Book of Psalms
part 3
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1; A Psalm of David. Judge me, O YAHWEH, for I have walked in my integrity; I also have trusted in YAHWEH; I shall not slide.
2; Examine me, O YAHWEH, and prove me; purify my reins and my heart.
3; For Your mercy is before my eyes; and I have walked in Your truth.
4; I have not sat with lying men; and I will not go in with hypocrites;
5; I have hated the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.
6; I will wash my hands in innocence; so I will go around Your altar, O YAHWEH,
7; to cause to hear with the voice of thanksgiving and recount all Your wonderful works.
8; O YAHWEH, I have loved the place of Your house, and the place where Your glory dwells.
9; Do not gather up my soul with sinners, nor my life with men of blood,
10; in whose hand is a plot, and their right hand is full of a bribe.
11; But I will walk in my integrity; redeem me and be gracious to me.
12; My foot stands in an even place; in the assemblies I will bless YAHWEH.
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1; A Psalm of David. YAHWEH is my light and my YAHSHUA; whom shall I fear? YAHWEH is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2; When the evildoers, my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3; If an army should camp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war rises against me, in this I am trusting.
4; One thing I have asked from YAHWEH, it I will seek: my dwelling in the house of YAHWEH all the days of my life, to behold the delight of YAHWEH, and to inquire in His sanctuary.
5; For in the day of evil He shall hide me in His shelter; in the secrecy of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall lift me up on a rock.
6; And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies, my encirclers, and I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises to YAHWEH.
7; Hear, O YAHWEH, my voice when I call, and favor me, and answer me.
8; My heart said to You, Seek my face; Your face, O YAHWEH, I will seek.
9; Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn away Your servant in anger; You have been my help, do not leave me nor forsake me, O Elohim of my Yâshua.
10; When my father and my mother forsake me then YAHWEH will gather me.
11; Teach me Your way, O YAHWEH, and lead me in a level path, because of those who watch me.
12; Do not give me into the soul of my foes; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and the ones breathing out violence.
13; I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of YAHWEH in the land of the living.
14; Hope in YAHWEH; be strong and He will make strong your heart; yea, hope in YAHWEH!
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1; A Psalm of David. I will call to You, O YAHWEH; my Rock, be not deaf to me, lest, if You be silent from me I may be compared with those going down into the Pit.
2; Hear the voice of my prayers in my crying to You, when I lift my hands toward Your set-a-part of Holies.
3; Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; who speak peace with their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.
4; Give to them according to their deeds and according to the evil of their practices; as is the work of their hands, give to them, repay their deeds to them.
5; Because they pay no attention to the works of YAHWEH, and to the works of His hands, He will destroy them, and not build them up.
6; Blessed be YAHWEH, because He has heard the voice of my prayers.
7; YAHWEH is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped; yea, my heart greatly rejoices; and I will thank Him with my song.
8; YAHWEH is their strength, and He is the fortress of Yâshua, He is His Messiah.
9; Save Your people and bless Your inheritance and feed them, and lift them up forever.
29
1; A Psalm of David. Give to YAHWEH, sons of mighty ones; give to YAHWEH glory and strength.
2; Give to YAHWEH the glory of His name; worship YAHWEH in the majesty of holiness.
3; The voice of YAHWEH is on the waters; the Elohim of glory thunders; YAHWEH is above the abundant water.
4; The voice of YAHWEH is in power; the voice of YAHWEH in majesty.
5; The voice of YAHWEH breaks the cedars; yea, YAHWEH breaks Lebanon's cedars.
6; He also makes them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
7; The voice of YAHWEH is cutting through the flame of fire.
8; The voice of YAHWEH shakes the wilderness; YAHWEH shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
9; The voice of YAHWEH causes the does to calve; and He uncovers the forests. And in His sanctuary it all is saying, Glory!
10; YAHWEH sits upon the flowing deluge; yea, YAHWEH sits as King forever.
11; YAHWEH will give strength to His people; YAHWEH will bless His people with peace.
30
1; A Psalm; a Song of Dedication of the House of David. I will exalt You, O YAHWEH; for You have lifted me up and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.
2; O YAHWEH my Elohim, I cried to You, and You have healed me.
3; O YAHWEH, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, from going down into the Pit.
4; Sing praises to YAHWEH, O saints of His; and give thanks to the memory of His holiness.
5; For His anger is only a moment; but in long life is His favor. Weeping may endure in the evening, but joy comes in the morning.
6; And in my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved forever.
7; O YAHWEH, in Your favor You have made my strong mountain to stand; You hid Your face; I was troubled;
8; I called to You, O YAHWEH; and to my master I will pray.
9; What profit is in my blood, in going down to the Pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth?
10; Hear, O YAHWEH, and favor me; O YAHWEH, be my helper.
11; You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have loosed my sackcloth and have clothed me with gladness.
12; So my glory shall praise You, and not be quiet; O YAHWEH, my Elohim, I will give thanks to You forever.
31
1; To the chief musician. A Psalm of David. In You, O YAHWEH, I sought refuge; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness.
2; Bow down Your ear to me; deliver me quickly, be a strong rock to me, for a house of fortresses to save me.
3; For You are my Rock and my Fortress; and for Your name's sake lead me and guide me.
4; Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.
5; Into Your hand I commit My spirit; You have redeemed Me, O YAHWEH, El of truth.
6; I have hated those keeping worthless idols; but I trust in YAHWEH.
7; And I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy; for You have seen my affliction; You have known the affliction in my soul;
8; and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have made my feet to stand in a broad place.
9; Give me your grace, O YAHWEH, for I am in trouble; my eye has wasted away with grief, my soul and my belly.
10; For my life is ending with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones have wasted away.
11; I was a reproach among all my foes, but exceedingly to my neighbors; and I was a dread to my friends; those seeing me fled outside from me.
12; I am forgotten like one dead from the heart; I am like a perishing vessel.
13; For I have heard the slander of many; fear is all around; because they are plotting together against me, they planned to take away my life.
14; But I trusted in You, O YAHWEH; I said, You are my Elohim.
15; My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me.
16; Make Your face shine on Your servant; save me in Your mercy.
17; Let me not be ashamed, O YAHWEH; for I have called upon You; let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in Sheol.
18; Let the lying lips be silenced which speak recklessly against the righteous with pride and scorn.
19; How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who reverence You; You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of mankind.
20; In the secrecy of Your presence You shall hide them from man's plots; You shall cover them in a booth, from the strife of tongues.
21; Blessed be YAHWEH, for He has worked His mercy wondrously to me in a besieged city.
22; For I said in my haste, I am cut off from Your eyes; surely You heard the voice of my prayers when I cried to You.
23; O love YAHWEH, all you saints of His; YAHWEH preserves the faithful, and abundantly repays the proud doer.
24; Be strong, and He will make your heart stronger, all you who hope in YAHWEH.
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1; Psalm of David. A Contemplation. Blessed is he whose transgression is lifted, whose sin is covered.
2; Blessed is the man to whom YAHWEH does not charge iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
3; When I kept silence, then my bones became old, through my howling all day.
4; For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap was turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.
5; I confessed my sin to You, and I have not hidden my iniquity; I said, I will confess over my transgression to YAHWEH; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
6; On account of this let every righteous one pray to You, at a time of finding; surely, when great floods come they will not reach him.
7; You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
8; I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you, My eye shall be on you.
9; Be not like the horse, like the mule, with no understanding; with bit and bridle his gear to be held in, that they do not come near you.
10; Many sorrows are to the wicked; but he who trusts in YAHWEH, mercy embraces him.
11; Be glad in YAHWEH and rejoice, you righteous ones; and all the upright in heart, shout for joy.
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1; Rejoice in YAHWEH, O righteous ones; praise is becoming to the upright.
2; Give thanks to YAHWEH with the lyre; sing to Him with a harp of ten strings.
3; Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully, with shouts of joy.
4; For the Word of YAHWEH is right, and all His works are in truth.
5; He loves righteousness and judgment; the mercy of YAHWEH fills the earth.
6; Through the Word of YAHWEH the heavens were made; and all their host were made by the breath of His mouth.
7; The waters of the sea were gathered like a heap, setting the depths in storehouses.
8; Let all the earth reverence YAHWEH; let all those living in the world stand in awe of Him.
9; For He spoke, and it came into being; He commanded, and it stood fast.
10; YAHWEH voids the counsel of the nations, He frustrates the plans of the peoples.
11; The counsel of YAHWEH stands forever, the thoughts of His heart from generation to generation.
12; Blessed is the nation whose Elohim is YAHWEH, the people He has chosen for His inheritance.
13; YAHWEH looks down from Heaven; He sees all the sons of mankind.
14; From His dwelling place He looks on all the ones living in the earth.
15; He forms the heart; He understands all their works.
16; The king is not saved by great force; a mighty man is not saved by great strength.
17; A horse is a vain thing for safety; nor does he save by his great strength.
18; Behold the eye of YAHWEH is to those who reverence Him, on those who hope in His mercy;
19; to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
20; Our soul waits for YAHWEH; He is our help and shield.
21; For our heart rejoices in Him because we trust in His set-a-part name.
22; Let Your mercy be upon us, O YAHWEH, even as we wait for You.
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1; A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; and he drove him away, and he went.
I will bless YAHWEH at all times; His praise shall always be in my mouth.
2; My soul shall make its boast in YAHWEH; the humble shall hear and be glad.
3; O magnify YAHWEH with me; and let us exalt His name together.
4; I sought YAHWEH, and He answered me, and delivered me out of all my fear.
5; They looked to Him and were filled with light; and their faces were not ashamed.
6; This poor man cried; and YAHWEH heard, and saved him out of all his distress.
7; The Messenger of YAHWEH camps around those who reverence Him, and He delivers them.
8; Taste and see that YAHWEH is good; blessed is the man seeking refuge in Him.
9; reverence YAHWEH, His set-a-part ones, for they who reverence Him lack nothing.
10; The young lions have lacked and been hungry; but they who seek YAHWEH shall not lack any good thing.
11; My sons, come, listen to Me; I will make known to you the reverence of YAHWEH.
12; Who is the man who desires life, who loves days in order to see good?
13; Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile;
14; Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
15; The eyes of YAHWEH are on the righteous; and His ears are open to their cry.
16; The face of YAHWEH is against those who do evil, to cut off their memory from the earth.
17; The righteous cry, and YAHWEH hears; and He saves them out of all their distresses.
18; YAHWEH is near to the broken of heart; and He saves the crushed of spirit.
19; Many are the evils of the righteous, but YAHWEH delivers him out of them all,
20; keeping all His bones; not one of them is broken.
21; Evil shall slay the wicked; yea, those who hate the righteous shall become guilty.
22; YAHWEH is redeeming the soul of His servants; and none of those who seek refuge in Him shall perish.
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1; A Psalm of David. O YAHWEH, contend with those who strive against me; fight those who fight against me.
2; Take hold of a shield and buckler, and arise as my help.
3; Draw out the spear and close ranks to meet my pursuers; say to my soul, I am your Yâshua.
4; Let those who seek my soul be ashamed and disgraced; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, those who plot evil to me.
5; Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the Messenger of YAHWEH driving them away.
6; Let their way be dark and slippery, and the Messenger of YAHWEH their pursuer.
7; For they have hidden their pit-net for me without cause; without cause they have dug for my soul.
8; Let destruction come on him; he will not know; and let his net which he concealed catch him; let him fall in it, into destruction.
9; And my soul shall be joyful in YAHWEH; it will rejoice in His Yâshua.
10; All my bones shall say: O YAHWEH, who is like You, who delivers the poor from those stronger than he; yes, the poor and needy from his plunderer?
11; Witnesses of violence rise up; they asked me what I did not know;
12; they rewarded me evil for good, bereaving my soul.
13; But in their sickness, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fastings; and my prayer returned to my bosom.
14; I walked as a friend, as to my brother; as one who mourns a mother, I was bowed down mourning.
15; But they rejoiced in my limping; and assembling the defamers assembled themselves against me; and I did not know; they tore and were not silent;
16; with the wicked they were mockers for a cake, gnashing their teeth on me.
17; O YAHWEH, how long will You look on? Bring back my soul from their desolations, my only one from the lions.
18; I will thank You in the great assembly, and I will praise You among a mighty people.
19; Let not my lying enemies rejoice over me; do not let those who hate me without cause wink the eye.
20; For they do not speak peace; but they devise deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.
21; And they open their mouth wide against me; they say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen.
22; You have seen, O YAHWEH; do not keep silence, O YAHWEH do not be far from me.
23; Stir Yourself and awaken to my judgment, to my cause, my Elohim and my Adonai.
24; Judge me, O YAHWEH my Elohim, according to Your righteousness; and do not let them rejoice over me.
25; Let them not say in their hearts, Aha! Our soul! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
26; Let them be ashamed and be confounded together, the ones who rejoice at my evil; let them be clothed with shame and dishonor, the ones who magnify themselves against me.
27; Let those who delight in my justification shout and rejoice; and they shall say continually, YAHWEH be magnified, delighting in the peace of His servant.
28; And my tongue will speak of Your righteousness and of Your praise all the day.