.
{3:6} I have slept, and I have been stupefied. But I awakened because Yahweh has taken me up.
{3:7} I will not fear the thousands of people surrounding me. Rise up, Yahweh. Save me, my God.
{3:8} For you have struck all those who oppose me without cause. You have broken the teeth of sinners.
{3:9} Salvation is of Yahweh, and your blessing is upon your people.

[Psalm 4]
{4:1} In parts according to verses. A Psalm of David.
{4:2} When I called upon him, the God of my justice heeded me. In tribulation, you have enlarged me. Have mercy on me, and heed my prayer.
{4:3} Sons of men, how long will you be dull in heart, so that whatever you love is in vain, and whatever you seek is false?
{4:4} And know this: Yahweh has made wondrous his holy one. Yahweh will heed me when I cry out to him.
{4:5} Be angry, and do not be willing to sin. The things that you say in your hearts: be sorry for them on your beds.
{4:6} Offer the sacrifice of justice, and hope in Yahweh. Many say, “Who reveals to us what is good?”
{4:7} The light of your countenance, Yahweh, has been sealed upon us. You have given joy to my heart.
{4:8} By the fruit of their grain, wine, and oil, they have been multiplied.
{4:9} In peace itself, I will sleep and I will rest.
{4:10} For you, O Yahweh, have established me singularly in hope.

[Psalm 5]
{5:1} Unto the end. For her who pursues the inheritance. A Psalm of David.
{5:2} O Yahweh, listen closely to my words. Understand my outcry.
{5:3} Attend to the voice of my prayer, my King and my God.
{5:4} For to you, I will pray. In the morning, Yahweh, you will hear my voice.
{5:5} In the morning, I will stand before you, and I will see. For you are not a God who wills iniquity.
{5:6} And the malicious will not dwell close to you, nor will the unjust endure before your eyes.
{5:7} You hate all who work iniquity. You will destroy all who speak a lie. The bloody and deceitful man, Yahweh will abominate.
{5:8} But I am in the multitude of your mercy. I will enter your house. I will show adoration toward your holy temple, in your fear.
{5:9} Yahweh, lead me in your justice. Because of my enemies, direct my way in your sight.
{5:10} For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.
{5:11} Their throat is an open sepulchre. They have acted deceitfully with their tongues. Judge them, O God. Let them fall by their own intentions: according to the multitude of their wickedness, expel them. For they have provoked you, O Yahweh.
{5:12} But let all those who hope in you rejoice. They will exult in eternity, and you will dwell in them. And all those who love your name will glory in you.
{5:13} For you will bless the just. You have crowned us, O Yahweh, as if with a shield of your good will.

[Psalm 6]
{6:1} In parts according to verses. A Psalm of David. For the octave.
{6:2} O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your anger.
{6:3} Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am weak. Heal me, Yahweh, for my bones have become disturbed,
{6:4} and my soul has been very troubled. But as for you, Yahweh, when?
{6:5} Turn to me, Yahweh, and rescue my soul. Save me because of your mercy.
{6:6} For there is no one in death who would be mindful of you. And who will confess to you in Hell?
{6:7} I have laboured in my groaning. Every night, with my tears, I will wash my bed and drench my blanket.
{6:8} My eye has been troubled by rage. I have grown old among all my enemies.
{6:9} Scatter before me, all you who work iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
{6:10} Yahweh has heard my supplication. Yahweh has accepted my prayer.
{6:11} Let all my enemies be ashamed and together be greatly troubled. May they be converted and become ashamed very quickly.

[Psalm 7]
{7:1} A Psalm of David, which he sang to Yahweh because of the words of Cush, the son of Jemini.
{7:2} O Yahweh, my God, in you I have hoped. Save me from all those who persecute me, and free me:
{7:3} lest at any time, like a lion, he might seize my soul, while there is no one to redeem me, nor any who can save.
{7:4} O Yahweh, my God, if there is iniquity in my hands, if I have done this:
{7:5} if I have repaid those who rendered evils to me, may I deservedly fall away empty before my enemies:
{7:6} let the enemy pursue my soul, and take hold of it, and trample my life into the earth, and drag down my glory into the dust.
{7:7} Rise up, Yahweh, in your anger. And be exalted to the borders of my enemies. And rise up, O Yahweh my God, according to the precept that you commanded,
{7:8} and a congregation of people will surround you. And, because of this, return on high.
{7:9} Yahweh judges the people. Judge me, O Yahweh, according to my justice and according to my innocence within me.
{7:10} The wickedness of sinners will be consumed, and you will direct the just: the examiner of hearts and temperaments is God.
{7:11} Just is my help from Yahweh, who saves the upright of heart.
{7:12} God is a just judge, strong and patient. How could he be angry throughout every day?
{7:13} Unless you will be converted, he will brandish his sword. He has extended his bow and made it ready.
{7:14} And with it, he has prepared instruments of death. He has produced his arrows for those on fire.
{7:15} Behold him who has given birth to injustice: he has conceived sorrow and has begotten iniquity.
{7:16} He has opened a pit and enlarged it. And he has fallen into the hole that he made.
{7:17} His sorrow will be turned upon his own head, and his iniquity will descend upon his highest point.
{7:18} I will confess to Yahweh according to his justice, and I will sing a psalm to the name of Yahweh Most High.

[Psalm 8]
{8:1} Unto the end. For the oil and wine presses. A Psalm of David.
{8:2} O Yahweh, our Yahweh, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens.
{8:3} Out of the mouths of babes and infants, you have perfected praise, because of your enemies, so that you may destroy the enemy and the revenger.
{8:4} For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded.
{8:5} What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him?
{8:6} You reduced him to a little less than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honour,
{8:7} and you have set him over the works of your hands.
{8:8} You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and in addition: the beasts of the field,
{8:9} the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea.
{8:10} O Yahweh, our Yahweh, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth!

[Psalm 9] (9 – 10)
{9:1} Unto the end. For the secrets of the Son. A Psalm of David.
{9:2} I will confess to you, Yahweh, with my whole heart. I will recount all your wonders.
{9:3} I will rejoice and exult in you. I will sing a psalm to your name, O Most High.
{9:4} For my enemy will be turned back. They will be weakened and perish before your face.
{9:5} For you have accomplished my judgment and my cause. You have sat upon the throne that judges justice.
{9:6} You have rebuked the Gentiles, and the wicked one has perished. You have deleted their name in eternity and for all generations.
{9:7} The spears of the enemy have failed in the end, and their cities, you have destroyed. Their memory has perished with a loud noise.
{9:8} But Yahweh remains in eternity. He has prepared his throne in judgment.
{9:9} And he will judge the whole world in equity. He will judge the people in justice.
{9:10} And Yahweh has become a refuge for the poor, a helper in opportunity, in tribulation.
{9:11} And may they hope in you, who know your name. For you have not abandoned those seeking you, Yahweh.
{9:12} Sing a psalm to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion. Announce his study among the Gentiles.
{9:13} Because of those who yearned for their blood, he has remembered them. He has not forgotten the cry of the poor.
{9:14} Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my humiliation from my enemies.
{9:15} You lift me up from the gates of death, so that I may announce all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion.
{9:16} I will exult in your salvation. The Gentiles have become trapped in the ruin that they made. Their foot has been caught in the same snare that they themselves had hidden.
{9:17} Yahweh will be recognized when making judgments. The sinner has been caught in the works of his own hands.
{9:18} The sinners will be turned into Hell: all the Gentiles who have forgotten God.
{9:19} For the poor will not be forgotten in the end. The patience of the poor will not perish in the end.
{9:20} Rise up, Yahweh: do not let man be strengthened. Let the Gentiles be judged in your sight.
{9:21} O Yahweh, establish a lawgiver over them, so that the Gentiles may know that they are only men.

{9:22} So then, why, O Yahweh, have you withdrawn far away? Why have you overlooked us in opportunity, in tribulation?
{9:23} While the wicked is arrogant, the poor is enflamed. They are held by the counsels that they devise.
{9:24} For the sinner is praised by the desires of his soul, and the iniquitous is blessed.
{9:25} The sinner has provoked Yahweh; according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him.
{9:26} God is not before his sight. His ways are stained at all times. Your judgments are removed from his face. He will be master of all his enemies.
{9:27} For he has said in his heart, “I will not be disturbed: from generation to generation without evil.”
{9:28} His mouth is full of curses, and bitterness, and deceit. Under his tongue are hardship and sorrow.
{9:29} He sits in ambush, with resources in hidden places, so that he may execute the innocent.
{9:30} His eyes catch sight of the poor. He lies in ambush, in hiding like a lion in his den. He lies in ambush, so that he may seize the poor, to seize the poor as he draws him in.
{9:31} With his snare, he will bring him down. He will crouch down and pounce, when he has power over the poor.
{9:32} For he has said in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has turned away his face, lest he see to the end.”
{9:33} O Yahweh God, rise up. Let your hand be exalted. Do not forget the poor.
{9:34} How has the wicked one provoked God? For he has said in his heart, “He will not inquire.”
{9:35} You do see, for you examine hardship and sorrow, so that you may deliver them into your hands. The poor one has been abandoned to you. You will be a helper to the orphan.
{9:36} Break the arm of the sinner and the malicious. His sin will be sought, and it will not be found.
{9:37} Yahweh shall reign in eternity, even forever and ever. You will perish the Gentiles from his land.
{9:38} Yahweh has heeded the desire of the poor. Your ear has listened to the preparation of their heart,
{9:39} so as to judge for the orphan and the humble, so that man may no longer presume to magnify himself upon the earth.

[Psalm 10] (11)
{10:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
{10:2} I trust in Yahweh. How can you say to my soul, “Sojourn to the mountain, like a sparrow.”
{10:3} For behold, the sinners have bent their bow. They have prepared their arrows in the quiver, so as to shoot arrows in the dark at the upright of heart.
{10:4} For they have destroyed the things that you have completed. But what has the just one done?
{10:5} Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh’s throne is in heaven. His eyes look upon the poor. His eyelids question the sons of men.
{10:6} Yahweh questions the righteous and the wicked. Yet he who loves iniquity, hates his own soul.
{10:7} He will rain down snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and windstorms will be the portion of their cup.
{10:8} For Yahweh is just, and he has chosen justice. His countenance has beheld equity.

[Psalm 11] (12)
{11:1} Unto the end. For the octave. A Psalm of David.
{11:2} Save me, O Yahweh, because holiness has passed away, because truths have been diminished, before the sons of men.
{11:3} They have been speaking emptiness, each one to his neighbour; they have been speaking with deceitful lips and a duplicitous heart.
{11:4} May Yahweh scatter all deceitful lips, along with the tongue that speaks malice.
{11:5} They have said: “We will magnify our tongue; our lips belong to us. Who is our Yahweh?”
{11:6} Because of the misery of the destitute and the groaning of the poor, now I will arise, says Yahweh. I will place him in safety. I will act faithfully toward him.
{11:7} The eloquence of Yahweh is pure eloquence, silver tested by fire, purged from the earth, refined seven times.
{11:8} You, O Yahweh, will preserve us, and you will guard us from this generation into eternity.
{11:9} The wicked wander aimlessly. According to your loftiness, you have multiplied the sons of men.

[Psalm 12] (13)
{12:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David. How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me until the end? How long will you turn your face away from me?
{12:2} How long can I take counsel in my soul, sorrowing in my heart throughout the day?
{12:3} How long will my enemy be exalted over me?
{12:4} Look upon me and listen to me, O Yahweh my God. Enlighten my eyes, lest I fall asleep forever in death,
{12:5} lest at any time my enemy may say, “I have prevailed against him.” Those who trouble me will exult, if I have been disturbed.
{12:6} But I have hoped in your mercy. My heart will exult in your salvation. I will sing to Yahweh, who assigns good things to me. And I will sing psalms to the name of Yahweh the Most High.

[Psalm 13] (14)
{13:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They were corrupted, and they have become abominable in their studies. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.
{13:2} Yahweh has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men, to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God.
{13:3} They have all gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.
{13:4} Their throat is an open sepulchre. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully; the venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.
{13:5} Their feet are swift to shed blood. Grief and unhappiness are in their ways; and the way of peace, they have not known.
{13:6} There is no fear of God before their eyes.
{13:7} Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?
{13:8} They have not called upon Yahweh. There, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear.
{13:9} For Yahweh is with the just generation. You have confounded the counsel of the needy because Yahweh is his hope.
{13:10} Who will grant the salvation of Israel from Zion? When Yahweh turns away the captivity of his people, Jacob will exult, and Israel will rejoice.

[Psalm 14] (15)
{14:1} A Psalm of David. O Yahweh, who will dwell in your tabernacle? Or who will rest on your holy mountain?
{14:2} He who walks without blemish and who works justice.
{14:3} He who speaks the truth in his heart, who has not acted deceitfully with his tongue, and has not done evil to his neighbour, and has not taken up a reproach against his neighbours.
{14:4} In his sight, the malicious one has been reduced to nothing, but he glorifies those who fear Yahweh. He who swears to his neighbour and does not deceive.
{14:5} He who has not given his money in usury, nor accepted bribes against the innocent. He who does these things will be undisturbed for eternity.

[Psalm 15] (16)
{15:1} The inscription of a title: of David himself. Preserve me, O Yahweh, because I have hoped in you.
{15:2} I have said to Yahweh: “You are my God, so you have no need of my goodness.”
{15:3} As for the saints, who are in his land: he has made all my desires wonderful in them.
{15:4} Their infirmities have been multiplied; after this, they acted more quickly. I will not gather for their convocations of blood, nor will I remember their names with my lips.
{15:5} Yahweh is the portion of my inheritance and my cup. It is you who will restore my inheritance to me.
{15:6} The lots have fallen upon me with clarity. And, indeed, my inheritance has been very clear to me.
{15:7} I will bless Yahweh, who has bestowed understanding upon me. Moreover, my temperament has also corrected me, even through the night.
{15:8} I have made provision for Yahweh always in my sight. For he is at my right hand, so that I may not be disturbed.
{15:9} Because of this, my heart has been joyful, and my tongue has exulted. Moreover, even my body will rest in hope.
{15:10} For you will not abandon my soul to Hell, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
{15:11} You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy by your countenance. At your right hand are delights, even to the end.

[Psalm 16] (17)
{16:1} A Prayer of David. Yahweh, listen to my justice, attend to my supplication. Pay attention to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.
{16:2} Let my judgment proceed from your presence. Let your eyes behold fairness.
{16:3} You have tested my heart and visited it by night. You have examined me by fire, and iniquity has not been found in me.
{16:4} Therefore, may my mouth not speak the works of men. I have kept to difficult ways because of the words of your lips.
{16:5} Perfect my steps in your paths, so that my footsteps may not be disturbed.
{16:6} I have cried out because you, O God, have listened to me. Incline your ear to me and heed my words.
{16:7} Make your mercies wonderful, for you save those who hope in you.
{16:8} From those who resist your right hand, preserve me like the pupil of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings,
{16:9} from the face of the wicked who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul.
{16:10} They have concealed their fatness; their mouth has been speaking arrogantly.
{16:11} They have cast me out, and now they have surrounded me. They have cast their eyes down to the earth.
{16:12} They have taken me, like a lion ready for the prey, and like a young lion dwelling in hiding.
{16:13} Rise up, O Yahweh, arrive before him and displace him. Deliver my soul from the wicked one: your spear from the enemies of your hand.
{16:14} Yahweh, divide them from the few of the earth in their life. Their gut has been filled from your hidden stores. They have been filled with sons, and they have bequeathed to their little ones the remainder.
{16:15} But as for me, I will appear before your sight in justice. I will be satisfied when your glory appears.

[Psalm 17] (18)
{17:1} Unto the end. For David, the servant of Yahweh, who spoke the words of this canticle to Yahweh, in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. And he said:
{17:2} I will love you, O Yahweh my strength.
{17:3} Yahweh is my firmament, my refuge, and my liberator. My God is my helper, and I hope in him: my protector, and the horn of my salvation, and my support.
{17:4} Praising, I will call upon Yahweh. And I will be saved from my enemies.
{17:5} The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the torrents of iniquity dismayed me.
{17:6} The sorrows of Hell encompassed me, and the snares of death intercepted me.
{17:7} In my tribulation, I called upon Yahweh, and I cried out to my God. And he listened to my voice from his holy temple. And my cry in his presence entered into his ears.
{17:8} The earth was shaken, and it trembled. The foundations of the mountains were disturbed, and they were shaken, because he was angry with them.
{17:9} A smoke ascended by his wrath, and a fire flared up from his face: coals were kindled by it.
{17:10} He bent the heavens, and they descended. And darkness was under his feet.
{17:11} And he ascended upon the cherubim, and he flew: he flew upon the feathers of the winds.
{17:12} And he set darkness as his hiding place, with his tabernacle all around him: dark waters in the clouds of the air.
{17:13} At the brightness that was before his sight, the clouds crossed by, with hail and coals of fire.
{17:14} And Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.
{17:15} And he sent forth his arrows and scattered them. He multiplied lightnings, and he set them in disarray.
{17:16} Then the fountains of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were revealed, by your rebuke, O Yahweh, by the inspiration of the Spirit of your wrath.
{17:17} He sent from on high, and he accepted me. And he took me up, out of many waters.
{17:18} He rescued me from my strongest enemies, and from those who hated me. For they had been too strong for me.
{17:19} They intercepted me in the day of my affliction, and Yahweh became my protector.
{17:20} And he led me out, into a wide place. He accomplished my salvation, because he willed me.
{17:21} And Yahweh will reward me according to my justice, and he will repay me according to the purity of my hands.
{17:22} For I have preserved the ways of Yahweh, and I have not behaved wickedly before my God.
{17:23} For all his judgments are in my sight, and his justice, I have not pushed away from me.
{17:24} And I will be perfect together with him, and I will keep myself from my iniquity.
{17:25} And Yahweh will reward me according to my justice and according to the purity of my hands before his eyes.
{17:26} With the holy, you will be holy, and with the innocent, you will be innocent,
{17:27} and with the elect, you will be elect, and with the perverse, you will be perverse.
{17:28} For you will save the humble people, but you will bring down the eyes of the arrogant.
{17:29} For you illuminate my lamp, O Yahweh. My God, enlighten my darkness.
{17:30} For in you, I will be delivered from temptation; and with my God, I will climb over a wall.
{17:31} As for my God, his way is undefiled. The eloquence of Yahweh has been examined by fire. He is the protector of all who hope in him.
{17:32} For who is God, except Yahweh? And who is God, except our God?
{17:33} It is God who has wrapped me with virtue and made my way perfect.
{17:34} It is he who has perfected my feet, like the feet of deer, and who stations me upon the heights.
{17:35} It is he who trains my hands for battle. And you have set my arms like a bow of brass.
{17:36} And you have given me the protection of your salvation. And your right hand sustains me. And your discipline has corrected me unto the end. And your discipline itself will teach me.
{17:37} You have expanded my footsteps under me, and my tracks have not been weakened.
{17:38} I will pursue my enemies and apprehend them. And I will not turn back until they have failed.
{17:39} I will break them, and they will not be able to stand. They will fall under my feet.
{17:40} And you have wrapped me with virtue for the battle. And those rising up against me, you have subdued under me.
{17:41} And you have given the back of my enemies to me, and you have destroyed those who hated me.
{17:42} They cried out, but there was none to save them, to Yahweh, but he did not heed them.
{17:43} And I will crush them into dust before the face of the wind, so that I will obliterate them like the mud in the streets.
{17:44} You will rescue me from the strifes of the people. You will set me at the head of the Gentiles.
{17:45} A people I did not know has served me. As soon as their ears heard, they were obedient to me.
{17:46} The sons of foreigners have been deceitful to me, the sons of foreigners have grown weak with time, and they have wavered from their paths.
{17:47} Yahweh lives, and blessed is my God, and may the God of my salvation be exalted:
{17:48} O God, who vindicates me and who subdues the people under me, my liberator from my enraged enemies.
{17:49} And you will exalt me above those who rise up against me. From the iniquitous man, you will rescue me.
{17:50} Because of this, O Yahweh, I will confess to you among the nations, and I will compose a psalm to your name:
{17:51} magnifying the salvation of his king, and showing mercy to David, his anointed, and to his offspring, even for all time.

[Psalm 18] (19)
{18:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
{18:2} The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.
{18:3} Day proclaims the word to day, and night to night imparts knowledge.
{18:4} There are no speeches or conversations, where their voices are not being heard.
{18:5} Their sound has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
{18:6} He has placed his tabernacle in the sun, and he is like a bridegroom coming out of his bedroom. He has exulted like a giant running along the way;
{18:7} his departure is from the summit of heaven. And his course reaches all the way to its summit. Neither is there anyone who can hide himself from his heat.
{18:8} The law of Yahweh is perfect, converting souls. The testimony of Yahweh is faithful, providing wisdom to little ones.
{18:9} The justice of Yahweh is right, rejoicing hearts. The precepts of Yahweh are brilliant, enlightening the eyes.
{18:10} The fear of Yahweh is holy, enduring for all generations. The judgments of Yahweh are true, justified in themselves:
{18:11} desirable beyond gold and many precious stones, and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.
{18:12} For, indeed, your servant keeps them, and in keeping them, there are many rewards.
{18:13} Who can understand his own transgressions? From my hidden faults, cleanse me, O Yahweh,
{18:14} and from those of others, spare your servant. If they will have no dominion over me, then I will be perfect, and I will be cleansed from the greatest transgression.
{18:15} And the eloquence of my mouth will be so as to please, along with the meditation of my heart, in your sight, forever, O Yahweh, my helper and my redeemer.

[Psalm 19] (20)
{19:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
{19:2} May Yahweh hear you in the day of tribulation. May the name of the God of Jacob protect you.
{19:3} May he send you help from the sanctuary and watch over you from Zion.
{19:4} May he be mindful of all your sacrifices, and may your burnt-offerings be fat.
{19:5} May he grant to you according to your heart, and confirm all your counsels.
{19:6} We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God, we will be magnified.
{19:7} May Yahweh fulfil all your petitions. Now I know that Yahweh has saved his anointed. He will hear him from his holy heaven. The salvation of his right hand is in his power.
{19:8} Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will call upon the name of Yahweh our God.
{19:9} They have been bound, and they have fallen. But we have risen up, and we have been set upright.
{19:10} O Yahweh, save the king, and hear us on the day that we will call upon you.

[Psalm 20] (21)
{20:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
{20:2} In your virtue, Yahweh, the king will rejoice, and over your salvation, he will exult exceedingly.
{20:3} You have granted him the desire of his heart, and you have not cheated him of the wish of his lips.
{20:4} For you have gone ahead of him with blessings of sweetness. You have placed a crown of precious stones on his head.
{20:5} He petitioned you for life, and you have granted him length of days, in the present time, and forever and ever.
{20:6} Great is his glory in your salvation. Glory and great adornment, you will lay upon him.
{20:7} For you will give him as a blessing forever and ever. You will make him rejoice with gladness in your presence.
{20:8} Because the king hopes in Yahweh, and in the mercy of the Most High, he will not be disturbed.
{20:9} May your hand be found by all your enemies. May your right hand discover all those who hate you.
{20:10} You will make them like an oven of fire, in the time of your presence. Yahweh will stir them up with his wrath, and fire will devour them.
{20:11} You will destroy their fruit from the earth and their offspring from the sons of men.
{20:12} For they have turned evils upon you; they have devised plans, which they have not been able to accomplish.
{20:13} For you will make them turn their back; with your remnants, you will prepare their countenance.
{20:14} Be exalted, Yahweh, by your own power. We will play music and sing psalms to your virtues.

[Psalm 21] (22)
{21:1} Unto the end. For the tasks of early morning. A Psalm of David.
{21:2} O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses.
{21:3} My God, I will cry out by day, and you will not heed, and by night, and it will not be foolishness for me.
{21:4} But you dwell in holiness, O Praise of Israel.
{21:5} In you, our fathers have hoped. They hoped, and you freed them.
{21:6} They cried out to you, and they were saved. In you, they hoped and were not confounded.
{21:7} But I am a worm and not a man: a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people.
{21:8} All those who saw me have derided me. They have spoken with the lips and shook the head.
{21:9} He has hoped in Yahweh, let him rescue him. Let him save him because he chooses him.
{21:10} For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, my hope from the breasts of my mother.
{21:11} I have been thrown upon you from the womb; from the womb of my mother, you are my God.
{21:12} Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me.
{21:13} Many calves have surrounded me; fat bulls have besieged me.
{21:14} They have opened their mouths over me, just like a lion seizing and roaring.
{21:15} And so, I have been poured out like water, and all my bones have been scattered. My heart has become like wax, melting in the midst of my chest.
{21:16} My strength has dried up like clay, and my tongue has adhered to my jaws. And you have pulled me down, into the dust of death.
{21:17} For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet.
{21:18} They have numbered all my bones. And they have examined me and stared at me.
{21:19} They divided my garments among them, and over my vestment, they cast lots.
{21:20} But you, O Yahweh, do not take your help far from me; be attentive to my defence.
{21:21} O God, rescue my soul from the spear, and my only one from the hand of the dog.
{21:22} Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my humility from the horns of the single-horned beast.
{21:23} I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.
{21:24} You who fear Yahweh, praise him. All the offspring of Jacob, glorify him.
{21:25} May all the offspring of Israel fear him. For he has neither spurned nor despised the pleas of the poor. Neither has he turned his face away from me. And when I cried out to him, he heeded me.
{21:26} My praise is with you, within a great assembly. I will pay my vows in the sight of those who fear him.
{21:27} The poor will eat and be satisfied, and those who yearn for Yahweh will praise him. Their hearts will live forever and ever.
{21:28} All the ends of the earth will remember, and they will be converted to Yahweh. And all the families of the Gentiles will adore in his sight.
{21:29} For the kingdom belongs to Yahweh, and he will have dominion over the Gentiles.
{21:30} All the fat of the earth have gnashed their teeth, and they have adored. In his sight, they will fall down, all those who descend to the ground.
{21:31} And my soul will live for him, and my offspring will serve him.
{21:32} There will be announced for Yahweh a future generation, and the heavens will announce his justice to a people who will be born, whom Yahweh has made.

[Psalm 22] (23)
{22:1} A Psalm of David. Yahweh directs me, and nothing will be lacking to me.
{22:2} He has settled me here, in a place of pasture. He has led me out to the water of refreshment.
{22:3} He has converted my soul. He has led me away on the paths of justice, for the sake of his name.
{22:4} For, even if I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils. For you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they have given me consolation.
{22:5} You have prepared a table in my sight, opposite those who trouble me. You have anointed my head with oil, and my cup, which inebriates me, how brilliant it is!
{22:6} And your mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and so may I dwell in the house of Yahweh for length of days.

[Psalm 23] (24)
{23:1} For the First Sabbath. A Psalm of David. The earth and all its fullness belong to Yahweh: the whole world and all that dwells in it.
{23:2} For he has founded it upon the seas, and he has prepared it upon the rivers.
{23:3} Who will ascend to the mountain of Yahweh? And who will stand in his holy place?
{23:4} The innocent of hands and the clean of heart, who has not received his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.
{23:5} He will receive a blessing from Yahweh, and mercy from God, his Saviour.
{23:6} This is the generation that seeks him, that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
{23:7} Lift up your gates, you princes, and be lifted up, eternal gates. And the King of Glory shall enter.
{23:8} Who is this King of Glory? Yahweh who is strong and powerful; Yahweh powerful in battle.
{23:9} Lift up your gates, you princes, and be lifted up, eternal gates. And the King of Glory shall enter.
{23:10} Who is this King of Glory? Yahweh of virtue. He himself is the King of Glory.

[Psalm 24] (25)
{24:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David. To you, Yahweh, I have lifted up my soul.
{24:2} In you, my God, I trust. Let me not be put to shame.
{24:3} And do not let my enemies laugh at me. For all who remain with you will not be confounded.
{24:4} May all those who act unjustly over nothing be confounded. O Yahweh, demonstrate your ways to me, and teach me your paths.
{24:5} Direct me in your truth, and teach me. For you are God, my Saviour, and I remain with you all day long.
{24:6} O Yahweh, remember your compassion and your mercies, which are from ages past.
{24:7} Do not remember the offenses of my youth and my transgressions. Remember me according to your mercy, because of your goodness, O Yahweh.
{24:8} Yahweh is sweet and righteous. Because of this, he will grant a law to those who fall short in the way.
{24:9} He will direct the mild in judgment. He will teach the meek his ways.
{24:10} All the ways of Yahweh are mercy and truth, to those who yearn for his covenant and his testimonies.
{24:11} Because of your name, O Yahweh, you will pardon my sin, for it is great.
{24:12} Which is the man who fears Yahweh? He has established a law for him, on the way that he has chosen.
{24:13} His soul will dwell upon good things, and his offspring will inherit the earth.
{24:14} Yahweh is a firmament to those who fear him, and his covenant will be made manifest to them.
{24:15} My eyes are ever toward Yahweh, for he will pull my feet from the snare.
{24:16} Look upon me and have mercy on me; for I am alone and poor.
{24:17} The troubles of my heart have been multiplied. Deliver me from my needfulness.
{24:18} See my lowliness and my hardship, and release all my offenses.
{24:19} Consider my enemies, for they have been multiplied, and they have hated me with an unjust hatred.
{24:20} Preserve my soul and rescue me. I will not be ashamed, for I have hoped in you.
{24:21} The innocent and the righteous have adhered to me, because I have remained with you.
{24:22} Free Israel, O God, from all his tribulations.

[Psalm 25] (26)
{25:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have been walking in my innocence, and by hoping in Yahweh, I will not be weakened.
{25:2} Examine me, Yahweh, and test me: enkindle my temperament and my heart.
{25:3} For your mercy is before my eyes, and I am serene in your truth.
{25:4} I have not sat with the council of emptiness, and I will not enter with those who carry out injustice.
{25:5} I have hated the assembly of the malicious; and I will not sit with the impious.
{25:6} I will wash my hands among the innocent, and I will surround your altar, O Yahweh,
{25:7} so that I may hear the voice of your praise and describe all your wonders.
{25:8} O Yahweh, I have loved the beauty of your house and the dwelling place of your glory.
{25:9} O God, do not let my soul perish with the impious, nor my life with the men of blood,
{25:10} in whose hands are iniquities: their right hand has been filled by bribes.
{25:11} But as for me, I have been walking in my innocence. Redeem me, and have mercy on me.
{25:12} My foot has stood firm in the straight path. In the assemblies, I will bless you, O Yahweh.

[Psalm 26] (27)
{26:1} A Psalm of David, before he was sealed. Yahweh is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the protector of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
{26:2} Meanwhile, the guilty draw near to me, so as to eat my flesh. Those who trouble me, my enemies, have themselves been weakened and have fallen.
{26:3} If entrenched armies were to stand together against me, my heart would not fear. If a battle were to rise up against me, I would have hope in this.
{26:4} One thing I have asked of Yahweh, this I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, so that I may behold the delight of Yahweh, and may visit his temple.
{26:5} For he has hidden me in his tabernacle. In the day of evils, he has protected me in the hidden place of his tabernacle.
{26:6} He has exalted me upon the rock, and now he has exalted my head above my enemies. I have circled around and offered a sacrifice of loud exclamation in his tabernacle. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm, to Yahweh.
{26:7} Hear my voice, O Yahweh, with which I have cried out to you. Have mercy on me, and hear me.
{26:8} My heart has spoken to you; my face has sought you. I yearn for your face, O Yahweh.
{26:9} Do not turn your face away from me. In your wrath, do not turn aside from your servant. Be my helper. Do not abandon me, and do not despise me, O God, my Saviour.
{26:10} For my father and my mother have left me behind, but Yahweh has taken me up.
{26:11} O Yahweh, establish a law for me in your way, and direct me in the right path, because of my enemies.
{26:12} Do not surrender me to the souls of those who trouble me. For unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and iniquity has lied to itself.
{26:13} I believe that I shall see the good things of Yahweh in the land of the living.
{26:14} Wait for Yahweh, act manfully; and let your heart be strengthened, and remain with Yahweh.

[Psalm 27] (28)
{27:1} A Psalm of David himself. To you, Yahweh, I will cry out. My God, do not be silent toward me. For if you remain silent toward me, I will become like those who descend into the pit.
{27:2} Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple.
{27:3} Do not draw me away together with sinners; and let me not perish with those who work iniquity, who speak peacefully to their neighbour, yet evils are in their hearts.
{27:4} Give to them according to their works and according to the wickedness of their inventions. Assign to them according to the works of their hands. Repay them with their own retribution.
{27:5} Since they have not understood the works of Yahweh and the works of his hands, you will destroy them, and you will not build them up.
{27:6} Blessed is Yahweh, for he has heard the voice of my supplication.
{27:7} Yahweh is my helper and my protector. In him, my heart has hoped and I have been helped. And my flesh has flourished again. And from my will, I shall confess to him.
{27:8} Yahweh is the strength of his people and the protector of the salvation of his Christ.
{27:9} O Yahweh, save your people and bless your inheritance, and reign over them and exalt them, even unto eternity.

[Psalm 28] (29)
{28:1} A Psalm of David, at the completion of the tabernacle. Bring to Yahweh, O sons of God, bring to Yahweh the sons of rams.
{28:2} Bring to Yahweh, glory and honour. Bring to Yahweh, glory for his name. Adore Yahweh in his holy court.
{28:3} The voice of Yahweh is over the waters. The God of majesty has thundered. Yahweh is over many waters.
{28:4} The voice of Yahweh is in virtue. The voice of Yahweh is in magnificence.
{28:5} The voice of Yahweh shatters the cedars. And Yahweh will shatter the cedars of Lebanon.
{28:6} And it will break them into pieces, like a calf of Lebanon, and in the same way as the beloved son of the single-horned beast.
{28:7} The voice of Yahweh cuts through the flame of fire.
{28:8} The voice of Yahweh shakes the desert. And Yahweh will quake the desert of Kadesh.
{28:9} The voice of Yahweh is preparing the stags, and he will reveal the dense woods. And in his temple, all will speak his glory.
{28:10} Yahweh causes the great flood to dwell. And Yahweh will sit as King in eternity.
{28:11} Yahweh will give virtue to his people. Yahweh will bless his people in peace.

[Psalm 29] (30)
{29:1} A Canticle Psalm. In dedication to the house of David.
{29:2} I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have sustained me, and you have not allowed my enemies to delight over me.
{29:3} O Yahweh my God, I have cried out to you, and you have healed me.
{29:4} Yahweh, you led my soul away from Hell. You have saved me from those who descend into the pit.
{29:5} Sing a psalm to Yahweh, you his saints, and confess with remembrance of his holiness.
{29:6} For wrath is in his indignation, and life is in his will. Toward evening, weeping will linger, and toward morning, gladness.
{29:7} But I have said in my abundance: “I will never be disturbed.”
{29:8} O Yahweh in your will, you made virtue preferable to beauty for me. You turned your face away from me, and I became disturbed.
{29:9} To you, Yahweh, I will cry out. And I will make supplication to my God.
{29:10} What use would there be in my blood, if I descend into corruption? Will dust confess to you or announce your truth?
{29:11} Yahweh has heard, and he has been merciful to me. Yahweh has become my helper.
{29:12} You have turned my mourning into gladness for me. You have cut off my sackcloth, and you have surrounded me with joy.
{29:13} So then, may my glory sing to you, and may I not regret it. O Yahweh, my God, I will confess to you for eternity.

[Psalm 30] (31)
{30:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David according to an ecstasy.
{30:2} In you, Yahweh, I have hoped; let me never be confounded. In your justice, deliver me.
{30:3} Incline your ear to me. Hasten to rescue me. Be for me a protector God and a house of refuge, so as to accomplish my salvation.
{30:4} For you are my strength and my refuge; and for the sake of your name, you will lead me and nourish me.
{30:5} You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector.
{30:6} Into your hands, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, God of truth.
{30:7} You have hated those who practice emptiness to no purpose. But I have hoped in Yahweh.
{30:8} I will exult and rejoice in your mercy. For you have looked upon my humility; you have saved my soul from needfulness.
{30:9} And you have not enclosed me in the hands of the enemy. You have set my feet in a spacious place.
{30:10} Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am troubled. My eye has been disturbed by wrath, along with my soul and my gut.
{30:11} For my life has fallen into sorrow, and my years into sighing. My virtue has been weakened in poverty, and my bones have been disturbed.
{30:12} I have become a disgrace among all my enemies, and even more so to my neighbours, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who catch sight of me, flee away from me.
{30:13} I have become forgotten, like one dead to the heart. I have become like a damaged utensil.
{30:14} For I have heard the harsh criticism of many who linger in the area. While assembled together against me in that place, they deliberated on how to take away my life.
{30:15} But I have hoped in you, O Yahweh. I said, “You are my God.”
{30:16} My fate is in your hands. Rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from those who are persecuting me.
{30:17} Shine your face upon your servant. Save me in your mercy.
{30:18} Do not let me be confounded, Yahweh, for I have called upon you. Let the impious be ashamed and be drawn down into Hell.
{30:19} May deceitful lips be silenced: those that speak iniquity against the just, in arrogance and in abusiveness.
{30:20} How great is the multitude of your sweetness, O Yahweh, which you keep hidden for those who fear you, which you have perfected for those who hope in you, in the sight of the sons of men.
{30:21} You hide them in the concealment of your face, from the disturbance of men. You protect them in your tabernacle, from the contradiction of tongues.
{30:22} Blessed is Yahweh. For he has shown his wonderful mercy to me, in a fortified city.
{30:23} But I said in the excess of my mind: “I have been cast away from the glance of your eyes.” And so, you heeded the voice of my prayer, while I was still crying out to you.
{30:24} Love Yahweh, all you his saints. For Yahweh will require truth, and he will abundantly repay those who act with arrogance.
{30:25} Act manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all you who hope in Yahweh.

[Psalm 31] (32)
{31:1} The understanding of David himself. Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered.
{31:2} Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh has not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
{31:3} Because I was silent, my bones grew old, while still I cried out all day long.
{31:4} For, day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. I have been converted in my anguish, while still the thorn is piercing.
{31:5} I have acknowledged my offense to you, and I have not concealed my injustice. I said, “I will confess against myself, my injustice to Yahweh,” and you forgave the impiety of my sin.
{31:6} For this, everyone who is holy will pray to you in due time. Yet truly, in a flood of many waters, they will not draw near to him.
{31:7} You are my refuge from the tribulation that has surrounded me. You are my exultation: rescue me from those who are surrounding me.
{31:8} I will give you understanding, and I will instruct you in this way, in which you will walk. I will fix my eyes upon you.
{31:9} Do not become like the horse and the mule, which have no understanding. Their jaws are constrained with bit and bridle, so as not to draw near to you.
{31:10} Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy will surround him that hopes in Yahweh.
{31:11} Rejoice in Yahweh and exult, you just ones, and glory, all you upright of heart.

[Psalm 32] (33)
{32:1} A Psalm of David. Exult in Yahweh, you just ones; together praise the upright.
{32:2} Confess to Yahweh with stringed instruments; sing psalms to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.
{32:3} Sing to him a new song. Sing psalms to him skilfully, with loud exclamation.
{32:4} For the word of Yahweh is upright, and all his works are in faith.
{32:5} He loves mercy and judgment. The earth is full of the mercy of Yahweh.
{32:6} By the word of Yahweh, the heavens were established, and all their power, by the Spirit of his mouth:
{32:7} gathering together the waters of the sea, as if in a container, placing the depths in storage.
{32:8} Let all the earth fear Yahweh, and may all the inhabitants of the world quake before him.
{32:9} For he spoke, and they became. He commanded, and they were created.
{32:10} Yahweh scatters the counsels of the nations. Moreover, he reproves the thoughts of the people, and he rejects the counsels of the leaders.
{32:11} But the counsel of Yahweh remains for eternity, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation.
{32:12} Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen as his inheritance.
{32:13} Yahweh has looked down from heaven. He has seen all the sons of men.
{32:14} From his well-prepared dwelling place, he has gazed upon all who dwell on the earth.
{32:15} He has formed the hearts of each one of them; he understands all their works.
{32:16} The king is not saved by great power, nor will the giant be saved by his many powers.
{32:17} The horse is false safety; for he will not be saved by the abundance of his powers.
{32:18} Behold, the eyes of Yahweh are on those who fear him and on those who hope in his mercy,
{32:19} so as to rescue their souls from death and to feed them during famine.
{32:20} Our soul remains with Yahweh. For he is our helper and protector.
{32:21} For in him, our heart will rejoice, and in his holy name, we have hoped.
{32:22} Let your mercy be upon us, O Yahweh, just as we have hoped in you.

[Psalm 33] (34)
{33:1} To David, when he changed his appearance in the sight of Abimelech, and so he dismissed him, and he went away.
{33:2} I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will be ever in my mouth.
{33:3} In Yahweh, my soul will be praised. May the meek listen and rejoice.
{33:4} Magnify Yahweh with me, and let us extol his name in itself.
{33:5} I sought Yahweh, and he heeded me, and he carried me away from all my tribulations.
{33:6} Approach him and be enlightened, and your faces will not be confounded.
{33:7} This poor one cried out, and Yahweh heeded him, and he saved him from all his tribulations.
{33:8} The Angel of Yahweh will encamp around those who fear him, and he will rescue them.
{33:9} Taste and see that Yahweh is sweet. Blessed is the man who hopes in him.
{33:10} Fear Yahweh, all you his saints. For there is no destitution for those who fear him.
{33:11} The rich have been needy and hungry, but those who seek Yahweh will not be deprived of any good thing.
{33:12} Come forward, sons. Listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
{33:13} Which is the man who wills life, who chooses to see good days?
{33:14} Prohibit your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.
{33:15} Turn away from evil, and do good. Inquire about peace, and pursue it.
{33:16} The eyes of Yahweh are on the just, and his ears are with their prayers.
{33:17} But the countenance of Yahweh is upon those who do evil, to perish the remembrance of them from the earth.
{33:18} The just cried out, and Yahweh heard them, and he freed them from all their tribulations.
{33:19} Yahweh is near to those who are troubled in heart, and he will save the humble in spirit.
{33:20} Many are the afflictions of the just, but from them all Yahweh will free them.
{33:21} Yahweh preserves all of their bones, not one of them shall be broken.
{33:22} The death of a sinner is very harmful, and those who hate the just will fare badly.
{33:23} Yahweh will redeem the souls of his servants, and none of those who hope in him will fare badly.

[Psalm 34] (35)
{34:1} Of David himself. O Yahweh, judge those who harm me; assail those who attack me.
{34:2} Take hold of weapons and a shield, and rise up in assistance to me.
{34:3} Bring forth the spear, and close in on those who persecute me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”
{34:4} Let them be confounded and in awe, who pursue my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded, who think up evil against me.
{34:5} May they become like dust before the face of the wind, and let the Angel of Yahweh hem them in.
{34:6} May their way become dark and slippery, and may the Angel of Yahweh pursue them.
{34:7} For, without cause, they have concealed their snare for me unto destruction. Over nothing, they have rebuked my soul.
{34:8} Let the snare, of which he is ignorant, come upon him, and let the deception, which he has hidden, take hold of him: and may he fall into that very snare.
{34:9} But my soul will exult in Yahweh and delight over his salvation.
{34:10} All my bones will say, “Yahweh, who is like you?” He rescues the needy from the hand of the stronger one, the indigent and the poor from those who plunder him.
{34:11} Unfair witnesses have risen up, interrogating me about things of which I am ignorant.
{34:12} They repaid me evil for good, to the deprivation of my soul.
{34:13} But as for me, when they were harassing me, I was clothed with haircloth. I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer will become my sinews.
{34:14} Like a neighbour, and like our brother, so did I please; like one mourning and contrite, so was I humbled.
{34:15} And they have been joyful against me, and they joined together. Scourges have been gathered over me, and I was ignorant of it.
{34:16} They have been scattered, yet they were unremorseful. They have tested me. They scoffed at me with scorn. They gnashed their teeth over me.
{34:17} Yahweh, when will you look down upon me? Restore my soul from before their malice, my only one from before the lions.
{34:18} I will confess to you in a great assembly. I will praise you among a weighty people.
{34:19} May those who are my unjust adversaries not be glad over me: those who have hated me without cause, and who nod agreement with their eyes.
{34:20} For indeed, they spoke peacefully to me; and speaking with passion to the earth, they intended deceit.
{34:21} And they opened their mouth wide over me. They said, “Well, well, our eyes have seen.”
{34:22} You have seen, O Yahweh, do not be silent. Yahweh, do not depart from me.
{34:23} Rise up and be attentive to my judgment, to my cause, my God and my Yahweh.
{34:24} Judge me according to your justice, O Yahweh, my God, and do not let them be glad over me.
{34:25} Do not let them say in their hearts, “Well, well, to our soul.” Neither let them say, “We have devoured him.”
{34:26} Let them blush and be in awe together, those who congratulate at my misfortunes. Let them be clothed with confusion and awe, who speak great things against me.
{34:27} Let them exult and rejoice, who wish my justice, and let them ever say, “Yahweh be magnified,” who will the peace of his servant.
{34:28} And so my tongue will express your justice: your praise all day long.

[Psalm 35] (36)
{35:1} Unto the end. To the servant of Yahweh, David himself.
{35:2} The unjust one has said within himself that he would commit offenses. There is no fear of God before his eyes.
{35:3} For he has acted deceitfully in his sight, such that his iniquity will be found to be hatred.
{35:4} The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He is unwilling to understand, so that he may act well.
{35:5} He has been considering iniquity on his bed. He has set himself on every way that is not good; moreover, he has not hated evil.
{35:6} Yahweh, your mercy is in heaven, and your truth is even to the clouds.
{35:7} Your justice is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are a great abyss. Men and beasts, you will save, O Yahweh.
{35:8} How you have multiplied your mercy, O God! And so the sons of men will hope under the cover of your wings.
{35:9} They will be inebriated with the fruitfulness of your house, and you will give them to drink from the torrent of your enjoyment.
{35:10} For with you is the fountain of life; and within your light, we will see the light.
{35:11} Extend your mercy before those who know you, and your justice to these, who are upright in heart.
{35:12} May arrogant feet not approach me, and may the hand of the sinner not disturb me.
{35:13} In that place, those who work iniquity have fallen. They have been expelled; they were not able to stand.

[Psalm 36] (37)
{36:1} A Psalm of David himself. Do not choose to imitate the malicious; neither should you envy those who work iniquity.
{36:2} For they will quickly wither away like dry grass, and in like manner to kitchen herbs, they will soon droop.
{36:3} Hope in Yahweh and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches.
{36:4} Delight in Yahweh, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.
{36:5} Reveal your way to Yahweh, and hope in him, and he will accomplish it.
{36:6} And he will bring forth your justice like the light, and your judgment like the midday.
{36:7} Be subject to Yahweh and pray to him. Do not choose to compete with him who prospers in his way, with the man who does injustice.
{36:8} Cease from wrath and leave behind rage. Do not choose to imitate the malicious.
{36:9} For those who are malicious will be exterminated. But those who remain with Yahweh, these will inherit the land.
{36:10} Yet still a little while, and the sinner will not be. And you will search his place and find nothing.
{36:11} But the meek shall inherit the earth, and they will delight in the multitude of peace.
{36:12} The sinner will observe the just, and he will gnash his teeth over him.
{36:13} But Yahweh will laugh at him: for he knows in advance that his day will come.
{36:14} The sinners have drawn the sword, they have bent their bow, so as to cast down the poor and the needy, so as to massacre the upright of heart.
{36:15} Let their sword enter into their own hearts, and let their bow be broken.
{36:16} A little is better to the just than the many riches of sinners.
{36:17} For the arms of sinners will be crushed, but Yahweh confirms the just.
{36:18} Yahweh knows the days of the perfect, and their inheritance will be in eternity.
{36:19} They will not be confounded in an evil time; and in days of famine, they will be satisfied:
{36:20} for sinners will perish. Truly, the adversaries of Yahweh, soon after they have been honoured and exalted, will fade away, in the same way that smoke fades away.
{36:21} The sinner will lend and not release, but the just one shows compassion and donates.
{36:22} For those who bless him will inherit the earth, but those who curse him will perish.
{36:23} The steps of a man will be directed by Yahweh, and he will choose his way.
{36:24} When he falls, he will not be harmed, because Yahweh places his hand under him.
{36:25} I have been young, and now I am old; and I have not seen the just forsaken, nor his offspring seeking bread.
{36:26} He shows compassion and lends, all day long, and his offspring will be in blessing.
{36:27} Turn away from evil and do good, and dwell forever and ever.
{36:28} For Yahweh loves judgment, and he will not abandon his saints. They will be kept safe in eternity. The unjust will be punished, and the offspring of the wicked will perish.
{36:29} But the just will inherit the earth, and they will dwell upon it forever and ever.
{36:30} The mouth of the just one will express wisdom, and his tongue will speak judgment.
{36:31} The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted.
{36:32} The sinner considers the just one and seeks to put him to death.
{36:33} But Yahweh will not abandon him into his hands, nor condemn him, when he will be judged.
{36:34} Wait for Yahweh, and keep to his way. And he will exalt you, so as to inherit the land that you may seize. When the sinners will have passed away, then you shall see.
{36:35} I have seen the wicked over-exalted, and lifted up like the cedars of Lebanon.
{36:36} And I passed by, and behold, he was not. And I sought him, and his place was not found.
{36:37} Keep to innocence, and gaze upon fairness: because there are allotments for the peaceful man.
{36:38} But the unjust will be destroyed together: the allotments of the wicked will pass away.
{36:39} But the salvation of the just is from Yahweh, and he is their protector in time of tribulation.
{36:40} And Yahweh will help them and free them. And he will rescue them from sinners and save them, because they have hoped in him.

[Psalm 37] (38)
{37:1} A Psalm of David, in commemoration of the Sabbath.
{37:2} O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your fury, nor chastise me in your wrath.
{37:3} For your arrows have been driven into me, and your hand has been confirmed over me.
{37:4} There is no health in my flesh before the face of your wrath. There is no peace for my bones before the face of my sins.
{37:5} For my iniquities have walked over my head, and they have been like a heavy burden weighing upon me.
{37:6} My sores have putrefied and been corrupted before the face of my foolishness.
{37:7} I have become miserable, and I have been bent down, even to the end. I have walked with contrition all day long.
{37:8} For my loins have been filled with illusions, and there is no health in my flesh.
{37:9} I have been afflicted and greatly humbled. I bellowed from the groaning of my heart.
{37:10} O Yahweh, all my desire is before you, and my groaning before you has not been hidden.
{37:11} My heart has been disturbed. My strength has abandoned me, and the light of my eyes has abandoned me, and it is not with me.
{37:12} My friends and my neighbours have drawn near and stood against me. And those who were next to me stood far apart. And those who sought my soul used violence.
{37:13} And those who sought evil accusations against me were speaking emptiness. And they practiced deceitfulness all day long.
{37:14} But, like someone deaf, I did not hear. And I was like someone mute, not opening his mouth.
{37:15} And I became like a man who does not hear, and who has no reproofs in his mouth.
{37:16} For in you, Yahweh, I have hoped. You will listen to me, O Yahweh my God.
{37:17} For I said, “Lest at any time, my enemies might rejoice over me,” and, “While my feet are being shaken, they have spoken great things against me.”
{37:18} For I have been prepared for scourges, and my sorrow is ever before me.
{37:19} For I will announce my iniquity, and I will think about my sin.
{37:20} But my enemies live, and they have been stronger than me. And those who have wrongfully hated me have been multiplied.
{37:21} Those who render evil for good have dragged me down, because I followed goodness.
{37:22} Do not forsake me, O Yahweh my God. Do not depart from me.
{37:23} Be attentive to my help, O Yahweh, the God of my salvation.

[Psalm 38] (39)
{38:1} Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David.
{38:2} I said, “I will keep to my ways, so that I will not offend with my tongue.” I posted a guard at my mouth, when a sinner took up a position against me.
{38:3} I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed.
{38:4} My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up.
{38:5} I spoke with my tongue, “O Yahweh, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me.”
{38:6} Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man.
{38:7} So then, truly man passes by like an image; even so, he is disquieted in vain. He stores up, and he knows not for whom he will gather these things.
{38:8} And now, what is it that awaits me? Is it not Yahweh? And my substance is with you.
{38:9} Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as a reproach to the foolish.
{38:10} I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted.
{38:11} Remove your scourges from me.
{38:12} I fall short at corrections from the strength of your hand. For you have chastised man for iniquity. And you have made his soul shrink away like a spider. Nevertheless, it is in vain that any man be disquieted.
{38:13} O Yahweh, heed my prayer and my supplication. Pay attention to my tears. Do not be silent. For I am a newcomer with you, and a sojourner, just as all my fathers were.
{38:14} Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more.

[Psalm 39] (40)
{39:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.
{39:2} I have waited expectantly for Yahweh, and he was attentive to me.
{39:3} And he heard my prayers and he led me out of the pit of misery and the quagmire. And he stationed my feet upon a rock, and he directed my steps.
{39:4} And he sent a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many will see, and they will fear; and they will hope in Yahweh.
{39:5} Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of Yahweh, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods.
{39:6} You have accomplished your many wonders, O Yahweh my God, and there is no one similar to you in your thoughts. I have announced and I have spoken: they are multiplied beyond number.
{39:7} Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have perfected ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering, you did not require.
{39:8} Then I said, “Behold, I draw near.” At the head of the book, it has been written of me:
{39:9} that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.
{39:10} I have announced your justice in a great assembly: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Yahweh, you have known it.
{39:11} I have not concealed your justice within my heart. I have spoken your truth and your salvation. I have not concealed your mercy and your truth from a great assembly.
{39:12} O Yahweh, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me.
{39:13} For evils without number have surrounded me. My iniquities have taken hold of me, and I was not able to see. They have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. And my heart has forsaken me.
{39:14} Be pleased, O Yahweh, to rescue me. Look down, O Yahweh, to help me.
{39:15} Let them together be confounded and awed, who seek after my soul to steal it away. Let them be turned back and be in awe, who wish evils upon me.
{39:16} Let them bear their confusion all at once, who say to me, “Well, well.”
{39:17} Let all who seek you exult and rejoice over you. And let those who love your salvation always say, “May Yahweh be magnified.”
{39:18} But I am a beggar and poor. Yahweh has been concerned about me. You are my helper and my protector. My God, do not delay.

[Psalm 40] (41)
{40:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.
{40:2} Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the evil day.
{40:3} May Yahweh preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth. And may he not hand him over to the will of his adversaries.
{40:4} May Yahweh bring him help on his bed of sorrow. In his infirmity, you have changed his entire covering.
{40:5} I said, “O Yahweh, be merciful to me. Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.”
{40:6} My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?
{40:7} And when he came in to see me, he was speaking emptiness. His heart gathered iniquity to itself. He went outside, and he was speaking in the same way.
{40:8} All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.
{40:9} They established an unjust word against me. Will he that sleeps no longer rise again?
{40:10} For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.
{40:11} But you, O Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them.
{40:12} By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me.
{40:13} But you have sustained me, because of my innocence, and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity.
{40:14} Blessed is Yahweh God of Israel, for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen.

[Psalm 41] (42)
{41:1} Unto the end. The understanding of the sons of Korah.
{41:2} As the deer longs for fountains of water, so my soul longs for you, O God.
{41:3} My soul has thirsted for the strong living God. When will I draw close and appear before the face of God?
{41:4} My tears have been my bread, day and night. Meanwhile, it is said to me daily: “Where is your God?”
{41:5} These things I have remembered; and my soul within me, I have poured out. For I will cross into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, all the way to the house of God, with a voice of exultation and confession, the sound of feasting.
{41:6} Why are you sad, my soul? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still confess to him: the salvation of my countenance,
{41:7} and my God. My soul has been troubled within myself. Because of this, I will remember you from the land of the Jordan and from Hermon, from the little mountain.
{41:8} Abyss calls upon abyss, with the voice of your floodgate. All your heights and your waves have passed over me.
{41:9} In the daylight, Yahweh has ordered his mercy; and in the night, a canticle to him. With me is a prayer to the God of my life.
{41:10} I will say to God, “You are my supporter. Why have you forgotten me? And why do I walk in mourning, while my adversary afflicts me?”
{41:11} While my bones are being broken, my enemies, who trouble me, have reproached me. Meanwhile, they say to me every single day, “Where is your God?”
{41:12} My soul, why are you saddened? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still confess to him: the salvation of my countenance and my God.

[Psalm 42] (43)
{42:1} A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and discern my cause from that of a nation not holy; rescue me from a man unjust and deceitful.
{42:2} For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me?
{42:3} Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.
{42:4} And I will enter, up to the altar of God, to God who enlivens my youthfulness. To you, O God, my God, I will confess upon a stringed instrument.
{42:5} Why are you sad, my soul? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance and my God.

[Psalm 43] (44)
{43:1} Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding.
{43:2} We have heard, O God, with our own ears. Our fathers have announced to us the work that you wrought in their days and in the days of antiquity.
{43:3} Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them.
{43:4} For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, and their own arm did not save them. But your right hand and your arm, and the light of your countenance did so, because you were pleased with them.
{43:5} You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob.
{43:6} With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us.
{43:7} For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.
{43:8} For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us.
{43:9} In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever.
{43:10} But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God.
{43:11} You have turned our back to our enemies, and those who hated us have plundered for themselves.
{43:12} You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles.
{43:13} You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them.
{43:14} You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbours, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us.
{43:15} You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
{43:16} All day long my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
{43:17} before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.
{43:18} All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant.
{43:19} And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.
{43:20} For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
{43:21} If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,
{43:22} will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. For, because of you, we are being killed all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.
{43:23} Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Yahweh? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end.
{43:24} Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?
{43:25} For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.
{43:26} Rise up, O Yahweh. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.
[Psalm 44] (45)
{44:1} Unto the end. For those who will be changed. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. A Canticle for the Beloved.
{44:2} My heart has uttered a good word. I speak of my works to the king. My tongue is like the pen of a scribe who writes quickly.
{44:3} You are a brilliant form before the sons of men. Grace has been poured freely into your lips. Because of this, God has blessed you in eternity.
{44:4} Fasten your sword to your thigh, O most powerful one.
{44:5} With your splendour and your excellence extended, proceed prosperously, and reign for the sake of truth and meekness and justice, and so will your right hand lead you wondrously.
{44:6} Your arrows are sharp; the people will fall under you, with the hearts of the enemies of the king.
{44:7} Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of true aim.
{44:8} You have loved justice and hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you, before your co-heirs, with the oil of gladness.
{44:9} Myrrh and balsam and cinnamon perfume your garments, from the houses of ivory. From these, they have delighted you:
{44:10} the daughters of kings in your honour. The queen assisted at your right hand, in clothing of gold, encircled with diversity.
{44:11} Listen, daughter, and see, and incline your ear. And forget your people and your father’s house.
{44:12} And the king will desire your beauty. For he is Yahweh your God, and they will adore him.
{44:13} And the daughters of Tyre will entreat your countenance with gifts: all the rich men of the people.
{44:14} All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes,
{44:15} clothed all around with diversities. After her, virgins will be led to the king. Her neighbours will be brought to you.
{44:16} They will be brought with gladness and exultation. They will be led into the temple of the king.
{44:17} For your fathers, sons have been born to you. You will establish them as leaders over all the earth.
{44:18} They will remember your name always, for generation after generation. Because of this, people will confess to you in eternity, even forever and ever.

[Psalm 45] (46)
{45:1} Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, for confidants. A Psalm.
{45:2} Our God is our refuge and strength, a helper in the tribulations that have greatly overwhelmed us.
{45:3} Because of this, we will not be afraid when the earth will be turbulent and the mountains will be transferred into the heart of the sea.
{45:4} They thundered, and the waters were stirred up among them; the mountains have been disturbed by his strength.
{45:5} The frenzy of the river rejoices the city of God. The Most High has sanctified his tabernacle.
{45:6} God is in its midst; it will not be shaken. God will assist it in the early morning.
{45:7} The peoples have been disturbed, and the kingdoms have been bowed down. He uttered his voice: the earth has been moved.
{45:8} Yahweh of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our supporter.
{45:9} Draw near and behold the works of Yahweh: what portents he has set upon the earth,
{45:10} carrying away wars even to the end of the earth. He will crush the bow and break the weapons, and he will burn the shield with fire.
{45:11} Be empty, and see that I am God. I will be exalted among the peoples, and I will be exalted upon the earth.
{45:12} Yahweh of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our supporter.

[Psalm 46] (47)
{46:1} Unto the end. A Psalm for the sons of Korah.
{46:2} All nations, clap your hands. Shout joyfully to God with a voice of exultation.
{46:3} For Yahweh is exalted and terrible: a great King over all the earth.
{46:4} He has subjected the peoples to us and subdued the nations under our feet.
{46:5} He has chosen us for his inheritance: the splendour of Jacob, whom he has loved.
{46:6} God ascends with jubilation, and Yahweh with the voice of the trumpet.
{46:7} Sing psalms to our God, sing psalms. Sing psalms to our King, sing psalms.
{46:8} For God is the King of all the earth. Sing psalms wisely.
{46:9} God will reign over the peoples. God sits upon his holy throne.
{46:10} The leaders of the peoples have been gathered together by the God of Abraham. For the strong gods of the earth have been exceedingly exalted.

[Psalm 47] (48)
{47:1} A Canticle Psalm. To the sons of Korah, on the second Sabbath.
{47:2} Yahweh is great and exceedingly praiseworthy, in the city of our God, on his holy mountain.
{47:3} Mount Zion is being founded with the exultation of the whole earth, on the north side, the city of the great king.
{47:4} In her houses, God will be known, since he will support her.
{47:5} For behold, the kings of the earth have been gathered together; they have convened as one.
{47:6} Such did they see, and they were astonished: they were disturbed, they were moved.
{47:7} Trembling took hold of them. In that place, their pains were that of a woman in labour.
{47:8} With a vehement spirit, you will crush the ships of Tarshish.
{47:9} As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God. God has founded it in eternity.
{47:10} We have received your mercy, O God, in the midst of your temple.
{47:11} According to your name, O God, so does your praise reach to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of justice.
{47:12} Let mount Zion rejoice, and let the daughters of Judah exult, because of your judgments, O Yahweh.
{47:13} Encircle Zion and embrace her. Discourse in her towers.
{47:14} Set your hearts on her virtue. And distribute her houses, so that you may discourse of it in another generation.
{47:15} For this is God, our God, in eternity and forever and ever. He will rule us forever.

[Psalm 48] (49)
{48:1} Unto the end. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.
{48:2} Hear these things, all nations. Pay attention, all inhabitants of the world:
{48:3} whoever is earth-born, you sons of men, together as one, the rich and the poor.
{48:4} My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will speak prudence.
{48:5} I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my case with the psaltery.
{48:6} Why should I fear in the evil day? The iniquity at my heel will surround me.
{48:7} Those who trust in their own strength and who glory in the multitude of their riches,
{48:8} no brother redeems, nor will man buy back. He will not give to God his appeasement,
{48:9} nor the price for the redemption of his soul. And he will labour continuously,
{48:10} and he will still live, until the end.
{48:11} He will not see death, when he sees the wise dying: the foolish and the senseless will perish together. And they will leave their riches to strangers.
{48:12} And their sepulchres will be their houses forever, their tabernacles from generation to generation. They have called their names in their own lands.
{48:13} And man, when he was held in honour, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.
{48:14} This way of theirs is a scandal to them. And afterwards, they will delight in their mouth.
{48:15} They have been placed in Hell like sheep. Death will feed on them. And the just will have dominion over them in the morning. And their help will grow old in Hell for their glory.
{48:16} Even so, truly God will redeem my soul from the hand of Hell, when he will receive me.
{48:17} Do not be afraid, when a man will have been made rich, and when the glory of his house will have been multiplied.
{48:18} For when he dies, he will take nothing away, and his glory will not descend with him.
{48:19} For his soul will be blessed in his lifetime, and he will admit to you when you do good to him.
{48:20} He will even enter with the progeny of his fathers, but, even in eternity, he will not see the light.
{48:21} Man, when he was in honour, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

[Psalm 49] (50)
{49:1} A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, Yahweh has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,
{49:2} from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
{49:3} God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.
{49:4} He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
{49:5} Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
{49:6} And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
{49:7} Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.
{49:8} I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your burnt offerings are ever in my sight.
{49:9} I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.
{49:10} For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
{49:11} I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
{49:12} If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plenitude.
{49:13} Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?
{49:14} Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.
{49:15} And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honour me.
{49:16} But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?
{49:17} Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
{49:18} If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
{49:19} Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
{49:20} Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
{49:21} These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.
{49:22} Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.
{49:23} The sacrifice of praise will honour me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.

[Psalm 50] (51)
{50:1} Unto the end. A Psalm of David,
{50:2} when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.
{50:3} Be merciful to me, O God, according to your great mercy. And, according to the plenitude of your compassion, wipe out my iniquity.
{50:4} Wash me once again from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
{50:5} For I know my iniquity, and my sin is ever before me.
{50:6} Against you only have I sinned, and I have done evil before your eyes. And so, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.
{50:7} For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sinfulness did my mother conceive me.
{50:8} For behold, you have loved truth. The obscure and hidden things of your wisdom, you have manifested to me.
{50:9} You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed. You will wash me, and I will be made whiter than snow.
{50:10} In my hearing, you will grant gladness and rejoicing. And the bones that have been humbled will exult.
{50:11} Turn your face away from my sins, and erase all my iniquities.
{50:12} Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.
{50:13} Do not cast me away from your face; and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
{50:14} Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and confirm me with an unsurpassed spirit.
{50:15} I will teach the unjust your ways, and the impious will be converted to you.
{50:16} Free me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will extol your justice.
{50:17} O Yahweh, you will open my lips, and my mouth will announce your praise.
{50:18} For if you had desired sacrifice, I would certainly have given it, but with burnt offerings, you will not be delighted.
{50:19} A crushed spirit is a sacrifice to God. A contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.
{50:20} Act kindly, Yahweh, in your good will toward Zion, so that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.
{50:21} Then you will accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations, and burnt offerings. Then they will lay calves upon your altar.

[Psalm 51] (52)
{51:1} Unto the end. The understanding of David.
{51:2} When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech.
{51:3} Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?
{51:4} All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.
{51:5} You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.
{51:6} You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.
{51:7} Because of this, God will destroy you in the end. He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root from the land of the living.
{51:8} The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:
{51:9} “Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”
{51:10} But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.
{51:11} I will confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.

[Psalm 52] (53)
{52:1} Unto the end. For Mahalath: the thoughts of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
{52:2} They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. There is no one who does good.
{52:3} God gazed down from heaven on the sons of men, to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God.
{52:4} All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.
{52:5} Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?
{52:6} They have not called upon God. In that place, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who please men. They have been confounded, because God has spurned them.
{52:7} Who will grant from Zion the salvation of Israel? Jacob will exult, when God will convert the captivity of his people; and Israel will rejoice.

[Psalm 53] (54)
{53:1} Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David,
{53:2} when the Ziphites had arrived and they said to Saul, “Has not David been hidden with us?”
{53:3} Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me in your virtue.
{53:4} O God, listen to my prayer. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
{53:5} For strangers have risen up against me, and the strong have sought my soul. And they have not set God before their eyes.
{53:6} For behold, God is my helper, and Yahweh is the protector of my soul.
{53:7} Turn back the evils upon my adversaries, and ruin them by your truth.
{53:8} I will freely sacrifice to you, and I will confess your name, O God, because it is good.
{53:9} For you have quickly rescued me from all tribulation, and my eye has looked down upon my enemies.

[Psalm 54] (55)
{54:1} Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David.
{54:2} Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication.
{54:3} Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed
{54:4} at the voice of the adversary and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have diverted iniquities toward me, and they have been harassing me with rage.
{54:5} My heart has become disturbed within me, and the dread of death has fallen over me.
{54:6} Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and darkness has buried me.
{54:7} And I said, “Who will give me wings like the dove, so that I may fly away and take rest?”
{54:8} Behold, I have fled far away, and I linger in solitude.
{54:9} I waited for him who saved me from a weak-minded spirit and from a tempest.
{54:10} Cast them down, O Yahweh, and divide their tongues. For I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.
{54:11} Day and night, iniquity will surround it upon its walls, and hardship is in its midst,
{54:12} with injustice. And usury and deceit have not fallen away from its streets.
{54:13} For if my enemy had spoken evil about me, certainly, I would have sustained it. And if he who hated me had been speaking great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.
{54:14} Truly, you are a man of one mind: my leader and my acquaintance,
{54:15} who took sweet food together with me. In the house of God, we walked side-by-side.
{54:16} Let death come upon them, and let them descend alive into Hellfire. For there is wickedness in their dwellings, in their midst.
{54:17} But I have cried out to God, and Yahweh will save me.
{54:18} Evening and morning and midday, I will discourse and announce, and he will heed my voice.
{54:19} He will redeem my soul in peace from those who draw near to me. For, among the many, they were with me.
{54:20} God will hear, and He who is before time will humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God.
{54:21} He has stretched forth his hand in retribution. They have contaminated his covenant.
{54:22} They were divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart has drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and they are arrows.
{54:23} Cast your cares upon Yahweh, and he will nurture you. He will not allow the just to be tossed about forever.
{54:24} Truly, O God, you will lead them away into the well of death. Bloody and deceitful men will not divide their days in half. But I will hope in you, O Yahweh.

[Psalm 55] (56)
{55:1} Unto the end. For the people who have become far removed from the Sacred. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when the Philistines held him in Gath.
{55:2} Have mercy on me, O God, because man has trampled over me. All day long, he has afflicted me by fighting against me.
{55:3} My enemies have trampled over me all day long. For those who make war against me are many.
{55:4} From the height of the day, I will be afraid. But truly, I will hope in you.
{55:5} In God, I will praise my words. In God, I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do to me.
{55:6} All day long, they curse my words. All their intentions are for evil against me.
{55:7} They will dwell and hide themselves. They will watch my heel, just as they waited for my soul;
{55:8} because of this, nothing will save them. In your anger, you will crush the people.
{55:9} O God, I have announced my life to you. You have placed my tears in your sight, and even in your promise.
{55:10} Then my enemies will be turned back. On whatever day that I call upon you, behold, I know that you are my God.
{55:11} In God, I will praise the word. In Yahweh, I will praise his speech. In God, I have hoped. I will not fear what man can do to me.
{55:12} My vows to you, O God, are in me. I will repay them. Praises be to you.
{55:13} For you have rescued my soul from death and my feet from slipping, so that I may be pleasing in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

[Psalm 56] (57)
{56:1} Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave.
{56:2} Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me. For my soul trusts in you. And I will hope in the shadow of your wings, until iniquity passes away.
{56:3} I will cry out to God Most High, to God who has been kind to me.
{56:4} He sent from heaven and freed me. He has surrendered into disgrace those who trampled me. God has sent his mercy and his truth.
{56:5} And he has rescued my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men: their teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue is a sharp sword.
{56:6} Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth.
{56:7} They prepared a snare for my feet, and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, yet they have fallen into it.
{56:8} My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm.
{56:9} Rise up, my glory. Rise up, psaltery and harp. I will arise in early morning.
{56:10} I will confess to you, O Yahweh, among the peoples. I will compose a psalm to you among the nations.
{56:11} For your mercy has been magnified, even to the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds.
{56:12} Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth.

[Psalm 57] (58)
{57:1} Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.
{57:2} If, truly and certainly, you speak justice, then judge what is right, you sons of men.
{57:3} For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.
{57:4} Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.
{57:5} Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears,
{57:6} who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.
{57:7} God will crush their teeth within their own mouth. Yahweh will break the molars of the lions.
{57:8} They will come to nothing, like water flowing away. He has aimed his bow, while they are being weakened.
{57:9} Like wax that flows, they will be carried away. Fire has fallen upon them, and they will not see the sun.
{57:10} Before your thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.
{57:11} The just one will rejoice when he sees vindication. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
{57:12} And man will say, “If the just one is fruitful, then, truly, there is a God judging them on earth.”

[Psalm 58] (59)
{58:1} Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house, in order to execute him.
{58:2} Rescue me from my enemies, my God, and free me from those who rise up against me.
{58:3} Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood.
{58:4} For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.
{58:5} And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Yahweh. I have run and gone directly, without iniquity.
{58:6} Rise up to meet me, and see: even you, O Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Reach out to visit all nations. Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity.
{58:7} They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.
{58:8} Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: “For who has heard us?”
{58:9} And you, O Yahweh, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.
{58:10} I will guard my strength toward you, for you are God, my supporter.
{58:11} My God, his mercy will precede me.
{58:12} God will oversee my enemies for me. Do not slay them, lest at times my people may forget them. Scatter them by your virtue. And depose them, O Yahweh, my protector,
{58:13} by the offense of their mouth and by the speech of their lips. And may they be caught in their arrogance. And, for their cursing and lying, they will be made known
{58:14} at the consummation, in the fury of the consummation, and so they will be no more. And they will know that God will rule over Jacob, even to the ends of the earth.
{58:15} They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.
{58:16} They will be dispersed in order to gnaw, and truly, when they will not have been satisfied, they will murmur.
{58:17} But I will sing your strength, and I will extol your mercy, in the morning. For you have been my supporter and my refuge in the day of my tribulation.
{58:18} To you, my helper, I will sing psalms. For you are God, my supporter. My God is my mercy.

[Psalm 59] (60)
{59:1} Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction:
{59:2} when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men.
{59:3} O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.
{59:4} You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.
{59:5} You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse.
{59:6} You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered.
{59:7} Save me with your right hand, and hear me.
{59:8} God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles.
{59:9} Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king.
{59:10} Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.
{59:11} Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea?
{59:12} Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?
{59:13} Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty.
{59:14} In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing.

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