Category: Psalms

A Vow of Integrity

A Davidic psalm.

1 I will sing of faithful love and justice;

I will sing praise to You,Lord.

2 I will pay attention to the way of integrity.

When will You come to me?

I will live with a heart of integrity in my house.

3 I will not set anything worthless before my eyes.

I hate the practice of transgression;

it will not cling to me.

4 A devious heart will be far from me;

I will not be involved withevil.

5 I will destroy anyone

who secretly slanders his neighbor;

I cannot tolerate anyone

with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

6 My eyes favor the faithful of the land

so that they may sit down with me.

The one who follows the way of integrity

may serve me.

7 No one who acts deceitfully

will live in my palace;

no one who tells lies

will remain in my presence.

8 Every morning I will destroy

all the wicked of the land,

eliminating all evildoers from theLord’s city.

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Affliction in Light of Eternity

A prayer of an afflicted person who is weak and pours out his lament before the Lord.

1 Lord, hear my prayer;

let my cry for help come before You.

2 Do not hide Your face from me in my day of trouble.

Listen closely to me;

answer me quickly when I call.

3 For my days vanish like smoke,

and my bones burn like a furnace.

4 My heart is afflicted, withered like grass;

I even forget to eat my food.

5 Because of the sound of my groaning,

my flesh sticks to my bones.

6 I am like a desert owl,

like an owl among the ruins.

7 I stay awake;

I am like a solitary bird on a roof.

8 My enemies taunt me all day long;

they ridicule and curse me.

9 I eat ashes like bread

and mingle my drinks with tears

10 because of Your indignation and wrath;

for You have picked me up and thrown me aside.

11 My days are like a lengthening shadow,

and I wither away like grass.

12 But You,Lord, are enthroned forever;

Your fame endures to all generations.

13 You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,

for it is time to show favor to her —

the appointed time has come.

14 For Your servants take delight in its stones

and favor its dust.

15 Then the nations will fear the name of Yahweh,

and all the kings of the earth Your glory,

16 for theLordwill rebuild Zion;

He will appear in His glory.

17 He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute

and will not despise their prayer.

18 This will be written for a later generation,

and a newly created people will praise theLord:

19 He looked down from His holy heights —

theLordgazed out from heaven to earth—

20 to hear a prisoner’s groaning,

to set free those condemned to die,

21 so that they might declare

the name of Yahweh in Zion

and His praise in Jerusalem,

22 when peoples and kingdoms are assembled

to serve theLord.

23 He has broken mystrength in midcourse;

He has shortened my days.

24 I say: “My God, do not take me

in the middle of my life!

Your years continue through all generations.

25 Long ago You established the earth,

and the heavens are the work of Your hands.

26 They will perish, but You will endure;

all of them will wear out like clothing.

You will change them like a garment,

and they will pass away.

27 But You are the same,

and Your years will never end.

28 Your servants’ children will dwell securely,

and their offspring will be established before You.”

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The Forgiving God

Davidic.

1 My soul, praise Yahweh,

and all that is within me, praise His holy name.

2 My soul, praise theLord,

and do not forget all His benefits.

3 He forgives all your sin;

He heals all your diseases.

4 He redeems your life from the Pit;

He crowns you with faithful love and compassion.

5 He satisfies youwith goodness;

your youth is renewed like the eagle.

6 TheLordexecutes acts of righteousness

and justice for all the oppressed.

7 He revealed His ways to Moses,

His deeds to the people of Israel.

8 TheLordis compassionate and gracious,

slow to anger and rich in faithful love.

9 He will not always accuse us

or be angry forever.

10 He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve

or repaid us according to our offenses.

11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,

so great is His faithful love

toward those who fear Him.

12 As far as the east is from the west,

so far has He removed

our transgressions from us.

13 As a father has compassion on his children,

so theLordhas compassion on those who fear Him.

14 For He knows what we are made of,

remembering that we are dust.

15 As for man, his days are like grass —

he blooms like a flower of the field;

16 when the wind passes over it, it vanishes,

and its place is no longer known.

17 But from eternity to eternity

theLord’s faithful love is toward those who fear Him,

and His righteousness toward the grandchildren

18 of those who keep His covenant,

who remember to observe His precepts.

19 TheLordhas established His throne in heaven,

and His kingdom rules over all.

20 Praise theLord,

all His angels of great strength,

who do His word,

obedient to His command.

21 Praise theLord, all His armies,

His servants who do His will.

22 Praise theLord, all His works

in all the places where He rules.

My soul, praise Yahweh!

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God the Creator

1 My soul, praise Yahweh!

Lordmy God, You are very great;

You are clothed with majesty and splendor.

2 He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,

spreading out the sky like a canopy,

3 laying the beams of His palace

on the waters above,

making the clouds His chariot,

walking on the wings of the wind,

4 and making the winds His messengers,

flames of fire His servants.

5 He established the earth on its foundations;

it will never be shaken.

6 You covered it with the deep

as if it were a garment;

the waters stood above the mountains.

7 At Your rebuke the waters fled;

at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

8 mountains rose and valleys sank—

to the place You established for them.

9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;

they will never cover the earth again.

10 He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;

they flow between the mountains.

11 They supply water for every wild beast;

the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 The birds of the sky live beside the springs;

they sing among the foliage.

13 He waters the mountains from His palace;

the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.

14 He causes grass to grow for the livestock

and provides crops for man to cultivate,

producing food from the earth,

15 wine that makes man’s heart glad —

making his face shine with oil —

and bread that sustains man’s heart.

16 The trees of theLordflourish,

the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.

17 There the birds make their nests;

the stork makes its home in the pine trees.

18 The high mountains are for the wild goats;

the cliffs are a refuge for hyraxes.

19 He made the moon to mark thefestivals;

the sun knows when to set.

20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night,

when all the forest animals stir.

21 The young lions roar for their prey

and seek their food from God.

22 The sun rises; they go back

and lie down in their dens.

23 Man goes out to his work

and to his labor until evening.

24 How countless are Your works,Lord!

In wisdom You have made them all;

the earth is full of Your creatures.

25 Here is the sea, vast and wide,

teeming with creatures beyond number —

living things both large and small.

26 There the ships move about,

and Leviathan, which You formed to play there.

27 All of them wait for You

to give them their food at the right time.

28 When You give it to them,

they gather it;

when You open Your hand,

they are satisfied with good things.

29 When You hide Your face,

they are terrified;

when You take away their breath,

they die and return to the dust.

30 When You send Your breath,

they are created,

and You renew the face of the earth.

31 May the glory of theLordendure forever;

may theLordrejoice in His works.

32 He looks at the earth, and it trembles;

He touches the mountains,

and they pour out smoke.

33 I will sing to theLordall my life;

I will sing praise to my God while I live.

34 May my meditation be pleasing to Him;

I will rejoice in theLord.

35 May sinners vanish from the earth

and wicked people be no more.

My soul, praise Yahweh!

Hallelujah!

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God’s Faithfulness to His People

1 Give thanks to Yahweh, call on His name;

proclaim His deeds among the peoples.

2 Sing to Him, sing praise to Him;

tell about all His wonderful works!

3 Honor His holy name;

let the hearts of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

4 Search for theLordand for His strength;

seek His face always.

5 Remember the wonderful works He has done,

His wonders, and the judgments He has pronounced,

6 you offspring of Abraham His servant,

Jacob’s descendants — His chosen ones.

7 He is theLordour God;

His judgments govern the whole earth.

8 He remembers His covenant forever,

the promise He ordained

for a thousand generations—

9 the covenant He made with Abraham,

sworeto Isaac,

10 and confirmed to Jacob as a decree

and to Israel as an everlasting covenant:

11 “I will give the land of Canaan to you

as your inherited portion.”

12 When they were few in number,

very few indeed,

and temporary residents in Canaan,

13 wandering from nation to nation

and from one kingdom to another,

14 He allowed no one to oppress them;

He rebuked kings on their behalf:

15 “Do not touch My anointed ones,

or harm My prophets.”

16 He called down famine against the land

and destroyed the entire food supply.

17 He had sent a man ahead of them —

Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

18 They hurt his feet with shackles;

his neck was put in an iron collar.

19 Until the time his prediction came true,

the word of theLordtested him.

20 The king sent for him and released him;

the ruler of peoples set him free.

21 He made him master of his household,

ruler over all his possessions—

22 bindinghis officials at will

and instructing his elders.

23 Then Israel went to Egypt;

Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

24 TheLordmade His people very fruitful;

He made them more numerous than their foes,

25 whose hearts He turned to hate His people

and to deal deceptively with His servants.

26 He sent Moses His servant,

and Aaron, whom He had chosen.

27 They performed His miraculous signs among them,

and wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness, and it became dark —

for did they not defyHis commands?

29 He turned their water into blood

and caused their fish to die.

30 Their land was overrun with frogs,

even in their royal chambers.

31 He spoke, and insects came—

gnats throughout their country.

32 He gave them hail for rain,

and lightning throughout their land.

33 He struck their vines and fig trees

and shattered the trees of their territory.

34 He spoke, and locusts came —

young locusts without number.

35 They devoured all the vegetation in their land

and consumed the produce of their land.

36 He struck all the firstborn in their land,

all their first progeny.

37 Then He brought Israel out with silver and gold,

and no one among His tribes stumbled.

38 Egypt was glad when they left,

for the dread of Israelhad fallen on them.

39 He spread a cloud as a covering

and gave a fire to light up the night.

40 They asked, and He brought quail

and satisfied them with bread from heaven.

41 He opened a rock, and water gushed out;

it flowed like a stream in the desert.

42 For He remembered His holy promise

to Abraham His servant.

43 He brought His people out with rejoicing,

His chosen ones with shouts of joy.

44 He gave them the lands of the nations,

and they inherited

what other peoples had worked for.

45 All this happened

so that they might keep His statutes

and obey His instructions.

Hallelujah!

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Israel’s Unfaithfulness to God

1 Hallelujah!

Give thanks to theLord, for He is good;

His faithful love endures forever.

2 Who can declare theLord’s mighty acts

or proclaim all the praise due Him?

3 How happy are those who uphold justice,

who practice righteousness at all times.

4 Remember me,Lord,

when You show favor to Your people.

Come to me with Your salvation

5 so that I may enjoy the prosperity

of Your chosen ones,

rejoice in the joy of Your nation,

and boast about Your heritage.

6 Both we and our fathers have sinned;

we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.

7 Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp

the significance of Your wonderful works

or remember Your many acts of faithful love;

instead, they rebelled by the sea — the Red Sea.

8 Yet He saved them because of His name,

to make His power known.

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

He led them through the depths as through a desert.

10 He saved them from the hand of the adversary;

He redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 Water covered their foes;

not one of them remained.

12 Then they believed His promises

and sang His praise.

13 They soon forgot His works

and would not wait for His counsel.

14 They were seized with craving in the wilderness

and tested God in the desert.

15 He gave them what they asked for,

but sent a wasting disease among them.

16 In the camp they were envious of Moses

and of Aaron, theLord’s holy one.

17 The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;

it covered the assembly of Abiram.

18 Fire blazed throughout their assembly;

flames consumed the wicked.

19 At Horeb they made a calf

and worshiped the cast metal image.

20 They exchanged their glory

for the image of a grass-eating ox.

21 They forgot God their Savior,

who did great things in Egypt,

22 wonderful works in the land of Ham,

awe-inspiring acts at the Red Sea.

23 So He said He would have destroyed them —

if Moses His chosen one

had not stood before Him in the breach

to turn His wrath away from destroying them.

24 They despised the pleasant land

and did not believe His promise.

25 They grumbled in their tents

and did not listen to theLord’s voice.

26 So He raised His hand against them with an oath

that He would make them fall in the desert

27 and would disperse their descendants

among the nations,

scattering them throughout the lands.

28 They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor

and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

29 They provoked theLordwith their deeds,

and a plague broke out against them.

30 But Phinehas stood up and intervened,

and the plague was stopped.

31 It was credited to him as righteousness

throughout all generations to come.

32 They angered theLordat the waters of Meribah,

and Moses sufferedbecause of them;

33 for they embittered his spirit,

and he spoke rashly with his lips.

34 They did not destroy the peoples

as theLordhad commanded them

35 but mingled with the nations

and adopted their ways.

36 They served their idols,

which became a snare to them.

37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons.

38 They shed innocent blood —

the blood of their sons and daughters

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;

so the land became polluted with blood.

39 They defiled themselves by their actions

and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

40 Therefore theLord’s anger burned against His people,

and He abhorred His own inheritance.

41 He handed them over to the nations;

those who hated them ruled them.

42 Their enemies oppressed them,

and they were subdued under their power.

43 He rescued them many times,

but they continued to rebel deliberately

and were beaten down by their sin.

44 When He heard their cry,

He took note of their distress,

45 remembered His covenant with them,

and relented according to the riches

of His faithful love.

46 He caused them to be pitied

before all their captors.

47 Save us, Yahweh our God,

and gather us from the nations,

so that we may give thanks to Your holy name

and rejoice in Your praise.

48 May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised

from everlasting to everlasting.

Let all the people say, “Amen! ”

Hallelujah!

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Thanksgiving for God’s Deliverance

1 Give thanks to theLord, for He is good;

His faithful love endures forever.

2 Let the redeemed of theLordproclaim

that He has redeemed them from the hand of the foe

3 and has gathered them from the lands —

from the east and the west,

from the north and the south.

4 Somewandered in the desolate wilderness,

finding no way to a city where they could live.

5 They were hungry and thirsty;

their spirits failedwithin them.

6 Then they cried out to theLordin their trouble;

He rescued them from their distress.

7 He led them by the right path

to go to a city where they could live.

8 Let them give thanks to theLord

for His faithful love

and His wonderful works for all humanity.

9 For He has satisfied the thirsty

and filled the hungry with good things.

10 Otherssat in darkness and gloom—

prisoners in cruel chains—

11 because they rebelled against God’s commands

and despised the counsel of the Most High.

12 He broke their spiritswith hard labor;

they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

13 Then they cried out to theLordin their trouble;

He saved them from their distress.

14 He brought them out of darkness and gloom

and broke their chains apart.

15 Let them give thanks to theLord

for His faithful love

and His wonderful works for all humanity.

16 For He has broken down the bronze gates

and cut through the iron bars.

17 Fools suffered affliction

because of their rebellious ways and their sins.

18 They loathed all food

and came near the gates of death.

19 Then they cried out to theLordin their trouble;

He saved them from their distress.

20 He sent His word and healed them;

He rescued them from the Pit.

21 Let them give thanks to theLord

for His faithful love

and His wonderful works for all humanity.

22 Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving

and announce His works with shouts of joy.

23 Otherswent to sea in ships,

conducting trade on the vast waters.

24 They saw theLord’s works,

His wonderful works in the deep.

25 He spoke and raised a tempest

that stirred up the waves of the sea.

26 Rising up to the sky, sinking down to the depths,

their couragemelting away in anguish,

27 they reeled and staggered like drunken men,

and all their skill was useless.

28 Then they cried out to theLordin their trouble,

and He brought them out of their distress.

29 He stilled the storm to a murmur,

and the waves of the seawere hushed.

30 They rejoiced when the wavesgrew quiet.

Then He guided them to the harbor they longed for.

31 Let them give thanks to theLord

for His faithful love

and His wonderful works for all humanity.

32 Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people

and praise Him in the council of the elders.

33 He turns rivers into desert,

springs of water into thirsty ground,

34 and fruitful land into salty wasteland,

because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

35 He turns a desert into a pool of water,

dry land into springs of water.

36 He causes the hungry to settle there,

and they establish a city where they can live.

37 They sow fields and plant vineyards

that yield a fruitful harvest.

38 He blesses them, and they multiply greatly;

He does not let their livestock decrease.

39 When they are diminished and are humbled

by cruel oppression and sorrow,

40 He pours contempt on nobles

and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

41 But He lifts the needy out of their suffering

and makes their families multiply like flocks.

42 The upright see it and rejoice,

and all injustice shuts its mouth.

43 Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things

and considertheLord’s acts of faithful love.

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A Plea for Victory

A song. A Davidic psalm.

1 My heart is confident, God;

I will sing; I will sing praises

with the whole of my being.

2 Wake up, harp and lyre!

I will wake up the dawn.

3 I will praise You,Lord, among the peoples;

I will sing praises to You among the nations.

4 For Your faithful love is higher than the heavens,

and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

5 God, be exalted above the heavens,

and let Your glory be over the whole earth.

6 Save with Your right hand and answer me

so that those You love may be rescued.

7 God has spoken in His sanctuary:

“I will triumph!

I will divide up Shechem.

I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

8 Gilead is Mine, Manasseh is Mine,

and Ephraim is My helmet;

Judah is My scepter.

9 Moab is My washbasin;

I throw My sandal on Edom.

I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

10 Who will bring me to the fortified city?

Who will lead me to Edom?

11 God, haven’t You rejected us?

God, You do not march out with our armies.

12 Give us aid against the foe,

for human help is worthless.

13 With God we will perform valiantly;

He will trample our foes.

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Prayer against an Enemy

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.

1 God of my praise, do not be silent.

2 For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me;

they speak against me with lying tongues.

3 They surround me with hateful words

and attack me without cause.

4 In return for my love they accuse me,

but I continue to pray.

5 They repay me evil for good,

and hatred for my love.

6 Set a wicked person over him;

let an accuserstand at his right hand.

7 When he is judged, let him be found guilty,

and let his prayer be counted as sin.

8 Let his days be few;

let another take over his position.

9 Let his children be fatherless

and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children wander as beggars,

searching for food farfrom their demolished homes.

11 Let a creditor seize all he has;

let strangers plunder what he has worked for.

12 Let no one show him kindness,

and let no one be gracious to his fatherless children.

13 Let the line of his descendants be cut off;

let their name be blotted out in the next generation.

14 Let his ancestors’ guilt

be remembered before theLord,

and do not let his mother’s sin be blotted out.

15 Let their sinsalways remain before theLord,

and let Him eraseall memory of them from the earth.

16 For he did not think to show kindness,

but pursued the afflicted, poor, and brokenhearted

in order to put them to death.

17 He loved cursing — let it fall on him;

he took no delight in blessing — let it be far from him.

18 He wore cursing like his coat —

let it enter his body like water

and go into his bones like oil.

19 Let it be like a robe he wraps around himself,

like a belt he always wears.

20 Let this be theLord’s payment to my accusers,

to those who speak evil against me.

21 But You, Yahweh my Lord,

deal kindly with me because of Your name;

deliver me because of the goodness of Your faithful love.

22 For I am afflicted and needy;

my heart is wounded within me.

23 I fade away like a lengthening shadow;

I am shaken off like a locust.

24 My knees are weak from fasting,

and my body is emaciated.

25 I have become an object of ridicule to my accusers;

when they see me, they shake their heads in scorn.

26 Help me,Lordmy God;

save me according to Your faithful love

27 so they may know that this is Your hand

and that You,Lord, have done it.

28 Though they curse, You will bless.

When they rise up, they will be put to shame,

but Your servant will rejoice.

29 My accusers will be clothed with disgrace;

they will wear their shame like a cloak.

30 I will fervently thank theLordwith my mouth;

I will praise Him in the presence of many.

31 For He stands at the right hand of the needy

to save him from those who would condemn him.

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The Priestly King

A Davidic psalm.

1 This is the declaration of theLord

to my Lord:

“Sit at My right hand

until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

2 TheLordwill extend Your mighty scepter from Zion.

Ruleover Your surroundingenemies.

3 Your people will volunteer

on Your day of battle.

In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn,

the dew of Your youth belongs to You.

4 TheLordhas sworn an oath and will not take it back:

“Forever, You are a priest

like Melchizedek.”

5 The Lord is at Your right hand;

He will crush kings on the day of His anger.

6 He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses;

He will crush leaders over the entire world.

7 He will drink from the brook by the road;

therefore, He will lift up His head.

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