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Ps 1:1 BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks {and} lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. Ps 1:2 But his delight {and} desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. Ps 1:3 And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade {or} wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity]. Ps 1:4 Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away. Ps 1:5 Therefore the wicked [those disobedient and living without God] shall not stand [justified] in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God]. Ps 1:6 For the Lord knows {and} is fully acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly [those living outside God's will] shall perish (end in ruin and come to nought). Ps 2:1 WHY DO the nations assemble with commotion [uproar and confusion of voices], and why do the people imagine (meditate upon and devise) an empty scheme? Ps 2:2 The kings of the earth take their places; the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and His Anointed One (the Messiah, the Christ). {They say,} Ps 2:3 Let us break Their bands [of restraint] asunder and cast Their cords [of control] from us. Ps 2:4 He Who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision [and in supreme contempt He mocks them]. Ps 2:5 He speaks to them in His deep anger and troubles (terrifies and confounds) them in His displeasure {and} fury, {saying,} Ps 2:6 Yet have I anointed (installed and placed) My King [firmly] on My holy hill of Zion. Ps 2:7 I will declare the decree of the Lord: He said to Me, You are My Son; this day [I declare] I have begotten You. Ps 2:8 Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations as Your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as Your possession. Ps 2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; You shall dash them in pieces like potters' ware. Ps 2:10 Now therefore, O you kings, act wisely; be instructed {and} warned, O you rulers of the earth. Ps 2:11 Serve the Lord with reverent awe {and} worshipful fear; rejoice {and} be in high spirits with trembling [lest you displease Him]. Ps 2:12 Kiss the Son [pay homage to Him in purity], lest He be angry and you perish in the way, for soon shall His wrath be kindled. O blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) are all those who seek refuge {and} put their trust in Him! Ps 3:1 LORD, HOW they are increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Ps 3:2 Many are saying of me, There is no help for him in God. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 3:3 But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. Ps 3:4 With my voice I cry to the Lord, and He hears and answers me out of His holy hill. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 3:5 I lay down and slept; I wakened again, for the Lord sustains me. Ps 3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about. Ps 3:7 Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God! For You have struck all my enemies on the cheek; You have broken the teeth of the ungodly. Ps 3:8 Salvation belongs to the Lord; May Your blessing be upon Your people. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 4:1 ANSWER ME when I call, O God of my righteousness (uprightness, justice, and right standing with You)! You have freed me when I was hemmed in {and} enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me and hear my prayer. Ps 4:2 O you sons of men, how long will you turn my honor {and} glory into shame? How long will you love vanity {and} futility {and} seek after lies? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 4:3 But know that the Lord has set apart for Himself [and given distinction to] him who is godly [the man of loving-kindness]. The Lord listens {and} heeds when I call to Him. Ps 4:4 Be angry [or stand in awe] and sin not; commune with your own hearts upon your beds and be silent (sorry for the things you say in your hearts). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 4:5 Offer just {and} right sacrifices; trust (lean on and be confident) in the Lord. Ps 4:6 Many say, Oh, that we might see some good! Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord. Ps 4:7 You have put more joy {and} rejoicing in my heart than [they know] when their wheat and new wine have yielded abundantly. Ps 4:8 In peace I will both lie down and sleep, for You, Lord, alone make me dwell in safety {and} confident trust. Ps 5:1 LISTEN TO my words, O Lord, give heed to my sighing {and} groaning. Ps 5:2 Hear the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You do I pray. Ps 5:3 In the morning You hear my voice, O Lord; in the morning I prepare [a prayer, a sacrifice] for You and watch {and} wait [for You to speak to my heart]. Ps 5:4 For You are not a God Who takes pleasure in wickedness; neither will the evil [man] so much as dwell [temporarily] with You. Ps 5:5 Boasters can have no standing in Your sight; You abhor all evildoers. Ps 5:6 You will destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors [and rejects] the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. Ps 5:7 But as for me, I will enter Your house through the abundance of Your steadfast love {and} mercy; I will worship toward {and} at Your holy temple in reverent fear {and} awe of You. Ps 5:8 Lead me, O Lord, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way level (straight and right) before my face. Ps 5:9 For there is nothing trustworthy {or} steadfast {or} truthful in their talk; their heart is destruction [or a destructive chasm, a yawning gulf]; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter and make smooth with their tongue. Ps 5:10 Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own designs {and} counsels; cast them out because of the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You. Ps 5:11 But let all those who take refuge {and} put their trust in You rejoice; let them ever sing {and} shout for joy, because You make a covering over them {and} defend them; let those also who love Your name be joyful in You {and} be in high spirits. Ps 5:12 For You, Lord, will bless the [uncompromisingly] righteous [him who is upright and in right standing with You]; as with a shield You will surround him with goodwill (pleasure and favor). Ps 6:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in Your anger nor discipline {and} chasten me in Your hot displeasure. Ps 6:2 Have mercy on me {and} be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint and withered away); O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled. Ps 6:3 My [inner] self [as well as my body] is also exceedingly disturbed {and} troubled. But You, O Lord, how long [until You return and speak peace to me]? Ps 6:4 Return [to my relief], O Lord, deliver my life; save me for the sake of Your steadfast love {and} mercy. Ps 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of You; in Sheol (the place of the dead) who will give You thanks? Ps 6:6 I am weary with my groaning; all night I soak my pillow with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping. Ps 6:7 My eye grows dim because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies. Ps 6:8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping. Ps 6:9 The Lord has heard my supplication; the Lord receives my prayer. Ps 6:10 Let all my enemies be ashamed and sorely troubled; let them turn back {and} be put to shame suddenly. Ps 7:1 O LORD my God, in You I take refuge {and} put my trust; save me from all those who pursue {and} persecute me, and deliver me, Ps 7:2 Lest my foe tear my life [from my body] like a lion, dragging {me} away while there is none to deliver. Ps 7:3 O Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, Ps 7:4 If I have paid back with evil him who was at peace with me or without cause have robbed him who was my enemy, Ps 7:5 Let the enemy pursue my life and take it; yes, let him trample my life to the ground and lay my honor in the dust. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 7:6 Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; lift up Yourself against the rage of my enemies; and awake [and stir up] for me the justice {and} vindication [that] You have commanded. Ps 7:7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about You, and return on high over them. Ps 7:8 The Lord judges the people; judge me, O Lord, {and} do me justice according to my righteousness [my rightness, justice, and right standing with You] and according to the integrity that is in me. Ps 7:9 Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the [uncompromisingly] righteous [those upright and in harmony with You]; for You, Who try the hearts and emotions {and} thinking powers, are a righteous God. Ps 7:10 My defense {and} shield depend on God, Who saves the upright in heart. Ps 7:11 God is a righteous Judge, yes, a God Who is indignant every day. Ps 7:12 If a man does not turn {and} repent, [God] will whet His sword; He has strung {and} bent His [huge] bow and made it ready [by treading it with His foot]. Ps 7:13 He has also prepared for him deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts. Ps 7:14 Behold, [the wicked man] conceives iniquity and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. Ps 7:15 He made a pit and hollowed it out and has fallen into the hole which he made [before the trap was completed]. Ps 7:16 His mischief shall fall back in return upon his own head, and his violence come down [with the loose dirt] upon his own scalp. Ps 7:17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to His rightness {and} justice, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High. Ps 8:1 O LORD, our Lord, how excellent (majestic and glorious) is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory on [or above] the heavens. Ps 8:2 Out of the mouths of babes and unweaned infants You have established strength because of Your foes, that You might silence the enemy and the avenger. Ps 8:3 When I view {and} consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained {and} established, Ps 8:4 What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him? Ps 8:5 Yet You have made him but a little lower than God [or heavenly beings], and You have crowned him with glory and honor. Ps 8:6 You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet: Ps 8:7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field, Ps 8:8 The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, {and} whatever passes along the paths of the seas. Ps 8:9 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent (majestic and glorious) is Your name in all the earth! Ps 9:1 I WILL praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your marvelous works {and} wonderful deeds! Ps 9:2 I will rejoice in You and be in high spirits; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High! Ps 9:3 When my enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished before You. Ps 9:4 For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging righteously. Ps 9:5 You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forever and ever. Ps 9:6 The enemy have been cut off {and} have vanished in everlasting ruins, You have plucked up {and} overthrown their cities; the very memory of them has perished {and} vanished. Ps 9:7 But the Lord shall remain {and} continue forever; He has prepared {and} established His throne for judgment. Ps 9:8 And He will judge the world in righteousness (rightness and equity); He will minister justice to the peoples in uprightness. Ps 9:9 The Lord also will be a refuge {and} a high tower for the oppressed, a refuge {and} a stronghold in times of trouble (high cost, destitution, and desperation). Ps 9:10 And they who know Your name [who have experience and acquaintance with Your mercy] will lean on {and} confidently put their trust in You, for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek (inquire of and for) You [on the authority of God's Word and the right of their necessity]. Ps 9:11 Sing praises to the Lord, Who dwells in Zion! Declare among the peoples His doings! Ps 9:12 For He Who avenges the blood [of His people shed unjustly] remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the afflicted (the poor and the humble). Ps 9:13 Have mercy upon me {and} be gracious {to me,} O Lord; consider how I am afflicted by those who hate me, You Who lift me up from the gates of death, Ps 9:14 That I may show forth (recount and tell aloud) all Your praises! In the gates of the Daughter of Zion I will rejoice in Your salvation {and} Your saving help. Ps 9:15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid is their own foot caught. Ps 9:16 The Lord has made Himself known; He executes judgment; the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion [meditation]. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 9:17 The wicked shall be turned back [headlong into premature death] into Sheol (the place of the departed spirits of the wicked), even all the nations that forget {or} are forgetful of God. Ps 9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the expectation {and} hope of the meek {and} the poor shall not perish forever. Ps 9:19 Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail; let the nations be judged before You. Ps 9:20 Put them in fear [make them realize their frail nature], O Lord, that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 10:1 WHY DO You stand afar off, O Lord? Why do You hide Yourself, [veiling Your eyes] in times of trouble (distress and desperation)? Ps 10:2 The wicked in pride {and} arrogance hotly pursue {and} persecute the poor; let them be taken in the schemes which they have devised. Ps 10:3 For the wicked {man} boasts (sings the praises) of his own heart's desire, and the one greedy for gain curses {and} spurns, yes, renounces {and} despises the Lord. Ps 10:4 The wicked one in the pride of his countenance will not seek, inquire for, {and} yearn for God; all his thoughts are that there is no God [so He never punishes]. Ps 10:5 His ways are grievous [or persist] at all times; Your judgments [Lord] are far above {and} on high out of his sight [so he never thinks about them]; as for all his foes, he sniffs {and} sneers at them. Ps 10:6 He thinks in his heart, I shall not be moved; for throughout all generations I shall not come to want {or} be in adversity. Ps 10:7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, oppression (fraud); under his tongue are trouble and sin (mischief and iniquity). Ps 10:8 He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he slays the innocent; he watches stealthily for the poor (the helpless and unfortunate). Ps 10:9 He lurks in secret places like a lion in his thicket; he lies in wait that he may seize the poor (the helpless and the unfortunate); he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net. Ps 10:10 [The prey] is crushed, sinks down; and the helpless falls by his mighty [claws]. Ps 10:11 [The foe] thinks in his heart, God has quite forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see [my deed]. Ps 10:12 Arise, O Lord! O God, lift up Your hand; forget not the humble [patient and crushed]. Ps 10:13 Why does the wicked [man] condemn (spurn and renounce) God? Why has he thought in his heart, You will not call to account? Ps 10:14 You have seen it; yes, You note trouble and grief (vexation) to requite it with Your hand. The unfortunate commits himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless. Ps 10:15 Break the arm of the wicked man; and as for the evil man, search out his wickedness until You find no more. Ps 10:16 The Lord is King forever and ever; the nations will perish out of His land. Ps 10:17 O Lord, You have heard the desire {and} the longing of the humble {and} oppressed; You will prepare {and} strengthen {and} direct their hearts, You will cause Your ear to hear, Ps 10:18 To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man, who is of the earth, may not terrify them any more. Ps 11:1 IN THE Lord I take refuge [and put my trust]; how can you say to me, Flee like a bird to your mountain? Ps 11:2 For see, the wicked are bending the bow; they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they [furtively] in darkness may shoot at the upright in heart. Ps 11:3 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the [unyieldingly] righteous do, {or} what has He [the Righteous One] wrought {or} accomplished? Ps 11:4 The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes behold; His eyelids test {and} prove the children of men. Ps 11:5 The Lord tests {and} proves the [unyieldingly] righteous, but His soul abhors the wicked and him who loves violence. Ps 11:6 Upon the wicked He will rain quick burning coals {or} snares; fire, brimstone, and a [dreadful] scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup. Ps 11:7 For the Lord is [rigidly] righteous, He loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold His face, {or} He beholds the upright. Ps 12:1 HELP, LORD! For principled {and} godly people are here no more; faithfulness {and} the faithful vanish from among the sons of men. Ps 12:2 To his neighbor each one speaks words without use {or} worth {or} truth; with flattering lips and double heart [deceitfully] they speak. Ps 12:3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips {and} the tongues that speak proud boasting, Ps 12:4 Those who say, With our tongues we prevail; our lips are our own [to command at our will]--who is lord {and} master over us? Ps 12:5 Now will I arise, says the Lord, because the poor are oppressed, because of the groans of the needy; I will set him in safety {and} in the salvation for which he pants. Ps 12:6 The words {and} promises of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times over. Ps 12:7 You will keep them and preserve them, O Lord; You will guard {and} keep us from this [evil] generation forever. Ps 12:8 The wicked walk {or} prowl about on every side, as vileness is exalted [and baseness is rated high] among the sons of men. Ps 13:1 HOW LONG will You forget me, O Lord? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? Ps 13:2 How long must I lay up cares within me and have sorrow in my heart day after day? How long shall my enemy exalt himself over me? Ps 13:3 Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; lighten the eyes [of my faith to behold Your face in the pitchlike darkness], lest I sleep the sleep of death, Ps 13:4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed over him, {and} those that trouble me rejoice when I am shaken. Ps 13:5 But I have trusted, leaned on, {and} been confident in Your mercy {and} loving-kindness; my heart shall rejoice {and} be in high spirits in Your salvation. Ps 13:6 I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me. Ps 14:1 THE [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds; there is none that does good {or} right. Ps 14:2 The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any who understood, dealt wisely, {and} sought after God, inquiring for {and} of Him {and} requiring Him [of vital necessity]. Ps 14:3 They are all gone aside, they have {all} together become filthy; there is none that does good {or} right, no, not one. Ps 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread and who do not call on the Lord? Ps 14:5 There they shall be in great fear [literally--dreading a dread], for God is with the generation of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (those upright and in right standing with Him). Ps 14:6 You [evildoers] would put to shame {and} confound the plans of the poor {and} patient, but the Lord is his safe refuge. Ps 14:7 Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord shall restore the fortunes of His people, then Jacob shall rejoice {and} Israel shall be glad. Ps 15:1 LORD, WHO shall dwell [temporarily] in Your tabernacle? Who shall dwell [permanently] on Your holy hill? Ps 15:2 He who walks {and} lives uprightly {and} blamelessly, who works rightness {and} justice and speaks {and} thinks the truth in his heart, Ps 15:3 He who does not slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor; Ps 15:4 In whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he who honors those who fear the Lord (who revere and worship Him); who swears to his own hurt and does not change; Ps 15:5 [He who] does not put out his money for interest [to one of his own people] and who will not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved. Ps 16:1 KEEP {and} protect me, O God, for in You I have found refuge, {and} in You do I put my trust {and} hide myself. Ps 16:2 I say to the Lord, You are my Lord; I have no good beside {or} beyond You. Ps 16:3 As for the godly (the saints) who are in the land, they are the excellent, the noble, {and} the glorious, in whom is all my delight. Ps 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who choose another god; their drink offerings of blood will I not offer or take their names upon my lips. Ps 16:5 The Lord is my chosen {and} assigned portion, my cup; You hold {and} maintain my lot. Ps 16:6 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yes, I have a good heritage. Ps 16:7 I will bless the Lord, Who has given me counsel; yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons. Ps 16:8 I have set the Lord continually before me; because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Ps 16:9 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory [my inner self] rejoices; my body too shall rest {and} confidently dwell in safety, Ps 16:10 For You will not abandon me to Sheol (the place of the dead), neither will You suffer Your holy one [Holy One] to see corruption. Ps 16:11 You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Ps 17:1 HEAR THE right (my righteous cause), O Lord; listen to my shrill, piercing cry! Give ear to my prayer, that comes from unfeigned {and} guileless lips. Ps 17:2 Let my sentence of vindication come from You! May Your eyes behold the things that are just {and} upright. Ps 17:3 You have proved my heart; You have visited {me} in the night; You have tried me and find nothing [no evil purpose in me]; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Ps 17:4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent (the paths of the destroyer). Ps 17:5 My steps have held closely to Your paths [to the tracks of the One Who has gone on before]; my feet have not slipped. Ps 17:6 I have called upon You, O God, for You will hear me; incline Your ear to me {and} hear my speech. Ps 17:7 Show Your marvelous loving-kindness, O You Who save by Your right hand those who trust {and} take refuge in You from those who rise up against them. Ps 17:8 Keep {and} guard me as the pupil of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings Ps 17:9 From the wicked who despoil {and} oppress me, my deadly adversaries who surround me. Ps 17:10 They are enclosed in their own prosperity {and} have shut up their hearts to pity; with their mouths they make exorbitant claims {and} proudly {and} arrogantly speak. Ps 17:11 They track us down in each step we take; now they surround us; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground, Ps 17:12 Like a lion greedy {and} eager to tear his prey, and as a young lion lurking in hidden places. Ps 17:13 Arise, O Lord! Confront {and} forestall them, cast them down! Deliver my life from the wicked by Your sword, Ps 17:14 From men by Your hand, O Lord, from men of {this} world [these poor moths of the night] whose portion in life is idle {and} vain. Their bellies are filled with Your hidden treasure [what You have stored up]; their children are satiated, and they leave the rest [of their] wealth to their babes. Ps 17:15 As for me, I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness (rightness, justice, and right standing with You); I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake [to find myself] beholding Your form [and having sweet communion with You]. Ps 18:1 I LOVE You fervently {and} devotedly, O Lord, my Strength. Ps 18:2 The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my keen {and} firm Strength in Whom I will trust {and} take refuge, my Shield, and the Horn of my salvation, my High Tower. Ps 18:3 I will call upon the Lord, Who is to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies. Ps 18:4 The cords {or} bands of death surrounded me, and the streams of ungodliness {and} the torrents of ruin terrified me. Ps 18:5 The cords of Sheol (the place of the dead) surrounded me; the snares of death confronted {and} came upon me. Ps 18:6 In my distress [when seemingly closed in] I called upon the Lord and cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple (heavenly dwelling place), and my cry came before Him, into His [very] ears. Ps 18:7 Then the earth quaked and rocked, the foundations also of the mountains trembled; they moved {and} were shaken because He was indignant {and} angry. Ps 18:8 There went up smoke from His nostrils; and lightning out of His mouth devoured; coals were kindled by it. Ps 18:9 He bowed the heavens also and came down; and thick darkness was under His feet. Ps 18:10 And He rode upon a cherub [a storm] and flew [swiftly]; yes, He sped on with the wings of the wind. Ps 18:11 He made darkness His secret hiding place; as His pavilion (His canopy) round about Him were dark waters {and} thick clouds of the skies. Ps 18:12 Out of the brightness before Him there broke forth through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire. Ps 18:13 The Lord also thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, amid hailstones and coals of fire. Ps 18:14 And He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He flashed forth lightnings and put them to rout. Ps 18:15 Then the beds of the sea appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. Ps 18:16 He reached from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters. Ps 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated {and} abhorred me, for they were too strong for me. Ps 18:18 They confronted {and} came upon me in the day of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay {and} support. Ps 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; He was delivering me because He was pleased with me {and} delighted in me. Ps 18:20 The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness (my conscious integrity and sincerity with Him); according to the cleanness of my hands has He recompensed me. Ps 18:21 For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from my God. Ps 18:22 For all His ordinances were before me, and I put not away His statutes from me. Ps 18:23 I was upright before Him {and} blameless with Him, ever [on guard] to keep myself free from my sin {and} guilt. Ps 18:24 Therefore has the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness (my uprightness and right standing with Him), according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight. Ps 18:25 With the kind {and} merciful You will show Yourself kind {and} merciful, with an upright man You will show Yourself upright, Ps 18:26 With the pure You will show Yourself pure, and with the perverse You will show Yourself contrary. Ps 18:27 For You deliver an afflicted {and} humble people but will bring down those with haughty looks. Ps 18:28 For You cause my lamp to be lighted {and} to shine; the Lord my God illumines my darkness. Ps 18:29 For by You I can run through a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. Ps 18:30 As for God, His way is perfect! The word of the Lord is tested {and} tried; He is a shield to all those who take refuge {and} put their trust in Him. Ps 18:31 For who is God except the Lord? Or who is the Rock save our God, Ps 18:32 The God who girds me with strength and makes my way perfect? Ps 18:33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet [able to stand firmly or make progress on the dangerous heights of testing and trouble]; He sets me securely upon my high places. Ps 18:34 He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. Ps 18:35 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and Your right hand has held me up; Your gentleness {and} condescension have made me great. Ps 18:36 You have given plenty of room for my steps under me, that my feet would not slip. Ps 18:37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them; neither did I turn again till they were consumed. Ps 18:38 I smote them so that they were not able to rise; they fell wounded under my feet. Ps 18:39 For You have girded me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me and caused to bow down those who rose up against me. Ps 18:40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. Ps 18:41 They cried [for help], but there was none to deliver--even unto the Lord, but He answered them not. Ps 18:42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I emptied them out as the dirt {and} mire of the streets. Ps 18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; You made me the head of the nations; a people I had not known served me. Ps 18:44 As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me; foreigners submitted themselves cringingly {and} yielded feigned obedience to me. Ps 18:45 Foreigners lost heart and came trembling out of their caves {or} strongholds. Ps 18:46 The Lord lives! Blessed be my Rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted, Ps 18:47 The God Who avenges me and subdues peoples under me, Ps 18:48 Who delivers me from my enemies; yes, You lift me up above those who rise up against me; You deliver me from the man of violence. Ps 18:49 Therefore will I give thanks {and} extol You, O Lord, among the nations, and sing praises to Your name. Ps 18:50 Great deliverances {and} triumphs gives He to His king; and He shows mercy {and} steadfast love to His anointed, to David and his offspring forever. Ps 19:1 THE HEAVENS declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows {and} proclaims His handiwork. Ps 19:2 Day after day pours forth speech, and night after night shows forth knowledge. Ps 19:3 There is no speech nor spoken word [from the stars]; their voice is not heard. Ps 19:4 Yet their voice [in evidence] goes out through all the earth, their sayings to the end of the world. Of the heavens has God made a tent for the sun, Ps 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber; and it rejoices as a strong man to run his course. Ps 19:6 Its going forth is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the ends of it; and nothing [yes, no one] is hidden from the heat of it. Ps 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the [whole] person; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. Ps 19:8 The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure {and} bright, enlightening the eyes. Ps 19:9 The [reverent] fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Ps 19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, even than much fine gold; they are sweeter also than honey and drippings from the honeycomb. Ps 19:11 Moreover, by them is Your servant warned (reminded, illuminated, and instructed); and in keeping them there is great reward. Ps 19:12 Who can discern his lapses {and} errors? Clear me from hidden [and unconscious] faults. Ps 19:13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me! Then shall I be blameless, and I shall be innocent {and} clear of great transgression. Ps 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my [firm, impenetrable] Rock and my Redeemer. Ps 20:1 MAY THE Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high [and defend you]; Ps 20:2 Send you help from the sanctuary and support, refresh, {and} strengthen you from Zion; Ps 20:3 Remember all your offerings and accept your burnt sacrifice. Selah [pause, and think of that]! Ps 20:4 May He grant you according to your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans. Ps 20:5 We will [shout in] triumph at your salvation {and} victory, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions. Ps 20:6 Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand. Ps 20:7 Some trust in {and} boast of chariots and some of horses, but we will trust in {and} boast of the name of the Lord our God. Ps 20:8 They are bowed down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright. Ps 20:9 O Lord, give victory; let the King answer us when we call. Ps 21:1 THE KING [David] shall joy in Your strength, O Lord; and in Your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Ps 21:2 You have given him his heart's desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah [pause, and think of that]! Ps 21:3 For You send blessings of good things to meet him; You set a crown of pure gold on his head. Ps 21:4 He asked life of You, {and} You gave it to him--long life forever and evermore. Ps 21:5 His glory is great because of Your aid; splendor and majesty You bestow upon him. Ps 21:6 For You make him to be blessed {and} a blessing forever; You make him exceedingly glad with the joy of Your presence. Ps 21:7 For the king trusts, relies on, {and} is confident in the Lord, and through the mercy {and} steadfast love of the Most High he will never be moved. Ps 21:8 Your hand shall find all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find all those who hate You. Ps 21:9 You will make them as if in a blazing oven in the time of Your anger; the Lord will swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire will utterly consume them. Ps 21:10 Their offspring You will destroy from the earth, and their sons from among the children of men. Ps 21:11 For they planned evil against You; they conceived a mischievous plot which they are not able to perform. Ps 21:12 For You will make them turn their backs; You will aim Your bow [of divine justice] at their faces. Ps 21:13 Be exalted, Lord, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power. Ps 22:1 MY GOD, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? Ps 22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You answer not; and by night I am not silent {or} find no rest. Ps 22:3 But You are holy, O You Who dwell in [the holy place where] the praises of Israel [are offered]. Ps 22:4 Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted (leaned on, relied on You, and were confident) and You delivered them. Ps 22:5 They cried to You and were delivered; they trusted in, leaned on, {and} confidently relied on You, and were not ashamed {or} confounded {or} disappointed. Ps 22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; I am the scorn of men, and despised by the people. Ps 22:7 All who see me laugh at me {and} mock me; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, Ps 22:8 He trusted {and} rolled himself on the Lord, that He would deliver him. Let Him deliver him, seeing that He delights in him! Ps 22:9 Yet You are He Who took me out of the womb; You made me hope {and} trust when I was on my mother's breasts. Ps 22:10 I was cast upon You from my very birth; from my mother's womb You have been my God. Ps 22:11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is none to help. Ps 22:12 Many [foes like] bulls have surrounded me; strong bulls of Bashan have hedged me in. Ps 22:13 Against me they opened their mouths wide, like a ravening and roaring lion. Ps 22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is softened [with anguish] {and} melted down within me. Ps 22:15 My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery; [with thirst] my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You have brought me into the dust of death. Ps 22:16 For [like a pack of] dogs they have encompassed me; a company of evildoers has encircled me, they pierced my hands and my feet. Ps 22:17 I can count all my bones; [the evildoers] gaze at me. Ps 22:18 They part my clothing among them and cast lots for my raiment (a long, shirtlike garment, a seamless undertunic). ) Ps 22:19 But be not far from me, O Lord; O my Help, hasten to aid me! Ps 22:20 Deliver my life from the sword, my dear life [my only one] from the power of the dog [the agent of execution]. Ps 22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth; for You have answered me [kindly] from the horns of the wild oxen. Ps 22:22 I will declare Your name to my brethren; in the midst of the congregation will I praise You. Ps 22:23 You who fear (revere and worship) the Lord, praise Him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify Him. Fear (revere and worship) Him, all you offspring of Israel. Ps 22:24 For He has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has He hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard. Ps 22:25 My praise shall be of You in the great congregation. I will pay to Him my vows [made in the time of trouble] before them who fear (revere and worship) Him. Ps 22:26 The poor {and} afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise the Lord--they who [diligently] seek for, inquire of {and} for Him, {and} require Him [as their greatest need]. May your hearts be quickened now {and} forever! Ps 22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall bow down {and} worship before You, Ps 22:28 For the kingship {and} the kingdom are the Lord's, and He is the ruler over the nations. Ps 22:29 All the mighty ones upon earth shall eat [in thanksgiving] and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before Him, even he who cannot keep himself alive. Ps 22:30 Posterity shall serve Him; they shall tell of the Lord to the next generation. Ps 22:31 They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people yet to be born--that He has done it [that it is finished]! Ps 23:1 THE LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack. Ps 23:2 He makes me lie down in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside the still {and} restful waters. Ps 23:3 He refreshes {and} restores my life (my self); He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him--not for my earning it, but] for His name's sake. Ps 23:4 Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I will fear {or} dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me. Ps 23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my [brimming] cup runs over. Ps 23:6 Surely {or} only goodness, mercy, {and} unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the length of my days the house of the Lord [and His presence] shall be my dwelling place. Ps 24:1 THE EARTH is the Lord's, and the fullness of it, the world and they who dwell in it. Ps 24:2 For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the currents {and} the rivers. Ps 24:3 Who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord? Or who shall stand in His Holy Place? Ps 24:4 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood {or} to what is false, nor sworn deceitfully. Ps 24:5 He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Ps 24:6 This is the generation [description] of those who seek Him [who inquire of and for Him and of necessity require Him], who seek Your face, [O God of] Jacob. Selah [pause, and think of that]! Ps 24:7 Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be lifted up, you age-abiding doors, that the King of glory may come in. Ps 24:8 Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Ps 24:9 Lift up your heads, O you gates; yes, lift them up, you age-abiding doors, that the King of glory may come in. Ps 24:10 Who is [He then] this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah [pause, and think of that]! Ps 25:1 UNTO YOU, O Lord, do I bring my life. Ps 25:2 O my God, I trust, lean on, rely on, {and} am confident in You. Let me not be put to shame {or} [my hope in You] be disappointed; let not my enemies triumph over me. Ps 25:3 Yes, let none who trust {and} wait hopefully {and} look for You be put to shame {or} be disappointed; let them be ashamed who forsake the right {or} deal treacherously without cause. Ps 25:4 Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Ps 25:5 Guide me in Your truth {and} faithfulness and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You [You only and altogether] do I wait [expectantly] all the day long. Ps 25:6 Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercy and loving-kindness; for they have been ever from of old. Ps 25:7 Remember not the sins (the lapses and frailties) of my youth or my transgressions; according to Your mercy {and} steadfast love remember me, for Your goodness' sake, O Lord. Ps 25:8 Good and upright is the Lord; therefore will He instruct sinners in [His] way. Ps 25:9 He leads the humble in what is right, and the humble He teaches His way. Ps 25:10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy {and} steadfast love, even truth {and} faithfulness are they for those who keep His covenant and His testimonies. Ps 25:11 For Your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity {and} my guilt, for [they are] great. Ps 25:12 Who is the man who reverently fears {and} worships the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way that he should choose. Ps 25:13 He himself shall dwell at ease, and his offspring shall inherit the land. Ps 25:14 The secret [of the sweet, satisfying companionship] of the Lord have they who fear (revere and worship) Him, and He will show them His covenant {and} reveal to them its [deep, inner] meaning. Ps 25:15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for He will pluck my feet out of the net. Ps 25:16 [Lord] turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Ps 25:17 The troubles of my heart are multiplied; bring me out of my distresses. Ps 25:18 Behold my affliction and my pain and forgive all my sins [of thinking and doing]. Ps 25:19 Consider my enemies, for they abound; they hate me with cruel hatred. Ps 25:20 O keep me, Lord, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed {or} disappointed, for my trust {and} my refuge are in You. Ps 25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for {and} expect You. Ps 25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all their troubles. Ps 26:1 VINDICATE ME, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity; I have [expectantly] trusted in, leaned on, {and} relied on the Lord without wavering {and} I shall not slide. Ps 26:2 Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; test my heart and my mind. Ps 26:3 For Your loving-kindness is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth [faithfully]. Ps 26:4 I do not sit with false persons, nor fellowship with pretenders; Ps 26:5 I hate the company of evildoers and will not sit with the wicked. Ps 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence, and go about Your altar, O Lord, Ps 26:7 That I may make the voice of thanksgiving heard and may tell of all Your wondrous works. Ps 26:8 Lord, I love the habitation of Your house, and the place where Your glory dwells. Ps 26:9 Gather me not with sinners {and} sweep me not away [with them], nor my life with bloodthirsty men, Ps 26:10 In whose hands is wickedness, and their right hands are full of bribes. Ps 26:11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity; redeem me and be merciful {and} gracious to me. Ps 26:12 My foot stands on an even place; in the congregations will I bless the Lord. Ps 27:1 THE LORD is my Light and my Salvation--whom shall I fear {or} dread? The Lord is the Refuge {and} Stronghold of my life--of whom shall I be afraid? Ps 27:2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Ps 27:3 Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, [even then] in this will I be confident. Ps 27:4 One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek, inquire for, {and} [insistently] require: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life, to behold {and} gaze upon the beauty [the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness] of the Lord and to meditate, consider, {and} inquire in His temple. Ps 27:5 For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; in the secret place of His tent will He hide me; He will set me high upon a rock. Ps 27:6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me; in His tent I will offer sacrifices {and} shouting of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. Ps 27:7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud; have mercy {and} be gracious to me and answer me! Ps 27:8 You have said, Seek My face [inquire for and require My presence as your vital need]. My heart says to You, Your face (Your presence), Lord, will I seek, inquire for, {and} require [of necessity and on the authority of Your Word]. Ps 27:9 Hide not Your face from me; turn not Your servant away in anger, You Who have been my help! Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation! Ps 27:10 Although my father and my mother have forsaken me, yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child]. Ps 27:11 Teach me Your way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain {and} even path because of my enemies [those who lie in wait for me]. Ps 27:12 Give me not up to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me; they breathe out cruelty {and} violence. Ps 27:13 [What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living! Ps 27:14 Wait {and} hope for {and} expect the Lord; be brave {and} of good courage and let your heart be stout {and} enduring. Yes, wait for {and} hope for {and} expect the Lord. Ps 28:1 UNTO YOU do I cry, O Lord my Rock, be not deaf {and} silent to me, lest, if You be silent to me, I become like those going down to the pit [the grave]. Ps 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplication as I cry to You for help, as I lift up my hands toward Your innermost sanctuary (the Holy of Holies). Ps 28:3 Drag me not away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but malice {and} mischief are in their hearts. Ps 28:4 Repay them according to their work and according to the wickedness of their doings; repay them according to the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve. Ps 28:5 Because they regard not the works of the Lord nor the operations of His hands, He will break them down and not rebuild them. Ps 28:6 Blessed be the Lord, because He has heard the voice of my supplications. Ps 28:7 The Lord is my Strength and my [impenetrable] Shield; my heart trusts in, relies on, {and} confidently leans on Him, and I am helped; therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song will I praise Him. Ps 28:8 The Lord is their [unyielding] Strength, and He is the Stronghold of salvation to [me] His anointed. Ps 28:9 Save Your people and bless Your heritage; nourish {and} shepherd them and carry them forever. Ps 29:1 ASCRIBE TO the Lord, O sons of the mighty, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ps 29:2 Give to the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness {or} in holy array. Ps 29:3 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of glory thunders; the Lord is upon many (great) waters. Ps 29:4 The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. Ps 29:5 The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; yes, the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. Ps 29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion (Mount Hermon) like a young, wild ox. Ps 29:7 The voice of the Lord splits {and} flashes forth forked lightning. Ps 29:8 The voice of the Lord makes the wilderness tremble; the Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh. Ps 29:9 The voice of the Lord makes the hinds bring forth their young, and His voice strips bare the forests, while in His temple everyone is saying, Glory! Ps 29:10 The Lord sat as King over the deluge; the Lord [still] sits as King [and] forever! Ps 29:11 The Lord will give [unyielding and impenetrable] strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace. Ps 30:1 I WILL extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me. Ps 30:2 O Lord my God, I cried to You and You have healed me. Ps 30:3 O Lord, You have brought my life up from Sheol (the place of the dead); You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit (the grave). Ps 30:4 Sing to the Lord, O you saints of His, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. Ps 30:5 For His anger is but for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime {or} in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Ps 30:6 As for me, in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. Ps 30:7 By Your favor, O Lord, You have established me as a strong mountain; You hid Your face, and I was troubled. Ps 30:8 I cried to You, O Lord, and to the Lord I made supplication. Ps 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit (the grave)? Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth {and} faithfulness to men? Ps 30:10 Hear, O Lord, have mercy {and} be gracious to me! O Lord, be my helper! Ps 30:11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, Ps 30:12 To the end that my tongue {and} my heart {and} everything glorious within me may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever. Ps 31:1 IN YOU, O Lord, do I put my trust {and} seek refuge; let me never be put to shame {or} [have my hope in You] disappointed; deliver me in Your righteousness! Ps 31:2 Bow down Your ear to me, deliver me speedily! Be my Rock of refuge, a strong Fortress to save me! Ps 31:3 Yes, You are my Rock and my Fortress; therefore for Your name's sake lead me and guide me. Ps 31:4 Draw me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for You are my Strength {and} my Stronghold. Ps 31:5 Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth {and} faithfulness. Ps 31:6 [You and] I abhor those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in, rely on, {and} confidently lean on the Lord. Ps 31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy {and} steadfast love, because You have seen my affliction, You have taken note of my life's distresses, Ps 31:8 And You have not given me into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place. Ps 31:9 Have mercy {and} be gracious unto me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; with grief my eye is weakened, also my inner self and my body. Ps 31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow and my years with sighing; my strength has failed because of my iniquity, and even my bones have wasted away. Ps 31:11 To all my enemies I have become a reproach, but especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances, who flee from me on the street. Ps 31:12 I am forgotten like a dead man, and out of mind; like a broken vessel am I. Ps 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many; terror is on every side! While they schemed together against me, they plotted to take my life. Ps 31:14 But I trusted in, relied on, {and} was confident in You, O Lord; I said, You are my God. Ps 31:15 My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hands of my foes and those who pursue me {and} persecute me. Ps 31:16 Let Your face shine on Your servant; save me for Your mercy's sake {and} in Your loving-kindness. Ps 31:17 Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, {or} disappointed, for I am calling upon You; let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (the place of the dead). Ps 31:18 Let the lying lips be silenced, which speak insolently against the [consistently] righteous with pride and contempt. Ps 31:19 Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear, revere, {and} worship You, goodness which You have wrought for those who trust {and} take refuge in You before the sons of men! Ps 31:20 In the secret place of Your presence You hide them from the plots of men; You keep them secretly in Your pavilion from the strife of tongues. Ps 31:21 Blessed be the Lord! For He has shown me His marvelous loving favor when I was beset as in a besieged city. Ps 31:22 As for me, I said in my haste {and} alarm, I am cut off from before Your eyes. But You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to You for aid. Ps 31:23 O love the Lord, all you His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, and plentifully pays back him who deals haughtily. Ps 31:24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for {and} hope for {and} expect the Lord! Ps 32:1 BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) is he who has forgiveness of his transgression continually exercised upon him, whose sin is covered. Ps 32:2 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man to whom the Lord imputes no iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit. Ps 32:3 When I kept silence [before I confessed], my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long. Ps 32:4 For day and night Your hand [of displeasure] was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 32:5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord [continually unfolding the past till all is told]--then You [instantly] forgave me the guilt {and} iniquity of my sin. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 32:6 For this [forgiveness] let everyone who is godly pray--pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely when the great waters [of trial] overflow, they shall not reach [the spirit in] him. Ps 32:7 You are a hiding place for me; You, Lord, preserve me from trouble, You surround me with songs {and} shouts of deliverance. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 32:8 I [the Lord] will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. Ps 32:9 Be not like the horse or the mule, which lack understanding, which must have their mouths held firm with bit and bridle, or else they will not come with you. Ps 32:10 Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but he who trusts in, relies on, {and} confidently leans on the Lord shall be compassed about with mercy {and} with loving-kindness. Ps 32:11 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you [uncompromisingly] righteous [you who are upright and in right standing with Him]; shout for joy, all you upright in heart! Ps 33:1 REJOICE IN the Lord, O you [uncompromisingly] righteous [you upright in right standing with God]; for praise is becoming {and} appropriate for those who are upright [in heart]. Ps 33:2 Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; sing praises to Him with the harp of ten strings. Ps 33:3 Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully [on the strings] with a loud {and} joyful sound. Ps 33:4 For the word of the Lord is right; and all His work is done in faithfulness. Ps 33:5 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the loving-kindness of the Lord. Ps 33:6 By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all their host by the breath of His mouth. Ps 33:7 He gathers the waters of the sea as in a bottle; He puts the deeps in storage places. Ps 33:8 Let all the earth fear the Lord [revere and worship Him]; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. Ps 33:9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. Ps 33:10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nought; He makes the thoughts {and} plans of the peoples of no effect. Ps 33:11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all generations. Ps 33:12 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His heritage. Ps 33:13 The Lord looks from heaven, He beholds all the sons of men; Ps 33:14 From His dwelling place He looks [intently] upon all the inhabitants of the earth-- Ps 33:15 He Who fashions the hearts of them all, Who considers all their doings. Ps 33:16 No king is saved by the great size {and} power of his army; a mighty man is not delivered by [his] much strength. Ps 33:17 A horse is devoid of value for victory; neither does he deliver any by his great power. Ps 33:18 Behold, the Lord's eye is upon those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe], who wait for Him {and} hope in His mercy {and} loving-kindness, Ps 33:19 To deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. Ps 33:20 Our inner selves wait [earnestly] for the Lord; He is our Help and our Shield. Ps 33:21 For in Him does our heart rejoice, because we have trusted (relied on and been confident) in His holy name. Ps 33:22 Let Your mercy {and} loving-kindness, O Lord, be upon us, in proportion to our waiting {and} hoping for You. Ps 34:1 I WILL bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Ps 34:2 My life makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble {and} afflicted hear and be glad. Ps 34:3 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. Ps 34:4 I sought (inquired of) the Lord {and} required Him [of necessity and on the authority of His Word], and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. Ps 34:5 They looked to Him and were radiant; their faces shall never blush for shame {or} be confused. Ps 34:6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. Ps 34:7 The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe] and each of them He delivers. Ps 34:8 O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts {and} takes refuge in Him. Ps 34:9 O fear the Lord, you His saints [revere and worship Him]! For there is no want to those who truly revere {and} worship Him {with} godly fear. Ps 34:10 The young lions lack food and suffer hunger, but they who seek (inquire of and require) the Lord [by right of their need and on the authority of His Word], none of them shall lack any beneficial thing. Ps 34:11 Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you to revere {and} worshipfully fear the Lord. Ps 34:12 What man is he who desires life {and} longs for many days, that he may see good? Ps 34:13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Ps 34:14 Depart from evil and do good; seek, inquire for, {and} crave peace and pursue (go after) it! Ps 34:15 The eyes of the Lord are toward the [uncompromisingly] righteous and His ears are open to their cry. Ps 34:16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. Ps 34:17 When the {righteous} cry for help, the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their distress {and} troubles. Ps 34:18 The Lord is close to those who are of a broken heart and saves such as are crushed with sorrow for sin {and} are humbly {and} thoroughly penitent. Ps 34:19 Many evils confront the [consistently] righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. Ps 34:20 He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken. Ps 34:21 Evil shall cause the death of the wicked; and they who hate the just {and} righteous shall be held guilty {and} shall be condemned. Ps 34:22 The Lord redeems the lives of His servants, and none of those who take refuge {and} trust in Him shall be condemned {or} held guilty. Ps 35:1 CONTEND, O Lord, with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! Ps 35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help! Ps 35:3 Draw out also the spear and javelin {and} close up the way of those who pursue {and} persecute me. Say to me, I am your deliverance! Ps 35:4 Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek {and} require my life; let them be turned back and confounded who plan my hurt! Ps 35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, with the Angel of the Lord driving them on! Ps 35:6 Let their way be through dark and slippery places, with the Angel of the Lord pursuing {and} afflicting them. Ps 35:7 For without cause they hid for me their net; a pit of destruction without cause they dug for my life. Ps 35:8 Let destruction befall [my foe] unawares; let the net he hid for me catch him; let him fall into that very destruction. Ps 35:9 Then I shall be joyful in the Lord; I shall rejoice in His deliverance. Ps 35:10 All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like You, You Who deliver the poor {and} the afflicted from him who is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who snatches away his goods? Ps 35:11 Malicious {and} unrighteous witnesses rise up; they ask me of things that I know not. Ps 35:12 They reward me evil for good to my personal bereavement. Ps 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting, and I prayed with head bowed on my breast. Ps 35:14 I behaved as if grieving for my friend {or} my brother; I bowed down in sorrow, as one who bewails his mother. Ps 35:15 But in my stumbling {and} limping they rejoiced and gathered together [against me]; the smiters (slanderers and revilers) gathered against me, and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander {and} revile me. Ps 35:16 Like profane mockers at feasts [making sport for the price of a cake] they gnashed at me with their teeth. Ps 35:17 Lord, how long will You look on [without action]? Rescue my life from their destructions, my dear {and} only life from the lions! Ps 35:18 I will give You thanks in the great assembly; I will praise You among a mighty throng. Ps 35:19 Let not those who are wrongfully my foes rejoice over me; neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without cause. Ps 35:20 For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land. Ps 35:21 Yes, they open their mouths wide against me; they say, Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it! Ps 35:22 You have seen this, O Lord; keep not silence! O Lord, be not far from me! Ps 35:23 Arouse Yourself, awake to the justice due me, even to my cause, my God and my Lord! Ps 35:24 Judge {and} vindicate me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness (Your rightness and justice); and let [my foes] not rejoice over me! Ps 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, that is what we wanted! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up {and} utterly destroyed him. Ps 35:26 Let them be put to shame and confusion together who rejoice at my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify {and} exalt themselves over me! Ps 35:27 Let those who favor my righteous cause {and} have pleasure in my uprightness shout for joy and be glad and say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, Who takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. Ps 35:28 And my tongue shall talk of Your righteousness, rightness, {and} justice, and of [my reasons for] Your praise all the day long. Ps 36:1 TRANSGRESSION [like an oracle] speaks to the wicked deep in his heart. There is no fear {or} dread of God before his eyes. Ps 36:2 For he flatters {and} deceives himself in his own eyes that his iniquity will not be found out and be hated. Ps 36:3 The words of his mouth are wrong and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise {and} to do good. Ps 36:4 He plans wrongdoing on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject {or} despise evil. Ps 36:5 Your mercy {and} loving-kindness, O Lord, extend to the skies, {and} Your faithfulness to the clouds. Ps 36:6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God, Your judgments are like the great deep. O Lord, You preserve man and beast. Ps 36:7 How precious is Your steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge {and} put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. Ps 36:8 They relish {and} feast on the abundance of Your house; and You cause them to drink of the stream of Your pleasures. Ps 36:9 For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light. Ps 36:10 O continue Your loving-kindness to those who know You, Your righteousness (salvation) to the upright in heart. Ps 36:11 Let not the foot of pride overtake me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away. Ps 36:12 There the workers of iniquity fall {and} lie prostrate; they are thrust down and shall not be able to rise. Ps 37:1 FRET NOT yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness (that which is not upright or in right standing with God). Ps 37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. Ps 37:3 Trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, {and} truly you shall be fed. Ps 37:4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires {and} secret petitions of your heart. Ps 37:5 Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass. Ps 37:6 And He will make your uprightness {and} right standing with God go forth as the light, and your justice {and} right as [the shining sun of] the noonday. Ps 37:7 Be still {and} rest in the Lord; wait for Him {and} patiently lean yourself upon Him; fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass. Ps 37:8 Cease from anger and forsake wrath; fret not yourself--it tends only to evildoing. Ps 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait {and} hope {and} look for the Lord [in the end] shall inherit the earth. Ps 37:10 For yet a little while, and the evildoers will be no more; though you look with care where they used to be, they will not be found. Ps 37:11 But the meek [in the end] shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. Ps 37:12 The wicked plot against the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright in right standing with God); they gnash at them with their teeth. Ps 37:13 The Lord laughs at [the wicked], for He sees that their own day [of defeat] is coming. Ps 37:14 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to cast down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly (blameless in conduct and in conversation). Ps 37:15 The swords [of the wicked] shall enter their own hearts, and their bows shall be broken. Ps 37:16 Better is the little that the [uncompromisingly] righteous have than the abundance [of possessions] of many who are wrong {and} wicked. Ps 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholds the [consistently] righteous. Ps 37:18 The Lord knows the days of the upright {and} blameless, and their heritage will abide forever. Ps 37:19 They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. Ps 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke] {and} as the glory of the pastures. They shall vanish; like smoke shall they consume away. Ps 37:21 The wicked borrow and pay not again [for they may be unable], but the [uncompromisingly] righteous deal kindly and give [for they are able]. Ps 37:22 For such as are blessed of God shall [in the end] inherit the earth, but they that are cursed of Him shall be cut off. Ps 37:23 The steps of a [good] man are directed {and} established by the Lord when He delights in his way [and He busies Himself with his every step]. Ps 37:24 Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord grasps his hand in support {and} upholds him. Ps 37:25 I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the [uncompromisingly] righteous forsaken or their seed begging bread. Ps 37:26 All day long they are merciful {and} deal graciously; they lend, and their offspring are blessed. Ps 37:27 Depart from evil and do good; and you will dwell forever [securely]. Ps 37:28 For the Lord delights in justice and forsakes not His saints; they are preserved forever, but the offspring of the wicked [in time] shall be cut off. Ps 37:29 [Then] the [consistently] righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever. Ps 37:30 The mouth of the [uncompromisingly] righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks with justice. Ps 37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. Ps 37:32 The wicked lie in wait for the [uncompromisingly] righteous and seek to put them to death. Ps 37:33 The Lord will not leave them in their hands, or [suffer them to] condemn them when they are judged. Ps 37:34 Wait for {and} expect the Lord and keep {and} heed His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land; [in the end] when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. Ps 37:35 I have seen a wicked man in great power and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil, Ps 37:36 Yet he passed away, and behold, he was not; yes, I sought {and} inquired for him, but he could not be found. Ps 37:37 Mark the blameless man and behold the upright, for there is a happy end for the man of peace. Ps 37:38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; in the end the wicked shall be cut off. Ps 37:39 But the salvation of the [consistently] righteous is of the Lord; He is their Refuge {and} secure Stronghold in the time of trouble. Ps 37:40 And the Lord helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, because they trust {and} take refuge in Him. Ps 38:1 O LORD, rebuke me not in Your wrath, neither chasten me in Your hot displeasure. Ps 38:2 For Your arrows have sunk into me {and} stick fast, and Your hand has come down upon me {and} pressed me sorely. Ps 38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation; neither is there any health {or} rest in my bones because of my sin. Ps 38:4 For my iniquities have gone over my head [like waves of a flood]; as a heavy burden they weigh too much for me. Ps 38:5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt because of my foolishness. Ps 38:6 I am bent and bowed down greatly; I go about mourning all the day long. Ps 38:7 For my loins are filled with burning; and there is no soundness in my flesh. Ps 38:8 I am faint and sorely bruised [deadly cold and quite worn out]; I groan by reason of the disquiet {and} moaning of my heart. Ps 38:9 Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You. Ps 38:10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me. Ps 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my neighbors {and} my near ones stand afar off. Ps 38:12 They also that seek {and} demand my life lay snares for me, and they that seek {and} require my hurt speak crafty {and} mischievous things; they meditate treachery {and} deceit all the day long. Ps 38:13 But I, like a deaf man, hear not; and I am like a dumb man who opens not his mouth. Ps 38:14 Yes, I have become like a man who hears not, in whose mouth are no arguments {or} replies. Ps 38:15 For in You, O Lord, do I hope; You will answer, O Lord my God. Ps 38:16 For I pray, Let them not rejoice over me, who when my foot slips boast against me. Ps 38:17 For I am ready to halt {and} fall; my pain {and} sorrow are continually before me. Ps 38:18 For I do confess my guilt {and} iniquity; I am filled with sorrow for my sin. Ps 38:19 But my enemies are vigorous {and} strong, and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied. Ps 38:20 They also that render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good. Ps 38:21 Forsake me not, O Lord; O my God, be not far from me. Ps 38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my Salvation. Ps 39:1 I SAID, I will take heed {and} guard my ways, that I may sin not with my tongue; I will muzzle my mouth as with a bridle while the wicked are before me. Ps 39:2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace without profit and had no comfort away from good, while my distress was renewed. Ps 39:3 My heart was hot within me. While I was musing, the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue: Ps 39:4 Lord, make me to know my end and [to appreciate] the measure of my days--what it is; let me know {and} realize how frail I am [how transient is my stay here]. Ps 39:5 Behold, You have made my days as [short as] handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight. Truly every man at his best is merely a breath! Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]! Ps 39:6 Surely every man walks to and fro--like a shadow in a pantomime; surely for futility {and} emptiness he is in turmoil; each one heaps up riches, not knowing who will gather them. Ps 39:7 And now, Lord, what do I wait for {and} expect? My hope {and} expectation are in You. Ps 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the scorn {and} reproach of the [self-confident] fool! Ps 39:9 I am dumb, I open not my mouth, for it is You Who has done it. Ps 39:10 Remove Your stroke away from me; I am consumed by the conflict {and} the blow of Your hand. Ps 39:11 When with rebukes You correct {and} chasten man for sin, You waste his beauty like a moth {and} what is dear to him consumes away; surely every man is a mere breath. Selah [pause, and think calmly of that]! Ps 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; hold not Your peace at my tears! For I am Your passing guest, a temporary resident, as all my fathers were. Ps 39:13 O look away from me {and} spare me, that I may recover cheerfulness {and} encouraging strength {and} know gladness before I go and am no more! Ps 40:1 I WAITED patiently {and} expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. Ps 40:2 He drew me up out of a horrible pit [a pit of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps {and} establishing my goings. Ps 40:3 And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust {and} confident reliance in the Lord. Ps 40:4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who makes the Lord his refuge {and} trust, and turns not to the proud or to followers of false gods. Ps 40:5 Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered. Ps 40:6 Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, {nor} have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear {and} obey [Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require. Ps 40:7 Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me; Ps 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; yes, Your law is within my heart. Ps 40:9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly [tidings of uprightness and right standing with God]. Behold, I have not restrained my lips, as You know, O Lord. Ps 40:10 I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart; I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not hid away Your steadfast love and Your truth from the great assembly. Ps 40:11 Withhold not Your tender mercy from me, O Lord; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth continually preserve me! Ps 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken such hold on me that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me {and} forsaken me. Ps 40:13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me! Ps 40:14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek {and} require my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil {and} delight in my hurt! Ps 40:15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame who say to me, Aha, aha! Ps 40:16 Let all those that seek {and} require You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified! Ps 40:17 [As for me] I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought {and} plans for me. You are my Help and my Deliverer. O my God, do not tarry! Ps 41:1 BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) is he who considers the weak {and} the poor; the Lord will deliver him in the time of evil {and} trouble. Ps 41:2 The Lord will protect him and keep him alive; he shall be called blessed in the land; and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. Ps 41:3 The Lord will sustain, refresh, {and} strengthen him on his bed of languishing; all his bed You [O Lord] will turn, change, {and} transform in his illness. Ps 41:4 I said, Lord, be merciful {and} gracious to me; heal my inner self, for I have sinned against You. Ps 41:5 My enemies speak evil of me, [saying], When will he die and his name perish? Ps 41:6 And when one comes to see me, he speaks falsehood {and} empty words, while his heart gathers mischievous gossip [against me]; when he goes away, he tells it abroad. Ps 41:7 All who hate me whisper together about me; against me do they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me]. Ps 41:8 An evil disease, say they, is poured out upon him {and} cleaves fast to him; and now that he is bedfast, he will not rise up again. Ps 41:9 Even my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted (relied on and was confident), who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. Ps 41:10 But You, O Lord, be merciful {and} gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. Ps 41:11 By this I know that You favor {and} delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me. Ps 41:12 And as for me, You have upheld me in my integrity and set me in Your presence forever. Ps 41:13 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting [from this age to the next, and forever]! Amen and Amen (so be it). Ps 42:1 AS THE hart pants {and} longs for the water brooks, so I pant {and} long for You, O God. Ps 42:2 My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God? Ps 42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, Where is your God? Ps 42:4 These things I [earnestly] remember and pour myself out within me: how I went slowly before the throng and led them in procession to the house of God [like a bandmaster before his band, timing the steps to the sound of music and the chant of song], with the voice of shouting and praise, a throng keeping festival. Ps 42:5 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me {and} be disquieted within me? Hope in God {and} wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. Ps 42:6 O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar. Ps 42:7 [Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me. Ps 42:8 Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. Ps 42:9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Ps 42:10 As with a sword [crushing] in my bones, my enemies taunt {and} reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God? Ps 42:11 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me {and} be disquieted within me? Hope in God {and} wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God. Ps 43:1 JUDGE {and} vindicate me, O God; plead and defend my cause against an ungodly nation. O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man! Ps 43:2 For You are the God of my strength [my Stronghold--in Whom I take refuge]; why have You cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Ps 43:3 O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling. Ps 43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy; yes, with the lyre will I praise You, O God, my God! Ps 43:5 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me {and} be disquieted within me? Hope in God {and} wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my [sad] countenance, and my God. Ps 44:1 WE HAVE heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us [what] work You did in their days, in the days of old. Ps 44:2 You drove out the nations with Your hand {and} it was Your power that gave [Israel] a home by rooting out the [heathen] peoples, but [Israel] You spread out. Ps 44:3 For they got not the land [of Canaan] in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your countenance [did it], because You were favorable toward {and} did delight in them. Ps 44:4 You are my King, O God; command victories {and} deliverance for Jacob (Israel). Ps 44:5 Through You shall we push down our enemies; through Your name shall we tread them under who rise up against us. Ps 44:6 For I will not trust in {and} lean on my bow, neither shall my sword save me. Ps 44:7 But You have saved us from our foes and have put them to shame who hate us. Ps 44:8 In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 44:9 But now You have cast us off and brought us to dishonor, and You go not out with our armies. Ps 44:10 You make us to turn back from the enemy, and they who hate us take spoil for themselves. Ps 44:11 You have made us like sheep intended for mutton and have scattered us in exile among the nations. Ps 44:12 You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price. Ps 44:13 You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. Ps 44:14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people. Ps 44:15 My dishonor is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face Ps 44:16 At the words of the taunter and reviler, by reason of the enemy and the revengeful. Ps 44:17 All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers]. Ps 44:18 Our hearts are not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Your path, Ps 44:19 Though You have distressingly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness, even with the shadow of death. Ps 44:20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god, Ps 44:21 Would not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart. Ps 44:22 No, but for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Ps 44:23 Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arouse Yourself, cast us not off forever! Ps 44:24 Why do You hide Your face {and} forget our affliction and our oppression? Ps 44:25 For our lives are bowed down to the dust; our bodies cleave to the ground. Ps 44:26 Rise up! Come to our help, and deliver us for Your mercy's sake {and} because of Your steadfast love! Ps 45:1 MY HEART overflows with a goodly theme; I address my psalm to a King. My tongue is like the pen of a ready writer. Ps 45:2 You are fairer than the children of men; graciousness is poured upon Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever. Ps 45:3 Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O mighty One, in Your glory and Your majesty! Ps 45:4 And in Your majesty ride on triumphantly for the cause of truth, humility, {and} righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God); and let Your right hand guide You to tremendous things. Ps 45:5 Your arrows are sharp; the peoples fall under You; Your darts pierce the hearts of the King's enemies. Ps 45:6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; the scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. Ps 45:7 You love righteousness, uprightness, {and} right standing with God and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows. Ps 45:8 Your garments are all fragrant with myrrh, aloes, {and} cassia; stringed instruments make You glad. Ps 45:9 Kings' daughters are among Your honorable women; at Your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir. Ps 45:10 Hear, O daughter, consider, submit, {and} consent to my instruction: forget also your own people and your father's house; Ps 45:11 So will the King desire your beauty; because He is your Lord, be submissive {and} reverence {and} honor Him. Ps 45:12 And, O daughter of Tyre, the richest of the people shall entreat your favor with a gift. Ps 45:13 The King's daughter in the inner part [of the palace] is all glorious; her clothing is inwrought with gold. Ps 45:14 She shall be brought to the King in raiment of needlework; with the virgins, her companions that follow her, she shall be brought to You. Ps 45:15 With gladness and rejoicing will they be brought; they will enter into the King's palace. Ps 45:16 Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons, whom You will make princes in all the land. Ps 45:17 I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore shall the people praise and give You thanks forever and ever. Ps 46:1 GOD IS our Refuge and Strength [mighty {and} impenetrable to temptation], a very present {and} well-proved help in trouble. Ps 46:2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains be shaken into the midst of the seas, Ps 46:3 Though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling {and} tumult. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 46:4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. Ps 46:5 God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God will help her right early [at the dawn of the morning]. Ps 46:6 The nations raged, the kingdoms tottered {and} were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted. Ps 46:7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge (our Fortress and High Tower). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 46:8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, Who has wrought desolations {and} wonders in the earth. Ps 46:9 He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow into pieces and snaps the spear in two; He burns the chariots in the fire. Ps 46:10 Let be {and} be still, and know (recognize and understand) that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth! Ps 46:11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge (our High Tower and Stronghold). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 47:1 O CLAP your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph {and} songs of joy! Ps 47:2 For the Lord Most High excites terror, awe, {and} dread; He is a great King over all the earth. Ps 47:3 He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. Ps 47:4 He chose our inheritance for us, the glory {and} pride of Jacob, whom He loves. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 47:5 God has ascended amid shouting, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Ps 47:6 Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises! Ps 47:7 For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises in a skillful psalm {and} with understanding. Ps 47:8 God reigns over the nations; God sits upon His holy throne. Ps 47:9 The princes {and} nobles of the peoples are gathered together, a [united] people for the God of Abraham, for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted. Ps 48:1 GREAT IS the Lord, and highly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain, Ps 48:2 Fair {and} beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth--Mount Zion [the City of David], to the northern side [Mount Moriah and the temple], the [whole] city of the Great King! Ps 48:3 God has made Himself known in her palaces as a Refuge (a High Tower and a Stronghold). Ps 48:4 For, behold, the kings assembled, they came onward {and} they passed away together. Ps 48:5 They looked, they were amazed; they were stricken with terror {and} took to flight [affrighted and dismayed]. Ps 48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, and pain as of a woman in childbirth. Ps 48:7 With the east wind You shattered the ships of Tarshish. Ps 48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 48:9 We have thought of Your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of Your temple. Ps 48:10 As is Your name, O God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness (rightness and justice). Ps 48:11 Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of Your [righteous] judgments! Ps 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her, number her towers (her lofty and noble deeds of past days), Ps 48:13 Consider well her ramparts, go through her palaces {and} citadels, that you may tell the next generation [and cease recalling disappointments]. Ps 48:14 For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide [even] until death. Ps 49:1 HEAR THIS, all you peoples; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world, Ps 49:2 Both low and high, rich and poor together: Ps 49:3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be understanding. Ps 49:4 I will submit {and} consent to a parable {or} proverb; to the music of a lyre I will unfold my riddle (my problem). Ps 49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of those who would supplant me surrounds me on every side, Ps 49:6 Even of those who trust in {and} lean on their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches? Ps 49:7 None of them can by any means redeem [either himself or] his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him-- Ps 49:8 For the ransom of a life is too costly, and [the price one can pay] can never suffice-- Ps 49:9 So that he should live on forever {and} never see the pit (the grave) {and} corruption. Ps 49:10 For he sees that even wise men die; the [self-confident] fool and the stupid alike perish and leave their wealth to others. Ps 49:11 Their inward thought is that their houses will continue forever, {and} their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands their own [apart from God] {and} after their own names. Ps 49:12 But man, with all his honor {and} pomp, does not remain; he is like the beasts that perish. Ps 49:13 This is the fate of those who are foolishly confident, yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 49:14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol (the place of the dead); death shall be their shepherd. And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their form {and} beauty shall be consumed, for Sheol shall be their dwelling. Ps 49:15 But God will redeem me from the power of Sheol (the place of the dead); for He will receive me. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 49:16 Be not afraid when [an ungodly] one is made rich, when the wealth {and} glory of his house are increased; Ps 49:17 For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not descend after him. Ps 49:18 Though while he lives he counts himself happy {and} prosperous, and though a man gets praise when he does well [for himself], Ps 49:19 He will go to the generation of his fathers, who will nevermore see the light. Ps 49:20 A man who is held in honor and understands not is like the beasts that perish. Ps 50:1 THE MIGHTY One, God, the Lord, speaks and calls the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting. Ps 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. Ps 50:3 Our God comes and does not keep silence; a fire devours before Him, and round about Him a mighty tempest rages. Ps 50:4 He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that He may judge His people: Ps 50:5 Gather together to Me My saints [those who have found grace in My sight], those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice. Ps 50:6 And the heavens declare His righteousness (rightness and justice), for God, He is judge. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! Ps 50:7 Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify to you {and} against you: I am God, your God. Ps 50:8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before Me. Ps 50:9 I will accept no bull from your house nor he-goat out of your folds. Ps 50:10 For every beast of the forest is Mine, {and} the cattle upon a thousand hills {or} upon the mountains where thousands are. Ps 50:11 I know {and} am acquainted with all the birds of the mountains, and the wild animals of the field are Mine {and} are with Me, in My mind. Ps 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are Mine. Ps 50:13 Shall I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Ps 50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High, Ps 50:15 And call on Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall honor {and} glorify Me. Ps 50:16 But to the wicked, God says: What right have you to recite My statutes or take My covenant {or} pledge on your lips, Ps 50:17 Seeing that you hate instruction {and} correction and cast My words behind you [discarding them]? Ps 50:18 When you see a thief, you associate with him, and you have taken part with adulterers. Ps 50:19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. Ps 50:20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. Ps 50:21 These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was once entirely like you. But [now] I will reprove you and put [the charge] in order before your eyes. Ps 50:22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. Ps 50:23 He who brings an offering of praise {and} thanksgiving honors {and} glorifies Me; and he who orders his way aright [who prepares the way that I may show him], to him I will demonstrate the salvation of God. |