Category: Psalm

1 Unto the end. The understanding of David.

2 When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech.

3 Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?

4 All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.

5 You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.

6 You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.

7 Because of this, God will destroy you in the end. He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root from the land of the living.

8 The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:

9 “Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”

10 But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.

11 I will confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.

1 Unto the end. For Mahalath: the thoughts of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”

2 They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. There is no one who does good.

3 God gazed down from heaven on the sons of men, to see if there were any who were considering or seeking God.

4 All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.

5 Will they never learn: all those who work iniquity, who devour my people like a meal of bread?

6 They have not called upon God. In that place, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who please men. They have been confounded, because God has spurned them.

7 Who will grant from Zion the salvation of Israel? Jacob will exult, when God will convert the captivity of his people; and Israel will rejoice.

1 Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David,

2 when the Ziphites had arrived and they said to Saul, “Has not David been hidden with us?”

3 Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me in your virtue.

4 O God, listen to my prayer. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

5 For strangers have risen up against me, and the strong have sought my soul. And they have not set God before their eyes.

6 For behold, God is my helper, and the Lord is the protector of my soul.

7 Turn back the evils upon my adversaries, and ruin them by your truth.

8 I will freely sacrifice to you, and I will confess your name, O God, because it is good.

9 For you have quickly rescued me from all tribulation, and my eye has looked down upon my enemies.

1 Unto the end. In verses, the understanding of David.

2 Listen to my prayer, O God, and despise not my supplication.

3 Be attentive to me, and heed me. I have been grieved in my training, and I have been disturbed

4 at the voice of the adversary and at the tribulation of the sinner. For they have diverted iniquities toward me, and they have been harassing me with rage.

5 My heart has become disturbed within me, and the dread of death has fallen over me.

6 Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and darkness has buried me.

7 And I said, “Who will give me wings like the dove, so that I may fly away and take rest?”

8 Behold, I have fled far away, and I linger in solitude.

9 I waited for him who saved me from a weak-minded spirit and from a tempest.

10 Cast them down, O Lord, and divide their tongues. For I have seen iniquity and contradiction in the city.

11 Day and night, iniquity will surround it upon its walls, and hardship is in its midst,

12 with injustice. And usury and deceit have not fallen away from its streets.

13 For if my enemy had spoken evil about me, certainly, I would have sustained it. And if he who hated me had been speaking great things against me, I would perhaps have hidden myself from him.

14 Truly, you are a man of one mind: my leader and my acquaintance,

15 who took sweet food together with me. In the house of God, we walked side-by-side.

16 Let death come upon them, and let them descend alive into Hellfire. For there is wickedness in their dwellings, in their midst.

17 But I have cried out to God, and the Lord will save me.

18 Evening and morning and midday, I will discourse and announce, and he will heed my voice.

19 He will redeem my soul in peace from those who draw near to me. For, among the many, they were with me.

20 God will hear, and He who is before time will humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God.

21 He has stretched forth his hand in retribution. They have contaminated his covenant.

22 They were divided by the wrath of his countenance, and his heart has drawn near. His words are smoother than oil, and they are arrows.

23 Cast your cares upon the Lord, and he will nurture you. He will not allow the just to be tossed about forever.

24 Truly, O God, you will lead them away into the well of death. Bloody and deceitful men will not divide their days in half. But I will hope in you, O Lord.

1 Unto the end. For the people who have become far removed from the Sacred. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when the Philistines held him in Gath.

2 Have mercy on me, O God, because man has trampled over me. All day long, he has afflicted me by fighting against me.

3 My enemies have trampled over me all day long. For those who make war against me are many.

4 From the height of the day, I will be afraid. But truly, I will hope in you.

5 In God, I will praise my words. In God, I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

6 All day long, they curse my words. All their intentions are for evil against me.

7 They will dwell and hide themselves. They will watch my heel, just as they waited for my soul;

8 because of this, nothing will save them. In your anger, you will crush the people.

9 O God, I have announced my life to you. You have placed my tears in your sight, and even in your promise.

10 Then my enemies will be turned back. On whatever day that I call upon you, behold, I know that you are my God.

11 In God, I will praise the word. In the Lord, I will praise his speech. In God, I have hoped. I will not fear what man can do to me.

12 My vows to you, O God, are in me. I will repay them. Praises be to you.

13 For you have rescued my soul from death and my feet from slipping, so that I may be pleasing in the sight of God, in the light of the living.

1 Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when he fled from Saul into a cave.

2 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me. For my soul trusts in you. And I will hope in the shadow of your wings, until iniquity passes away.

3 I will cry out to God Most High, to God who has been kind to me.

4 He sent from heaven and freed me. He has surrendered into disgrace those who trampled me. God has sent his mercy and his truth.

5 And he has rescued my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men: their teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue is a sharp sword.

6 Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth.

7 They prepared a snare for my feet, and they bowed down my soul. They dug a pit before my face, yet they have fallen into it.

8 My heart is prepared, O God, my heart is prepared. I will sing, and I will compose a psalm.

9 Rise up, my glory. Rise up, psaltery and harp. I will arise in early morning.

10 I will confess to you, O Lord, among the peoples. I will compose a psalm to you among the nations.

11 For your mercy has been magnified, even to the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds.

12 Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and your glory above all the earth.

1 Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.

2 If, truly and certainly, you speak justice, then judge what is right, you sons of men.

3 For, even in your heart, you work iniquity. Your hands construct injustice on the earth.

4 Sinners have become foreigners from the womb; they have gone astray from conception. They have been speaking falsehoods.

5 Their fury is similar to that of a serpent; it is like a deaf asp, who even blocks her ears,

6 who will not listen to the voice of charmers, nor even to the enchanter who chants wisely.

7 God will crush their teeth within their own mouth. The Lord will break the molars of the lions.

8 They will come to nothing, like water flowing away. He has aimed his bow, while they are being weakened.

9 Like wax that flows, they will be carried away. Fire has fallen upon them, and they will not see the sun.

10 Before your thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.

11 The just one will rejoice when he sees vindication. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

12 And man will say, “If the just one is fruitful, then, truly, there is a God judging them on earth.”

1 Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title, when Saul sent and watched his house, in order to execute him.

2 Rescue me from my enemies, my God, and free me from those who rise up against me.

3 Rescue me from those who work iniquity, and save me from men of blood.

4 For behold, they have seized my soul. The strong have rushed upon me.

5 And it is neither my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. I have run and gone directly, without iniquity.

6 Rise up to meet me, and see: even you, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Reach out to visit all nations. Do not take pity on all those who work iniquity.

7 They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.

8 Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: “For who has heard us?”

9 And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.

10 I will guard my strength toward you, for you are God, my supporter.

11 My God, his mercy will precede me.

12 God will oversee my enemies for me. Do not slay them, lest at times my people may forget them. Scatter them by your virtue. And depose them, O Lord, my protector,

13 by the offense of their mouth and by the speech of their lips. And may they be caught in their arrogance. And, for their cursing and lying, they will be made known

14 at the consummation, in the fury of the consummation, and so they will be no more. And they will know that God will rule over Jacob, even to the ends of the earth.

15 They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.

16 They will be dispersed in order to gnaw, and truly, when they will not have been satisfied, they will murmur.

17 But I will sing your strength, and I will extol your mercy, in the morning. For you have been my supporter and my refuge in the day of my tribulation.

18 To you, my helper, I will sing psalms. For you are God, my supporter. My God is my mercy.

1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed, with the inscription of a title, of David himself, for instruction:

2 when he set fire to Mesopotamia of Syria and Sobal, and Joab turned back and struck Idumea, in the valley of the salt pits, twelve thousand men.

3 O God, you have rejected us, and you have ruined us. You became angry, and yet you have been merciful to us.

4 You have moved the earth, and you have disturbed it. Heal its breaches, for it has been moved.

5 You have revealed to your people difficulties. You have made us drink the wine of remorse.

6 You have given a warning sign to those who fear you, so that they may flee from before the face of the bow, so that your beloved may be delivered.

7 Save me with your right hand, and hear me.

8 God has spoken in his holy place: I will rejoice, and I will divide Shechem, and I will measure the steep valley of the tabernacles.

9 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the strength of my head. Judah is my king.

10 Moab is the cooking pot of my hope. Into Idumea, I will extend my shoe. To me, the foreigners have been made subject.

11 Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will lead me all the way to Idumea?

12 Will not you, O God, who has rejected us? And will not you, O God, go out with our armies?

13 Grant us help from tribulation. For salvation from man is empty.

14 In God, we will act virtuously. And those who trouble us, he will lead to nothing.

1 Unto the end. With hymns, of David.

2 O God, pay attention to my supplication. Be attentive to my prayer.

3 I cried out to you from the ends of the earth. When my heart was in anguish, you exalted me on a rock. You have led me,

4 for you have been my hope, a tower of strength before the face of the enemy.

5 I will dwell in your tabernacle forever. I will be protected under the cover of your wings.

6 For you, my God, have listened to my prayer. You have granted an inheritance to those who fear your name.

7 You will add days to the days of the king, to his years, even to the time of generation after generation.

8 He remains in eternity, in the sight of God. Who will long for his mercy and truth?

9 So I will compose a psalm to your name, forever and ever, so that I may repay my vows from day to day.