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1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees.

2 They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.

3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one who would bury them.

4 We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us.

5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? Will your zeal be kindled like a fire?

6 Pour out your wrath among the Gentiles, who have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not invoked your name.

7 For they have devoured Jacob, and they have desolated his place.

8 Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor.

9 Help us, O God, our Savior. And free us, Lord, for the glory of your name. And forgive us our sins for the sake of your name.

10 Let them not say among the Gentiles, “Where is their God?” And may your name become known among the nations before our eyes. For the retribution of your servants’ blood, which has been poured out:

11 may the groans of the shackled enter before you. According to the greatness of your arm, take possession of the sons of those who have been killed.

12 And repay our neighbors sevenfold within their sinews. It is the reproach of the same ones who brought reproach against you, O Lord.

13 But we are your people and the sheep of your pasture: we will give thanks to you in all ages. From generation to generation, we will announce your praise.

1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed. The testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

2 The One who reigns over Israel: Be attentive. For you lead Joseph like a sheep. The One who sits upon the cherubim: Shine forth

3 in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Awaken your power and draw near, so as to accomplish our salvation.

4 Convert us, O God. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

5 O Lord, God of hosts, how long will you be angry over the prayer of your servant?

6 How long will you feed us the bread of tears, and give us to drink a full measure of tears?

7 You have set us as a contradiction to our neighbors. And our enemies have ridiculed us.

8 O God of hosts, convert us. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

9 You have transferred a vineyard from Egypt. You have cast out the Gentiles, and planted it.

10 You were the leader of the journey in its sight. You planted its roots, and it filled the earth.

11 Its shadow covered the hills, and its branches covered the cedars of God.

12 It extended its new branches even to the sea, and its new seedlings even to the river.

13 So then, why have you destroyed its walls, so that all those who pass by the way gather its grapes?

14 The wild boar of the forest has trampled it, and a single wild beast has laid waste to it.

15 Turn back, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard;

16 and complete what your right hand has planted, and look upon the son of man, whom you have confirmed for yourself.

17 Whatever has been set on fire and dug under will perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

18 Let your hand be over the man on your right, and over the son of man, whom you have confirmed for yourself.

19 For we do not depart from you, and you will revive us. And we will invoke your name.

20 O Lord, God of hosts, convert us. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.

2 Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.

3 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,

5 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.

6 He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.

7 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.

8 You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.

9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,

10 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.

11 For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.

12 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.

13 And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.

14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,

15 I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.

16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.

17 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.

1 A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods.

2 How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners?

3 Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.

4 Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner.

5 They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved.

6 I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.

7 But you will die like men, and you will fall just like one of the princes.

8 Rise up, O God. Judge the earth. For you will inherit it with all the nations.

1 A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.

2 O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.

3 For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.

4 They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.

5 They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”

6 For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:

7 the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,

8 and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.

9 For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.

10 Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.

11 They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.

12 Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders

13 who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”

14 My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.

15 Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.

16 So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.

17 Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.

18 Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.

19 And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.

1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.

2 How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

3 My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.

4 For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.

5 Blessed are those who dwell in your house, O Lord. They will praise you from age to age.

6 Blessed is the man whose help is from you. In his heart, he is disposed to ascend

7 from the valley of tears, from the place which he has determined.

8 For even the lawgiver will provide a blessing; they will go from virtue to virtue. The God of gods will be seen in Zion.

9 O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Pay attention, O God of Jacob.

10 O God, gaze upon our protector, and look upon the face of your Christ.

11 For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

12 For God loves mercy and truth. The Lord will give grace and glory.

13 He will not withhold good things from those who walk in innocence. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who hopes in you.

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

2 O Lord, you have blessed your land. You have turned aside the captivity of Jacob.

3 You have released the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sins.

4 You have mitigated all your wrath. You have turned aside from the wrath of your indignation.

5 Convert us, O God, our Savior, and turn your anger away from us.

6 Will you be angry with us forever? And will you extend your wrath from generation to generation?

7 O God, you will turn back and revive us. And your people will rejoice in you.

8 O Lord, reveal to us your mercy, and grant to us your salvation.

9 I will listen to what the Lord God may be saying to me. For he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those who are being converted to the heart.

10 So then, truly his salvation is near to those who fear him, so that glory may inhabit our land.

11 Mercy and truth have met each other. Justice and peace have kissed.

12 Truth has risen from the earth, and justice has gazed down from heaven.

13 For so will the Lord give goodness, and our earth will give her fruit.

14 Justice will walk before him, and he will set his steps upon the way.

1 A Prayer of David himself. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear me. For I am needy and poor.

2 Preserve my soul, for I am holy. My God, bring salvation to your servant who hopes in you.

3 O Lord, be merciful to me, for I have cried out to you all day long.

4 Give joy to the soul of your servant, for I have lifted up my soul to you, Lord.

5 For you are sweet and mild, Lord, and plentiful in mercy to all who call upon you.

6 Pay attention, Lord, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplication.

7 In the day of my tribulation, I cried out to you, because you heeded me.

8 There is no one like you among the gods, O Lord, and there is no one like you in your works.

9 All the nations, which you have made, will draw near and adore in your presence, O Lord. And they will glorify your name.

10 For you are great, and you perform wonders. You alone are God.

11 Lead me, O Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth. May my heart rejoice, so that it will fear your name.

12 I will confess to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart. And I will glorify your name in eternity.

13 For your mercy toward me is great, and you have rescued my soul from the lower part of Hell.

14 O God, the iniquitous have risen up against me, and the synagogue of the powerful have sought my soul, and they have not placed you in their sight.

15 And you, Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, being patient and full of mercy and truthful.

16 Look down upon me and have mercy on me. Grant your authority to your servant, and bring salvation to the son of your handmaid.

17 Make me a sign of what is good, so that those who hate me, may look and be confounded. For you, O Lord, have helped me and consoled me.

1 A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains:

2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

3 Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God.

4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.

5 Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

6 The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her.

7 For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing.

1 A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite.

2 O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence.

3 Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition.

4 For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell.

5 I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance,

6 idle among the dead. I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, and who have been repelled by your hand.

7 They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death.

8 Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me.

9 You have sent my acquaintances far from me. They have set me as an abomination to themselves. I was handed over, yet I did not depart.

10 My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you.

11 Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you?

12 Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition?

13 Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion?

14 And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you.

15 Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me?

16 I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed.

17 Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me.

18 They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once.

19 Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery.