, DIVINITY SCHOOL TROWBRIDGE LIBRARY GIFT OF Miss Evelyn Brainerd /&<^iZ^^ o . THE PSALMS FROM THE HEBREW. THE PSALMS FROM THE HEBEEf: TRANSLATED AND ARRANGED AN ENGLISH COMMENT THE PEAYEEBOOK PSALTEE. JOHN PHILIP GELL, Rector of Buxted, Sussex. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION, BY E. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, BEEAD STEEET HILL, LONDON. 1879. CB9r M3 G£? TO MY FORMER PARISHIONERS SAINT JOHN'S, NOTTING-HILL, LONDON, WHOSE INDULGENT KINDNESS AND UNWEARIED SUPPORT SUSTAINED FOR TWENTY-THREE YEARS MY PASTORAL SERVICE AMONG THEM, J irtbicafa % first-fruits ai m% xtnt; AND BEG THEIR PRAYERS THAT THIS HUMBLE OFFERING MAY ADD SOME PORTION OF THE HEBREW SPIRIT TO THE PRAISES OF THE SANCTUARY. PREFACE. Three hundred years of holy use, in English homes and churches, have clothed our Prayerbook version of the Psalms of David with a power and worth of its own. And this version has also conveyed to us from the Seventy Greek interpreters, through the Latin Vulgate, a portion of that spirit which filled the devotions of the Grecian Jews before Christ came, and which has lived in the praises of Eastern and Western believers ever since. The channel through which such streams of grace and supplication have flowed for so many ages cannot now be demolished and reconstructed at our will ; nor could we resign our Prayerbook Psalms to the revisers with much expectation of obtaining a better version in return. But meanwhile the Jews have been at Work in another direction, and it will be our endeavour to present their work in an English dress. A star * will show where their Hebrew does not sanction the additions of the Prayerbook. Italics indicate words used in this translation which find no place in the Hebrew text ; and the title, Praises, appears in italics also, because it represents Tehillim, a word of base Hebrew form not found in biblical language. viii PREFACE. Had the primitive Jews applied such a title to their Psalms, they would have said Tehilldth. Por nearly three thousand years they and their descendants have drawn near to God by the Psalms ; and in the course of that obscure millennium which elapsed between the days of Jerome and the revival of learning in the West, they would appear to have settled the received text of the Old Testament, corrected it with over eight hundred marginal emendations called the Keri, and sprinkled it with points and accents re presenting their own accepted view of the meaning and pronunciation thoroughly studied and highly wrought. And though sundry small matters of accentuation remain open still, this Hebrew text of the Masorites has reached a riper critical maturity than our Greek Testament text has yet attained. The received Hebrew, thus corrected, pointed and settled,' is here translated. It is not the text followed by the Seventy, nor is it the text which our Saviour used, nor that which St. Paul has quoted and ex plained; nor is it the text from which any of the ancient versions have been taken. All these texts have perished ; and among ancient versions the Masoretic Hebrew, in its pointed form, is the young est version of all ; but it is the only Hebrew we have. The English basis of the following translation is our Bible version, King James' of 1611, which pro fesses to follow the Hebrew, though the promise is but imperfectly fulfilled ; for . the influence of the Latin Vulgate, derived through Cover dale's translation and Cranmer's Great Bible, often prevails against the Hebrew. About a century after the publication of King James' Bible, the received Hebrew was edited by preface: ix Van der Hooght, 1705 ; and it is his edition of the Masoretic text which has been used for this trans lation. The labours of Van der Hooght were not calculated to settle the original as it came from the Psalmist, but merely to secure the results which Jewish criticism had reached at the revival of learning in Europe. Por he tells us in his preface, sect. 25, that he knew of no better manuscripts than those which had already been used, two centuries before, for Bomberg's Great Hebrew Bible, Venice, 1525, and that he only referred to the Masoretic com mentators, the lexicographers, the grammarians, and the twelve editors who came before him, when the Hebrew Bible of Bomberg or that of Stephens differed from the text of his latest editorial pre decessor Athias. Nor has this lack of manuscripts outside those of the Masoretic class ever yet been remedied. Subsequent editors of the Hebrew Bible have done little more than refer afresh to Masoretic sources; and though their references have been accumulated to a vast extent, they offer but trifling results in maturing the received text. It is not the purpose of the following translation to rival the ease and sweetness of the English Prayerbook Psalms, but to furnish our national Psalter with a running interpretation, or Targum in English, representing with all attainable strict ness the Jewish sense. To this end the verses of the ensuing translation are divided and numbered after the verses of the Prayerbook Psalms, for convenience of arrangement and reference. Should certain passages of our work seem erroneous, through literally following the Hebrew, it will be remembered that an exact rendering of the Masoretic text does x PREFACE. not imply an indiscriminate preference for all its readings. And if the closer rendering sometimes proves obscure and strange, yet where it only repro duces an ambiguity which exists in the original, an easier version would not be a truer one. Changes, again, may be allowed, however numerous or trifling, in the authorized English version, which tend to make it more consonant with itself. Nor let the reader blame the harshness which arises here and there from a reasonable and consistent attempt to subdue English words to Hebrew discipline. Perfect uniformity of rendering may and should be en couraged, not merely for its own sake, but for the light which springs from the comparison of parallel passages similarly translated, and from the balancing of those parallel ideas which are the characteristic ornament of Hebrew poetry. A systematic endeavour has therefore been made always to render the same Hebrew by the same English word ; so that the English reader may know in each case what he has to deal with, and by a recollection of the various passages in which the word occurs, and of the ideas connected or contrasted with it in the parallelisms of the Psalmist, may obtain an insight into the history, use, and application of the Hebrew thought with which the English word is united. Under the influence of this suggestive and fruitful process of comparison the mind hebraizes, and becomes more deeply coloured with the thoughts of the men after God's own heart by whom the Psalms were written, and of the Only Son of God by whom they came to be used in their diviner fulness of meaning. Pollowing this plan, it is generally practicable to allot some one English word as an equivalent to PREFACE. xi each Hebrew term, and to keep that equivalent from being used for other Hebrew words. This at least can be done whenever English is richer than Hebrew; and the words thus carefully marshalled, and married to their proper mates, soon acquire their distinct biblical meaning. But where Hebrew is more copious than English, a difficulty arises in providing equiva lents. The printer may sometimes help the translator, as by printing "Ark" (of the Covenant) for the Hebrew ardn, and " ark " (of Noah) for tebali. Or we may take "gulf" for metzulah, and "gulph" for metzoldh ; or " smote " for the full form yacceh, and " smit " for the apocopate yac. But otherwise the translator must leave the commentator to deal with this difficulty. It sometimes seems insuperable. Por example, the Jews have more thoughts than we have about God; consequently He has more names in Hebrew than in English. There is the unpronounced Name ; spelt Jehovah in English, though the spelling arises from a mistake and there is no such word in Hebrew. When the Jewish eye rests upon the Name, the Jewish tongue says, Adonay. And following in English what the Jew says in Hebrew, we with the Seventy and the Latins call it "Lord." Then there are other passages in the Bible where Adonay itself is rendered " Lord " ; and addn, " lord." Then we have Hammorah, " The Pear " ; Eyaliith, " Power " ; Gnelydn, " Most High " ; and, perhaps, Gnal, " High One." And our language, after supplying equivalents to Marom, " Lofty One," Tzur, " Bock," Hu, " He," and many ancient titles of God, bearing to modern apprehension the character of attributes rather than of names, becomes exhausted before we arrive at Elohim, " God " ; Eldah, " God " ; el, " god " ; beside xii PREFACE. elilim, "false gods." How are we to render that climax of a triple invocation, concluding with the incommunicable Name, which opens the fiftieth Psalm; El, Elohim, Adonay; "God, God, the Lord " ? Though aided by the printer, we fail to ex press in English the grandeur rising into mystery. The Jews must have thought more than we do about man as well as about God, since they multiplied their names for him beyond our own. " Man " is ish, adam, endsh, gebar, and g£ber; beside gibbdr, "mighty man." " Men " also are metim, " persons "; " mortals " would be a closer equivalent, but in certain contexts where it occurs this would seem too trivial. The distinction of nir, " strong man," and homo, " common man," for ish and adam, is not maintained in Scrip ture and is ignored by Jerome. Nor can endsh be " frail man," as proposed by some, for it is applied occasionally to mighty men of valour. (1 Chr. 12, 38.) It seems too late to press into the service such obsolete equivalents' as "wight," "earthling," and " swain," which were at the disposal of King James' translators if they had chosen to adopt them. Still it must be regretted that the various passages in which such different Hebrew words occur must alike be translated " man," and that it must be left to the commentator to note distinctions which however real are beyond the English translator's reach. How, again, is a translator to copy the method which the Masorites attribute to the Psalmist, when inexpressible scorn and abhorrence are testified by a sudden silence? Thus, " Give not to a company of the soul of thy turtledove." (Ps. 74, 20.) Or how is the English reader to maintain the PREFACE. xiii double meaning which Masoretic punctuation carries through such a sentence as, " [With] blessings also shall the teacher wrap [his lips]" (Ps. 84, 6); Which likewise means, " [With] blessings also shall the former rain wrap [the ground]." Both meanings seem intended ; for this is a chidah — a keen sentence — bearing a double edge ; so that it is impossible to translate the passage without a com mentator's aid. The translator, again, might often wish that the genius of our language permitted a nearer approach to the simple efforts after expression which adorn the primitive Hebrew ; that Saint, for instance, — chasid — could have been translated " mercy-man " ; and that " mercy-seat " — cappdreth — could have been ren dered " Ark-lid." Por "mercy," — chesed — the main root of the idea of chasid, has no place in the ety mology or symbolism of cappdreth. And now, to illustrate another class of the translator's difficulties, the grammatical. The ar rangement of tenses in each Psalm often requires the reader to decide in the first instance whether the Psalmist is casting his thoughts into the historic past, the prophetic future, or into a present mingling the immediate past and the immediate future. But • when this preliminary is settled with regard to the first verb in a new context, there is no further ambiguity. By an unfailing rule of the Hebrew language, a past tense is perfect only to the verb next before it, and a future tense is future only to the verb next before it. Much therefore depends on the tense of the previous verb, and the above rule xiv PREFACE. leaves the two Hebrew tense-forms 'to be represented by many English equivalents. So varied indeed are the results, that little is gained by proposals which recent grammarians have made to alter the names of perfect and future which the Hebrew tenses have borne for some centuries. We find that in Hebrew a perfect tense, following a perfect, may be equivalent to an English pluperfect ; as, "The Lord looked (perfect) . . . they had turned aside (perfect)." Ps. 14, 3. The turning aside was perfected before He looked ; and though both verbs refer to time past, the second is more past than the first. The same Hebrew perfect, following a perfect which has acquired a pluperfect power as in the last example, may be preter-pluperfect in English ; as, " Their line had gone out (perf.) . . . and (in still earlier time) He had set (perf.) a tent for the sun." Ps. 19, 4. And though English cannot go further back, Hebrew can retreat any number of steps into the past, by means of a receding series of perfects ; as, " He [then] laboured with iniquity, and had been with child (perf.) with trouble,' and had begotten (perf.) a falsehood." Ps. 7, 15. Where the two "hads" represent different times, the falsehood being more past than the trouble. The perfect tense again, following a perfect as before, may be a present; as " I am become (perf.) to them a reproach, they see (perf.) me." Ps. 109, 24. The second of these two verbs precedes the first in order of time, and is therefore perfect in Hebrew, though present in English. PREFACE. xv Proceeding to cases in which a Hebrew perfect follows a future instead of a perfect, it may be plu perfect; as, "All kings did [then] confess (fut.) thee, they had heard (perf.) the words of thy mouth." Ps. 138, 4. Or it may be perfect; as, " When the purposes were being broken (fut.), what did the righteous One work (perf.) ? " Ps. 11, 3. Or imperfect ; as, " I was [then] careful (fut.) . . . and mine enemies were prevailing, (perf.)." Ps. 38, 18, 19. Or future in English ; as, "I will establish (fut.) thy seed, and will have built up (perf.) thy throne." Ps. 89, 4. In every one of the above cases the perfect tense is perfect to the verb which it immediately follows, and therefore belongs to an earlier point of time. So, on the other hand, a future always belongs to a later point of time than the verb preceding it. Following a perfect, it may still be future ; as, " I have laid (perf.) the Loud continually before me, I shall not be made to slip (fut.) " Ps. 16, 9. Or it may be present ; as, " They see (perf.) . . . and then He saith (fut ) the word." Ps. 107, 24, 25. Or it may be perfect ; as, "He remembered (perf.) and brought forth (fut.) his people." Ps. 105, 41, 42. And to add a still more noticeable case, in whicli a future, following a perfect, covers every English tense at once, past, present and future ; we have, "The Lord dwelt (perf.) by the deluge, and then the Lord dwelt (fut.) — did, does, and will dwell — a king for ever." Ps. 29, 9. xvi PREFACE. A future, once more, following a future, may be future; as, "When I walk (fut.) ... I will not fear (fut.)." Ps. 23, 4. Or it may be present ; as, "And then He saith (fut.) [the word], and then the wind ariseth (fut.) " Ps. 107, 25. Or even perfect; as, " And then he brought forth (fut.) his people, and then gave them (fut.) the lands." Ps. 105, 42, 43. The gift of the lands to God's people succeeded their bringing forth; and in this, as in the six previous examples, the future merely presents a later point of time than that to which the preceding verb belongs. The Synagogue-readers, by pronouncing " and " (vau) before a future in a peculiar way, as " and then," (vau conversive), emphasize this sequence of the future tense. And where the accentuation admits of it, they alter the accent both of the perfect and future, with the same purpose of forcing the tense- change into notice. But these emphatic methods are often omitted by the readers, where the con nection of successive tenses though equally real is less prominently noticeable. Such are some of a translator's difficulties. They are not to be solved by analogy with any classical or modern rules of grammar ; or even with the Arabic, which had a dominant influence over the Masorites, but none over the writers of the Old Testament. Bible Hebrew was a dead language long before our Saviour's time ; and it left no key to its treasures, except the comparative analysis of its remains. The scribes who wrote the oldest commentaries stood PREFACE. xvii at a greater distance from David and Samuel than we do from William the Conqueror and Edward the Confessor. And so far as the Psalms are concerned the force of tradition must be more attenuated still, for we have a chasm between the Psalms and the earliest extant Psalms-targum greater than that which divides us from Alfred the Great. Measured against the vast antiquity of the language itself Hebrew grammar is a very modern adaptation; and the three-letter Hebrew roots are but a fancy of yesterday, loading the lexicons with over three hundred ima ginary root-words, which are no part of the sacred language. The usage of the Bible Hebrew, gathered from parallel passages, was the only test which the Seventy, Jerome, and the earlier Rabbis, applied to traditional interpretation; and it remains our right key to unlock the thoughts of David and his fellow psalmists. Nor is it easy to disengage the dead body of the primitive written Hebrew from the funeral trappings of point and accent "which have been laid upon it by the critics ; and to distinguish the time-worn changes wrought by temple-singers and synagogue-readers. Perhaps the English student will gather an idea of the wear and tear of the language during the long interval of time which separated modern Masoretic Hebrew from the Hebrew which the Seventy trans lated, and that again from the living Hebrew in which the Psalms were first recorded, by observing the state of the proper names. The ensuing transla tion retains the deep guttural, gn before a vowel, and ng after a vowel, which it has been the recent custom to suppress ; and follows the pointed Hebrew where English usage has inclined to the pronunciation of xviii PREFA CE. the Seventy. The Masoretic Mosheh and Pargndh, Pelishtim and David, shew what a thousand years (200 B.C. — 800 a.d.) had done to change the pronunciation of Moyses, Pharao, Phylistiim and Dabid, prevalent in the time of the Seventy. And still more widely does this pronunciation differ from the primitive but now forgotten speech of the yet living language, hidden under the venerable writing which the sacred page still presents to the eye, Mshe, Phroe, Phl'shtim and Dud. Those portentous gutturals, with the varied and vigorous sibilants which amused Jerome, still growl in Jewish throats and hiss on Jewish tongues, but how they were applied in David's time we must be content to leave unknown. Little sure progress can be made in fixing the chronological order of the Psalms by marking peculiarities of style or language. Syriac and Chaldsean forms may be of any age, and may have been introduced at any period into the use of the temple or into ancient recensions of the text. His torical references, which are of more use for the purpose, must be left to the commentator, whose path would be greatly smoothed if the English Old Testa ment version of the historical and prophetic books were made of the same texture as the English version of the Psalms. But in fact, the authorized Bible translation of the Psalms is by no means homogeneous with itself. To go no further than the first word of the first Psalm, ashrey, "the great happiness of." Our translators render it " blessed " ; but when they had completed above three quarters of their task in translating the Psalms, the inconvenience appears to have dawned upon them of transferring to ashrey an English word which belongs either to meborac, PREFACE. xix " blessed," or to the shorter and commoner form bariic, "blest." After a little vacillation between "blessed," (Ps. 119, 1, 2), "happy," (Ps. 127, 6), and "blessed" again (Ps. 128, 1), they settled down to the right word " happy " (Ps. 137, 9), and kept to it for the rest of the Psalms. Though David's actions closely scanned, and David's record strictly translated, restore to David in person many psaims of which recent critics would fain deprive him, we may profitably bear in mind that David, like Homer, is a person and something more. The innumerable souls who have known his emotions, the psalmists who have shared his inspi ration, the nations who have sung his hymns, the whole spiritual strength of that portion of the human race which has made the treasure of the Psalms its own, have all contributed their share of thought and feeling to complete the fulness of that treasure. It is too late therefore in the world's history to confine the sense of each psalm to the state and circumstances either of the man who wrote it of old, or of the man who reads it now. Mankind, the Church, and the Church's Head, must be taken into counsel when we search the Eternal Spirit's meaning in the Psalms. Nor will the ensuing comparison, made in our own English tongue, between the existing Hebrew and our more familiar Prayerbook Psalms, fail to blend the main currents of Jewish and Gentile interpretation in such a way as to suggest many instructive lines of thought. Trying the venerable witnesses side by side together, we shall come nearer in spirit to that blessed host who have entered the heaven of united praise. Buxted Rectory, Christmas, 1878. PSALM 146. I'll praise Him while He lends me breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers ; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life and thought and being last, Or immortality endures. ISAAC WATTS, D.B., 1719. PRAISES. i. HAPPY the man that hath not gone in the counsel of guilty men, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor dwelt in the dwelling of scorners ; 2 But his delight hath been in the law of the Lord, and in his law hath he then meditated by day and night ; 3 And he had become as a tree settled by currents of waters, that will give its fruit in its time, 4 And its leaf will not fade, and whatsoever it shall yield, it will advance it. 5 The guilty have not been so, but as the chaff which the wind will go on driving * * * ; 6 Therefore guilty men shall not rise in the judgement, nor sinners in the congregation of righteous men, 7 For the Lord knoweth the way of righteous men, and the way of guilty ones shall perish. PRAISES. ii. WHEREFORE did the nations throng, and the folk then medi tate emptiness? 2 Wherefore did the kings of the earth then stand forth, when the gover nors had been in council together over the Lord and over his anointed, saying, 3 We would utterly sunder their yoke- bands, and cast from us their ropes. 4 One dwelling in the heavens did then laugh, the Lord had them in derision ; 5 At that time did he then speak unto them in his anger, and with his hot blast did he trouble them, saying, 6 Yet I myself have poured out oil on my king over Tziyydn the mount of my sanctuary. 7 I would recount it for a statute, the Lord hath said it unto me, Thou art my son, I this day have begotten thee ; 8 Ask of me, and I would give the nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy holding ; 9 Then shalt thou shatter them with a rod of iron, as a potter's vessel shalt thou dash them. PRAISES. 10 And now, ye kings, be skilful, be chastened, ye judges of the earth ; 11 Serve the Lord with fear, and be glad * with tremor ; 12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and then ye perish away, when his an ger is all but burning you up. Happy all that take refuge in him. III. A psalm : to David : in his stealing away from the face of Abshaldm his son. LORD, how have mine adversaries been many, many rising upon me, 2 Many saying to my soul, There is no salvation for him in * God. Selah : 3 And Thou Lord wert a buckler about me, my glory and the lifter up of my head. 4 With my voice did I then call unto the Lord, and then he answered me from the mount of his sanctuary. Selah : 5 As for me, I laid me down and then would sleep, I awaked when the Lord laid his hand on me ; 6 Then I feared not before ten thousands of a people that did set upon me round about. 7 Rise 0 Loed, save me my God, for thou didst smite all mine enemies PRAISES. on the cheek, thou didst break up the teeth of guilty men. 8 With the Lord is the salvation : thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah. IV. To the chief : on stringed instruments : a psalm : to Dav'id. ANSWER me when I call, my God of justice, thou hast enlarged me in adversity, be gracious to me and hear my prayer. 2 Ye sons of men how long shall my glory be put to disgrace, how hng will ye go on loving emptiness, how long will ye seek a lie ? Selah : 3 And know ye that the Lord hath set apart a saint for himself ; the Lord then heard when I called unto him. 4 Tremble ye and sin not, say it in your heart upon your bed and be still. Selah : 5 Sacrifice the sacrifices of justice, and trust ye unto the Lord. 6 There are many saying, Who will let us see a good thing ? 7 Lord bear thou up the light of thy face over us. 8 Thou hast given rejoicing in my heart from the time that their corn and their new wine * * were much. PRAISES. 9 In peace with them altogether would I lie down and sleep, when Thou, Lord, makest me dwell apart securely. V To the chief : unto the music of the pipes : a psalm : to Dav'id. GIVE ear O Lord to my sayings, 0 discern my meditation, 2 0 listen to the voice of tB$^tppeal, my king and my God, when I pray unto thee. 3 Lord of a morning shalt thou hear my voice, of a morning will I order my sacrifice unto thee and then will keep watch. 4 For Thou art not a god delighting in guilt, evil shall not sojourn with thee, 5 Madmen shall not stand forth before the presence of thine eyes, thou hast hated all workers of iniquity, 6 Thou wilt make them perish that speak a lie, a man of blood-guiltiness and deception will the Lord abominate. 7 And I in the abundance of thy mercy will come to thy house, in thy fear will I worship toward the temple of thy sanctuary. 8 Lead me Lord in thy righteousness because of my foes, make thy way right before my face ; - ;y~ y PRAISES. 9 For there is nothing established in his mouth, within them is great mischief, 10 Their throat is an open sepulchre, they will go on making smooth with their tongue. 11 Let them be trespassers, 0 God, then shall they fall from their counsel- lings ; have them thrust out in the abun dance of their transgressions, for they have been bitter against thee ; 12 And then shall all that take refuge in thee rejoice, they shall for ever shout aloud, and thou wilt hang thy vail above them ; and they that love thy name shall triumph in thee, 13 When Thou dost bless the right eous, when Thou, Lord, goest on encirc ling him with thy good pleasure as the shield. VI. To the chief: on stringed instruments: to the music of the eighth : a psalm : to Dav'id. T ORD reprove me not in thine anger, J-^ neither chasten me in thy fury ; 2 Be gracious to me Lord for I languish, heal me Lord for my bones have been troubled, 3 And my soul hath been very " trou bled ; but Thou, Lord, how long * * ? 4 Return 0 Lord, 0 let loose my soul, save me because of thy mercy. PRAISES. 5 For in death there is no remem brance of thee ; in hell who shall confess thee? 6 I have toiled in my sighing, then all night I made my pallet swim, I melted then my bedstead with my tears. 7 Mine eye was fretted with the provocation, it stiffened on all "mf ad versaries. 8 Turn aside from me all ye workers of iniquity, for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping, 9 The Lord hath heard my supplica tion, the Lord then took my prayer ; 10 Then were all mine enemies ashamed and very troubled, then they returned, then they were ashamed, in a moment. VII. Sinning by ignorance: to Dav'id: which he sang to the Lord on the words of Cush Bdnyemin'i. OLORD my God in thee have I taken refuge, save me from all them that follow me and have me rescued ; 2 Lest one prey like a lion on my soul, rending away, and there be none to rescue. 3 0 Lord my God if I have done this, if there be unrighteousness in my palms, PRAISES. 4 If I have recompensed evil to him who ended strife with me, and if I would have then let loose mine adver sary empty, 5 An enemy shall diligently follow my soul, and overtake me, and trample my life to the earth, and cause my glory to abide in the dust. Selah : 6 Rise 0 Lord in thine anger, be thou borne up against the great wrath of mine adversaries, and 0 stir thee for me ; thou hast commanded judge ment ; 7 And then let the congregation of the folk go on compassing thee about, and over it 0 return thou aloft. 8 Then the Lord shall plead for the peoples ; judge me Lord, according to my justice and according to mine innocencj that is upon me. 9 Pray let one make an end of the evil of guilty men, and then stablish thou the righteous man, 10 Trying also the hearts and reins, 0 righteous God. 11 My buckler is with God who saveth men upright of heart, 12 Even God, a righteous judge * * * and a God indignant every day ; 13 Surely he will return and sharpen PRAISES. his sword, he had trod his bow and then kept it stablished, 14 And had established for himself weapons of death, he then wrought his arrows for the pursuers. 15 Behold one then laboured with iniquity, and had conceived travail, and had begotten a falsehood ; 16 He had graven a pit, and then he dug it, and then fell into the ditch whereat he worked * ; 17 Then his travail returned on his head, and his violence went down upon his scalp. 18 Then did I confess the Lord according to his justice, and would make a psalm of the name of the Lord most High. VIII. To the chief : to the music of the press : a psalm : to Dav'id. OLORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth, the which O give to be thy majesty above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou laid a foundation of strength because of thine adversaries, that thou mightest cause the enemy and revenger to cease. 3 When I see thy heavens, the doing PRAISES. of thy fingers, moon and stars, which thou hast stablished, 4 What was man, when thou didst go on remembering him, and the son of man, when thou didst go on visiting him, 5 And then madest him want little of the gods, and didst crown him with glory and honour ; 6 Then thou madest him have do minion over the doings of thy hands, when thou hadst set all under his feet, 7 Sheep and draught oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field, 8 The bird of the heavens and the fishes of the sea, as he passeth over the paths of the seas. 9 0 Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth. IX. To the chief: to the music of "dying of the son " : a psalm : to Dav'id. I WILL confess the Lord with my whole heart ; I would recount all thy wonderful works ; 2 I would rejoice and triumph in thee, I would make a psalm of thy name, 0 most High. 3 When mine enemies return back ward they shall be made to stumble and then perish from thy face ; PRAISES. 4 For thou hast done my judgement and my plea, thou hast dwelt on a throne, the judge of justice ; 5 Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast made the guilty one to perish, thou hast wiped away their name for ever and ever. 6 As for the enemy, waste places are come to an end for eternity ; and thou hast plucked up adversaries, their re membrance hath perished, even them selves. 7 And the Lord will dwell for ever, he hath stablished his throne for the judgement, 8 And He will judge the world in justice, in equity will he plead for the folk; 9 And then will the Lord become a high tower for the crushed one, a high tower for times of help in the distress ; 10 And they that know thy name will then trust in thee, for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee out. 11 Make ye psalms to the Lord that dwelleth in Tziyydn, tell his acts among the peoples ; 12 For seeking out blood-guiltiness he hath remembered them, he hath not forgotten the cry of the meek ones. PRAISES. 13 Be gracious to me, Lord, see my humiliation from them that hate me ; exalting me from the gates of death, 14 That I might recount all thy praises ; in the gates of the daughter of Tziyy6n would I be glad in thy salva tion. 15 The nations have sunk in a ditch they made, in the net which they secreted hath their foot been captured. 16 The Lord, it is known, hath done judgement, ensnaring the guilty one in the work of his palms. A deep murmur : Selah : 17 Guilty men shall return towards hell, and all nations forgetters of God, 18 When the needy one shall not be forgotten for eternity, nor the hope of humble men perish alway. 19 Rise 0 Lord, let not man strengthen his cause, let then the na tions be judged before thy face ; 20 Set a fear upon them 0 Lord, then let the nations know ; they are but men. Selah : x. W HY wilt thou stand far off, 0 Lord, why wilt thou conceal * , at times of help in the distress ? PRAISES. 2 In the high estate of the guilty he will pursue the humble one, then are they laid hold of by the devices which they had invented. 3 For the guilty hath gloried over the longing of his soul, and gaining he hath blessed his soul, but exceedingly despised the Lord. 4 As for the guilty, at the height of his anger all his devices say, He will not seek it out, there is no God. 5 His ways will shake at all times, thy judgements are aloft from before him, as for all his adversaries he will puff on them ; 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be made to slip to all generations, who fall not into evil. 7 His mouth is full of execration and deceptions and fraud, under his tongue are travail and iniquity ; 8 He will dwell in an ambushment of the courts, in the hiding-places will he slay the acquitted one, his eyes will keep secretly on the weakling ; 9 He will lie in ambush in the hiding- place as a lion in his covert, he will lie in ambush to plunder the humble ; 10 Then will he plunder the humble by drawing him in his net. PRAISES. 11 The rampart of the afflicted ones will 3k crushed, and*%Ni11 bow low, and will have fallen by his prevailing ones ; 12 He hath said in his heart, * God hath forgotten, he hath hid his face, he hath not seen, it is for eternitv. 13 Rise 0 Lord, 0 God bear up thy hand, forget not the meek ones. 14 Wherefore hath the guilty exceed ingly despised God, and hath said in his heart, * Thou * wilt not seek it out ? 15 * Thou hast seen, when Thou didst look upon trouble and provocation, 16 For a man to give them into thy hand ; upon thee did the weakling then leave them, Thou wast helping the fatherless. 17 Break the arm of the guilty, and then as to the evil thou shalt seek out his guilt and find none. 18 The Lord is king for ever and ever, the nations have perished out of his land. 19 Lord thou hast heard the longing of the meek, thou wilt have their heart established, thou wilt cause thine ear to listen, 20 To judge the fatherless and the crushed one, then the man of the land shall not be any more in awe. PRAISES. XL To the chief: to Dav'id. IN the Lord did I take refuge, how said ye then to my soul, Flit thou sparrow, — to your mount ? 2 When, lo, the guilty went on tread ing the bow, they had stablished their arrow upon the string, to shoot in thick darkness at men upright of heart. 3 When the purposes were being broken down, what did the righteous One work ? 4 The Lord whose sanctuary is in the temple, the Lord whose throne is in the heavens, 5 His eyes did then view *, his eyelids try the sons of men, 6 The righteous Lord did then try, and the guilty one and him that loveth violence had his soul hated ; 7 Then down upon guilty men did he shower traps, fire and brimstone, and a spirit of great consternation, the assigned share of their cup ; 8 For the Lord is righteous, he had loved righteous things, his face did then view the upright man. PRAISES. XII. To the chief: to the music of the eighth: a psalm : to Dav'id. SAVE 0 Lord, for one hath made an end of the saint, for the faithful are scant among the sons of men. 2 They spake then lightness, a man with his neighbour, with a lip of smooth sayings in a double heart they spake ; 3 The Lord then caused all lips of smooth sayings to be cut down, and the tongue that spake great things ; 4 Who had said, We will make mighty way for our tongue, our lips are with us, who is lord over us ? 5 For the destroying of humble, men, for the crying out of needy ones, 6 Now will I rise, did the Lord then say ; I will set him in safety, he shall puff at him. 7 The sayings of the Lord ar& pure sayings, silver refined in the smelting- pot on the earth, fused down sevenfold. 8 Lord Thou didst observe them then, thou wilt go on for ever keeping him from this generation ; 9 Guilty men shall go on walking round about, as baseness is being lifted up over the sons of men. PRAISES. XIII. To the chief : a psalm : to Dav'id. HOW long 0 Lord wilt thou for get me, for eternity ? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me ? 2 How long shall I set counsels in my soul, to be a sorrow in my heart by day? How long shall mine enemy be lifted up over me ? 3 Look and answer me, 0 Lord my God ; 0 make mine eyes to shine, lest I sleep the sleep of death ; 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have been able to overcome him, lest mine adver saries be glad when I am made to slip. 5 But as for me, I had trusted in thy mercy ; then was my heart glad in thy salvation, 6 I would sing to the Lord because he had recompensed me ******* * * * XIV. To the chief : to Dav'id. HHHE churl said in his heart, There is -*- no God. 2 They had attainted their act, they had made it abominated, there was no doer of any thing good * * *. 3 The Lord had looked down from the heavens over the sons of men, to see if there were a skilful man seeking out God; PRAISES. 4 The whole had turned aside, to gether they had become filthy, there was no doer of any thing good, not even qne. * * * * * 8 Had not all the workers of iniquity known? Eating my people, had they eaten bread ? Had they not called the Lord? 9 There had they a great dread * * *, for God was in the righteous generation. 10 Ye then shamed the counsel of the humble, when the Lord was his refuge. 11 Who will give out of Tziyy<5n the salvation of Israel? When the Lord returneth with the captivity of his people, Yangakdb shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice. XV. A psalm : to Dav'id. LORD, who shall sojourn in thy tent, who shall abide in the mount of thy sanctuary ? PRAISES. 2 One going a perfect way and work ing justice and speaking the truth in his heart, 3 Who hath not cavilled with his tongue, nor done harm to his neighbour, nor borne up a reproach against one that is near him ; 4 A contemptible man hath been disdained in his eyes, and then he hath honoured them that fear the Lord ; 5 He hath sworn to do himself evil, and then altered it not * * * ; 6 He hath not given his silver in usance, nor taken a bribe against an acquitted man. 7 A doer of these things shall never be' made to slip. XVI. An inscription : to Dav'id. PRESERVE me, 0 God, for I have taken refuge in thee. 2 My soul, thou hast said to the Lord, Thou art Lord, my goodness is nothing unto thee ; 3 It is for the sacred ones that are in the land, for them and the excellent of it, all my delight is in them. 4 Their pangs will become many, they have dowered another god ; 5 Nothing of their drink-offerings PRAISES. of blood will I cause to be poured out, nor bear up their names on my lips. 6 0 Lord, the assigned share of my portion and of my cup, Thou art sus taining my lot, 7 The cords have fallen to jne, among w tne pleasant ones, yon^m ^¦'ii'iiinTinl ^inheritance %f& failm unto me. 8 I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel, yea in the nights did my reins then chasten me. 9 I have laid the Lord continually before my presence, because he is on my right hand I shall not be made to slip. 10 Wherefore my heart hath rejoiced and then my glory was glad, yea my flesh shall abide securely ; 11 When thou dost not forsake my soul in hell, nor give up thy saint to see decay \ 12 When thou makest me know the path of life, a satisfying of my rejoicings before thy face, pleasant places at thy right hand, for eternity. XVII. A prayer : to Dav'id. TTEAR justice 0 Lord, 0 listen to -*-*- my shouting, 0 give ear to my prayer from no lips of deception ; 2 Let then my judgement go out PRAISES. from before thy face, let thine eyes then view equity. 3 Thou hast tried my heart, thou hast visited by night, thou hast refined me and then found nothing, my devising then passed not the mouth of the LORD. 4 As for me, after the workings of a man in the word of thy lips, I had observed the paths of him that breaketh through, 5 To sustain my goings forth in thy tracks ; my steps had not been made to slip. 6 As for me, I called thee when thou didst answer me, O God ; incline thine ear to me, hear my saying ; 7 Set apart thy mercies, saving them that take refuge from those that raise themselves at thy right hand ; 8 Observe me as the pupil, as the daughter of the eye, then hide me in the shadow of thy wings 9 From the face of the guilty that have been destroying me, of my soul's enemies who came close round then upon me ; 10 With their fat had they shut up our way, with their mouth had they spoken in stateliness ; 11 Now have they gone around us in PRAISES. our goings forward, their eyes did they then set to stretch upon the earth. 12 His semblance is as a lion, he will chafe to prey, and it is as a young lion dwelling in hiding-places. 13 Rise 0 Lord, O be before his face, make him bend the knee ; 0 make my soul escape, from the guilty one let thy sword deliver me, 14 From persons let thy hand deliver me, Lord, from persons, from this age, their portion is in life, and with thy secretly kept gift hast thou then filled their belly, 15 Then are they surfeited with sons, and they will have left their residue to their babes. 16 As for me, I would view thy face in justice, in awaking I would be sur feited with thy form. XVIII. To the chief : to the servant of the Lord, to Dav'id, who spake to the Lord the words of this singing, in the day the Lord had him rescued from the palms of all his enemies and from the hand of Sh&ul ; and then he said, i WILL love thee tenderly, 0 Lord my J- firm stay ; the Lord my high rock and my fortress and he who causeth my escape, my God, my rock, in him will I take refuge, my buckler and my horn of safety, my high tower ; PRAISES. 2 I will call on the Lord who is to be praised, and I shall be saved from mine enemies. 3 Cords of death compassed me, and then torrents of the worthless affrighted me ; 4 Cords of hell went around me, snares of death were before me. 5 In mine adversity I then called the Lord and appealed unto my God ; 6 From his temple he then heard my voice, and my appealing before his face then came into his ears ; 7 And then the earth tossed and then quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and then tossed themselves, because his wrath was hot. 8 There went up smoke in his anger, and then fire from his mouth did eat, live coals burnt up therefrom ; 9 And then he stretcht the heavens and went down, and deep darkness was under his feet ; 10 And then he rode upon a cherub and then did fly, and then soared upon the wings of the wind ; 11 Then he set darkness for his hiding, for his covert round about him, darkning of waters, the rainclouds of the skies ; PRAISES. 12 From the glow before his presence there passed through his rainclouds hail and live coals of fire ; 13 And then the Lord made it thun der in the heavens and the most High gave his voice, hail and live coals of fire ; 14 And then he sent his arrows and 'scattered them, and lightnings had he darted and then discomfited them ; 15 And then the channels of the waters were seen and the foundation places of the world were then uncovered, at thy rebuke 0 Lord, at the breath of the spirit of thine anger ; 16 Then he sent his hand from, aloft, he took me, he caused me to be drawn from many waters ; 17 He had me rescued from my strong enemy and from them that hated me, for they had been bolder than I ; 18 Then they were before me in the day of my gloom, and then the Lord became my stay ; 19 And then he brought me out to the large place, he let me loose for he had delighted in me ; 20 Then the Lord recompensed me according to my justice, according to the pureness of my hands he returned to me ; PRAISES. 21 For I had observed the ways of the Lord, and had not been guilty against my God ; 22 For all his judgements were before my presence and then I did not turn aside his statutes from me ; 23 And then became I perfect with him, and then preserved myself from my fault ; 24 And then the Lord returned to me according to my justice, according to the pureness of my hands before the presence of his eyes. 25 With a saint thou didst then shew thyself merciful, with a perfect man thou shewedst thyself perfect, 26 With a purified man thou shewedst thyself pure, and with a perverse thou didst wrestle, 27 When Thou didst save the humble people, and lower lofty eyes, 28 When Thou didst make my lamp to shine, (the Lord my God did make my darkness glow,) 29 When by thee I ran into a troop and lept over a barrier by my God, 30 Even the God perfect in his way. The saying of the Lord is refined, He is a buckler to all them that take refuge in him. PRAISES. 31 For who is God, save the Lord, and who a rock, except our God ? 32 Even the God who belted me about with valour, and then gave me to be perfect in my way ; 33 Who laid my feet like the hinds', and then made me stand upon my high places ; 34 Who caused my hands to learn for the fight, and mine arms had pressed down a copper bow ; 35 And then thou gavest me the buckler of thy safety, and thy right hand then supported me and thy dis cipline made much of me ; 36 Then thou madest broad my pace under me, and mine ankles had not slidden ; 37 Then I followed mine enemies and overtook them, nor returned till I had made them fail ; 38 Then I smote them through, and they were not able to rise, they fell then under my feet ; 39 And then thou didst belt me about with valour for the fight, then thou madest them that rose against me bend the knee under me ; 40 And mine enemies hadst thou given to me by the neck, and as for PRAISES. my haters I then caused them to be dissolved ; 41 Then they appealed, but there was none to save ; even unto the Lord, but he hath not answered them ; 42 And then I rasped them as dust before the face of the wind, I emptied them forth as mire of the streets ; 43 Then thou didst make me escape from the strifes of the people, thou didst put me to be the head of the nations, 44 A people I knew not then served me, 45 By the hearing of the ear were they then heard of by me, the sons of the alien then dissembled to me, 46 The sons of the alien then faded, and cowered out of their confines. 47 The Lord liveth, and blest shall be my rock, and the God of my safety shall be lifted up, 48 Even the God who giveth me avengements, and then maketh the peoples obey under me, 49 Making me escape from mine * enemies, (yea, thou didst then exalt me above them that rose against me, thou hadst me rescued from the violent man, 50 Therefore would I confess thee, PRAISES. Lord, among the nations, and would make a psalm to thy name), 51 Making great the great salvation of his king, and doing mercy to his anointed, to David and to his seed for evermore. XIX. To the chief : a psalm : to Dav'id. rTIHE heavens are recounting the glory -*- of God, and the firmament telling the doing of his hands ; 2 Day to day will pour forth a saying, and night to night shew knowledge ; 3 No saying, and no words, nothing of their voice hath been heard, 4 Their line is gone out into all the earth, and their discourses unto the end of the world ; 5 In them hath he put a tent for the sun. And he as a bride-groom going out from his screen will joy as a mighty man to run his path ; 6 His going out is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit over the outer parts thereof, and there is nothing hidden from his sunshine. 7 The law of the Lord is perfect, making the soul return, the testimony of the Lord faithful, causing the simple one to be wise, PRAISES. 8 The precepts of the Lord upright, rejoicing the heart, the commandment of the Lord pure, making the eyes shine, 9 The fear of the Lord clean, stand ing alway, the judgements of the Lord truth, they have been righteous alto gether ; 10 How are they coveted more than gold and than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and dropping of combs ; 11 In them also is thy servant warned, in observing them is much result. 12 Who will discern ignorances ? acquit me from the hidden sins; 13 Keep back thy servant also from the proud ones, let them not have dominion in me ; at that time shall I be perfect, and I shall have been ac quitted from much transgression ; 14 Then the sayings of my mouth and the deep murmur of my heart shall become well pleasing before thy face, 15 0 Lord, my rock and my re deemer. XX. To the chief : a psalm : to Dav'id. THE Lord shall answer thee in the day of distress, the name of the God of Yangakdb shall set thee on high; PRAISES. 2 He shall send thy helper from the sanctuary and support thee from Tziyydn; 3 He shall remember all thine obla tions, and may he make thine offering drip ; Selah. 4 He shall give thee according to thine heart, and fulfil all thy counsel. 5 We would shout aloud in thy sal vation and in the name of our God will we bear a standard ; the Lord shall fulfil all thine askings. 6 Now know I that the Lord hath saved his anointed, he then answered him from the heavens of his sanctuary, with the great might of the safety of his right hand. 7 Some with the chariot and some with the horses, but we with the name of the Lord did then make mention of our God. 8 As for them, they have bent the knee and fallen, but we are risen and continue still. 9 Save 0 Lord; the king * shall answer us in the day of our calling. XXI. To the chief : a psalm : to Dav'id. rpHE king shall rejoice in thy strength J- 0 Lord, and in thy salvation how shall he be very glad. PRAISES. 2 Thou hast given him his heart's longing, and hast not hindered the proposal of his lips, Selah : 3 When thou didst go on before him with blessings of that which was good, and set a crown of pure gold on his head. 4 He hath asked life of thee, thou hast given it to him, length of days for ever and ever. 5 Great is his glory in thy salvation ; majesty and honour wilt thou lay upon him, 6 When thou dost set him blessings alway, when thou dost solace him in rejoicing before thy face. 7 When the king, trusting in the Lord and in the mercy of the most High, shall not be made to slip, 8 Then shall thine hand find a way to all thine enemies, thy right hand shall find those that hate thee ; 9 Then shalt thou set them as a fur nace of fire, at the time of shewing thy face ; the Lord shall swallow them up in his anger, and fire shall eat them ; 10 Then shalt thou make their fruit to perish from the earth, and their seed from the sons of men, 11 For they have stretched harm PRAISES. over thee, they have invented a device ; they will be able to do nothing 12 When thou shalt set them by the shoulder, and stablish arrows on thy strings against their face. 13 Be thou lifted up 0 Lord in thy strength, we would sing and make our psalm of thy might. XXII. To the chief: to'the music of " the hind of dawn " : a psalm : to Dav'id. MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, far off from my salvation and the words of my roaring ; 2 Then, 0 my God, I call by day, but thou wilt not answer, and by night, but there is no waiting for me. 3 And as for Thee, 0 sacred One, dwelling in the praises of Israel, 4 In thee have our fathers trusted, they trusted and thou didst then make them escape ; 5 Unto thee have they cried and been delivered, in thee have they trusted and not been ashamed. 6 But I myself, a worm and no man, a reproach of men, and contemned of the people, — 7 All that see me have me then in derision, they shoot out the lip, they wag the head, saying, PRAISES. 8 As for rolling his ways on the Lord, will he make him escape, will he have him rescued ? for he delighted in him. 9 For Thou art he that drew me from the belly, that made me trust on the breasts of my mother ; 10 Upon thee have I been cast from the womb, Thou art my God from my mother's belly. 11 Be not far from me, for distress is near, for there is none helping ; 12 Many bulls have gone around me, mighty ones of Bashan have com passed me, 13 They have unclosed their mouth over me ; there is a lion preying and roaring. 14 As waters have I been shed, and all my bones had been sundered apart from one another ; my heart had become as the wax, it had been melted in the midst of my bowels ; 15 My force had dried up as a pot sherd, and my tongue ; my booty had been followed hard ; and then thou hadst set me on to the dust of death. 16 For dogs have gone around me, a congregation of evil-doers have come close round me ; 17 As the lion, my hands and my PRAISES. feet ; then I recount all my bones ; as for them they then look, they see at me ; 18 Then they apportion among them mine apparel, and make the lot to fall upon my clothing. 19 But Thou, Lord, be not far from me, make haste, 0 my Power, to my help ; 20 0 let my soul be rescued from the sword, mine only one from the paw of the dog ; 21 Save me from the lion's mouth and from the two-horns of the reems. Thou hast answered me ! 22 I would recount thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the assembly would I praise thee. 23 Ye that fear the Lord praise him, all ye seed of Yangakdb honour him, and be in terror before him all ye seed of Israel ; 24 For he hath not contemned nor detested the humility of the humble, nor hid his face from him ; and when he appealed unto him he heard. ¦ 25 From thee shall be my praise in the great assembly, my vows will I pay in the presence of them that fear him ; 26 The meek ones shall eat and be PRAISES. surfeited, they shall praise the Lord that seek him out ; your heart shall live alway. 27 All the uttermost parts of the earth shall remember and return unto the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thy face ; 28 For the kingdom is the Lord's and he hath dominion among the nations ; 29 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten, and then worshipped ; 30 All that go down to the dust bent then the knee before his face ; and he hath not kept his soul alive. 31 A seed shall continue serving him, it shall be recounted to the Lord for the generation ; 32 They shall come and tell his righteousness to a people born, that he hath done it. XXIII. A psalm: to Dav'id. THE Lord is my feeder, I shall not want ; 2 He will make me couch in haunts of springing grass, he then guideth me by waters of resting-places ; 3 He then turneth again my soul, then he hath me led in tracks of justice because of his name. PRAISES. 4 Also when I go in the steep valley of the shadow of death I shall not fear evil, for Thou art with me, thy rod and thy hand-staff, even they, then comfort me ; 5 Then thou orderest a table before my face, in the presence of mine adver saries, when thou hast made my head drip with oil thou orderest my refreshing cup ; 6 Only good will it be and a mercy. Mine adversaries will follow me all the days of my life, but I shall have returned into the house of the Lord for length of days. XXIV fk psalm\to Dav'id. j THE earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof, the * world and they that dwell therein ; 2 For He hath founded it by the seas, and then stablished it by the rivers. 3 Who shall go up into the mount of the Lord, and who shall rise in the place of his sanctuary ? 4 The acquitted of palms, and pure of heart, who hath not borne lightly Myself, nor sworn to deception ; 5 He shall bear a blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his safety. PRAISES. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him out, seeking thy face, 0 Yan- gaktfb. Selah : 7 Bear up your heads, 0 gates, and be ye upborne, ye everlasting entrances, and the king of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this, the king of glory? The Lord, most strengthened, and a mighty man ; the Lord, a mighty man of war. 9 Bear up your heads, 0 gates, and bear them up, ye everlasting entrances, and the king of glory shall come. 10 Who is He, this, the king of glory ? The Lord Tzebaoth, it is He, the king of glory. Selah. XXV. To Dav'id. UNTO thee 0 Lord will I bear up my soul ; my God in thee have I trusted, let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. 2 All they also that attend thee shall not be ashamed, the empty traitors shall be ashamed. 3 Lord, make me know thy ways, make me learn thy paths, 4 Make me tread in thy truth, and learn, for Thou art the God of my safety, on thee have I attended diligently all day long. PRAISES. 5 Remember thy compassions, Lord, and thy mercies, for they are from everlasting ; 6 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions ; remember Thou me after thy mercy, Lord, because of thy good things. 7 Good and upright is the Lord, therefore will he teach sinners in the way; 8 He will make the meek ones tread in judgement, and he will make the meek ones learn his way. 9 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth to them that keep his covenant and his witnessings. 10 Because of thy name Lord thou wilt also have forgiven my fault, for it was much. 11 What man is this ? A fearer of the Lord ; he shall teach him in a way he shall choose, 12 His soul shall lodge in good, and his seed shall possess the land. 13 The Lord's council is of them that fear him, and his covenant is that he will make them know. 14 Mine eyes shall be continually to the Lord, when He bringeth out my feet from the net. PRAISES. 15 O turn thy face unto me, and be gracious to me, for an only one and a humble am I ; 16 Distresses have enlarged my heart, bring me forth from my straits ; 17 See my humiliation and my travail, and bear up the iniquity of all my sins ; 18 See mine enemies, that they are many, and hate me with violent hatred ; 19 0 preserve my soul and have me rescued, let me not be ashamed, for I have taken refuge in thee. 20 Innocence and uprightness shall keep me, for I have diligently attended thee. 21 Ransom Israel, 0 God, from all his distresses. XXVI. To Dav'id. JUDGE me, Lord, for I have gone in mine innocence, and in the Lord have I trusted, and not slidden. 2 Try me, Lord, and prove me, O refine my reins and my heart, 3 For thy mercy hath been before the presence of mine eyes, and I have walked in thy truth ; 4 I have not dwelt with light persons, neither come in with concealed workers; 5 I have hated the assembly of evil doers, and not dwelt with guilty men ; PRAISES. 6 I bathed then my palms in acquittal, and then would I compass about thine altar, Lord, 7 To make men hearken at the voice of confession, and to recount all thy wonderful works. 8 Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place of the tabernacle of thy glory ; 9 Gather not in my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood-guiltiness, 10 In whose hands is a wicked device, and their right hand is full of a bribe. 11 And as for me, I will go in mine innocence, ransom me, and be gracious to me. 12 My foot hath stood in a plain, in assemblings will I bless the Lord. XXVII. To Dav'id. rpHE Lord is my light and my safety, -*- whom shall I fear ? The Lord is the strong-hold of my life, whom shall I dread ? 2 Evil-doers in coming near upon me to eat my flesh, even mine adversaries and mine enemies, have themselves stumbled and fallen. 3 If a camp encamp against me, my heart shall not fear, if war rise against me, in this do I trust ; PRAISES. 4 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that did I then seek, that I might dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to view the pleasantness of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple, 5 When he keepeth me secretly in his covert in the day of harm, hideth me in the hiding of his tent, and exalteth me on a rock * . 6 And now shall my head be lifted up over mine enemies round about me, 7 And I would sacrifice in his tent sacrifices of loud noise, I would sing and then make a psalm to the Lord. 8 Hear, Lord, I will call with my voice, and be gracious to me, and^answer me. 9 To thee, my heart, he said, Seek ye my face ; then, Lord, I sought thy face. 10 Hide not thy face from me, in anger incline not thy servant to evil. 11 Thou hast become my help, let me not go, neither forsake me, O God of my safety ; 12 For my father and my mother forsook me, and then the Lord gathered me in. 13 Teach me, Lord, thy way and PRAISES. lead me in a plain path because of my foes, 14 Give me not to the soul of mine adversaries ; for witnesses of falsehood had risen against me, and one puffing out violence, 15 * * * Had not I believed to see at the good things of the Lord in the land of life. 16 Attend diligently unto the Lord, be firm, and he shall make thy heart bold, and attend diligently unto the Lord. XXVIII. To Dav'id. UNTO thee Lord will I call ; my rock, hold not thy peace from me ; lest thou be mute to me, and I shall have been compared with them that go down the pit. 2 Hear the voice of my supplications when I appeal unto thee, when I bear up my hands unto the oracle of thy sanctuary. 3 Draw me not with guilty men and with workers of iniquity, speaking peace with their neighbours and harm in their heart. 4 Give them after their work, and after the ill-savour of their actions, 5 Give them after the doing of their PRAISES. hands, make their recompence return to them. 6 When they discern not the work ings of the Lord nor the doing of his hands, then will he break them down and not build them. 7 Blest be the Lord, for he hath heard the voice of my supplications, 8 The Lord, my strength and my buckler, in him had my heart trusted, and I had been helped ; and then my heart triumphed, and out of my song I then went on confessing him ; •9 The Lord, their strength, and the stronghold of the great salvation of his anointed one, is He. 10 O save thy people and bless thine inheritance, and feed them and bear them diligently for evermore. XXIX. A psalm: to Dav'id. ALLOW to the Lord, ye sons of the mighty, allow to the Lord glory and strength, 2 Allow to the Lord the glory of his name, worship the Lord in the honour able place of the sanctuary. 3 The voice of the Lord over the waters, (the God of glory made it thunder, 4 The Lord over many waters,) the PRAISES. voice of the Lord in force, the voice of the Lord in honour, 5 The voice of the Lord breaking the cedars, (and then the Lord brake up the cedars of Lebanon, 6 And made them then skip like a calf, Lebandn and Shirydn like a young reem,) 7 The voice of the Lord, hewing out flames of fire, even the voice of the Lord then shook the wilderness, the Lord shook the wilderness of Kadesh ; 8 The voice of the Lord then made the hinds calve, and then stripped bare the forests ; and in his temple every one was saying, Glory. 9 The Lord dwelt by the deluge, and then the Lord hath dwelt king for ever ; 10 The Lord will give strength to his people, the Lord will bless his people in peace. XXX. A psalm : a song of the dedication of the house : to Dav'id. I WILL exalt thee, Lord, for thou hast drawn me up, and hast not made mine enemies to rejoice over me. 2 0 Lord my God, I have appealed unto thee, and then thou didst heal me. 3 Lord, thou hast brought up my PRAISES. soul from hell, thou hast kept me alive from my going down the pit. 4 Make psalms to the Lord, 0 ye his saints, and confess the remembrance of his sanctuary. 5 For there is but a moment in his anger, in his good pleasure, life ; in the evening Weeping will lodge, but at the morning there is shouting ; 6 And as for me, I said in my tran quillity, I shall never be made to slip ; Lord in thy good pleasure thou hadst made strength stand for my mountain. 7 Thou hadst hidden thy face, and I had become troubled ; 8 Unto thee Lord did I then call, and unto the Lord I made my supplica tion ; 9 What gain is there in my blood when I go down unto decay ? 10 Shall dust confess thee, shall it tell of thy truth ? 11 Hear Lord, and be gracious to me, 0 Lord be helping me. 12 Thou hast turned for me my mourning to a dance, thou hadst let open my sackcloth, and then belted me about with rejoicing ; 13 Because * one shall make thee a psalm with glory, and shall not be still ; PRAISES. 0 Lord my God, I will go on confessing thee for ever. XXXI. To the chief : a psalm : to Dav'id. IN thee, Lord, have I taken refuge, 0 let me never be ashamed, make me escape in thy righteousness ; 2 0 incline thine ear unto me, have me rescued with speed ; 3 Be to me for a rock of a strong hold, for a house of a great fortress, to save me ; 4 For Thou art my high rock and my fortress, and because of thy name thou wilt have me led and wilt guide me, 5 Thou wilt bring me out from this net they have secreted for me, for Thou art my strong-hold. 6 Into thy hand will I charge my spirit, thou hast ransomed me, Lord God of truth. 7 I have hated them that observe light vanities, and as for me, I have trusted unto the Lord. 8 I would be glad and rejoice in thy mercy, for thou didst see my humiliation, thou knewest my soul in distresses, 9 And didst not make me to be shut up in an enemy's hand, thou madest my feet stand in the large place. 10 Be gracious to me Lord for I am PRAISES. in adversity, mine eye is fretted with provocation, my soul, and my belly ; 11 For my life hath failed in sorrow, and my years in sighing, 12 My force hath stumbled because of my fault, and my bones are fretted ; 13 I have become a reproach above all mine adversaries, and very greatly to my countrymen, and a dread to my well-known friends, seeing me in the street they had fled away from me. 14 I am forgotten from the heart as a dead man, I have become as a perish ing vessel ; 15 For I have heard slander of many, terror round about ; when they were in council together over me they had de vised to take my soul. 16 But as for me, I have trusted on thee 0 Lord, I have said, Thou art my God, 17 In thy hand are my times of help, have me rescued from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that follow me ; 18 0 make thy face to shine upon thy servant, save me in thy mercy ; 19 Let me not be .ashamed, Lord, for I have called thee ; the guilty shall be ashamed, they shall be still for hell. 20 Lips of falsehood shall be dumb, PRAISES. which speak stiffly in their high estate, and in their contempt, against a right eous one. 21 How many are thy good things which thou hast kept secretly for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in thee, in the presence of the sons of men. 22 Thou didst then hide them in the hiding of thy face from the entangle ments of man, thou didst keep them secretly in a covert from the strife of tongues. 23 Blest be the Lord, for he hath made wonderful his mercy for me in a city of siege. 24 And as for me, I had said in my hasting away, I am cleft from before thine eyes. 25 Surely thou hadst heard the voice of my supplications when I appealed unto thee. 26 Love the Lord, all ye his saints, the Lord, who keepeth faithful men, and payeth the residue ; a doer of high estate. 27 Be firm, and he shall make your heart bold, all ye that hope for the Lord. PRAISES. XXXII. To Dav'id : skilful. HAPPY he who is borne up as to trans gression, and covered as to sin ; 2 Happy is a man to whom the Lord will not reckon a fault, and in whose spirit is no deceit. 3 For I had held my peace, my bones had worn away in my roaring all day long, 4 When by day and night thy hand was heavy upon me, my freshness had been turned as in droughts of summer. Selah : 5 Then I made thee know my sin, and my fault I had not covered ; 6 I had said, I will confess the Lord over my transgressions, and Thou hadst borne up the fault of my sin. Selah : 7 Over this shall every saint pray unto thee at a time of finding, at an overflow of many waters they shall only not touch him. 8 Thou art my hiding, thou shalt keep me from the adversary, thou shalt compass me about with shouts of escape. Selah : 9 I will be skilful with thee, and teach thee in the way that thou shalt go, I would give counsel, mine eye shall be on thee. PRAISES. 10 Become :ye not as a horse, as a mule, that / should not make you discern • his garniture is bit and curb to check, that he come not near unto thee. 11 Many sorenesses shall be to the guilty one, and he that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall go on compassing him about. 12 Rejoice in the Lord and be glad ye righteous, and make your singers shout all ye upright of heart. XXXIII. SHOUT aloud, ye righteous, in the Lord, a praise comely for the upright ; 2 Confess the Lord with a harp, make psalms to him with a ten stringed lute ; 3 Sing ye to him a new song, play well the stringed instruments with a loud noise ; 4 For the word of the Lord is upright and all his doing is faithfulness, 5 Who loVeth righteousness and judgement; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord; 6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all their host by the spirit of his mouth, PRAISES. 7 Gathering together as a pile the waters of the sea, giving the deeps in stores. 8 All the earth shall fear the Lord, all they that dwell in the world shall be in terror before him ; 9 For He said, and then it was ; He commanded, and then it stood. 10 The Lord hath dissevered the counsel of the nations, he hath disallow ed the inventions of the peoples * * * . 11 The counsel of the Lord shall stand for ever, the inventions of his heart to all generations. 12 Happy the nation whose God is the Lord *, * the people he hath chosen for an inheritance to himself. 13 The Lord hath looked from the heavens, he hath seen all the sons of men, from the base of his dwelling he hath looked narrowly unto all them that dwell in the earth ; 14 Even he who frameth their heart together, who maketh them discern all their doings, 15 There is no king saved by abundance of valour, a mighty man shall not be rescued by abundance of force ; 16 For salvation the horse is * a false- E 'J, PRAISES. hood, neither shall he deliver by his abundance of valour. 17 Behold the eye of the Lord upon them that fear him, on them that hope for his mercy, 18 To have their soul rescued from the death, and to keep them alive in the hunger. 19 Our soul hath delayed for the Lord ; He hath been our helper and our buckler, 20 When our heart rejoiced in him, because we had trusted in the name of his sanctuary. 21 Thy mercy, Lord, shall be upon us, according as we have hoped for thee.XXXIV. To Dav'id : when he varied his sense before the face of Abimelec, and then he cast him out, and then he did go. T WOULD bless the Lord at all times, J- his praise shall continually be in my mouth ; 2 My soul shall glory in the Lord, the meek shall hear and they shall rejoice. 3 Make ye greater praise to the Lord with me, and then we would exalt his name altogether. 4 I have sought out the Lord and he PRAISES. hath answered me, and had me rescued from all my sojournings. 5 The meek have looked unto him and had flowed together, and let not their faces be put to confusion. 6 This humble one hath called, and the Lord hath heard * and hath saved him out of all his distresses. 7 There was an agent of the Lord encamping round about them that fear him, and then he did let them loose. 8 Taste ye and see that the Lord is good, happy the man that will take refuge in him. 9 Fear the Lord ye his sacred ones, for there is no want to them that fear him ; 10 The young lions have lacked and hungered, but they that seek out the Lord shall not want any good. 11 Go ye, my sons, hearken to me, I will make you learn the fear of the Lord. 12 Who is the man that delighteth in life, and loveth days, to see good ? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking deception ; 14 Turn aside from evil and do good, seek peace and follow it. 15 The eyes of the Lord are open PRAISES. unto the righteous, and his ears unto their appealing; 16 The face of the Lord is against doers of evil, to have their remembrance cut down out of the earth. 17 They cried and the Lord heard, and had them rescued out of all their distresses. 18 The Lord is near to them that are broken of heart, and will save them that are crushed of spirit. 19 Many are the harms of the righteous, but the Lord will go on having him rescued from them all, 20 Preserving all his bones, not one of them shall have been broken. 21 Harm shall make a guilty man to die, and they that hate a righteous one shall be trespassers, 22 When the Lord is ransoming the soul of his servants, and all that take refuge in him shall not be trespassers. XXXV. To Dav'id. STRIVE 0 Lord with them that strive with me, devour them that devour me. 2 Hold firm the buckler and the shield, and 0 rise for my help, 3 And draw forth the spear and shut up the gate, to meet them that follow PRAISES. me ; say to my soul, I am thy great salvation. 4 They shall be ashamed and put to disgrace that seek my soul, they shall be turned backward and put to confusion that invent my harm ; 5 They shall become as chaff before the face of the wind, and an agent of the Lord thrusting them ; 6 Their way shall become darkness and slides, and an agent of the Lord fol lowing them ; 7 For without cause have they secreted for me the ditch of their net, without cause they have digged it for my soul. 8 A desolation shall come on him, which he shall not know, and his net that he hath secreted shall capture him, into a desolation he shall fall, even into it; 9 And my soul shall be glad in the Lord, it shall joy in his salvation ; 10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like thee, who hast had the humble rescued from him that is too firm for him, the humble also and the needy from him that robbeth him. 11 Then witnesses of violence went on rising, they asked me things that I knew not ; PRAISES. 12 They paid me then harm for good ness, to the bereaving of my soul. 13 But as for me, when they were sick my clothing had been sackcloth, I had put my soul to trouble in the fast ; and then my prayer returned upon my bosom. 14 I had walked as though it had been a neighbour my brother, I had bowed low in black as one that bewaileth a mother. 15 And in my halting they had rejoiced, and had gathered together upon me, smiting and I knew it not, they had rent their clothes, and not been still 16 (with profane deriders for a cake) from gnashing upon me with their teeth. . 17 Lord, how much wilt thou see it ? 0 make my soul return from their desolations, mine only one from the young lions. 18 I will confess thee in the great assembly, among a prevailing people will I go on praising thee. 19 Let not mine enemies rejoice at me with a falsehood, neither let them then wink the eye that hate me without cause, 20 When they speak no peace, and PRAISES. go on inventing words of great deception upon the quiet ones of the land, 21 And then enlarge their mouth upon me ; they have said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen. 22 Thou hast seen, Lord, hold not thy peace, Lord be not far from me, 23 0 stir up and awake to my judge ment, to my strife, my God and Lord. 24 Judge me, 0 Lord my God, according to thy justice, and let them not rejoice at me, 25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha, * our soul ; let them not say, We have swallowed him up. 26 They shall be ashamed and put to confusion altogether that rejoice at my harm, they shall be clad with shame and disgrace that make great accusations upon me. 27 They shall shout and rejoice that delight in my justice, and shall say con tinually, The Lord shall wax great who delighteth in the peace of his servant. 28 And my tongue shall meditate on thy justice and thy praise all day long. XXXVI. To the chief: to the servant of the Lord : to Dav'id. THE bode of transgression to the guilty one within my heart saith, No dread PRAISES. of God is before the presence of his eyes; 2 Because he hath smoothed unto himself in his own eyes his way for finding his fault and for hating it. 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deception, he hath done with being skilful for well-doing. 4 He will invent iniquity upon his bed, he will then stand forth upon a way that is not good, he will not disdain evil. 5 Thy mercy Lord is in the heavens, thy faithfulness reacheth up to the skies, 6 Thy righteousness is as the moun tains of God, thy judgements are a great deep. 7 Lord thou wilt save man and beast; how precious is thy mercy 0 God, and the sons of men will go on taking refuge under the shadow of thy wings ; 8 They will go on being steeped in the fatness of thy house, and thou wilt let them drink the torrent of thy pleasures ; 9 For with thee is the well of life, in thy light shall we see light. 10 Draw thy mercy to them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright of heart. PRAISES. 11 Let not the foot of high estate come against me, and let not the hand of guilty men make me flit. 12 There fell the workers of iniquity, they were utterly thrust down and not able to rise. XXXVII. To Dav'id. HEAT not thyself against the evil doers, be not jealous against doers of unrighteousness, 2 When they are cut off with speed as grass, and go fading as green spring ing grass. 3 Trust in the Lord and do good, abide in the land and feed thy flock with faithfulness, 4 And indulge thyself in the Lord, and he shall give thee the askings of thy heart. 5 Roll thy way upon the Lord, trust also upon him and He will do it, 6 And will have brought out thy justice as the light, and thy judgement as the noon. 7 Be still for the Lord, and conform thyself to him, heat not thyself at one who advanceth his way, at a man that doeth devices. 8 Leave off anger and forsake fury, heat not thyself to do yet evil, PRAISES. 9 When evil-doers continue being cut down, and those that attend the Lord, even they, possess the land ; 10 And still a little, and the guilty is not, and thou hast mindfully discerned his place but he is no more ; 11 And the meek then possess the land and shall have indulged themselves over abundance of peace. 12 As the guilty is devising against the righteous and gnashing upon him with his teeth, 13 The Lord then laugheth at him, for he seeth when his day is coming. 14 The guilty have drawn the sword and have trod their bow, to make the humble and needy one fall, and to slaughter men upright in the way ; 15 Their sword then came into their heart, and their bows were broken. 16 Better a few with the righteous one than a multitude of many guilty, 17 When the arms of guilty men are broken, but the Lord is laying his hand on the righteous ones. 18 The Lord knoweth the days of perfect men, and their inheritance shall be for ever, 19 They shall not be ashamed in PRAISES. time of harm, and in days of hungering they shall be surfeited, 20 When the guilty perish, and the enemies of the Lord, as precious fat of fed lambs, shall have failed, * in smoke shall have failed. 21 The guilty giveth a pledge and then payeth not, but the righteous is gracious and giveth, 22 When men blessed by him possess the land, and men banned by him are cut down. 23 A man's pacings shall have been established from the Lord, and he will then delight in his way, 24 When he falleth he shall not be flung forth, for the Lord is laying his hand upon him. 25 I have been a young man, I have also been old, yet I have not seen the , righteous forsaken nor his seed seeking bread. 26 All day long he -is gracious and taketh a pledge, and his seed is made a blessing. 27 Turn thou aside from evil and do good, and abide for ever. 28 For the Lord loveth judgement, and will not forsake his saints, they have been preserved for ever, PRAISES. 29 * * * and the seed of guilty men hath been cut down. 30 Righteous men shall possess the land and abide alway thereon. 31 The mouth of the righteous will meditate wisdom and his tongue speak judgement, 32 The law of his God will be in his heart, none of his goings forth shall slide. 33 The guilty watcheth after the righteous and seeketh to put him to death, 34 The Lord will not continue for saking him when he is in his hand, nor go on finding him guilty when he is judged. 35 Attend diligently unto the Lord and observe his way, and he shall exalt thee to possess the land ; when the guilty are cut down thou shalt see. 36 I have seen a guilty man terrible and laying himself bare, succulent like one born in the land ; 37 And then he passed, and lo he was no more, and I would then seek him but he was not found. 38 Observe an innocent man and see an upright one, for there is a latter end to a man of peace ; PRAISES. 39 But transgressors have been swept off altogether, the latter end of guilty men Hath been cut down ; 40 And the salvation of the righteous hath been of the Lord, their stronghold in time of distress ; 41 And the Lord did then help them and did then make them escape, he made them escape from the guilty ones and saved them, for they had taken refuge in him. XXXVIII. A psalm : to Dav'id : to make mention. LORD, reprove me not in thy dis pleasure, neither chasten me in thy fury ; 2 For thine arrows have been pressed into me, and thy hand then pressed upon me. 3 There hath been no soundness in my flesh before the face of thine indig nation, no peace in my bones before the face of my sin ; 4 For my faults had passed over my head, then as a heavy burden they were too heavy for me ; 5 My bruises have stunk, they have corrupted, before the face of my foolishness. 6 I have been wrung, I have been PRAISES. bowed down very much, I have gone about in black all day long ; 7 For my flanks have been full of scorched matter, and there hath been no soundness in my flesh ; 8 I have been made to give way, and have been crushed very much, I have roared from the disquietness of my heart. 9 Lord, all my longing hath been before thy presence, and my sighing hath not been hidden from thee ; 10 My heart did beat, my force forsook me, and as for the light of mine eyes they also were not with me. 11 My lovers and my neighbours stood then from before my plague, and they that were near me had stood far off; 12 And then they that sought my soul ensnared it diligently, and they that sought out my harm had been speaking great mischief, and then meditating deceptions all day long. 13 But I as one deaf did not then hear, and / was as one dumb who will not open his mouth ; 14 And I became then as a man that heareth not, and with no reproofs in his mouth. PRAISES. 15 For on thee, Lord, had I hoped, Thou didst then answer *, 0 Lord my God. 16 For I said, Lest they * should re joice at me ; when my foot slipped they made great words over me ; 17 For I was ready for halting, and my soreness was in my presence continually, 18 When I told my fault, when I was careful for my sin ; 19 And mine enemies were living and prevailing, and many were they that hated me with falsehood ; 20 And paying harm in return for goodness, they then accused me in return for my following a good thing. 21 Forsake me not Lord, my God be not far from me ; 22 Make haste to my help 0 Lord * my salvation. XXXIX. To the chief : to Yeduthiin : a psalm : to Dav'id. I SAID I would preserve my ways from sinning with my tonguey 2 I would preserve a bridle on my mouth while the guilty was before my presence. 3 In waiting I was dumb, I kept mute * from that which was good, and my sore was hurt. PRAISES. 4 My heart warmed within me, then in my meditation a fire burned me up ; * I spake with my tongue, 5 Lord make me know mine end and the measure of my days, what it is; I would know how I am to be done with. 6 Behold thou hast given my days to be handbreadths, and mine age to be as nothing in thy presence, yet is every man that standeth forth all vanity ; Selah : 7 Yet in an image will man walk, yet as vanity will they go on. being disquieted, one will heap riches and not know who will gather them in. 8 And now, Lord, for what do I diligently attend ? As for my hoping, it is on thee. 9 Have me rescued from all my transgressions, put me not to be the reproach of the churl. 10 I have become dumb, I will not open my mouth, for Thou hast done it. 11 Cause thy plague to be turned aside from upon me, I fail under the blow of thine * hand. 12 With reproofs for his fault hast thou chastened a man, and then melted what he coveted, like the moth * * ; yet is every man vanity. Selah. PRAISES. 13 Hear my prayer, 0 Lord, and give ear to mine appealing, hold not thy peace at my tears, 14 For I myself am a sojourner with thee, a foreigner, as all my fathers. 15 Cause men not to heed me, and then I would take comfort before I go and be no more. XL. To the chief : to Dav'id : a psalm. li/ITH attending have I diligently attended the Lord, and then he stretcht his ear unto me and heard mine appealing ; 2 And then he brought me up out of a pit of tumult, out of the mire of the slough, and then raised my feet upon a high rock ; he had established my goings forth, 3 And then gave a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God ; 4 Many then saw and feared and trusted in the Lord. 5 Happy the man who hath put the Lord to be his trust, and hath not turned his face unto boasters and them that turn away with a lie. 6 Many things hast thou done, even Thou 0 Lord my God, even thy won derful works and thine inventions unto us ; there is no ordering them unto thee, F 2 PRAISES. 7 I would tell and would speak of them, they have prevailed beyond recounting. 8 In sacrifice and oblation thou hast not delighted ; mine ears hast thou graved ; 9 Offering and sin-offering hast thou not asked; at that time I said, Lo, I am come ; 10 In the roll of the book it is written of me, to do thy good pleasure my God I have delighted, and thy law, in the midst of my bowels. 11 I have borne tidings of * justice in a great assembly, lo, I withheld not then my lips, Lord Thou knewest. 12 I have not covered thy righteous ness in the midst of my heart, I have said thy faithfulness and thy salvation, 13 I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great assembly ; 14 Then Thou, Lord, didst not with hold thy compassion from me, then thy mercy and thy truth continually kept me ; 15 For harms had compassed upon me till there was no numbering, my faults had overtaken me, and I was not able to see, they had prevailed, more than the hairs of my head, and my heart had forsaken me. PRAISES. 16 Take pleasure 0 Lord to have me rescued ; 0 Lord, to my help, make haste. 17 Then shall they be ashamed and put to confusion together that seek my soul, to make a full end of her, they shall be turned backward and put to disgrace that delight in my harm. 18 Then shall they be astounded, on the result of their shame, that say to me, Aha, aha. 19 Then all that seek thee shall joy and rejoice in thee, they that love thy salvation shall say continually, The Lord shall wax great. 20 And as for me, a humble one and a needy, the Lord will regard me. 21 Thou art my help, and he that causeth my escape ; my God, tarry not. XLI. To the chief: a psalm: to Dav'id. HAPPY he that is skilful for the poor * man, the Lord shall deliver him in the day of harm ; 2 The Lord shall preserve him and keep him alive, and happy shall he have been called in the land ; and give not thou him to the soul of his enemies. 3 The Lord shall go on supporting him upon a bedstead of infirmity, thou shalt have turned all his bed in his sickness. PRAISES. 4 As for me, I said, Lord, be gracious to me, 0 heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. 5 Then mine enemies said evil against me, When will he die, and his name have perished ? 6 And if one came to see me, then did he speak lightly, his heart then gathered iniquity to him, then did he go out abroad, he spake it ; 7 Then all that hate me whispered together over me, over me did they invent harm for me, saying, 8 It is a word of the worthless one poured into him, and he that is laid down will rise no more. 9 Also the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath made his heel great over me. 10 But Thou, Lord, be gracious to me, and raise me that I may pay them. 11 By this I know that thou hast delighted in me, when mine enemy doth not make a loud noise over me. 12 And as for me, thou hast sustained me in mine innocencf , and then made me stand forth before thy face for ever. 13 Blest be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting; amen and amen. PRAISES. [SECOND BOOK.] XLII. To the chief : skilful : to the sons of Kdrach. AS a hind will crave by the water channels, so will my soul crave unto thee, 0 God. 2 My soul hath thirsted for God, for the living God, when shall I come and be seen before the face of God ? 3 My tears have been my bread by day and night? while they say unto me all day long, Where is thy God ? 4 These things would I remember, and shed my soul upon me, when I pass into the covert, and go reverently with them up to the house of God, 5 With the voice of shouting and of confession, of the multitude keeping the feast. 6 How wilt thou bow thee low, my soul, and then be disquieted upon me ? 7 Hope thou for God, when still I go on confessing him, even the great salva tion of his face. 8 My God, my soul will bow itself low upon me, because I remember thee from the land of Yarden and the Chermonites, from the mount of Mitzengar ; 9 While deep was calling unto deep at the voice of thy waterfalls, all thy PRAISES. breakers and thy billows had passed upon me. 10 The Lord will command his mercy by day, and in the night his song shcfll be with me, even a prayer to my living God. 11 I would say to God my high rock, Why hast thou forgotten me, wherefore shall I go in black with the oppression of the enemy ? 12 With murder in my bones mine adversaries * have reproached me, 13 In their saying unto me all day long, Where is thy God ? 14 How wilt thou bow thee low, my soul, and how wilt thou be disquieted upon me ? 15 Hope thou for God, when still I go on confessing him, even the great salvation of my face and my God. xliii. JUDGE me, 0 God, and 0 strive my strife ; then from an unsaintly nation, from the man of deception and unrighteousness shalt thou make me escape. 2 For Thou art the God of my stronghold ; why hast thou cast me off, wherefore walk I in black with the oppression of the enemy ? PRAISES. 3 Send thy light and thy truth, they shall have me led, they shall bring me unto the mount of thy sanctuary and unto thy great tabernacle ; 4 And I would come unto the altar of God, unto God the rejoicing of my gladness, and confess thee with a harp, 0 God my God. 5 How wilt thou bow thee low, my soul, and how wilt thou be disquieted upon me ? 6 Hope thou for God, when still I go on confessing him, even the great salvation of my face and my God. XLIV. To the chief : to the sons of Kdrach : skilful. WE have heard with our ears, 0 God, our fathers have recounted to us, a work thou hadst wrought in their days, in days of old. 2 Thou with thine hand didst make nations to be a possession, and then plantedst them, then thou didst the folk evil, and then didst send them forth. 3 For they possessed not the land by their sword, neither did their arm get salvation for them, 4 For it was thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy face, for thou didst take pleasure in them. PRAISES. 5 Thou, who art He, 0 God my king, command the great salvation of Yangak6b. 6 In thee did we then gore our adversaries, in thy name did we then stamp down them that rose up against us ; 7 When I did not trust in my bow, neither did my sword save me, 8 For thou hadst saved us from our adversaries, and put our haters to shame. 9 In God did we praise all day long, and thy name did we then confess for ever. Selah : 10 Yea, hast thou cast off, and then made us to be put to disgrace, and not gone out with our hosts ? 11 Hast thou then made us return backward from the adversary, and have our haters spoiled for themselves ? 12 Didst thou then give us as sheep for food, and hadst thou winnowed us among the nations ? 13 Didst thou then sell thy people for that which was not wealth, and in- creasedst not wealth by their value ? 14 Didst thou then put us for a reproach to our countrymen, a deri sion and a mock to the men round about us ? PRAISES. 15 Didst thou then put us for a proverb among the nations, a nodding of the head among the folk ? 16 Is my disgrace in my presence all day long, and hath the shame of my face covered me, 17 From the voice of him that re- proacheth and blasphemeth, from the face of the enemy and revenger ? 18 All this is come to us ; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we practised falsehood in thy covenant ; 19 Our heart hath not turned back ward, nor one of our goings forth then stretcht from thy path, 20 Because thou hadst crushed us in a place of jackals, and then didst cover us in the shadow of death. 21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and then spread out our palms to a strange god, shall not God search this out, for He knoweth the conceal ments of the heart. 22 For because of thee we have been slain all day long, we have been reckoned as sheep of the slaughter. 23 0 stir thee, wherefore wilt thou sleep, Lord ? 0 awake, cast us not off for eternity. 24 Wherefore wilt thou hide thy face, PRAISES. and forget our humiliation and our oppression ? 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust, our belly cleaveth to the earth. 26 0 rise to our help, and ransom us for thy mercy's sake. XLV. To the chief : to the music of " the lilies : " to the sons of Kdrach : skilful : a song of things beloved. MY heart hath indited a good word, I am saying my doings for the king 2 With my tongue, with the pen of a speedy scribe. 3 Thou hast been made much fairer than the sons of men, grace hath been poured into thy lips, therefore God hath blessed thee for ever. 4 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, thou mighty man, with thy majesty and with thine honour ; 5 And with thine honour advance, ride on, by reason of truth and discipline with justice, and thy right hand shall teach thee acts to be feared. 6 Thine arrows are pointed, people shall fall under thee, in the heart of the king's enemies. 7 Thy throne, 0 God, is for ever and ever, the rod of thy reign is the rod of the plain land. PRAISES. 8 Thou hast loved justice, and then hated guilt, therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with oil of joy above thy fellow. 9 With myrrh and eaglewood shred- dings all thine apparel, from palaces of ivory of Armenia, hath rejoiced thee. 10 Kings' daughters are among thy precious things, the queen on thy right hand hath stood forth in fine gold of Ophir * * *. 11 Hear, daughter, and see, and in cline thine ear, and forget thy people and thy father's house ; 12 And the king shall let himself long for thy beauty, for He is thy Lord, and worship thou him ; 13 And the daughter of Tzor * with an oblation, the rich men of the people, shall entreat thy face. 14 The king's daughter all glorious within, with her clothing from settings of gold, 15 On broidery, shall be conducted to the king; the maidens, her friends, after her, being brought to thee, 16 Shall be conducted with rejoicing and gladness, they shall be brought into the palace of the king. 17 Instead of thy fathers shall be PRAISES. thy sons, thou shalt set them for princes in all the earth. 18 I would make mention of thy name in all generations, therefore shall peoples confess thee for ever and ever. XL VI. To the chief : to the sons of Kdrach : to the music of " the damsels " : a song. GOD is our refuge and strength, a help in distresses very quickly found ; 2 Therefore will we not fear when the earth is altering, and when the moun tains are slipping into the heart of the seas ; 3 The waters thereof are then dis quieted and they thicken, the mountains then quake in the high estate thereof; Selah : 4 Then a river and its currents rejoice the city of God, the sacred place of the great tabernacle of the most High. 5 God is within her, she shall not be made to slip, God shall help her when the morning turneth its face. 6 The nations were disquieted, the realms slipped, he gave forth his voice, the earth then melted down. 7 The Lord Tzebaoth is with us, the God of Yangakdb is a high tower for us. Selah : PRAISES. 8 Go, view ye the operations of the Lord, what astonishments he hath put in the earth ; 9 Making wars to cease unto the end of the earth, he then brake up the bow, and he had cut asunder the spear, he then burnt the wagons in the fire, saying, 10 Leave off, and know ye that I myself, God, will be lifted up among the nations, will be lifted up in the earth. 11 The Lord Tzebaoth is with us, the God of Yangakdb is a high tower for us. Selah : XLVII. To the chief: to the sons of Kdrach : a psalm. ALL ye peoples, clash the palm, make a loud noise to God with voice of shouting ; 2 When the Lord, most High, and to be feared, a great king over all the earth, 3 Doth make peoples obey under us, and folk under our feet, 4 He doth choose for us our inheri tance, the stateliness of Yangak(5b, which he hath loved. Selah : 5 God is gone up with a loud noise, the Lord with the voice of the cornet. 6 Make ye a psalm of God, make a psalm, make a psalm to our king, make a psalm ; PRAISES. 7 For God is king of all the earth, make ye a skilful psalm. 8 God is king over the nations, God hath dwelt on the throne of his sanctuary. 9 The nobles of the peoples have been gathered in to be a people of the God of Abraham ; for the bucklers of the earth belong to God, who is taken up very high. XLVIII. A song : a psalm : to the sons of Kdrach. GREAT is the Lord, and very praised in the city of our God, the mount of his sanctuary. 2 Fair to wave, a joying of all the land is mount Tziyydn, the lower sides of the north, the walled city of the great king. God, in her palace-forts, is known for a high tower. 3 For lo, the kings * made appoint ment, they passed altogether. 4 As for them, they saw, so they marvelled, they were troubled, they were hastened away ; 5 Tremor held them there, shaking, as the child-bearing woman. 6 Then, with an east-wind, didst thou break up ships of Tarshish. 7 As we have heard so have we seen in the city of the Lord Tzebaoth, in PRAISES. the city of our God ; God then stablished her for ever. Selah : 8 We have thought, 0 God, of thy mercy within thy temple. 9 As is thy name, 0 God, so is thy praise over the ends of the earth, thy right hand is full of justice. 10 Mount Tziyydn shall rejoice, the daughters of Yehudah shall be glad because of thy judgements. 11 Go round Tziyydn, and come close round her, count her towers, 12 Set your heart toward the rampart, survey her palace-forts, that ye may recount to an after generation 13 That this God is our God for ever and ever, He will lead us up by dying. XLIX. To the chief : to the sons of Kdrach : a psalm. HEAR this, all ye peoples, give ear, all that dwell in this age. 2 Both sons of one and sons of another, the rich man and the needy one together ; 3 My mouth shall speak Wisdom, and the meditating of my heart dis criminations ; 4 I would incline mine ear to a parable, then will I open my keen question with a harp. PRAISES. 5 Wherefore should I fear in days of evil, wherefore should the fault of my heels go round me ? 6 They that trust on their means, then glory also in the abundance of their riches. 7 A man shall not by ransoming ransom his brother, nor give to God his atonement ; 8 Though precious would be their soul's ransom, and he would have done with it for ever, 9 And would then live still to eternity ; he would not see decay, 10 When he saw that wise men then died, that the fool together and the brutish man perished, and had forsaken their means for others, 11 {Even their houses which are among them for ever, their tabernacles which are to all generations, the grounds which they had called by their own names,) 12 And that man, ransomed at a price, will not lodge, he is compared to the beasts, they are like. 13 This their way is their confidence, and men after them will take pleasure in the word of their mouth. Selah : 14 Like the sheep will they have set themselves for hell, death shall feed PRAISES. them, and then at the morning shall the upright ones rule over them, and their rock shall rule when he weareth away hell out of his home. 15 Yet God will ransom my soul from the hand of hell, when he taketh me. Selah : 16 Fear thou not when a man maketh his portion rich, when the glory of his house is become much ; 17 When in his death he taketh not his all, his glory doth not go down after him ; 18 When in his life he blesseth his soul, (and they will confess thee when thy soul doeth well to thee,) 19 It then cometh to the generation of his fathers, they see not light to eternity. 20 Man is ransomed at a price and will not discern it; he is compared to the beasts, they are like. L. A psalm : to Asaph. GOD, God the Lord, hath spoken, and then he called the earth from the rising of the sun unto its coming in. 2 Out of Tziyydn, the consummation of beauty, God, hath beamed ; 3 Then came our God, (and let him not hold his peace,) a fire did then eat G 2 PRAISES. before his face, and had been swept very tempestuously round about him. 4 Then he called unto the heavens from above, and unto the earth, that he might plead for his people ; 5 Gather ye in to me my saints, my cutters of covenant upon sacrifice. 6 And then the heavens told his justice, for God was judge, even He. Selah : 7 Hear, 0 my people, and I would speak, 0 Israel, and I would testify against thee ; God, thy God, I myself, 8 Will not reprove thee over thy sacrifices and thy burnt-offerings con tinually before my presence ; 9 I will not take a bull out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds, 10 For every living thing of the forest is mine, and the beasts in the mountains of 'Eleph ; 11 I know every fowl of the moun tains, and the browser of the field is with me ; 12 If I am hungry, I will not say it to thee, for the world is mine and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of the mighty ones, and drink the blood of he-goats ? PRAISES. 14 Sacrifice to God a confession, and pay thy vows to the most High ; 15 And call me in the day of distress, I will let thee loose and thou shalt honour me. 16 But to the guilty God hath said, What hast thou to recount my statutes, and wilt thou then bear my covenant on thy mouth ? 17 And thou thyself hast hated chastening, and then cast my words behind thee. 18 If thou didst see a stealer, then didst thou also take pleasure with him ; and with adulterers was thy portion ; 19 Thou hast sent thy mouth to harm, and then with thy tongue thou hast paired deception ; 20 Thou didst then dwell and speak against thy brother, thou didst give an evil report against thy mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done, and I had held my peace ; thou hadst thought that in becoming I would become as thou ; I will reprove thee, and would order these things before thine eyes. 22 This thing pray discern, ye that forget God, lest I prey upon you and there be none to rescue. PRAISES. 23 Whoso sacrificeth a confession will be ever honouring me, and whoso putteth my way before him, I will ever be letting him see at the safety of God. LL To the chief : a psalm : to Dav'id : when Nathan the prophet came unto him, even as he had come unto Bath-Shdbang. BE gracious to me 0 God according to thy * mercy, according to the abundance of thy compassion wipe away my transgressions ; 2 Make many purifications, wash me from my fault and cleanse me from my sin, 3 When I myself do know my trans gressions and my sin in my presence continually. 4 To thee, thee only, have I sinned and done the evil in thine eyes, that thou mightest be righteous in thy speaking and clear in thy judging. 5 Lo, I have been formed in fault, and then in sin did my mother conceive me ; 6 Lo, thou hast delighted in truth in the inward parts, and in that which is closed up thou then madest me know wisdom. 7 Thou didst then purge me with hyssop and I was clean, thou didst PRAISES. then wash me and I was whiter than snow; 8 Then thou didst make me hear joy and rejoicing, the bones thou hadst crushed were then glad. 9 Hide thy face from my sins and wipe away all my faults ; 10 Create me a clean heart, 0 God, and renew an established spirit within me; 11 Cast me not from before thy face, and take not the spirit of thy sanctuary from me ; 12 O make the joy of thy safety return to me, and let then a noble spirit lay his hand upon me. 13 I would make transgressors learn thy ways, and sinners should return unto thee. 14 Have me rescued from blood- guiltiness, 0 God, the God of my salva tion, my tongue shall then sing of thy righteousness. 15 Lord, thou shalt open my lips, and my mouth shall tell thy praise. 16 When thou dost not delight in sacrifice, else would I give it, thou takest no pleasure in an offering ; 17 The great sacrifice of God is a broken spirit, a heart broken and crushed 0 God thou wilt not contemn. PRAISES. 18 0 do well in thy good pleasure to Tziyyon, then wilt thou build the bul warks of Yerushalaim ; 19 At that time wilt thou delight in sacrifices of justice, offering and whole burnt offering ; at that time will they bring up bulls on to thine altar. LII. To the chief : skilful : to Dav'id : when Dodg the Edomite came and then told Shaul, and then said to him, Dav'id came into the house of Achimdlec. WHY wilt thou glory in harm, 0 mighty man, 2 The mercy of God endureth all day long. 3 Thy tongue will invent great mischief like a well-sharpened razor, doing deceit. 4 Thou hast loved evil more than that which is good, a falsehood more than to speak justice ; Selah : 5 Thou hast loved all words of swal lowing up with a tongue of deception. 6 God also, will crush thee down for eternity, he will snatch thee and pluck thee away out of the tent, and will have rooted thee out of the land of life, Selah: 7 And righteous men shall see and fear, and shall laugh over him, saying, PRAISES. 8 Behold the man ; then he put not God to be his stronghold, and then trusted in the abundance of his riches, he then strengthened his cause by his mischief. 9 But I, like a succulent olive in the house of God, have trusted in the mercy of God for ever and ever. 10 I will confess thee for ever because thou hast done it, and I will then dili gently attend thy name because it is good, in the presence of thy saints. LIII. To the chief: to the music of "sickness:" ¦ skilful : to Dav'id. THE churl said in his heart, There is no God. 2 They had attainted and made abominated their unrighteousness, there was no doer of any thing good. 3 God had looked down from the heavens over the sons of men, to see if there were a skilful man, seeking out God. 4 Every one had turned back, alto gether they had become filthy, there was no doer of any thing good, not even one. 5 Had not the workers of iniquity known? Eating my people had they eaten bread ? Had they not called God ? PRAISES. 6 There had they a great dread, where no dread was, for God had dis persed the bones of the trained troop ; thou didst put them to shame, for God had disdained them. 7 Who will give out of Tziyy6n the great salvation of Israel ? When God returneth with the captivity of his people, 8 Yangakdb shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice. LIV. To the chief: on stringed instruments : skilful: to Dav'id : when the Ziphites came and then said to Shaul, Is not Dav'id hiding himself with us ? SAVE me, 0 God, in thy name, and plead then for me in thy might ; 2 Hear my prayer, 0 God, 0 give ear to the sayings of my mouth, 3 For strangers have risen upon me, and terrible ones have sought my soul, they have not put God before their presence. Selah : 4 Behold, God helping me, the Lord among them that lay their hand upon my soul, 5 Will make the evil to return to my foes. In thy truth cause them to be dissolved ! 6 With a freewill offering would I PRAISES. sacrifice to thee, I would confess thy name, Lord, for it is good. 7 For he hath had me rescued out of all distress, and mine eye hath seen at mine enemies. LV. To the chief : on stringed instruments : skilful : to Dav'id. f^i IVE ear, 0 God, to my prayer, ^-* and conceal not thyself from my supplicating ; 2 0 listen to me and answer me. Then bring I down my soul in my musing, and am unquiet, 3 From the voice of the enemy, from the face of the pressure of the guilty one, when they cause iniquity to slip over me, and in anger they spite me ; 4 When my heart doth shake within me, and horrors of death have fallen upon me ; 5 When fear and the tremor cometh into me, and giddiness doth then cover me, 6 And I say, Who will give me pinions like the dove's, I would fly and would abide at rest ; 7 Behold I will flee far away, I will lodge in the wilderness ; Selah : 8 I would hasten my escape from the removing wind, and from the tempest. PRAISES. 9 Swallow them up, Lord, divide their tongue, for I have seen violence and strife in the city ; 10 By day and night they will compass her about over her bulwarks, iniquity also and travail are within her ; 11 Within her is great mischief, and none will make fraud and deception depart from her market-place ; 12 When no enemy reproached me, and I then bore it, 13 Nor my hater had made great words over me, and I was then * hidden from him, 14 But thou, a man of my rank, my leader, and my well-known friend, 15 With whom we made sweet a council altogether, then in the house of God we went about in the throng. 16 Death shall bring disregard upon them, living shall they go down hell, for harms were in their sojourning among them. 17 As for me I called then unto God, and the Lord then saved me ; 18 Evening and morning and at noon would I muse and be disquieted, and he then heard my voice ; 19 He had ransomed my soul in peace from the battle against me, PRAISES. for in multitudes had they been with me ; 20 God then heard and answered them, and he that dwelleth of old (Selah : whereas they had no changes, and had not feared God,) 21 Had sent his hands against his terms of peace, he had profaned his covenant. 22 Smooth were the frothings of his mouth and the battle of his heart, more tender were his words than oil, yet were they drawn sivords. 23 Cast upon the Lord, he hath allowed thee, and He will maintain thee, he will never give up the righteous man to slip. 24 And Thou, 0 God, shalt bring them down to a well of decay ; 25 Men of blood-guiltiness and of deception shall not halve their days ; but as for me I will trust in thee. LVI. To the chief : to the music of " dumb dove of far-off men : " to Dav'id : an inscription : when the Pelishtines held him in Gath. BE gracious to me, 0 God, for man hath panted after me, all day long devouring he then oppressed me ; 2 All day long my foes have panted, for I have many aloft devouring me; PRAISES. 3 I feared then the day ; as for me, I will trust unto thee. 4 In God I will praise his word, in God have I trusted, I will not fear ; what shall flesh do to me ? 5 All day long will they make my words a pain, all their inventions are against me for evil; 6 Then they fetch up an accusation, they keep it secretly, as for them, my heels will they observe, while they diligently attend my soul. 7 Shall they escape by iniquity ? In anger bring down the peoples, 0 God. 8 My flitting hast Thou counted, 0 put my tears in thy water-skin, are they not in thy numbering ? 9 In the day that I shall call, at that time shall mine enemies return back ward ; this I know, that God is mine. 10 In God I will praise the word, in the Lord I will praise the word. 11 In God have I trusted, I will not fear ; what shall man do to me ? 12 Thy vows, O God, are upon me, I will pay confessions to thee ; 13 For thou hast had my soul rescued from death ; hast thou not rescued my feet from the thrust, to walk before the face of God in the light of life ? PRAISES. LVII. To the chief : " attaint not : " to Dav'id : an inscription : in his stealing away from the face of Shaul : in the cave. BE gracious to me, 0 God, be gracious to me, for in thee hath my soul taken refuge, and in the shadow of thy wings will I take refuge, until it pass, even the great mischief. 2 I will call to God most High, to the God that maketh an end * of evil for me, 3 He will send from the heavens and save me ; he that panted for me hath reproached me ; Selah : 4 God will send his mercy and his truth ; 0 my soul, I would lie down in the midst of great lions 5 Kindling with rage, even sons of men, their teeth are spear and arrows and their tongue a keen sword. 6 Be thou lifted up over the heavens, 0 God, thy glory over all the earth. 7 They have had a net established for my steps, it hath bowed down my soul ; they have graved a destruction before my face, into the midst whereof they are fallen. Selah : 8 My heart is established, 0 God, my heart is established, I would sing and would make a psalm. PRAISES. 9 0 stir thee, my glory, 0 stir thee, lute, and harp, I would then stir up the dawn ; 10 I will confess thee, Lord, among the peoples, I will make thee a psalm among the folk ; 11 For thy mercy is great, up to the heavens, and up to the skies thy truth. 12 Be thou lifted up over the heavens, 0 God, thy glory over all the earth. LVIII. To the chief: "attaint not:" to Dav'id: an inscription. WILL ye go on speaking truly with dumbness of justice, will ye judge with equity the sons of men ? 2 Yea, in heart ye will go on working impeachments, in the land ye will go on weighing the violence of your hands. 3 The guilty have been estranged from the womb, they have strayed from the belly, speaking a lie ; 4 They have poison, after the likeness of the poison of a serpent, like a deaf adder that will make its ear to close, 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, or of a charmer of charms made wise. 6 Break down their teeth, 0 God, in their mouth, crush down the grinders of the young lions, Lord ; they shall melt PRAISES. away as waters will go of themselves ; he will tread his arrows, as they cut themselves off; 7 As thou wilt melt a snail, and then it goeth ; as the untimely birth of a woman, they have not viewed the sun. 8 Before your pots shall be in the midst of the bramble, they are as living fuel, as when a hot blast will go on tempestuously sweeping it away. 9 The righteous shall rejoice because he hath viewed the vengeance, he shall bathe his steps in the blood of the guilty one ; 10 And a man shall say, Yet for the righteous one is there fruit, yet are there gods, judges in the land. LIX. To the chief: " attaint not : " to Dav'id: an inscription : when Shaul sent, and then they observed the house, to put him to death. HAVE me rescued from mine enemies, 0 my God, then set me on high from them that raise themselves against me ; 2 Have me rescued from the workers of iniquity, and save me from the men of blood-guiltiness ; 3 For, behold, the strong have lain in ambush for my soul, then they fetched up an accusation upon me, it was not my transgression nor my sin, 0 Lord ; PRAISES. 4 Without my fault they then ran on and established themselves ; 0 stir thee to meet me, and see ! 5 And Thou, Lord God Tzebaoth, God of Israel, awake to visit all the nations, be not gracious to any traitors of iniquity. Selah : 6 They will return at evening, be disquieted like a dog, and compass about the city. 7 Behold, they will be pouring forth with their mouth, swords are in their lips, for who doth hear ? 8 And Thou, Lord, shalt laugh at them, thou shalt have all the nations in derision. 9 As for his strength, unto thee would I observe, when God, my high tower, 10 Even the God of my mercy, was before me, ivhen God let me see at my foes. 11 Slay them not, lest my people forget, make them wander in thine army, and bring them down, 0 Lord, our buckler. 12 The word of their lips is the sin of their mouth, and they shall be captured in their stateliness ; * men shall recount both their execration and their dissembling. PRAISES. 13 Make them fail in fury, make them fail, and then let them not be ; and men shall know that God hath dominion in Yangakdb to the uttermost parts of the earth. Selah : 14 And they will return at evening, be disquieted like a dog, and compass about the city. 15 As for them, they will go on wag ging their head to eat, doubtless they will be surfeited, and then will they lodge. 16 But as for me, I will sing thy strength, and then at the morning shout aloud thy mercy, for thou hast become a high tower for me, and a place to flee unto in the day of mine adversity. 17 0 my strength, unto thee would I make a psalm ; for God is my high tower, my God of mercy. LX. To the chief : to' the music of " lily of the Testimony": an inscription: to Dav'id: to make to learn : when he broke out with Aram of the two rivers, and with Aram-tzob&h, and then Yodb returned and smote of Eddm in the steep valley of salt twelve thousand. OGOD, thou didst cast us off, thou didst break through us, thou wast angry, then thou didst turn the kingdom to us again. 2 Thou hast made the earth to quake, PRAISES. thou hast burst it ; heal the breakings thereof, for it hath slipped. 3 Thou hast let thy people see a hard thing, thou hast let us drink shivering as wine ; 4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that thine enemies might flee before the face of Truth, Selah : 5 That thy beloved ones may go on being let loose for war ; 0 save with thy right hand, and answer me. 6 God hath spoken in his sanctuary, I would triumph, I would apportion Shecem, and measure the valley of Succdth ; 7 Gilengad is mine, and Menashsheli mine, and Ephraim my head strong hold, Yehudah my lawgiver, 8 Moab my bathpot, over Edom will I cast my shoe, towards me, Pel^sheth, shew thyself friendly ! 9 Who will conduct me to the city of siege, who will have led me up to Ed6m ? 10 Hast Thou not cast us off, 0 God, and then not gone out, 0 God, in our hosts ? 11 O allow to us help from the adversary, for the salvation of man is a light thing. 12 In God we shall do valiantly, and He shall stamp down our adversaries. PRAISES. LXI. To the chief: to the music of "the stringed instrument " : to Dav'id. HEAR, 0 God, my shouting, 0 attend to my prayer ; 2 From the end of the earth did I then call unto thee, when my heart was covered over. 3 On a rock which was then lifted beyond me didst thou have me led, for thou hast been a refuge to me, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy. 4 I would be a sojourner in thy tent of ages, I would then take refuge in the hiding of thy wings ; Selah : 5 For Thou, 0 God, hast hearkened to my vows, thou hast given the posses sion of those that fear thy name. 6 Thou wilt cause days to be added to the days of the king, and to his years as generation after generation ; 7 He shall ever dwell before the face of God ; assign mercy and truth, they shall keep him. 8 So would I alway make a psalm of thy name, that I may pay my vows day by day. LXII. To the chief : to the music of Yeduthun : a psalm : to Dav'id. ET is my soul in waiting upon God, from him is my salvation. Y PRAISES. 2 Yet is He my rock and my salva tion, my high tower, I shall not much be made to slip. 3 How long will ye set upon a man ? Ye shall be violently murdered all of you, as by the stretched wall of a thrust fence. 4 Yet will they give counsel to have him thrust out from his pre eminence *, they will take pleasure in a lie, they will bless at the ivord of his mouth, but within them they will ban ; Selah : 5 Yet, 0 my soul, be still for God, for my hope is on him ; 6 Yet is He my rock and my salvation, my high tower, I shall not be made to slip. 7 With God is my safety and my glory, my rock of strength, even my refuge, is in God. 8 Trust in him at all times ye people, shed your heart before his face ; God is a refuge for us. Selah : 9 Yet are sons of one vanity, sons of another a lie, to go up in a balance they are together made of vanity. 10 Trust not in injury, and be ye not vain in spoil, when means grow, set not your heart thereon. PRAISES. 11 God hath spoken one thing, this I have heard as two, that strength belongeth to God, 12 And to thee, Lord, mercy ; when Thou payest a man after his doing. LXIII. A psalm : to Dav'id : when he was in the wilderness of Yehudali. OGOD, Thou, my God, right early will I go on enquiring after thee ; 2 My soul hath thirsted for thee,* my flesh hath pined for thee in a parched land, and is faint, there are no waters. 3 As I have viewed thee in the sanctuary, to see thy strength and thy glory, 4 (Because thy mercy is better than life *, my lips w ere then ever commending thee,) 5 So will I bless thee in my life, I will bear up my palms in thy name. 6 As with fat and the burnt fat shall my soul be surfeited, and with lips of long shoutings my mouth shall give praise. 7 If I remembered thee up in my bed-chamber, then in the night watches did I meditate on thee, 8 For thou hadst become a help to me, and in the shadow of thy wings did I then shout aloud ; PRAISES. 9 My soul clave after thee, thou didst sustain me with thy right hand ; 10 And as for them, they then sought my soul for desolation, they then came into the undermost parts of the earth ; , 11 They then shed it out on the edges of the sword ; the assigned share of the foxes did they become ; 12 And the king then rejoiced in God, every one that sware by him did glory, when the mouth of them that spake falsehood was stopped up. LXIV. To the chief: a psalm: to Dav'id. HEAR, 0 God, my voice in my musing, keep then my life from dread of the enemy ; 2 Hide me then from the council of the evil-doers, from the thronging of the workers of iniquity, 3 Who have pointed their tongue like a sword, they have trod their arrow, a bitter word, 4 That they might cause to shoot in the hiding-places at the innocent, sud denly they then shot at him and feared not. 5 Then they made firm to themselves an evil word, they then recounted how to secrete snares,* they had said, Who shall see them ? PRAISES. 6 They searched then impeachments, saying, We have come to an end of a search diligently searched, and within the man, even the heart, is deepened. 7 And then God caused to shoot at them an arrow suddenly ; so were their wounds. 8 And then with their tongue they caused Him to stumble over them ; then all that saw at them fled away one with another ; 9 And all men then feared, and then told the work of God, and in his doing- had they become skilful ; 10 Then the righteous one rejoiced in the Lord, and he had taken refuge in him ; all the upright of heart did then glory. LXV. To the chief : a psalm : to Dav'id : a song. PRAISE is in waiting for thee, 0 God, in Tziyydn, and to thee shall a vow be paid * *. 2 Hearer of prayer, up to thee shall all flesh come. 3 Words of faults have been too mighty for me ; as for our transgressions, Thou shalt make atonement for them. 4 Happy he ivhom thou wilt choose and bring near, even he who shall abide in thy courts ; we would be surfeited PRAISES. with the good things of thy house, even of the sacred place of thy temple. 5 With acts to be feared wilt thou anwser us in justice, 0 God of our salvation, who art the trust of all the extremities of the earth, and of the sea of them that are far off. 6 He maketh the mountains to be established by his force, being belted with might ; 7 Causing the tumult of the seas, the tumult of their billows, and the multi tude of the folk, to commend him. 8 And then they that dwell in the extreme parts shall fear thy tokens ; thou wilt make the goings-out of morning and the evening to shout. 9 Thou hast visited the earth and then watered her, and made her many ways rich, 10 With a current of God, full of waters ; then thou didst make their corn to be established, when thus thou didst have her established ; 11 Steep thou her ridges abundantly, press down the scorings thereof, then go on melting her down with rain-drops, then bless her springing. 12 Thou didst crown her with the year of thy goodness ; and then thy tracks went on distilling fatness, PRAISES. 13 The haunts of the wilderness dis tilled it ; and then the hills did gird on gladness, 14 The fed lambs had been clad, and the sheep ; and then the valleys were covered over with grain ; then they made among themselves a loud noise, yea they sang. LXVI. To the chief : a song : a psalm. MAKE ye a loud noise unto God, all the earth, make ye psalms of the glory of his name, put forth the glory in his praise ; 2 Say ye to God, How art thou to be feared for thy doings, through the abundance of thy strength shall thine enemies dissemble to thee. 3 All the earth shall worship thee and make psalms to thee, they shall make psalms of thy name. Selah : 4 Go ye, and see the operations of God, to be feared for his act upon the sons of men ; 5 He turned the sea to dry land, then they passed through the river on foot ; there would we then rejoice in him, 6 Who hath dominion in his might which is for ever, his eyes will watch the nations ; let not the stubborn ones be lifted over them. Selah : PRAISES. 7 Bless our God, ye peoples, and make men hear the voice of his praise, 8 Who putteth our soul in life, and hath not given our feet to the stake. 9 For thou hast tried us, 0 God, thou hast refined us, like refining silver. 10 Thou didst make us come into the hunting-pen, thou didst put a press on our loins ; 11 Thou didst cause a man to ride over our heads, we came into the fire and into the waters, and then thou didst bring us out into the refreshing land. 12 I will come to thy house with offerings, I will pay thee my vows, as to which my lips had unclosed and my mouth had spoken in mine adversity ; 13 I will bring up to thee offerings, even marrowy lambs, with incense / will bring up rams, I will make sacrifice of oxen with he-goats. Selah : 14 Go, hear, and then would I re count, all ye that fear God, what he hath done for my soul. 15 I called unto him with my mouth, and he had been exalted by my tongue ; 16 If I had seen iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear ; 17 Surely God hath heard, he hath listened at the voice of my prayer. PRAISES. 18 Blest be God, who hath not turned aside my prayer, nor * his mercy from being with me. LXVII. To the chief : on stringed instruments : a psalm : a song. GOD will be gracious to us and bless us, he will make his face to shine with us * *, Selah : 2 That in the earth men may know thy way, thy salvation in all nations. 3 The peoples shall confess thee, 0 God, the peoples shall confess thee, all of them. 4 The folk shall rejoice and shout aloud, when thou hast judged the peoples, even the plain land, and, as for the folk, hast caused them to be led in the earth. Selah : 5 The peoples shall confess thee, 0 God, the peoples shall confess thee, all of them. 6 The earth hath given her crop, God, our God, will bless us ; 7 God will bless us, and all the utter most parts of the earth shall fear his token.LXVIII. To the chief : to Dav'id : a psalm : a song. GOD will rise, his enemies will scatter, and his haters flee from his face. PRAISES. 2 As smoke being driven, shalt thou drive ; as wax being melted from the face of fire, shall guilty men perish from the face of God ; 3 And righteous ones shall rejoice, they shall triumph before the face of God, and joy with rejoicing. 4 Sing ye to God, make psalms of his name, bank the way for him that rideth through the deserts * *,* his name is Yah, and triumph ye before his face ; 5 Father of fatherless ones and the widows' pleader, God in the habitation of his sanctuary ; 6 God, that maketh only ones come to dwell in a house, that bringeth out bondmen into the prosperous places, yet stubborn ones abode on arid ground. 7 0 God, at thy going out in the face of thy people, at thy marching in the wild, Selah : 8 The earth quaked, yea, the heavens dropped, before the face of God, even this Sinay, * before the face of God, the God of Israel. 9 Rain, as a great freewill offering didst thou then wave, 0 God, on thine inheritance, and as it was weary Thou didst stablish it ; 10 Thy living creature dwelt therein, PRAISES. then didst thou have it established in thy goodness for a humble one, 0 God. 11 The Lord then gave a saying, the women that bare tidings were a great host. 12 Kings of hosts then went fleeing away, went fleeing away, and the in- habitress of the house apportioned the pillage. 13 If ye then lay continually down between two hearth-stones, they were as wings of a clove that is encased in silver, and her pinions in yellow virgin- gold. 14 In spreading abroad, 0 Almighty, the kings therein, thou didst then make snow in Tzalmdn. 15 Zs mount Bashan a mount of God ? Mount Bashan is a mount of humps. 16 Wherefore will ye go on envying, ye mountains, ye humps ? God hath coveted the mount for his dwelling, yea the Lord will abide here for eternity. 17 The chariot of God is myriads doubled, thousands paired, with the Lord between them, Sinay in the sanctuary. 18 Thou hast gone up aloft, thou hast led captive a captivity, thou hast taken gifts among men, yea also among the stubborn, for the God Yah to abide. PRAISES. 19 Blest be the Lord, he will load us day by day, the God who is our ' salva tion ; Selah ; 20 The God who is ours, a God of great salvation ; and to the Lord the Lord belong the outgoings of death ; 21 Yet shall God smite through the head of his enemies, even the scalp of the hair, and him that walketh in his trespasses. 22 The Lord hath said, I will make * to return from Bashan, I will make # to return * from the gulfs of the sea, 23 That with thy foot thou mayest smite through into blood, and the tongue of thy dogs taste of the enemies therefrom. 24 They have seen thy goings, 0 God, the goings of my God, my king, in the sanctuary ; 25 Singers were before, men playing on stringed instruments after, in the midst of damsels playing timbroh.tabcrS. 26 Bless God the Lord in the places of assembling, ye that are from the fountain of Israel, 27 Binyamin there, the youngest, ruling them, the princes of Yehudah their conclave, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali ; PRAISES. 28 Thy God, thy strength, hath com manded it; strengthen, 0 God, this thou hast wrought for us, 29 Out of thy temple by Yerusha- laim ; to thee shall kings conduct a present. 30 Rebuke thou the living thing of the reed, the congregation of the mighty ones among the calves of the peoples ; spurning the fragments of silver, he hath utterly dispersed the peoples that will delight in battles. 31 Envoys shall approach out of Mit- zraim, Cush shall make one run with his hands unto God. 32 Sing to God, ye realms of the earth, make psalms of the Lord, Selah : 33 To him that rideth on the heavens of heavens of old ; lo, he will give with his voice a voice of strength. 34 Give ye strength to God, his high estate is over Israel, and his strength is in the skies. 35 0 God, to be feared out of thy great consecrated place, God of Israel, He that giveth strength and great prevalence to the people ; blest be God ! PRAISES. LXIX. To the chief: to the music of "the lilies:" to Dav'id. SAVE me, 0 God, for the waters are come, up to my soul. 2 I am sunk in the slough of the gulf, and there is no standing, I am come into deep water-channels, and a flood hath overflowed me. 3 In my calling have I toiled, and my throat is heated, mine eyes have failed from hoping for my God. 4 Many, beyond the hairs of my head, are they that hate me without cause, they have prevailed that would have me dissolved, being mine enemies with falsehood ; 5 That which I had not robbed did I at that time return ; 0 God, Thou hast known of my foolishness, and my tres- passings have not been concealed from thee ; 6 Let them not be ashamed for me that attend thee, 0 Lord, the Lord Tzebaoth, let not those that seek thee be put to dishonour for me, 0 God of Israel ; 7 For I have borne reproach con cerning thee, disgrace hath covered my tace ; PRAISES. 8 I am become as one made a stran ger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's sons ; 9 For the jealousy of thy house hath eaten me, and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me ; 10 And then in the fast I wept with my soul, and then it became to me a great reproach ; 11 And then would I give sackcloth as my clothing, and became a proverb to them ; 12 Then they mused upon me, that dwrelt in the gate, and they that drink strong drink, with stringed instru ments. 13 But as for me, my prayer Lord is to thee, it is a time of good pleasure, 14 0 God, in the abundance of thy mercy answer me ; in the truth of thy salvation, 15 Have me rescued from the mire and let me not sink ; let me be rescued from them that hate me, and from the deep water-channels ; > 16 Let not the water-flood overflow me, neither let the gulf swallow me up, and let not the well shut her mouth upon me. i 2 PRAISES. 17 Answer me, Lord, for thy mercy is good ; turn thy face unto me ac cording to the abundance of thy com passion ; 18 And hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in adversity ; answer me with speeding ; 19 0 come near unto my soul, redeem it, ransom me because of mine enemies. 20 My reproach hast Thou known and my shame and my disgrace, mine adversaries are all before thy presence. 21 Reproach hath broken my heart, and then was I mortally sick, and dili gently attended for one to bemoan, and there was none, and for comforters, but I had not found them. 22 Then they gave also gall in my food, and for my thirst they let me drink vinegar. 23 Their table shall become a trap before their face, and a snare for their terms of peace ; 24 Their eyes shall be darkened that they see not, and make thou their loins continually to slide ; 25 Shed thine indignation upon them, and then let the hot-blast of thine anger overtake them ; • . PRAISES. 26 Then let their range of dwellings become astounded, may none become a dweller in their tents ; 27 For they have followed him whom Thou hadst smitten, and then recounted it, for the soreness of thy pierced ones. 28 0 give sentence of fault upon their fault, and let them not come into thy righteousness ; 29 Then let them be wiped away from the book of life, and let them not be written with the righteous ones. 30 But as for me, humble and sore, let thy salvation, 0 God, then set me on high. 31 I would then praise the name of God with a song, and go on making it greater with a confession ; 32 And it shall be better before the Lord than an ox, even a bull that maketh horns and divideth the hoof. 33 The meek shall have seen, then will they rejoice, seeking out God ; your heart also shall live. 34 For the Lord hearkeneth unto the needy ones and his bondmen hath he not contemned. 35 The heavens and the earth shall praise him, the seas, and every thing that moveth therein ; PRAISES. 36 For God will save Tziyytfn and will build the cities of Yehudah, and men shall dwell there and possess it ; 37 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it, and they that love his name shall abide therein. LXX. To the chief : to Dav'id : to make mention. OGOD, to have me rescued, O Lord,- to my help, make haste ; 2 Then shall they be ashamed and put to confusion that seek my soul, they shall be turned backward and put to disgrace that delight in my harm. 3 They shall return on the result of their shame that say, Aha, aha. 4 All that seek thee shall joy and rejoice in thee, and they that love thy salvation shall say continually, God shall wax great. 5 And as for me, a humble one and a needy, 0 God, make haste to me. 6 Thou art my helper, and he that causeth my escape ; Lord, tarry not. LXXI. IN thee, Lord, have I taken refuge, let me never be ashamed, have me rescued then in thy righteousness, and then make me escape, 0 incline thine ears unto me and save me ; PRAISES. 2 0 be to me for a rock of habitation to come to continually, thou hast com manded to save me, for Thou art my high rock and my fortress. 3 Make me escape, my God, from the hand of the guilty one, from the palm of the unjust and vexing man ; 4 For Thou art my hope, 0 Lord the Lord, my trust from my youth ; 5 Upon thee have I been upheld from the womb, Thou art he that se parated me from my mother's bowels, my praise is continually of thee. 6 I have become as a miracle to many ; and as for Thee, my refuge of strength, 7 My mouth shall be filled with thy praise and thine adornment all day long. 8 Cast me not forth at the time of old age, forsake me not as my force faileth ; 9 For mine enemies have said to me, and they that observe my soul have taken council altogether, saying, God hath forsaken him, follow ye, and then lay hold of him, for there is none to rescue. 10 0 God, be not far from me, 0 my God, to my help, make haste. PRAISES. 11 They shall be ashamed, they shall fail away, that are accusing my soul ; they shall wrap their lip in reproach and disgrace, that seek my harm ; 12 And as for me, I will hope con tinually, and will have made men add unto all thy praise. 13 My mouth shall recount thy right eousness and thy salvation all day long, for I know not the numbers thereof. 14 I will come in great might, 0 Lord the Lord, I will make thy right eousness to be remembered, and thee only. 15 0 God, thou hast made me learn from my youth, and hitherto have I then told thy wonderful works ; 16 And also till old age and gray hairs, 0 God, forsake me not, till I tell of thine arm to this generation, of thy might to every one that shall come, 17 And of thy righteousness, 0 God, up aloft, of the great things which thou hast done, (0 God, who is like unto thee ?) 18 Of the many distresses and harms which thou hast let me see ; thou wilt return and keep me alive, and from the deeps of the earth wilt thou return and bring me up ; PRAISES. 19 Thou wilt make much of my mag nificence, and wilt be brought round and comfort me. 20 I also will confess thee with the instrument of a lute, for thy truth, 0 my God ; I would make a psalm to thee with a harp, 0 sacred One of Israel ; 21 My lips shall shout aloud when I would make a psalm to thee, and my soul, which thou hast ransomed ; 22 My tongue also shall meditate of thy righteousness all day long ; for they have been ashamed, for they have been put to confusion, that sought my harm. LXXII. To Shelomdh. GIVE the king thy judgements, 0 God, and thy righteousness to the king's son ; 2 Then shall he plead for thy people in justice, and for thy humble ones in judgement ; 3 The mountains shall bear peace for the people, and the hills, in righteous ness ; 4 He shall judge the humble ones of the people, he shall save for the sons of the needy one, and crush him that injureth. 5 They shall fear thee with the sun, PRAISES. and before the face of the moon, for all generations. 6 He shall go down like a shower upon a fleece, like rain-drops that drench the earth. 7 In his days shall the righteous one flourish and abundance of peace, till the moon be no more. 8 And he shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river to the uttermost parts of the earth ; 9 The men of the parched lands shall bend the knee before his face, and his enemies shall lick up the dust ; 10 The kings of Tarshish and the isles shall return an oblation, the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer subsidy ; 11 And all kings shall worship before him, all nations shall serve him, 12 When he hath had the needy one rescued, appealing and humble and with none helping him. 13 He shall spare the poor and needy one, and the souls of the needy shall he save ; 14 He shall redeem their soul from fraud and from violence, and precious shall their blood be in his eyes ; 15 And he shall live, and one shall give to him of the gold of Sheba, and PRAISES. shall pray for him continually, all day long shall one go on blessing him. 16 There shall be a scantling of grain in the earth upon the head of the moun tains, the fruit thereof shall quake like Lebandn, and they of the city shall bloom like the herb of the earth. 17 His name shall be for ever, his name shall be propagated before the face of the sun, and they shall bless themselves by him, all nations shall call him happy. 18 Blest be the Lord God, the God of Israel, doer of wonderful works, he alone ; 19 And blest be the name of his glory for ever, and his glory shall be filled with the whole earth. Amen and amen. The prayers of Dav'id the son of Yishdy are finished. [THIRD BOOK.] LXXIII. A psalm: to Asaph. YET is God good to Israel, to men pure of heart. 2 And as for me, my feet had all but stretched, my goings forth been just not shed. 3 For I was jealous against the mad men, I saw then the peace of guilty men ; PRAISES. 4 For their death has no bands, and their power is lusty, 5 They are not in the travail of man, nor are they then plagued with man kind ; 6 Wherefore an high estate hath made them a neck-chain, they have violence then covered over with attire ; 7 Their eye goeth out from fat, they pass the imageries of the heart ; 8 Then they corrupt, and in charging evil speak injury, from aloft they speak, 9 With their mouth have they set themselves against the heavens, and their tongue then went on the earth ; 10 Therefore his people then return hither, and waters of a full cup are then wrung out to them ; 11 And they had said,* How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the most High ? 12 Behold, these guilty and ever tranquil men have made their means grow up ; yet for emptiness have I made clean my heart, and then bathed my palms in acquittal ; 13 And then became I touched all day long, and at the mornings hath been my reproof. 14 If I had said I would recount i^ PRAISES. thus, behold I should have betrayed the generation of thy sons. 15 And then I would carefully reckon to know this ; it was travail in mine eyes, 16 Till I came into the great conse crated place of God, then would I discern as to their latter end. 17 Yet by the smooth ways thou settest for them hast thou made them fall into disregarded places. 18 How have they become an astonish ment as in a moment, they are come to a full end, they are come to an end among spectres ! 19 As a dream after awaking ; Lord, in the upstirring thou wilt contemn their image. 20 When my heart was leavening itself, and in my reins I was pointing stings for myself, 21 And when I was a brute, and knew not, a huge beast had I become with thee, 22 Yet it was I, with thee continually, thou hadst held me by my right hand, 23 Thou didst have me then led by thy counsel, and after didst take me with glory. 24 Whom have I in the heavens ? and, !' PRAISES. with thee, I have not delighted in the earth ; 25 My fleshmeat hath failed, and my heart ; God is the rock of my heart, and my portion for ever. 26 For behold, men removing far from thee shall perish ; thou hast caused every one that goeth a whoring from thee to be dissolved. 27 And as for me, drawing near to God is good for me ; I have set my refuge in the iprd, the Lord, that I may recount all ISpr employments * * * *. LXXIV. Skilful: to Asaph. WHY, 0 God, hast thou cast off for eternity, and thine anger then smoked against the sheep of thy feeding ? 2 Remember thy congregation, thou hast owned of old, thou hast redeemed 3 The tribe of thine inheritance ; remember this mount Tziyy6n, thou hast abode therein. 4 0 lift up thy steps to the disregard ed places of eternity, an enemy hath done all evil in the sanctuary ; 5 Thine adversaries have roared within thy holy season, their tokens have they put for tokens ; 6 It shall be known, as when one PRAISES. bringeth on high axes into a thicket of trees ; 7 And together now they go on beat ing the gravings thereof with hatchet and chisels ; 8 They have sent forth thy consecrated things into the fire, they have profaned the tabernacle of thy name to the earth ; 9 They have said in their heart, Their progeny together will we burn; they have burned them; as for all the seasons of God on the earth, 10 We see not our tokens, there is no more any prophet, nor any with us that knoweth how long. 11 How long then, 0 God, shall an adversary reproach, shall an enemy ex ceedingly despise thy name, for eternity ? 12 Wherefore wilt thou return thy hand, even thy right hand ? draw it from within thy bosom, make him fail. 13 And, 0 God, my king from of old, working great salvation within the earth, 14 In thy strength didst Thou dissever the sea, thou brakest up the heads of the dragons by the waters, 15 Utterly didst Thou crush up ttie heads of Livyathan, then thou continuest PRAISES. giving him for food to a people, even to the men of the parched lands ; 16 The spring and the torrent didst Thou cleave *, Thou driedst up continuing rivers. 17 Thine the day, yea, thine the night, Thou didst cause the light-bearer to be established, and the sun ; 18 All the borders of the earth didst Thou make to stand forth ; as to summer and winter, Thou didst frame them. 19 Remember this, an enemy hath reproached the Lord, and a churlish people have exceedingly despised thy name. 20 Give not to a company of enemies the soul of thy turtledove, forget not the company of thy humble ones to eternity. 21 Look on the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of violence ; 22 Let not the crushed one return disgraced, then the humble one and the needy shall praise thy name. 23 Rise, 0 God, 0 strive thy strife, remember thy reproach from the churl, all day long ; 24 Forget not the voice of thine adversaries, the tumult of those that rise against thee, going up continually. PRAISES. LXXV. To the chief: "attaint not": a psalm: to As&ph : a song. WE have confessed thee, 0 God, we have confessed ; 2 And thy name is near, they have recounted thy wonderful works. 3 As for me, when I take a season I will judge with equity. 4 The earth and all her dwellers are melted down, I myself have meted her pillars. Selah : 5 I have said to the madmen, Deal not madly ; and to the guilty, Lift not up the horn, 6 Lift not up your horn aloft, nor speak with a stiff neck ; 7 For lifting up is not from the going- out, or from the west, nor from the wMeMek • ^ 8 es£ Xxod, the judge, wM. lower one and lift up another. 9 For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine hath thickened, it is full of mixture, and then he sheddeth out therefrom ; 10 Only its lees shall all the guilty of the earth wring out and drink. 11 But as for me, I will tell for ever, I would make a psalm to the God of Yangak6b ; PRAISES. 12 And every pair of horns of guilty men will I cut asunder, then shall the horns of the righteous one be exalted. LXXVI. To the chief : on stringed instruments : a psalm : to As£ph : a song. IN Yehudah God being known, his name great in Israel, 2 Then in Shaleln also was his covert, and his place of habitation in Tziyydn ; 3 There had he broken up the fire- bolts of the bow, buckler and sword and War ; Selah : 4 Being shined on, 0 Thou excellent, from the mountains of prey. 5 The mighty of heart then gave themselves for pillage ; they had slum bered their sleep, and none of the men of valour had found their hands. 6 At thy rebuke, 0 God of Yangakdb, both chariot and horse were in a deep sleep. 7 Thou art feared, even Thou, and who shall stand before thy face at the time of thine anger ? 8 Thou didst make men hear thy plea from the heavens, the earth had feared and had reposed, 9 When God rose to the judgement, to save all the meek of the earth ; Selah : PRAISES. 10 When the fury of man did then go on confessing thee, a remnant then girt on great fury. 11 Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God, all that are round about him, conduct a present to the Fear ; 12 He shall crop the spirit of the chief rulers, being feared by the kings of the earth. LXX VII. To the chief : to the music of Yeduthiin : to Asaph : a psalm. MY voice is unto God, and I would cry ; * my voice is unto God, and do thou give ear unto me. 2 In the day of my distress I sought out the Lord, my hand was shed out by night, and did not give way, my soul refused to be comforted ; 3 I would remember God, and be disquieted, I would muse, and then my spirit covered itself ; Selah : 4 Thou didst hold the things which mine eyes observed, I was moved, and then I spake not ; 5 I carefully reckoned the days from of old, the years of ages ; 6 I would remember my stringed instrument in the night, I would muse with my heart, and then it searched my spirit diligently. K '1 PRAISES. 7 Will the Lord cast off for ages, and will he take no more pleasure in me still ? 8 Is his mercy finished for eternity ; hath he made an end of saying, for all generations ? 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious, hath he stopped his compassion in anger ? Selah : 10 And I said, As for my intreating, it is to plead the years of the right hand of the most High. 11 Then did I remember actions of Yah, when I would remember thy won der from of old ; 12 And I had meditated of all thy work, and would muse then of thine acts, 13 Of thy way, 0 God, in the sanc tuary. Who is so great a God as God ? 14 Thou, the God, doer of a wonder, madest men know thy strength among the peoples, 15 With an arm didst thou redeem thy people, the sons of Yangakdb and Yoseph ; Selah : 16 The waters saw thee, 0 God, the waters saw thee, then they shook, yea the deeps trembled ; 17 Rainclouds were poured down in PRAISES. waters, the skies gave voice, yea thy gravel-stones then went abroad ; 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the roller, lightnings made the world to shine, the earth trembled, and then quaked ; 19 Thy way in the sea, and thy causeway in many waters, and thy foot steps, were not known ; 20 Thou leddest thy people like the sheep, by the hand of Mosheli and Aaron. LXXVIII. Skilful : to Asaph. GIVE ear, 0 my people, to my law, ' incline your ear to the sayings of my mouth ; 2 I would open my mouth in a pro verb, I would pour forth keen questions from of old. 3 The things which we have heard, and then known them, and which our fathers have recounted to us, 4 We will not conceal from their sons, recounting to an after generation the praises of the Lord and his strength ening and his wonderful works which he did ; 5 And then he raised the Testimony in Yangak<5b, and he had put the law in Israel which he commanded our fathers PRAISES. that he might make them know, for their sons, 6 That an after generation might know, and sons be born, 7 * Rise, and recount it to their sons, 8 And then put their confidence in God, and not forget the actions of God, but keep his commandments, 9 And not become as their fathers, a stubborn and rebelling generation, a generation that let not its heart be established, and its spirit was not faith ful with God. 10 The sons of Ephraim, the armed of the bowmen, turned in the day of battle ; 11 They had not observed the cove nant of God, and had refused to go in his law ; 12 And then forgat his acts, and his wonderful works which he had let them see. 13 A wonder did he, in the presence of their fathers, in the land of Mitzraim the field of Tzdngan ; 14 He clave the sea, and then he made them pass, and then he made the waters stand forth as a pile ; 15 And then he had them led with a cloud by day, and all night long with a light of fire ; PRAISES. 16 Then he clave asunder rocks in the wilderness, and then let them drink much, as the deeps ; 17 And then he brought, out streams from the high rock, and then brought down waters like the rivers ; 18 And then they caused sin to be added still to their sinning against him, to their challenging the most High in the parched land ; 19 And then they proved God in their heart, by asking food for their soul ; 20 And then spake against God, they had said, Will God be able to order a table in the wilderness ? 21 Lo, he hath smitten a rock, and then waters issued and torrents over flowed ; will he also be able to give bread ? if he might cause fleshmeat to be established for his people ? 22 Whereupon the Lord heard, and then he was wrath, and fire was en kindled against Yangaktfb, and anger also went up against Israel ; 23 For they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. 24 And then he commanded the skies from above, and he had opened the doors of the heavens, PRAISES. 25 And then showered manna upon them to eat, and he had given them the corn of the heavens, 26 Each .man did eat the bread of the mighty ones; he had sent them provision to satisfying. 27 Then he removed an east wind in the heavens, and by his strength he led up a south wind, 28 And then he showered fleshmeat also upon them as dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas, 29 And then made it fall within his camp, round about his great tabernacle ; 30 And then they ate, and were very surfeited, and he then brought to them their longing ; they were not estranged from their longing, 31 While their food was in their mouth ; but the anger of God went up against them, and then he slew of their fat ones,* and he had made the youths of Israel bend the knee. 32 In all this they sinned still, and believed not in his wonderful works ; 33 And then he made their days to fail in vanity and their years in trouble. 34 If he slew them, and they sought him out and had returned and enquired right early after God, PRAISES. 35 Then also they remembered that God was their rock, and God most High their redeemer ; 36 And then they beguiled him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue ; 37 And their heart was not establish ed with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant ; 38 And He, being full of compassion, made then atonement for the fault, and attainted not ; 39 And he had made many a turning of his anger, and did not stir up all his fury, 40 And then remembered that they were flesh, with a spirit, going, and it will not return. 41 How much did they then challenge him in the wilderness and cause him pain in the wild ; 42 And then turned and proved God, and they had set a mark for the sacred One of Israel ; 43 They had not remembered his hand ; nor the day when he ransomed them from the * adversary ; 44 Nor his tokens which he put forth in Mitzraim, and his miracles in the field of Tz6ngan. PRAISES, 45 And then he turned their water courses into blood, and of their streams they then went on drinking nothing ; 46 He then sent forth among them the dog-fly, and then it ate them, the frog also, and then it attainted them ; 47 And then he gave their crop to the caterpillar and their toil to the locust ; 48 He then killed their vine with the hail, and their sycamores with the hail stone ; 49 And then made their brute beasts to be shut up to the hail, and their cattle to the firebolts ; 50 Then he sent forth on them the hot blast of his anger, wrath and indig nation and distress, a sending forth of agents of the evil ones ; 51 Then he pondered a pathway for his anger, he had not kept back their soul from death, and had made their living creatures to be shut up to the pestilence ; 52 And then smit all the first-born in Mitzraim, the beginnings of vigour in the tents of Cham ; 53 And then removed his people like the sheep, and then led them up like the drove into the wilderness ; PRAISES. 54 And then he had them led securely, and they had no dread, and the sea had covered their enemies ; 55 And then he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, this mount, which his right hand had owned ; 56 And then from their face he cast out nations, and made them fall to them by cord of inheritance, and caused then the tribes of Israel to abide in their tents. 57 And then they proved and then they challenged God most High, and had not observed his witnessings ; 58 And then they were turned back and then they betrayed like their fathers, they had been turned like a bow of deceit ; 59 And then they made him to be provoked with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 60 God heard*, and then he was wroth, and was very disdainful of Israel ; 61 And then he let go the tabernacle of Shil6, the tent where he made his name abide among men ; 62 And then gave his strength to captivity, and his adornment into an adversary's hand ; PRAISES. 63 And then he made his people to be shut up to the sword, and he had been wroth against his inheritance. 64 Fire had eaten his youths, and his maidens had not been praised ; 65 His priests had fallen by the sword, and then his widows wept not ; 66 And then the Lord awoke, as one asleep, as a mighty man moving himself to shout after wine ; 67 And then smit back his adver saries, he had given them an everlasting reproach ; 68 And then he was disdainful of the tent of Yoseph, and he had not chosen the tribe of Ephraim ; 69 And then he chose the tribe of Yehudah, the mount Tziyy6n, which he had loved ; 70 And then he built his consecrated place, like the lofty ones, as the earth* he founded her for ever ; 71 And then chose Dav'id his servant, and then took him from the sheepfolds ; 72 From after the milch-ewes he brought him to feed his flock in Yanga- kdb his people and in Israel his in heritance ; 73 And then he caused- to feed them after the innocence of his heart, and PRAISES. then he had them led by the discrimi nations of his palms. LXXIX. A psalm: to Asaph. OGod, the- nations are come into thine inheritance, they have made the temple of thy sanctuary unclean, they have put Yerushalaim in heaps ; 2 They have given the carcases of thy servants for food to the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints to the living thing of the earth ; 3 They have shed their blood as the waters round about Yerushalaim, and there is none to bury. 4 We have become a reproach to our countrymen, a derision and a mock to the men round about us. 5 How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry for eternity, shall thy jealousy burn us up like fire ? 6 Shed thy fury towards the nations that have not known thee, and over realms that have not called thee by thy name ; 7 For one hath eaten up Yangakdb, and they have made his inhabitation astounded. 8 Remember not against us former faults, speedily then let thy compassion be before us, for we are very poor ; PRAISES. 9 Help us, 0 God of our safety, by reason of the glory of thy name, and have us rescued, and make atonement for our sins, because of thy name. 10 Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God ? 11 There shall be known among the nations in our eyes the avengement of thy servants' blood that is shed. 12 The crying out of the bondman shall come before thy face, according to the greatness of thine arm do thou cause the sons of mortality to be left over ; 13 And return to our countrymen, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, 0 Lord ; 14 And we thy people and sheep of thy feeding will confess thee for ever, to all generations will we recount thy praise. LXXX. To the chief: unto the music of "the lilies": " the Testimony " : to Asaph : a psalm. GIVE ear, 0 feeder of Israel, thou that leadest up Yos^ph like the sheep ; beam, thou that dwellest between the cherubim ; 2 Before the face of Ephraim and Binyamin and Menashsheli, 0 stir up PRAISES. thy might, and 0 go forth for our salvation ; 3 Make us return, 0 God, and make thy face to shine, and we should be saved. 4 Lord God Tzebadth, how long dost thou smoke with anger against the prayer of thy people ? 5 Thou hast made them eat bread of tears, and then didst make them drink a measure of many tears ; 6 Then thou didst put us to be a discord to our countrymen, and our enemies had us in derision before them. 7 Make us return, 0 God Tzebadth, and make thy face to shine, and we should be saved. 8 Then didst thou remove a vine from Mitzraim, thou didst cast out nations and then plant it ; 9 Thou hadst prepared before its face, and then rooted its roots, and then the land was filled, 10 Mountains had been covered with its shadow, and cedars of God with its boughs ; 11 Then it sent forth its harvest up to the sea, and its suckers unto the river. 12 Wherefore hast thou broken PRAISES. through its fences, and all that pass by the way had pulled it * ? 13 Then a boar out of the forest kept gorging on it, and a browser of the field kept doing it harm. 14 Return, pray, 0 God Tzebadth, look from the heavens, and see, and visit this vine ; 15 And 0 establish that which thy right hand hath planted, and look upon the son, whom thou didst embolden be fore thee ; 16 The vine is burnt with fire, as refuse ; they shall perish at the rebuke of thy face. 17 Thy hand shall be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou emboldenedst before thee, 18 And he was not turned back from thee ; thou wilt keep us alive and we will call thee by thy name. 19 Lord God Tzebadth, make us re turn, make thy face to shine, and we should be saved. LXXXI. To the chief : to the music of " the press " : to As&ph. 1Vf~AKE ye the singers shout to God -^-*-*- our strength, make a loud noise to the God of Yangakdb ; 2 Bear ye up the psalmody, and - PRAISES. give the miibwl, the pleasant harp, with the lute, 3 Blow ye the cornet in the new moon, in the time appointed, at the day of our * feast ; 4 For it is a statute of Israel, a judgement of the God of Yangakdb. 5 As for the Testimony, he put it in Yehosdph when he went out over the land of Mitzraim ; the lip of one I knew not did I then hear ; 6 I turned aside his shoulder from the weight, his palms then passed from the tub ; 7 Thou calledst in the distress and then I let thee loose, I then answered thee in the hiding of thunder ; 8 I then tried thee at the waters of striving. Selah : 9 Hear thou, my people, and I would testify unto thee, Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me, 10 There should be no strange god in thee, neither shalt thou worship an alien god ; 11 1 am the Lord thy God who brought thee up from the land of Mitzraim, enlarge thy mouth and I would fill it. 12 But my people hearkened not to PRAISES. mv voice, and Israel would none of me ; 13 And then I sent them forth in the wilfulness of their heart, they did go in their own counsellings ; 14 0 that my people had been hearken ing to me, then Israel had gone about in my ways, 15 I had all but subjected their enemies, and made my hand return upon their adversaries ; 16 The haters of the Lord should then have dissembled to him, and their time should have been for ever ; 17 And then I would have made him eat of the fat of wheat, and from the rock would I have gone on satisfying thee with honey. LXXXII. A psalm : to Asaph. GOD stood forth in the congregation of God, then he judged in the midst of the gods, saying, 2 How long will ye judge with un righteousness, and bear up the persons of the guilty ? Selah : 3 Judge ye the poor man and the fatherless one, justify the humble one and the indigent man ; 4 Make the poor man and the needy PRAISES. one escape, have them rescued out of the hand of guilty men. 5 They know not neither will they discern, they will walk on in darkening ; all the foundations of the earth will be made to slip. 6 As for me, I had said, Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the most High ; 7 Surely ye shall go on dying as doth a man, and as one of the princes shall ye fall. 8 Rise 0 God, 0 judge the earth when Thou dost inherit all nations. LXXXIII. A song : a psalm : to As^ph. OGOD, keep not thou silence, hold not thy peace, and repose not, 0 God ; 2 For behold thine enemies did then go on disquieted, and thy haters had borne up their head ; 3 Then they made a subtle council over thy people, and consulted over thy secretly kept ones ; 4 They had said, Go ye, and we will make them disappear from being a nation, and the name of Israel shall be remembered no more. 5 For they had taken counsel in heart altogether, over thee did they then cut a covenant ; L 2 PRAISES. 6 The tents of Eddm and of the Yishmengelites, of Moab and of the Hagerdnes, 7 Of Gebal and Gnammdn and Gnam- aldk, of Peldsheth with the dwellers of Tzor, 8 Of Ashshiir also, pledged with them, had become an arm to the sons of Lot. Sdlah : 9 Do to them as to Midyan, as to Sisera, as to Yabin at the torrent of Kishdn ; 10 They were swept off at Gneynddr, they became dung for the ground. 11 Set them, even their nobles, as Gnordb and as Zedb, and all their chiefs as Zdbach and as Tzalmunnang ; * 12 For they have said, We would possess for ourselves the haunts of God. 13 0 my God, set them as the roller, as stubble before the face of the wind ; 14 As fire will burn up a forest, and as flame will kindle the mountains, 15 So do thou then follow them with thy tempest, and trouble them with thy whirlwind. 16 Fill their faces with ignominy, and let them then seek thy name, the Lord ; 17 Let them be then ashamed and PRAISES. troubled evermore, and be put to con fusion and perish, 18 And know that Thou by thy name the Lord, thyself alone, art the most High over all the earth. LXXXIV. To the chief : to the music of " the press " : to the sons of Kdrach : a psalm. HOW beloved is thy great tabernacle, Lord Tzebadth ! 2 My soul did chafe and also fail for the courts of the Lord, my heart and my flesh then shouted aloud unto the living God. 3 The sparrow7 also hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she hath set her offspring, by thy great altar, Lord Tzebadth, my king and my God ! 4 Happy they, dwelling in thy house, they will be still praising thee. Sdlah : 5 Happy is a man whose strength is in thee, whose highways are in their heart 6 Who passing through the valley of weeping will set it to be a spring, with blessings also shall the former rain wrap the ground ; 7 They go then from army unto army, he will be seen before God * in Tziyydn. 8 0 Lord God Tzebadth, hear my PRAISES. prayer, give ear, 0 God of Yangakdb ; Sdlah: 9 See our buckler, 0 God, and look upon the face of thine anointed one. 10 Because a day in thy courts is better than a thousand ; 11 I have chosen to keep the door post in the house of my God, rather than inhabit the tents of guilt ; 12 Because the Lord. God is a sun and a buckler, the Lord will give grace and glory, he will not hinder anything good for them that go in a perfect way. 13 Lord Tzebadth, happy is a man that trusteth in thee. LXXXV. To the chief: to the sons of Kdrach: a psalm. THOU hast taken pleasure, Lord, in thy land, thou hast returned with the captivity of Yangakdb. 2 Thou hast borne up the fault of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin ; Sdlah : 3 Thou hast gathered in all thy wrath, thou hast made it return from the hot-blast of thine anger. 4 Return to us, 0 God of our safety, and dissever thy provocation with us. PRAISES. 5 Wilt Thou be angry at us for ever, wilt thou draw thine anger to all genera tions ? 6 Wilt Thou not return and keep us alive, and thy people shall rejoice in thee? 7 Let us see, Lord, thy mercy, and give us then thy safety. 8 I would hear what God the Lord will speak *, when he speaketh peace unto his people and unto his saints ; but let them not return to folly. 9 Yet is his safety near to them that fear him, that glory may abide in our land. 10 Mercy and truth have lighted together, justice and peace have kissed ; 11 Truth did then spring out of the land, and justice had looked down from the heavens, 12 Also the Lord then gave that which was good, and our land then gave her crop ; 13 Justice then went about before his face, and put his steps in the way. I LXXXVI. A prayer : to Dav'id. NCLINE, 0 Lord, thine ear, answer me for I am humble and needy ; 2 0 preserve my soul, for I am a PRAISES. saint, 0 Thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth unto thee. 3 Be gracious to me, Lord, when I call unto thee all day long ; 4 Rejoice the soul of thy servant, when unto thee, Lord, I bear up my soul ; 5 For Thou, Lord, art good and for giving, and of much mercy to all them that call thee. 6 Give ear, 0 Lord-, to my prayer, and O listen to the voice of my supplications ; 7 I will call thee in the day of my distress when thou answerest me. 8 Among the gods there is none like thee, Lord, and nothing like thy doings. 9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship, Lord, before thy face, and give honour to thy name. 10 For Thou art great, and doing wonderful works, Thou 0 God, thou alone. 11 Teach me, Lord, thy way, then will I go about in thy truth, it shall make my heart keen to fear thy name. 12 I will confess thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and then I would honour thy name for ever ; PRAISES. 13 For thy mercy over me is great, and thou hast had my soul rescued from the undermost hell. 14 0 God, the proud are risen upon me, and the congregation of the terrible have sought my soul, and have not put thee before their presence ; 15 But Thou, Lord God full of com passion and gracious, long-suffering and of much mercy and truth, 16 Turn thy face to me, and be gracious to me, 0 give thy strength to thy servant, and get salvation for the son of thy bondwoman ; 17 Do me a token of goodness, and they who hate me shall see and be ashamed, for Thou, Lord, hast helped me and hadst comforted me. LXXXVII. To the sons of Kdrach : a psalm : a song. HIS founding is in the great moun tain of the sanctuary ; the Lord loveth the gates of Tziyydn more than all the tabernacles of Yangakdb. 2 With honoured words is he spoken of in thee, 0 city of God. Sdlah : 3 I will make mention, 0 Rahab and Babdl, to them that know me ; 4 Behold, 0 Peldsheth, and Tzor, with Cush, this man was brought forth there. PRAISES. 5 And as to Tziyydn it shall be said, Man after man was brought forth in her ; and He, the most High, shall stablish her ; 6 The Lord shall count, in writing the peoples, This man was brought forth there. Sdlah : 7 And let singers after pipers repeat, All my springs are in thee. LXXXVIII. A song : a psalm : to the sons of Kdrach: to the chief : to the music of " sickness of such a one": "to put to trouble": skilful: to Hem^n the Ezrachite. LORD God of my salvation, the day I cry, in the night, before thy presence, my prayer then cometh before thy face ; 0 incline thine ear to my shouting ; 2 For my soul is surfeited with harms, and my life toucheth hell ; 3 I am reckoned with them that go down the pit, I have become as a man of no power ; 4 Free among the dead, like the men pierced through, lying down in the sepulchre, whom thou hast remembered no more, and they have been parted from thine hand. 5 Thou hast set me in a pit of the undermost parts, in dark places, in gulphs ; PRAISES. 6 Thy fury hath laid hands upon me, and with all thy breakers thou hast put me to trouble ; Sdlah : 7 Thou hast made my well-known friends to be far from me, thou hast set me to be a great abomination to them, 8 To be withholden *, and I shall not go out. 9 Mine eye hath lamented by reason of humiliation, I have called thee, Lord, every day ; I have earnestly spread wide my palms unto thee. 10 Wilt thou do a wonder for the dead men ? If the deceased rise, shall they confess thee ? Sdlah : 11 Shall thy mercy be recounted in the sepulchre, thy faithfulness in perdition ? 12 Shall thy wonder be known in the darkness, and thy righteousness in a land of disregard? 13 But, as for me, unto thee, Lord, have I appealed, and then in the morn ing my prayer hath been before thee. 14 Why, Lord, wilt thou cast off my soul, and hide thy face from me ? 15 Humble am I, and giving up the ghost from my youth ; I had borne thy horrors, and then I would go distracted ; PRAISES. 16 Thy hot-blasts have passed upon me, thine affrights have utterly dissolved me ; 17 They went round me like the waters all day long, they have come close round upon me together. 18 Lover and neighbour hast thou made to be far from me, my well-known friends are a dark place. LXXXIX. Skilful : to ^Ethan the Ezrachite. I WOULD sing the mercies of the Lord for ever, with my mouth will I make men know thy faithfulness to all generations ; 2 For I have said, For ever shall mercy be built, as for the heavens thou wilt make thy faithfulness to be estab lished in them. 3 I have cut a covenant for mine elect, I have sworn to Dav'id my servant, 4 Thy seed will I make to be estab lished for ever, and will have built up thy throne to all generations ; Sdlah : 5 And the heavens shall confess thy wonder, Lord, yea thy faithfulness in the assembly of the sacred ones ; 6 For wTho in the sky shall order for the Lord, PRAISES. 7 Who shall be like to the Lord among the sons of the gods ? 8 He is a God much held in awe among the council of the sacred ones, and feared over all that are round about him. 9 Lord God of hosts, who is like thee, the controlling Yah ; and thy faithfulness is round about thee. 10 Thou, who hast dominion over the stateliness of the sea when it beareth up its billows, Thou wilt commend them. 11 Rahab didst Thou crush as one that is pierced through, thou didst dis perse thine enemies with thine arm of strength. 12 Thine are the heavens, yea thine the earth, the world and its fulness Thou didst found them ; 13 North and south Thou didst create them, then did Tabdr and Chermdn shout aloud in thy name. 14 Thine is an arm with might, thy hand will strengthen, thy right hand will be lifted up. 15 Justice and judgement are the base of thy throne, mercy and truth shall be before thy face. 16 Happy the people that know the PRAISES. loud noise, they will then go on walking, Lord, in the light of Thy face, 17 They will go on being glad in thy name all day long, and then will they be lifted up in thy righteousness. 18 When Thou wast the adornment of their strength, and in thy good pleasure our horn was lifted up, 19 When our buckler belonged to the Lord, and our king to the sacred One of Isradl, 20 At that time thou spakest in vision to thy saint and saidst, I have laid a helper over a mighty man, I have lifted up a chosen out of the people ; 21 I have found Dav'id my servant, with the oil of my sanctuary have I anointed him, 22 With whom my hand shall be established, yea mine arm shall go on making him bold ; 23 The enemy shall not take usury of him, nor the son of unrighteousness go on putting him to trouble ; 24 And I will have beaten down his adversaries from before his face, and his haters will I then smite down ; 25 And my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be lifted up ; PRAISES. 26 And I will have put his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers ; 27 He himself shall call me, Thou, my father, my God, and rock of my salvation ; 28 Yea I myself will give him as a firstborn, most high, to the kings of the earth ; 29 For ever will I observe to him my mercy and my covenant, faithful to him, 30 And I will have put his seed always to endure, and his throne as the days of the heavens. 31 If his sons forsake my law, and go not on in my judgements, 32 If they profane my statutes and observe not my commandments, and if I shall have visited their transgres sion with a rod, and their fault with plagues, 33 Yet my mercy will I not dissever from him, nor practise falsehood in my faithfulness, 34 I will not profane my covenant, nor vary the going-out of my lips ; one thing have I sworn in my sanctuary, If I lie to David — . 35 His seed shall be for ever, and his throne as the sun in my presence, 36 It shall be established for ever as PRAISES. the moon, and faithful is the witness in the sky. Sdlah : 37 But Thou hast cast off and then disdained, thou hast been wrath with thine anointed one; 38 Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant, thou hast profaned his diadem to the earth ; 39 Thou hast broken through all his fences, thou hast put his fortified places to be a dismaying. 40 All that pass by the way have rifled him, he is become a reproach to his countrymen ; 41 Thou hast lifted up the right hand of his adversaries, thou hast caused all his enemies to rejoice ; 42 Yea, thou didst then make the edge of his sword return, and didst not raise him in the fight ; 43 Thou hast made him cease from his cleanness, and dragged his throne to the earth ; 44 The days of his youth hast thou shortened, thou hast made him wrap shame upon him. Sdlah : 45 How long, Lord ; wilt thou be hidden for eternity, shall thy fury burn us up like fire ? 46 Remember, as to me, what an age PRAISES. is mine, for what a light thing hast thou created all the sons of men. 47 What man shall live and not see death ? What man shall deliver his soul from the hand of hell ? Sdlah : 48 Where are thy former mercies, Lt)rd, which thou hast sworn to Dav'id in thy faithfulness ? 49 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants, as to my bearing in my bosom all the many, even the peoples, 50 Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, Lord, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anoint ed one. Blest be the Lord for ever. Amen and amen. [FOURTH BOOK.] XC. A prayer : to Mosheh the man of God. LORD, Thou hast become an habita tion to us in all generations ; 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, and the earth then formed her produce, and the world, and from ever lasting to everlasting, Thou art God. 3 Thou wilt make man return to be crushed, and then wilt say, Return ye sons of men. 4 For a thousand years in thine eyes PRAISES. are as yesterday when it is past, and a watch in the night ; 5 Thou hast poured them down, then they become a sleep ; in the morning they are as grass, it will change, 6 In the morning it will bloom and have changed, at even one will cut it off and it will dry up *. 7 For we have failed by thine anger, and by thy fury have we been troubled ; 8 Thou hast set our faults before thy presence, our concealments before the light-nearer of thy face. 9 For all our days have turned their face in thy wrath, we have made our years to fail as a murmur. 10 As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years, and if there be great might, eighty years ; and their boasting is travail and iniquity, for one cuts them away hastily, and then we fly. 11 Who knoweth the strength of thine anger and thy wrath, according to thy fear ? 12 Make us know a footing to number our days, and we will bring a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, 0 Lord, how long ? and repent over thy servants ; PRAISES. 14 Surfeit us fully with thy mercy in the morning, and we would shout aloud and be glad for all our days *. 15 Rejoice us, according to the days thou hast put us to trouble and the years we have seen harm ; 16 Let there then be seen thy works unto thy servants, and thine honour upon their sons ; 17 And let then the pleasantness of the Lord our God be upon us, and the doing of our hands 0 stablish thou upon us, and the doing of our hands stablish thou it. xci. HE that dwelleth in the hiding of the most High shall go on lodging himself in the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say, With the Lord is my refuge and my fortress ; my God ! In him will I trust. 3 When He shall have had thee rescued from the trap of the snare, from the pestilence of great mischief, 4 He shall hang above thee with his pinion, and under his wings shalt thou take refuge, his * truth shall be a shield and safeguard ; 5 Thou shalt not fear for the dread by night, for the arrow that will fly by day, M 2 PRAISES. 6 For the pestilence that will go in the thick darkness, nor for the sting that will destroy at noon ; 7 A thousand shall fall from thy side and ten thousand from thy right hand, but unto thee it shall not come nigh ; 8 Only with thine eyes shalt thou look, and see a retribution of guilty men. 9 For Thou, Lord, my refuge, 0 most High, hast set thy habitation. 10 There shall no harm befall thee, neither shall any plague come near into thy tent, 11 When he commandeth his agents for thee, to preserve thee in all thy ways ; 12 Upon both palms shall they keep bearing thee up, lest thy foot smite down against the stone ; 13 Thou shalt tread upon the fierce lion and the adder, thou shalt trample the young lion and the dragon. 14 For he had desired after me, and then I made him to escape, I then set him on high, for he knew my name ; 15 He then called me and I answered him, I myself was with him in distress, I then let him loose and then honoured him. PRAISES. 16 With length of days did I then satisfy him, and let him see at my salvation. XCII. A psalm : a song : for the Sabbath day. \ GOOD day for confessing the Lord, -^- and making psalms to thy name, 0 most High ! 2 For telling thy mercy in the morn ing, and thy faithfulness in the nights, 3 To the music of ten strings and to the music of a lute, to the music of a deep murmur with a harp ; 4 For thou hast rejoiced me, Lord, in thy work, in the doings of thy hands will I shout aloud. 5 How are thy doings waxen great, 0 Lord, thine inventions are very deep. 6 A brutish man will not know, neither will a fool discern this, 7 That in the flourishing of guilty men like the herb, and when all workers of iniquity then bloom, it is that they may be swept off evermore ; but Thou art aloft for ever, Lord ! 8 For behold thine enemies, Lord, for behold thine enemies did then perish, all workers of iniquity were then sun dered apart from one another ; 9 And then didst thou lift up my PRAISES. horn like a reem's ; I had mingled my offering with succulent oil ; 10 And then mine eye looked * at my foes, mine ears hearkened at the evil doers rising against me ; 11 Then did the righteous flourish like the palm, he grew up like a cedar in Lebandn ; 12 They that were settled in the house of the Lord, made then their branches flourish in the courts * of our God ; 13 Still in gray hairs did they then go on growing, fat and succulent did they then become, 14 To tell that the Lord is upright, he is my rock, and there is no un righteousness in him. XCIII. rilHE Lord is king, with stateliness is -¦- he clad ; the Lord is clad, he hath girt himself with strength ; 2 Yea the world was then established that it should not be made to slip ; 3 Thy throne was established from that time ; Thou wert from everlasting. 4 The rivers, Lord, bare up, the rivers bare up their voice, the rivers then bare up their crash ; 5 From the thunderings of many waters excellent were the breakers of PRAISES. the sea ; excellent was the Lord aloft. 6 Thy witnessings are very faithful, thy house hath a comely sanctuary, Lord, for length of days. xciv. fTlHE Lord God of avengements, the -¦- God of avengements, hath beamed. 2 Be thou borne up, the judge of the earth ; return recompence upon men in high estate. 3 How long shall the guilty ones, Lord, how long shall the guilty ones triumph ? 4 How long shall they pour forth and speak stiffly, and all the workers of iniquity say it one to another ? 5 How long shall they crush thy people, Lord, and put thine inheritance to trouble ? 6 How long shall they slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the father less ones ? 7 And say,* Yah will not see, nor the God of Yangakdb discern ? 8 Discern, ye brutish among the peo ple and fools ; when will ye understand ? 9 Shall he that planted an ear, not hear; if he formed an eye, will he not look? PRAISES. 10 Shall he that chasteneth nations, not reprove? He that maketh man learn knowledge, 11 Even the Lord, knoweth the in ventions of man that they are vanity. 12 Happy the man whom thou, Yah, wilt keep chastening, and making him learn out of thy law ; 13 To make repose for him from days of evil, till a ditch be graved for the guilty ne ; 14 When the Lord doth not let go his people, nor forsake his inheritance ; 15 When judgement doth return up to justice, and all the upright of heart after it. 16 Who will rise for me against evil doers, who will stand forth for me against workers of iniquity ? 17 Had not the Lord been my help, my soul had all but abode in silence. 18 If I said, My foot hath slipt, thy mercy, Lord, did then support me. 19 In the abundance of my doubts within me, thy consolations then cher ished my soul. 20 Shall there be coupled to thee a throne of great mischief, one that frameth travail with a statute ? 21 They will troop together against PRAISES the soul of the righteous one, and the acquitted blood will they find guilty, 22 And the Lord will then become my high tower, and my God will be the rock of my refuge ; 23 And then will he make their iniquity* return upon them, and cause them to be dissolved in their own harm; * the Lord our God will cause them to be dissolved. xcv. aO ye, we would shout aloud to the Lord, we would make a loud noise to the rock of our safety ; 2 We would be before his face with a confession, wTe will make a loud noise to him with chants. 3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods ; 4 In whose hand are the mines of the earth, and the crests of the moun tains are his ; 5 Whose is the sea, and he made it, and his hands framed the dry ground. 6 Come ye, we would worship, and bend the knee, we would kneel before the face of the Lord our maker ; 7 For He is * our God, and we people of his feeding and sheep of his hand. PRAISES. 8 To-day if ye will hearken at his voice, harden not your heart, as in the striving, as in the day of proving in the wilderness, 9 Wherein your fathers proved me, they tried me, they also saw my work. 10 Forty years was I then* grieved with a whole generation and said, A people of heart-strayers are they, and it is they who know not my ways ; 11 Of whom I sware in mine anger, If they should go on coming unto my resting-place — . xcvi. SING ye to the Lord a new song, sing to the Lord all the earth, 2 Sing to the Lord, bless his name, bear tidings of his salvation from day to day. 3 Recount his glory among the nations, his wonderful works among all peoples ; 4 For the Lord is great, and to be very praised, He is to be feared over all gods ; 5 For all the gods of the peoples are false gods, but the Lord hath made the heavens ; 6 Majesty and honour are before his PRAISES. face, strength and adornment are in his consecrated place. 7 Allow to the Lord, ye families of the peoples, allow to the Lord glory and strength ; 8 Allow to the Lord the glory of his name, bear up an oblation and come to his courts ; 9 Worship the Lord in the honourable place of the sanctuary ; shake ye before his face, all the earth. 10 Say ye among the nations, The Lord is king, yea the * world is then established that it shall not be made to slip, he then pleadeth for the peoples with equity. 11 The heavens then rejoice, and then the earth is glad, the sea then thundereth and the fulness thereof, 12 The field doth then triumph and all that is therein, at that time all the trees of the forest shout aloud before the face of the Lord, 13 For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth ; then doth he judge the world in justice, and the peoples in his faithfulness. xcvu. THE Lord is king, then the earth is glad, many isles rejoice ; PRAISES. 2 A cloud and deep darkness are round about him, justice and judgement the base of his throne ; 3 Fire doth then go before his face, and kindle round about upon his adversaries ; 4 His lightnings make the world to shine, the earth seeth and then shaketh ; 5 Mountains melt like wax from before the face of the Lord, from before the face of the Lord of the whole earth ; 6 The heavens tell his justice, and all the peoples see his glory ; 7 Then are they all ashamed that serve a graven image, that glory in the false gods, worship him, all ye gods ! 8 Tziyydn doth hear, and then rejoice, and the daughters of Yehudah are then glad, because of thy judgements, Lord ! 9 For thou, Lord, most high over the whole earth, art taken up very high over all gods. 10 Ye that love the Lord hate the evil one, preserving the souls of his saints he will have them rescued out of the hand of guilty men. 11 Light is sown for the righteous man, and rejoicing for men upright of heart. 12 Rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord, and confess the remembrance of his sanctuary. PRAISES. XCVIII. A psalm. SING ye to the Lord a newT song, for he hath done wonderful works, 2 With his right hand and arm of his sanctuary he hath saved us to himself. 3 The Lord hath made mew know his salvation, his righteousness hath he un covered to the eyes of the nations ; 4 He hath remembered his mercy and his faithfulness to the house of Isradl ; all the uttermost parts of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. 5 Make ye a loud noise to the Lord, all the earth, break ye forth and shout aloud and make psalms ; 6 Make psalms to the Lord with a harp,* with a harp and voice of psalmody ; 7 With trumpets and voice of a cornet make a loud noise before the face of the Lord the king. 8 Let then the sea thunder and the fulness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein ; 9 Let then the rivers clap palms, let the mountains shout aloud together before the face of the Lord, for he cometh to judge the earth ; 10 In justice doth he then judge the world, and the peoples in equity. PRAISES. XCIX. THE Lord is king, the peoples shall tremble, dwelling between cheru bim, the earth shall totter ; 2 The Lord is great in Tziyydn, and He is lifted up over all the peoples ; ' 3 They shall confess thy name, great and to be feared, it is sacred. 4 And the king's strength hath loved judgement, Thou hast stablished equity, Thou hast done judgement and righteous ness in Yangakdb ; 5 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and worship toward his footstool, it is sacred. 6 Moshdh and Aardn among his priests, and Shemuel among them that called his name, were calling unto the Lord and He then answered them ; 7 He spake then unto them in a pillar of a cloud ; they had observed his witnessings and he had given them a statute. 8 0 Lord our God Thou answeredst them, thou becamest to them a God bearing up iniquity, but avenging it up on their acts. 9 Exalt ye the Lord our God, and wor ship * toward the mount of his sanctuary, for sacred is the Lord our God. PRAISES. C. A psalm : for a confession. 1VTAKE ye a loud noise to the Lord, -*-"-!- all the earth, serve the Lord with rejoicing, come before his face with long shouting ; 2 Know ye that the Lord He is God, He hath made us and we are his, his people and sheep of his feeding, 3 Come into his gates with a confession, and his courts with a praise, confess him, bless ye his name. 4 For the Lord is good, his mercy endureth for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations. CI. To Dav'id : a psalm. I WOULD sing of mercy and judge ment, to thee, Lord, would I make a psalm ; 2 I would be skilful in a perfect wray. 3 When wilt thou come unto me ; I will walk in the innocencf of my heart within my house ; 4 I will not set a word of the worthless one before the presence of mine eyes, I have hated making of enticements, it shall not cleave unto me ; 5 A froward heart shall turn aside from me, I will not know evil. 6 Whoso in hiding slandereth his PRAISES. neighbour, even him will I cause to be dissolved ; 7 The haughty of eye and large of heart, even him shall I not be able to suffer. 8 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me ; 9 He that goeth in a perfect way, even he shall minister to me. 10 A doer of deceit shall not dwell within my house, he that speaketh false hoods shall not be established in the presence of mine eyes. 11 At the mornings will I cause all the guilty of the land to be dissolved, that / may have all workers of iniquity cut down out of the city of the Lord. CII. A prayer : to the humble when he is covered over and sheddeth his musing before the face of the Lord. HEAR, 0 Lord, my prayer, and let then mine appealing come unto thee ; 2 Hide not thy face from me in the day of mine adversity, 0 incline thine ear unto me, in the day I shall call answer me speedily ; 3 For my days have failed in smoke, and my bones had been heated as a smouldering heap ; PRAISES. 4 My heart was smitten as the herb, and then dried up ; for I had forgotten to eat my bread, 5 From the voice of my sighing ; my bone had * cleaved to my flesh, 6 I was like a pelican of the wilder ness ; I had become as an owl of the waste places, 7 I had been sentinel; and then would I become as a sparrow * apart upon a house-top. 8 Mine enemies had reproached me all day long, they that made me mad had sworn by me, 9 For I had eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drinks with weeping, 10 Before the face of thine indigna tion and thy displeasure, for thou didst bear me up and then cast me forth. 11 My days had been like a stretched shadow, and as for me I then dried up as the herb. 12 But Thou, Lord, shalt dwell for ever, and thy remembrance shall be to all generations ; 13 Thou thyself shalt rise, thou shalt have compassion on Tziyydn, for it is time to be gracious to her, for the season is come, 14 For thy servants have taken plea- PRAISES. sure in her stones, and then been very gracious to * her dust, 15 And the nations have then feared the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory, 16 For the Lord hath built Tziyydn, he hath been seen in his glory, 17 He hath turned his face to the prayer of the * destitute one, and not contemned their prayer. 18 This shall be written for an after generation, and a people created shall praise Yah, 19 For he hath looked down from his sanctuary aloft, from the heavens the Lord hath looked unto the earth, 20 To hear the crying out of the bondman, to let open the sons of mortality ; \i J 21 That they may recount in Tziyydn the name of the Lord, and his praise in Yerushalaim, 22 When the peoples are gathered all together, and the realms to serve the Lord. 23 He hath put my force to trouble in the way, he hath cut my days very short ; 24 Then I said, My God, bring me not up at the half of my days ; thy PRAISES. years are for a generation of genera tions ; 25 Before hast thou founded the earth and the heavens, the doing of thy hands ; 26 They shall perish, and Thou shalt stand, and all of them shall wear away as apparel, 27 As clothing shalt thou change them and they shall change ; but Thou art He, and thy years shall not be brought to an end ; 28 The sons of thy servants shall abide, and their seed be established before thy face. CIII. To Dav'id. BLESS thou the Lord my soul ; and all within me bless the name of his sanctuary ; 2 Bless thou the Lord my soul, and forget not all his recompences ; 3 Who forgiveth all thy fault, who healeth all thy diseases ; 4 Who redeemeth thy life from decay, who crowneth thee with mercy and com passion ; 5 Who satisfieth thy garniture with that which is good, then thou renewest thy youth for thyself as the eagle. N 2 PRAISES. 6 The Lord, a doer of righteous things and of judgements for all the injured*, 7 Will make men know his ways toward Moshdh, his acts toward the sons of Israel. 8 The Lord, full of compassion and gracious, long-suffering, and of much mercy, 9 Will not strive for eternity, neither will he keep watch for ever. 10 He hath not done to us after our sins, nor recompensed upon us after our faults ; 11 For * as heaven is high over the earth, his mercy hath been mighty over them that fear him ; 12 * As the rising is far from the west, he hath made our transgressions far from us ; 13 * As a father having compassion upon his sons, the Lord hath compassion upon them that fear him ; 14 For He knoweth our frame, it is remembered that we are dust. 15 As for man his days are as grass, as the petal of the field so will he bloom ; 16 For a wind passeth through it, and it is no more, and never more doth its place then notice it. PRAISES. 17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting and till everlasting upon them that fear him, and his right eousness to sons of sons, 18 To them that observe his covenant, and to them that remember his precepts to do them. 19 The Lord hath had his throne established in the heavens, and his reign hath dominion over all ; 20 Bless the Lord, ye his agents mighty in force, doers of his word as ye hearken at the voice of his word ; 21 Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts, his ministers, doers of his good pleasure ; 22 Bless the Lord, all ye his doings, in all places of his dominion ; bless thou the Lord my soul. civ. BLESS thou the Lord my soul ; 0 Lord my God thou art waxen very great, thou art clad with majesty and honour, 2 Wrapping light as a garment, stretching the heavens as a curtain. 3 He who layeth the roof-beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who putteth clouds to be his chariot, who goeth upon the wings of the wind, PRAISES. 4 Making his agents to be winds, his ministers to be kindling fire, 5 Hath founded the earth upon her bases, she shall not be made to slip for ever and ever. 6 As for the deep, as with clothing thou didst cover it, then waters stood upon the mountains ; 7 Then they went fleeing from thy rebuke, from the voice of thy thunder they were hastened away, 8 Then they went up mountains, they went down broad valleys, unto this place thou didst found for them ; 9 Thou didst put a border which they should never pass, nor keep returning to cover the earth. 10 He who doth send forth springs into the torrents, {then they go on between the mountains, 11 Then they let all the living things of the field drink, then the wild-asses break their thirst, 12 Then the fowl of the heavens abideth by them, they give then voice from between the brakes,) 13 Letting the mountains drink from his upper chambers, {then the earth is surfeited with the fruit of thy doings,) PRAISES. 14 Causing grass to spring for the beast, and herb for man's tillage, 15 That he may bring out bread from the earth, (and wine doth then rejoice man's heart,) that he may cheer his face with oil, (and then with bread support man's heart ; 16 Then the trees of the Lord are surfeited, the cedars of Lebandn which he|hath planted, 17 Where the sparrows then nestle, as for the stork the fir-trees are her house, 18 The high hills are for the wild goats, the steep rocks a refuge for the shaphans,) 19 He hath made the moon for seasons, the sun knoweth his coming in ; 20 Then thou settest darkness, and then it becometh night, wherein every living thing of the forest doth then move, 21 With the young lions roaring for the prey and to seek their food from God. 22 Then the sun ariseth, they go on being gathered in, and they go on to couch, unto their places of habitation ; 23 Then man goeth out to his work and to his tillage until evening. PRAISES. 24 How many are thy doings, Lord, in wisdom hast thou done them all, the earth is full of the things thou ownest ; 25 And this sea, great and large on either hand, there is the moving thing, and it is countless, living creatures, little with great ; 26 There ships will go along, thou hast framed that livyathan to make merry therein ; 27 They all will keep expecting thee to give their food in its time ; 28 Thou wilt give to them, they will keep gathering up, thou wilt open thy hand, they will go on being surfeited with good ; 29 Thou wilt hide thy face, they will continue troubled, thou wilt gather in their spirit, they will keep giving up the ghost and returning to their dust ; 30 Thou wilt send forth thy spirit, they will go on being created, and thou wilt renew the face of the ground. 31 The glory of the Lord shall be for ever, the Lord will rejoice in his doings, 32 Who looketh to the earth, and it is then in tremor, he then toucheth the mountains and they smoke. 33 I would sing to the Lord in my PRAISES. life, I would make psalms to my God while I still am; 34 With him shall my musing engage, I myself will rejoice in the Lord ; 35 Sinners shall be brought to an end out of the earth, and guilty men be no more ; bless thou the Lord my soul. Halleluyah. cv. CONFESS the Lord, call him by his name, make known his acts among the peoples, 2 Sing to him, make psalms to him, muse on all his wonderful works, 3 Glory in the name of his sanctuary, let then the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord, 4 Seek out the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually, 5 Remember his wonderful works that he hath done, his miracles and the judgements of his mouth, 6 Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Yangakdb his elect ones. 7 He, the Lord our God, whose judgements are in all the earth, 8 Hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word he commanded to a thousand generations, PRAISES. 9 * Which he cut with Abraham, and his oath * to Yischak, 10 And then he made it stand to Yangakdb for a statute, an everlasting covenant to Isradl ; 11 Saying, To thee will I give the land of Cenagnan, the cord of your inheritance ; 12 When they were persons to be counted, as a few, and m sojourning therein. 13 And then they walked from nation to nation, from a certain realm to another people ; 14 He left not a man to injure them, and then reproved kings for their sakes, saying, 15 Touch ye not mine anointed ones, and do no evil to my prophets. 16 And then he called a hunger upon the land, he had broken the whole staff of bread ; 17 He had sent before their face a man, sold for a servant, Yosdph ; 18 They put his foot to trouble with the fetter, his soul came into iron, 19 Till the time of the coming of his word, the Saying of the Lord had refined him. 20 The king sent faj±la, and then he PRAISES. loosed him, even he that had dominion of/ the peoples, and then he let him open ; 21 He put him lord of his house, and having dominion over all that he owned, 22 To bind his princes after his soul, and then he made his elders wise. 23 And then Isradl came into Mitz raim, and Yangakdb sojourned in the land of Cham ; 24 And then he made his people to be very fruitful, and then he made them to prevail in number over their adver saries ; 25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to plot together against his servants. 26 He sent Moshdh his servant, and Aardn whom he had chosen ; 27 They put forth among them the words of his tokens and miracles in the land of Cham. 28 He sent darkness, and then made it dark, and they rebelled not against his word ; 29 He turned their waters to blood, and then put to death their fish ; 30 Their land spawned frogs into the inner chambers of their kings. PRAISES. 31 He said the word, and then came a dogfly, and lice into all their border ; 32 He gave hail for their rains, a fire of flames in their land ; 33 And then smit their vine and their fig, and then brake up their border trees. 34 He said the word, and then came the locust and caterpillar, and it was countless, and ate then all the herb in their land, and ate then the fruit of their ground. 35 And then he smit all the first born in their land, the beginning of all their vigour ; 36 And then brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none stumbling among his tribes ; 37 Mitzraim rejoiced in their going out, for the dread of them had Mien upon them. 38 He spread a cloud for a hang ing, and a fire to make them shine by night. 39 The people asked, and then he brought quail, and satisfied them with bread of the heavens ; 40 He opened a rock*, and then waters issued, they went as a river in the parched lands. PRAISES. 41 For * he remembered the word of his sanctuary, and Abraham his servant; 42 And then he brought out his people with joy, and his elect ones with shouting ; 43 And then gave them the lands of the nations, and they possessed the travail of the folk ; 44 In order that they might observe his statutes and keep his laws. Halle- luyah. cvi. TTALLELUYAH; confess ye the -"--¦- Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 2 Who will utter the great might of the Lord, who will make men hear all his praise ? 3 Happy are observers of judgement, and a doer of righteousness at all times. 4 Remember me, Lord, in thy good pleasure towards thy people, visit me in thy salvation, 5 That / may see at the goodness of thine elect ones, that / may rejoice in the rejoicing of thy nation, that / may glory with thine inheritance. 6 We have sinned with our fathers, we have done wrong, we have found ourselves guilty ; PRAISES. 7 Our fathers in Mitzraim were not skilful in thy wonderful works, they remembered not the abundance of thy mercies, and then challenged thee by the sea, at the Reedy sea ; 8 And then he saved them because of his name, to make men know his might; 9 And then he rebuked the Reedy sea, and then it was wasted, and then he made them go in the deeps as in the wilderness ; 10 And then he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and then he redeemed them from the hand of the enemy ; 11 And then the waters covered their adversaries, there was not one of them left over ; 12 And then they believed in his words, they sang then his praise. 13 They speeded, they forgat his doings, they delayed not for his coun- 14 And then tney^longB^ a longing in the wilderness, and then proved God in the wild, 15 And then he gave them their request, and then sent forth leanness into their soul ; PRAISES. 16 And then they were jealous at Moshdh in the camp, at Aardn the sacred of the Lord ; 17 The earth then opened, and then it swallowed up Dathan, and then covered over the congregation of Abiram ; 18 And then fire burned them up in their congregation, flame then kindled on the guilty ones. 19 They made then a calf in Chordb, and then they worshipped a molten image, 20 And then altered their glory into the pattern of a herb-eating ox ; 21 They had forgotten God who saved them, doing great things in Mitzraim, 22 Wonderful works in the land of Cham, acts to be feared by the Reedy sea ; ¦ 23 And then he had said the word to sweep them off, had not Moshdh his elect stood in the breaking-through before his face, to make his fury return from attainting ; 24 And then they were disdainful of the coveted land, they believed not his word, 25 And then murmured in their tents, they had not heard at the voice of the Lord ; PRAISES. 26 And then he bare up his hand to them that he would make them fall in the wilderness, 27 And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and that he wrould winnow them into the lands ; 28 And then they were paired with Bagnal-Pegndr, and then they ate the sacrifices of the dead, 29 And then they made the Lord to be provoked with their actions, and then a plague brake through into them ; 30 And then stood up Pinechas, and then he did doom, and then the plague was restrained ; 31 And then it was reckoned to him for righteousness to all generations for ever ; 32 And then they gave displeasure by the waters of striving, and then it was evil before Moshdh because of them ; 33 For they challenged his spirit, and then he babbled with his lips. 34 They did not sweep off the peoples, as the Lord had said to them ; 35 And then they engaged them selves among the nations, and then learned their doings, 36 And then served their idols, and then they became a snare to them, and PRAISES. then they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the destroyers, 37 And then shed acquitted blood, blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed often to the idols of Cenagnan, and then the land was foul with the blood-guiltiness ; 38 And then they wrere unclean in their doings, and then went a whoring in their actions ; 39 And then the anger of the Lord was hot against his people, and then he abominated his inheritance ; 40 And then he gave them into the hand of the nations, and then they that hated them had dominion over them, 41 And then their enemies oppressed them, and then they were subjected under their hand ; 42 Many times he then had them rescued, but as for them, they then chal lenged him with their counsel, and then were starved by their fault ; 43 And then he saw at their adversity, when he heard their shouting ; 44 And then he remembered for them his covenant, and then repented accord ing to the abundance of his mercies ; and then he gave them to compassion before the face of all that led them captives. PRAISES. 4:5 Save us, O Lord our God, and diligently gather us from the nations, to confess the name of thy sanctuary, and to commend it one to another in thy praise. 46 Blest be the Lord God of Isradl from everlasting and to everlasting. And all the people said, Amen, halle- luyah. [FIFTH BOOK.] cvn. "{CONFESS ye the Lord, for he is ^ good, for his mercy endureth for ever," 2 Shall the Lord's redeemed say, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary, 3 And hath diligently gathered them out of the lands, from the rising and from the west, from the north and from the sea. 4 They strayed in the wilderness in a wild way, a city of dwelling found they not ; 5 Hungry were they, also thirsty, their soul then covered itself over within them ; 6 And then they cried unto the Lord in their adversity, he had them then rescued out of their straits ; PRAISES. 7 And then made them tread in an upright way, to go unto a city of dwelling ; 8 * Then they confessed the Lord for his mercy, and * his wonderful works for the sons of men, 9 Because he had satisfied the rang ing soul, and filled the hungry soul with good. 10 Such as dwelt in darkness and the shadow of death, bondmen of humilia tion and iron, 11 (For they had challenged the sayings of God, and despised the counsel of the most High, 12 And he then subjected their heart with travail,) they had stumbled and there was none helping ; 13 And then they cried unto the Lord in their adversity, he then saved them out of their straits ; 14 Then he brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and then utterly sundered their yoke-bands ; 15 Then they confessed the Lord for his mercy, and his * wonderful works for the sons of men, 16 Because he had broken up the doors of copper, and cut the bars of iron asunder. 0 2 PRAISES. 17 Foolish men from the way of their trangression, and from their faults, will put themselves to trouble, 18 Their soul will abominate all food, and then they will touch upon the gates of death ; 19 And then they will cry unto the Lord in their adversity, he will then save them out of their straits ; 20 He will send his word and heal them, and deliver them from their destructions ; , 21 * Then they will confess the Lord for his mercy, and * his wonderful works for the sons of men, 22 And sacrifice sacrifices of con fession, and recount his doings ' with shouting. 23 They that go down the sea in ships, doing employment in many waters, 24 It is they who see the doings of the Lord, and his wonderful works in the gulf; 25 And then he saith the word, and then he maketh the spirit of the tempest stand up, and then it exalteth the billows of the sea ; 26 They go then up the heavens, then they go down the deeps, their soul then melteth down of itself because of harm ; PRAISES. 27 Then they reel and wander like the drunkard, and all their wisdom is then swallowed up within itself; 28 And then they cry unto the Lord in their adversity, and he then bringeth them out of their straits ; 29 He raiseth then the tempest into a stillness, and then the billows of the waters are mute ; 30 And then they rejoice when the waters are calm, and then he hath them led unto the sighted land of their delight ; 31 * Then they confess the Lord for his mercy, and * his wonderful works for the sons of men, 32 And exalt him in the assembly of the people, they praise him also in the dwelling of the elders. 33 He will put rivers to be a wilder ness, and goings-out of waters to be a thirsty ground, 34 A land of fruit to be a salt land, for the harm of them that dwell therein ; 35 He will put a wilderness to be a water-pool, and a parched land to be goings-out of waters ; 36 And then he will make the hungry dwell there, and then they will stablish a city of dwelling, 37 And then will sow fields and plant PRAISES. vineyards, and then they will make fruit of income ; 38 And then he will bless them and they will become very many, and he will not cause their beasts to decrease ; 39 And then they will decrease and bow low, through restraint of harm and sorrow ; 40 Shedding contempt upon nobles, he will then also cause them to stray in a land without form, with no way ; 41 And then he will set the needy one on high from the humiliation, and then put families forth like the sheep. 42 The upright then see, and then they rejoice, and all unrighteousness will have stopped her mouth. 43 Who is wise ? and he will observe these things, and men will then mindfully discern the mercies of the Lord. CVIII. A song : a psalm : to Dav'id. MY heart is established, 0 God, * * I would sing and would make a psalm, yea with my glory. 2 0 stir thee, lute, and harp ; I would then stir up the dawn. 3 I will confess thee, Lord, among the peoples, and I will make thee a psalm among the folk ; PRAISES. 4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens, and up to the skies thy truth. 5 Be thou lifted up over the heavens, 0 God, and thy glory over all the earth. 6 That thy beloved ones may go on being let loose for war, 0 save with thy right hand and answer me. 7 God hath spoken in his sanctuary, I would triumph, I would apportion Shecdm and measure the valley of Succdth ; 8 Gilegnad is mine, Menashshdh mine, and Ephraim my head strong hold, Yehudah my law-giver, 9 Moab my bath-pot, over Eddm will I cast my shoe, toward Peldsheth will I shew myself friendly. 10 Who will conduct me into the fenced city, wTho will have led me up to Eddm? 11 Hast thou not cast us off, 0 God, and then not gone out, O God, in our hosts ? 12 0 allow to us help from the ad versary, for the salvation of man is a light thing. 13 In God we shall do valiantly, and He shall stamp down our adversaries. PRAISES. CIX. To the chief: to Dav'id; a psalm. HOLD not thy peace, 0 God of my praise, for the mouth of the guilty man and the mouth of deception have they opened upon me, 2 They have spoken to me with a tongue of falsehood, and with words of hatred had they gone around me, and then fought against me without cause. 3 In return for my love they then accused me, but I gave myself unto prayer. 4 And then they put harm upon me in return for goodness, and hatred in return for my love. 5 Put thou a guilty man in charge over him, and then let an accuser stand upon his right hand. 6 When he is judged let him then go out guilty, and his prayer then become sin, 7 His days become few, his charge another take, 8 His sons become fatherless, and his wife a widow ; 9 And with wandering let his sons then wander, and have asked earnestly, and have sought out food from their waste places ; 10 Let then a usurer ensnare dili- PRAISES. gently all that he hath, and strangers make spoil of his toil ; 11 Let him have none that draweth mercy, and none to be gracious to his fatherless children ; 12 Let then his latter end be to be cut down, in another generation let their name be wiped away ; 13 Let then the fault of his fathers be remembered unto the Lord, and let not the sin of his mother be wiped away; 14 Let them be in the presence of the Lord continually, and let him then make their remembrance to be cut down out of the earth ; 15 Because that he hath not remem bered to do mercy, and then he followed the humble and needy man, and the afflicted in heart, to make him die ; 16 And then he loved a ban, and then it came to him, and had not delighted in blessing, and then it was far from him ; 17 And then he was clad with a ban, as with his clothes, and it came then like waters within him, and like oil into his bones, 18 Then was it unto him as apparel he would wrap, and for a cincture would he gird it on continually. PRAISES. 19 These be the wages of them that accuse me from before the Lord, and of them that speak evil over my soul ; 20 But do Thou for me, 0 Lord the Lord, because of thy name ; have me rescued, for thy mercy is good ; 21 For I myself am humble and needy, and my heart is pierced within me ; 22 As a shadow, as its stretching, am I made to go, I am shaken off as the locust ; 23 My knees stumble from the fast, and my flesh is disfigured from lack of oil ; 24 And as for me, I have become to them a reproach, then they see me, they go wagging their heads. 25 Help me, 0 Lord my God, save me according to thy mercy ; 26 And they shall know that this is thy hand, Thou, Lord, hast done it. 27 They will ban, but Thou wilt bless ; they have risen *, but then they were ashamed, and then did thy servant re joice. 28 They that accuse me shall be clad with disgrace, and wrap their shame as a mantle. 29 With my mouth will I very PRAISES. gently confess the Lord ; and in the midst of many will I go on praising him, 30 When he standeth at the right hand of the needy, to save him from the * judges of his soul. CX. To Dav'id : a psalm. rjlHE bode of the Lord to my lord, -*- Dwell at my right hand till I set thine enemies to be thy footstool. 2 Then the Lord sent the staff of thy strength from Tziyydn, saying, Rule * * among thine enemies. 3 Thy people as free-will offerings in thy day of valour, were among the honours of the sanctuary, from the womb of the dawning, dew to thee of thy birth. 4 The Lord hath sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Malchitzddek. 5 0 Lord, he at thy right hand hath smitten through kings in his day of anger, 6 Then he pleaded among the nations ; he was full * of bodies, he had smitten through the head over the land of Rabbah, 7 He then drank of the torrent in the way, therefore did he then lift up his head. PRAISES. CXL HALLELUYAH ; I will confess the Lord with a whole heart, in the council of the upright ones, and the congregation. 2 Great are the doings of the Lord, sought out for all their delights ; 3 His work is majesty and honour, and his righteousness standeth for ever ; 4 He hath made a remembrance for his wonderful works. The Lord, gracious and full of compassion, 5 Hath given prey to them that fear him, he will remember his covenant for ever ; 6 He hath told his people the force of his doings, to give them the inheritance of the nations ; 7 The doings of his hands are truth and judgement ; all his precepts are faithful, 8 Upheld for ever and for ever, done in truth, and that which is upright ; 9 (He hath sent a ransoming for his people, he hath commanded his covenant for ever ; sacred and to be feared is his name ; 10 The fear of the Lord is the begin ning of wisdom,) good skill have all they that do them ; his praise standeth alway. PRAISES. CXII. TTALLELUY^H ; happy is a man -"- who feareth the Lord, who is very delighted in his commandments ; 2 His seed shall become a mighty man in the land ; the generation of upright men shall be blessed ; 3 In his house are wealth and riches, and his righteousness standeth for ever. 4 There is risen in the darkness a light for the upright ones, it is gracious and full of compassion and righteous. 5 Good is the man who is gracious and taketh a pledge, he will maintain his words in judgement, 6 When he shall never be made to slip, the righteous man shall become an everlasting remembrance ; 7 He shall not fear for an evil rumour, his heart is established, being trusted on the Lord ; 8 His heart is upheld, he shall not fear, until he see at his adversaries ; 9 He hath dispersed, he hath given to the needy ones, his righteousness standeth for ever, his horn shall be lifted up in glory ; 10 The guilty shall see, and shall have been provoked, he shall gnash his teeth, PRAISES. and shall have been melted ; the longing of guilty men shall perish. cxm. HALLELUYAH; praise, 0 ye ser vants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord ; 2 The name of the Lord shall be blessed, from now and for ever ; 3 From the rising of the sun to the coming in thereof the Lord's name shall be praised. 4 Lofty above all nations is the Lord, his glory above the heavens. 5 Who is as the Lord our God, that maketh a high place to dwell, that lowereth it to see at the heavens and at the earth ; 6 Raising the poor one from the dust, he will lift up the needy from the dung hill, 7 To make her dwell with nobles, with the nobles of his people, 8 Making the barren w^oman of the house to dwell, the rejoicing mother of sons. Halleluyah. CXIV. W"HEN Isradl went out of Mitzraim, the house of Yangakdb from a people of strange language, PRAISES. 2 The tribe of Yehudah became his sanctuary, and Isradl his great dominion. 3 The sea saw, and then fled, the Yarddn was brought round backward, 4 The mountains made a skip, like rams, and the hills, like young sheep. 5 What appeared to thee, 0 thou sea, when thou fleddest, thou Yarddn, when thou wast brought round backward ? 6 Ye mountains, when ye made a skip like rams, and ye hills like young sheep ? 7 Shake, 0 earth, from before the face of thy lord, from before the face of the God of Yangakdb, 8 Who turned the rock to be a water- pool, the flint into a spring of waters. cxv. IVTOT to us, Lord, not to us give glory, -^ because it belongs to thy name, for thy mercy, and for thy truth. 2 Wherefore should the nations say, Where, pray, is their God ? • 3 But our God in the heavens hath done all he hath delighted to do. 4 Their idols, silver and gold, the doing of man's hands, 5 Have a mouth, but they will not speak, eyes have they but they will not see, PRAISES. 6 Ears have they but they will not hear, a nose have they but they will not go on smelling, 7 Their hands are there, but they will not go on making them feel, their feet, but they will not go about, they will not meditate through their throat. 8 Like unto them will they become that make them, and every one that trusteth in them. 9 0 * Isradl, trust in the Lord ; their helper and their buckler is He ; 10 0 house of Aardn, trust in the Lord ; their helper and their buckler is He ; 11 Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord ; their helper and their buckler is He ; 12 The Lord hath remembered us, he will bless *, he will bless the house of Isradl, he will bless the house of Aardn, 13 He will bless them that fear the Lord, the little ones with the great ; 14 The Lord will cause blessing to be added unto you, unto you and unto your sons ; 15 Blest are ye of the Lord, maker of heaven and of the earth. 16 The heavens are heavens for the PRAISES. Lord, and the earth he hath given to the sons of men. 17 The dead will not praise Yah, nor all they that go down silence ; 18 But as for us, we will bless Yah from now and for ever. Halleluyah. cxvi. T LOVE him when the Lord heareth -*- my voice of my supplications, 2 For he hath inclined his ear to me, and then I called him for all my days. 3 Cords of death had compassed me, and grips of hell had found me ; 4 Then I found distress and sorrow, and called him by the name of the Lord ; 0 Lord, I would pray, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the Lord and righteous, and our God hath compassion, 6 The Lord preserveth the simple ones, I was poor and for me did he then save. 7 Return, my soul, to thy rest, for the Lord hath recompensed upon thee. 8 For thou hadst let loose my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my foot from the thrust ; 9 Then did I walk before the face of the Lord in the great land of life. PRAISES. 10 I believed when I spake ; as for me, I had answered very quickly ; as for me, I had said in my hasting away, All men are lying. 11 How shall I return to the Lord all his recompensations upon me ? 12 I will bear the cup of the great salvation, and call him by the name of the Lord ; 13 I will pay my vowrs to the Lord, into the presence, pray let me bring them, of all his people ; precious in the eyes of the Lord may the death of his saints be; 14 I would pray it, Lord, for / am thy servant, / am thy servant, the son of thy bondwoman, thou hast let open my bands. 15 To thee will I sacrifice a sacrifice of confession, and will call thee by the name of the Lord ; 16 I will pay my vows to the Lord, into the presence, pray let me bring them, of all his people, in the courts of the house of the Lord, in thy midst, 0 Yerushalaim. Halleluyah. P CXVII. RAISE the Lord all ye nations, commend him, all ye kindreds, PRAISES. 2 For his mercy hath been mighty over us, and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Halleluyah. CXVIII. CONFESS ye the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever. 2 Pray let Isradl then say *, For his mercy endureth for ever ; 3 Pray let the house of Aardn then say, For his mercy endureth for ever ; 4 Pray let them that fear the Lord then say, For his mercy endureth for ever. 5 I called Yah out of the grip, Yah then answered me in the large place, 6 The Lord is for me, I will not fear ; what shall man do for me ? 7 The Lord is for me, among them that help me ; and as for me, I shall see at them that hate me. 8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord, than to trust in man ; 9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord, than to trust in nobles. 10 All nations had gone around me, when in the name of the Lord I had them cut off; 11 They had gone round me, they PRAISES. had also gone around me, when in the name of the Lord I had them cut off ; 12 They had gone round me like bees, they were utterly burnt out as a fire of thorns, when in the name of the Lord I had them cut off. 13 With thrusting hast thou thrust me that I might fall, yet the Lord hath helped me ; 14 Yah, my strength and psalm, be came then also to me salvation ; 15 The voice of shouting and salva tion is in the tents of righteous men; the right hand of the Lord, doing valiantly, 16 The right hand of the Lord is uplifted, even the right hand of the Lord, doing valiantly. 17 Then died I not, when I lived and then recounted the doings of Yah ; 18 With chastening then did Yah chasten me, but he had not given me to death ; 19 Open ye to me the gates of justice, I will come into them, I will confess Yah. 20 This is the gate of the Lord, righteous men shall come into it. 21 I will confess thee, for thou didst answer me and then become to me salvation ; PRAISES. 22 The builders disdained a stone, it became the head of the corner, 23 This became so from the Lord, it is a wonderful stone in our eyes ; 24 This day the Lord hath done it, we will be glad and rejoice in him. 25 Lord, we would pray, save it pray ; Lord, we would pray, advance it pray; 26 Blest in the name of the Lord be he that cometh, we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord ; 27 The Lord is God, and will make light to shine for us ; array ye the feast with thick branches, up to the horns of the altar ; 28 Thou art my God, and I will go on confessing thee ; my God, I will go on exalting thee. 29 Confess ye the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever. cxix. HAPPY the perfect in way, who go in the law of the Lord ; 2 Happy they who keep his witness- ings, they will seek him out with a whole heart ; 3 Yea, they have not wrought un righteousness, they have gone in his ways. PRAISES. ' 4 Thy precepts hast Thou commanded me to observe very diligently ; 5 Oh that my ways were established to observe thy statutes ; 6 At that time shall I not be ashamed, when I look unto all thy command ments ; 7 I will confess thee with uprightness of heart, when I learn the judgements of thy justice. 8 I will observe thy statutes ; forsake me not very much. 9 Wherewithal shall a young man make his path clear, that he may ob serve according to thy word ? 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee out, let me not sin igno- rantly against thy commandments. 11 Thy sayings have I kept secretly in my heart, that I might not sin against thee. 12 Blest art Thou, Lord ; make me learn thy statutes. 13 With my lips have I recounted all the judgements of thy mouth ; 14 I have joyed in the way of thy testimonies, as over all wealth ; 15 I would muse on thy precepts, and look upon thy paths. PRAISES. 16 I will cherish myself in thy statutes, I will not forget thy word. 17 Recompense upon thy servant, then would I live and would observe thy word. 18 Uncover mine eyes, that I may look on wonderful works out of thy law. 19 I myself am a sojourner in the earth, hide not thy commandments from me. 20 My soul grateth for longing after thy judgements at all times. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud who are cursed, who sin ignorantly against thy commandments. 22 Uncover from upon me reproach and contempt, for I . have kept thy witnessings. 23 Princes also did dwell, they spake to each other against me, thy servant did then muse on thy statutes ; 24 Thy witnessings also were my cherishings, and the men of my counsel. 25 My soul hath cleaved to the dust, keep me alive according to thy word. 26 I "have recounted my ways, and then thou answeredst me, make me learn thy statutes ; 27 Make me discern the way of thy PRAISES. precepts, and then I would muse on thy wonderful works. 28 My soul hath dropped down for dejection, confirm me according to thy word. 29 Turn aside from me the way of falsehood, and with thy law be gracious to me. 30 I have chosen the way of faith fulness, thy judgements have I laid before me ; 31 I have cleaved to thy testimonies, Lord put me not to shame. 32 I will run the way of thy com mandments, when thou dost enlarge my heart. 33 Teach me, Lord, the Way of thy statutes, and I would go on keeping it unto the result. 34 Make me discern, that I may keep thy law, and go on observing it with a whole heart. 35 Make me tread in the pathway of thy commandments, for therein have I delighted. 36 Incline my heart unto thy testi monies, and not unto gain. 37 Make mine eyes to pass from seeing lightness, keep me alive in thy way. PRAISES. 38 Raise for thy servant thy saying, which leadeth to thy fear. 39 Make my reproach to pass, where of I have been in terror, for thy judge ments are good. 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts, keep me alive in thy righteous ness ; 41 And then shall thy mercies come upon me, Lord, and thy salvation, ac cording to thy saying ; 42 And I would answer a word to my reproacher, for I have trusted in thy word ; 43 And cause not the word of truth to be rescued out of my mouth very much, for I have hoped in thy judge ments ; 44 And I would observe thy law continually, for ever and ever, 45 And would walk in the large place, for I have sought out thy precepts ; 46 And would speak with thy wit nessings in the presence of kings, and not be ashamed ; 47 And cherish myself in thy com mandments, which I have loved, 48 And bear up my palms unto thy commandments, which I have loved, and muse on thy statutes. PRAISES. 49 Remember the word of thy ser vant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope ; 50 This was my comfort in my hu miliation, for thy saying had kept me alive. 51 The proud have had me very much in scorn, yet have I not stretched from thy law. 52 I have remembered, Lord, thy judgements from everlasting, and then I have comforted myself. 53 Consternation hath held me, be cause of the guilty that forsake thy law. 54 Thy statutes have become my chants in my house of sojournings ; 55 I have remembered, Lord, thy name in the night, and then would observe thy law ; 56 This became mine, because I had kept thy precepts. 57 0 Lord my portion, I have said that I wrould observe thy words. 58 I have entreated thy face with a whole heart, be gracious to me according to thy saying. 59 I have carefully reckoned my ways, and then would make my feet return unto thy witnessings ; PRAISES. 60 I have made haste and lingered not, to observe thy commandments. 61 The cords of guilty men have caught me, but I have not forgotten thy law. 62 At midnight I will arise to confess thee, for the judgements of thy justice. 63 I am fellow to all them that fear thee, and to them that observe thy precepts. 64 The earth, Lord, is full of thy mercy, make me learn thy statutes. 65 Thou hast done good to thy ser vant, Lord, according to thy word. 66 Make me learn good things, sense, and knowledge, for I have believed in thy commandments. 67 Before I answered, I was sinning ignorantly, but now I have observed thy saying. 68 Good art Thou, and causing good, make me learn thy statutes. 69 The proud have tacked a false hood upon me ; as for me, I will keep thy precepts with a whole heart. 70 Their heart is gross as fat ; as for me, I have cherished thy law. 71 It is good for me, for I have taken trouble that I might learn thy statutes. 72 Better to me is the law of thy PRAISES. mouth, than thousands of gold and silver. 73 Thy hands have made me, and then they stablished me ; make me discern, and then would I learn thy commandments. 74 They that fear thee will see me and rejoice, for I have hoped in thy word. 75 I know, Lord, that thy judgements are justice and faithfulness ; thou hast put me to trouble, 76 Pray let thy mercy become my comfort, according to thy saying to thy servant. 77 Let thy compassion come to me that I may live, for thy law is my cherishing. 78 The proud shall be ashamed, for with falsehood have they put me wrong; as for me, I then mused upon thy precepts. 79 Those that fear thee( shall return to me, and those that know thy wit nessings. 80 My heart shall become perfect in thy statutes, that I be not ashamed. 81 My soul hath failed for thy sal vation, I have hoped for thy word ; 82 Mine eyes have failed for thy sayings, saying, When wilt thou comfort me? PRAISES. 83 For I have become as a water- skin in a reek, yet I have not forgotten thy statutes. 84 How many are the days of thy servant, when wilt thou do judgement on them that follow me ? 85 The proud have graved destruc tions for me, which are not according to thy law. 86 All thy commandments are faith fulness, with falsehood have they followed me, help me. 87 They had all but made me fail on the earth, yet as for me, I had not for saken thy precepts. 88 Keep me alive, according to thy mercy, and I would observe the Testi mony of thy mouth. 89 For ever, Lord, thy word hath stood forth in the heavens, 90 Even thy faithfulness to all gene rations ; thou didst stablish the earth, and then it stood. 91 All stand this day after thy judgements, for all are thy servants. 92 Had not thy law been my cherish ing, at that time I should have perished in my humiliation. 93 Never will I forget thy precepts, for with them thou hast kept me alive. PRAISES. 94 I am thine, save me, for I have sought out thy precepts. 95 The guilty have diligently attended for me, to make me perish ; then did I mindfully discern thy witnessings. 96 I have seen an end of all per- fectness, but thy commandment is very large. 97 How have I loved thy law, it is my musing all day long ; 98 It will make me wiser in thy com mandments than mine enemies, when it is mine for ever. 99 I have been skilful above all who made me learn, for thy testimonies were my musing. 100 Then did I mindfully discern more than the elders, for I had kept thy precepts. 101 I have withheld my feet from every evil path, that I may observe thy word. 102 I turned not aside from thy judge ments, for Thou hadst taught me. 103 How relished have been thy sayings to my palate, * more than honey to my mouth ; 104 I did mindfully discern them from thy precepts, therefore have I hated every path of falsehood. PRAISES. 105 Thy word is a lamp to my foot, and a light to my course. 106 I have sworn, and would then confirm it, to observe the judgements of thy justice. 107 Very much have I been put to .trouble, keep me alive, Lord, according to thy word. 108 Take pleasure, pray, 0 Lord, in the freewill offerings of my mouth, and make me learn thy judgements. 109 My soul is continually in my palm, yet I have not forgotten thy law. 110 The guilty have laid a trap for me, yet I have not strayed from thy precepts. Ill Thy testimonies have I inherited for ever, for they are the * joy of my heart. 112 I have inclined my heart to do thy statutes unto the result, for ever. 113 I have hated doubleminded men, but thy law have I loved. 114 Thou art my hiding and my buckler, I have hoped in thy word. 115 Turn aside from me, ye evil doers, and then would I keep the com mandments of my God. 116 Lay thine hand on me, accord ing to thy saying, and then would I live ; PRAISES. and let me not be ashamed of my expectation. 117 Support me, and then should I be saved, and would heed thy statutes continually. 118 Thou hast tested all them that sin ignorantly against thy statutes, for/ their deceitfulness is falsehood. 119 Thou hast made all the guilty of the earth to cease like pieces of dross, therefore have I loved thy witnessings. 120 My flesh hath bristled for dread of thee, and I have feared thy judge ments. 121 I have done judgement and justice, leave me not to them that injure me. 122 Engage for thy servant for good, let not the proud ones injure me. 123 Mine eyes have failed for thy salvation, and for the saying of thy justice. 124 Do with thy servant according to thy mercy, and make me learn thy statutes ; 125 I am thy servant, make me discern, and then would I know thy witnessings. 126 It is time to do sacrifice to the Lord, they have dissevered thy law. PRAISES. 127 Therefore I have loved thy com mandments more than gold, and than pure gold ; 128 Therefore I have laid right all precepts of all the law, I have hated every path of falsehood. 129 Thy testimonies are wonders, therefore hath my soul kept them. 130 The entering of thy words will make light to shine, making the simple ones discern. 131 I have gaped with my mouth and then would pant, for I had longed after thy commandments. 132 Turn thy face unto me and be gracious to me, according to the judge ment of those that love thy name ; , 133 0 cause my steps to be established in thy sayings, and let not any iniquity bear sway over me ; 134 Ransom me from the injury of man, and then would I observe thy precepts ; 135 Make thy face shine upon thy servant, and make me learn thy statutes. 136 Mine eyes go down with currents of waters ; 0 High One, they have not observed thy law. 137 Righteous art Thou, Lord, and upright in thy judgements ; PRAISES. 138 The justice of thy witnessings hast thou commanded, and their faithful ness, very diligently. 139 My jealousy hath utterly dissolved me, for mine adversaries have forgotten thy words. 140 Thy saying is very refined, and thy servant hath loved it. 141 I myself, the youngest and con temptible, have not forgotten thy pre cepts. 142 Thy righteousness is justice for ever, and thy law truth. 143 Adversity and constraint have found me, thy commandments are my cherishing. 144 The justice of thy testimonies endureth for ever, make me discern, and then I should live. 145 I have called with a whole heart, answer me, Lord, I would keep thy statutes ; 146 * I have called thee, save me, and then would I observe thy witnessings. 147 I have been before thee in the twilight, and then would I appeal ; in thy word have I hoped ; 148 Mine eyes have been before the mp^-watches to muse in thy saying. 149 0 hear my voice according to thy PRAISES. mercy ; Lord, keep me alive according to thy judgement. 150 They are come near that follow a wicked device, they are far from thy law ; 151 Thou art near, Lord, and all thy commandments are truth ; 152 From thy witnessings I know of old that thou hast founded them for ever. 153 See my humiliation, and let me loose, for I have not forgotten thy law. 154 0 strive my strife, and redeem me, keep me alive for thy saying. 155 Salvation is a thing far off from the guilty, for they have not sought out thy statutes. 156 Thy compassions, Lord, are many, keep me alive according to thy judge ments. 157 Many are following me, and are mine adversaries, yet have I not stretched from thy testimonies. 158 I have seen traitors, and then been grieved in myself, who have not observed thy saying. 159 See that I have loved thy pre cepts ; keep me alive, Lord, according to thy mercy. 160 The sum of thy word is truth, Q 2 PRAISES. and every judgement of thy justice en dureth for ever. 161 Princes have followed me without cause, but my heart hath dreaded thy word. 162 I myself am joying over thy say ings, as one finding much pillage. 163 I have hated and then would abominate falsehood, thy law have I loved. 164 Seven times in the day have I praised thee for thy judgements of justice. 165 Much peace have they who love thy law, and there is no stumbling-block for them. 166 Lord, I have expected thy salva tion, and have done thy commandments ; 167 My soul hath observed thy wit nessings, and then I have loved them very well. 168 I have observed thy precepts and thy witnessings, for all my ways are before thy presence. 169 My shouting shall come near, Lord, before thy face ; make me discern according to thy word. 170 My supplicating shall come before thy face, have me rescued according to thy saying. PRAISES. 171 My lips shall pour forth praise, when thou makest me learn thy statutes; 172 My tongue shall answer thy sayings, for all thy commandments are justice. 173 Thy hand shall be for to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts ; 174 I have longed after thy salvation, Lord, and thy law is my cherishing ; 175 My soul shall live and shall praise thee, and thy judgements shall help me. 176 I have strayed ; seek thy servant as a perishing sheep, for I have not forgotten thy commandments. CXX. The song of steps. UNTO the Lord in my distress did I call, and then he answered me. 2 Have my soul rescued, 0 Lord, from the lip of falsehood, from the tongue which is deceit. 3 What shall he give to thee, and what shall he cause to be added to thee, 0 tongue which art deceit? Pointed arrows of a mighty man with live coals of broom. 4 Ah, woe to me, for I have sojourned with Mdshec, I have abode with the tents of Kedar ; PRAISES. 5 My soul hath too much abode with in herself with him that hateth peace. 6 I gave myself to peace, but when I spake, they were for the fight. CXXI. A song: to the steps. I WILL bear up mine eyes unto the mountains ; whence will my helper come ? 2 My helper cometh from the Lord, maker of heaven and of the earth. 3 Let him not give thy foot to the stake, let him not slumber, preserving thee. 4 Behold he will neither slumber nor sleep, preserving Isradl ; 5 Even the Lord, preserving thee, the Lord, thy shade upon thy right hand ; 6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon in the night ; 7 The Lord will preserve thee from all evil, he will preserve thy soul ; 8 The Lord will preserve thy going out and thy coming in from now and for ever. CXXII. The song of steps: to Dav'id. I REJOICED at them saying to me, We will go to the house of the Lord. PRAISES. 2 Our feet became as if standing in thy gates, Yerushalaim ! 3 Yerushalaim ! who art built as a city that is coupled within itself alto gether ; 4 Where the tribes have gone up, the tribes of Yah ; where is the Testimony for Isradl, for confessing the name of the Lord. 5 For thither they go to dwell on thrones of judgement, thrones of the house of David. 6 Ask ye for the peace of Yerusha laim ; they shall be without care that love thee ; 7 Peace shall be within thy rampart, tranquillity within thy palace-forts. 8 Because of my brethren and my neighbours let me speak, pray ; Peace be within thee. 9 Because of the house of the Lord our God I would seek good for thee. CXXIII. The song of steps. UNTO thee did I bear up mine eyes, who dwellest in the heavens ; 2 Behold, as the eyes of the servants unto the hand of their lords, as the eyes of the bondmaid unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are unto the Lord PRAISES. our God ; until that he be gracious to us. 3 Be gracious to us, Lord, be gracious to us, for we have been much surfeited with contempt ; 4 Our soul hath been tob much sur feited within herself with the derision of those that are at ease, and the contempt of tyrants in high estate. CXXIV. The song of steps : to Dav'id. HAD it not been the Lord who was for us, pray let Isradl say, Had it not been the Lord who was for us, when man rose upon us, 2 At that very time had they swal lowed us up living, when their anger was hot against us ; 3 At that very time had the waters overflowed us, a torrent had passed upon our soul ; 4 At that very time had it passed upon our soul, with the seething waters. 5 Blest be the Lord, who hath not given us a prey to their teeth. 6 Our soul is as a sparrow delivered out of the trap of the snarer, the trap hath been broken, and as for us, we have been delivered. 7 Our helper came in the name of the Lord, maker of heaven and of the earth. PRAISES. CXXV. The song of steps. nn HEY that trust in the Lord are as -*- mount Tziyydn, it shall not be made to slip, it shall dwell for ever. 2 As for Yerushalaim, mountains are round about her, and the Lord is round about his people from now and for ever. 3 When the rod of guilt resteth not upon the lot of the righteous ones, that the righteous send not then their hands to unrighteousness, 4 Cause good, 0 Lord, to the good, and to the upright in their hearts ; 5 And for such as cause their crooked ways to stretch, let the Lord then make them go with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Isradl. CXXVI. The song of steps. WHEN the Lord returned with the returning of Tziyydn we became as men dreaming ; 2 At that time was our mouth filled with laughing, and our tongue with shouting ; 3 At that time they said among the nations, The Lord hath done great things for these same. 4 The Lord did great things for us, we became rejoicing men. PRAISES. 5 Return 0 Lord with our captivity, as channels in the south. 6 They that sowed in tears did then reap in snouting. 7 In going did he then go, and in weeping, bearing up the seed-pouch ; in coming did he then come, with shouting, bearing up his sheaves. CXXVII. The song of steps : to Shelomdh. IF the Lord build not a house, lightly have its builders travailed therein ; 2 If the Lord preserve not a city, lightly hath the preserver been sentinel. 3 Lightly for you are they getting up early to rise, tarrying to dwell, eating the bread of pains; so will he give sleep to his beloved one. 4 Behold sons, the inheritance of the Lord, the fruit of the belly, his reward, 5 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the sons of a man's youth, 6 Happy the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, they shall not be a- shamed when they speak with enemies in the gate. CXXVIII. The song of steps. TTAPPY every one that feareth the -*--*- Lord, that goeth in his ways. 2 When thou eatest of the toil of thy PRAISES. palms, happy thou, and it is good for thee. 3 Thy wife is as a fruitful vine by the lower sides of thy house, 4 Thy sons as olive settings round about thy table. 5 Behold, when thus a man is blessed who feareth the Lord, 6 The Lord doth then bless thee, out of Tziyydn ; and see thou at the good things of Yerushalaim all the days of thy life, 7 And see thou sons of thy sons. Peace be upon Isradl. CXXIX. The song of steps. rjlOO much have they been mine ad- -*- versaries from my youth, pray let Isradl say, 2 Too much have they been my ad versaries from my youth ; they have not also been able to overcome me. 3 Upon my back have the plowers plowed, they have made their furrowing long. 4 The righteous Lord hath cut in sunder the rope of guilty men. 5 They shall be ashamed, and shall be turned backward, even all the haters of Tziyydn. PRAISES. 6 They shall become as the grass of the house-tops, which hath dried up before it unsheathes, 7 Wherewith the reaper hath not filled his palm, nor he that doth gather hand- fuls his lap ; 8 Nor have they that pass said, The blessing of the Lord unto you, we have blessed you in the name of the Lord. CXXX. The song of steps. . FROM the deep channels' have I called thee, Lord ; hearken, 0 Lord, at my voice ; 2 Let thine ears then be listening to the voice of my supplications. 3 If thou, Yah, shouldest observe faults, Lord, who shall stand ? 4 For the forgiveness is with thee, that thou mightest be feared. 5 I have diligently attended on the Lord, my soul hath attended diligently, and for his word have I hoped ; 6 My soul hath hoped for the Lord, more than observers hope for the morning, when they observe for the morning. 7 Isradl shall hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is the mercy, and it is with him to make many a ransoming, 8 And He will ransom Isradl from all his faults. PRAISES. CXXXI. The song of steps : to Dav'id. |j ORD, my heart hath not been high, -*-^ nor mine eyes lofty, 2 Neither have I gone about great things, and about wonderful works be yond me. 3 Surely I have laid and had stilled my soul ; as a weaned child upon his mother, my soul, as the weaned child, is upon me. 4 Israel shall hope in the Lord from now and for ever. CXXXII. The song of steps. REMEMBER, Lord, concerning David, all his being put to trouble, 2 In that which he sware to the Lord, he vowed to the mighty One of Yanga kdb, saying, 3 If I come into the tent of my house, — if I go up upon the bedstead of my bedchamber, — 4 If I give sleeping to mine eyes, or slumbering to mine eyelids, — 5 Until I find the place of the Lord, the great tabernacle of the mighty One of Yangakdb. 6 Behold we heard of it in Ephrathah, we found it in the fields of the forest ; 7 Then would we come to his great PRAISES. tabernacle, we would worship at his footstool. 8 Rise, 0 Lord, to thy resting place, Thou, and the Ark of thy strength ; 9 Then shall thy priests be clad with justice, and thy saints shout aloud. 10 For thy servant David's sake make not the face of thine anointed one return. 11 The Lord hath sworn to Dav'id, it is truth, he will not return from it, 12 Of the fruit of thy belly will I set on a throne with thee ; 13 If thy sons will observe my cove nant and my Testimony that I shall make them learn, also their sons ever more, they shall dwell on a throne with thee. 14 For the Lord hath chosen Tziyydn, he hath longed after it for a dwelling for himself, saying, 15 This is my resting-place evermore, here will I dwell, for I have longed after it ; 16 With blessing will I bless her provision, her needy ones will I satisfy with bread ; 17 And I will clothe her priests with safety, and then with shouting shall her saints shout aloud. 18 There will I make a horn to PRAISES. spring for David, I have ordered a lamp for mine anointed one ; 19 His enemies will I clothe with shame, and upon him shall his diadem bloom. CXXXIII. The song of steps: to Dav'id. T3EH0LD how good and how pleasant -*-* is brethren's dwelling also together ; 2 As the good oil upon the head, going dowrn upon the beard, the beard of Aardn, which was going down upon his stature ; 3 As dew of Chermdn, which was going down upon the mountains of Tziyydn ; 4 For there the Lord commanded the blessing, life for evermore. CXXXIV. The song of steps. BEHOLD, bless the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, 2 Which stand in the house of the Lord in the nights ; * * * 3 Bear up your holy hands and bless the Lord. 4 The Lord shall bless thee out of Tziyydn, maker of heaven and of the earth. cxxxv. HALLELUYi-H ; praise ye the name of the Lord, praise it ye servants of the Lord, PRAISES. 2 That stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God. 3 Halleluyah ; for the Lord is good ; make ye psalms to his name, for it is pleasant. 4 For Yah hath chosen Yangakdb for himself, and Isradl for his peculiar treasure. 5 For I do know that the Lord is greater, even our Lord, than all gods. 6 All that the Lord delighted in he hath done in the heavens and in the earth, in the seas and all deeps ; 7 Bringing up vapours from the end of the earth, he, hath, made lightnings with the shower, IffifiB^ffie wind from his stores. 8 He, who smote the firstborn of Mitzraim from man to beast, 9 Had sent tokens and miracles into thy midst, 0 Mitzraim, on Pargndh and on all his servants. 10 He, who smote many nations and slew prevailing kings, 11 With Sichdn the king of the Emorites, and with Gnog the king of Bashan, and with all the realms of Cenagnan, 12 Had also given their land for an PRAISES. inheritance, an inheritance to Isradl his people. 13 Thy name, Lord, endureth for ever, * thy remembrance, Lord, to all generations ; 14 When the Lord pleadeth for his people, and repenteth himself over his servants. 15 As for the idols of the nations, silver and gold, doings of man's hands, 16 A mouth have they, but they will not speak, eyes have they, but they will not see, 17 Ears have they, but they will not give ear ; yea, there is no spirit in their mouth. 18 Like unto them will they become that make them, so will every one that trusteth in them. 19 Bless the Lord, ye house of Isradl, bless the Lord, ye house of Aardn, 20 Bless the Lord, ye house of Levi, ye that fear the Lord, bless the Lord. 21 Blest be the Lord out of Tziyydn, who abideth at Yerushalaim. Halleluyah. cxxxvi. CONFESS ye the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 2 Confess ye the God of * gods, for his mercy endureth for ever ; PRAISES. 3 Confess ye the great lord of * lords, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 4 The maker of great wTonderful works himself alone, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 5 The maker of heaven by discrimina tion, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 6 Who stamped the earth above the waters, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 7 The maker of great lights, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 8 Of the sun for dominion in the day, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 9 Of the moon and stars for dominions in the night, for his merCy endureth for ever ; 10 Confess ye him who smote Mitzraim in their first-born, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 11 And who brought out Isradl from their midst, for his mercy endureth for ever; 12 With a firm hand and with a stretched arm, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 13 Confess ye him who parted the Reedy sea into parts, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 14 And made Isradl to pass through the midst of it, for his mercy endureth for ever ; PRAISES. 15 And had shaken off Pargndh and his army into the Reedy sea, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 16 Confess ye him who made his people go in the wilderness, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 17 Him who smote great kings, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 18 And then he slew7 excellent kings, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 19 With Sichdn king of the Emorites, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 20 And with Gnog the king of Bashan, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 21 And had given their land for an inheritance, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 22 An inheritance to Isradl his ser vant, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 23 Who in our low estate had re membered concerning us, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 24 And then he rent us away from our adversaries, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 25 Who giveth bread to all flesh, for his mercy endureth for ever ; 26 Confess ye the God of heaven, for his mercy endureth for ever. iprj ****** K 2 PRAISES. CXXXVII. BY the rivers of Babdl, there have we dwelt, we have wept also, when we remembered Tziyydn ; 2 On the willows in the midst of her we hanged our harps ; 3 For there they that led us captive had asked the words of a song, and they that howled upon us a rejoicing, saying, Sing to us from a song of Tziyydn. 4 How shall we sing the song of the Lord on alien's ground ? 5 If I forget thee, Yerushalaim, my right hand shall forget her music ; 6 My tongue shall cleave to my palate if I remember not thee,* if I do not bring up Yerushalaim at the head of my rejoicing. 7 Remember, Lord, the day of Yeru shalaim concerning the sons of Eddm, who said, Lay ye bare, lay ye bare to the foundation within her. 8 0 daughter of Babdl, who art to be destroyed, happy he that shall pay to thee thy recompence, which thou hast recom pensed to us ; 9 Happy he that shall take hold, and shall have dashed thy babes against the high rock. PRAISES. CXXXVIII. To Dav'id. I WILL confess thee * with my whole -*- heart, in the presence of the gods will I go on making thee psalms ; 2 I will worship toward the temple of thy sanctuary, and confess thy name, for thy mercy and for thy truth ; for thou hast made thy saying great above all * thy name. 3 In the day I called, and thou then answeredst me, thou didst then make me boast in my soul with strength. 4 All the kings of the earth did then confess thee, Lord, for they had heard the sayings of thy mouth ; 5 And they sang then of the ways of the Lord, for great is the glory of the Lord ; 6 For the Lord is lofty yet will he see the low one, but the high one will he know from afar. 7 Though I go among distress thou wilt keep me alive ; over the anger of mine enemies wilt thou send thy hand, and save me with thy right hand. 8 The Lord shall make an end of evil concerning me ; * thy mercy, Lord, endureth for ever, leave not off the doings of thy hands. PRAISES. CXXXIX. To the chief: to Dav'id: a psalm. LORD, thou hast searched me out, and then known me ; my dwelling and my rising Thou hast known, thou hast discerned my thoughts from far off ; 2 Thou hast diligently winnowed my path and my lair, and ilpused^all my ways to be tended. 3 When there was no discourse on my tongue, lo, thou, Lord, hast known it all ; 4 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and then set upon me thy palm. 5 It is a knowledge too marvellous for me, it is set on high, I shall not be able to attain it. 6 Whither shall I go from thy spirit, and whither, I would pray, shall I steal away from thy face ? 7 If I ascend the heavens, there art Thou ; and if I would then make hell my bedchamber, lo, thou still ! 8 If I bear up the wings of the dawn, if I would abide in the latter end of the sea, 9 There also shall thy hand cause me to be led, and thy right hand shall take hold of me ; 10 And if I say, Yet shall darkness veil me and night be light about me ; 11 Darkness also shall not make it PRAISES. dark from thee, and night shall make it shine as the day ; as is the darkening, so is the lighting. 12 For Thou didst own my reins, thou didst then hang above me in my mother's belly; 13 I will confess thee, because as a thing to be greatly feared have I been set apart ; thy doings are wonderful works, and my soul knoweth it very well ; 14 My bony strength was not con cealed from thee, wherewith I was wrought in hiding, I was fabricated in the undermost parts of the earth ; 15 Thine eyes saw my folding *; and then on thy book they all were written, 16 Even the days, they were framed diligently ; and one among them be longed to it ; 17 And to me how precious are thy thoughts, O God, how do their sums prevail ; 18 If I shall count them, they will go on becoming many, beyond the sand ; I have awaked and am still with thee. 19 If thou wilt kill, 0 God, a guilty man, then also turn ye aside from me, 0 men of bloodguiltiness. 20 For they will speak of thee after PRAISES. a device, to bear up thy name lightly, being thine adversaries. 21 Shall not I hate thy haters, Lord, and be grieved in myself with those that rise up against thee ? 22 I have hated them with a perfection of hatred, they had become to me as enemies. 23 Search me out, 0 God, and know my heart, try me and know my doubts, 24 And see if there be an idol-way in me, and lead me in a way everlasting. CXL. To the chief : a psalm : to Dav'id. LET me loose, Lord, from the man of evil, keep me then from the man of great violence, 2 Who have invented harms in their heart, every day will they fetch up wars ; 3 They have pointed their tongue like a serpent, asp's poison is under their lips. Sdlah : 4 Preserve me, Lord, from the hands of the guilty one, keep me then from the man of great violence, who have invented how to thrust my steps. 5 Men in high estate have secreted a trap for me, and cords, they have spread a net beside the track ; snares have they set for me. Sdlah : PRAISES. 6 I have said to the Lord, Thou art my God, give ear, 0 Lord, to the voice of my supplications. 7 0 Lord, the Lord, 0 strength of my salvation, thou didst hang above my head in the day of armour. 8 Give not, Lord, the longings of the guilty one, bring not forth his devising. They shall be exalted, Sdlah : 9 Even the head of those around me ; then the travail of their lips shall over whelm them, 10 Live coals shall be made to slip upon them, it shall make them fall into the fire, into chasms, they shall not rise again. 11 The slanderous man shall not be established in the land, the violent evil man shall keep hunting him, to his hurrying. 12 I know that the Lord will do the plea of the humble man, and the judge ment of the needy ones ; 13 Righteous men shall yet confess thy name, upright ones shall dwell before thy face. CXLI. A psalm: to Dav'id. LORD, I have called thee, make haste to me, 0 give ear to my voice when I call to thee ; PRAISES. 2 Let then my prayer be established before thy face as incense, the tribute of my palms as an evening oblation. 3 Set a guard, 0 Lord, observe my mouth, 0 keep watch upon the door of my lips ; 4 Incline not mine heart to an evil word, to transact acts of guilt with men that work iniquity ; nor let me then devour their pleasant meats. 5 Let then a righteous man beat me with mercy, and reprove me 6 With an oil for the head ; let not my head disallow it, when still my prayer also is against their harms. 7 Their judges were released by the up per sides of the high rock, and had heard my sayings, that they were pleasant. 8 As one breaketh in pieces and ploweth in the earth, so were our bones dispersed at the mouth of hell, 9 When mine eyes were unto thee, 0 Lord, the Lord, in thee had I taken refuge, lay not bare my soul ; 10 Preserve me from the upper sides of the trap they have laid for me, and the snares of the workers of iniquity. 11 Guilty men shall fall into its toils, together with them I myself shall be, till I pass. PRAISES. CXLII. Skilful : to Dav'id : when he was in the cave : a prayer. JJ^ITH my voice will I cry unto the Lord, with my voice will I make my supplication unto the Lord ; 2 I will shed my musing before his face, before his face will I tell my distress, 3 When my spirit was covering it self over me, and Thou didst know my course, in the path wherein I should go about they had secreted a trap for me. 4 Look on the right hand, and see ; but I have none that doth notice ; 5 My place to flee unto hath perished before me,,/ have none that doth seek out my soul. 6 I have cried unto thee, Lord, I have said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of life ; 7 0 listen unto my shouting, for I am very poor ; 8 Have me rescued from them that follow me, for they have been bolder than I. 9 O bring out my soul from the jailer, to confess thy name ; righteous men shall make a compass round me, when thou dost recompense me. PRAISES. CXLIII. A psalm: to Dav'id. I ORD hear my prayer, 0 give ear -^ unto my supplications, in thy faithfulness answer me, even in thy righteousness, 2 And come not into judgement with thy servant, when before thy face none living is righteous. 3 For an enemy hath followed my soul, he hath crushed my living soul to the earth, he hath made me dwell in dark places, as those for ever dead ; 4 And then my spirit covered itself over me, my heart in the midst of me made itself astounded. 5 I have remembered the days of old, I have meditated on all thy works, then I mused deeply on the doing of thy hands ; 6 I have spread abroad my hands unto thee, my soul is as a land faint for thee. Sdlah: 7 Answer me speedily, Lord, my spirit hath failed ; hide not thy face from me, and I shall have been com pared with them that go down tato the pit. 8 Make me to hear thy mercy in the morning, for in thee have I trusted ; make me know the way wherein I PRAISES. should go, for unto thee have I borne up my soul ; 9 Have me rescued, Lord, from mine ¦ enemies, unto thee have I gone covering my soul ; 10 Make me learn to do thy good pleasure, for Thou art my God, thy spirit is goodness, have me then led into a plain land ; 11 Because of thy name, Lord, keep' me then alive, in thy righteousness bring out then my soul from distress, 12 And then in thy mercy cause mine enemies to be dissolved, and all the adversaries of my soul to have perished, for I am thy servant. CXLIV. To Dav'id. BLEST be the Lord my rock, who maketh my hands learn for the battle, my fingers for the fight ; 2 Who is for me my mercy and my fortress, my high tower, and he that causeth my escape, my buckler, and in him have I taken refuge, who ruleth my people under me. 3 Lord, what is man ? And then thou knowest him. What is the son of man ? And then thou reckonest carefully of him. PRAISES. 4 Man is like to vanity, his days are as a passing shadow. 5 Cause them to stretch thy heavens, Lord, and then go down, touch the mountains and then let them smoke ; 6 Lighten lightning and then scatter them, send thine arrows and then discomfit them ; 7 Send thine hands from aloft, rid me, and have me rescued out of many waters, from the hand of the sons of the alien, 8 Whose mouth hath spoken light ness, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood. 9 I would sing a new song to thee, 0 God, with a ten stringed lute would I make psalms to thee. 10 It is he who giveth salvation to the kings, who riddeth Dav'id his servant from the sword of harm. 11 Rid me, and have me rescued from the hand of the sons of the alien, whose mouth hath spoken lightness, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood ; 12 That our sons may be as plants made greater in their youth, our daughters as corner stones hewn care fully after the pattern of the temple ; PRAISES. 13 Our garners full, bringing forth sort upon sort, our sheep leading forth and multiplied manyfold in our streets ; 14 Our leaders weighty, no breaking through, and no going out, and no loud crying in our market places. 15 Happy the people that hath it even thus,* happy the people whose God is the Lord. CXLV. A praise : to Dav'id. I WILL exalt thee, my God 0 king, and would then bless thy name for ever and ever ; 2 Every day will I go on blessing thee, and would then praise thy name for ever and ever, saying, 3 The Lord, great * and very praised, and there is no searching out of his magnificence. 4 One generation shall commend thy doings to another, and they shall tell of thy great might ; 5 Of the honour of the glory of thy majesty, and the words of thy wonderful works, would I muse. 6 And they shall say the strengthen ing of thine acts which are to be feared ; and as for thy magnificence, I will go on recounting it. PRAISES. 7 They shall pour forth a remembrance of thy many good things, and shall shout aloud of thy righteousness, saying, 8 The Lord, gracious and full of compassion, long-suffering and great in mercy, 9 The Lord, good to all, and his compassion over all his doings. 10 They shall give thee thanks for all thy doings, Lord, and thy saints shall bless thee ; 11 They shall say the glory of thy reign, and speak of thy might ; 12 To make men know his great might toward the sons of men, and the glory of the honour of his reign ; saying, 13 Thy reign is a reign of all ages, and thy dominion is in all generations ; 14 The Lord, laying his hand on all that fall, and upraising all that be bowed down ; 15 The eyes of all will expect thee, and it is Thou, giving them their food in its time, 16 Opening thine hand, and satisfy ing the good pleasure of every living thing ; 17 The Lord, righteous in all his ways and merciful in all his doings, PRAISES. 18 The Lord, near to all them that call him, * to all that will call him in truth, 19 Will do the good pleasure of them that fear him, and he will hear their appealing, and will save them ; 20 The Lord, preserving all that love him, and all the guilty will he sweep off. 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and all flesh shall bless the name of his sanctuary for ever and ever. CXLVL HALLELUYAH : Praise the Lord, 0 my soul ; I would praise the Lord in my life, I would make psalms to my God while I still am. 2 Trust ye not in nobles, nor in a son of man for whom is no salvation ; 3 His spirit will go out, he will re turn to his ground, in that very day his designs have perished. 4 Happy he that hath the God of Yangakdb to be his helper, that hath his expectation on the Lord his God, 5 Who made heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, who preserveth truth for ever, PRAISES. 6 Doing judgement for the injured ones, giving bread to the hungry ones ; 7 On the Lord, loosing them that are bound, on the Lord, unsealing the eyes of the blind men, 8 On the Lord, upraising them that are bowed down, the Lord, loving righteous men, 9 On the Lord, preserving sojour ners ; he will make the fatherless one and the widow continue still, and will put wrong the way of guilty men. 10 The Lord shall be king for ever, thy God, O Tziyydn, to all generations. Halleluyah. CXLVII. HALLELUYAH; for it is good making psalms of our God, for it is pleasant, praise is comely. 2 The Lord, building Yerushalaim, doth then diligently gather together the thrust-out of Isradl. 3 He, healing the heart-broken, and diligently binding up their pains, 4 Numbering the counting of the stars, then calleth them all by names. 5 Our Lord, great, and of much force, whose discrimination is countless ; 6 The Lord, making meek ones con- PRAISES. tinue still, lowering guilty men to the earth ; 7 (Answer ye to the Lord with a confession, make psalms with a harp to our God ;) 8 He, covering the heavens with rain-clouds, he, causing the shower to be established for the earth, he, making the mountains spring with grass, * * * * * 9 Giving to the beast its bread, and to the young ravens which call, 10 Will not delight in the might of a horse, he will take no pleasure in the hips of a man. 11 Answer ye to the Lord, taking pleasure in them that fear him, in the men that hope for his mercy. 12 Commend the Lord, Yerushalaim, praise thy God, 0 Tziyydn, 13 For he hath made firm the bars of thy gates, he hath blessed thy sons among thee. 14 He, putting thy border to be peace, then satisfieth thee with the fat of wheat ; 15 He, sending his saying upon earth, his word then runneth with speed ; 16 He, giving snow like wool, then disperseth the rime like ashes, PRAISES. 17 Casting forth his ice like crumbs ; who then shall stand before the face of his cold ? 18 He sendeth then his word and melteth them, he then wafteth his wind, then waters stream. 19 Telling his words to Yangakdb, his statutes and his judgements to Isradl, 20 He hath not done so with any nation, and as for his judgements, men know them not. Halleluyah. CXLVIII. TTALLELUYiH; praise ye the -*--¦- Lord from the heavens, praise him in the realms aloft, 2 Praise him all his agents, praise him all his hosts, 3 Praise him sun and moon, praise him all ye stars of light, 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens. 5 They shall praise the name of the Lord, for ******** He com manded and they were created, 6 And then he made them stand always and for ever, he had given a statute and it did not then pass. 7 Praise ye the Lord from the earth, dragons and all deeps, PRAISES. 8 Fire and hail, snow and reek, the spirit of the tempest doing his word, 9 The mountains and all hills, fruit- tree and all cedars, 10 The living creature and every beast, moving thing and winged bird, 11 Kings of the earth, and all folk, princes and all the judges of the earth, 12 Youths and also maidens, elders with young men. They shall praise the name of the Lord, for his name, his only, is set on high, his majesty over earth and heaven ; 13 And then he shall lift up a horn for his people, a praise for all his saints, for the sons of Isradl, a people near him. Halleluyah. CXLIX. HALLELUYAH; sing ye to the Lord a new song, and his praise in the assembly of saints. 2 Let then Isradl rejoice in his great maker, let the sons of Tziyydn be glad in their king, 3 Let them then praise his name in a dance, with tabset and harp let them make psalms to him ; 4 When the Lord, having pleasure in his people, doth adorn the meek ones with salvation ; PRAISES. 5 When the saints triumph in glory, when they shout aloud upon their beds, 6 With the exaltations of God in their throat, and a sword of edges in their hand, 7 To do avengement upon the nations, and a great reproving upon the folk, 8 To bind their kings in chains, and their honoured ones in fetters of iron, 9 To do upon them the written judge ment ; it is the honour of all his saints. Halleluyah. CL. HALLELUYAH ; praise ye God in his sanctuary, praise him in the firmament of his strength, 2 Praise him in his great might, praise him according to the abundance of his greatness, 3 Praise him with blowing of the cornet, praise him with lute and harp, 4 Praise him with hmBtirl and dance, praise him with chords and organ, 5 Praise him with cymbals of hearing, praise him with cymbals of loud noise ; 6 Let then every thing that hath breath praise Yah. Halleluyah. ERRATA. X. 11. — For, " will be crushed, and," read, " will he crush, and it." XVL 7. — For, "a garnished inheritance liath fallen," read, " goodly hath the inheritance been." LONDON : R. CLAY, SONS. AND TAYLOR, BREAD STREET HILL, E.C. YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 3 9002 05047 2159