Category: Psalms

[1:1] Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

[1:2] but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

[1:3] He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

[1:4] The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

[1:5] Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

[1:6] for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

[2:1] Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

[2:2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,

[2:3] “Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”

[2:4] He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision.

[2:5] Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,

[2:6] “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”

[2:7] I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you.

[2:8] Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.

[2:9] You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

[2:10] Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.

[2:11] Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

[2:12] Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

[3:1] O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

[3:2] many are saying of my soul, there is no salvation for him in God. Selah

[3:3] But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

[3:4] I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah

[3:5] I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.

[3:6] I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.

[3:7] Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

[3:8] Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people! Selah

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.

[4:1] Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!

[4:2] O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah

[4:3] But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

[4:4] Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah

[4:5] Offer right sacrifices, and put your trust in the Lord.

[4:6] There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”

[4:7] You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and wine abound.

[4:8] In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

[5:1] Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.

[5:2] Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.

[5:3] O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

[5:4] For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

[5:5] The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

[5:6] You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

[5:7] But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

[5:8] Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me.

[5:9] For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

[5:10] Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

[5:11] But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy, and spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may exult in you.

[5:12] For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.

To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.

[6:1] O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.

[6:2] Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.

[6:3] My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long?

[6:4] Turn, O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of your steadfast love.

[6:5] For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

[6:6] I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

[6:7] My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.

[6:8] Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

[6:9] The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer.

[6:10] All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

[7:1] O Lord my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me,

[7:2] lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

[7:3] O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

[7:4] if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

[7:5] let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah

[7:6] Arise, O Lord, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment.

[7:7] Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high.

[7:8] The Lord judges the peoples; judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

[7:9] Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

[7:10] My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

[7:11] God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

[7:12] If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow;

[7:13] he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts.

[7:14] Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

[7:15] He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made.

[7:16] His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.

[7:17] I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.

[8:1] O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.

[8:2] Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength because of your foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.

[8:3] When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

[8:4] what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

[8:5] Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

[8:6] You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,

[8:7] all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,

[8:8] the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

[8:9] O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of David.

[9:1] I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

[9:2] I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

[9:3] When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before your presence.

[9:4] For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne, giving righteous judgment.

[9:5] You have rebuked the nations; you have made the wicked perish; you have blotted out their name forever and ever.

[9:6] The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

[9:7] But the Lord sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice,

[9:8] and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.

[9:9] The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

[9:10] And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

[9:11] Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds!

[9:12] For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

[9:13] Be gracious to me, O Lord! See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death,

[9:14] that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.

[9:15] The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.

[9:16] The Lord has made himself known; he has executed judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion. Selah

[9:17] The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

[9:18] For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever.

[9:19] Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before you!

[9:20] Put them in fear, O Lord! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-Labben. A Psalm of David.

[10:1] Why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

[10:2] In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

[10:3] For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.

[10:4] In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

[10:5] His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

[10:6] He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”

[10:7] His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

[10:8] He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

[10:9] he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

[10:10] The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might.

[10:11] He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

[10:12] Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.

[10:13] Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?

[10:14] But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.

[10:15] Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.

[10:16] The Lord is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.

[10:17] O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear

[10:18] to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.