bf[Ps. 68:30 (Heb.)]
bu[See ver. 11 above]
Psa 69
 
eo[See ver. 19 above]
Psa 72
 
Psa 88
 

Psalms 2

The Reign of the Lord’s Anointed

1 aWhy do bthe nations rage
Or  nations noisily assemble

and the peoples plot in vain?
2The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his dAnointed, saying,
3“Let us eburst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.”
4 He who fsits in the heavens glaughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
5Then he will speak to them in his hwrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6“As for me, I have iset my King
on jZion, my kholy hill.”
7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, l“You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
8Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and mthe ends of the earth your possession.
9You shall nbreak
Revocalization yields (compare Septuagint)  You shall rule
them with pa rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like qa potter’s vessel.”
10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 rServe the Lord with sfear,
and trejoice with utrembling.
12 vKiss wthe Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his xwrath is quickly kindled.
yBlessed are all who take refuge in him.

Psalms 16:9-11

9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my zwhole being
Hebrew  my glory
rejoices;
my flesh also dwells secure.
10For you will not abandon my soul to abSheol,
acor let your adholy one see aecorruption.
Or  see the pit

11 You make known to me agthe path of life;
in your presence there is ahfullness of joy;
at your right hand are aipleasures forevermore.

Psalms 22

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

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

1 ajMy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so akfar from saving me, from the words of my algroaning?
2O my God, I cry by amday, but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest.
3 Yet you are anholy,
aoenthroned on apthe praises
Or dwelling in the praises
of Israel.
4In you our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and you delivered them.
5To you they arcried and were rescued;
in you they astrusted and were not put to shame.
6 But I am ata worm and not a man,
auscorned by mankind and avdespised by the people.
7All who see me awmock me;
they make mouths at me; they axwag their heads;
8 ay“He trusts in the Lord; let him azdeliver him;
let him rescue him, for he badelights in him!”
9 Yet you are he who bbtook me from the womb;
you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts.
10On you was I cast from my birth,
and from bcmy mother’s womb you have been my God.
11Be not bdfar from me,
for trouble is near,
and there is benone to help.
12 Many bulls encompass me;
bfstrong bulls of bgBashan surround me;
13they bhopen wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
14 I am bipoured out like water,
and all my bones are bjout of joint;
my bkheart is like blwax;
it is melted within my breast;
15my strength is bmdried up like a potsherd,
and my bntongue sticks to my jaws;
you lay me in the dust of death.
16 For bodogs encompass me;
a company of evildoers bpencircles me;
they have bqpierced my hands and feet
Some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts like a lion [they are at] my hands and feet

17I can count all my bones
they bsstare and gloat over me;
18 btthey divide my garments among them,
and for my clothing they cast lots.
19 But you, O Lord, budo not be far off!
O you my help, bvcome quickly to my aid!
20Deliver my soul from the sword,
my precious life from the power of bwthe dog!
21Save me from bxthe mouth of the lion!
You have rescued
Hebrew answered
me from the horns of bzthe wild oxen!
22 caI will tell of your name to my cbbrothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise you:
23You who ccfear the Lord, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, cdglorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
24For he has not despised or abhorred
the affliction of cethe afflicted,
and he has not cfhidden his face from him,
but has heard, when he cgcried to him.
25 From you comes my praise in the great chcongregation;
my civows I will cjperform before those who fear him.
26 ckThe afflicted
Or  The meek
shall cmeat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
May your hearts cnlive forever!
27 All cothe ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all cpthe families of the nations
shall worship before you.
28For cqkingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
29 All crthe prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall csbow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not ctkeep himself alive.
30Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming cugeneration;
31they shall cvcome and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet cwunborn,
that he has done it.

Psalms 40:6-8

6 cxIn sacrifice and offering you have not delighted,
but you have given me an open cyear.
Hebrew ears you have dug for me

Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.
7Then I said, “Behold, I have come;
in the scroll of the book it is written daof me:
8 dbI delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is dcwithin my heart.”

Psalms 69

Save Me, O God

To the choirmaster: according to ddLilies. Of David.

1 Save me, O God!
For dethe waters have come up to my neck.
Or  waters threaten my life

2I sink in deep dgmire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the flood dhsweeps over me.
3 diI am weary with my crying out;
djmy throat is parched.
dkMy eyes grow dim
with dlwaiting for my God.
4 dmMore in number than the hairs of my head
are dnthose who hate me dowithout cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me,
dpthose who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal
must I now restore?
5O God, you know my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
6 Let not those who hope in you dqbe put to shame through me,
O Lord God of hosts;
let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me,
O God of Israel.
7For it is drfor your sake that I have borne reproach,
that dishonor has covered my face.
8I have become dsa stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my mother’s sons.
9 For dtzeal for your house has consumed me,
and duthe reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
10When I wept and humbled
Hebrew lacks  and humbled
my soul with fasting,
it became my reproach.
11When I made dwsackcloth my clothing,
I became dxa byword to them.
12I am the talk of those who dysit in the gate,
and the drunkards make dzsongs about me.
13 But as for me, my eaprayer is to you, O Lord.
At eban acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness.
14Deliver me
from sinking in ecthe mire;
edlet me be delivered from my enemies
and from eethe deep waters.
15Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or efthe pit close egits mouth over me.
16 Answer me, O Lord, for your ehsteadfast love is good;
according to your abundant eimercy, ejturn to me.
17 ekHide not your face from your servant,
elfor I am in distress; emmake haste to answer me.
18Draw near to my soul, redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies!
19 You know my enreproach,
and my shame and my dishonor;
my foes are all known to you.
20 eoReproaches have broken my heart,
so that I am in epdespair.
I eqlooked for erpity, but there was none,
and for escomforters, but I found none.
21They gave me etpoison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me eusour wine to drink.
22 evLet their own ewtable before them become a snare;
exand when they are at peace, let it become a trap.
Hebrew; a slight revocalization yields (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome)  a snare, and retribution and a trap

23 ezLet their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
faand make their loins tremble continually.
24Pour out your indignation upon them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.
25 fbMay their camp be a desolation;
let no one dwell in their tents.
26For they fcpersecute him whom fdyou have struck down,
and they recount the pain of fethose you have wounded.
27 ffAdd to them punishment upon punishment;
may they have no acquittal from you.
Hebrew  may they not come into your righteousness

28Let them be fhblotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be fienrolled among the righteous.
29 But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your salvation, O God, fjset me on high!
30 I will fkpraise the name of God with a song;
I will flmagnify him with fmthanksgiving.
31This will fnplease the Lord more than an ox
or a bull fowith horns and hoofs.
32When fpthe humble see it they will be glad;
you who seek God, fqlet your hearts revive.
33For the Lord hears the needy
and frdoes not despise his own people who are prisoners.
34 Let fsheaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them.
35For ftGod will save Zion
and build up the cities of Judah,
and people shall dwell there and possess it;
36 futhe offspring of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

Psalms 72

Give the King Your Justice

Of fvSolomon.

1 Give the king your fwjustice, O God,
and your righteousness to the royal son!
2May he fxjudge your people with righteousness,
and your poor with justice!
3Let the mountains bear fyprosperity for the people,
and the hills, in righteousness!
4May he defend the cause of the poor of the people,
give deliverance to the children of the needy,
and crush the oppressor!
5 May they fear you
Septuagint He shall endure
while gathe sun endures,
and as long as the moon, gbthroughout all generations!
6May he be like gcrain that falls on gdthe mown grass,
like geshowers that water the earth!
7In his days may gfthe righteous flourish,
and ggpeace abound, till the moon be no more!
8 May he have dominion from ghsea to sea,
and from githe River
That is,  the Euphrates
to the gkends of the earth!
9May desert tribes glbow down before him,
and his enemies gmlick the dust!
10May the kings of gnTarshish and of gothe coastlands
render him gptribute;
may the kings of gqSheba and grSeba
bring gifts!
11May all kings gsfall down before him,
all nations serve him!
12 For he delivers gtthe needy when he calls,
the poor and him who has no helper.
13He has pity on the weak and the needy,
and saves the lives of the needy.
14From oppression and violence he redeems their life,
and guprecious is their blood in his sight.
15 Long may he live;
may gvgold of Sheba be given to him!
May prayer be made gwfor him continually,
and blessings invoked for him all the day!
16May there be abundance of grain in the land;
on the tops of the mountains may it wave;
may its fruit be like Lebanon;
and may people gxblossom in the cities
like the gygrass of the field!
17 gzMay his name endure forever,
his fame continue as long as the sun!
haMay people be blessed in him,
hball nations call him blessed!
18 hcBlessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
who alone does hdwondrous things.
19Blessed be his heglorious name forever;
may hfthe whole earth be filled with his glory!

hgAmen and Amen!
20 hhThe prayers of hiDavid, the son of Jesse, are ended.

Book Three

Psalms 88

I Cry Out Day and Night Before You

A Song. A Psalm of hjthe Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to hkMahalath Leannoth. A Maskil
Probably musical or liturgical terms
of hmHeman the Ezrahite.

1 O Lord, hnGod of my salvation,
I hocry out day and night before you.
2Let my prayer come before you;
hpincline your ear to my cry!
3 For my soul is full of troubles,
and hqmy life draws near to hrSheol.
4I am counted among those who hsgo down to the pit;
I am a man who has no strength,
5like one set loose among the dead,
like the slain that lie in the grave,
like those whom htyou remember no more,
for they are hucut off from your hand.
6You have put me in hvthe depths of the pit,
in the hwregions dark and hxdeep.
7Your wrath hylies heavy upon me,
and you overwhelm me with hzall your waves.  Selah
8 You have caused iamy companions to shun me;
you have made me iba horror
Or an abomination
to them.
I am idshut in so that I cannot escape;
9 iemy eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O Lord;
I ifspread out my hands to you.
10Do you work wonders for the dead?
igDo the departed rise up to praise you?  Selah
11Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,
or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
12Are your ihwonders known in iithe darkness,
or your righteousness in the land of ijforgetfulness?
13 But I, O Lord, cry ikto you;
ilin the morning my prayer comes before you.
14O Lord, why imdo you cast my soul away?
Why indo you hide your face from me?
15Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,
I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.
The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

16Your wrath has swept over me;
your ipdreadful assaults destroy me.
17They iqsurround me like a flood irall day long;
they isclose in on me together.
18You have caused itmy beloved and my friend to shun me;
my companions have become darkness.
Or darkness has become my only companion

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