Psalms

Chapter 1

¹Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence ✟ ²But his will is with the law of the Lord, and he will meditate on his law, day and night ✟ ³And 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 ✟ ⁴Not so the impious, not so. For they are like the dust that the wind casts along the face of the earth ✟ ⁵Therefore, the impious will not prevail again in judgment, nor sinners in the council of the just ✟ ⁶For the Lord knows the way of the just. And the path of the impious will pass away ✟

Chapter 2

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

Chapter 3

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

Chapter 4

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

Chapter 5

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

Chapter 6

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

Chapter 7

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

Chapter 8

¹Unto the end. For the oil and wine presses. A Psalm of David ✟ ²O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth! For your magnificence is elevated above the heavens ✟ ³Out 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 ✟ ⁴For I will behold your heavens, the works of your fingers: the moon and the stars, which you have founded ✟ ⁵What is man, that you are mindful of him, or the son of man, that you visit him ✟ ⁶You reduced him to a little less than the Angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor ✟ ⁷and you have set him over the works of your hands ✟ ⁸You have subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and in addition: the beasts of the field ✟ ⁹the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, which pass through the paths of the sea ✟ ¹⁰O Lord, our Lord, how admirable is your name throughout all the earth ✟

Chapter 9

¹Unto the end. For the secrets of the Son. A Psalm of David ✟ ²I will confess to you, Lord, with my whole heart. I will recount all your wonders ✟ ³I will rejoice and exult in you. I will sing a psalm to your name, O Most High ✟ ⁴For my enemy will be turned back. They will be weakened and perish before your face ✟ ⁵For you have accomplished my judgment and my cause. You have sat upon the throne that judges justice ✟ ⁶You have rebuked the Gentiles, and the impious one has perished. You have deleted their name in eternity and for all generations ✟ ⁷The spears of the enemy have failed in the end, and their cities, you have destroyed. Their memory has perished with a loud noise ✟ ⁸But the Lord remains in eternity. He has prepared his throne in judgment ✟ ⁹And he will judge the whole world in equity. He will judge the people in justice ✟ ¹⁰And the Lord has become a refuge for the poor, a helper in opportunity, in tribulation ✟ ¹¹And may they hope in you, who know your name. For you have not abandoned those seeking you, Lord ✟ ¹²Sing a psalm to the Lord, who dwells in Zion. Announce his study among the Gentiles ✟ ¹³Because of those who yearned for their blood, he has remembered them. He has not forgotten the cry of the poor ✟ ¹⁴Have mercy on me, Lord. See my humiliation from my enemies ✟ ¹⁵You lift me up from the gates of death, so that I may announce all your praises at the gates of the daughter of Zion ✟ ¹⁶I 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 ✟ ¹⁷The Lord will be recognized when making judgments. The sinner has been caught in the works of his own hands ✟ ¹⁸The sinners will be turned into Hell: all the Gentiles who have forgotten God ✟ ¹⁹For the poor will not be forgotten in the end. The patience of the poor will not perish in the end ✟ ²⁰Rise up, Lord: do not let man be strengthened. Let the Gentiles be judged in your sight ✟ ²¹O Lord, establish a lawgiver over them, so that the Gentiles may know that they are only men ✟ ²²So then, why, O Lord, have you withdrawn far away? Why have you overlooked us in opportunity, in tribulation ✟ ²³While the impious is arrogant, the poor is enflamed. They are held by the counsels that they devise ✟ ²⁴For the sinner is praised by the desires of his soul, and the iniquitous is blessed ✟ ²⁵The sinner has provoked the Lord; according to the multitude of his wrath, he will not seek him ✟ ²⁶God 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 ✟ ²⁷For he has said in his heart, “I will not be disturbed: from generation to generation without evil. ✟ ²⁸His mouth is full of curses, and bitterness, and deceit. Under his tongue are hardship and sorrow ✟ ²⁹He sits in ambush, with resources in hidden places, so that he may execute the innocent ✟ ³⁰His 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 ✟ ³¹With his snare, he will bring him down. He will crouch down and pounce, when he has power over the poor ✟ ³²For he has said in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has turned away his face, lest he see to the end. ✟ ³³O Lord God, rise up. Let your hand be exalted. Do not forget the poor ✟ ³⁴How has the impious one provoked God? For he has said in his heart, “He will not inquire. ✟ ³⁵You 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 ✟ ³⁶Break the arm of the sinner and the malicious. His sin will be sought, and it will not be found ✟ ³⁷The Lord shall reign in eternity, even forever and ever. You will perish the Gentiles from his land ✟ ³⁸The Lord has heeded the desire of the poor. Your ear has listened to the preparation of their heart ✟ ³⁹so as to judge for the orphan and the humble, so that man may no longer presume to magnify himself upon the earth ✟

Chapter 10

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David ✟ ²I trust in the Lord. How can you say to my soul, “Sojourn to the mountain, like a sparrow. ✟ ³For 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 ✟ ⁴For they have destroyed the things that you have completed. But what has the just one done ✟ ⁵The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes look upon the poor. His eyelids question the sons of men ✟ ⁶The Lord questions the just and the impious. Yet he who loves iniquity, hates his own soul ✟ ⁷He will rain down snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and windstorms will be the portion of their cup ✟ ⁸For the Lord is just, and he has chosen justice. His countenance has beheld equity ✟

Chapter 11

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

Chapter 12

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

Chapter 13

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

Chapter 14

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

Chapter 15

¹The inscription of a title: of David himself. Preserve me, O Lord, because I have hoped in you ✟ ²I have said to the Lord: “You are my God, so you have no need of my goodness. ✟ ³As for the saints, who are in his land: he has made all my desires wonderful in them ✟ ⁴Their 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 ✟ ⁵The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and my cup. It is you who will restore my inheritance to me ✟ ⁶The lots have fallen upon me with clarity. And, indeed, my inheritance has been very clear to me ✟ ⁷I will bless the Lord, who has bestowed understanding upon me. Moreover, my temperament has also corrected me, even through the night ✟ ⁸I have made provision for the Lord always in my sight. For he is at my right hand, so that I may not be disturbed ✟ ⁹Because of this, my heart has been joyful, and my tongue has exulted. Moreover, even my body will rest in hope ✟ ¹⁰For you will not abandon my soul to Hell, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption ✟ ¹¹You 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 ✟

Chapter 16

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

Chapter 17

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

Chapter 18

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David ✟ ²The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands ✟ ³Day proclaims the word to day, and night to night imparts knowledge ✟ ⁴There are no speeches or conversations, where their voices are not being heard ✟ ⁵Their sound has gone forth through all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world ✟ ⁶He 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 ✟ ⁷his 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 ✟ ⁸The law of the Lord is immaculate, converting souls. The testimony of the Lord is faithful, providing wisdom to little ones ✟ ⁹The justice of the Lord is right, rejoicing hearts. The precepts of the Lord are brilliant, enlightening the eyes ✟ ¹⁰The fear of the Lord is holy, enduring for all generations. The judgments of the Lord are true, justified in themselves ✟ ¹¹desirable beyond gold and many precious stones, and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb ✟ ¹²For, indeed, your servant keeps them, and in keeping them, there are many rewards ✟ ¹³Who can understand transgression? From my hidden faults, cleanse me, O Lord ✟ ¹⁴and from those of others, spare your servant. If they will have no dominion over me, then I will be immaculate, and I will be cleansed from the greatest transgression ✟ ¹⁵And the eloquence of my mouth will be so as to please, along with the meditation of my heart, in your sight, forever, O Lord, my helper and my redeemer ✟

Chapter 19

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

Chapter 20

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

Chapter 21

¹Unto the end. For the tasks of early morning. A Psalm of David ✟ ²O God, my God, look upon me. Why have you forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my offenses ✟ ³My God, I will cry out by day, and you will not heed, and by night, and it will not be foolishness for me ✟ ⁴But you dwell in holiness, O Praise of Israel ✟ ⁵In you, our fathers have hoped. They hoped, and you freed them ✟ ⁶They cried out to you, and they were saved. In you, they hoped and were not confounded ✟ ⁷But I am a worm and not a man: a disgrace among men, and an outcast of the people ✟ ⁸All those who saw me have derided me. They have spoken with the lips and shook the head ✟ ⁹He has hoped in the Lord, let him rescue him. Let him save him because he chooses him ✟ ¹⁰For you are the one who has drawn me out of the womb, my hope from the breasts of my mother ✟ ¹¹I have been thrown upon you from the womb; from the womb of my mother, you are my God ✟ ¹²Do not depart from me. For tribulation is near, since there is no one who may help me ✟ ¹³Many calves have surrounded me; fat bulls have besieged me ✟ ¹⁴They have opened their mouths over me, just like a lion seizing and roaring ✟ ¹⁵And 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 ✟ ¹⁶My 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 ✟ ¹⁷For many dogs have surrounded me. The council of the malicious has besieged me. They have pierced my hands and feet ✟ ¹⁸They have numbered all my bones. And they have examined me and stared at me ✟ ¹⁹They divided my garments among them, and over my vestment, they cast lots ✟ ²⁰But you, O Lord, do not take your help far from me; be attentive to my defense ✟ ²¹O God, rescue my soul from the spear, and my only one from the hand of the dog ✟ ²²Save me from the mouth of the lion, and my humility from the horns of the single-horned beast ✟ ²³I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the Church, I will praise you ✟ ²⁴You who fear the Lord, praise him. All the offspring of Jacob, glorify him ✟ ²⁵May 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 ✟ ²⁶My praise is with you, within a great church. I will pay my vows in the sight of those who fear him ✟ ²⁷The poor will eat and be satisfied, and those who yearn for the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will live forever and ever ✟ ²⁸All the ends of the earth will remember, and they will be converted to the Lord. And all the families of the Gentiles will adore in his sight ✟ ²⁹For the kingdom belongs to the Lord, and he will have dominion over the Gentiles ✟ ³⁰All 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 ✟ ³¹And my soul will live for him, and my offspring will serve him ✟ ³²There will be announced for the Lord a future generation, and the heavens will announce his justice to a people who will be born, whom the Lord has made ✟

Chapter 22

¹A Psalm of David. The Lord directs me, and nothing will be lacking to me ✟ ²He has settled me here, in a place of pasture. He has led me out to the water of refreshment ✟ ³He has converted my soul. He has led me away on the paths of justice, for the sake of his name ✟ ⁴For, 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 ✟ ⁵You 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 ✟ ⁶And your mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and so may I dwell in the house of the Lord for length of days ✟

Chapter 23

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

Chapter 24

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

Chapter 25

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

Chapter 26

¹A Psalm of David, before he was sealed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life, of whom shall I be afraid ✟ ²Meanwhile, 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 ✟ ³If 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 ✟ ⁴One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, so that I may behold the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple ✟ ⁵For he has hidden me in his tabernacle. In the day of evils, he has protected me in the hidden place of his tabernacle ✟ ⁶He 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 the Lord ✟ ⁷Hear my voice, O Lord, with which I have cried out to you. Have mercy on me, and hear me ✟ ⁸My heart has spoken to you; my face has sought you. I yearn for your face, O Lord ✟ ⁹Do 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 ✟ ¹⁰For my father and my mother have left me behind, but the Lord has taken me up ✟ ¹¹O Lord, establish a law for me in your way, and direct me in the right path, because of my enemies ✟ ¹²Do 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 ✟ ¹³I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living ✟ ¹⁴Wait for the Lord, act manfully; and let your heart be strengthened, and remain with the Lord ✟

Chapter 27

¹A Psalm of David himself. To you, Lord, 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 ✟ ²Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy temple ✟ ³Do not draw me away together with sinners; and let me not perish with those who work iniquity, who speak peacefully to their neighbor, yet evils are in their hearts ✟ ⁴Give 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 ✟ ⁵Since they have not understood the works of the Lord and the works of his hands, you will destroy them, and you will not build them up ✟ ⁶Blessed is the Lord, for he has heard the voice of my supplication ✟ ⁷The Lord 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 ✟ ⁸The Lord is the strength of his people and the protector of the salvation of his Christ ✟ ⁹O Lord, save your people and bless your inheritance, and reign over them and exalt them, even unto eternity ✟

Chapter 28

¹A Psalm of David, at the completion of the tabernacle. Bring to the Lord, O sons of God, bring to the Lord the sons of rams ✟ ²Bring to the Lord, glory and honor. Bring to the Lord, glory for his name. Adore the Lord in his holy court ✟ ³The voice of the Lord is over the waters. The God of majesty has thundered. The Lord is over many waters ✟ ⁴The voice of the Lord is in virtue. The voice of the Lord is in magnificence ✟ ⁵The voice of the Lord shatters the cedars. And the Lord will shatter the cedars of Lebanon ✟ ⁶And 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 ✟ ⁷The voice of the Lord cuts through the flame of fire ✟ ⁸The voice of the Lord shakes the desert. And the Lord will quake the desert of Kadesh ✟ ⁹The voice of the Lord is preparing the stags, and he will reveal the dense woods. And in his temple, all will speak his glory ✟ ¹⁰The Lord causes the great flood to dwell. And the Lord will sit as King in eternity ✟ ¹¹The Lord will give virtue to his people. The Lord will bless his people in peace ✟

Chapter 29

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

Chapter 30

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

Chapter 31

¹The understanding of David himself. Blessed are they whose iniquities have been forgiven and whose sins have been covered ✟ ²Blessed is the man to whom the Lord has not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no deceit ✟ ³Because I was silent, my bones grew old, while still I cried out all day long ✟ ⁴For, day and night, your hand was heavy upon me. I have been converted in my anguish, while still the thorn is piercing ✟ ⁵I have acknowledged my offense to you, and I have not concealed my injustice. I said, “I will confess against myself, my injustice to the Lord,” and you forgave the impiety of my sin ✟ ⁶For 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 ✟ ⁷You are my refuge from the tribulation that has surrounded me. You are my exultation: rescue me from those who are surrounding me ✟ ⁸I will give you understanding, and I will instruct you in this way, in which you will walk. I will fix my eyes upon you ✟ ⁹Do 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 ✟ ¹⁰Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy will surround him that hopes in the Lord ✟ ¹¹Rejoice in the Lord and exult, you just ones, and glory, all you upright of heart ✟

Chapter 32

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

Chapter 33

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

Chapter 34

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

Chapter 35

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

Chapter 36

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

Chapter 37

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

Chapter 38

¹Unto the end. For Jeduthun himself. A Canticle of David ✟ ²I 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 ✟ ³I was silenced and humbled, and I was quiet before good things, and my sorrow was renewed ✟ ⁴My heart grew hot within me, and, during my meditation, a fire would flare up ✟ ⁵I spoke with my tongue, “O Lord, make me know my end, and what the number of my days will be, so that I may know what is lacking to me. ✟ ⁶Behold, you have made my days measurable, and, before you, my substance is as nothing. Yet truly, all things are vanity: every living man ✟ ⁷So 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 ✟ ⁸And now, what is it that awaits me? Is it not the Lord? And my substance is with you ✟ ⁹Rescue me from all my iniquities. You have handed me over as a reproach to the foolish ✟ ¹⁰I was silenced, and I did not open my mouth, because it was you who acted ✟ ¹¹Remove your scourges from me ✟ ¹²I 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 ✟ ¹³O Lord, 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 ✟ ¹⁴Forgive me, so that I may be refreshed, before I will go forth and be no more ✟

Chapter 39

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself ✟ ²I have waited expectantly for the Lord, and he was attentive to me ✟ ³And 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 ✟ ⁴And 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 the Lord ✟ ⁵Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has no respect for vanities and absurd falsehoods ✟ ⁶You have accomplished your many wonders, O Lord 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 ✟ ⁷Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have perfected ears for me. Holocaust and sin offering, you did not require ✟ ⁸Then I said, “Behold, I draw near.” At the head of the book, it has been written of me ✟ ⁹that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart ✟ ¹⁰I have announced your justice in a great Church: behold, I will not restrain my lips. O Lord, you have known it ✟ ¹¹I 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 ✟ ¹²O Lord, do not take your tender mercies far from me. Your mercy and your truth ever sustain me ✟ ¹³For 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 ✟ ¹⁴Be pleased, O Lord, to rescue me. Look down, O Lord, to help me ✟ ¹⁵Let 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 ✟ ¹⁶Let them bear their confusion all at once, who say to me, “Well, well. ✟ ¹⁷Let all who seek you exult and rejoice over you. And let those who love your salvation always say, “May the Lord be magnified. ✟ ¹⁸But I am a beggar and poor. The Lord has been concerned about me. You are my helper and my protector. My God, do not delay ✟

Chapter 40

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself ✟ ²Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day ✟ ³May the Lord 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 ✟ ⁴May the Lord bring him help on his bed of sorrow. In his infirmity, you have changed his entire covering ✟ ⁵I said, “O Lord, be merciful to me. Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you. ✟ ⁶My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish ✟ ⁷And 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 ✟ ⁸All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me ✟ ⁹They established an unjust word against me. Will he that sleeps no longer rise again ✟ ¹⁰For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me ✟ ¹¹But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them ✟ ¹²By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me ✟ ¹³But you have sustained me, because of my innocence, and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity ✟ ¹⁴Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen ✟

Chapter 41

¹Unto the end. The understanding of the sons of Korah ✟ ²As the deer longs for fountains of water, so my soul longs for you, O God ✟ ³My soul has thirsted for the strong living God. When will I draw close and appear before the face of God ✟ ⁴My tears have been my bread, day and night. Meanwhile, it is said to me daily: “Where is your God? ✟ ⁵These 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 ✟ ⁶Why 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 ✟ ⁷and 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 ✟ ⁸Abyss calls upon abyss, with the voice of your floodgate. All your heights and your waves have passed over me ✟ ⁹In the daylight, the Lord has ordered his mercy; and in the night, a canticle to him. With me is a prayer to the God of my life ✟ ¹⁰I 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? ✟ ¹¹While 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? ✟ ¹²My 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 ✟

Chapter 42

¹A 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 ✟ ²For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me ✟ ³Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles ✟ ⁴And 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 ✟ ⁵Why 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 ✟

Chapter 43

¹Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding ✟ ²We 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 ✟ ³Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them ✟ ⁴For 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 ✟ ⁵You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob ✟ ⁶With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us ✟ ⁷For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me ✟ ⁸For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us ✟ ⁹In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever ✟ ¹⁰But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God ✟ ¹¹You have turned our back to our enemies, and those who hated us have plundered for themselves ✟ ¹²You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles ✟ ¹³You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them ✟ ¹⁴You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbors, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us ✟ ¹⁵You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples ✟ ¹⁶All day long my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me ✟ ¹⁷before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer ✟ ¹⁸All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant ✟ ¹⁹And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way ✟ ²⁰For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us ✟ ²¹If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god ✟ ²²will 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 ✟ ²³Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end ✟ ²⁴Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation ✟ ²⁵For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth ✟ ²⁶Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name ✟

Chapter 44

¹Unto the end. For those who will be changed. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. A Canticle for the Beloved ✟ ²My 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 ✟ ³You 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 ✟ ⁴Fasten your sword to your thigh, O most powerful one ✟ ⁵With your splendor 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 ✟ ⁶Your arrows are sharp; the people will fall under you, with the hearts of the enemies of the king ✟ ⁷Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of true aim ✟ ⁸You have loved justice and hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you, before your co-heirs, with the oil of gladness ✟ ⁹Myrrh and balsam and cinnamon perfume your garments, from the houses of ivory. From these, they have delighted you ✟ ¹⁰the daughters of kings in your honor. The queen assisted at your right hand, in clothing of gold, encircled with diversity ✟ ¹¹Listen, daughter, and see, and incline your ear. And forget your people and your father’s house ✟ ¹²And the king will desire your beauty. For he is the Lord your God, and they will adore him ✟ ¹³And the daughters of Tyre will entreat your countenance with gifts: all the rich men of the people ✟ ¹⁴All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes ✟ ¹⁵clothed all around with diversities. After her, virgins will be led to the king. Her neighbors will be brought to you ✟ ¹⁶They will be brought with gladness and exultation. They will be led into the temple of the king ✟ ¹⁷For your fathers, sons have been born to you. You will establish them as leaders over all the earth ✟ ¹⁸They will remember your name always, for generation after generation. Because of this, people will confess to you in eternity, even forever and ever ✟

Chapter 45

¹Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, for confidants. A Psalm ✟ ²Our God is our refuge and strength, a helper in the tribulations that have greatly overwhelmed us ✟ ³Because 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 ✟ ⁴They thundered, and the waters were stirred up among them; the mountains have been disturbed by his strength ✟ ⁵The frenzy of the river rejoices the city of God. The Most High has sanctified his tabernacle ✟ ⁶God is in its midst; it will not be shaken. God will assist it in the early morning ✟ ⁷The peoples have been disturbed, and the kingdoms have been bowed down. He uttered his voice: the earth has been moved ✟ ⁸The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our supporter ✟ ⁹Draw near and behold the works of the Lord: what portents he has set upon the earth ✟ ¹⁰carrying 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 ✟ ¹¹Be empty, and see that I am God. I will be exalted among the peoples, and I will be exalted upon the earth ✟ ¹²The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our supporter ✟

Chapter 46

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

Chapter 47

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

Chapter 48

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

Chapter 49

¹A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting ✟ ²from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty ✟ ³God 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 ✟ ⁴He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people ✟ ⁵Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices ✟ ⁶And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge ✟ ⁷Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God ✟ ⁸I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight ✟ ⁹I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks ✟ ¹⁰For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen ✟ ¹¹I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me ✟ ¹²If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude ✟ ¹³Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats ✟ ¹⁴Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High ✟ ¹⁵And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me ✟ ¹⁶But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth ✟ ¹⁷Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you ✟ ¹⁸If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers ✟ ¹⁹Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits ✟ ²⁰Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son ✟ ²¹These 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 ✟ ²²Understand 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 ✟ ²³The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God ✟

Chapter 50

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

Chapter 51

¹Unto the end. The understanding of David ✟ ²When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech ✟ ³Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity ✟ ⁴All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit ✟ ⁵You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness ✟ ⁶You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue ✟ ⁷Because 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 ✟ ⁸The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say ✟ 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. ✟ ¹⁰But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever ✟ ¹¹I 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 ✟

Chapter 52

¹Unto the end. For Mahalath: the thoughts of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God. ✟ ²They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. There is no one who does good ✟ ³God gazed down from heaven on the sons of men, to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God ✟ ⁴All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one ✟ ⁵Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread ✟ ⁶They 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 ✟ ⁷Who will grant from Zion the salvation of Israel? Jacob will exult, when God will convert the captivity of his people; and Israel will rejoice ✟

Chapter 53

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

Chapter 54

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

Chapter 55

¹Unto 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 ✟ ²Have mercy on me, O God, because man has trampled over me. All day long, he has afflicted me by fighting against me ✟ ³My enemies have trampled over me all day long. For those who make war against me are many ✟ ⁴From the height of the day, I will be afraid. But truly, I will hope in you ✟ ⁵In God, I will praise my words. In God, I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do to me ✟ ⁶All day long, they curse my words. All their intentions are for evil against me ✟ ⁷They will dwell and hide themselves. They will watch my heel, just as they waited for my soul ✟ ⁸because of this, nothing will save them. In your anger, you will crush the people ✟ ⁹O God, I have announced my life to you. You have placed my tears in your sight, and even in your promise ✟ ¹⁰Then my enemies will be turned back. On whatever day that I call upon you, behold, I know that you are my God ✟ ¹¹In God, I will praise the word. In the Lord, I will praise his speech. In God, I have hoped. I will not fear what man can do to me ✟ ¹²My vows to you, O God, are in me. I will repay them. Praises be to you ✟ ¹³For 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 ✟

Chapter 56

¹Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave ✟ ²Be 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 ✟ ³I will cry out to God Most High, to God who has been kind to me ✟ ⁴He sent from heaven and freed me. He has surrendered into disgrace those who trampled me. God has sent his mercy and his truth ✟ ⁵And 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 ✟ ⁶Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth ✟ ⁷They 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 ✟ ⁸My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm ✟ ⁹Rise up, my glory. Rise up, psaltery and harp. I will arise in early morning ✟ ¹⁰I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples. I will compose a psalm to you among the nations ✟ ¹¹For your mercy has been magnified, even to the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds ✟ ¹²Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth ✟

Chapter 57

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

Chapter 58

¹Unto 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 ✟ ²Rescue me from my enemies, my God, and free me from those who rise up against me ✟ ³Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood ✟ ⁴For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me ✟ ⁵And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. I have run and gone directly, without iniquity ✟ ⁶Rise up to meet me, and see: even you, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Reach out to visit all nations. Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity ✟ ⁷They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city ✟ ⁸Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: “For who has heard us? ✟ ⁹And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing ✟ ¹⁰I will guard my strength toward you, for you are God, my supporter ✟ ¹¹My God, his mercy will precede me ✟ ¹²God 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 Lord, my protector ✟ ¹³by 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 know ✟ ¹⁴at 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 ✟ ¹⁵They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city ✟ ¹⁶They will be dispersed in order to gnaw, and truly, when they will not have been satisfied, they will murmur ✟ ¹⁷But 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 ✟ ¹⁸To you, my helper, I will sing psalms. For you are God, my supporter. My God is my mercy ✟

Chapter 59

¹Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction ✟ ²when 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 ✟ ³O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us ✟ ⁴You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved ✟ ⁵You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse ✟ ⁶You 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 ✟ ⁷Save me with your right hand, and hear me ✟ ⁸God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles ✟ ⁹Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king ✟ ¹⁰Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject ✟ ¹¹Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea ✟ ¹²Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies ✟ ¹³Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty ✟ ¹⁴In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing ✟

Chapter 60

¹Unto the end. With hymns, of David ✟ ²O God, pay attention to my supplication. Be attentive to my prayer ✟ ³I cried out to you from the ends of the earth. When my heart was in anguish, you exalted me on a rock. You have led me ✟ ⁴for you have been my hope, a tower of strength before the face of the enemy ✟ ⁵I will dwell in your tabernacle forever. I will be protected under the cover of your wings ✟ ⁶For you, my God, have listened to my prayer. You have granted an inheritance to those who fear your name ✟ ⁷You will add days to the days of the king, to his years, even to the time of generation after generation ✟ ⁸He remains in eternity, in the sight of God. Who will long for his mercy and truth ✟ ⁹So I will compose a psalm to your name, forever and ever, so that I may repay my vows from day to day ✟

Chapter 61

¹Unto the end. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David ✟ ²Will my soul not be subject to God? For from him is my salvation ✟ ³Yes, he himself is my God and my salvation. He is my supporter; I will be moved no more ✟ ⁴How is it that you rush against a man? Every one of you puts to death, as if you were pulling down a ruined wall, leaning over and falling apart ✟ ⁵So, truly, they intended to reject my price. I ran in thirst. They blessed with their mouth and cursed with their heart ✟ ⁶Yet, truly, my soul will be subject to God. For from him is my patience ✟ ⁷For he is my God and my Savior. He is my helper; I will not be expelled ✟ ⁸In God is my salvation and my glory. He is the God of my help, and my hope is in God ✟ ⁹All peoples gathered together: trust in him. Pour out your hearts in his sight. God is our helper for eternity ✟ ¹⁰So, truly, the sons of men are untrustworthy. The sons of men are liars in the scales, so that, by emptiness, they may deceive among themselves ✟ ¹¹Do not trust in iniquity, and do not desire plunder. If riches flow toward you, do not be willing to set your heart on them ✟ ¹²God has spoken once. I have heard two things: that power belongs to God ✟ ¹³and that mercy belongs to you, O Lord. For you will repay each one according to his works ✟

Chapter 62

¹A Psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Idumea ✟ ²O God, my God: to you, I keep vigil until first light. For you, my soul has thirsted, to you my body, in so many ways ✟ ³By a deserted land, both inaccessible and waterless, so I have appeared in the sanctuary before you, in order to behold your virtue and your glory ✟ ⁴For your mercy is better than life itself. It is you my lips will praise ✟ ⁵So will I bless you in my life, and I will lift up my hands in your name ✟ ⁶Let my soul be filled, as if with marrow and fatness; and my mouth will give praise with exultant lips ✟ ⁷When I have remembered you on my bed in the morning, I will meditate on you ✟ ⁸For you have been my helper. And I will exult under the cover of your wings ✟ ⁹My soul has clung close to you. Your right hand has supported me ✟ ¹⁰Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth ✟ ¹¹They will be delivered into the hand of the sword. They will be the portions of foxes ✟ ¹²Truly, the king will rejoice in God: all those who swear by him will be praised, because the mouth of those who speak iniquity has been blocked ✟

Chapter 63

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David ✟ ²Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication. Rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy ✟ ³You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity ✟ ⁴For they have sharpened their tongues like a sword; they have formed their bow into a bitter thing ✟ ⁵so that they may shoot arrows from hiding at the immaculate ✟ ⁶They will suddenly shoot arrows at him, and they will not be afraid. They are resolute in their wicked talk. They have discussed hidden snares. They have said, “Who will see them? ✟ ⁷They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart ✟ ⁸and God will be exalted. The arrows of the little ones have become their wounds ✟ ⁹and their tongues have been weakened against them. All those who saw them have been troubled ✟ ¹⁰and every man was afraid. And they announced the works of God, and they understood his acts ✟ ¹¹The just will rejoice in the Lord, and they will hope in him. And all the upright of heart will be praised ✟

Chapter 64

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David. A Canticle of Jeremiah and Ezekiel to the people of the captivity, when they began to go into exile ✟ ²O God, a hymn adorns you in Zion, and a vow will be repaid to you in Jerusalem ✟ ³Hear my prayer: all flesh will come to you ✟ ⁴Words of iniquity have prevailed over us. And you will pardon our impieties ✟ ⁵Blessed is he whom you have chosen and taken up. He will dwell in your courts. We will be filled with the good things of your house. Holy is your temple ✟ ⁶wonderful in equity. Hear us, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of a sea far away ✟ ⁷You prepare the mountains in your virtue, wrapped with power ✟ ⁸You stir up the depths of the sea, the noise of its waves. The nations will be troubled ✟ ⁹and those who dwell at the limits will be afraid, before your signs. You will make the passing of morning and evening enjoyable ✟ ¹⁰You have visited the earth, and you have saturated it. You have enriched it in so many ways. The river of God has been filled with water. You have prepared their food. For thus is its preparation ✟ ¹¹Drench its streams, multiply its fruits; it will spring up and rejoice in its showers ✟ ¹²You will bless the crown of the year with your kindness, and your fields will be filled with abundance ✟ ¹³The beauty of the desert will fatten, and the hills will be wrapped with exultation ✟ ¹⁴The rams of the sheep have been clothed, and the valleys will abound with grain. They will cry out; yes, they will even utter a hymn ✟

Chapter 65

¹Unto the end. A Canticle Psalm of the Resurrection. Shout joyfully to God, all the earth ✟ ²Proclaim a psalm to his name. Give glory to his praise ✟ ³Exclaim to God, “How terrible are your works, O Lord!” According to the fullness of your virtue, your enemies will speak lies about you ✟ ⁴Let all the earth adore you and sing psalms to you. May it sing a psalm to your name ✟ ⁵Draw near and see the works of God, who is terrible in his counsels over the sons of men ✟ ⁶He converts the sea into dry land. They will cross the river on foot. There, we will rejoice in him ✟ ⁷He rules by his virtue for eternity. His eyes gaze upon the nations. May those who exasperate him, not be exalted in themselves ✟ ⁸Bless our God, you Gentiles, and make the voice of his praise be heard ✟ ⁹He has set my soul toward life, and he has granted that my feet may not be shaken ✟ ¹⁰For you, O God, have tested us. You have examined us by fire, just as silver is examined ✟ ¹¹You have led us into a snare. You have placed tribulations on our back ✟ ¹²You have set men over our heads. We have crossed through fire and water. And you have led us out to refreshment ✟ ¹³I will enter your house with holocausts. I will repay my vows to you ✟ ¹⁴which my lips discerned and my mouth spoke, in my tribulation ✟ ¹⁵I will offer to you holocausts full of marrow, with the burnt offerings of rams. I will offer to you bulls as well as goats ✟ ¹⁶Draw near and listen, all you who fear God, and I will describe to you how much he has done for my soul ✟ ¹⁷I cried out to him with my mouth, and I extolled him under my breath ✟ ¹⁸If I have seen iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not heed me ✟ ¹⁹And yet, God has heeded me and he has attended to the voice of my supplication ✟ ²⁰Blessed is God, who has not removed my prayer, nor his mercy, from me ✟

Chapter 66

¹Unto the end. With hymns, a Canticle Psalm of David ✟ ²May God have mercy on us and bless us. May he shine his countenance upon us, and may he have mercy on us ✟ ³So may we know your way upon the earth, your salvation among all nations ✟ ⁴Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you ✟ ⁵May the nations rejoice and exult. For you judge the peoples with equity, and you direct the nations on earth ✟ ⁶Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you ✟ ⁷The earth has provided her fruit. May God, our God, bless us ✟ ⁸May God bless us, and may all the ends of the earth fear him ✟

Chapter 67

¹Unto the end. A Canticle Psalm of David himself ✟ ²May God rise up, and may his enemies be scattered, and may those who hate him flee from before his face ✟ ³Just as smoke vanishes, so may they vanish. Just as wax flows away before the face of fire, so may sinners pass away before the face of God ✟ ⁴And so, let the just feast, and let them exult in the sight of God and be delighted in gladness ✟ ⁵Sing to God, sing a psalm to his name. Make a path for him, who ascends over the west. The Lord is his name. Exult in his sight; they will be stirred up before his face ✟ ⁶the father of orphans and the judge of widows. God is in his holy place ✟ ⁷It is God who makes men dwell in a house under one custom. He leads out those who are strongly bound, and similarly, those who exasperate, who dwell in sepulchers ✟ ⁸O God, when you departed in the sight of your people, when you passed through the desert ✟ ⁹the earth was moved, for the heavens rained down before the face of the God of Sinai, before the face of the God of Israel ✟ ¹⁰You will set aside for your inheritance, O God, a willing rain. And though it was weak, truly, you have made it perfect ✟ ¹¹Your animals will dwell in it. O God, in your sweetness, you have provided for the poor ✟ ¹²The Lord will give the word to evangelizers, along with great virtue ✟ ¹³The King of virtue is beloved among the beloved. And the beauty of the house will divide spoils ✟ ¹⁴If you take your rest in the midst of the clergy, you will be like a dove whose wings are covered with fine silver and edged with pale gold ✟ ¹⁵When heaven discerns kings to be over her, they will be whitened with the snows of Zalmon ✟ ¹⁶The mountain of God is a fat mountain, a dense mountain, a thick mountain ✟ ¹⁷So then, why are you distrustful of dense mountains? The mountain on which God is well pleased to dwell, even there, the Lord will dwell until the end ✟ ¹⁸The chariot of God is ten thousand fold: thousands rejoice. The Lord is with them in Sinai, in the holy place ✟ ¹⁹You have ascended on high; you have taken captivity captive. You have accepted gifts among men. For even those who do not believe dwell with the Lord God ✟ ²⁰Blessed is the Lord, day after day. The God of our salvation will make our journey prosper for us ✟ ²¹Our God is the God who will bring about our salvation, and our Lord is the Lord who has brought an end to death ✟ ²²So then, truly, God will break the heads of his enemies, the hairy skull of those who wander around in their offenses ✟ ²³The Lord said: I will turn them away from Bashan, I will turn them into the depths of the sea ✟ ²⁴so that your feet may be soaked in the blood of your enemies, so that the tongue of your dogs may be soaked with the same ✟ ²⁵O God, they have seen your arrival, the arrival of my God, of my king who is in a holy place ✟ ²⁶The leaders went ahead, united with the singers of psalms, in the midst of girls playing on timbrels ✟ ²⁷In the churches, bless the Lord God from the fountains of Israel ✟ ²⁸In that place, Benjamin is a youth in ecstasy of mind. The leaders of Judah are their governors: the leaders of Zebulun, the leaders of Naphtali ✟ ²⁹Command by your virtue, O God. Confirm in this place, O God, what you have wrought in us ✟ ³⁰Before your temple in Jerusalem, kings will offer gifts to you ✟ ³¹Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, a congregation of bulls with the cows of the people, for they seek to exclude those who have been tested like silver. Scatter the nations that are pleased by wars ✟ ³²Ambassadors will come out of Egypt. Ethiopia will offer in advance her hands to God ✟ ³³Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. Sing psalms to the Lord. Sing psalms to God ✟ ³⁴He ascends, up to the heaven of the heavens, toward the east. Behold, he will utter his voice, the voice of virtue ✟ ³⁵Give glory to God beyond Israel. His magnificence and his virtue is in the clouds ✟ ³⁶God is wonderful in his saints. The God of Israel himself will give virtue and strength to his people. Blessed is God ✟

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¹Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David ✟ ²Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul ✟ ³I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me ✟ ⁴I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God ✟ ⁵Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take ✟ ⁶O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you ✟ ⁷Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me ✟ ⁸For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face ✟ ⁹I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother ✟ ¹⁰For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me ✟ ¹¹And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me ✟ ¹²And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them ✟ ¹³Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song ✟ ¹⁴But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me ✟ ¹⁵Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters ✟ ¹⁶Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me ✟ ¹⁷Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion ✟ ¹⁸And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly ✟ ¹⁹Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies ✟ ²⁰You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence ✟ ²¹All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one ✟ ²²And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink ✟ ²³Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal ✟ ²⁴Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked ✟ ²⁵Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them ✟ ²⁶May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles ✟ ²⁷For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds ✟ ²⁸Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice ✟ ²⁹Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just ✟ ³⁰I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up ✟ ³¹I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise ✟ ³²And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs ✟ ³³Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live ✟ ³⁴For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners ✟ ³⁵Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it ✟ ³⁶For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance ✟ ³⁷And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it ✟

Chapter 69

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David, in remembrance that the Lord had saved him ✟ ²O God, reach out to help me. O Lord, hasten to assist me ✟ ³May those who seek my soul be confounded and awed ✟ ⁴May those who wish evils upon me be turned back and blush with shame. May they be turned away immediately, blushing with shame, who say to me: “Well, well. ✟ ⁵Let all who seek you exult and rejoice in you, and let those who love your salvation forever say: “The Lord be magnified. ✟ ⁶I am truly destitute and poor. O God, assist me. You are my helper and my deliverer. O Lord, do not delay ✟

Chapter 70

¹A Psalm of David. Of the sons of Jonadab and the former captives. In you, O Lord, I have hoped; do not let me be brought to ruin forever ✟ ²Free me by your justice, and rescue me. Incline your ear to me, and save me ✟ ³Be a God of protection and a place of strength for me, so that you may accomplish my salvation. For you are my firmament and my refuge ✟ ⁴Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, and from the hand of the unjust and those who act against the law ✟ ⁵For you, O Lord, are my patience: my hope from my youth, O Lord ✟ ⁶In you, I have been confirmed from conception. From my mother’s womb, you are my protector. In you, I will sing forever ✟ ⁷I have become to many as if I were a portent, but you are a strong helper ✟ ⁸Let my mouth be filled with praise, so that I may sing your glory, your greatness all day long ✟ ⁹Do not cast me off in the time of old age. Do not abandon me when my strength will fail ✟ ¹⁰For my enemies have spoken against me. And those who watched for my soul have taken counsel as one ✟ ¹¹saying: “God has abandoned him. Pursue and overtake him. For there is no one to rescue him. ✟ ¹²O God, do not be far from me. O my God, provide for my assistance ✟ ¹³May they be confounded, and may they fail, who drag down my soul. Let them be covered with confusion and shame, who seek evils for me ✟ ¹⁴But I will always have hope. And I will add more to all your praise ✟ ¹⁵My mouth will announce your justice, your salvation all day long. For I have not known letters ✟ ¹⁶I will enter into the powers of the Lord. I will be mindful of your justice alone, O Lord ✟ ¹⁷You have taught me from my youth, O God. And so I will declare your wonders continuously ✟ ¹⁸even in old age and with grey hairs. Do not abandon me, O God, while I announce your arm to every future generation: your powe ✟ ¹⁹and your justice, O God, even to the highest great things that you have done. O God, who is like you ✟ ²⁰How great is the tribulation that you have revealed to me: very great and evil. And so, turning back, you have brought me to life, and you have led me back again from the abyss of the earth ✟ ²¹You have multiplied your magnificence. And so, turning back to me, you have consoled me ✟ ²²Therefore, I will confess your truth to you, with the instruments of the Psalter. O God, I will sing psalms to you with stringed instruments, O Holy One of Israel ✟ ²³My lips will exult, when I sing to you, and also my soul, which you have redeemed ✟ ²⁴And even my tongue will meditate on your justice all day long, when those who seek evils for me have been confounded and set in awe ✟

Chapter 71

¹A Psalm according to Solomon ✟ ²Give your judgment, O God, to the king, and your justice to the king’s son, to judge your people with justice and your poor with judgment ✟ ³Let the mountains take up peace for the people, and the hills, justice ✟ ⁴He will judge the poor of the people, and he will bring salvation to the sons of the poor. And he will humble the false accuser ✟ ⁵And he will remain, with the sun and before the moon, from generation to generation ✟ ⁶He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth ✟ ⁷In his days, justice will rise like the sun, with abundance of peace, until the moon is taken away ✟ ⁸And he will rule from sea to sea and from the river to the limits of the whole world ✟ ⁹In his sight, the Ethiopians will fall prostrate, and his enemies will lick the ground ✟ ¹⁰The kings of Tarshish and the islands will offer gifts. The kings of Arabia and of Seba will bring gifts ✟ ¹¹And all the kings of the earth shall adore him. All nations will serve him ✟ ¹²For he will free the poor from the powerful, and the poor one who has no helper ✟ ¹³He will spare the poor and the indigent, and he will bring salvation to the souls of the poor ✟ ¹⁴He will redeem their souls from usuries and from iniquity, and their names shall be honorable in his sight ✟ ¹⁵And he will live, and to him will be given from the gold of Arabia, and by him they will always adore. They will bless him all day long ✟ ¹⁶And there will be a firmament on earth, at the summits of mountains: its fruits will be extolled above Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like the grass of the earth ✟ ¹⁷May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him ✟ ¹⁸Blessed is the Lord, God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things ✟ ¹⁹And blessed is the name of his majesty in eternity. And all the earth will be filled with his majesty. Amen. Amen ✟ ²⁰The praises of David, the son of Jesse, have reached an end ✟

Chapter 72

¹A Psalm of Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to those who are upright in heart ✟ ²But my feet were nearly moved; my steps had nearly slipped ✟ ³For I was zealous over the iniquitous, seeing the peacefulness of sinners ✟ ⁴For they have no respect for their death, nor do they have support in their wounds ✟ ⁵They are not with the hardships of men, nor will they be scourged with men ✟ ⁶Therefore, arrogance has held on to them. They have been covered with their iniquity and impiety ✟ ⁷Their iniquity has proceeded, as if from fat. They have parted from the affection of the heart ✟ ⁸They have thought and spoken wickedness. They have spoken iniquity in high places ✟ ⁹They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has traversed the earth ✟ ¹⁰Therefore, my people will be converted here, and fullness of days will be found in them ✟ ¹¹And they said, “How would God know?” and, “Isn’t there knowledge in high places? ✟ ¹²Behold, these are sinners, and, abounding in this age, they have obtained riches ✟ ¹³And I said: So then, it is without purpose that I have justified my heart and washed my hands among the innocent ✟ ¹⁴And I have been scourged all day long, and I have received my chastisement in the mornings ✟ ¹⁵If I were to say that I would explain this: Behold, I would condemn this nation of your sons ✟ ¹⁶I considered, so that I might know this. It is a hardship before me ✟ ¹⁷until I may enter into the Sanctuary of God, and understand it to its last part ✟ ¹⁸So, because of deceitfulness, truly, you have placed it before them. While they were being lifted up, you were casting them down ✟ ¹⁹How have they been brought to desolation? They have suddenly failed. They have perished because of their iniquity ✟ ²⁰As a dream is to those who awaken, O Lord, so will you reduce their image to nothing in your city ✟ ²¹For my heart has been inflamed, and my temperament has been changed ✟ ²²And so, I have been reduced to nothing, and I did not know it ✟ ²³I have become like a beast of burden to you, and I am always with you ✟ ²⁴You have held my right hand. And in your will, you have conducted me, and with your glory, you have taken me up ✟ ²⁵For what is there for me in heaven? And what do I wish for on earth before you ✟ ²⁶My body has failed, and my heart: O God of my heart, and God my portion, into eternity ✟ ²⁷For behold, those who put themselves far from you will perish. You have perished all those who fornicate away from you ✟ ²⁸But it is good for me to adhere to God, to put my hope in the Lord God, so that I may announce all your prophecies, at the gates of the daughter of Zion ✟

Chapter 73

¹The understanding of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us to the end. Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture ✟ ²Be mindful of your congregation, which you have possessed from the beginning. You redeemed the scepter of your inheritance, mount Zion, in which you have dwelt ✟ ³Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary ✟ ⁴And those who hate you have been glorified, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their own signs as a proof ✟ ⁵as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood ✟ ⁶they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down ✟ ⁷They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth ✟ ⁸They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land ✟ ⁹We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us. ✟ ¹⁰How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end ✟ ¹¹Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end ✟ ¹²But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth ✟ ¹³In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters ✟ ¹⁴You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians ✟ ¹⁵You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan ✟ ¹⁶Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun ✟ ¹⁷You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you ✟ ¹⁸Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name ✟ ¹⁹Do not hand over to beasts the souls that confess to you; and do not forget the souls of your poor until the end ✟ ²⁰Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses ✟ ²¹Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. The poor and the needy will praise your name ✟ ²²Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long ✟ ²³Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually ✟

Chapter 74

¹Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph ✟ ²We will confess to you, O God. We will confess, and we will call upon your name. We will describe your wonders ✟ ³While I have time, I will judge justices ✟ ⁴The earth has been dissolved, with all who dwell in it. I have confirmed its pillars ✟ ⁵I said to the iniquitous: “Do not act unjustly,” and to the offenders: “Do not exalt the horn. ✟ ⁶Do not exalt your horn on high. Do not speak iniquity against God ✟ ⁷For it is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor before the desert mountains ✟ ⁸For God is judge. This one he humbles and that one he exalts ✟ ⁹For, in the hand of the Lord, there is a cup of undiluted wine, full of consternation. And he has tipped it from here to there. So, truly, its dregs have not been emptied. All the sinners of the earth will drink ✟ ¹⁰But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob ✟ ¹¹And I will break all the horns of sinners. And the horns of the just will be exalted ✟

Chapter 75

¹Unto the end. With Praises. A Psalm of Asaph. A Canticle to the Assyrians ✟ ²In Judea, God is known. In Israel, his name is great ✟ ³And his place has been formed with peace. And his dwelling place is in Zion ✟ ⁴In that place, he has broken the powers of the bows, the shield, the sword, and the battle ✟ ⁵You illuminate wondrously from the mountains of eternity ✟ ⁶All the foolish of heart have been disturbed. They have slept their sleep, and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands ✟ ⁷At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, those who were mounted on horseback have fallen asleep ✟ ⁸You are terrible, and so, who can withstand you? From thence is your wrath ✟ ⁹You have caused judgment to be heard from heaven. The earth trembled and was quieted ✟ ¹⁰when God rose up in judgment in order to bring salvation to all the meek of the earth ✟ ¹¹For the thinking of man will confess to you, and the legacy of his thinking will keep a feast day to you ✟ ¹²Make vows and pay them to the Lord, your God. All you who surround him bring gifts: to him who is terrible ✟ ¹³even to him who takes away the spirit of leaders, to him who is terrible with the kings of the earth ✟

Chapter 76

¹Unto the end. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph ✟ ²I cried out to the Lord with my voice, to God with my voice, and he attended to me ✟ ³In the days of my tribulation, I sought God, with my hands opposite him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be consoled ✟ ⁴I was mindful of God, and I was delighted, and I was distressed, and my spirit fell away ✟ ⁵My eyes anticipated the vigils. I was disturbed, and I did not speak ✟ ⁶I considered the days of antiquity, and I held the years of eternity in my mind ✟ ⁷And I meditated in the night with my heart, and I was distressed, and I examined my spirit ✟ ⁸So then, will God reject for eternity? Will he not continue to allow himself to show favor ✟ ⁹Or, will he cut off his mercy in the end, from generation to generation ✟ ¹⁰And would God ever forget to be merciful? Or, would he, in his wrath, restrict his mercies ✟ ¹¹And I said, “Now I have begun. This change is from the right hand of the Most High. ✟ ¹²I was mindful of the works of the Lord. For I will be mindful from the beginning of your wonders ✟ ¹³and I will meditate on all your works. And I will take part in your intentions ✟ ¹⁴Your way, O God, is in what is holy. Which God is great like our God ✟ ¹⁵You are the God who performs miracles. You have made your virtue known among the peoples ✟ ¹⁶With your arm, you have redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and of Joseph ✟ ¹⁷The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and they were afraid, and the depths were stirred up ✟ ¹⁸Great was the sound of the waters. The clouds uttered a voice. For your arrows also pass by ✟ ¹⁹The voice of your thunder is like a wheel. Your flashes have illuminated the whole world. The earth has quaked and trembled ✟ ²⁰Your way is through the sea, and your paths are through many waters. And your traces will not be known ✟ ²¹You have conducted your people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron ✟

Chapter 77

¹The understanding of Asaph. O my people, attend to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth ✟ ²I will open my mouth in parables. I will speak about concepts that are from the beginning ✟ ³We have heard and known such great things, as our fathers have described to us ✟ ⁴These things have not been hidden from their sons in any generation: declaring the praises of the Lord, and his virtues, and the wonders that he has done ✟ ⁵And he has received testimony with Jacob, and he has set a law within Israel. Such great things, he has commanded our fathers, so as to make these things known to their sons ✟ ⁶so that another generation might know them, and so that the sons, who will be born and who will grow up, shall describe them to their sons ✟ ⁷So then, may they put their hope in God, and may they not forget the works of God, and may they seek his commandments ✟ ⁸May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God ✟ ⁹The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, have been turned back in the day of battle ✟ ¹⁰They have not kept the covenant of God. And they were not willing to walk in his law ✟ ¹¹And they have been forgetful of his benefits, and of his miracle, which he revealed to them ✟ ¹²He performed miracles in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis ✟ ¹³He broke the sea and he led them through. And he stationed the waters, as if in a vessel ✟ ¹⁴And he led them with a cloud by day, and with illumination by fire throughout the night ✟ ¹⁵He broke through the rock in the wasteland, and he gave them to drink, as if from the great abyss ✟ ¹⁶He brought forth water from the rock, and he conducted the waters, as if they were rivers ✟ ¹⁷And yet, they continued to sin against him. In a waterless place, they provoked the Most High with resentment ✟ ¹⁸And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking for food according to their desires ✟ ¹⁹And they spoke badly about God. They said, “Would God be able to prepare a table in the desert ✟ ²⁰He struck the rock, and so waters flowed and the torrents flooded, but would even he be able to provide bread, or provide a table, for his people? ✟ ²¹Therefore, the Lord heard, and he was dismayed, and a fire was kindled within Jacob, and an anger ascended into Israel ✟ ²²For they neither put their trust in God, nor did they hope in his salvation ✟ ²³And he commanded the clouds from above, and he opened the doors of heaven ✟ ²⁴And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and he gave them the bread of heaven ✟ ²⁵Man ate the bread of Angels. He sent them provisions in abundance ✟ ²⁶He transferred the south wind from heaven, and, in his virtue, he brought in the Southwest wind ✟ ²⁷And he rained down flesh upon them, as if it were dust, and feathered birds, as if they were the sand of the sea ✟ ²⁸And they fell down in the midst of their camp, encircling their tabernacles ✟ ²⁹And they ate until they were greatly satisfied, and he brought to them according to their desires ✟ ³⁰They were not cheated out of what they wanted. Their food was still in their mouth ✟ ³¹and then the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones among them, and he impeded the elect of Israel ✟ ³²In all these things, they continued to sin, and they were not trustworthy with his miracles ✟ ³³And their days faded away into vanity, and their years with haste ✟ ³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him. And they returned, and they drew near to him in the early morning ✟ ³⁵And they were mindful that God is their helper and that the Most High God is their redeemer ✟ ³⁶And they chose him with their mouth, and then they lied to him with their tongue ✟ ³⁷For their heart was not upright with him, nor have they been living faithfully in his covenant ✟ ³⁸Yet he is merciful, and he will pardon their sins. And he will not destroy them. And he has abundantly turned aside his own wrath. And he did not enflame his wrath entirely ✟ ³⁹And he remembered that they are flesh: with a spirit that goes forth and does not return ✟ ⁴⁰How often did they provoke him in the desert and stir him to wrath in a waterless place ✟ ⁴¹And they turned back and tempted God, and they exasperated the Holy One of Israel ✟ ⁴²They did not remember his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the one troubling them ✟ ⁴³Thus, he positioned his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Tanis ✟ ⁴⁴And he turned their rivers into blood, along with their rain showers, so that they could not drink ✟ ⁴⁵He sent among them the common fly, and it devoured them, and the frog, and it scattered them ✟ ⁴⁶And he gave up their fruits to mold and their labors to the locust ✟ ⁴⁷And he slew their vineyards with hail and their mulberry trees with severe frost ✟ ⁴⁸And he delivered their cattle to the hail and their possessions to fire ✟ ⁴⁹And he sent the wrath of his indignation among them: indignation and wrath and tribulation, sent forth by evil angels ✟ ⁵⁰He made way for the path of his anger. He did not spare their souls from death. And he enclosed their beasts of burden in death ✟ ⁵¹And he struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt: the first-fruits of all their labor in the tabernacles of Ham ✟ ⁵²And he took away his own people like sheep, and he led them through the wilderness like a flock ✟ ⁵³And he led them out in hope, and they did not fear. And the sea covered their enemies ✟ ⁵⁴And he led them to the mountain of his sanctification: the mountain that his right hand had acquired. And he cast out the Gentiles before their face. And he divided their land by lot to them, with a line of distribution ✟ ⁵⁵And he caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles ✟ ⁵⁶Yet they tempted and aggravated God Most High, and they did not keep his testaments ✟ ⁵⁷And they turned themselves aside, and they did not serve the covenant. In the same manner as their fathers, they were turned backwards, like a crooked bow ✟ ⁵⁸They impelled him to anger on their hills, and they provoked him to rivalry with their graven images ✟ ⁵⁹God listened, and he spurned them, and he reduced Israel greatly, almost to nothing ✟ ⁶⁰And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, his tabernacle where he had dwelt among men ✟ ⁶¹And he delivered their virtue into captivity, and their beauty into the hands of the enemy ✟ ⁶²And he enclosed his people with the sword, and he spurned his inheritance ✟ ⁶³Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins were not lamented ✟ ⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows did not weep ✟ ⁶⁵And the Lord was awakened, as if out of sleep, and like a powerful man impaired by wine ✟ ⁶⁶And he struck his enemies on the back. He gave them over to everlasting disgrace ✟ ⁶⁷And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim ✟ ⁶⁸But he chose the tribe of Judah: mount Zion, which he loved ✟ ⁶⁹And he built up his sanctuary, like a single-horned beast, in the land that he founded for all ages ✟ ⁷⁰And he chose his servant David, and he took him from the flocks of the sheep: he received him from following the ewes with their young ✟ ⁷¹in order to pasture Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance ✟ ⁷²And he fed them with the innocence of his heart. And he led them with the understanding of his hands ✟

Chapter 78

¹A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees ✟ ²They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth ✟ ³They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one who would bury them ✟ ⁴We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us ✟ ⁵How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? Will your zeal be kindled like a fire ✟ ⁶Pour out your wrath among the Gentiles, who have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not invoked your name ✟ ⁷For they have devoured Jacob, and they have desolated his place ✟ ⁸Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor ✟ ⁹Help us, O God, our Savior. And free us, Lord, for the glory of your name. And forgive us our sins for the sake of your name ✟ ¹⁰Let them not say among the Gentiles, “Where is their God?” And may your name become known among the nations before our eyes. For the retribution of your servants’ blood, which has been poured out ✟ ¹¹may the groans of the shackled enter before you. According to the greatness of your arm, take possession of the sons of those who have been killed ✟ ¹²And repay our neighbors sevenfold within their sinews. It is the reproach of the same ones who brought reproach against you, O Lord ✟ ¹³But we are your people and the sheep of your pasture: we will give thanks to you in all ages. From generation to generation, we will announce your praise ✟

Chapter 79

¹Unto the end. For those who will be changed. The testimony of Asaph. A Psalm ✟ ²The One who reigns over Israel: Be attentive. For you lead Joseph like a sheep. The One who sits upon the cherubim: Shine fort ✟ ³in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Awaken your power and draw near, so as to accomplish our salvation ✟ ⁴Convert us, O God. And reveal your face, and we will be saved ✟ ⁵O Lord, God of hosts, how long will you be angry over the prayer of your servant ✟ ⁶How long will you feed us the bread of tears, and give us to drink a full measure of tears ✟ ⁷You have set us as a contradiction to our neighbors. And our enemies have ridiculed us ✟ ⁸O God of hosts, convert us. And reveal your face, and we will be saved ✟ ⁹You have transferred a vineyard from Egypt. You have cast out the Gentiles, and planted it ✟ ¹⁰You were the leader of the journey in its sight. You planted its roots, and it filled the earth ✟ ¹¹Its shadow covered the hills, and its branches covered the cedars of God ✟ ¹²It extended its new branches even to the sea, and its new seedlings even to the river ✟ ¹³So then, why have you destroyed its walls, so that all those who pass by the way gather its grapes ✟ ¹⁴The wild boar of the forest has trampled it, and a single wild beast has laid waste to it ✟ ¹⁵Turn back, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard ✟ ¹⁶and complete what your right hand has planted, and look upon the son of man, whom you have confirmed for yourself ✟ ¹⁷Whatever has been set on fire and dug under will perish at the rebuke of your countenance ✟ ¹⁸Let your hand be over the man on your right, and over the son of man, whom you have confirmed for yourself ✟ ¹⁹For we do not depart from you, and you will revive us. And we will invoke your name ✟ ²⁰O Lord, God of hosts, convert us. And reveal your face, and we will be saved ✟

Chapter 80

¹Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself ✟ ²Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob ✟ ³Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments ✟ ⁴Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity ✟ ⁵for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob ✟ ⁶He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know ✟ ⁷He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets ✟ ⁸You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction ✟ ⁹My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me ✟ ¹⁰then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god ✟ ¹¹For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it ✟ ¹²But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me ✟ ¹³And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions ✟ ¹⁴If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways ✟ ¹⁵I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them ✟ ¹⁶The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age ✟ ¹⁷And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock ✟

Chapter 81

¹A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods ✟ ²How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners ✟ ³Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor ✟ ⁴Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner ✟ ⁵They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved ✟ ⁶I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High ✟ ⁷But you will die like men, and you will fall just like one of the princes ✟ ⁸Rise up, O God. Judge the earth. For you will inherit it with all the nations ✟

Chapter 82

¹A Canticle Psalm of Asaph ✟ ²O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God ✟ ³For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head ✟ ⁴They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones ✟ ⁵They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer. ✟ ⁶For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant ✟ ⁷the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites ✟ ⁸and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre ✟ ⁹For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot ✟ ¹⁰Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon ✟ ¹¹They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth ✟ ¹²Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leader ✟ ¹³who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance. ✟ ¹⁴My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind ✟ ¹⁵Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains ✟ ¹⁶So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath ✟ ¹⁷Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord ✟ ¹⁸Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish ✟ ¹⁹And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth ✟

Chapter 83

¹Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah ✟ ²How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts ✟ ³My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God ✟ ⁴For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God ✟ ⁵Blessed are those who dwell in your house, O Lord. They will praise you from age to age ✟ ⁶Blessed is the man whose help is from you. In his heart, he is disposed to ascen ✟ ⁷from the valley of tears, from the place which he has determined ✟ ⁸For even the lawgiver will provide a blessing; they will go from virtue to virtue. The God of gods will be seen in Zion ✟ ⁹O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Pay attention, O God of Jacob ✟ ¹⁰O God, gaze upon our protector, and look upon the face of your Christ ✟ ¹¹For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners ✟ ¹²For God loves mercy and truth. The Lord will give grace and glory ✟ ¹³He will not withhold good things from those who walk in innocence. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who hopes in you ✟

Chapter 84

¹Unto the end. A Psalm to the sons of Korah ✟ ²O Lord, you have blessed your land. You have turned aside the captivity of Jacob ✟ ³You have released the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sins ✟ ⁴You have mitigated all your wrath. You have turned aside from the wrath of your indignation ✟ ⁵Convert us, O God, our Savior, and turn your anger away from us ✟ ⁶Will you be angry with us forever? And will you extend your wrath from generation to generation ✟ ⁷O God, you will turn back and revive us. And your people will rejoice in you ✟ ⁸O Lord, reveal to us your mercy, and grant to us your salvation ✟ ⁹I will listen to what the Lord God may be saying to me. For he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those who are being converted to the heart ✟ ¹⁰So then, truly his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that glory may inhabit our land ✟ ¹¹Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed ✟ ¹²Truth has risen from the earth, and justice has gazed down from heaven ✟ ¹³For so will the Lord give goodness, and our earth will give her fruit ✟ ¹⁴Justice will walk before him, and he will set his steps upon the way ✟

Chapter 85

¹A Prayer of David himself. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear me. For I am needy and poor ✟ ²Preserve my soul, for I am holy. My God, bring salvation to your servant who hopes in you ✟ ³O Lord, be merciful to me, for I have cried out to you all day long ✟ ⁴Give joy to the soul of your servant, for I have lifted up my soul to you, Lord ✟ ⁵For you are sweet and mild, Lord, and plentiful in mercy to all who call upon you ✟ ⁶Pay attention, Lord, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplication ✟ ⁷In the day of my tribulation, I cried out to you, because you heeded me ✟ ⁸There is no one like you among the gods, O Lord, and there is no one like you in your works ✟ ⁹All the nations, which you have made, will draw near and adore in your presence, O Lord. And they will glorify your name ✟ ¹⁰For you are great, and you perform wonders. You alone are God ✟ ¹¹Lead me, O Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth. May my heart rejoice, so that it will fear your name ✟ ¹²I will confess to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart. And I will glorify your name in eternity ✟ ¹³For your mercy toward me is great, and you have rescued my soul from the lower part of Hell ✟ ¹⁴O God, the iniquitous have risen up against me, and the synagogue of the powerful have sought my soul, and they have not placed you in their sight ✟ ¹⁵And you, Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, being patient and full of mercy and truthful ✟ ¹⁶Look down upon me and have mercy on me. Grant your authority to your servant, and bring salvation to the son of your handmaid ✟ ¹⁷Make me a sign of what is good, so that those who hate me, may look and be confounded. For you, O Lord, have helped me and consoled me ✟

Chapter 86

¹A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains ✟ ²the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob ✟ ³Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God ✟ ⁴I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there ✟ ⁵Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her ✟ ⁶The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her ✟ ⁷For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing ✟

Chapter 87

¹A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite ✟ ²O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence ✟ ³Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition ✟ ⁴For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell ✟ ⁵I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance ✟ ⁶idle among the dead. I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, and who have been repelled by your hand ✟ ⁷They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death ✟ ⁸Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me ✟ ⁹You have sent my acquaintances far from me. They have set me as an abomination to themselves. I was handed over, yet I did not depart ✟ ¹⁰My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you ✟ ¹¹Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you ✟ ¹²Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition ✟ ¹³Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion ✟ ¹⁴And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you ✟ ¹⁵Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me ✟ ¹⁶I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed ✟ ¹⁷Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me ✟ ¹⁸They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once ✟ ¹⁹Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery ✟

Chapter 88

¹The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite ✟ ²I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation ✟ ³For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there ✟ ⁴I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant ✟ ⁵I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation ✟ ⁶The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints ✟ ⁷For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God ✟ ⁸God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him ✟ ⁹O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you ✟ ¹⁰You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves ✟ ¹¹You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength ✟ ¹²Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness ✟ ¹³You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name ✟ ¹⁴Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted ✟ ¹⁵Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face ✟ ¹⁶Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord ✟ ¹⁷and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice ✟ ¹⁸For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted ✟ ¹⁹For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel ✟ ²⁰Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people ✟ ²¹I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil ✟ ²²For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him ✟ ²³The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him ✟ ²⁴And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight ✟ ²⁵And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name ✟ ²⁶And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers ✟ ²⁷He will invoke me: “You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation. ✟ ²⁸And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth ✟ ²⁹I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully ✟ ³⁰And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven ✟ ³¹But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments ✟ ³²if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments ✟ ³³I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating ✟ ³⁴But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth ✟ ³⁵And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips ✟ ³⁶I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David ✟ ³⁷his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight ✟ ³⁸and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven ✟ ³⁹Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ ✟ ⁴⁰You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth ✟ ⁴¹You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful ✟ ⁴²All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors ✟ ⁴³You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies ✟ ⁴⁴You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle ✟ ⁴⁵You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground ✟ ⁴⁶You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion ✟ ⁴⁷How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire ✟ ⁴⁸Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain ✟ ⁴⁹Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld ✟ ⁵⁰O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth ✟ ⁵¹Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations ✟ ⁵²With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ ✟ ⁵³Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen ✟

Chapter 89

¹A prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Lord, you have been our refuge from generation to generation ✟ ²Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God ✟ ³And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men ✟ ⁴For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night ✟ ⁵which was held for nothing: so their years shall be ✟ ⁶In the morning, he may pass away like grass; in the morning, he may flower and pass away. In the evening, he will fall, and harden, and become dry ✟ ⁷For, at your wrath, we have withered away, and we have been disturbed by your fury ✟ ⁸You have placed our iniquities in your sight, our age in the illumination of your countenance ✟ ⁹For all our days have faded away, and at your wrath, we have fainted. Our years will be considered to be like a spider’s web ✟ ¹⁰The days of our years in them are seventy years. But in the powerful, they are eighty years, and more of these are with hardship and sorrow. For mildness has overwhelmed us, and we shall be corrected ✟ ¹¹Who knows the power of your wrath? And, before fear, can your wrat ✟ ¹²be numbered? So make known your right hand, along with men learned in heart, in wisdom ✟ ¹³Return, O Lord, how long? And may you be persuaded on behalf of your servants ✟ ¹⁴We were filled in the morning with your mercy, and we exulted and delighted all our days ✟ ¹⁵We have been rejoicing, because of the days in which you humbled us, because of the years in which we saw evils ✟ ¹⁶Look down upon your servants and upon their works, and direct their sons ✟ ¹⁷And may the splendor of the Lord our God be upon us. And so, direct the works of our hands over us; direct even the work of our hands ✟

Chapter 90

¹The Praise of a Canticle, of David. Whoever dwells with the assistance of the Most High will abide in the protection of the God of heaven ✟ ²He will say to the Lord, “You are my supporter and my refuge.” My God, I will hope in him ✟ ³For he has freed me from the snare of those who go hunting, and from the harsh word ✟ ⁴He will overshadow you with his shoulders, and you will hope under his wings ✟ ⁵His truth will surround you with a shield. You will not be afraid: before the terror of the night ✟ ⁶before the arrow flying in the day, before the troubles that wander in the darkness, nor of invasion and the midday demon ✟ ⁷A thousand will fall before your side and ten thousand before your right hand. Yet it will not draw near you ✟ ⁸So then, truly, you will consider with your eyes, and you will see the retribution of sinners ✟ ⁹For you, O Lord, are my hope. You have set the Most High as your refuge ✟ ¹⁰Disaster will not draw near to you, and the scourge will not approach your tabernacle ✟ ¹¹For he has given his Angels charge over you, so as to preserve you in all your ways ✟ ¹²With their hands, they will carry you, lest you hurt your foot against a stone ✟ ¹³You will walk over the asp and the king serpent, and you will trample the lion and the dragon ✟ ¹⁴Because he has hoped in me, I will free him. I will protect him because he has known my name ✟ ¹⁵He will cry out to me, and I will heed him. I am with him in tribulation. I will rescue him, and I will glorify him ✟ ¹⁶I will fill him with length of days. And I will reveal to him my salvation ✟

Chapter 91

¹A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath ✟ ²It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High ✟ ³to announce your mercy in the morning, and your truth throughout the night ✟ ⁴upon the ten strings, upon the psaltery, with a canticle, upon stringed instruments ✟ ⁵For you, O Lord, have delighted me with your doings, and I will exult in the works of your hands ✟ ⁶How great are your works, O Lord! Your thoughts have been made exceedingly deep ✟ ⁷A foolish man will not know these things, and a senseless one will not understand ✟ ⁸when sinners will have risen up like grass, and when all those who work iniquity will have appeared, that they shall pass away, age after age ✟ ⁹But you, O Lord, are the Most High for all eternity ✟ ¹⁰For behold your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies will perish, and all those who work iniquity will be dispersed ✟ ¹¹And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy ✟ ¹²And my eye has looked down upon my enemies, and my ear will hear of the malignant rising up against me ✟ ¹³The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon ✟ ¹⁴Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God ✟ ¹⁵They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well ✟ ¹⁶so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him ✟

Chapter 92

¹The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. In the time before the Sabbath, when the earth was founded ✟ ²The Lord has reigned. He has been clothed with beauty ✟ ³The Lord has been clothed with strength, and he has girded himself. Yet he has also confirmed the world, which will not be moved ✟ ⁴My throne is prepared from of old. You are from everlasting ✟ ⁵The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves ✟ ⁶before the noise of many waters. Wondrous are the surges of the sea; wondrous is the Lord on high ✟ ⁷Your testimonies have been made exceedingly trustworthy. Sanctity befits your house, O Lord, with length of days ✟

Chapter 93

¹A Psalm of David himself. The Fourth Sabbath. The Lord is the God of retribution. The God of retribution acts in order to deliver ✟ ²Lift yourself up, for you judge the earth. Repay the arrogant with retribution ✟ ³How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners glory ✟ ⁴How long will they utter and speak iniquity? How long will all who work injustice speak out ✟ ⁵They have humiliated your people, O Lord, and they have harassed your inheritance ✟ ⁶They have executed the widow and the new arrival, and they have slaughtered the orphan ✟ ⁷And they have said, “The Lord will not see, nor will the God of Jacob understand. ✟ ⁸Understand, you senseless ones among the people. And be wise at last, you foolish ones ✟ ⁹He who formed the ear, will he not hear? And he who forged the eye, does he not look closely ✟ ¹⁰He who chastises nations, he who teaches man knowledge, will he not rebuke ✟ ¹¹The Lord knows the thoughts of men: that these are in vain ✟ ¹²Blessed is the man whom you will instruct, O Lord. And you will teach him from your law ✟ ¹³So may you soothe him from the evil days, until a pit may be dug for sinners ✟ ¹⁴For the Lord will not drive away his people, and he will not abandon his inheritance ✟ ¹⁵even until the time when justice is being converted into judgment, and when those who are close to justice are all those who are upright of heart ✟ ¹⁶Who will rise up with me against the malignant? Or who will stand with me against the workers of iniquity ✟ ¹⁷Except that the Lord assisted me, my soul almost would have dwelt in Hell ✟ ¹⁸If ever I said, “My foot is slipping,” then your mercy, O Lord, assisted me ✟ ¹⁹According to the multitude of my sorrows in my heart, your consolations have given joy to my soul ✟ ²⁰Does the seat of iniquity adhere to you, you who contrive hardship within a commandment ✟ ²¹They will hunt down the soul of the just, and they will condemn innocent blood ✟ ²²And the Lord has been made into a refuge for me, and my God into the assistance of my hope ✟ ²³And he will repay them their iniquity, and he will destroy them in their malice. The Lord our God will utterly destroy them ✟

Chapter 94

¹The Praise of a Canticle, of David himself. Come, let us exult in the Lord. Let us shout joyfully to God, our Savior ✟ ²Let us anticipate his presence with confession, and let us sing joyfully to him with psalms ✟ ³For the Lord is a great God and a great King over all gods ✟ ⁴For in his hand are all the limits of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his ✟ ⁵For the sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land ✟ ⁶Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us ✟ ⁷For he is the Lord our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand ✟ ⁸If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts ✟ ⁹as in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me, though they had seen my works ✟ ¹⁰For forty years, I was offended by that generation, and I said: These have always strayed in heart ✟ ¹¹And these have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath: They shall not enter into my rest ✟

Chapter 95

¹A Canticle of David himself, when the house was built after the captivity. Sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord, all the earth ✟ ²Sing to the Lord and bless his name. Announce his salvation from day to day ✟ ³Announce his glory among the Gentiles, his miracles among all peoples ✟ ⁴For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised. He is terrible, beyond all gods ✟ ⁵For all the gods of the Gentiles are demons, but the Lord made the heavens ✟ ⁶Confession and beauty are in his sight. Sanctity and magnificence are in his sanctuary ✟ ⁷Bring to the Lord, you natives of the nations, bring to the Lord glory and honor ✟ ⁸Bring to the Lord glory for his name. Lift up sacrifices, and enter into his courts ✟ ⁹Adore the Lord in his holy court. Let the entire earth be shaken before his face ✟ ¹⁰Say among the Gentiles: The Lord has reigned. For he has even corrected the whole world, which will not be shaken. He will judge the peoples with fairness ✟ ¹¹Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth exult; let the sea and all its fullness be moved ✟ ¹²The fields and all the things that are in them will be glad. Then all the trees of the forest will rejoic ✟ ¹³before the face of the Lord: for he arrives. For he arrives to judge the earth. He will judge the whole world with fairness and the peoples with his truth ✟

Chapter 96

¹This is to David, when his land was restored to him. The Lord has reigned, let the earth exult. Let the many islands rejoice ✟ ²Clouds and mist are all around him. Justice and judgment are corrections from his throne ✟ ³A fire will precede him, and it will enflame his enemies all around ✟ ⁴His lightnings have enlightened the whole world. The earth saw, and it was shaken ✟ ⁵The mountains flowed like wax before the face of the Lord, before the face of the Lord of all the earth ✟ ⁶The heavens announced his justice, and all peoples saw his glory ✟ ⁷May all those who adore graven images be confounded, along with those who glory in their false images. All you his Angels: Adore him ✟ ⁸Zion heard, and was glad. And the daughters of Judah exulted because of your judgments, O Lord ✟ ⁹For you are the Most High Lord over all the earth. You are greatly exalted above all gods ✟ ¹⁰You who love the Lord: hate evil. The Lord watches over the souls of his holy ones. He will free them from the hand of the sinner ✟ ¹¹The light has risen for the just, and joy for the upright of heart ✟ ¹²Rejoice in the Lord, you just ones, and confess to the memory of his sanctuary ✟

Chapter 97

¹A Psalm of David himself. Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has performed wonders. His right hand has accomplished salvation for him, with his holy arm ✟ ²The Lord has made known his salvation. He has revealed his justice in the sight of the nations ✟ ³He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God ✟ ⁴Sing joyfully to God, all the earth. Sing and exult, and sing psalms ✟ ⁵Sing psalms to the Lord with stringed instruments, with strings and the voice of a psalmist ✟ ⁶with subtle wind instruments and the voice of woodwinds. Make a joyful noise before the Lord our king ✟ ⁷Let the sea be moved and all its fullness, the whole world and all who dwell in it ✟ ⁸The rivers will clap their hands, the mountains will exult together ✟ ⁹before the presence of the Lord. For he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the whole world with justice, and the peoples with fairness ✟

Chapter 98

¹A Psalm of David himself. The Lord has reigned: let the peoples be angry. He sits upon the cherubim: let the earth be moved ✟ ²The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all peoples ✟ ³May they confess to your great name, for it is terrible and holy ✟ ⁴And the honor of the king loves judgment. You have prepared guidance. You have accomplished judgment and justice in Jacob ✟ ⁵Exalt the Lord our God, and adore the footstool of his feet, for it is holy ✟ ⁶Moses and Aaron are among his priests, and Samuel is among those who call upon his name. They called upon the Lord, and he heeded them ✟ ⁷He spoke to them in the pillar of the cloud. They kept his testimonies and the precept that he gave them ✟ ⁸You heeded them, O Lord our God. You were a forgiving God to them, though taking vengeance on all their inventions ✟ ⁹Exalt the Lord our God, and adore on his holy mountain. For the Lord our God is holy ✟

Chapter 99

¹A Psalm of Confession ✟ ²Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation ✟ ³Know that the Lord himself is God. He made us, and we ourselves did not. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture ✟ ⁴Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns, and acknowledge him. Praise his name ✟ ⁵For the Lord is sweet, his mercy is in eternity, and his truth is from generation to generation ✟

Chapter 100

¹A Psalm of David himself. I will sing mercy and judgment to you, O Lord. I will sing psalms ✟ ²And I will have understanding within the immaculate way, when you will draw near to me. I wandered about in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house ✟ ³I will not display any unjust thing before my eyes. I have hated those carrying out betrayals ✟ ⁴The perverse heart did not adhere to me. And the malignant, who turned away before me, I would not recognize ✟ ⁵The one who secretly detracted his neighbor, this one I pursued. The one with an arrogant eye and an insatiable heart, with that one I would not eat ✟ ⁶My eyes looked toward the faithful of the earth, to sit with me. The one walking in the immaculate way, this one ministered to me ✟ ⁷He who has acted arrogantly will not dwell in the midst of my house. He who has spoken iniquity was not guided with the sight of my eyes ✟ ⁸In the morning, I executed all the sinners of the earth, so that I might scatter all the workers of iniquity from the city of the Lord ✟

Chapter 101

¹The prayer of the pauper, when he was anxious, and so he poured out his petition in the sight of the Lord ✟ ²O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my outcry reach you ✟ ³Do not turn your face away from me. In whatever day that I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In whatever day that I will call upon you, heed me quickly ✟ ⁴For my days have faded away like smoke, and my bones have dried out like firewood ✟ ⁵I have been cut down like hay, and my heart has withered, for I had forgotten to eat my bread ✟ ⁶Before the voice of my groaning, my bone has adhered to my flesh ✟ ⁷I have become like a pelican in solitude. I have become like a night raven in a house ✟ ⁸I have kept vigil, and I have become like a solitary sparrow on a roof ✟ ⁹All day long my enemies reproached me, and those who praised me swore oaths against me ✟ ¹⁰For I chewed on ashes like bread, and I mixed weeping into my drink ✟ ¹¹By the face of your anger and indignation, you lifted me up and threw me down ✟ ¹²My days have declined like a shadow, and I have dried out like hay ✟ ¹³But you, O Lord, endure for eternity, and your memorial is from generation to generation ✟ ¹⁴You will rise up and take pity on Zion, for it is time for its mercy, for the time has come ✟ ¹⁵For its stones have pleased your servants, and they will take pity on its land ✟ ¹⁶And the Gentiles will fear your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory ✟ ¹⁷For the Lord has built up Zion, and he will be seen in his glory ✟ ¹⁸He has noticed the prayer of the humble, and he has not despised their petition ✟ ¹⁹Let these things be written in another generation, and the people who will be created will praise the Lord ✟ ²⁰For he has gazed from his high sanctuary. From heaven, the Lord has beheld the earth ✟ ²¹So may he hear the groans of those in shackles, in order that he may release the sons of the slain ✟ ²²So may they announce the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem ✟ ²³while the people convene, along with kings, in order that they may serve the Lord ✟ ²⁴He responded to him in the way of his virtue: Declare to me the brevity of my days ✟ ²⁵Do not call me back in the middle of my days: your years are from generation to generation ✟ ²⁶In the beginning, O Lord, you founded the earth. And the heavens are the work of your hands ✟ ²⁷They will perish, but you remain. And all will grow old like a garment. And, like a blanket, you will change them, and they will be changed ✟ ²⁸Yet you are ever yourself, and your years will not decline ✟ ²⁹The sons of your servants will live, and their offspring will be guided aright in every age ✟

Chapter 102

¹To David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and bless his holy name, all that is within me ✟ ²Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his recompenses ✟ ³He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your infirmities ✟ ⁴He redeems your life from destruction. He crowns you with mercy and compassion ✟ ⁵He satisfies your desire with good things. Your youth will be renewed like that of the eagle ✟ ⁶The Lord accomplishes mercies, and his judgment is for all who patiently endure injuries ✟ ⁷He has made his ways known to Moses, his will to the sons of Israel ✟ ⁸The Lord is compassionate and merciful, patient and full of mercy ✟ ⁹He will not be angry forever, and he will not threaten for eternity ✟ ¹⁰He has not dealt with us according to our sins, and he has not repaid us according to our iniquities ✟ ¹¹For according to the height of the heavens above the earth, so has he reinforced his mercy toward those who fear him ✟ ¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our iniquities from us ✟ ¹³As a father is compassionate to his sons, so has the Lord been compassionate to those who fear him ✟ ¹⁴For he knows our form. He has called to mind that we are dust ✟ ¹⁵Man: his days are like hay. Like the flower of the field, so will he flourish ✟ ¹⁶For the spirit in him will pass away, and it will not remain, and he will know his place no longer ✟ ¹⁷But the mercy of the Lord is from eternity, and even unto eternity, upon those who fear him. And his justice is with the sons of the sons ✟ ¹⁸with those who serve his covenant and have been mindful of his commandments by doing them ✟ ¹⁹The Lord has prepared his throne in heaven, and his kingdom will rule over all ✟ ²⁰Bless the Lord, all you his Angels: powerful in virtue, doing his word, in order to heed the voice of his discourse ✟ ²¹Bless the Lord, all his hosts: his ministers who do his will ✟ ²²Bless the Lord, all his works: in every place of his dominion. Bless the Lord, O my soul ✟

Chapter 103

¹To David himself. Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are exceedingly great. You have clothed yourself with confession and beauty ✟ ²you are dressed with light like a garment, while you stretch out heaven like a tent ✟ ³You cover its heights with water. You set the clouds as your stairs. You walk upon the wings of the winds ✟ ⁴You make your Angels a breath of life, and your ministers a burning fire ✟ ⁵You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age ✟ ⁶The abyss, like a garment, is its clothing. The waters will remain standing above the mountains ✟ ⁷At your rebuke, they will flee. At the voice of your thunder, they will dread ✟ ⁸The mountains ascend, and the plains descend, to the place which you have founded for them ✟ ⁹You have set a limit that they will not cross. And they will not return to cover the earth ✟ ¹⁰You spring forth fountains in steep valleys. The waters will cross through the midst of the mountains ✟ ¹¹All the wild beasts of the field will drink. The wild donkeys will anticipate in their thirst ✟ ¹²Above them, the flying things of the air will dwell. From the midst of the rocks, they will utter voices ✟ ¹³You irrigate the mountains from your heights. The earth will be satiated from the fruit of your works ✟ ¹⁴producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth ✟ ¹⁵and wine, in order to cheer the heart of man. Then he may gladden his face with oil, and bread will confirm the heart of man ✟ ¹⁶The trees of the field will be saturated, along with the cedars of Lebanon, which he planted ✟ ¹⁷There, the sparrows will make their nests. The leader of them is the house of the heron ✟ ¹⁸The heights of the hills are for the deer; the rock is a refuge for the hedgehog ✟ ¹⁹He has made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its setting ✟ ²⁰You appointed darkness, and it has become night; all the beasts of the forest will cross through it ✟ ²¹The young lions will roar, while searching for and seizing their meal from God ✟ ²²The sun arose, and they were gathered together; and in their dens, they will lie down together ✟ ²³Man will go forth to his work and to his activities, until the evening ✟ ²⁴How great are your works, O Lord! You have made all things in wisdom. The earth has been filled with your possessions ✟ ²⁵This sea is great and its hands are spacious. There are creeping things without number: the small animals with the great ✟ ²⁶There, the ships will pass by this sea-serpent that you have formed to mock them ✟ ²⁷All these expect you to give them food in due time ✟ ²⁸What you give to them, they will gather. When you open your hand, they will all be filled with goodness ✟ ²⁹But if you turn your face away, they will be disturbed. You will take away their breath, and they will fail, and they will return to their dust ✟ ³⁰You will send forth your Spirit, and they will be created. And you will renew the face of the earth ✟ ³¹May the glory of the Lord be for all ages. The Lord will rejoice in his works ✟ ³²He considers the earth, and he makes it tremble. He touches the mountains, and they smoke ✟ ³³I will sing to the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God, as long as I am ✟ ³⁴May my speech be pleasing to him. Truly, I will take delight in the Lord ✟ ³⁵Let sinners fade away from the earth, along with the unjust, so that they may not be. Bless the Lord, O my soul ✟

Chapter 104

¹Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, and invoke his name. Announce his works among the nations ✟ ²Sing to him, and sing psalms to him. Describe all his wonders ✟ ³Be praised in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek the Lord rejoice ✟ ⁴Seek the Lord, and be confirmed. Seek his face always ✟ ⁵Remember his miracles, which he has done, his portents and the judgments of his mouth ✟ ⁶you offspring of Abraham his servant, you sons of Jacob his elect ✟ ⁷He is the Lord our God. His judgments are throughout the entire earth ✟ ⁸He has remembered his covenant for all ages: the word that he entrusted to a thousand generations ✟ ⁹which he assigned to Abraham, and his oath to Isaac ✟ ¹⁰And he stationed the same for Jacob with a precept, and for Israel with an eternal testament ✟ ¹¹saying: To you, I will give the land of Canaan, the allotment of your inheritance ✟ ¹²Though they may have been but a small number, very few and foreigners there ✟ ¹³and though they passed from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people ✟ ¹⁴he allowed no man to harm them, and he reproved kings on their behalf ✟ ¹⁵Do not be willing to touch my Christ, and do not be willing to malign my prophets ✟ ¹⁶And he called a famine upon the land, and he crushed every foundation of the bread ✟ ¹⁷He sent a man before them: Joseph, who had been sold as a slave ✟ ¹⁸They humbled his feet in shackles; the iron pierced his soul ✟ ¹⁹until his word arrived. The eloquence of the Lord inflamed him ✟ ²⁰The king sent and released him; he was the ruler of the people, and he dismissed him ✟ ²¹He established him as master of his house and ruler of all his possessions ✟ ²²so that he might instruct his princes as himself, and teach his elders prudence ✟ ²³And Israel entered into Egypt, and Jacob became a sojourner in the land of Ham ✟ ²⁴And he helped his people greatly, and he strengthened them over their enemies ✟ ²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people, and to deal deceitfully with his servants ✟ ²⁶He sent Moses, his servant, and Aaron, the one whom he chose ✟ ²⁷He placed with them signs of his word, and portents in the land of Ham ✟ ²⁸He sent darkness and made it conceal, and he did not afflict them with his speech ✟ ²⁹He turned their waters into blood, and he slaughtered their fish ✟ ³⁰Their land brought forth frogs, even in the inner chambers of their kings ✟ ³¹He spoke, and there came forth common flies and gnats, in every region ✟ ³²He gave them a shower of hail and a burning fire, in the same land ✟ ³³And he struck their vineyards and their fig trees, and he crushed the trees of their region ✟ ³⁴He spoke, and the locust came forth, and the caterpillar, of which there was no number ✟ ³⁵And it devoured all the grass in their land, and it consumed all the fruit of their land ✟ ³⁶And he struck all the first-born in their land, the first-fruits of all their labor ✟ ³⁷And he led them out with silver and gold, and there was not an infirm one among their tribes ✟ ³⁸Egypt was joyful at their departure, for the fear of them lay heavy upon them ✟ ³⁹He spread a cloud for their protection, and a fire, to give them light through the night ✟ ⁴⁰They petitioned, and the quail came; and he satisfied them with the bread of heaven ✟ ⁴¹He ruptured the rock and the waters flowed: rivers gushed in the dry land ✟ ⁴²For he had called to mind his holy word, which he kept near to his servant Abraham ✟ ⁴³And he led forth his people in exultation, and his elect in rejoicing ✟ ⁴⁴And he gave them the regions of the Gentiles, and they possessed the labors of the peoples ✟ ⁴⁵so that they might observe his justifications, and inquire about his law ✟

Chapter 105

¹Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is with every generation ✟ ²Who will declare the powers of the Lord? Who make a hearing for all his praises ✟ ³Blessed are those who keep judgment and who do justice at all times ✟ ⁴Remember us, O Lord, with good will for your people. Visit us with your salvation ✟ ⁵so that we may see the goodness of your elect, so that we may rejoice in the joy of your nation, so that you may be praised along with your inheritance ✟ ⁶We have sinned, as have our fathers. We have acted unjustly; we have wrought iniquity ✟ ⁷Our fathers did not understand your miracles in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of your mercies. And they provoked you, while going up to the sea, even the Red Sea ✟ ⁸And he saved them for the sake of his name, so that he might make known his power ✟ ⁹And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up. And he led them into the abyss, as if into a desert ✟ ¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of those who hated them. And he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy ✟ ¹¹And the water covered those who troubled them. Not one of them remained ✟ ¹²And they believed his words, and they sang his praises ✟ ¹³As soon as they had finished, they forgot his works, and they would not endure his counsel ✟ ¹⁴And they coveted their desire in the desert, and they tempted God in a waterless place ✟ ¹⁵And he granted to them their request, and he sent abundance into their souls ✟ ¹⁶And they provoked Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord ✟ ¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed Dathan, and it covered the congregation of Abiram ✟ ¹⁸And a fire broke out in their congregation. A flame burned up the sinners ✟ ¹⁹And they fashioned a calf at Horeb, and they adored a graven image ✟ ²⁰And they exchanged their glory for the likeness of a calf that eats hay ✟ ²¹They forgot God, who saved them, who did great things in Egypt ✟ ²²miracles in the land of Ham, terrible things at the Red Sea ✟ ²³And he said that he would destroy them, yet Moses, his elect, stood firm before him in the breach, in order to avert his wrath, lest he destroy them ✟ ²⁴And they held the desirable land to be nothing. They did not trust in his word ✟ ²⁵And they murmured in their tabernacles. They did not heed the voice of the Lord ✟ ²⁶And he lifted up his hand over them, in order to prostrate them in the desert ✟ ²⁷and in order to cast their offspring among the nations, and to scatter them among the regions ✟ ²⁸And they were initiated into Baal of Peor, and they ate the sacrifices of the dead ✟ ²⁹And they provoked him with their inventions, and ruination was multiplied in them ✟ ³⁰Then Phinehas stood up and placated him: and so the violent disturbance ceased ✟ ³¹And it was reputed to him unto justice, from generation to generation, even forever ✟ ³²And they provoked him at the Waters of Contradiction, and Moses was afflicted because of them ✟ ³³for they exasperated his spirit. And so he divided them with his lips ✟ ³⁴They did not destroy the nations, about which the Lord had spoken to them ✟ ³⁵And they were mixed among the Gentiles. And they learned their works ✟ ³⁶and they served their graven images, and it became a scandal to them ✟ ³⁷And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons ✟ ³⁸And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters, which they sacrificed to the graven images of Canaan. And the land was infected with bloodshed ✟ ³⁹and was contaminated with their works. And they fornicated according to their own inventions ✟ ⁴⁰And the Lord became furiously angry with his people, and he abhorred his inheritance ✟ ⁴¹And he delivered them into the hands of the nations. And those who hated them became rulers over them ✟ ⁴²And their enemies afflicted them, and they were humbled under their hands ✟ ⁴³Many times, he delivered them. Yet they provoked him with their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquities ✟ ⁴⁴And he saw that they were in tribulation, and he heard their prayer ✟ ⁴⁵And he was mindful of his covenant, and he repented according to the multitude of his mercies ✟ ⁴⁶And he provided for them with mercies, in the sight of all those who had seized them ✟ ⁴⁷Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may confess your holy name and glory in your praise ✟ ⁴⁸Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, from ages past, even to all ages. And let all the people say: Amen. Amen ✟

Chapter 106

¹Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is with every generation ✟ ²Let those who have been redeemed by the Lord say so: those whom he redeemed from the hand of the enemy and gathered from the regions ✟ ³from the rising of the sun and its setting, from the north and from the sea ✟ ⁴They wandered into solitude in a waterless place. They did not find the way of the city to be their dwelling place ✟ ⁵They were hungry, and they were thirsty. Their soul fainted within them ✟ ⁶And they cried out to the Lord in tribulation, and he rescued them in their necessity ✟ ⁷And he led them in the right way, so that they might go forth to a city of habitation ✟ ⁸Let his mercies confess to the Lord, and let his miracles confess to the sons of men ✟ ⁹For he has satisfied the empty soul, and he has satisfied the hungry soul with good things ✟ ¹⁰those sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, shackled by extreme poverty and by iron ✟ ¹¹For they exasperated the eloquence of God, and they irritated the deliberation of the Most High ✟ ¹²And their heart was brought low with hardships. They were weakened, and there was no one to help them ✟ ¹³And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he freed them from their distress ✟ ¹⁴And he led them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and he broke apart their chains ✟ ¹⁵Let his mercies confess to the Lord, and let his miracles confess to the sons of men ✟ ¹⁶For he has crushed the gates of brass and broken the iron bars ✟ ¹⁷He has taken them up, from the way of their iniquity. For they were brought low, because of their injustices ✟ ¹⁸Their soul abhorred all food, and they drew near even to the gates of death ✟ ¹⁹And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he delivered them in their necessity ✟ ²⁰He sent his word, and he healed them, and he rescued them from their utter destruction ✟ ²¹Let his mercies confess to the Lord, and let his miracles confess to the sons of men ✟ ²²And let them offer sacrifice with the sacrifice of praise, and let them announce his works in exultation ✟ ²³Those who descend to the sea in ships, making their livelihood in the great waters ✟ ²⁴these have seen the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep ✟ ²⁵He spoke: and a windstorm stood up, and its waves were exalted ✟ ²⁶They ascend even to the heavens, and they descend even to the abyss. Their soul will waste away in distress ✟ ²⁷They were troubled, and they moved like a drunkard, and all their wisdom was consumed ✟ ²⁸And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he led them out of their distress ✟ ²⁹And he replaced the storm with a breeze, and its waves were stilled ✟ ³⁰And they were joyful that it was stilled, and he led them into the haven that they desired ✟ ³¹Let his mercies confess to the Lord, and let his miracles confess to the sons of men ✟ ³²And let them exalt him in the Church of the people, and praise him in the chair of the elders ✟ ³³He has placed rivers in the desert and sources of water in dry places ✟ ³⁴a fruit-bearing land in the midst of brine, before the malice of those who dwell in it ✟ ³⁵He has placed a desert in the midst of pools of waters, and a land without water in the midst of sources of water ✟ ³⁶And he has gathered the hungry together there, and they constructed a city of habitation ✟ ³⁷And they sowed fields and planted vineyards, and they produced the fruit of nativity ✟ ³⁸And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly. And he did not diminish their beasts of burden ✟ ³⁹And they became few, and they were afflicted by the tribulation of evils and of sorrow ✟ ⁴⁰Contempt was poured over their leaders, and he caused them to wander in an impassable place, and not on the way ✟ ⁴¹And he helped the poor out of destitution, and he stationed families like sheep ✟ ⁴²The upright will see, and they will rejoice. And every iniquity will block its mouth ✟ ⁴³Who is wise and will keep these things? And who will understand the mercies of the Lord ✟

Chapter 107

¹A Canticle Psalm, of David himself ✟ ²My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing songs, and I will sing psalms in my glory ✟ ³Rise up, my glory. Rise up, Psalter and harp. I will arise in early morning ✟ ⁴I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples. And I will sing psalms to you among the nations ✟ ⁵For your mercy is great, beyond the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds ✟ ⁶Be exalted, O God, beyond the heavens, and your glory, beyond all the earth ✟ ⁷so that your beloved may be freed. Save with your right hand, and heed me ✟ ⁸God has spoken in his holiness. I will exult, and I will divide Shechem, and I will divide by measure the steep valley of tabernacles ✟ ⁹Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the supporter of my head. Judah is my king ✟ ¹⁰Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. I will extend my shoe in Idumea; the foreigners have become my friends ✟ ¹¹Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me, even into Idumea ✟ ¹²Will not you, O God, who had rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies ✟ ¹³Grant us help from tribulation, for vain is the help of man ✟ ¹⁴In God, we will act virtuously, and he will bring our enemies to nothing ✟

Chapter 108

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David ✟ ²O God, do not be silent toward my praise, for the mouth of the sinner and the mouth of the deceitful one have been opened against me ✟ ³They have spoken against me with deceitful tongues, and they have surrounded me with hateful words, and they fought against me over nothing ✟ ⁴Instead of choosing to act on my behalf, they detracted me. But I gave myself to prayer ✟ ⁵And they set evil against me, instead of good, and hatred, in return for my love ✟ ⁶Establish the sinner over him, and let the devil stand at his right hand ✟ ⁷When he is judged, may he go forth in condemnation, and may his prayer be counted as sin ✟ ⁸May his days be few, and let another take his episcopate ✟ ⁹May his sons be orphans, and his wife a widow ✟ ¹⁰May his sons be carried by those who walk unsteadily, and may they go begging. And may they be cast out of their dwelling places ✟ ¹¹May the money lenders scrutinize all his belongings, and let foreigners plunder his labors ✟ ¹²May there be no one to assist him, nor anyone to be compassionate to his orphaned children ✟ ¹³May his posterity be in utter ruin. In one generation, may his name be wiped away ✟ ¹⁴May the iniquity of his fathers return in memory before the sight of the Lord, and do not let the sin of his mother be wiped away ✟ ¹⁵May these be opposite the Lord always, but let their memory perish from the earth ✟ ¹⁶For certain things are not remembered about them, in order to be merciful ✟ ¹⁷And so the destitute man was pursued, with the beggar and the remorseful in heart, so as to be put to death ✟ ¹⁸And he loved a curse, and it came to him. And he was unwilling to have a blessing, and it went far from him. And he clothed himself with curses like a garment, and it entered his inner self like water, and it entered his bones like oil ✟ ¹⁹May it be to him like a garment that covers him, and like a belt that always cinches him ✟ ²⁰This is the work of those who detract me with the Lord and who speak evils against my soul ✟ ²¹But as for you, Lord, O Lord: act on my behalf for your name’s sake. For your mercy is sweet ✟ ²²Free me, for I am destitute and poor, and my heart has been disquieted within me ✟ ²³I have been taken away like a shadow when it declines, and I have been shaken off like locusts ✟ ²⁴My knees have been weakened by fasting, and my flesh has been replaced by oil ✟ ²⁵And I have become a disgrace to them. They saw me, and they shook their heads ✟ ²⁶Help me, O Lord, my God. Save me according to your mercy ✟ ²⁷And let them know that this is your hand, and that you, O Lord, have done this ✟ ²⁸They will curse, and you will bless. May those who rise up against me be confounded. But your servant will rejoice ✟ ²⁹May those who detract me be clothed with shame, and may they be covered with their confusion, as if with a double cloak ✟ ³⁰I will confess exceedingly to the Lord with my mouth. And I will praise him in the midst of the multitude ✟ ³¹For he stands at the right hand of the poor, in order to save my soul from persecutors ✟

Chapter 109

¹A Psalm of David. The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. ✟ ²The Lord will send forth the scepter of your virtue from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies ✟ ³It is with you from the beginning, in the day of your virtue, in the splendor of the saints. From conception, before the light-bearer, I begot you ✟ ⁴The Lord has sworn, and he will not repent: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek. ✟ ⁵The Lord is at your right hand. He has broken kings in the day of his wrath ✟ ⁶He will judge between the nations; he will fill up ruination. He will shatter heads in the land of the many ✟ ⁷He will drink from the torrent on the way. Because of this, he will exalt the head ✟

Chapter 110

¹Alleluia. I will confess to you, O Lord, with my whole heart, in the council of the just and in the congregation ✟ ²Great are the works of the Lord, exquisite in all his intentions ✟ ³Confession and magnificence are his work. And his justice remains from age to age ✟ ⁴He has created a memorial to his wonders; he is a merciful and compassionate Lord ✟ ⁵He has given food to those who fear him. He will be mindful of his covenant in every age ✟ ⁶He will announce the virtue of his works to his people ✟ ⁷so that he may give them the inheritance of the nations. The works of his hands are truth and judgment ✟ ⁸All his commands are faithful: confirmed from age to age, created in truth and fairness ✟ ⁹He has sent redemption upon his people. He has commanded his covenant for all eternity. Holy and terrible is his name ✟ ¹⁰The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding is for all who do it. His praise remains from age to age ✟

Chapter 111

¹Alleluia. Of the return of Haggai and Zachariah. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord. He will prefer his commandments exceedingly ✟ ²His offspring will be powerful on the earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed ✟ ³Glory and wealth will be in his house, and his justice shall remain from age to age ✟ ⁴For the upright, a light has risen up in the darkness. He is merciful and compassionate and just ✟ ⁵Pleasing is the man who shows mercy and lends. He will order his words with judgment ✟ ⁶For he will not be disturbed in eternity ✟ ⁷The just one will be an everlasting memorial. He will not fear a report of disasters. His heart is prepared to hope in the Lord ✟ ⁸His heart has been confirmed. He will not be disturbed, until he looks down upon his enemies ✟ ⁹He has distributed, he has given to the poor. His justice shall remain from age to age. His horn shall be exalted in glory ✟ ¹⁰The sinner will see and become angry. He will gnash his teeth and waste away. The desire of sinners will perish ✟

Chapter 112

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord, children. Praise the name of the Lord ✟ ²Blessed is the name of the Lord, from this time forward and even forever ✟ ³From the rising of the sun, even to its setting, praiseworthy is the name of the Lord ✟ ⁴The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory is high above the heavens ✟ ⁵Who is like the Lord, our God, who dwells on high ✟ ⁶and who gazes upon the humble things in heaven and on earth ✟ ⁷He lifts up the needy from the ground, and he urges the poor away from filth ✟ ⁸so that he may place him with the leaders, with the leaders of his people ✟ ⁹He causes a barren woman to live in a house, as the joyful mother of sons ✟

Chapter 113

¹Alleluia. At the departure of Israel from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a barbarous people ✟ ²Judea was made his sanctuary; Israel was made his power ✟ ³The sea looked, and it fled. The Jordan was turned back again ✟ ⁴The mountains exulted like rams, and the hills like lambs among the sheep ✟ ⁵What happened to you, O sea, so that you fled, and to you, O Jordan, so that you were turned back again ✟ ⁶What happened to you, O mountains, so that you exulted like rams, and to you, O hills, so that you exulted like lambs among the sheep ✟ ⁷Before the face of the Lord, the earth was moved, before the face of the God of Jacob ✟ ⁸He converted the rock into pools of water, and the cliff into fountains of waters ✟ ⁹Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory ✟ ¹⁰Give glory to your mercy and your truth, lest the Gentiles should say, “Where is their God? ✟ ¹¹But our God is in heaven. All things whatsoever that he has willed, he has done ✟ ¹²The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men ✟ ¹³They have mouths, and do not speak; they have eyes, and do not see ✟ ¹⁴They have ears, and do not hear; they have noses, and do not smell ✟ ¹⁵They have hands, and do not feel; they have feet, and do not walk. Neither will they cry out with their throat ✟ ¹⁶Let those who make them become like them, along with all who trust in them ✟ ¹⁷The house of Israel has hoped in the Lord. He is their helper and their protector ✟ ¹⁸The house of Aaron has hoped in the Lord. He is their helper and their protector ✟ ¹⁹Those who fear the Lord have hoped in the Lord. He is their helper and their protector ✟ ²⁰The Lord has been mindful of us, and he has blessed us. He has blessed the house of Israel. He has blessed the house of Aaron ✟ ²¹He has blessed all who fear the Lord, the small with the great ✟ ²²May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your sons ✟ ²³Blessed are you by the Lord, who made heaven and earth ✟ ²⁴The heaven of heaven is for the Lord, but the earth he has given to the sons of men ✟ ²⁵The dead will not praise you, Lord, and neither will all those who descend into Hell ✟ ²⁶But we who live will bless the Lord, from this time forward, and even forever ✟

Chapter 114

¹Alleluia. I have loved: therefore, the Lord will heed the voice of my prayer ✟ ²For he has inclined his ear to me. And in my days, I will call upon him ✟ ³The sorrows of death have surrounded me, and the perils of Hell have found me. I have found tribulation and sorrow ✟ ⁴And so, I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, free my soul ✟ ⁵Merciful is the Lord, and just. And our God is compassionate ✟ ⁶The Lord is the keeper of little ones. I was humbled, and he freed me ✟ ⁷Turn again, my soul, to your rest. For the Lord has done good to you ✟ ⁸For he has rescued my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from slipping ✟ ⁹I will please the Lord in the land of the living ✟

Chapter 115

¹Alleluia. I had confidence, because of what I was saying, but then I was greatly humbled ✟ ²I said in my excess, “Every man is a liar. ✟ ³What shall I repay to the Lord, for all the things that he has repaid to me ✟ ⁴I will take up the cup of salvation, and I will call upon the name of the Lord ✟ ⁵I will repay my vows to the Lord, in the sight of all his people ✟ ⁶Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his holy ones ✟ ⁷O Lord, because I am your servant, your servant and the son of your handmaid, you have broken my bonds ✟ ⁸I will sacrifice to you the sacrifice of praise, and I will invoke the name of the Lord ✟ ⁹I will repay my vows to the Lord in the sight of all his people ✟ ¹⁰in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem ✟

Chapter 116

¹Alleluia. All nations, praise the Lord. All peoples, praise him ✟ ²For his mercy has been confirmed over us. And the truth of the Lord remains for all eternity ✟

Chapter 117

¹Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is forever ✟ ²Let Israel now say: For he is good, for his mercy is forever ✟ ³Let the house of Aaron now say: For his mercy is forever ✟ ⁴Let those who fear the Lord now say: For his mercy is forever ✟ ⁵In my tribulation, I called upon the Lord. And the Lord heeded me with generosity ✟ ⁶The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do to me ✟ ⁷The Lord is my helper. And I will look down upon my enemies ✟ ⁸It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in man ✟ ⁹It is good to hope in the Lord, rather than to hope in leaders ✟ ¹⁰All the nations have surrounded me. And, in the name of the Lord, I have been avenged over them ✟ ¹¹Surrounding me, they closed in on me. And, in the name of the Lord, I have been avenged over them ✟ ¹²They surrounded me like a swarm, and they burned like fire among the thorns. And, in the name of the Lord, I have been avenged over them ✟ ¹³Having been pushed, I was overturned so as to fall. But the Lord took me up ✟ ¹⁴The Lord is my strength and my praise. And he has become my salvation ✟ ¹⁵A voice of exultation and salvation is in the tabernacles of the just ✟ ¹⁶The right hand of the Lord has wrought virtue. The right hand of the Lord has exalted me. The right hand of the Lord has wrought virtue ✟ ¹⁷I will not die, but I will live. And I will declare the works of the Lord ✟ ¹⁸When chastising, the Lord chastised me. But he has not delivered me over to death ✟ ¹⁹Open the gates of justice to me. I will enter them, and I will confess to the Lord ✟ ²⁰This is the gate of the Lord. The just will enter by it ✟ ²¹I will confess to you because you have heard me. And you have become my salvation ✟ ²²The stone which the builders have rejected, this has become the head of the corner ✟ ²³By the Lord has this been done, and it is a wonder before our eyes ✟ ²⁴This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us exult and rejoice in it ✟ ²⁵O Lord, grant salvation to me. O Lord, grant good prosperity ✟ ²⁶Blessed is he who arrives in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you from the house of the Lord ✟ ²⁷The Lord is God, and he has enlightened us. Establish a solemn day amid a dense crowd, even to the horn of the altar ✟ ²⁸You are my God, and I will confess to you. You are my God, and I will exalt you. I will confess to you, for you have heeded me. And you have become my salvation ✟ ²⁹Confess to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy is forever ✟

Chapter 118

¹Alleluia. ALEPH. Blessed are the immaculate in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord ✟ ²Blessed are those who examine his testimonies. They seek him with their whole heart ✟ ³For those who work iniquity have not walked in his ways ✟ ⁴You have ordered your commandments to be kept most diligently ✟ ⁵I wish that my ways may be directed so as to keep your justifications ✟ ⁶Then I will not be confounded, when I will look into all your commandments ✟ ⁷I will confess to you with honesty of heart. In this way, I have learned the judgments of your justice ✟ ⁸I will keep your justifications. Do not utterly abandon me ✟ ⁹BETH. By what does an adolescent correct his way? By keeping to your words ✟ ¹⁰With my whole heart, I have sought you. Do not let me be driven away from your commandments ✟ ¹¹I have hidden your eloquence in my heart, so that I may not sin against you ✟ ¹²Blessed are you, O Lord. Teach me your justifications ✟ ¹³With my lips, I have pronounced all the judgments of your mouth ✟ ¹⁴I have been delighted in the way of your testimonies, as if in all riches ✟ ¹⁵I will be trained in your commandments, and I will consider your ways ✟ ¹⁶I will meditate on your justifications. I will not forget your words ✟ ¹⁷GHIMEL. Repay your servant, revive me; and I will keep your words ✟ ¹⁸Reveal to my eyes, and I will consider the wonders of your law ✟ ¹⁹I am a sojourner on the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me ✟ ²⁰My soul has longed to desire your justifications at all times ✟ ²¹You have rebuked the arrogant. Those who decline from your commandments are accursed ✟ ²²Take me away from disgrace and contempt, for I have sought your testimonies ✟ ²³For even the leaders sat and spoke against me. But your servant has been trained in your justifications ✟ ²⁴For your testimonies are also my meditation, and your justifications are my counsel ✟ ²⁵DALETH. My soul has adhered to the pavement. Revive me according to your word ✟ ²⁶I have declared my ways, and you have heeded me. Teach me your justifications ✟ ²⁷Instruct me in the way of your justifications, and I will be trained in your wonders ✟ ²⁸My soul has slumbered because of weariness. Confirm me in your words ✟ ²⁹Remove the way of iniquity from me, and have mercy on me by your law ✟ ³⁰I have chosen the way of truth. I have not forgotten your judgments ✟ ³¹I have adhered to your testimonies, O Lord. Do not be willing to confound me ✟ ³²I have run by way of your commandments, when you enlarged my heart ✟ ³³HE. O Lord, place the law before me, the way of your justifications, and I will always inquire into it ✟ ³⁴Give me understanding, and I will examine your law. And I will keep it with my whole heart ✟ ³⁵Lead me according to the path of your commandments, for I have desired this ✟ ³⁶Bend my heart with your testimonies, and not with avarice ✟ ³⁷Turn my eyes away, lest they see what is vain. Revive me in your way ✟ ³⁸Station your eloquence with your servant, along with your fear ✟ ³⁹Cut off my disgrace, which I have taken up, for your judgments are delightful ✟ ⁴⁰Behold, I have longed for your commandments. Revive me in your fairness ✟ ⁴¹VAU. And let your mercy overwhelm me, O Lord: your salvation according to your eloquence ✟ ⁴²And I will respond to those who reproach me by word, for I have hoped in your words ✟ ⁴³And do not utterly take away the word of truth from my mouth. For in your judgments, I have hoped beyond hope ✟ ⁴⁴And I will always keep your law, in this age and forever and ever ✟ ⁴⁵And I have wandered far and wide, because I was seeking your commandments ✟ ⁴⁶And I spoke of your testimonies in the sight of kings, and I was not confounded ✟ ⁴⁷And I meditated on your commandments, which I loved ✟ ⁴⁸And I lifted up my hands to your commandments, which I loved. And I was trained in your justifications ✟ ⁴⁹ZAIN. Be mindful of your word to your servant, by which you have given me hope ✟ ⁵⁰This has consoled me in my humiliation, for your word has revived me ✟ ⁵¹The arrogant act altogether iniquitously, but I have not turned aside from your law ✟ ⁵²I called to mind your judgments of antiquity, O Lord, and I was consoled ✟ ⁵³Faintness has taken hold of me, because of the sinners, those who abandon your law ✟ ⁵⁴Your justifications were the subject of my worthy singing, in the place of my pilgrimage ✟ ⁵⁵During the night, I remembered your name, O Lord, and I kept your law ✟ ⁵⁶This has happened to me because I sought your justifications ✟ ⁵⁷HETH. O Lord, my portion, I have said that I would keep your law ✟ ⁵⁸I have beseeched your face with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word ✟ ⁵⁹I have considered my ways, and I have turned my feet toward your testimonies ✟ ⁶⁰I have been prepared, and I have not been disturbed, so that I may keep your commandments ✟ ⁶¹The ropes of the impious have encircled me, and I have not forgotten your law ✟ ⁶²I arose in the middle of the night to confess to you, over the judgments of your justification ✟ ⁶³I am a partaker with all those who fear you and who keep your commandments ✟ ⁶⁴The earth, O Lord, is full of your mercy. Teach me your justifications ✟ ⁶⁵TETH. You have done well with your servant, O Lord, according to your word ✟ ⁶⁶Teach me goodness and discipline and knowledge, for I have trusted your commandments ✟ ⁶⁷Before I was humbled, I committed offenses; because of this, I have kept to your word ✟ ⁶⁸You are good, so in your goodness teach me your justifications ✟ ⁶⁹The iniquity of the arrogant has been multiplied over me. Yet I will examine your commandments with all my heart ✟ ⁷⁰Their heart has been curdled like milk. Truly, I have meditated on your law ✟ ⁷¹It is good for me that you humbled me, so that I may learn your justifications ✟ ⁷²The law of your mouth is good for me, beyond thousands of gold and silver pieces ✟ ⁷³IOD. Your hands have created me and formed me. Give me understanding, and I will learn your commandments ✟ ⁷⁴Those who fear you will see me, and they will rejoice. For I have greatly hoped in your words ✟ ⁷⁵I know, O Lord, that your judgments are fairness. And in your truth, you have humbled me ✟ ⁷⁶Let it be your mercy that consoles me, according to your eloquence to your servant ✟ ⁷⁷Let your compassion draw near to me, and I will live. For your law is my meditation ✟ ⁷⁸Let the arrogant be confounded, for unjustly they have done iniquity to me. But I will be trained in your commandments ✟ ⁷⁹Let those who fear you turn to me, along with those who know your testimonies ✟ ⁸⁰Let my heart be immaculate in your justifications, so that I may not be confounded ✟ ⁸¹CAPH. My soul has faltered in your salvation, yet in your word, I have hoped beyond hope ✟ ⁸²My eyes have failed in your eloquence, saying, “When will you console me? ✟ ⁸³For I have become like a wineskin in the frost. I have not forgotten your justifications ✟ ⁸⁴How many are the days of your servant? When will you bring judgment against those who persecute me ✟ ⁸⁵The iniquitous have spoken fables to me. But these are unlike your law ✟ ⁸⁶All your commandments are truth. They have been persecuting me unjustly: assist me ✟ ⁸⁷They have nearly consumed me on earth. Yet I have not forsaken your commandments ✟ ⁸⁸Revive me according to your mercy. And I will keep the testimonies of your mouth ✟ ⁸⁹LAMED. O Lord, your word remains firm in heaven, for all eternity ✟ ⁹⁰Your truth is from generation to generation. You have founded the earth, and it remains firm ✟ ⁹¹By your ordinance, the day perseveres. For all things are in service to you ✟ ⁹²If your law had not been my meditation, then perhaps I would have perished in my humiliation ✟ ⁹³I will not forget your justifications, for eternity. For by them, you have enlivened me ✟ ⁹⁴I am yours. Accomplish my salvation. For I have inquired into your justifications ✟ ⁹⁵The sinners have waited for me, in order to destroy me. I have understood your testimonies ✟ ⁹⁶I have seen the end of the consummation of all things. Your commandment is exceedingly broad ✟ ⁹⁷MEM. How have I loved your law, O Lord? It is my meditation all day long ✟ ⁹⁸By your commandment, you have made me able to see far, beyond my enemies. For it is with me for eternity ✟ ⁹⁹I have understood beyond all my teachers. For your testimonies are my meditation ✟ ¹⁰⁰I have understood beyond the elders. For I have searched your commandments ✟ ¹⁰¹I have prohibited my feet from every evil way, so that I may keep your words ✟ ¹⁰²I have not declined from your judgments, because you have stationed a law for me ✟ ¹⁰³How sweet is your eloquence to my palate, more so than honey to my mouth ✟ ¹⁰⁴I obtained understanding by your commandments. Because of this, I have hated every way of iniquity ✟ ¹⁰⁵NUN. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths ✟ ¹⁰⁶I have sworn it, and so I am determined to keep the judgments of your justice ✟ ¹⁰⁷I have been altogether humbled, Lord. Revive me according to your word ✟ ¹⁰⁸Make the willing offerings of my mouth well pleasing, Lord, and teach me your judgments ✟ ¹⁰⁹My soul is always in my hands, and I have not forgotten your law ✟ ¹¹⁰Sinners have set a snare for me, yet I have not strayed from your commandments ✟ ¹¹¹I have acquired your testimonies as an inheritance unto eternity, because they are the exultation of my heart ✟ ¹¹²I have inclined my heart to do your justifications for eternity, as a recompense ✟ ¹¹³SAMECH. I have hated the iniquitous, and I have loved your law ✟ ¹¹⁴You are my helper and my supporter. And in your word, I have greatly hoped ✟ ¹¹⁵Turn away from me, you malignant ones. And I will examine the commandments of my God ✟ ¹¹⁶Uphold me according to your eloquence, and I will live. And let me not be confounded in my expectation ✟ ¹¹⁷Help me, and I will be saved. And I will meditate always on your justifications ✟ ¹¹⁸You have despised all those who fell away from your judgments. For their intention is unjust ✟ ¹¹⁹I have considered all the sinners of the earth to be transgressors. Therefore, I have loved your testimonies ✟ ¹²⁰Pierce my flesh with your fear, for I am afraid of your judgments ✟ ¹²¹AIN. I have accomplished judgment and justice. Do not hand me over to those who slander me ✟ ¹²²Uphold your servant in what is good. And do not allow the arrogant to slander me ✟ ¹²³My eyes have failed in your salvation and in the eloquence of your justice ✟ ¹²⁴Deal with your servant according to your mercy, and teach me your justifications ✟ ¹²⁵I am your servant. Give me understanding, so that I may know your testimonies ✟ ¹²⁶It is time to act, O Lord. They have dissipated your law ✟ ¹²⁷Therefore, I have loved your commandments beyond gold and topaz ✟ ¹²⁸Because of this, I was directed toward all your commandments. I held hatred for every iniquitous way ✟ ¹²⁹PHE. Your testimonies are wonderful. Therefore, my soul has been examined by them ✟ ¹³⁰The declaration of your words illuminates, and it gives understanding to little ones ✟ ¹³¹I opened my mouth and drew breath, for I desired your commandments ✟ ¹³²Gaze upon me and be merciful to me, according to the judgment of those who love your name ✟ ¹³³Direct my steps according to your eloquence, and let no injustice rule over me ✟ ¹³⁴Redeem me from the slanders of men, so that I may keep your commandments ✟ ¹³⁵Make your face shine upon your servant, and teach me your justifications ✟ ¹³⁶My eyes have gushed like springs of water, because they have not kept your law ✟ ¹³⁷SADE. You are just, O Lord, and your judgment is right ✟ ¹³⁸You have commanded justice: your testimonies and your truth even more so ✟ ¹³⁹My zeal has caused me to pine away, because my enemies have forgotten your words ✟ ¹⁴⁰Your eloquence has been greatly enflamed, and your servant has loved it ✟ ¹⁴¹I am young and treated with contempt. But I have not forgotten your justifications ✟ ¹⁴²Your justice is justice for all eternity, and your law is truth ✟ ¹⁴³Tribulation and anguish have found me. Your commandments are my meditation ✟ ¹⁴⁴Your testimonies are fairness unto eternity. Give me understanding, and I will live ✟ ¹⁴⁵COPH. I cried out with my whole heart. Heed me, O Lord. I will ask for your justifications ✟ ¹⁴⁶I cried out to you. Save me, so that I may keep your commandments ✟ ¹⁴⁷I arrived first in maturity, and so I cried out. For in your words, I have hoped beyond hope ✟ ¹⁴⁸My eyes preceded the dawn for you, so that I might meditate on your eloquence ✟ ¹⁴⁹Hear my voice according to your mercy, O Lord. And revive me according to your judgment ✟ ¹⁵⁰Those who persecute me have drawn near to iniquity, but they have been brought far from your law ✟ ¹⁵¹You are near, O Lord, and all your ways are truth ✟ ¹⁵²I have known from the beginning about your testimonies. For you founded them in eternity ✟ ¹⁵³RES. See my humiliation and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your law ✟ ¹⁵⁴Judge my judgment and redeem me. Revive me because of your eloquence ✟ ¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from sinners, because they have not inquired about your justifications ✟ ¹⁵⁶Many are your mercies, O Lord. Enliven me according to your judgment ✟ ¹⁵⁷Many are those who persecute me and who trouble me. I have not turned away from your testimonies ✟ ¹⁵⁸I saw the prevaricators, and I pine away. For they have not kept your word ✟ ¹⁵⁹O Lord, see how I have loved your commandments. Revive me in your mercy ✟ ¹⁶⁰The beginning of your words is truth. All the judgments of your justice are for eternity ✟ ¹⁶¹SIN. The leaders have persecuted me without cause. And my heart has been awed by your words ✟ ¹⁶²I will rejoice over your eloquence, like one who has found many spoils ✟ ¹⁶³I have held hatred for iniquity, and I have abhorred it. Yet I have loved your law ✟ ¹⁶⁴Seven times a day, I uttered praise to you about the judgments of your justice ✟ ¹⁶⁵Those who love your law have great peace, and there is no scandal for them ✟ ¹⁶⁶I have waited for your salvation, O Lord. And I have loved your commandments ✟ ¹⁶⁷My soul has kept to your testimonies and has loved them exceedingly ✟ ¹⁶⁸I have served your commandments and your testimonies. For all my ways are before your sight ✟ ¹⁶⁹TAU. O Lord, let my supplication draw near in your sight. Grant understanding to me according to your eloquence ✟ ¹⁷⁰Let my petition enter before you. Rescue me according to your word ✟ ¹⁷¹A hymn will burst forth from my lips, when you will teach me your justifications ✟ ¹⁷²My tongue will pronounce your eloquence. For all your commandments are fairness ✟ ¹⁷³Let it be your hand that saves me. For I have chosen your commandments ✟ ¹⁷⁴O Lord, I have longed for your salvation, and your law is my meditation ✟ ¹⁷⁵My soul will live and will praise you, and your judgments will assist me ✟ ¹⁷⁶I have gone astray like a sheep that is lost. Seek out your servant, for I have not forgotten your commandments ✟

Chapter 119

¹A Canticle in steps. When troubled, I cried out to the Lord, and he heard me ✟ ²O Lord, free my soul from lips of iniquity and from the deceitful tongue ✟ ³What will be given to you, or what will be added to you, for a deceitful tongue? ✟ ⁴the sharp arrows of the powerful, along with the burning coals of desolation ✟ ⁵Woe to me, for my sojourning has been prolonged. I have lived with the inhabitants of Kedar ✟ ⁶My soul has long been a sojourner ✟ ⁷With those who hated peace, I was peaceful. When I spoke to them, they fought against me without cause ✟

Chapter 120

¹A Canticle in steps. I have lifted up my eyes to the mountains; from thence help will come to me ✟ ²My help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth ✟ ³May he not allow your foot to be moved, and may he not slumber, who guards you ✟ ⁴Behold, he who guards Israel will neither sleep, nor slumber ✟ ⁵The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your protection, above your right hand ✟ ⁶The sun will not burn you by day, nor the moon by night ✟ ⁷The Lord guards you from all evil. May the Lord guard your soul ✟ ⁸May the Lord guard your entrance and your exit, from this time forward and even forever ✟

Chapter 121

¹A Canticle in steps. I rejoiced in the things that were said to me: “We shall go into the house of the Lord. ✟ ²Our feet were standing in your courts, O Jerusalem ✟ ³Jerusalem has been built as a city, whose participation is unto itself ✟ ⁴For to that place, the tribes ascended, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to confess to the name of the Lord ✟ ⁵For in that place, seats have sat down in judgment, seats above the house of David ✟ ⁶Petition for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem, and for abundance for those who love you ✟ ⁷Let peace be in your virtue, and abundance in your towers ✟ ⁸For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors, I spoke peace about you ✟ ⁹For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I sought good things for you ✟

Chapter 122

¹A Canticle in steps. I have lifted up my eyes to you, who dwells in the heavens ✟ ²Behold, as the eyes of the servants are on the hands of their masters, as the eyes of the handmaid are on the hands of her mistress, so our eyes are upon the Lord our God, until he may be merciful to us ✟ ³Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us. For we have been filled with utter disdain ✟ ⁴For our soul has been greatly filled. We are the disgrace of those who have abundance and the disdain of the arrogant ✟

Chapter 123

¹A Canticle in steps. If the Lord had not been with us, let Israel now say it ✟ ²if the Lord had not been with us, when men rose up against us ✟ ³perhaps they would have swallowed us alive. When their fury was enraged against us ✟ ⁴perhaps the waters would have engulfed us ✟ ⁵Our soul has passed through a torrent. Perhaps, our soul had even passed through intolerable water ✟ ⁶Blessed is the Lord, who has not given us into the harm of their teeth ✟ ⁷Our soul has been snatched away like a sparrow from the snare of the hunters. The snare has been broken, and we have been freed ✟ ⁸Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth ✟

Chapter 124

¹A Canticle in steps. Those who trust in the Lord will be like the mountain of Zion. He will not be disturbed for eternity, who dwell ✟ ²in Jerusalem. Mountains surround it. And the Lord surrounds his people, from this time forward and even forever ✟ ³For the Lord will not allow the rod of sinners to remain over the lot of the just, so that the just may not extend their hands toward iniquity ✟ ⁴Do good, O Lord, to the good and to the upright of heart ✟ ⁵But those who turn away into obligation, the Lord will lead away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel ✟

Chapter 125

¹A Canticle in steps. When the Lord turned back the captivity of Zion, we became like those who are consoled ✟ ²Then our mouth was filled with gladness and our tongue with exultation. Then they will say among the nations: “The Lord has done great things for them. ✟ ³The Lord has done great things for us. We have become joyful ✟ ⁴Convert our captivity, O Lord, like a torrent in the south ✟ ⁵Those who sow in tears shall reap in exultation ✟ ⁶When departing, they went forth and wept, sowing their seeds ✟ ⁷But when returning, they will arrive with exultation, carrying their sheaves ✟

Chapter 126

¹A Canticle in steps: of Solomon. Unless the Lord has built the house, those who build it have labored in vain. Unless the Lord has guarded the city, he who guards it watches in vain ✟ ²It is in vain that you rise before daylight, that you rise up after you have sat down, you who chew the bread of sorrow. Whereas, to his beloved, he will give sleep ✟ ³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb ✟ ⁴Like arrows in the hand of the powerful, so are the sons of those who have been cast out ✟ ⁵Blessed is the man who has filled his desire from these things. He will not be confounded when he speaks to his enemies at the gate ✟

Chapter 127

¹A Canticle in steps. Blessed are all those who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways ✟ ²For you will eat by the labors of your hands. Blessed are you, and it will be well with you ✟ ³Your wife is like an abundant vine on the sides of your house. Your sons are like young olive trees surrounding your table ✟ ⁴Behold, so will the man be blessed who fears the Lord ✟ ⁵May the Lord bless you from Zion, and may you see the good things of Jerusalem, all the days of your life ✟ ⁶And may you see the sons of your sons. Peace be upon Israel ✟

Chapter 128

¹A Canticle in steps. They have often fought against me from my youth, let Israel now say ✟ ²they have often fought against me from my youth, yet they could not prevail over me ✟ ³The sinners have made fabrications behind my back. They have prolonged their iniquity ✟ ⁴The just Lord will cut the necks of sinners ✟ ⁵Let all those who hate Zion be confounded and turned backwards ✟ ⁶Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can be pulled up ✟ ⁷with it, he who reaps does not fill his hand and he who gathers sheaves does not fill his bosom ✟ ⁸And those who were passing by have not said to them: “The blessing of the Lord be upon you. We have blessed you in the name of the Lord. ✟

Chapter 129

¹A Canticle in steps. From the depths, I have cried out to you, O Lord ✟ ²O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication ✟ ³If you, O Lord, were to heed iniquities, who, O Lord, could persevere ✟ ⁴For with you, there is forgiveness, and because of your law, I persevered with you, Lord. My soul has persevered in his word ✟ ⁵My soul has hoped in the Lord ✟ ⁶From the morning watch, even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord ✟ ⁷For with the Lord there is mercy, and with him there is bountiful redemption ✟ ⁸And he will redeem Israel from all his iniquities ✟

Chapter 130

¹A Canticle in steps: of David. O Lord, my heart has not been exalted, and my eyes have not been raised up. Neither have I walked in greatness, nor in wonders beyond me ✟ ²When I was not humble in thought, then I lifted up my soul. Like one who has been weaned from his mother, so was I recompensed in my soul ✟ ³Let Israel hope in the Lord, from this time forward and even forever ✟

Chapter 131

¹A Canticle in steps. O Lord, remember David and all his meekness ✟ ²how he swore to the Lord, how he made a vow to the God of Jacob ✟ ³I shall not enter into the tabernacle of my house, nor climb into the bed where I lie down ✟ ⁴I shall not give sleep to my eyes, nor slumber to my eyelid ✟ ⁵and rest to my temples, until I find a place for the Lord, a tabernacle for the God of Jacob ✟ ⁶Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We discovered it in the fields of the forest ✟ ⁷We will enter into his tabernacle. We will adore in the place where his feet stood ✟ ⁸Rise up, O Lord, into your resting place. You and the ark of your sanctification ✟ ⁹Let your priests be clothed with justice, and let your saints exult ✟ ¹⁰For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your Christ ✟ ¹¹The Lord has sworn the truth to David, and he will not disappoint: I will set upon your throne from the fruit of your lineage ✟ ¹²If your sons will keep my covenant and these, my testimonies, which I will teach to them, then their sons will sit upon your throne even forever ✟ ¹³For the Lord has chosen Zion. He has chosen it as his dwelling place ✟ ¹⁴This is my resting place, forever and ever. Here I will dwell, for I have chosen it ✟ ¹⁵When blessing, I will bless her widow. I will satisfy her poor with bread ✟ ¹⁶I will clothe her priests with salvation, and her saints will rejoice with great joy ✟ ¹⁷There, I will produce a horn to David. There, I have prepared a lamp for my Christ ✟ ¹⁸I will clothe his enemies with confusion. But my sanctification will flourish over him ✟

Chapter 132

¹A Canticle in steps: of David. Behold, how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to dwell in unity ✟ ²It is like the ointment on the head that descended to the beard, the beard of Aaron, which descended to the hem of his garment ✟ ³It is like the dew of Hermon, which descended from mount Zion. For in that place, the Lord has commanded a blessing, and life, even unto eternity ✟

Chapter 133

¹A Canticle in steps. Behold, bless the Lord now, all you servants of the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God ✟ ²In the nights, lift up your hands in sanctity, and bless the Lord ✟ ³May the Lord, who made heaven and earth, bless you from Zion ✟

Chapter 134

¹Alleluia. Praise the name of the Lord. You servants, praise the Lord ✟ ²You who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God ✟ ³praise the Lord, for the Lord is good. Sing psalms to his name, for it is sweet ✟ ⁴For the Lord has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel for his own possession ✟ ⁵For I have known that the Lord is great, and our God is before all gods ✟ ⁶All things whatsoever that he willed, the Lord did: in heaven, on earth, in the sea, and in all the deep places ✟ ⁷He leads clouds from the ends of the earth. He has created lightnings in the rain. He has produced winds from his storehouses ✟ ⁸He struck the first-born of Egypt, from man even to cattle ✟ ⁹He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt: upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants ✟ ¹⁰He has struck many nations, and he has slaughtered strong kings ✟ ¹¹Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan ✟ ¹²And he gave their land as an inheritance, as an inheritance for his people Israel ✟ ¹³Your name, O Lord, is in eternity. Your memorial, O Lord, is from generation to generation ✟ ¹⁴For the Lord will judge his people, and he will be petitioned by his servants ✟ ¹⁵The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of the hands of men ✟ ¹⁶They have a mouth, and do not speak. They have eyes, and do not see ✟ ¹⁷They have ears, and do not hear. For neither is there any breath in their mouths ✟ ¹⁸Let those who make them become like them, along with all who trust in them ✟ ¹⁹Bless the Lord, O house of Israel. Bless the Lord, O house of Aaron ✟ ²⁰Bless the Lord, O house of Levi. You who fear the Lord, bless the Lord ✟ ²¹The Lord is blessed from Zion, by those who dwell in Jerusalem ✟

Chapter 135

¹Alleluia. Confess to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²Confess to the God of gods, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ³Confess to the Lord of lords, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ⁴He alone performs great miracles, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ⁵He made the heavens with understanding, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ⁶He established the earth above the waters, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ⁷He made the great lights, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ⁸the sun to rule the day, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ⁹the moon and the stars to rule the night, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹⁰He struck Egypt along with their first-born, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹¹He led Israel away from their midst, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹²with a powerful hand and an outstretched arm, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹³He divided the Red Sea into separate parts, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹⁴And he led out Israel through the middle of it, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹⁵And he shook off Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹⁶He led his people through the desert, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹⁷He has struck great kings, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹⁸And he has slaughtered strong kings, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ¹⁹Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²⁰and Og, king of Bashan, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²¹And he granted their land as an inheritance, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²²as an inheritance for his servant Israel, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²³For he was mindful of us in our humiliation, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²⁴And he redeemed us from our enemies, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²⁵He gives food to all flesh, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²⁶Confess to the God of heaven, for his mercy is eternal ✟ ²⁷Confess to the Lord of lords, for his mercy is eternal ✟

Chapter 136

¹A Psalm of David: to Jeremiah. Above the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept, while we remembered Zion ✟ ²By the willow trees, in their midst, we hung up our instruments ✟ ³For, in that place, those who led us into captivity questioned us about the words of the songs. And those who carried us away said: “Sing us a hymn from the songs of Zion. ✟ ⁴How can we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land ✟ ⁵If I ever forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten ✟ ⁶May my tongue adhere to my jaws, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem first, as the beginning of my joy ✟ ⁷O Lord, call to mind the sons of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem, who say: “Despoil it, despoil it, even to its foundation. ✟ ⁸O daughter of Babylon, have pity. Blessed is he who will repay you with your payment, which you have paid to us ✟ ⁹Blessed is he who will take hold of your little ones and dash them against the rock ✟

Chapter 137

¹Of David himself. O Lord, I will confess to you with my whole heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth. I will sing psalms to you in the sight of the Angels ✟ ²I will adore before your holy temple, and I will confess your name: it is above your mercy and your truth. For you have magnified your holy name above all ✟ ³On whatever day that I will call upon you: hear me. You will multiply virtue in my soul ✟ ⁴May all the kings of the earth confess to you, O Lord. For they have heard all the words of your mouth ✟ ⁵And let them sing in accordance with the ways of the Lord. For great is the glory of the Lord ✟ ⁶For the Lord is exalted, and he looks with favor on the humble. But the lofty he knows from a distance ✟ ⁷If I wander into the midst of tribulation, you will revive me. For you extended your hand against the wrath of my enemies. And your right hand has accomplished my salvation ✟ ⁸The Lord will provide retribution on my behalf. O Lord, your mercy is forever. Do not disdain the works of your hands ✟

Chapter 138

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have examined me, and you have known me ✟ ²You have known my sitting down and my rising up again ✟ ³You have understood my thoughts from afar. My path and my fate, you have investigated ✟ ⁴And you have foreseen all my ways. For there is no word in my tongue ✟ ⁵Behold, O Lord, you have known all things: the newest and the very old. You have formed me, and you have placed your hand over me ✟ ⁶Your knowledge has become a wonder to me. It has been reinforced, and I am not able to prevail against it ✟ ⁷Where will I go from your Spirit? And where will I flee from your face ✟ ⁸If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I descend into Hell, you are near ✟ ⁹If I assume my feathers in early morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the sea ✟ ¹⁰even there, your hand will lead me forth, and your right hand will hold me ✟ ¹¹And I said: Perhaps darkness will overwhelm me, and the night will be my illumination, to my delight ✟ ¹²But darkness will not be impenetrable to you, and night will illuminate like the day: for just as its darkness is, so also is its light ✟ ¹³For you have possessed my temperament. You have supported me from the womb of my mother ✟ ¹⁴I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well ✟ ¹⁵My bone, which you have made in secret, has not been hidden from you, and my substance is in accord with the lower parts of the earth ✟ ¹⁶Your eyes saw my imperfection, and all this shall be written in your book. Days will be formed, and no one shall be in them ✟ ¹⁷But to me, O God, your friends have been greatly honored. Their first ruler has been exceedingly strengthened ✟ ¹⁸I will number them, and they will be more numerous than the sand. I rose up, and I am still with you ✟ ¹⁹O God, if only you would cut down sinners. You men of blood: depart from me ✟ ²⁰For you say in thought: They will accept your cities in vain ✟ ²¹Have I not hated those who hated you, Lord, and wasted away because of your enemies ✟ ²²I have hated them with a perfect hatred, and they have become enemies to me ✟ ²³Examine me, O God, and know my heart. Question me, and know my paths ✟ ²⁴And see if there might be in me the way of iniquity, and lead me in the way of eternity ✟

Chapter 139

¹Unto the end. A Psalm of David ✟ ²Rescue me, O Lord, from the evil man. Rescue me from the iniquitous leader ✟ ³Those who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all day long they constructed conflicts ✟ ⁴They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The venom of asps is under their lips ✟ ⁵Preserve me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner, and rescue me from men of iniquity. They have decided to supplant my steps ✟ ⁶The arrogant have hidden a snare for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare. They have placed a stumbling block for me near the road ✟ ⁷I said to the Lord: You are my God. O Lord, heed the voice of my supplication ✟ ⁸Lord, O Lord, the strength of my salvation: you have overshadowed my head in the day of war ✟ ⁹O Lord, do not hand me over to the sinner by my desire. They have plotted against me. Do not abandon me, lest they should triumph ✟ ¹⁰The head of those who encompass me, the labor of their lips, will overwhelm them ✟ ¹¹Burning coals will fall upon them. You will cast them down into the fire, into miseries that they will not be able to withstand ✟ ¹²A talkative man will not be guided aright upon the earth. Evils will drag the unjust man unto utter ruin ✟ ¹³I know that the Lord will accomplish justice for the needy and vindication for the poor ✟ ¹⁴So then, truly, the just will confess your name, and the upright will dwell with your countenance ✟

Chapter 140

¹A Psalm of David. O Lord, I have cried out to you, hear me. Attend to my voice, when I cry out to you ✟ ²Let my prayer be guided like incense in your sight: the lifting up of my hands, like the evening sacrifice ✟ ³O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips ✟ ⁴Do not turn aside my heart to words of malice, to making excuses for sins, with men who work iniquity; and I will not communicate, even with the best of them ✟ ⁵The just one will correct me with mercy, and he will rebuke me. But do not allow the oil of the sinner to fatten my head. For my prayer will still be toward their good will ✟ ⁶Their judges have been engulfed, joined to the rocks. They will hear my words, which have prevailed ✟ ⁷as when the lava of the earth has erupted above ground. Our bones have been scattered beside Hell ✟ ⁸For Lord, O Lord, my eyes look to you. In you, I have hoped. Do not take away my soul ✟ ⁹Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity ✟ ¹⁰The sinners will fall into his net. I am alone, until I pass over ✟

Chapter 141

¹The understanding of David. A prayer, when he was in the cave ✟ ²With my voice, I cried out to the Lord. With my voice, I made supplication to the Lord ✟ ³In his sight, I pour out my prayer, and before him, I declare my tribulation ✟ ⁴Though my spirit may become faint within me, even then, you have known my paths. Along this way, which I have been walking, they have hidden a snare for me ✟ ⁵I considered toward the right, and I looked, but there was no one who would know me. Flight has perished before me, and there is no one who has concern for my soul ✟ ⁶I cried out to you, O Lord. I said: You are my hope, my portion in the land of the living ✟ ⁷Attend to my supplication. For I have been humbled exceedingly. Free me from my persecutors, for they have been fortified against me ✟ ⁸Lead my soul out of confinement in order to confess your name. The just are waiting for me, until you repay me ✟

Chapter 142

¹A Psalm of David, when his son Absalom was pursuing him. O Lord, hear my prayer. Incline your ear to my supplication in your truth. Heed me according to your justice ✟ ²And do not enter into judgment with your servant. For all the living will not be justified in your sight ✟ ³For the enemy has pursued my soul. He has lowered my life to the earth. He has stationed me in darkness, like the dead of ages past ✟ ⁴And my spirit has been in anguish over me. My heart within me has been disturbed ✟ ⁵I have called to mind the days of antiquity. I have been meditating on all your works. I have meditated on the workings of your hands ✟ ⁶I have extended my hands to you. My soul is like a land without water before you ✟ ⁷O Lord, heed me quickly. My spirit has grown faint. Do not turn your face away from me, lest I become like those who descend into the pit ✟ ⁸Make me hear your mercy in the morning. For I have hoped in you. Make known to me the way that I should walk. For I have lifted up my soul to you ✟ ⁹O Lord, rescue me from my enemies. I have fled to you ✟ ¹⁰Teach me to do your will. For you are my God. Your good Spirit will lead me into the righteous land ✟ ¹¹For the sake of your name, O Lord, you will revive me in your fairness. You will lead my soul out of tribulation ✟ ¹²And you will scatter my enemies in your mercy. And you will destroy all those who afflict my soul. For I am your servant ✟

Chapter 143

¹A Psalm of David versus Goliath. Blessed is the Lord, my God, who trains my hands for the battle and my fingers for the war ✟ ²My mercy and my refuge, my supporter and my deliverer, my protector and him in whom I have hoped: he subdues my people under me ✟ ³O Lord, what is man that you have become known to him? Or the son of man that you consider him ✟ ⁴Man has been made similar to vanity. His days pass by like a shadow ✟ ⁵O Lord, incline your heavens and descend. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke ✟ ⁶Send a flash of lightning, and you will scatter them. Shoot your arrows, and you will set them in disarray ✟ ⁷Send forth your hand from on high: rescue me, and free me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners ✟ ⁸Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity ✟ ⁹To you, O God, I will sing a new song. On the psaltery, with an instrument of ten strings, I will sing psalms to you ✟ ¹⁰He gives salvation to kings. He has redeemed your servant David from the malignant sword ✟ ¹¹Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of the sons of foreigners. Their mouth has been speaking vain things, and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity ✟ ¹²Their sons are like new plantings in their youth. Their daughters are dressed up: adorned all around like the idols of a temple ✟ ¹³Their cupboards are full: overflowing from one thing into another. Their sheep bear young, brought forth in abundance ✟ ¹⁴Their cattle are fat. There is no ruined wall or passage, nor anyone crying out in their streets ✟ ¹⁵They have called the people that has these things: blessed. But blessed is the people whose God is the Lord ✟

Chapter 144

¹The Praise of David himself. I will extol you, O God, my king. And I will bless your name, in this time and forever and ever ✟ ²Throughout every single day, I will bless you. And I will praise your name, in this time and forever and ever ✟ ³The Lord is great and exceedingly praiseworthy. And there is no end to his greatness ✟ ⁴Generation after generation will praise your works, and they will declare your power ✟ ⁵They will tell of the magnificent glory of your sanctity. And they will discourse of your wonders ✟ ⁶And they will talk about the virtue of your terrible acts. And they will describe your greatness ✟ ⁷They will shout about the memory of your abundant sweetness. And they will exult in your justice ✟ ⁸The Lord is compassionate and merciful, patient and full of mercy ✟ ⁹The Lord is sweet to all things, and his compassion is upon all his works ✟ ¹⁰O Lord, may all your works confess to you, and let your holy ones bless you ✟ ¹¹They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and they will declare your power ✟ ¹²so as to make known to the sons of men your power and the glory of your magnificent kingdom ✟ ¹³Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages, and your dominion is with all, from generation to generation. The Lord is faithful in all his words and holy in all his works ✟ ¹⁴The Lord lifts up all who have fallen down, and he sets upright all who have been thrown down ✟ ¹⁵O Lord, all eyes hope in you, and you provide their food in due time ✟ ¹⁶You open your hand, and you fill every kind of animal with a blessing ✟ ¹⁷The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his works ✟ ¹⁸The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth ✟ ¹⁹He will do the will of those who fear him, and he will heed their supplication and accomplish their salvation ✟ ²⁰The Lord watches over all who love him. And he will destroy all sinners ✟ ²¹My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord, and may all flesh bless his holy name, in this time and forever and ever ✟

Chapter 145

¹Alleluia. Of Haggai and Zachariah ✟ ²Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord with my life. I will sing psalms to my God as long as I shall be. Do not trust in the leaders ✟ ³in the sons of men, in whom there is no salvation ✟ ⁴His spirit will depart, and he will return to his earth. In that day, all their thoughts will perish ✟ ⁵Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob: his hope is in the Lord God himself ✟ ⁶who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all the things that are in them ✟ ⁷He preserves the truth forever. He executes judgment for those who suffer injury. He provides food for the hungry. The Lord releases those who are bound ✟ ⁸The Lord enlightens the blind. The Lord sets upright those who have been thrown down. The Lord loves the just ✟ ⁹The Lord watches over new arrivals. He will support the orphan and the widow. And he will destroy the ways of sinners ✟ ¹⁰The Lord shall reign forever: your God, O Zion, from generation to generation ✟

Chapter 146

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord, because the psalm is good. Delightful and beautiful praise shall be for our God ✟ ²The Lord builds up Jerusalem. He will gather together the dispersed of Israel ✟ ³He heals the contrite of heart, and he binds up their sorrows ✟ ⁴He numbers the multitude of the stars, and he calls them all by their names ✟ ⁵Great is our Lord, and great is his virtue. And of his wisdom, there is no number ✟ ⁶The Lord lifts up the meek, but he brings down the sinner, even to the ground ✟ ⁷Sing before the Lord with confession. Play psalms to our God on a stringed instrument ✟ ⁸He covers heaven with clouds, and he prepares rain for the earth. He produces grass on the mountains and herbs for the service of men ✟ ⁹He gives their food to beasts of burden and to young ravens that call upon him ✟ ¹⁰He will not have good will for the strength of the horse, nor will he be well pleased with the legs of a man ✟ ¹¹The Lord is well pleased with those who fear him and with those who hope in his mercy ✟

Chapter 147

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem. Praise your God, O Zion ✟ ²For he has reinforced the bars of your gates. He has blessed your sons within you ✟ ³He has stationed peace at your borders, and he has satisfied you with the fat of the grain ✟ ⁴He sends forth his eloquence to the earth. His word runs swiftly ✟ ⁵He provides snow like wool. He strews clouds like ashes ✟ ⁶He sends his ice crystals like morsels. Who can stand firm before the face of his cold ✟ ⁷He will send forth his word, and it will melt them. His Spirit will breathe out, and the waters will flow ✟ ⁸He announces his word to Jacob, his justices and his judgments to Israel ✟ ⁹He has not done so much for every nation, and he has not made his judgments manifest to them. Alleluia ✟

Chapter 148

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord from the heavens. Praise him on the heights ✟ ²Praise him, all his Angels. Praise him, all his hosts ✟ ³Praise him, sun and moon. Praise him, all stars and light ✟ ⁴Praise him, heavens of the heavens. And let all the waters that are above the heaven ✟ ⁵praise the name of the Lord. For he spoke, and they became. He commanded, and they were created ✟ ⁶He has stationed them in eternity, and for age after age. He has established a precept, and it will not pass away ✟ ⁷Praise the Lord from the earth: you dragons and all deep places ✟ ⁸fire, hail, snow, ice, windstorms, which do his word ✟ ⁹mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars ✟ ¹⁰wild beasts and all cattle, serpents and feathered flying things ✟ ¹¹kings of the earth and all peoples, leaders and all judges of the earth ✟ ¹²young men and virgins. Let the older men with the younger men, praise the name of the Lord ✟ ¹³For his name alone is exalted ✟ ¹⁴Confession of him is beyond heaven and earth, and he has exalted the horn of his people. A hymn to all his holy ones, to the sons of Israel, to a people close to him. Alleluia ✟

Chapter 149

¹Alleluia. Sing to the Lord a new song. His praise is in the Church of the saints ✟ ²Let Israel rejoice in him who made them, and let the sons of Zion exult in their king ✟ ³Let them praise his name in chorus. Let them sing psalms to him with the timbrel and the psaltery ✟ ⁴For the Lord is well pleased with his people, and he will exalt the meek unto salvation ✟ ⁵The saints will exult in glory. They will rejoice upon their couches ✟ ⁶The exultations of God will be in their throat, and two-edged swords will be in their hands ✟ ⁷to obtain vindication among the nations, chastisements among the peoples ✟ ⁸to bind their kings with shackles and their nobles with manacles of iron ✟ ⁹to obtain judgment over them, as it has been written. This is glory for all his saints. Alleluia ✟

Chapter 150

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord in his holy places. Praise him in the firmament of his power ✟ ²Praise him for his virtues. Praise him according to the multitude of his greatness ✟ ³Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with psaltery and stringed instrument ✟ ⁴Praise him with timbrel and choir. Praise him with strings and organ ✟ ⁵Praise him with sweet-sounding cymbals. Praise him with cymbals of jubilation ✟ ⁶Let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia ✟