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1 Unto the end. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.

2 Hear these things, all nations. Pay attention, all inhabitants of the world:

3 whoever is earth-born, you sons of men, together as one, the rich and the poor.

4 My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will speak prudence.

5 I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my case with the psaltery.

6 Why should I fear in the evil day? The iniquity at my heel will surround me.

7 Those who trust in their own strength and who glory in the multitude of their riches,

8 no brother redeems, nor will man buy back. He will not give to God his appeasement,

9 nor the price for the redemption of his soul. And he will labor continuously,

10 and he will still live, until the end.

11 He will not see death, when he sees the wise dying: the foolish and the senseless will perish together. And they will leave their riches to strangers.

12 And their sepulchers will be their houses forever, their tabernacles from generation to generation. They have called their names in their own lands.

13 And man, when he was held in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

14 This way of theirs is a scandal to them. And afterwards, they will delight in their mouth.

15 They have been placed in Hell like sheep. Death will feed on them. And the just will have dominion over them in the morning. And their help will grow old in Hell for their glory.

16 Even so, truly God will redeem my soul from the hand of Hell, when he will receive me.

17 Do not be afraid, when a man will have been made rich, and when the glory of his house will have been multiplied.

18 For when he dies, he will take nothing away, and his glory will not descend with him.

19 For his soul will be blessed in his lifetime, and he will admit to you when you do good to him.

20 He will even enter with the progeny of his fathers, but, even in eternity, he will not see the light.

21 Man, when he was in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,

2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.

3 God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.

4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.

5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.

6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.

7 Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.

8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.

9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.

10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.

11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.

12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.

13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.

15 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.

16 But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?

17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.

18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.

19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.

20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.

21 These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.

22 Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.

23 The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David,

2 when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.

3 Be merciful to me, O God, according to your great mercy. And, according to the plentitude of your compassion, wipe out my iniquity.

4 Wash me once again from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

5 For I know my iniquity, and my sin is ever before me.

6 Against you only have I sinned, and I have done evil before your eyes. And so, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.

7 For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sinfulness did my mother conceive me.

8 For behold, you have loved truth. The obscure and hidden things of your wisdom, you have manifested to me.

9 You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed. You will wash me, and I will be made whiter than snow.

10 In my hearing, you will grant gladness and rejoicing. And the bones that have been humbled will exult.

11 Turn your face away from my sins, and erase all my iniquities.

12 Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.

13 Do not cast me away from your face; and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

14 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and confirm me with an unsurpassed spirit.

15 I will teach the unjust your ways, and the impious will be converted to you.

16 Free me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will extol your justice.

17 O Lord, you will open my lips, and my mouth will announce your praise.

18 For if you had desired sacrifice, I would certainly have given it, but with holocausts, you will not be delighted.

19 A crushed spirit is a sacrifice to God. A contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.

20 Act kindly, Lord, in your good will toward Zion, so that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

21 Then you will accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations, and holocausts. Then they will lay calves upon your altar.

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.”