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Psalms 61
- To the chief music-maker. On a corded instrument. Of David. - Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.
From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.
For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.
I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)
For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.
You will give the king long life; and make his years go on through the generations.
May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.
So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.
Psalms 62
- To the chief music-maker. After Jeduthun. A Psalm. Of David. - My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.
He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.
How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?
Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope.
He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.
In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.
Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)
Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:
And mercy, O Lord, is yours, for you give to every man the reward of his work.
Psalms 63
- A Psalm. Of David. When he was in the waste land of Judah. - O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
To see your power and your glory, as I have seen you in the holy place.
Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise.
So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;
When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.
My soul keeps ever near you: your right hand is my support.
But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.
They will be cut off by the sword; they will be food for foxes.
But the king will have joy in God; everyone who takes an oath by him will have cause for pride; but the false mouth will be stopped.
Psalms 64
- To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. - O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.
Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.
They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,
Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.
The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.
And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.
The upright will be glad in the Lord and have hope in him; and all the lovers of righteousness will give him glory.
Psalms 65
- To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. A Song. - It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.
To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.
Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.
Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.
You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;
The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:
Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.
Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.
You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.
You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.
The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps,
Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.
The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
Psalms 66
- To the chief music-maker. A Song. A Psalm. - Send up a glad cry to God, all the earth:
Make a song in honour of his name: give praise and glory to him.
Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.
Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.
Let all the earth give you worship, and make songs to you; let them make songs to your name. (Selah.)
The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)
Give blessings to our God, O you peoples, let the voice of his praise be loud;
Because he gives us life, and has not let our feet be moved.
You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.
For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.
You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.
I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you,
Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.
I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)
Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.
My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.
I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:
But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.
Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.
Psalms 67
- To the chief music-maker. With corded instruments. A Psalm. A Song. - May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.)
So that men may see your way on the earth, and your salvation among all nations.
Let the peoples give you praise, O God; let all the peoples give you praise.
O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.)
Let the peoples give you praise, O God; let all the peoples give you praise.
God will give us his blessing; so let all the ends of the earth be in fear of him.
The earth has given her increase; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing.
Psalms 68
- To the chief music-maker. Of David. A Psalm. A Song. - Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.
Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.
Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.
A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
O God, when you went out before your people, wandering through the waste land; (Selah.)
The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel.
You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.
Kings of armies quickly go in flight: and the women in the houses make a division of their goods.
Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.
When the Most High put the kings to flight, it was as white as snow in Salmon.
A hill of God is the hill of Bashan; a hill with high tops is the hill of Bashan.
Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.
You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.
Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)
Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.
The heads of the haters of God will be crushed; even the head of him who still goes on in his evil ways.
The Lord said, I will make them come back from Bashan, and from the deep parts of the sea;
So that your foot may be red with blood, and the tongues of your dogs with the same.
We see your going, O God: even the going of my God, my King, into the holy place.
Psalms 60
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.
Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?
Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.
Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.
- To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt. - God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.
By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.
You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)
So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.
God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.
Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?
Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.
Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.
Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.
God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.
God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.
So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.
By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.
Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?
- To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt. - God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.
Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.
Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.
Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)
By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.
You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)
So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.
You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.
- To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt. - God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.
Psalms 44
Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.
Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.
- To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah Maschil. - It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,
Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.
You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob.
You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.
You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.
Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.
If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,
For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.
All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.
Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.
Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.)
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.
Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.
But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.
My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;
Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.
You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.
Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;
I will not put faith in my bow, my sword will not be my salvation.
Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.
Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.
Psalms 50
Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.
Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?
I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.
Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;
When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.
I see all the birds of the mountains, and the beasts of the field are mine.
Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings.
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.
Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:
For every beast of the woodland is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him.
I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.
- A Psalm. Of Asaph. - The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.
You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
From Zion, most beautiful of places, God has sent out his light.
But to the sinner, God says, What are you doing, talking of my laws, or taking the words of my agreement in your mouth?
You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.
And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. (Selah.)
His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people:
Whoever makes an offering of praise gives glory to me; and to him who is upright in his ways I will make clear the salvation of God.
If I had need of food, I would not give you word of it; for the earth is mine and all its wealth.
Give ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God.
Psalms 42
My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.
Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
- To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of the sons of Korah. - Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.
Psalms 52
I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.
But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.
The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:
But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
- To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. - Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Destruction is in all your words, O false tongue.
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)
Psalms 47
God has gone up with a glad cry, the Lord with the sound of the horn.
The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.
- To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. - O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy.
For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth.
He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)
For God is the King of all the earth; make songs of praise with knowledge.
He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.
Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise.
God is the ruler over the nations; God is on the high seat of his holy rule.
Psalms 49
So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.
Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;
Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,
But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)
Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
- Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. - Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.
He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.
What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?
(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)
For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.
- Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. - Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.
High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.
From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.
Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.
But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
Psalms 48
By you the ships of Tarshish are broken as by an east wind.
Beautiful in its high position, the joy of all the earth, is the mountain of Zion, the mountain of God, the town of the great King.
In its buildings God is seen to be a high tower.
For see! the kings came together by agreement, they were joined together.
- A Song. A Psalm. Of the sons of Korah. - Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain.
Let there be joy in the mountain of Zion, and let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your wise decisions.
Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.
Because this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide.
They saw it, and so were full of wonder; they were troubled, and went quickly away in fear.
Make your way about Zion, and go round it, numbering its towers.
As your name is, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth; your right hand is full of righteousness.
Our thoughts were of your mercy, O God, while we were in your Temple.
Shaking came on them and pain, as on a woman in childbirth.
As it came to our ears so have we seen it, in the town of the Lord of armies, in the town of our God; God will keep it fixed for ever. (Selah.)
Psalms 46
The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.
- To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song. - God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.
He puts an end to wars over all the earth; by him the bow is broken, and the spear cut in two, and the carriage burned in the fire.
There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
The Lord of armies is with us; the God of Jacob is our high tower. (Selah.)
God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.
Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.
Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)
Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.
For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;
Psalms 53
Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.
God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
- To the chief music-maker; put to Mahalath. Maschil. Of David. - The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.
They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.
Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.
Psalms 57
He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.
They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
- To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock. - Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.
My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will make songs, and give praise.
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make songs to you among the nations.
Be lifted up, O God, higher than the heavens, let your glory be over all the earth.
I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me.
For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.
O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.
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They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.
But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.
- To the chief music-maker; put to At-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When Saul sent, and they were watching the house, to put him to death. - Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me.
For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.
See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
To you, O my strength, will I make my song: because God is my high tower, even the God of my mercy.
But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.
You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)
Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,
For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.
Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.
The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.
And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.
Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)
Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.
O my strength, I will put my hope in you; because God is my strong tower.
Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.
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Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
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And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.
With joy and rapture will they come; they will go into the king's house.
And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.
So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.
Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.
Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.
- To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves. - My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Your children will take the place of your fathers; so that you may make them rulers over all the earth.
O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;
She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.
In the great house the king's daughter is all shining: her clothing is worked with gold.
I will keep the memory of your name living through all generations; and because of this the people will give you praise for ever.
Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.
Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
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Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
- To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. - Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.
Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.
Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.
Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.
Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
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- To the chief music-maker; on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. When the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Is not David keeping himself secret among us? - Let your name be my salvation, O God; let my cause be judged by your strength.
Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)
See, God is my helper: the Lord is the great supporter of my soul.
Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.
Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.
Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.
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By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.
When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.
- To the chief music-maker; put to Jonath elem rehokim. Of David. Michtam. When the Philistines took him in Gath. - Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.
In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.
In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.
You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?
Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.
Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
In God will I give praise to his word; in the Lord will I give praise to his word.
I keep the memory of my debt to you, O God; I will give you the offerings of praise.
In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.
Psalms 58
Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.
Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.
So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.
- To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. - Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
Psalms 55
By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.
Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.
In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.
- To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. - Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.
Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.
Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.
But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.
Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.
As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.
Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.
He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.
He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.
And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.
I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)
We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.
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