A Psalm of Asaph.
1 But yet, This I will say,
That God is good to Israel;
that is to say to them that are
of a Well cleansed Heart.
2 But as for me, my feet almost
declined from what is right;
scarce any thing appeared,
but that my Steps had run abroad.
3 Because I had some Envy at
the madly boasting Fools;
When I saw the Prosperity
of the Ungodly Ones.
4 For in their Death there are no Bands;
till then their strength is firm.
5 They are not in Man’s Labour,
nor are plagued like other Men.
6 Therefore their Pride do’s like a Chain
encompass them about;
Iniquity does cover them,
esteemed an Ornament.
7 Their Eyes stand out with fatness;
they have more than Heart can wish.
8 They waste and speaking ill,
oppress, they talk, how loftily!
9 They resolutely set their Mouth
for to blaspheme the Heav’ns;
and their Tongue with their Calumnies
does walk about the Earth.
10 Therefore His People do at length
make their Return to this;
When Waters of a Plenteous Cup
are poured out to them.
11 And this is now the thing they say;
How is it that God knows?
or is there any knowledge in
Him who is God on High?
12 Behold, these are the ungodly Ones
who prosper in the World;
of Riches they’ve a mighty Store
obtained for themselves.
13 Surely, it is in vain that I
have purified my Heart;
In vain that I have washed my hands
in purest Innocence.
14 Whereas I have been still chastised
all day and every day;
and every Morning I have had
Rebuke bestowed on me.
15 If I had said, I will declare
as they; behold I should
Have dealt perfidiously
with the Generation of thy Children.
16 When I thought to know this,
it was hard in my Eyes;
But the matter was painful,
till I came into the Sanctuary of God.
17 Then I understood their end.
Surely, Thou didst set them
in slippery Places;
Thou didst throw them down into ruin.
18 How are they brought into desolation,
as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed
with Terrors.
19 As a Dream when one awakes;
so, O Lord, when thou
Awakest, thou wilt despise
their Image.
20 My Heart indeed was grieved;
and in my reins I was pricked.
21 I was indeed so foolish
and ignorant;
I was even as a beast
before thee.
22 But I am always with thee;
Thou hast held me by my right hand.
23 Thou wilt guide me
with thy Counsel;
And afterwards to Glory
Thou wilt bring me.
24 Whom in the Heavens have I
to enjoy? And there is none
Upon the Earth
whom I desire but Thee.
25 When my flesh and my heart
do now fail with a consumption,
God is the strength of my heart,
and my portion evermore.
26 For, lo, they that go far from Thee,
shall perish utterly;
Each one who does a whoring go
from thee thou doest destroy.
27 But as for me, it’s good that I
get and keep near to God;
I in the Lord ETERNAL hope
to tell of all thy works.
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, why hast thou cast us off
to perpetuity?
Against the Sheep which thou doest feed,
why does thy Anger smoke?
2 Remember thine Assembly,
thou hast purchased of Old;
the Tribe thou hast redeemed for
thy own Inheritance.
This mount of Zion in the which,
Thou hast had thy dwelling-place.
3 Lift up thy feet, with haste to tread
where Enemies have made
The desolations that appear
to be perpetual;
and smite each enemy that has done
ill to thy holy Place.
4 In the midst of thy Synagogue
the enemies do roar
As if possessed of Prey,
they have set up their signs for signs.
5 So now with un united force
at once they batter down
With the Ax and with Hammers, all
the carved works thereof.
6 Thy Sanctuary they have cast
into the waiting Fire,
they have defiled the dwelling place
of thy Name down to Earth.
7 They said within their hearts,
Let us destroy them altogether;
They’ve burnt up all the Synagogues
of God throughout the Land.
8 Our Signs we see not;
There is not a Prophet any more;
with us there is not any one
that knows how long 'twill be.
9 The adversary, Thee, O God,
How long shall he reproach?
The Enemy, shall he blaspheme
thy Name for evermore?
10 Thy hand even thy right hand,
wherefore doest thou withdraw
From us? From the midst of thy bosom
take thou it, them to consume.
11 For Thou, O God the Judge,
doest reign, my King from ancient time;
Salvation's He does bring about
in the midst of the Earth.
12 Thou by thy mighty strength
didst make the Sea divide asunder,
the heads of Dragons
thou didst break under the Waters there.
13 Thou didst with wounding bruise
the head of the Leviathan;
with him thou fedst the People
which dwelt in the wilderness.
14 By cleaving thou didst cause to flow
the fountain and the flood;
Thou didst dry up the Rivers
which ran with a mighty force.
15 Even the Day itself is thine,
thine also is the Night;
Thou hast prepared the Light
and the Sun which dispenses it.
16 Thou art He, who hath appointed
all the Borders of the Earth;
The Summer and the Winter,
thou art He that formed them.
17 Remember this, th' Enemy has
reproached the ETERNAL God,
The People vain through folly,
cast contempt upon thy, Name.
18 Thy Turtle-dove’s Soul,
O give not up to the multitude;
The Congregation of thy Poor
forget them not for ever.
19 O do thou have respect unto
the Ancient Covenant;
for th' Earth’s dark places
are filled with dwellings of cruelty.
20 O let not the oppressed one
return from Thee ashamed;
But let the meek afflicted
one and the Poor praise thy Name.
21 Do thou arise, O God, appear
thou to defend thy cause,
Remember thy reproach
from the vain Fool heard, every day.
22 Forget not thou the voice
of them that are thine Enemies:
The noise of them who do rise up
against thee daily grows.
To the Chief Musician. Altaschith. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.
1 We do give thanks to Thee, O God;
we do give thanks to Thee;
For that thy Name is near to us
thy wondrous works declare.
2 When I shall at th' appointed time
receive into my hands
the Congregation, I will Judge
Things that are wholly right.
3 The Earth and all of them
that are Inhabitants on it,
are clean dissolved; its I
that do uphold it's Pillars now. Selah.
4 I to the foolish Madmen said,
deal not so foolishly;
and to the wicked ones I said,
Lift you not up the horn.
5 Lift you not up the horn on high
against the Highest One;
Utter not speeches with a neck
that wont receive the yoke.
6 Because what you look for
does come not from the rising Sun,
nor from the setting,
nor from the mountainous wilderness.
7 But God Himself, He is the Judge
acting with Equity;
One Man He does put down,
and He does set another up.
8 For the ETERNAL God has in
His hand a measuring cup;
and the Wine that’s contained therein
is in its colour red:
It's full of mixture;
And He does pour from it;
but the dregs thereof
all the Earth’s wicked ones
shall suck, shall drink them up.
9 But as for me, I will declare
forevermore;
Unto the God of Jacob
will sing His Glorious Praise.
10 And all the horns of wicked ones,
I'll utterly cut off;
But the horns of the Righteous one
shall be lifted up on high.
To the Chief Musician. On Neginoth. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.
1 In Judah God is known;
His Name is great in Israel.
2 In Salem too’s His tent;
and in Zion His dwelling Place.
3 There did He break in pieces all
the Arrows of the Bow;
There did He break the Shield
and Sword, and what belonged to War. Selah.
4 Illustrious Thou doest appear,
wondrously powerful,
upon the Mountains where wild
Beasts, and Robbers seek their Prey.
5 Stout-hearted ones are spoiled
they’ve slept the sleep designed for them;
and none of all the mighty Men
found the life of their hands.
6 O God of Jacob, 'Twas at thy
effectual rebuke
That both the Chariot and the Horse
were laid so dead asleep.
7 Thou, even Thou, art one
that is exceeding terrible;
and who shall stand before thy face
when once thou art provoked?
8 Thou didst cause Judgment for to be
heard from the Heav’ns above;
the Earth was struck with trembling fear,
and then law quiet rest.
9 When God the Judge for to dispense
His Judgments did arise;
for to save all the meek
who were afflicted on the Earth. Selah.
10 Surely the wrath of Man
shall but confess thy praise to thee;
and the remainder of the wrath
shall what thou shalt restrain.
11 Vow and pay to the ETERNAL One,
even Him who is your God;
You that surround Him,
bring a gift to Him who’s to be feared.
12 He shall cut off the spirits
of Princes in Vintage time;
He shall be terrible unto
the Kings that rule the Earth.
To the Chief Musician to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.
1 My Voice was unto God,
and I did make an earnest cry;
My voice was unto God,
and He did hearken unto me.
2 In the day of my trouble
I did seek the Lord;
my wound, I spread in the Night,
and rested not my Soul refused relief.
3 I did remember God,
and then I was greatly discomposed;
I did complain; my spirit then
was overwhelmed with grief.
4 The watchings thou didst apprehend
with which did attend my eyes;
I was seized with astonishment
so that I could not sleep.
5 I have considered the days
which were in Ancient time;
I have considered the Years
of Ages yet unknown.
6 My Song I thought on;
in the Night I communed with my heart;
and then my spirit made a search,
to find the matter out.
7 The Lord, on whom I lean,
will He cast off forevermore?
And will he not go on
to show His favour any more?
8 His mercy, does it wholly fail
to perpetuity?
What? For whose whole Generations
does His Word to nothing come?
9 What? Has the mighty God
forgot for to be merciful?
Has He His tender bowels
in great anger quite shut up? Selah.
10 Then, upon this, I said,
This is but my infirmity;
The years of Change are all in
the Right Hand of the most High.
11 I will remember the Works
of the EVER-BEING One;
surely I’ll in remembrance have
thy wonder done of old.
12 Yea, I will meditate upon
all of thy Glorious work;
and will with Prayers and wonders
speak of things which thou hast done.
13 O God, Thy way proceeds,
and is beheld in holiness;
Who is the mighty God,
so great as is our God the Judge?
14 Thou art the mighty God;
who doest the thing that’s wonderful;
among the People openly
Thou hast declared thy strength.
15 Thou hast redeemed thy People
with thy own extended Arm;
Thou hast redeemed the Children
of Jacob and Joseph.
16 The waters thee beheld, O God,
the waters thee beheld,
they were afraid; the deeps
themselves in a commotion were.
17 Thick clouds did of their waters
make in inundation then;
The sky gave out a thundering found;
thy darts too went abroad.
18 The loud voice of thy Thunder
was in the Revolution heard;
The Lightnings struck light on the World;
the Earth was moved and shook.
19 The way which thou didst take
was in the Sea, thy paths were in
the mighty swelling waters;
and thy footsteps are unknown.
20 Then by the hand of Moses,
and of Aaron joined with him;
thy People thou didst lead along
even like unto a Flock.
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O my People, Hearken well
to my distilling law:
Incline your ear attentively
to the words of my mouth.
2 My mouth I'll open in a dark
Sententious Parable;
I'll utter secret mysteries
in what fell out of old.
3 They are the things which we have
heard, and things which we have known;
and they are what our Fathers
have related unto us.
4 These we will not conceal
from them that are Children to those;
They to the Generation
so to come shall still relate;
Even the Praises which belong
to the ETERNAL God;
and His strength and His wondrous works;
the Things which He has wrought.
5 A testimony He did in
Jacob establish, and He made
an appointment of a law
in Israel: The things the which He
did command unto our Ancestors,
that they unto their Children
should communicate the same.
6 That so the Generation still
to come might know the things;
the Children to be born might rise
and to their Children tell.
7 That they might set their hope
in God, and not forget the works
which God has done, but that they might
keep His Commandements.
8 And not be as their Fathers were,
a Generation bent upon Apostasy from God,
and a rebellious Race:
A Generation which did not
direct their heart aright;
nor was their spirit faithfully
adhering still to God.
9 Well-armed were the Children
which issued from Ephraim;
with Bow they shot and yet in day
of Battle turned back.
10 For they were such as had not kept
the Covenant of God;
they also had refused to walk
according to His law.
11 Yea, and they had forgotten quite
the Works which He had wrought;
and the Things very Marvellous
which He had shown to them.
12 Things very Marvellous He did
before their Ancestors;
He in the Land of Egypt,
in the field of Zoan wrought.
13 He divided the Sea,
and gave them a passage through;
The Waters He did make to stand
as an Heap.
14 He with a Cloud
did give to them His Conduct
in the Day; and with the Bright-ness
of a Fire over them all the Night.
15 He in the Wilderness did cleave
the solid Rock asunder;
and He did make them for to Drink
as out of mighty Deeps.
16 Yea, He did bring forth flowing
Streams out of the solid Stone;
and like to Rivers He did cause
the Waters to run down.
17 But they in Sinning against Him
did add yet more and more;
Thereby provoking the most High
while in the Wilderness.
18 And in their Heart Tempting of Him
they tried the mighty God;
They did it by Desiring food
to suit their Appetite.
19 Yea, They blasphemed the Glorious God;
and this is what they said;
Can God prepare a Table here
in such a Wilderness.
20 Behold, He smote the Rock
and then the Waters gushed out;
The Torrents then did running there
an Inundation make.
But what? can He also bestow
upon His People Bread?
What? will He make provision
of flesh for His People too?
21 Therefore the ETERNAL heard,
and was Angry: so kindled
Was a Fire on Jacob,
and Wrath went up against Israel.
22 Because that they had not relied
with faith upon their God;
nor had they then their Confidence
in His Salvation placed.
23 Although He from above
had given Command
unto the Clouds, and opened
wide the Gates of Heav’n,
And a Granary.
24 And He from thence had rained down
Manna on them to Eat;
yea, and the Corn of Heaven too
He had bestowed on them.
25 A Man was then allowed
to Eat the Bread of mighty ones;
He did of that send unto them
a Diet to their full.
26 He in the Heavens then did cause
an Eastern wind to blow;
and by His mighty power
He did bring a Southern wind.
27 He did rain down upon them Flesh
in plenty like the dust;
and like the Sand that bounds the Seas
a Fowl that has a wing.
28 And in the midst of their Camps
He caused it to fall
yea, and in the whole circuit
of their Habitations there.
29 So they did eat thereof,
and they were well replenished;
and He did bring to them
the thing that was their own desire.
30 They were not yet estranged
from what was their own desire:
their Meat they had so much desired
as yet was in their mouth.
31 When the great Wrath of God
did like a Fire ascend on them;
and flew their fat ones,
and smote down the chief of Israel.
32 But notwithstanding all of this,
they still went on to Sin;
and they did not give credit
to His very wondrous works.
33 Therefore He made their days
to waste away in vanity;
yea, and their years in trouble
which He quickly dispatched them.
34 When He struck them with Death,
on this then they did seek to Him:
Then they returned, and early
they enquired after God.
35 Then they called to remembrance
that God was their sheltering Rock;
and the High God claimed
still to give Redemption unto them.
36 Nevertheless with a false mouth,
they did but flatter Him;
and with their tongues that spoke
so fair they did but lie to Him.
37 For still their heart with right intents
was not resolved for Him;
nor in His Covenant did they
use good fidelity.
38 But being merciful, He did
forgive iniquity;
And He then did not upon them
deserve destruction bring:
No, He did multiply the Acts
in which He turned away
His anger, and therewith He did not
still up all His wrath.
39 For He remembered this of them;
that they were feeble Flesh,
a Spirit that passeth away,
and cometh not again.
40 How often in the Desert
they provoked Him bitterly!
How often in the Wilderness
they irritated Him!
41 Yea, they returned back unto
their way of tempting God;
Limits they also did prescribe
to Israel’s Holy One.
42 They did not well remember
what His Hand had wrought for them;
the Day when He delivered them
out of Adversity.
43 How He in Egypt wrought
and set His most amazing Signs;
and in the Field of Zoan there,
His Works most wonderful.
44 There He had with a strange turn
changed their Rivers into blood,
and changed their Floods at such a rate,
they could not drink thereof.
45 He sent the Dog-fly upon them,
which preyed upon them sore;
He sent the Frogs too which did bring
destruction upon them.
46 Unto the Caterpillar He
did give up their increase;
and to the Locust He gave up
what they had labour’d for.
47 He killed their Vines with Hail,
and their Sycomore Trees with Frost.
48 And left their Cattle to the Hail,
their Flocks to Lightning too.
49 He cast on them His burning Wrath,
Anger, and great Disdain,
with Trouble; Evil Angels
were commission’d for the work.
50 He for His Anger weighed a path;
He spared not their Soul from Death,
but He gave up their life
unto the Pestilence.
51 All the First-born of Egypt
then He smote;
The First-fruits of their Forces,
in the Tents that were inhabited by Cham.
52 But He made His own People
to go forth like unto Sheep;
and He did in the Wilderness
guide them like as a Flock.
53 He did guide them in safety,
so that they were not afraid;
But the Sea overwhelmed them
that were their Enemies.
54 He brought them to the border
of His Sanctuary here;
the mountain which His own right Hand
had made a purchase of.
55 And He before their faces
did cast out the Nations there;
yea. He did cause them for to fall
in the divided Lots,
When there was to be cast a Line
for their inheritance;
and in their Tents He made to dwell
the Tribes of Israel.
56 Yet they did by temptations
try and bitterly provoke
The most High God, and they kept not
the things He testified.
57 But they returned to their wont
and dealt perfidiously,
like to their Ancestors;
they warped like a deceitful bow.
58 For that with their high places
they provoked Him to wrath;
and with their graven Images
moved Him to jealousy.
59 This Thing when God the Judge
did hear, He then was moved to wrath;
yea, He with great abhorrence
cast contempt on Israel.
60 So He the Tabernacle of Shiloh
did then forsake;
The Tent which He had placed for to
cohabit there with Man.
61 And He delivered His strength
into Captivity;
yea, and His glory into the
hand of the Enemy.
62 He also His own People did
shut up unto the Sword;
and He was very angry
with His own Inheritance.
63 Their choice Young Men
the Fire of wrath did greatly waste away;
and so their Virgins
could not be praised to the Marry’d State.
64 They that were Priests to Him
did fall by the devouring Sword:
but yet their Widows did not then
their lamentations make.
65 Then did the Lord awake,
as one that had been fast asleep;
He was like to a mighty Man
shouting upon his wine.
66 And He upon the hinder parts
did smite his Enemies;
He brought upon them a disgrace
that is perpetual.
67 The Tabernacle also of Joseph
He did refuse;
and He placed not His choice
upon the Tribe of Ephraim.
68 No, but the Tribe of Judah
He did please to make His choice;
He chose the Mount of Zion
which He set His love upon.
69 And He His Sanctuary did,
build like high Palaces;
Like to the Earth for which
He does a long Foundation lay.
70 David he also chose to be
a Servant unto Him;
and fetched him from the enclosures
where the Sheep were folded in.
71 From following the Ewes
with young He brought him
to feed Jacob his People,
and Israel His Heritage.
72 So he led them according to
his heart’s integrity;
and led them in the manifold
skillfulness of his hands.
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, the Heathen are come in
to thine Inheritance;
Thy holy Temple they’ve defiled;
Jerusalem laid in heaps.
2 Dead Bodies of thy Servants
they made meat for Fowls of Heav’n;
and the flesh of thy gracious ones
for the Beasts of the Earth.
3 Their Blood they have like water
shed around the Circuits of Jerusalem,
and there was none found
that would bury them.
4 We are made a reproach
unto those in our Neighbourhood;
a scorn and a derision
to them that encompass us.
5 How long, O Thou ETERNAL God?
Wilt thou forever be angry with us?
Thy jealousy shall it still burn
like fire?
6 Thy burning wrath, O do thou
pour upon the Nations down;
which do not render unto thee
any acknowledgments:
And on the Kingdoms which have
not called upon thy Name.
7 For Jacob they’ve devoured,
and laid waste his dwelling place.
8 Mind not against us former sins;
make haste; Thy bowels, Oh!
Let them prevent us;
for that we are brought exceeding low.
9 O God whence our Salvation comes;
Afford thy help to us;
Because there is no concern’d
therein the glory of thy Name.
And, Oh! do thou bestow on us
a full deliverance;
cleanse thou us also from our sins,
for the sake of thy Name.
10 Why say the Nations, Where’s their
God? Let our eyes see made known
to Nations the revenge of blood
they’ve of thy Servants shed.
11 The sighing of the Prisoner,
let it come before thy face;
To show the greatness of thy Arm,
Reserve the sons of Death.
12 But to our Neighbours pay into
their bosom seven-fold
The vile reproach, with which
they have reproached thee, O Lord.
13 So we thy People,
and the Sheep Thou feedest,
Thee shall praise for time
unknown; from Age to Age
we shall declare thy Praise.
To the Chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Eduth; A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Hear, O Thou Israel's Shepherd,
who leadest Joseph as a Flock;
Thou who doest make thy Seat
to be the Cherubim, Shine forth.
2 Before the face of Ephraim,
also of Benjamin,
and of Menasseh, show thy strength,
and come with help to us.
3 O God, Cause thou us to return,
and cause thy Countenance
to shine forth upon us,
so we shall our Salvation see.
4 O Thou ETERNAL One,
who art the God of Hosts?
How long against thy People's Prayer
wilt thou smoke with incensed wrath?
5 Thou feedest them but with a Bread
that’s mixed still with tears;
and thou doest give them tears
to drink, even with a treble cup.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto
them in our Neighbourhood;
and they that are our Enemies
do laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again, O God of Hosts,
and cause thy Countenance
to shine forth upon us,
so we shall our Salvation see.
8 Thou from its place in Egypt
hast caused to be brought a Vine;
The Nations thou rejected hast
and thou-hast planted it.
9 Thou didst evacuate all clear
before the face of it;
and thou didst make it take
deep root, until it filled the Land.
10 The Mountains were well covered
with the spreading shade of it;
and the Branches thereof
did hide Cedars of God themselves.
11 She did send forth her Branches wide,
as far as to the Sea;
and the slips cut from it
she sent as far as to the River.
12 But, Oh! why hast thou broken
down her hedges all of them?
So that all they who do pass by
the way, do pluck at her.
13 The Boar that comes out of the wood
hath laid it very waste;
and the wild Beast that ranges in
the field, devoureth it.
14 Return, O God of Armies,
we do humbly ask for it;
look down from Heaven,
and behold and visit thou this Vine.
15 Even the Plant which thy Right Hand
hath planted in the Earth;
and look upon the Branch
which thou hast strengthened for thy self.
16 It is consumed with the Fire;
'tis utterly cut down;
they perish from the stern
rebuke of thy provoked face.
17 Let thy Hand be upon the Man
who is at thy Right Hand;
Upon the Son of Man
whom thou shalt strengthen for thy self.
18 So we shall never any more
Apostatize from thee;
O do thou quicken us,
and we shall call upon thy Name.
19 Make us return, ETERNAL God
of Hosts; Thy Countenance
cause to shine forth on us;
so we shall our Salvation see.
To the Chief Musician. Upon Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Sing aloud unto the God
in whom we have our strength;
O make a joyful noise unto
the God of Jacob now.
2 Take up a Psalm into your Mouth;
And bring the Timbrel out;
Bring out the pleasant Harp,
with it joining the Psaltery.
3 Sound with the Trumpet
at the Time when the New Moon appears;
at the appointed time;
on the Day of our Festival.
4 For this to Israel is ordained
a Law of Jacob’s God.
5 This for a Testimony He
did assign to Joseph:
He did it when thorough the Land
of Egypt He went forth;
A Land where I did hear a Tongue
I did not understand.
6 'Twas this, His Shoulder
I removed from the load laid on it;
his hands did from the Basket
then make an entire escape.
7 When thou wast in thy Trouble,
thou didst make a Cry to me;
and I thereon did work for thee
a great Deliverance.
I' in the secret Place of Thunder
I gave Answer unto thee;
I proved thee at the Waters
of Contentious Meribah. Selah.
8 Hear, O my People, now,
and I will testify to thee;
O Israel, If that thou wilt
now hearken unto me.
9 There shall not any strange God
be acknowledged in thee;
Nor unto any foreign God
shalt thou bow down thy self.
10 I am JEHOVAH, Thy God
who fetched thee up from the Land
of Egypt; Open thou thy Mouth,
and I'll replenish it.
11 But, Oh! my People,
they would not hearken unto my Voice;
and Israel had no desire
to take Delight in me.
12 So I did give him up unto
the Lust of their own heart;
they in their own Inventions
then went always walking on.
13 My People, Oh! that they had been
Obedient unto me;
Oh! that in my directed Ways
Israel had walked on!
14 Their Adversaries then I should
have quickly Vanquished;
and on their Enemies I should
have quickly turned my hand.
15 They that hate the ETERNAL God
should soon have fawn'd, on Him;
But then their time would have endured
to Perpetuity.
16 He should have also fed him
with the fatness of the Wheat;
and from the Rock with Honey
I should have replenished thee.
A Psalm of Asaph.
1 In the Assembly of our God
there stands God the Judge;
He in the midst of the God’s
does part of a Judge.
2 He fair, How long in Judgment
will you do iniquity?
and so accept the persons
of such as are wicked ones?
3 In Judgment see that you defend
the poor, and Fatherless;
do Justice to the Afflicted one,
and the impoverished.
4 Accomplish a deliverance for
the Poor and Needy one;
Out of the hands of wicked ones
let them at liberty.
5 They neither know nor understand:
in darkness they walk on;
all the foundations of the Earth
are shaken out of course.
6 I've said, Ye’re God’s,
and all of you are Sons
of the Most High.
7 But ye shall dye like Men,
and as one of the Princes fall.
8 Arise, O God, and execute
thou Judgment in the Earth;
for thou shalt have all Nations
to be thine Inheritance.
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
1 O ETERNAL God,
as one deaf hold thou not thy peace;
and be not still,
O God.
2 For that, behold thy Enemies
make a tumultuous noise;
and they that are thy, haters
do proudly lift up the head.
3 Against thy People they have had
cunning contrivances;
and have their consultations held
against thy hidden ones.
4 They’ve said, Come let’s destroy them
quite to be no Nation now;
That so the Name of Israel
may be mentioned no more.
5 For they their consultations have
closely together held
with one consent against thee
they do form a mutual league.
6 'Tis what the Tents of Edom do,
and of the Ishmaelites;
Moab associates with them;
so do the Hagarens.
7 Gebal and Ammon do come in
conjoined with Amalek;
Philistia comes in with the
Inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Yea, the Assyrian so remote,
is also joined with them;
They to the Sons of Lot
became a very strengthening Arm.
9 O do to them as once thou didst
unto the Midianites;
as Sisera, as Jabin once,
by Kishon’s Torrent were.
10 They at the Place call’d Endor
did destruction undergo:
They were scorned and unburied
left as dung upon the Earth.
11 Make them, yea, make their Nobles
like Oreb and to Zeeb;
yea, like to Zebah,
and like to Zalmunna, all their Kings.
12 They said, We will Houses
of God for our possession take.
13 My God, Make them like to a wheel,
as chaff before the wind.
14 As the fire burns the wood
and as the flame sets hills on fire;
15 So with thy Tempest follow them,
and fright them with thy storm.
16 Make thou their faces to be full
of ignominious shame;
That they may seek thy Name,
O Thou that art the ETERNAL God.
17 Let them be put to shame,
and be forever terrified;
with shame, yea, let them
hang the head; and let them perish quite.
18 Let Men know, that Thou only
hast JEHOVAH for thy Name;
Thou art the most High One,
who doest rule over all the Earth.
To the Chief Musician. Upon Gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.
1 How lovely are thy Tents,
O Thou ETERNAL Lord of Hosts?
2 My Soul, it longs, yea,
and it faints for to approach
The Courts where the ETERNAL God
is pleased to manifest Himself;
My heart, yea, and my flesh cry out
to enjoy the Living God.
3 Even the Sparrow does find out
an House where she may lodge;
The Turtle too does find a Nest
where she may lay her Young.
But then my choice and cry is this;
Thine Altars! There I’d be!
O Thou ETERNAL Lord of Hosts;
my King, and my God!
4 Blessed are they who in thy House
enjoy a dwelling place;
they will perpetually be
engaged in praising thee. Selah.
5 O the vast Blessings of the Man
whose strength in thee!
The beaten ways that lead thereto
are in the heart of such.
6 Passing a Valley full of tears
they meet a Fountain there;
yea, and the Rain replenishes
the Cisterns ready there.
7 They go from one Company
to another Company;
Anon in Zion each appears
before the Glorious God.
8 O Thou ETERNAL One,
who art the God of Armies,
Hear my Prayer, and Thou that art
the God of Jacob, O give ear. Selah.
9 O God, Behold our Shield;
the Face of thy Anointed see.
10 For better than a thousand is
one Day within thy Courts;
I on the Threshhold choose to keep
in the House of my God;
rather than have my dwelling in
the tents of wickedness.
11 For the ETERNAL God, God is
a Sun and Shield to us;
and the ETERNAL God
will give both Grace and Glory too:
Yea, He’ll deny no good to those
that walk in perfect ways.
12 JEHOVAH Tzebaoth, The Man
is blessed who hopes in thee.
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.
1 O Thou ETERNAL God,
Thou hast been gracious to thy Land;
the Captived ones of Jacob
thou hast brought them back again.
2 Thou the iniquity of thy
own People hast forgiven;
all the Sin found in them
Thou hast entirely covered. Selah.
3 All thy wrath thou hast utterly
taken away from them;
Thou hast recalled thy anger
from the heat it rose unto.
4 Return thou us, O God
in whom we our Salvation have;
and towards us thine anger
now, O do thou cause to cease.
5 Wilt thou be angry still with us
to perpetuity?
Wilt thou make thy incensed wrath
extend from Age to Age?
6 What? Wilt thou not return again?
Yea, Thou wilt quicken us;
and they that are thy People
shall shine with bright joy in thee.
7 O Thou ETERNAL God,
Shew thou thy mercy unto us;
and thy Salvation as a Gift
upon us, O bestow.
8 Now will I listen well to what
God the ETERNAL One
will please to speak, because
He will speak a most happy peace:
Peace to His People,
and to them that are His gracious ones;
and they shall not return unto
foolishness any more.
9 Surely, to them that fear Him
His Salvation’s very near;
that Glory may within our Land
its habitation have.
10 Mercy and Truth will meet
together; Justice and Peace will kiss;
11 Truth will spring from the Earth,
and from the Heav’ns will Justice look.
12 Yea, the ETERNAL One
will give the thing that’s truly Good;
and then our Land shall liberally
bring forth her joyful fruit.
13 Each one before his face
shall make his steps to walk
in Righteousness; and He shall
regulate his steps for such a beaten way.
A Prayer of David.
1 Bow down thine Ear,
O Thou ETERNAL God;
and hear thou me, Because
I am an humbled one, and I am indigent.
2 Preserve my Soul, since that I am
one that is merciful;
Save, thou my God, thy Servant
who does place His hope in thee.
3 O Lord in whom is my support,
Be merciful to me;
Because that I do cry to thee
all day and every day.
4 Rejoice the Soul of him that is
a Servant unto thee;
Because that unto thee, O Lord,
I do lift up my Soul.
5 For Thou, O Lord art Good,
and art most ready to forgive,
and great in mercy unto all
that make their cry to thee.
6 O Thou ETERNAL God,
To my Petition O give ear;
and to the Voice of my requests
for favour, O attend.
7 In the day when that I into
a tribulation fall,
then will I make my cry to thee;
for thou wilt answer me.
8 Among the God’s, O Lord,
there’s none to be compared to thee;
nor are there any works that may
be likened unto thine.
9 The Nations all which thou hast made
shall come, and they shall bow
their Knee before thy face, O Lord,
and glorify thy Name.
10 Because that in thy Greatness
thou art very glorious;
and doest things that are wonderful;
yea, Thou art God alone.
11 ETERNAL God, Teach me thy way;
I in thy truth will walk;
Unite my heart for Thee,
and to the fearing of thy Name.
12 I will praise thee, O Lord my God,
even with all my heart;
and I will glorify thy Name
to perpetuity.
13 Because thy mercy unto me
is gloriously great;
and from the pit below
thou hast delivered my Soul.
14 O God, Against me rise the proud,
and an assembly of strong ones
Have fought my Soul,
and not set before themselves.
15 But Thou, Lord, art a God
full of Mercy, and Gracious art;
Long suffering and plentiful
in Mercy and in Truth.
16 O look on me, and pity me;
Afford thy strength unto thy Servant;
and the Son of thine Handmaid
deliver thou.
17 Shew me a sign for good,
which my haters may see, and be
ashamed; since Thou, ETERNAL God,
doest help and comfort me.
A Psalm. A Song for the Sons of Korah.
1 He in the holy Mountains
hath His firm foundation laid.
2 The ETERNAL God loves
Zion’s Gates more than all Jacob’s Tents.
3 O City of God,
Of thee there are spoken most glorious things. Selah.
4 Of Rahab, and of Babylon
I will make mention now
among them that acknowledge me;
Behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia;
There such an one was Born.
5 Of Zion it shall be said,
This and that Man was Born in her;
and the most High Himself
shall establish her.
6 When the ETERNAL God
shall write the Peoples in His Roll,
This is the thing He shall declare,
There such an one was born. Selah.
7 There as the Singers are,
so are Players on instruments;
And as for me the springs
of all my Good are found in thee.
To the Chief Musician. Upon Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil. Of Heman the Ezrahite.
1 O ETERNAL One, the God
whence my Salvation comes.
By Day, by Night, before thee
I make my Complaining Cry.
2 Before thy Face, O let my Prayer
a free Admission have;
Unto the Cry I make with Grief
do Thou incline thine Ear.
3 For that my Soul with Trouble
is fully replenished;
for that my Life is very near
come down unto the Pit.
4 I reckon’d am with them
who do descend into the Grave;
I am become like to a Man
that has no strength in him.
5 Among the Dead I am exposed
Free to all sorts of wrongs;
I am like to the Slain
who do Sleep in the Sepulchre.
Such as thou doest not any more
show a Remembrance of;
Even such as Violently are
cut off by thy Hands blow.
6 Thou hast for my place ordered
the Pit that is below;
In Darkness Thou hast placed me,
in the devouring Deeps.
7 Thy Wrath is lying upon me
like to a mighty Weight;
and with all thy Tempestuous Waves
Thou hast afflicted me. Selah.
8 Those that were known to me
thou hast put far from me;
and made me loathsome
unto them; I am shut up, and can’t come forth.
9 Mine Eye does through Affliction waste;
O Thou ETERNAL God,
I call upon thee every Day;
I stretch my Hands to Thee.
10 For such as do lie dead
wilt Thou work a thing Wonderful?
Shall the deceased ones arise
and celebrate thy Praise? Selah.
11 Shall thy Benignity be in
the Sepulchre declared;
or shall therein destruction
be declared thy Faithfulness?
12 In darkness shall thy Work
that is most wonderful be known?
Thy Righteousness also in the
Land of Forgetfulness?
13 But O ETERNAL God,
I have made my Cry unto Thee;
and in the Morning
my Prayer anticipate Thee still.
14 O Thou ETERNAL God,
Wherefore doest Thou cast off my Soul?
Wherefore doest Thou so hide away
from me thy Countenance?
15 I am a poor afflicted One;
and ready for to dye
From early Youth; Thy Terrors
I have borne till I'm amazed.
16 Thy Burning Indignations
have been passing over me;
Thy Terrors full of Troubles
have utterly cut me off.
17 Like Water they’ve surrounded me
all day and every day;
they all together in an heap
have round encompassed me.
18 Thou Lover and Companion
hast removed far from me;
and into hideous Darkness
those that once were known to me.
To the Chief Musician. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1 The Mercies of the ETERNAL God
I will forever Sing;
Thy Faithfulness I’ll with my mouth
make known from Age to Age.
2 For I have said, Benignity
shall be built up forever;
The Heavens! thou establish
shalt thy faithfulness in them.
3 I’ve made a Covenant with Him
that is my chosen one;
To David the Beloved one
my Servant, I have sworn.
4 Thy Seed, I will establish it
to perpetuity;
and I will make to last and grow
thy Throne from Age to Age. Selah.
5 ETERNAL God, The Heavens
shall confess thy wondrous one;
yea, and thy faithfulness
in the Assembly of the Saints.
6 For who in Heav’n may be compared
to the ETERNAL God?
Among the Sons of mighty ones
who’s like the ETERNAL God?
7 God in the great Assembly of
the Saints is to be feared;
and to be reverenced
above all that encompass Him.
8 O Thou ETERNAL God of Hosts,
Strong JAH, Who’s like to thee?
Thy Faithfulness does also
round about encompass thee.
9 Over the raging of the Sea
thou thy Dominion hast;
when that the waves thereof
arise then thou asswagest them.
10 Egyptian Rahab thou hast broke,
'tis as a wounded one;
with the Arm of thy strength
thou hast scattered thine Enemies.
11 The Heavens, they belong to thee,
the Earth also is thine;
the World and all that filleth it,
thou hast disposed them.
12 The North and the South also,
thou hast created them;
Tabor and Hermon, West and East,
shall in thy Name rejoice.
13 Thou hast an Arm to which there does
a mighty strength belong;
Mightily strengthened be thy hand,
exalted thy Right-Hand.
14 Justice and Judgment are the firm
Foundation of thy Throne;
Mercy and Truth shall go before
thy face, as Officers.
15 O blessed are the People,
who do know the joyful sound;
They, O ETERNAL, walk
in the light of thy Countenance.
16 They in thy Name shall still rejoice
all day and every day;
and in thy righteousness
they shall an Exaltation have.
17 Because thou art the Glory
of the strength which they enjoy;
and in thy favour
shall our horn be lifted up on high.
18 Because that the ETERNAL One
is our protecting Shield;
and He that is the Holy One
of Israel is our King.
19 Then didst thou speak in vision
to thy gracious One, and say;
I’ve laid the Help; that’s hoped for,
upon a Mighty One:
I have exalted One who is
out of the People chosen.
20 My Servant David
I have found, even the Beloved one;
I have anointed Him
with the Oil of my Holiness.
21 With whom my hand
shall be confirmed,
and my Arm strengthen Him.
22 The Enemy shall not impose
exactions upon Him;
and the Son of iniquity
shall lay no yokes on Him.
23 Yea, I’ll beat down
before His face
those who do trouble Him;
and them that are haters of Him
I’ll smite with wasting plagues.
24 But still my Faithfulness,
and my Mercy shall be with Him;
and in my Name His horn
shall be exalted very high.
25 I on the Sea will cause
His hand Dominions to exert;
and on the Rivers His right hand
to do what He shall please!
26 He shall invoke me at this rate,
Thou art my Father;
Thou art my God,
and Thou the Rock of my Salvation art.
27 Yea, to be my first-born
is what I shall allow to Him;
to be the Highest one,
above the Monarchs of the Earth.
28 My Mercy I will keep for Him
to perpetuity;
and fast my Covenant
shall stand confirmed unto Him.
29 His Offspring I will cause to be
to perpetuity;
yea, His Throne shall continue like
unto the days of Heaven.
30 If that His Children by their Sin
do violate my Law,
and if they in my Judgments
don’t maintain their constant walk.
31 If they profanely do despise
the things which I appoint;
and if they do not carefully
keep my Commandements;
32 Their proud transgressions
then be sure I'll visit with a rod;
and their perverse iniquity
with scourges that shall wound.
33 Nevertheless, my Mercy I
will not make void to Him;
nor will I falsify against
the Faith I've given Him.
34 I will not by the breach of it
pollute my Covenant;
and what is gone out of my lips,
I will not alter it.
35 Once have I by my Holiness
taken my solemn Oath;
To David I will never
lie to the Beloved one.
36 His Offspring shall continue
still to perpetuity;
and his Throne shall before me
be even like unto the Sun.
37 It shall be established
like the Moon to perpetuity;
and there’s the faithful Witness,
there’s the Rainbow, in the sky. Selah.
38 But now thou hast rejected
and expressed much disdain:
And against thy Anointed One
thou hast been very wroth.
39 The Covenant of him that was
thy Servant hast thou nulled;
his Crown thou hast prophaned
by casting it to the ground.
40 Thou hast quite broken down all
of the things that hedged him;
Thou hast brought unto ruin
his Holds that were fortified.
41 All who do pass along the road
do tear and trample him;
he is become a vile reproach
unto his neighbourhood.
42 Thou hast exalted the right hand
of them who trouble him;
thou hast made them for to rejoice
who are his enemies.
43 The whetted edge of his Sword
thou hast given a turn unto;
and in the Battle thou hast not
enabled him to stand.
44 His pure and glorious lustre,
thou hast caused that to cease;
and overturning of his Throne
cast it unto the ground.
45 The days of his prostrated youth
thou hast diminished
with ignominious shame
thou hast quite overwhelmed him. Selah.
46 ETERNAL God, How long wilt thou
conceal thy self forever?
Shall thy incensed wrath
burn like to a devouring Fire?
47 Remember thou, that as for me
how little is my time!
Wherefore hast thou created all
the sons of Men in vain?
48 What Man shall live, so that he shall
never see Death at all?
From the hand of the pit
shall he deliver his own Soul? Selah.
49 Thy Ancient loving kindness,
O Lord, where are they now?
Even what thou in thy truth hast sworn
to David; the Beloved?
50 Lord, The reproach of them that are
thy People bear in mind;
of all the mighty People I
do bear upon my heart.
51 Because that, O ETERNAL God,
thy Enemies have reproached
for they’ve reproached the footsteps
of CHRIST, thy Anointed One.
52 May the ETERNAL God
be owned as the most blessed One,
to an unknown Eternity;
Amen, we say, Amen!