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<title>Psalms — World English Bible Updated</title>
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  <header class="book-header">
    <h1><span class="mt">The Psalms</span></h1>
  </header>
  <div class="chapters">
    <section class="chapter" id="ch1" data-chapter="1">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">1</h2>
      <h3 class="ms">BOOK 1</h3>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_1">1</span> Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor stand on the path of sinners,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor sit in the seat of scoffers;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_2">2</span> but his delight is in the LORD’s<a class="noteref" id="fnref1_1" href="#fn1_1"><sup>*</sup></a> law.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">On his law he meditates day and night.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_3">3</span> He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that produces its fruit in its season,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whose leaf also does not wither.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Whatever he does shall prosper.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_4">4</span> The wicked are not so,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_5">5</span> Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_6">6</span> For the LORD knows the way of the righteous,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the way of the wicked shall perish.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn1_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref1_1">1:2</a> <span class="ft">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch2" data-chapter="2">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">2</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_1">1</span> Why do the nations rage,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the peoples plot a vain thing?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_2">2</span> The kings of the earth take a stand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the rulers take counsel together,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">against the LORD, and against his Anointed,<a class="noteref" id="fnref2_1" href="#fn2_1"><sup>*</sup></a> saying,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_3">3</span> “Let’s break their bonds apart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and cast their cords from us.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_4">4</span> He who sits in the heavens will laugh.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The Lord<a class="noteref" id="fnref2_2" href="#fn2_2"><sup>†</sup></a> will have them in derision.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_5">5</span> Then he will speak to them in his anger,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and terrify them in his wrath:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_6">6</span> “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v2_7">7</span> I will tell of the decree:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">The LORD said to me, “You are my son.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Today I have become your father.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_8">8</span> Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_9">9</span> You shall break them with a rod of iron.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_10">10</span> Now therefore be wise, you kings.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Be instructed, you judges of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_11">11</span> Serve the LORD with fear,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and rejoice with trembling.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_12">12</span> Give sincere homage to the Son,<a class="noteref" id="fnref2_3" href="#fn2_3"><sup>‡</sup></a> lest he be angry, and you perish on the way,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his wrath will soon be kindled.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn2_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref2_1">2:2</a> <span class="ft">The word “Anointed” is the same as the word for “Messiah” or “Christ”</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn2_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref2_2">2:4</a> <span class="ft">The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn2_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref2_3">2:12</a> <span class="ft">or, Kiss the son</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch3" data-chapter="3">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">3</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_1">1</span> LORD, how my adversaries have increased!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Many are those who rise up against me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_2">2</span> Many there are who say of my soul,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“There is no help for him in God.”<a class="noteref" id="fnref3_1" href="#fn3_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_3">3</span> But you, LORD, are a shield around me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_4">4</span> I cry to the LORD with my voice,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he answers me out of his holy hill.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_5">5</span> I laid myself down and slept.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I awakened, for the LORD sustains me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_6">6</span> I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who have set themselves against me on every side.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_7">7</span> Arise, LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Save me, my God!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have broken the teeth of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_8">8</span> Salvation belongs to the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">May your blessing be on your people.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn3_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref3_1">3:2</a> <span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch4" data-chapter="4">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">4</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_1">1</span> Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give me relief from my distress.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_2">2</span> You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_3">3</span> But know that the LORD has set apart for himself him who is godly;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD will hear when I call to him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_4">4</span> Stand in awe, and don’t sin.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_5">5</span> Offer the sacrifices of righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Put your trust in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_6">6</span> Many say, “Who will show us any good?”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_7">7</span> You have put gladness in my heart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_8">8</span> In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you alone, LORD, make me live in safety.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch5" data-chapter="5">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">5</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_1">1</span> Give ear to my words, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Consider my meditation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_2">2</span> Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I pray to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_3">3</span> LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_4">4</span> For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Evil can’t live with you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_5">5</span> The arrogant will not stand in your sight.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You hate all workers of iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_6">6</span> You will destroy those who speak lies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_7">7</span> But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_8">8</span> Lead me, LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Make your way straight before my face.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_9">9</span> For there is no faithfulness in their mouth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their heart is destruction.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their throat is an open tomb.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They flatter with their tongue.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_10">10</span> Hold them guilty, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them fall by their own counsels.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they have rebelled against you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_11">11</span> But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v5_12">12</span> For you will bless the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">LORD, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch6" data-chapter="6">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">6</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_1">1</span> LORD, don’t rebuke me in your anger,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither discipline me in your wrath.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_2">2</span> Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_3">3</span> My soul is also in great anguish.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">But you, LORD—how long?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_4">4</span> Return, LORD. Deliver my soul,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_5">5</span> For in death there is no memory of you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In Sheol,<a class="noteref" id="fnref6_1" href="#fn6_1"><sup>*</sup></a> who shall give you thanks?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_6">6</span> I am weary with my groaning.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Every night I flood my bed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I drench my couch with my tears.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_7">7</span> My eye wastes away because of grief.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It grows old because of all my adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_8">8</span> Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_9">9</span> The LORD has heard my supplication.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD accepts my prayer.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v6_10">10</span> May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn6_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref6_1">6:5</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch7" data-chapter="7">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">7</h2>
      <p class="d">A meditation by David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_1">1</span> LORD, my God, I take refuge in you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_2">2</span> lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_3">3</span> LORD, my God, if I have done this,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">if there is iniquity in my hands,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_4">4</span> if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">(yes, I have plundered him who without cause was my adversary),</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v7_5">5</span> let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and lay my glory in the dust.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_6">6</span> Arise, LORD, in your anger.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v7_7">7</span> Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Rule over them on high.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_8">8</span> The LORD administers judgment to the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Judge me, LORD, according to my righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and to my integrity that is in me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_9">9</span> Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but establish the righteous;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_10">10</span> My shield is with God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who saves the upright in heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_11">11</span> God is a righteous judge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, a God who has indignation every day.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_12">12</span> If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he has bent and strung his bow.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_13">13</span> He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He makes ready his flaming arrows.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_14">14</span> Behold,<a class="noteref" id="fnref7_1" href="#fn7_1"><sup>*</sup></a> he travails with iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, he has conceived mischief,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and brought out falsehood.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_15">15</span> He has dug a hole,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and has fallen into the pit which he made.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_16">16</span> The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v7_17">17</span> I will give thanks to the LORD according to his righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn7_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref7_1">7:14</a> <span class="ft">“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch8" data-chapter="8">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">8</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_1">1</span> LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have set your glory above the heavens!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_2">2</span> From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_3">3</span> When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the moon and the stars, which you have ordained,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_4">4</span> what is man, that you think of him?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">What is the son of man, that you care for him?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_5">5</span> For you have made him a little lower than the angels,<a class="noteref" id="fnref8_1" href="#fn8_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and crowned him with glory and honor.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_6">6</span> You make him ruler over the works of your hands.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have put all things under his feet:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_7">7</span> All sheep and cattle,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, and the animals of the field,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v8_8">8</span> the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v8_9">9</span> LORD, our Lord,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">how majestic is your name in all the earth!</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn8_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref8_1">8:5</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: Elohim. The word Elohim, used here, usually means “God”, but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”. The Septuagint reads “angels” here. See also the quote from the Septuagint in <a class="ref" href="HEB#v2_7">Hebrews 2:7</a>.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch9" data-chapter="9">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">9</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Death of the Son.” A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_1">1</span> I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will tell of all your marvelous works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_2">2</span> I will be glad and rejoice in you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_3">3</span> When my enemies turn back,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they stumble and perish in your presence.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_4">4</span> For you have maintained my just cause.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You sit on the throne judging righteously.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_5">5</span> You have rebuked the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have destroyed the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have blotted out their name forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_6">6</span> The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_7">7</span> But the LORD reigns forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has prepared his throne for judgment.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_8">8</span> He will judge the world in righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_9">9</span> The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a high tower in times of trouble.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_10">10</span> Those who know your name will put their trust in you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_11">11</span> Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and declare among the people what he has done.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_12">12</span> For he who avenges blood remembers them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_13">13</span> Have mercy on me, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">See my affliction by those who hate me,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">and lift me up from the gates of death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v9_14">14</span> that I may show all of your praise.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_15">15</span> The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_16">16</span> The LORD has made himself known.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has executed judgment.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Meditation. Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_17">17</span> The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol,<a class="noteref" id="fnref9_1" href="#fn9_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even all the nations that forget God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_18">18</span> For the needy shall not always be forgotten,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor the hope of the poor perish forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_19">19</span> Arise, LORD! Don’t let man prevail.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the nations be judged in your sight.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v9_20">20</span> Put them in fear, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the nations know that they are only men.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn9_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref9_1">9:17</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch10" data-chapter="10">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">10</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_1">1</span> Why do you stand far off, LORD?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_2">2</span> In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are caught in the schemes that they devise.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_3">3</span> For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_4">4</span> The wicked, in the pride of his face,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">has no room in his thoughts for God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_5">5</span> His ways are prosperous at all times.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v10_6">6</span> He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For generations I shall have no trouble.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_7">7</span> His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_8">8</span> He lies in wait near the villages.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">From ambushes, he murders the innocent.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_9">9</span> He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He lies in wait to catch the helpless.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_10">10</span> The helpless are crushed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They collapse.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They fall under his strength.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_11">11</span> He says in his heart, “God has forgotten.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He hides his face.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will never see it.”</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_12">12</span> Arise, LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God, lift up your hand!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t forget the helpless.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_13">13</span> Why does the wicked person condemn God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_14">14</span> But you do see trouble and grief.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You consider it to take it into your hand.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You help the victim and the fatherless.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_15">15</span> Break the arm of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_16">16</span> The LORD is King forever and ever!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The nations will perish out of his land.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v10_17">17</span> LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will prepare their heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will cause your ear to hear,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v10_18">18</span> to judge the fatherless and the oppressed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch11" data-chapter="11">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">11</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v11_1">1</span> In the LORD, I take refuge.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v11_2">2</span> For, behold, the wicked bend their bows.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They set their arrows on the strings,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v11_3">3</span> If the foundations are destroyed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">what can the righteous do?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v11_4">4</span> The LORD is in his holy temple.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD is on his throne in heaven.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">His eyes observe.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His eyes examine the children of men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v11_5">5</span> The LORD examines the righteous,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v11_6">6</span> On the wicked he will rain blazing coals;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v11_7">7</span> For the LORD is righteous.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He loves righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The upright shall see his face.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch12" data-chapter="12">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">12</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v12_1">1</span> Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For the faithful fail from among the children of men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v12_2">2</span> Everyone lies to his neighbor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v12_3">3</span> May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the tongue that boasts,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v12_4">4</span> who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our lips are our own.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who is lord over us?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v12_5">5</span> “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will now arise,” says the LORD;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v12_6">6</span> The LORD’s words are flawless words,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v12_7">7</span> You will keep them, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will preserve them from this generation forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v12_8">8</span> The wicked walk on every side,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch13" data-chapter="13">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">13</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v13_1">1</span> How long, LORD?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will you forget me forever?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">How long will you hide your face from me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v13_2">2</span> How long shall I take counsel in my soul,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">having sorrow in my heart every day?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">How long shall my enemy triumph over me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v13_3">3</span> Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v13_4">4</span> lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v13_5">5</span> But I trust in your loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart rejoices in your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v13_6">6</span> I will sing to the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because he has been good to me.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch14" data-chapter="14">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">14</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v14_1">1</span> The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are corrupt.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have done abominable deeds.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no one who does good.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v14_2">2</span> The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to see if there were any who understood,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who sought after God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v14_3">3</span> They have all gone aside.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have together become corrupt.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no one who does good, no, not one.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v14_4">4</span> Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who eat up my people as they eat bread,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t call on the LORD?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v14_5">5</span> There they were in great fear,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for God is in the generation of the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v14_6">6</span> You frustrate the plan of the poor,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because the LORD is his refuge.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v14_7">7</span> Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch15" data-chapter="15">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">15</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v15_1">1</span> LORD, who shall dwell in your sanctuary?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who shall live on your holy hill?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v15_2">2</span> He who walks blamelessly and does what is right,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and speaks truth in his heart;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v15_3">3</span> he who doesn’t slander with his tongue,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor does evil to his friend,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor casts slurs against his fellow man;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v15_4">4</span> in whose eyes a vile man is despised,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but who honors those who fear the LORD;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v15_5">5</span> he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor take a bribe against the innocent.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He who does these things shall never be shaken.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch16" data-chapter="16">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">16</h2>
      <p class="d">A Poem by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_1">1</span> Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_2">2</span> My soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my Lord.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Apart from you I have no good thing.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_3">3</span> As for the saints who are on the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_4">4</span> Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor take their names on my lips.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_5">5</span> The LORD assigned my portion and my cup.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You made my lot secure.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_6">6</span> The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, I have a good inheritance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_7">7</span> I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_8">8</span> I have set the LORD always before me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_9">9</span> Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My body shall also dwell in safety.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_10">10</span> For you will not leave my soul in Sheol,<a class="noteref" id="fnref16_1" href="#fn16_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v16_11">11</span> You will show me the path of life.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In your presence is fullness of joy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn16_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref16_1">16:10</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch17" data-chapter="17">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">17</h2>
      <p class="d">A Prayer by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_1">1</span> Hear, LORD, my righteous plea.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_2">2</span> Let my sentence come out of your presence.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your eyes look on equity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_3">3</span> You have proved my heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have visited me in the night.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have tried me, and found nothing.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_4">4</span> As for the deeds of men, by the word of your lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_5">5</span> My steps have held fast to your paths.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My feet have not slipped.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_6">6</span> I have called on you, for you will answer me, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Turn your ear to me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Hear my speech.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_7">7</span> Show your marvelous loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_8">8</span> Keep me as the apple of your eye.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Hide me under the shadow of your wings,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_9">9</span> from the wicked who oppress me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my deadly enemies, who surround me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_10">10</span> They close up their callous hearts.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">With their mouth they speak proudly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_11">11</span> They have now surrounded us in our steps.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_12">12</span> He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_13">13</span> Arise, LORD, confront him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Cast him down.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v17_14">14</span> from men by your hand, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from men of the world, whose portion is in this life.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You fill the belly of your cherished ones.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your sons have plenty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and they store up wealth for their children.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v17_15">15</span> As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch18" data-chapter="18">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">18</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_1">1</span> I love you, LORD, my strength.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_2">2</span> The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_3">3</span> I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and I am saved from my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_4">4</span> The cords of death surrounded me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_5">5</span> The cords of Sheol<a class="noteref" id="fnref18_1" href="#fn18_1"><sup>*</sup></a> were around me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The snares of death came on me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_6">6</span> In my distress I called on the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and cried to my God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He heard my voice out of his temple.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My cry before him came into his ears.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_7">7</span> Then the earth shook and trembled.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because he was angry.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_8">8</span> Smoke went out of his nostrils.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Consuming fire came out of his mouth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Coals were kindled by it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_9">9</span> He bowed the heavens also, and came down.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Thick darkness was under his feet.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_10">10</span> He rode on a cherub, and flew.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_11">11</span> He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_12">12</span> At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">hailstones and coals of fire.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_13">13</span> The LORD also thundered in the sky.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The Most High uttered his voice:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">hailstones and coals of fire.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_14">14</span> He sent out his arrows, and scattered them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He routed them with great lightning bolts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_15">15</span> Then the channels of waters appeared.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_16">16</span> He sent from on high.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He took me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He drew me out of many waters.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_17">17</span> He delivered me from my strong enemy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_18">18</span> They came on me in the day of my calamity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the LORD was my support.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_19">19</span> He brought me out also into a large place.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He delivered me, because he delighted in me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_20">20</span> The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">According to the cleanness of my hands, he has recompensed me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_21">21</span> For I have kept the ways of the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have not wickedly departed from my God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_22">22</span> For all his ordinances were before me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I didn’t put away his statutes from me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_23">23</span> I was also blameless with him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I kept myself from my iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_24">24</span> Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_25">25</span> With the merciful you will show yourself merciful.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">With the perfect man, you will show yourself perfect.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_26">26</span> With the pure, you will show yourself pure.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_27">27</span> For you will save the afflicted people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the arrogant eyes you will bring down.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_28">28</span> For you will light my lamp, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My God will light up my darkness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_29">29</span> For by you, I advance through a troop.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">By my God, I leap over a wall.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_30">30</span> As for God, his way is perfect.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD’s word is tried.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_31">31</span> For who is God, except the LORD?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who is a rock, besides our God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v18_32">32</span> the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_33">33</span> He makes my feet like deer’s feet,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and sets me on my high places.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_34">34</span> He teaches my hands to war,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_35">35</span> You have also given me the shield of your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your right hand sustains me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your gentleness has made me great.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_36">36</span> You have enlarged my steps under me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My feet have not slipped.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_37">37</span> I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I won’t turn away until they are consumed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_38">38</span> I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall fall under my feet.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_39">39</span> For you have armed me with strength to the battle.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_40">40</span> You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I might cut off those who hate me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_41">41</span> They cried, but there was no one to save;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even to the LORD, but he didn’t answer them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_42">42</span> Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I cast them out as the mire of the streets.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_43">43</span> You have delivered me from the strivings of the people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have made me the head of the nations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">A people whom I have not known shall serve me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v18_44">44</span> As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_45">45</span> The foreigners shall fade away,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_46">46</span> The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Exalted be the God of my salvation,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_47">47</span> even the God who executes vengeance for me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and subdues peoples under me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_48">48</span> He rescues me from my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You deliver me from the violent man.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_49">49</span> Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will sing praises to your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v18_50">50</span> He gives great deliverance to his king,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and shows loving kindness to his anointed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to David and to his offspring,<a class="noteref" id="fnref18_2" href="#fn18_2"><sup>†</sup></a> forever more.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn18_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref18_1">18:5</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn18_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref18_2">18:50</a> <span class="ft">or, seed</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch19" data-chapter="19">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">19</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_1">1</span> The heavens declare the glory of God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The expanse shows his handiwork.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_2">2</span> Day after day they pour out speech,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and night after night they display knowledge.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_3">3</span> There is no speech nor language</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">where their voice is not heard.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_4">4</span> Their voice has gone out through all the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">their words to the end of the world.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">In them he has set a tent for the sun,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v19_5">5</span> which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_6">6</span> His going out is from the end of the heavens,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his circuit to its ends.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is nothing hidden from its heat.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_7">7</span> The LORD’s law is perfect, restoring the soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_8">8</span> The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_9">9</span> The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_10">10</span> They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_11">11</span> Moreover your servant is warned by them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In keeping them there is great reward.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_12">12</span> Who can discern his errors?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Forgive me from hidden errors.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_13">13</span> Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them not have dominion over me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Then I will be upright.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v19_14">14</span> Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">be acceptable in your sight,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch20" data-chapter="20">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">20</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v20_1">1</span> May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v20_2">2</span> send you help from the sanctuary,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">grant you support from Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v20_3">3</span> remember all your offerings,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and accept your burned sacrifice.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v20_4">4</span> May he grant you your heart’s desire,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and fulfill all your counsel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v20_5">5</span> We will triumph in your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the name of our God, we will set up our banners.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">May the LORD grant all your requests.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v20_6">6</span> Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will answer him from his holy heaven,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with the saving strength of his right hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v20_7">7</span> Some trust in chariots, and some in horses,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v20_8">8</span> They are bowed down and fallen,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but we rise up, and stand upright.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v20_9">9</span> Save, LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the King answer us when we call!</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch21" data-chapter="21">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">21</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_1">1</span> The king rejoices in your strength, LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_2">2</span> You have given him his heart’s desire,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have not withheld the request of his lips.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_3">3</span> For you meet him with the blessings of goodness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You set a crown of fine gold on his head.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_4">4</span> He asked life of you and you gave it to him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even length of days forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_5">5</span> His glory is great in your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You lay honor and majesty on him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_6">6</span> For you make him most blessed forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You make him glad with joy in your presence.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_7">7</span> For the king trusts in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_8">8</span> Your hand will find out all of your enemies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your right hand will find out those who hate you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_9">9</span> You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The fire shall devour them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_10">10</span> You will destroy their descendants from the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">their posterity from among the children of men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_11">11</span> For they intended evil against you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_12">12</span> For you will make them turn their back,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when you aim drawn bows at their face.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v21_13">13</span> Be exalted, LORD, in your strength,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so we will sing and praise your power.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch22" data-chapter="22">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">22</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician; set to “The Doe of the Morning.” A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_1">1</span> My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_2">2</span> My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the night season, and am not silent.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_3">3</span> But you are holy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you who inhabit the praises of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_4">4</span> Our fathers trusted in you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They trusted, and you delivered them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_5">5</span> They cried to you, and were delivered.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_6">6</span> But I am a worm, and no man;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a reproach of men, and despised by the people.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_7">7</span> All those who see me mock me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v22_8">8</span> “He trusts in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let him deliver him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_9">9</span> But you brought me out of the womb.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_10">10</span> I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are my God since my mother bore me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_11">11</span> Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For there is no one to help.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_12">12</span> Many bulls have surrounded me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_13">13</span> They open their mouths wide against me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">lions tearing prey and roaring.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_14">14</span> I am poured out like water.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All my bones are out of joint.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">My heart is like wax.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It is melted within me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_15">15</span> My strength is dried up like a potsherd.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You have brought me into the dust of death.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_16">16</span> For dogs have surrounded me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">A company of evildoers have enclosed me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have pierced my hands and feet.<a class="noteref" id="fnref22_1" href="#fn22_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_17">17</span> I can count all of my bones.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">They look and stare at me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_18">18</span> They divide my garments among them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They cast lots for my clothing.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_19">19</span> But don’t be far off, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are my help. Hurry to help me!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_20">20</span> Deliver my soul from the sword,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my precious life from the power of the dog.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_21">21</span> Save me from the lion’s mouth!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_22">22</span> I will declare your name to my brothers.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Among the assembly, I will praise you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_23">23</span> You who fear the LORD, praise him!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_24">24</span> For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither has he hidden his face from him;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but when he cried to him, he heard.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_25">25</span> My praise of you comes in the great assembly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will pay my vows before those who fear him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_26">26</span> The humble shall eat and be satisfied.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall praise the LORD who seek after him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your hearts live forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_27">27</span> All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_28">28</span> For the kingdom is the LORD’s.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is the ruler over the nations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_29">29</span> All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even he who can’t keep his soul alive.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_30">30</span> Posterity shall serve him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Future generations shall be told about the Lord.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v22_31">31</span> They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he has done it.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn22_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref22_1">22:16</a> <span class="ft">So Dead Sea Scrolls. Masoretic Text reads, “Like a lion, they pin my hands and feet.”</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch23" data-chapter="23">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">23</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v23_1">1</span> The LORD is my shepherd;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I shall lack nothing.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v23_2">2</span> He makes me lie down in green pastures.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He leads me beside still waters.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v23_3">3</span> He restores my soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v23_4">4</span> Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will fear no evil, for you are with me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Your rod and your staff,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they comfort me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v23_5">5</span> You prepare a table before me</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the presence of my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You anoint my head with oil.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My cup runs over.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v23_6">6</span> Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and I will dwell in the LORD’s house forever.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch24" data-chapter="24">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">24</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_1">1</span> The earth is the LORD’s, with its fullness;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the world, and those who dwell in it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_2">2</span> For he has founded it on the seas,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and established it on the floods.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_3">3</span> Who may ascend to the LORD’s hill?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who may stand in his holy place?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_4">4</span> He who has clean hands and a pure heart;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and has not sworn deceitfully.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_5">5</span> He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">righteousness from the God of his salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_6">6</span> This is the generation of those who seek Him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who seek your face—even Jacob.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_7">7</span> Lift up your heads, you gates!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Be lifted up, you everlasting doors,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the King of glory will come in.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_8">8</span> Who is the King of glory?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD strong and mighty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the LORD mighty in battle.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_9">9</span> Lift up your heads, you gates;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the King of glory will come in.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v24_10">10</span> Who is this King of glory?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD of Armies is the King of glory!</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch25" data-chapter="25">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">25</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_1">1</span> To you, LORD, I lift up my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_2">2</span> My God, I have trusted in you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let me be shamed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_3">3</span> Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_4">4</span> Show me your ways, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Teach me your paths.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_5">5</span> Guide me in your truth, and teach me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you are the God of my salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I wait for you all day long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_6">6</span> LORD, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they are from old times.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_7">7</span> Don’t remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Remember me according to your loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your goodness’ sake, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_8">8</span> Good and upright is the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_9">9</span> He will guide the humble in justice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will teach the humble his way.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_10">10</span> All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_11">11</span> For your name’s sake, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">pardon my iniquity, for it is great.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_12">12</span> What man is he who fears the LORD?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_13">13</span> His soul will dwell at ease.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His offspring will inherit the land.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_14">14</span> The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will show them his covenant.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_15">15</span> My eyes are ever on the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he will pluck my feet out of the net.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_16">16</span> Turn to me, and have mercy on me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I am desolate and afflicted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_17">17</span> The troubles of my heart are enlarged.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Oh bring me out of my distresses.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_18">18</span> Consider my affliction and my travail.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Forgive all my sins.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_19">19</span> Consider my enemies, for they are many.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They hate me with cruel hatred.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_20">20</span> Oh keep my soul, and deliver me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_21">21</span> Let integrity and uprightness preserve me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I wait for you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v25_22">22</span> God, redeem Israel</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">out of all his troubles.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch26" data-chapter="26">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">26</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_1">1</span> Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have trusted also in the LORD without wavering.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_2">2</span> Examine me, LORD, and prove me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Try my heart and my mind.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_3">3</span> For your loving kindness is before my eyes.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have walked in your truth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_4">4</span> I have not sat with deceitful men,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither will I go in with hypocrites.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_5">5</span> I hate the assembly of evildoers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will not sit with the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_6">6</span> I will wash my hands in innocence,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so I will go about your altar, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v26_7">7</span> that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and tell of all your wondrous deeds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_8">8</span> LORD, I love the habitation of your house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the place where your glory dwells.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_9">9</span> Don’t gather my soul with sinners,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor my life with bloodthirsty men</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v26_10">10</span> in whose hands is wickedness;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">their right hand is full of bribes.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_11">11</span> But as for me, I will walk in my integrity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Redeem me, and be merciful to me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v26_12">12</span> My foot stands in an even place.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the congregations I will bless the LORD.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch27" data-chapter="27">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">27</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_1">1</span> The LORD is my light and my salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Whom shall I fear?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">The LORD is the strength of my life.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Of whom shall I be afraid?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_2">2</span> When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_3">3</span> Though an army should encamp against me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my heart shall not fear.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Though war should rise against me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even then I will be confident.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_4">4</span> One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to see the LORD’s beauty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and to inquire in his temple.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_5">5</span> For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will hide me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will lift me up on a rock.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_6">6</span> Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_7">7</span> Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Have mercy also on me, and answer me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_8">8</span> When you said, “Seek my face,”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_9">9</span> Don’t hide your face from me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t put your servant away in anger.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You have been my help.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t abandon me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither forsake me, God of my salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_10">10</span> When my father and my mother forsake me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">then the LORD will take me up.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_11">11</span> Teach me your way, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_12">12</span> Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for false witnesses have risen up against me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">such as breathe out cruelty.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_13">13</span> I am still confident of this:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v27_14">14</span> Wait for the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Be strong, and let your heart take courage.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Yes, wait for the LORD.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch28" data-chapter="28">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">28</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_1">1</span> To you, LORD, I call.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My rock, don’t be deaf to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">lest, if you are silent to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I would become like those who go down into the pit.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_2">2</span> Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_3">3</span> Don’t draw me away with the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but mischief is in their hearts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_4">4</span> Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give them according to the operation of their hands.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Bring back on them what they deserve.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_5">5</span> Because they don’t respect the works of the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor the operation of his hands,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he will break them down and not build them up.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_6">6</span> Blessed be the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because he has heard the voice of my petitions.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_7">7</span> The LORD is my strength and my shield.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Therefore my heart greatly rejoices.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">With my song I will thank him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_8">8</span> The LORD is their strength.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v28_9">9</span> Save your people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and bless your inheritance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Be their shepherd also,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and bear them up forever.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch29" data-chapter="29">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">29</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_1">1</span> Ascribe to the LORD, you sons of the mighty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_2">2</span> Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Worship the LORD in holy array.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_3">3</span> The LORD’s voice is on the waters.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The God of glory thunders, even the LORD on many waters.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_4">4</span> The LORD’s voice is powerful.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD’s voice is full of majesty.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_5">5</span> The LORD’s voice breaks the cedars.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_6">6</span> He makes them also to skip like a calf;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lebanon and Sirion like a young, wild ox.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_7">7</span> The LORD’s voice strikes with flashes of lightning.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v29_8">8</span> The LORD’s voice shakes the wilderness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_9">9</span> The LORD’s voice makes the deer calve,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and strips the forests bare.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In his temple everything says, “Glory!”</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_10">10</span> The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v29_11">11</span> The LORD will give strength to his people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD will bless his people with peace.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch30" data-chapter="30">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">30</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_1">1</span> I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_2">2</span> LORD my God, I cried to you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and you have healed me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_3">3</span> LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol.<a class="noteref" id="fnref30_1" href="#fn30_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_4">4</span> Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of his.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give thanks to his holy name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_5">5</span> For his anger is but for a moment.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His favor is for a lifetime.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Weeping may stay for the night,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but joy comes in the morning.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_6">6</span> As for me, I said in my prosperity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“I shall never be moved.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_7">7</span> You, LORD, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but when you hid your face, I was troubled.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_8">8</span> I cried to you, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I made supplication to the Lord:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_9">9</span> “What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Shall the dust praise you?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Shall it declare your truth?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_10">10</span> Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, be my helper.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v30_11">11</span> You have turned my mourning into dancing for me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v30_12">12</span> to the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn30_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref30_1">30:3</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch31" data-chapter="31">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">31</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_1">1</span> In you, LORD, I take refuge.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let me never be disappointed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Deliver me in your righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_2">2</span> Bow down your ear to me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Deliver me speedily.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Be to me a strong rock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a house of defense to save me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_3">3</span> For you are my rock and my fortress,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_4">4</span> Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you are my stronghold.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_5">5</span> Into your hand I commend my spirit.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You redeem me, LORD, God of truth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_6">6</span> I hate those who regard lying vanities,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but I trust in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_7">7</span> I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you have seen my affliction.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have known my soul in adversities.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_8">8</span> You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have set my feet in a large place.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_9">9</span> Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_10">10</span> For my life is spent with sorrow,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my years with sighing.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">My strength fails because of my iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My bones are wasted away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_11">11</span> Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a horror to my acquaintances.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who saw me on the street fled from me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_12">12</span> I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am like broken pottery.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_13">13</span> For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">while they conspire together against me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they plot to take away my life.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_14">14</span> But I trust in you, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I said, “You are my God.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_15">15</span> My times are in your hand.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_16">16</span> Make your face to shine on your servant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Save me in your loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_17">17</span> Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the wicked be disappointed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them be silent in Sheol.<a class="noteref" id="fnref31_1" href="#fn31_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_18">18</span> Let the lying lips be mute,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_19">19</span> Oh how great is your goodness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which you have laid up for those who fear you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which you have worked for those who take refuge in you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">before the sons of men!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_20">20</span> In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_21">21</span> Praise be to the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_22">22</span> As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_23">23</span> Oh love the LORD, all you his saints!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD preserves the faithful,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v31_24">24</span> Be strong, and let your heart take courage,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all you who hope in the LORD.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn31_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref31_1">31:17</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch32" data-chapter="32">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">32</h2>
      <p class="d">By David. A contemplative psalm.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_1">1</span> Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whose sin is covered.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_2">2</span> Blessed is the man to whom the LORD doesn’t impute iniquity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in whose spirit there is no deceit.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_3">3</span> When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_4">4</span> For day and night your hand was heavy on me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My strength was sapped in the heat of summer.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_5">5</span> I acknowledged my sin to you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I didn’t hide my iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_6">6</span> For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_7">7</span> You are my hiding place.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will preserve me from trouble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will surround me with songs of deliverance.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_8">8</span> I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will counsel you with my eye on you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_9">9</span> Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_10">10</span> Many sorrows come to the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but loving kindness shall surround him who trusts in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v32_11">11</span> Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart!</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch33" data-chapter="33">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">33</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_1">1</span> Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise is fitting for the upright.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_2">2</span> Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_3">3</span> Sing to him a new song.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Play skillfully with a shout of joy!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_4">4</span> For the LORD’s word is right.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All his work is done in faithfulness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_5">5</span> He loves righteousness and justice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The earth is full of the loving kindness of the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_6">6</span> By the LORD’s word, the heavens were made:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all their army by the breath of his mouth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_7">7</span> He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He lays up the deeps in storehouses.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_8">8</span> Let all the earth fear the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_9">9</span> For he spoke, and it was done.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He commanded, and it stood firm.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_10">10</span> The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_11">11</span> The counsel of the LORD stands fast forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the thoughts of his heart to all generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_12">12</span> Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_13">13</span> The LORD looks from heaven.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He sees all the sons of men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_14">14</span> From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v33_15">15</span> he who fashions all of their hearts;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he considers all of their works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_16">16</span> There is no king saved by the multitude of an army.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_17">17</span> A horse is a vain thing for safety,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither does he deliver any by his great power.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_18">18</span> Behold, the LORD’s eye is on those who fear him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">on those who hope in his loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v33_19">19</span> to deliver their soul from death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to keep them alive in famine.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_20">20</span> Our soul has waited for the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is our help and our shield.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_21">21</span> For our heart rejoices in him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because we have trusted in his holy name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v33_22">22</span> Let your loving kindness be on us, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">since we have hoped in you.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch34" data-chapter="34">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">34</h2>
      <p class="d">By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_1">1</span> <a class="noteref" id="fnref34_1" href="#fn34_1"><sup>*</sup></a>I will bless the LORD at all times.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His praise will always be in my mouth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_2">2</span> My soul shall boast in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The humble shall hear of it and be glad.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_3">3</span> Oh magnify the LORD with me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let’s exalt his name together.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_4">4</span> I sought the LORD, and he answered me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and delivered me from all my fears.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_5">5</span> They looked to him, and were radiant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their faces shall never be covered with shame.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_6">6</span> This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and saved him out of all his troubles.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_7">7</span> The LORD’s angel encamps around those who fear him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and delivers them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_8">8</span> Oh taste and see that the LORD is good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_9">9</span> Oh fear the LORD, you his saints,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for there is no lack with those who fear him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_10">10</span> The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_11">11</span> Come, you children, listen to me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will teach you the fear of the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_12">12</span> Who is someone who desires life,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and loves many days, that he may see good?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_13">13</span> Keep your tongue from evil,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your lips from speaking lies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_14">14</span> Depart from evil, and do good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Seek peace, and pursue it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_15">15</span> The LORD’s eyes are toward the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His ears listen to their cry.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_16">16</span> The LORD’s face is against those who do evil,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to cut off their memory from the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_17">17</span> The righteous cry, and the LORD hears,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and delivers them out of all their troubles.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_18">18</span> The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and saves those who have a crushed spirit.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_19">19</span> Many are the afflictions of the righteous,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the LORD delivers him out of them all.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_20">20</span> He protects all of his bones.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Not one of them is broken.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_21">21</span> Evil shall kill the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who hate the righteous shall be condemned.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v34_22">22</span> The LORD redeems the soul of his servants.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn34_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref34_1">34:1</a> <span class="ft">Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, with each verse starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch35" data-chapter="35">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">35</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_1">1</span> Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Fight against those who fight against me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_2">2</span> Take hold of shield and buckler,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and stand up for my help.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_3">3</span> Brandish the spear and block those who pursue me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Tell my soul, “I am your salvation.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_4">4</span> Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_5">5</span> Let them be as chaff before the wind,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the LORD’s angel driving them on.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_6">6</span> Let their way be dark and slippery,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the LORD’s angel pursuing them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_7">7</span> For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_8">8</span> Let destruction come on him unawares.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let his net that he has hidden catch himself.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let him fall into that destruction.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_9">9</span> My soul shall be joyful in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It shall rejoice in his salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_10">10</span> All my bones shall say, “LORD, who is like you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_11">11</span> Unrighteous witnesses rise up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They ask me about things that I don’t know about.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_12">12</span> They reward me evil for good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to the bereaving of my soul.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_13">13</span> But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I afflicted my soul with fasting.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My prayer returned into my own bosom.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_14">14</span> I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_15">15</span> But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They tore at me, and didn’t cease.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_16">16</span> Like the profane mockers in feasts,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they gnashed their teeth at me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_17">17</span> Lord, how long will you look on?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Rescue my soul from their destruction,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my precious life from the lions.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_18">18</span> I will give you thanks in the great assembly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will praise you among many people.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_19">19</span> Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_20">20</span> For they don’t speak peace,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_21">21</span> Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_22">22</span> You have seen it, LORD. Don’t keep silent.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lord, don’t be far from me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_23">23</span> Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My Lord, contend for me!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_24">24</span> Vindicate me, LORD my God, according to your righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let them gloat over me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_25">25</span> Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_26">26</span> Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_27">27</span> Let those who favor my righteous cause shout for joy and be glad.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, let them say continually, “May the LORD be magnified,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v35_28">28</span> My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch36" data-chapter="36">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">36</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of the LORD.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_1">1</span> A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no fear of God before his eyes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_2">2</span> For he flatters himself in his own eyes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">too much to detect and hate his sin.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_3">3</span> The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has ceased to be wise and to do good.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_4">4</span> He plots iniquity on his bed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He sets himself in a way that is not good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He doesn’t abhor evil.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_5">5</span> Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_6">6</span> Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your judgments are like a great deep.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, you preserve man and animal.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_7">7</span> How precious is your loving kindness, God!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_8">8</span> They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_9">9</span> For with you is the spring of life.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In your light we will see light.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_10">10</span> Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your righteousness to the upright in heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_11">11</span> Don’t let the foot of pride come against me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v36_12">12</span> There the workers of iniquity are fallen.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch37" data-chapter="37">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">37</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_1">1</span> Don’t fret because of evildoers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_2">2</span> For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and wither like the green herb.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_3">3</span> Trust in the LORD, and do good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_4">4</span> Also delight yourself in the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he will give you the desires of your heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_5">5</span> Commit your way to the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Trust also in him, and he will do this:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_6">6</span> he will make your righteousness shine out like light,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your justice as the noon day sun.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_7">7</span> Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_8">8</span> Cease from anger, and forsake wrath.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_9">9</span> For evildoers shall be cut off,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_10">10</span> For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_11">11</span> But the humble shall inherit the land,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_12">12</span> The wicked plots against the just,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and gnashes at him with his teeth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_13">13</span> The Lord will laugh at him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he sees that his day is coming.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_14">14</span> The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to cast down the poor and needy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to kill those who are upright on the path.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_15">15</span> Their sword shall enter into their own heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their bows shall be broken.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_16">16</span> Better is a little that the righteous has,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">than the abundance of many wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_17">17</span> For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the LORD upholds the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_18">18</span> The LORD knows the days of the perfect.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their inheritance shall be forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_19">19</span> They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_20">20</span> But the wicked shall perish.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The enemies of the LORD shall be like the beauty of the fields.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will vanish—</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">vanish like smoke.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_21">21</span> The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the righteous give generously.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_22">22</span> For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_23">23</span> A man’s steps are established by the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He delights in his way.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_24">24</span> Though he stumble, he shall not fall,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the LORD holds him up with his hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_25">25</span> I have been young, and now am old,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor his children begging for bread.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_26">26</span> All day long he deals graciously, and lends.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His offspring is blessed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_27">27</span> Depart from evil, and do good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Live securely forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_28">28</span> For the LORD loves justice,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and doesn’t forsake his saints.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are preserved forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_29">29</span> The righteous shall inherit the land,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and live in it forever.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_30">30</span> The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His tongue speaks justice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_31">31</span> The law of his God is in his heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">None of his steps shall slide.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_32">32</span> The wicked watch the righteous,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and seek to kill him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_33">33</span> The LORD will not leave him in his hand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor condemn him when he is judged.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_34">34</span> Wait for the LORD, and keep his way,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he will exalt you to inherit the land.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_35">35</span> I have seen the wicked in great power,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_36">36</span> But he passed away, and behold, he was not.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_37">37</span> Mark the perfect man, and see the upright,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for there is a future for the man of peace.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_38">38</span> As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The future of the wicked shall be cut off.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_39">39</span> But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v37_40">40</span> The LORD helps them and rescues them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He rescues them from the wicked and saves them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because they have taken refuge in him.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch38" data-chapter="38">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">38</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David, for a memorial.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_1">1</span> LORD, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_2">2</span> For your arrows have pierced me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your hand presses hard on me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_3">3</span> There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_4">4</span> For my iniquities have gone over my head.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_5">5</span> My wounds are loathsome and corrupt</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of my foolishness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_6">6</span> I am in pain and bowed down greatly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I go mourning all day long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_7">7</span> For my waist is filled with burning.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no soundness in my flesh.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_8">8</span> I am faint and severely bruised.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_9">9</span> Lord, all my desire is before you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My groaning is not hidden from you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_10">10</span> My heart throbs.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My strength fails me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_11">11</span> My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My kinsmen stand far away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_12">12</span> They also who seek after my life lay snares.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and meditate deceits all day long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_13">13</span> But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_14">14</span> Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in whose mouth are no reproofs.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_15">15</span> For I hope in you, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will answer, Lord my God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_16">16</span> For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_17">17</span> For I am ready to fall.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My pain is continually before me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_18">18</span> For I will declare my iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will be sorry for my sin.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_19">19</span> But my enemies are vigorous and many.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who hate me without reason are numerous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_20">20</span> They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because I follow what is good.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_21">21</span> Don’t forsake me, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My God, don’t be far from me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v38_22">22</span> Hurry to help me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lord, my salvation.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch39" data-chapter="39">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">39</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_1">1</span> I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_2">2</span> I was mute with silence.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I held my peace, even from good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My sorrow was stirred.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_3">3</span> My heart was hot within me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">While I meditated, the fire burned.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">I spoke with my tongue:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v39_4">4</span> “LORD, show me my end,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">what is the measure of my days.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let me know how frail I am.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_5">5</span> Behold, you have made my days hand widths.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My lifetime is as nothing before you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Surely every man stands as a breath.”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_6">6</span> “Surely every man walks like a shadow.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Surely they busy themselves in vain.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_7">7</span> Now, Lord, what do I wait for?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My hope is in you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_8">8</span> Deliver me from all my transgressions.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_9">9</span> I was mute.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I didn’t open my mouth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because you did it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_10">10</span> Remove your scourge away from me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am overcome by the blow of your hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_11">11</span> When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you consume his wealth like a moth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Surely every man is but a breath.”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_12">12</span> “Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t be silent at my tears.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">For I am a stranger with you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a foreigner, as all my fathers were.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v39_13">13</span> Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">before I go away and exist no more.”</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch40" data-chapter="40">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">40</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_1">1</span> I waited patiently for the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He turned to me, and heard my cry.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_2">2</span> He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">out of the miry clay.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He set my feet on a rock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and gave me a firm place to stand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_3">3</span> He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_4">4</span> Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_5">5</span> Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your thoughts which are toward us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">They can’t be declared back to you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_6">6</span> Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have opened my ears.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_7">7</span> Then I said, “Behold, I have come.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It is written about me in the book in the scroll.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_8">8</span> I delight to do your will, my God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, your law is within my heart.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_9">9</span> I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_10">10</span> I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_11">11</span> Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_12">12</span> For innumerable evils have surrounded me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">They are more than the hairs of my head.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart has failed me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_13">13</span> Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Hurry to help me, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_14">14</span> Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_15">15</span> Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_16">16</span> Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v40_17">17</span> But I am poor and needy.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">May the Lord think about me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You are my help and my deliverer.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t delay, my God.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch41" data-chapter="41">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">41</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_1">1</span> Blessed is he who considers the poor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_2">2</span> The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He shall be blessed on the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_3">3</span> The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and restore him from his bed of illness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_4">4</span> I said, “LORD, have mercy on me!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_5">5</span> My enemies speak evil against me:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“When will he die, and his name perish?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_6">6</span> If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His heart gathers iniquity to itself.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When he goes abroad, he tells it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_7">7</span> All who hate me whisper together against me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They imagine the worst for me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_8">8</span> “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_9">9</span> Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who ate bread with me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">has lifted up his heel against me.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_10">10</span> But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may repay them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_11">11</span> By this I know that you delight in me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_12">12</span> As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and set me in your presence forever.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v41_13">13</span> Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from everlasting and to everlasting!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Amen and amen.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch42" data-chapter="42">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">42</h2>
      <h3 class="ms">BOOK 2</h3>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_1">1</span> As the deer pants for the water brooks,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so my soul pants after you, God.<a class="noteref" id="fnref42_1" href="#fn42_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_2">2</span> My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When shall I come and appear before God?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_3">3</span> My tears have been my food day and night,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_4">4</span> These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_5">5</span> Why are you in despair, my soul?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why are you disturbed within me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Hope in God!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_6">6</span> My God, my soul is in despair within me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_7">7</span> Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All your waves and your billows have swept over me.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_8">8</span> The LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref42_2" href="#fn42_2"><sup>†</sup></a> will command his loving kindness in the daytime.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the night his song shall be with me:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a prayer to the God of my life.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_9">9</span> I will ask God, my rock, “Why have you forgotten me?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_10">10</span> As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v42_11">11</span> Why are you in despair, my soul?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why are you disturbed within me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Hope in God! For I shall still praise him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the saving help of my countenance, and my God.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn42_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref42_1">42:1</a> <span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn42_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref42_2">42:8</a> <span class="ft">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch43" data-chapter="43">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">43</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v43_1">1</span> Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v43_2">2</span> For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v43_3">3</span> Oh, send out your light and your truth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them lead me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them bring me to your holy hill,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to your tents.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v43_4">4</span> Then I will go to the altar of God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to God, my exceeding joy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v43_5">5</span> Why are you in despair, my soul?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why are you disturbed within me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Hope in God!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For I shall still praise him:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my Savior, my helper, and my God.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch44" data-chapter="44">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">44</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_1">1</span> We have heard with our ears, God;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">our fathers have told us what work you did in their days,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the days of old.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_2">2</span> You drove out the nations with your hand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but you planted them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You afflicted the peoples,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but you spread them abroad.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_3">3</span> For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither did their own arm save them;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because you were favorable to them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_4">4</span> God, you are my King.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Command victories for Jacob!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_5">5</span> Through you, we will push down our adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_6">6</span> For I will not trust in my bow,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither will my sword save me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_7">7</span> But you have saved us from our adversaries,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have shamed those who hate us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_8">8</span> In God we have made our boast all day long.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We will give thanks to your name forever.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_9">9</span> But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t go out with our armies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_10">10</span> You make us turn back from the adversary.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_11">11</span> You have made us like sheep for food,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have scattered us among the nations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_12">12</span> You sell your people for nothing,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have gained nothing from their sale.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_13">13</span> You make us a reproach to our neighbors,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_14">14</span> You make us a byword among the nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a shaking of the head among the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_15">15</span> All day long my dishonor is before me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and shame covers my face,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v44_16">16</span> at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of the enemy and the avenger.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_17">17</span> All this has come on us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yet we haven’t forgotten you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We haven’t been false to your covenant.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_18">18</span> Our heart has not turned back,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither have our steps strayed from your path,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v44_19">19</span> though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and covered us with the shadow of death.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_20">20</span> If we have forgotten the name of our God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or spread out our hands to a strange god,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v44_21">21</span> won’t God search this out?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For he knows the secrets of the heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_22">22</span> Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_23">23</span> Wake up!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why do you sleep, Lord?<a class="noteref" id="fnref44_1" href="#fn44_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Arise!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t reject us forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_24">24</span> Why do you hide your face,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and forget our affliction and our oppression?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_25">25</span> For our soul is bowed down to the dust.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our body clings to the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v44_26">26</span> Rise up to help us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn44_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref44_1">44:23</a> <span class="ft">The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch45" data-chapter="45">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">45</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.” A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_1">1</span> My heart overflows with a noble theme.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I recite my verses for the king.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_2">2</span> You are the most excellent of the sons of men.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Grace has anointed your lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore God has blessed you forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_3">3</span> Strap your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in your splendor and your majesty.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_4">4</span> In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your right hand display awesome deeds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_5">5</span> Your arrows are sharp.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king’s enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_6">6</span> Your throne, God, is forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_7">7</span> You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_8">8</span> All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_9">9</span> Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_10">10</span> Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v45_11">11</span> So the king will desire your beauty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">honor him, for he is your lord.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_12">12</span> The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The rich among the people entreat your favor.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_13">13</span> The princess inside is all glorious.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Her clothing is interwoven with gold.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_14">14</span> She shall be led to the king in embroidered work.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_15">15</span> With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall enter into the king’s palace.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_16">16</span> Your sons will take the place of your fathers.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You shall make them princes in all the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v45_17">17</span> I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch46" data-chapter="46">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">46</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.<a class="noteref" id="fnref46_1" href="#fn46_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_1">1</span> God is our refuge and strength,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a very present help in trouble.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_2">2</span> Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v46_3">3</span> though its waters roar and are troubled,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">though the mountains tremble with their swelling.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_4">4</span> There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the holy place of the tents of the Most High.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_5">5</span> God is within her. She shall not be moved.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God will help her at dawn.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_6">6</span> The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He lifted his voice and the earth melted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_7">7</span> The LORD of Armies is with us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The God of Jacob is our refuge.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_8">8</span> Come, see the LORD’s works,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">what desolations he has made on the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_9">9</span> He makes wars cease to the end of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He burns the chariots in the fire.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_10">10</span> “Be still, and know that I am God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will be exalted among the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will be exalted on the earth.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v46_11">11</span> The LORD of Armies is with us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The God of Jacob is our refuge.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn46_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref46_1">^</a> <span class="ft">Alamoth is a musical term.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch47" data-chapter="47">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">47</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_1">1</span> Oh clap your hands, all you nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Shout to God with the voice of triumph!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_2">2</span> For the LORD Most High is awesome.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is a great King over all the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_3">3</span> He subdues nations under us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and peoples under our feet.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_4">4</span> He chooses our inheritance for us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the glory of Jacob whom he loved.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_5">5</span> God has gone up with a shout,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_6">6</span> Sing praises to God! Sing praises!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sing praises to our King! Sing praises!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_7">7</span> For God is the King of all the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sing praises with understanding.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_8">8</span> God reigns over the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God sits on his holy throne.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v47_9">9</span> The princes of the peoples are gathered together,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">the people of the God of Abraham.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For the shields of the earth belong to God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is greatly exalted!</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch48" data-chapter="48">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">48</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_1">1</span> Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the city of our God, in his holy mountain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_2">2</span> Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">is Mount Zion, on the north sides,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the city of the great King.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_3">3</span> God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_4">4</span> For, behold, the kings assembled themselves,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they passed by together.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_5">5</span> They saw it, then they were amazed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They were dismayed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They hurried away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_6">6</span> Trembling took hold of them there,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">pain, as of a woman in travail.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_7">7</span> With the east wind, you break the ships of Tarshish.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_8">8</span> As we have heard, so we have seen,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the city of the LORD of Armies, in the city of our God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">God will establish it forever.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_9">9</span> We have thought about your loving kindness, God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the middle of your temple.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_10">10</span> As is your name, God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so is your praise to the ends of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your right hand is full of righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_11">11</span> Let Mount Zion be glad!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_12">12</span> Walk about Zion, and go around her.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Number its towers.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_13">13</span> Notice her bulwarks.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Consider her palaces,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you may tell it to the next generation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v48_14">14</span> For this God is our God forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will be our guide even to death.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch49" data-chapter="49">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">49</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_1">1</span> Hear this, all you peoples.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v49_2">2</span> both low and high,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">rich and poor together.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_3">3</span> My mouth will speak words of wisdom.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart will utter understanding.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_4">4</span> I will incline my ear to a proverb.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will solve my riddle on the harp.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_5">5</span> Why should I fear in the days of evil,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_6">6</span> Those who trust in their wealth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and boast in the multitude of their riches—</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v49_7">7</span> none of them can by any means redeem his brother,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor give God a ransom for him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_8">8</span> For the redemption of their life is costly,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">no payment is ever enough,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v49_9">9</span> that he should live on forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that he should not see corruption.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_10">10</span> For he sees that wise men die;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">likewise the fool and the senseless perish,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and leave their wealth to others.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_11">11</span> Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their dwelling places to all generations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They name their lands after themselves.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_12">12</span> But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is like the animals that perish.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_13">13</span> This is the destiny of those who are foolish,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and of those who approve their sayings.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_14">14</span> They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.<a class="noteref" id="fnref49_1" href="#fn49_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Death shall be their shepherd.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their beauty shall decay in Sheol,<a class="noteref" id="fnref49_2" href="#fn49_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">far from their mansion.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_15">15</span> But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,<a class="noteref" id="fnref49_3" href="#fn49_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he will receive me.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_16">16</span> Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when the glory of his house is increased;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_17">17</span> for when he dies he will carry nothing away.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His glory won’t descend after him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_18">18</span> Though while he lived he blessed his soul—</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and men praise you when you do well for yourself—</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v49_19">19</span> he shall go to the generation of his fathers.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall never see the light.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v49_20">20</span> A man who has riches without understanding,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">is like the animals that perish.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn49_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref49_1">49:14</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn49_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref49_2">49:14</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn49_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref49_3">49:15</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch50" data-chapter="50">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">50</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_1">1</span> The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_2">2</span> Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God shines out.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_3">3</span> Our God comes, and does not keep silent.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">A fire devours before him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It is very stormy around him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_4">4</span> He calls to the heavens above,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to the earth, that he may judge his people:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_5">5</span> “Gather my saints together to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_6">6</span> The heavens shall declare his righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for God himself is judge.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_7">7</span> “Hear, my people, and I will speak.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Israel, I will testify against you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">I am God, your God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_8">8</span> I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your burnt offerings are continually before me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_9">9</span> I have no need for a bull from your stall,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor male goats from your pens.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_10">10</span> For every animal of the forest is mine,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the livestock on a thousand hills.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_11">11</span> I know all the birds of the mountains.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The wild animals of the field are mine.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_12">12</span> If I were hungry, I would not tell you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the world is mine, and all that is in it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_13">13</span> Will I eat the meat of bulls,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or drink the blood of goats?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_14">14</span> Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Pay your vows to the Most High.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_15">15</span> Call on me in the day of trouble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_16">16</span> But to the wicked God says,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“What right do you have to declare my statutes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you have taken my covenant on your lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v50_17">17</span> since you hate instruction,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and throw my words behind you?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_18">18</span> When you saw a thief, you consented with him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have participated with adulterers.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_19">19</span> “You give your mouth to evil.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your tongue frames deceit.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_20">20</span> You sit and speak against your brother.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You slander your own mother’s son.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_21">21</span> You have done these things, and I kept silent.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You thought that I was just like you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_22">22</span> “Now consider this, you who forget God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v50_23">23</span> Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch51" data-chapter="51">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">51</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_1">1</span> Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_2">2</span> Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Cleanse me from my sin.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_3">3</span> For I know my transgressions.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My sin is constantly before me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_4">4</span> Against you, and you only, I have sinned,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and done that which is evil in your sight,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">so you may be proved right when you speak,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and justified when you judge.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_5">5</span> Behold, I was born in iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My mother conceived me in sin.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_6">6</span> Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_7">7</span> Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_8">8</span> Let me hear joy and gladness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_9">9</span> Hide your face from my sins,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and blot out all of my iniquities.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_10">10</span> Create in me a clean heart, O God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Renew a right spirit within me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_11">11</span> Don’t throw me from your presence,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_12">12</span> Restore to me the joy of your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Uphold me with a willing spirit.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_13">13</span> Then I will teach transgressors your ways.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sinners will be converted to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_14">14</span> Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_15">15</span> Lord, open my lips.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My mouth will declare your praise.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_16">16</span> For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have no pleasure in burnt offering.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_17">17</span> The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_18">18</span> Do well in your good pleasure to Zion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Build the walls of Jerusalem.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v51_19">19</span> Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Then they will offer bulls on your altar.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch52" data-chapter="52">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">52</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.”</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_1">1</span> Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God’s loving kindness endures continually.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_2">2</span> Your tongue plots destruction,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_3">3</span> You love evil more than good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">lying rather than speaking the truth.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_4">4</span> You love all devouring words,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you deceitful tongue.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_5">5</span> God will likewise destroy you forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and root you out of the land of the living.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_6">6</span> The righteous also will see it, and fear,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and laugh at him, saying,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_7">7</span> “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but trusted in the abundance of his riches,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_8">8</span> But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God’s house.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I trust in God’s loving kindness forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v52_9">9</span> I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will hope in your name, for it is good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the presence of your saints.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch53" data-chapter="53">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">53</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v53_1">1</span> The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no one who does good.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v53_2">2</span> God looks down from heaven on the children of men,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to see if there are any who understood,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who seek after God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v53_3">3</span> Every one of them has gone back.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have become filthy together.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no one who does good, no, not one.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v53_4">4</span> Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who eat up my people as they eat bread,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t call on God?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v53_5">5</span> There they were in great fear, where no fear was,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You have put them to shame,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because God has rejected them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v53_6">6</span> Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When God brings back his people from captivity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">then Jacob shall rejoice,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and Israel shall be glad.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch54" data-chapter="54">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">54</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Isn’t David hiding himself among us?”</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v54_1">1</span> Save me, God, by your name.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Vindicate me in your might.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v54_2">2</span> Hear my prayer, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Listen to the words of my mouth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v54_3">3</span> For strangers have risen up against me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Violent men have sought after my soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They haven’t set God before them.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v54_4">4</span> Behold, God is my helper.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v54_5">5</span> He will repay the evil to my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Destroy them in your truth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v54_6">6</span> With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will give thanks to your name, LORD, for it is good.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v54_7">7</span> For he has delivered me out of all trouble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch55" data-chapter="55">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">55</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_1">1</span> Listen to my prayer, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_2">2</span> Attend to me, and answer me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am restless in my complaint,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and moan <span class="v" id="v55_3">3</span> because of the voice of the enemy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of the oppression of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">For they bring suffering on me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In anger they hold a grudge against me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_4">4</span> My heart is severely pained within me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The terrors of death have fallen on me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_5">5</span> Fearfulness and trembling have come on me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Horror has overwhelmed me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_6">6</span> I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Then I would fly away, and be at rest.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_7">7</span> Behold, then I would wander far off.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I would lodge in the wilderness.”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_8">8</span> “I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_9">9</span> Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I have seen violence and strife in the city.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_10">10</span> Day and night they prowl around on its walls.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Malice and abuse are also within her.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_11">11</span> Destructive forces are within her.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Threats and lies don’t depart from her streets.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_12">12</span> For it was not an enemy who insulted me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">then I could have endured it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">then I would have hidden myself from him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_13">13</span> But it was you, a man like me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my companion, and my familiar friend.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_14">14</span> We took sweet fellowship together.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We walked in God’s house with company.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_15">15</span> Let death come suddenly on them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them go down alive into Sheol.<a class="noteref" id="fnref55_1" href="#fn55_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_16">16</span> As for me, I will call on God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD will save me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_17">17</span> Evening, morning, and at noon, I will cry out in distress.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will hear my voice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_18">18</span> He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">although there are many who oppose me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_19">19</span> God, who is enthroned forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">will hear and answer them.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">They never change</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t fear God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_20">20</span> He raises his hands against his friends.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has violated his covenant.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_21">21</span> His mouth was smooth as butter,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but his heart was war.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">His words were softer than oil,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yet they were drawn swords.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_22">22</span> Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will never allow the righteous to be moved.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v55_23">23</span> But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but I will trust in you.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn55_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref55_1">55:15</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch56" data-chapter="56">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">56</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Silent Dove in Distant Lands.” A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_1">1</span> Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_2">2</span> My enemies want to swallow me up all day long,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they are many who fight proudly against me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_3">3</span> When I am afraid,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will put my trust in you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_4">4</span> In God, I praise his word.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In God, I put my trust.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">I will not be afraid.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">What can flesh do to me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_5">5</span> All day long they twist my words.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All their thoughts are against me for evil.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_6">6</span> They conspire and lurk,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">watching my steps.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are eager to take my life.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_7">7</span> Shall they escape by iniquity?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In anger cast down the peoples, God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_8">8</span> You count my wanderings.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You put my tears into your container.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Aren’t they in your book?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_9">9</span> Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I know this: that God is for me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_10">10</span> In God, I will praise his word.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the LORD, I will praise his word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_11">11</span> I have put my trust in God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will not be afraid.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">What can man do to me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_12">12</span> Your vows are on me, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will give thank offerings to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v56_13">13</span> For you have delivered my soul from death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and prevented my feet from falling,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may walk before God in the light of the living.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch57" data-chapter="57">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">57</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_1">1</span> Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for my soul takes refuge in you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until disaster has passed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_2">2</span> I cry out to God Most High,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">to God who accomplishes my requests for me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_3">3</span> He will send from heaven, and save me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he rebukes the one who is pursuing me.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_4">4</span> My soul is among lions.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I lie among those who are set on fire,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their tongue a sharp sword.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_5">5</span> Be exalted, God, above the heavens!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your glory be above all the earth!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_6">6</span> They have prepared a net for my steps.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My soul is bowed down.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">They dig a pit before me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They fall into the middle of it themselves.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_7">7</span> My heart is steadfast, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart is steadfast.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_8">8</span> Wake up, my glory! Wake up, lute and harp!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will wake up the dawn.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_9">9</span> I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing praises to you among the nations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_10">10</span> For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your truth to the skies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v57_11">11</span> Be exalted, God, above the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your glory be over all the earth.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch58" data-chapter="58">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">58</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_1">1</span> Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_2">2</span> No, in your heart you plot injustice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You measure out the violence of your hands on the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_3">3</span> The wicked go astray from the womb.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_4">4</span> Their poison is like the poison of a snake,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v58_5">5</span> which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">no matter how skillful the charmer may be.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_6">6</span> Break their teeth, God, in their mouth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Break out the great teeth of the young lions, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_7">7</span> Let them vanish like water that flows away.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_8">8</span> Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_9">9</span> Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_10">10</span> The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v58_11">11</span> so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch59" data-chapter="59">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">59</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_1">1</span> Deliver me from my enemies, my God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Set me on high from those who rise up against me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_2">2</span> Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Save me from the bloodthirsty men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_3">3</span> For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The mighty gather themselves together against me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_4">4</span> I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Rise up, behold, and help me!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_5">5</span> You, LORD God of Armies, the God of Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">rouse yourself to punish the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_6">6</span> They return at evening, howling like dogs,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and prowl around the city.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_7">7</span> Behold, they spew with their mouth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Swords are in their lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“For”, they say, “who hears us?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_8">8</span> But you, LORD, laugh at them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You scoff at all the nations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_9">9</span> Oh, my Strength, I watch for you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for God is my high tower.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_10">10</span> My God will go before me with his loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_11">11</span> Don’t kill them, or my people may forget.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_12">12</span> For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">let them be caught in their pride,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the curses and lies which they utter.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_13">13</span> Consume them in wrath.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Consume them, and they will be no more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Let them know that God rules in Jacob,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to the ends of the earth.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_14">14</span> At evening let them return.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_15">15</span> They shall wander up and down for food,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_16">16</span> But I will sing of your strength.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">For you have been my high tower,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a refuge in the day of my distress.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v59_17">17</span> To you, my strength, I will sing praises.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch60" data-chapter="60">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">60</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A teaching poem by David, when he fought with Aram Naharaim and with Aram Zobah, and Joab returned, and killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_1">1</span> God, you have rejected us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have broken us down.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You have been angry.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Restore us, again.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_2">2</span> You have made the land tremble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have torn it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Mend its fractures,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it quakes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_3">3</span> You have shown your people hard things.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_4">4</span> You have given a banner to those who fear you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that it may be displayed because of the truth.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_5">5</span> So that your beloved may be delivered,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">save with your right hand, and answer us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_6">6</span> God has spoken from his sanctuary:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“I will triumph.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will divide Shechem,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and measure out the valley of Succoth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_7">7</span> Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Ephraim also is the defense of my head.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Judah is my scepter.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_8">8</span> Moab is my wash basin.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will throw my sandal on Edom.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I shout in triumph over Philistia.”</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_9">9</span> Who will bring me into the strong city?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who has led me to Edom?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_10">10</span> Haven’t you, God, rejected us?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You don’t go out with our armies, God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_11">11</span> Give us help against the adversary,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the help of man is vain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v60_12">12</span> Through God we will do valiantly,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch61" data-chapter="61">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">61</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. For a stringed instrument. By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v61_1">1</span> Hear my cry, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Listen to my prayer.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v61_2">2</span> From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v61_3">3</span> For you have been a refuge for me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a strong tower from the enemy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v61_4">4</span> I will dwell in your tent forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v61_5">5</span> For you, God, have heard my vows.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v61_6">6</span> You will prolong the king’s life.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His years will be for generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v61_7">7</span> He shall be enthroned in God’s presence forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v61_8">8</span> So I will sing praise to your name forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may fulfill my vows daily.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch62" data-chapter="62">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">62</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_1">1</span> My soul rests in God alone.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My salvation is from him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_2">2</span> He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will never be greatly shaken.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_3">3</span> How long will you assault a man?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Would all of you throw him down,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_4">4</span> They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They delight in lies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_5">5</span> My soul, wait in silence for God alone,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for my expectation is from him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_6">6</span> He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will not be shaken.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_7">7</span> My salvation and my honor is with God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_8">8</span> Trust in him at all times, you people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Pour out your heart before him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God is a refuge for us.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_9">9</span> Surely men of low degree are just a breath,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and men of high degree are a lie.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">In the balances they will go up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are together lighter than a breath.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_10">10</span> Don’t trust in oppression.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t become vain in robbery.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">If riches increase,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">don’t set your heart on them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_11">11</span> God has spoken once;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">twice I have heard this,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that power belongs to God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v62_12">12</span> Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you reward every man according to his work.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch63" data-chapter="63">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">63</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_1">1</span> God, you are my God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will earnestly seek you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">My soul thirsts for you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My flesh longs for you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_2">2</span> So I have seen you in the sanctuary,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">watching your power and your glory.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_3">3</span> Because your loving kindness is better than life,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my lips shall praise you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_4">4</span> So I will bless you while I live.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will lift up my hands in your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_5">5</span> My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v63_6">6</span> when I remember you on my bed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and think about you in the night watches.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_7">7</span> For you have been my help.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_8">8</span> My soul stays close to you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your right hand holds me up.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_9">9</span> But those who seek my soul to destroy it</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">shall go into the lower parts of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_10">10</span> They shall be given over to the power of the sword.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall be jackal food.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v63_11">11</span> But the king shall rejoice in God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Everyone who swears by him will praise him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch64" data-chapter="64">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">64</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_1">1</span> Hear my voice, God, in my complaint.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_2">2</span> Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_3">3</span> who sharpen their tongue like a sword,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and aim their arrows, deadly words,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v64_4">4</span> to shoot innocent men from ambushes.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_5">5</span> They encourage themselves in evil plans.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They talk about laying snares secretly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They say, “Who will see them?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_6">6</span> They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_7">7</span> But God will shoot at them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_8">8</span> Their own tongues shall ruin them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All who see them will shake their heads.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_9">9</span> All mankind shall be afraid.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall declare the work of God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and shall wisely ponder what he has done.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v64_10">10</span> The righteous shall be glad in the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and shall take refuge in him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the upright in heart shall praise him!</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch65" data-chapter="65">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">65</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_1">1</span> Praise waits for you, God, in Zion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Vows shall be performed to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_2">2</span> You who hear prayer,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all men will come to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_3">3</span> Sins overwhelmed me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but you atoned for our transgressions.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_4">4</span> Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that he may live in your courts.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We will be filled with the goodness of your house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your holy temple.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_5">5</span> By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God of our salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">of those who are far away on the sea.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_6">6</span> By your power, you form the mountains,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">having armed yourself with strength.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_7">7</span> You still the roaring of the seas,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the roaring of their waves,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the turmoil of the nations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_8">8</span> They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_9">9</span> You visit the earth, and water it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You greatly enrich it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">The river of God is full of water.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_10">10</span> You drench its furrows.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You level its ridges.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You soften it with showers.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You bless it with a crop.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_11">11</span> You crown the year with your bounty.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your carts overflow with abundance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_12">12</span> The wilderness grasslands overflow.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The hills are clothed with gladness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v65_13">13</span> The pastures are covered with flocks.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The valleys also are clothed with grain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">They shout for joy!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They also sing.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch66" data-chapter="66">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">66</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_1">1</span> Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v66_2">2</span> Sing to the glory of his name!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Offer glory and praise!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_3">3</span> Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_4">4</span> All the earth will worship you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will sing to you;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they will sing to your name.”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_5">5</span> Come, and see God’s deeds—</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">awesome work on behalf of the children of men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_6">6</span> He turned the sea into dry land.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They went through the river on foot.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There, we rejoiced in him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_7">7</span> He rules by his might forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His eyes watch the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_8">8</span> Praise our God, you peoples!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Make the sound of his praise heard,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_9">9</span> who preserves our life among the living,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_10">10</span> For you, God, have tested us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have refined us, as silver is refined.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_11">11</span> You brought us into prison.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You laid a burden on our backs.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_12">12</span> You allowed men to ride over our heads.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We went through fire and through water,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but you brought us to the place of abundance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_13">13</span> I will come into your temple with burnt offerings.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will pay my vows to you, <span class="v" id="v66_14">14</span> which my lips promised,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_15">15</span> I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with the offering of rams,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will offer bulls with goats.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_16">16</span> Come and hear, all you who fear God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will declare what he has done for my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_17">17</span> I cried to him with my mouth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He was extolled with my tongue.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_18">18</span> If I cherished sin in my heart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the Lord wouldn’t have listened.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_19">19</span> But most certainly, God has listened.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has heard the voice of my prayer.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v66_20">20</span> Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor his loving kindness from me.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch67" data-chapter="67">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">67</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v67_1">1</span> May God be merciful to us, bless us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and cause his face to shine on us.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v67_2">2</span> That your way may be known on earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your salvation among all nations,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v67_3">3</span> let the peoples praise you, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let all the peoples praise you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v67_4">4</span> Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you will judge the peoples with equity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and govern the nations on earth.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v67_5">5</span> Let the peoples praise you, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let all the peoples praise you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v67_6">6</span> The earth has yielded its increase.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God, even our own God, will bless us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v67_7">7</span> God will bless us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the ends of the earth shall fear him.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch68" data-chapter="68">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">68</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_1">1</span> Let God arise!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let his enemies be scattered!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them who hate him also flee before him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_2">2</span> As smoke is driven away,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so drive them away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">As wax melts before the fire,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_3">3</span> But let the righteous be glad.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them rejoice before God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_4">4</span> Sing to God! Sing praises to his name!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Extol him who rides on the clouds:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">to the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref68_1" href="#fn68_1"><sup>*</sup></a> his name!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Rejoice before him!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_5">5</span> A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">is God in his holy habitation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_6">6</span> God sets the lonely in families.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He brings out the prisoners with singing,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_7">7</span> God, when you went out before your people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when you marched through the wilderness...</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_8">8</span> The earth trembled.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai—</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">at the presence of God, the God of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_9">9</span> You, God, sent a plentiful rain.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_10">10</span> Your congregation lived therein.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_11">11</span> The Lord announced the word.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The ones who proclaim it are a great company.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_12">12</span> “Kings of armies flee! They flee!”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">She who waits at home divides the plunder,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v68_13">13</span> while you sleep among the camp fires,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">her feathers with shining gold.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_14">14</span> When the Almighty scattered kings in her,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">it snowed on Zalmon.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_15">15</span> The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The mountains of Bashan are rugged.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_16">16</span> Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">at the mountain where God chooses to reign?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, the LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref68_2" href="#fn68_2"><sup>†</sup></a> will dwell there forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_17">17</span> The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_18">18</span> You have ascended on high.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have led away captives.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You have received gifts among people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, among the rebellious also, that the LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref68_3" href="#fn68_3"><sup>‡</sup></a> God might dwell there.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_19">19</span> Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even the God who is our salvation.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_20">20</span> God is to us a God of deliverance.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">To GOD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref68_4" href="#fn68_4"><sup>§</sup></a> the Lord, belongs escape from death.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_21">21</span> But God will strike through the head of his enemies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_22">22</span> The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_23">23</span> that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_24">24</span> They have seen your processions, God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_25">25</span> The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">among the ladies playing with tambourines,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_26">26</span> “Bless God in the congregations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_27">27</span> There is little Benjamin, their ruler,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the princes of Judah, their council,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_28">28</span> Your God has commanded your strength.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_29">29</span> Because of your temple at Jerusalem,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">kings will bring presents to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_30">30</span> Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Trample under foot the bars of silver.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Scatter the nations who delight in war.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_31">31</span> Princes shall come out of Egypt.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_32">32</span> Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sing praises to the Lord—</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah—</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_33">33</span> to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_34">34</span> Ascribe strength to God!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His excellency is over Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his strength is in the skies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v68_35">35</span> You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise be to God!</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn68_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref68_1">68:4</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn68_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref68_2">68:16</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn68_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref68_3">68:18</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn68_4" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">§</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref68_4">68:20</a> <span class="ft">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch69" data-chapter="69">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">69</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Lilies.” By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_1">1</span> Save me, God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the waters have come up to my neck!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_2">2</span> I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_3">3</span> I am weary with my crying.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My throat is dry.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My eyes fail looking for my God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_4">4</span> Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have to restore what I didn’t take away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_5">5</span> God, you know my foolishness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My sins aren’t hidden from you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_6">6</span> Don’t let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Armies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_7">7</span> Because for your sake, I have borne reproach.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Shame has covered my face.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_8">8</span> I have become a stranger to my brothers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">an alien to my mother’s children.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_9">9</span> For the zeal of your house consumes me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_10">10</span> When I wept and I fasted,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that was to my reproach.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_11">11</span> When I made sackcloth my clothing,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I became a byword to them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_12">12</span> Those who sit in the gate talk about me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am the song of the drunkards.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_13">13</span> But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_14">14</span> Deliver me out of the mire, and don’t let me sink.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_15">15</span> Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither let the deep swallow me up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_16">16</span> Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_17">17</span> Don’t hide your face from your servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I am in distress.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Answer me speedily!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_18">18</span> Draw near to my soul and redeem it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Ransom me because of my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_19">19</span> You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My adversaries are all before you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_20">20</span> Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I looked for some to take pity, but there was none;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for comforters, but I found none.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_21">21</span> They also gave me poison for my food.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_22">22</span> Let their table before them become a snare.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">May it become a retribution and a trap.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_23">23</span> Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let their backs be continually bent.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_24">24</span> Pour out your indignation on them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_25">25</span> Let their habitation be desolate.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let no one dwell in their tents.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_26">26</span> For they persecute him whom you have wounded.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_27">27</span> Charge them with crime upon crime.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let them come into your righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_28">28</span> Let them be blotted out of the book of life,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and not be written with the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_29">29</span> But I am in pain and distress.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your salvation, God, protect me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_30">30</span> I will praise the name of God with a song,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will magnify him with thanksgiving.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_31">31</span> It will please the LORD better than an ox,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or a bull that has horns and hoofs.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_32">32</span> The humble have seen it, and are glad.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You who seek after God, let your heart live.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_33">33</span> For the LORD hears the needy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and doesn’t despise his captive people.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_34">34</span> Let heaven and earth praise him;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the seas, and everything that moves therein!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_35">35</span> For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall settle there, and own it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v69_36">36</span> The children also of his servants shall inherit it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who love his name shall dwell therein.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch70" data-chapter="70">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">70</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v70_1">1</span> Hurry, God, to deliver me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Come quickly to help me, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v70_2">2</span> Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v70_3">3</span> Let them be turned because of their shame</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who say, “Aha! Aha!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v70_4">4</span> Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let those who love your salvation continually say,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Let God be exalted!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v70_5">5</span> But I am poor and needy.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Come to me quickly, God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">You are my help and my deliverer.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, don’t delay.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch71" data-chapter="71">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">71</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_1">1</span> In you, LORD, I take refuge.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Never let me be disappointed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_2">2</span> Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Turn your ear to me, and save me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_3">3</span> Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give the command to save me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you are my rock and my fortress.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_4">4</span> Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_5">5</span> For you are my hope, Lord GOD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my confidence from my youth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_6">6</span> I have relied on you from the womb.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will always praise you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_7">7</span> I am a marvel to many,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but you are my strong refuge.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_8">8</span> My mouth shall be filled with your praise,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with your honor all day long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_9">9</span> Don’t reject me in my old age.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t forsake me when my strength fails.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_10">10</span> For my enemies talk about me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who watch for my soul conspire together,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v71_11">11</span> saying, “God has forsaken him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_12">12</span> God, don’t be far from me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My God, hurry to help me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_13">13</span> Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_14">14</span> But I will always hope,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will add to all of your praise.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_15">15</span> My mouth will tell about your righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and of your salvation all day,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">though I don’t know its full measure.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_16">16</span> I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord GOD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_17">17</span> God, you have taught me from my youth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_18">18</span> Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don’t forsake me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until I have declared your strength to the next generation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your might to everyone who is to come.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_19">19</span> God, your righteousness also reaches to the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have done great things.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">God, who is like you?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_20">20</span> You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you will let me live.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_21">21</span> Increase my honor</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and comfort me again.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_22">22</span> I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_23">23</span> My lips shall shout for joy!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v71_24">24</span> My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they are disappointed, and they are confounded,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who want to harm me.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch72" data-chapter="72">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">72</h2>
      <p class="d">By Solomon.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_1">1</span> God, give the king your justice;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your righteousness to the royal son.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_2">2</span> He will judge your people with righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your poor with justice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_3">3</span> The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_4">4</span> He will judge the poor of the people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will save the children of the needy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will break the oppressor in pieces.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_5">5</span> They shall fear you while the sun endures;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_6">6</span> He will come down like rain on the mown grass,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as showers that water the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_7">7</span> In his days, the righteous shall flourish,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_8">8</span> He shall have dominion also from sea to sea,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the River to the ends of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_9">9</span> Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His enemies shall lick the dust.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_10">10</span> The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_11">11</span> Yes, all kings shall fall down before him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All nations shall serve him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_12">12</span> For he will deliver the needy when he cries;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the poor, who has no helper.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_13">13</span> He will have pity on the poor and needy.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will save the souls of the needy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_14">14</span> He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their blood will be precious in his sight.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_15">15</span> He will live; and Sheba’s gold will be given to him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Men will pray for him continually.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will bless him all day long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_16">16</span> Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Its fruit sways like Lebanon.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_17">17</span> His name endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His name continues as long as the sun.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Men shall be blessed by him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All nations will call him blessed.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_18">18</span> Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who alone does marvelous deeds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v72_19">19</span> Blessed be his glorious name forever!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the whole earth be filled with his glory!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Amen and amen.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="p"><span class="v" id="v72_20">20</span> This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse.</p>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch73" data-chapter="73">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">73</h2>
      <h3 class="ms">BOOK 3</h3>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_1">1</span> Surely God<a class="noteref" id="fnref73_1" href="#fn73_1"><sup>*</sup></a> is good to Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to those who are pure in heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_2">2</span> But as for me, my feet were almost gone.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My steps had nearly slipped.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_3">3</span> For I was envious of the arrogant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_4">4</span> For there are no struggles in their death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but their strength is firm.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_5">5</span> They are free from burdens of men,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither are they plagued like other men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_6">6</span> Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Violence covers them like a garment.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_7">7</span> Their eyes bulge with fat.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their minds pass the limits of conceit.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_8">8</span> They scoff and speak with malice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In arrogance, they threaten oppression.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_9">9</span> They have set their mouth in the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their tongue walks through the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_10">10</span> Therefore their people return to them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and they drink up waters of abundance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_11">11</span> They say, “How does God know?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Is there knowledge in the Most High?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_12">12</span> Behold, these are the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Being always at ease, they increase in riches.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_13">13</span> Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and washed my hands in innocence,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_14">14</span> For all day long I have been plagued,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and punished every morning.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_15">15</span> If I had said, “I will speak thus”,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_16">16</span> When I tried to understand this,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">it was too painful for me—</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_17">17</span> until I entered God’s sanctuary,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and considered their latter end.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_18">18</span> Surely you set them in slippery places.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You throw them down to destruction.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_19">19</span> How they are suddenly destroyed!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are completely swept away with terrors.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_20">20</span> As a dream when one wakes up,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so, Lord,<a class="noteref" id="fnref73_2" href="#fn73_2"><sup>†</sup></a> when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_21">21</span> For my soul was grieved.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I was embittered in my heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_22">22</span> I was so senseless and ignorant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I was a brute beast before you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_23">23</span> Nevertheless, I am continually with you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have held my right hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_24">24</span> You will guide me with your counsel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and afterward receive me to glory.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_25">25</span> Whom do I have in heaven?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_26">26</span> My flesh and my heart fails,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_27">27</span> For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v73_28">28</span> But it is good for me to come close to God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have made the Lord GOD<a class="noteref" id="fnref73_3" href="#fn73_3"><sup>‡</sup></a> my refuge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may tell of all your works.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn73_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref73_1">73:1</a> <span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn73_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref73_2">73:20</a> <span class="ft">The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn73_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref73_3">73:28</a> <span class="ft">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch74" data-chapter="74">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">74</h2>
      <p class="d">A contemplation by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_1">1</span> God, why have you rejected us forever?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_2">2</span> Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Mount Zion, in which you have lived.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_3">3</span> Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_4">4</span> Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have set up their standards as signs.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_5">5</span> They behaved like men wielding axes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">cutting through a thicket of trees.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_6">6</span> Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v74_7">7</span> They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_8">8</span> They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_9">9</span> We see no miraculous signs.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no longer any prophet,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_10">10</span> How long, God, shall the adversary reproach?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_11">11</span> Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Take it from your chest and consume them!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_12">12</span> Yet God is my King of old,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">working salvation throughout the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_13">13</span> You divided the sea by your strength.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_14">14</span> You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_15">15</span> You opened up spring and stream.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You dried up mighty rivers.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_16">16</span> The day is yours, the night is also yours.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have prepared the light and the sun.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_17">17</span> You have set all the boundaries of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have made summer and winter.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_18">18</span> Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Foolish people have blasphemed your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_19">19</span> Don’t deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t forget the life of your poor forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_20">20</span> Honor your covenant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_21">21</span> Don’t let the oppressed return ashamed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the poor and needy praise your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_22">22</span> Arise, God! Plead your own cause.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v74_23">23</span> Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch75" data-chapter="75">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">75</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_1">1</span> We give thanks to you, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We give thanks, for your Name is near.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Men tell about your wondrous works.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_2">2</span> When I choose the appointed time,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will judge blamelessly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_3">3</span> The earth and all its inhabitants quake.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I firmly hold its pillars.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_4">4</span> I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_5">5</span> Don’t lift up your horn on high.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_6">6</span> For neither from the east, nor from the west,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_7">7</span> But God is the judge.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He puts down one, and lifts up another.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_8">8</span> For in the LORD’s hand there is a cup,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">full of foaming wine mixed with spices.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He pours it out.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_9">9</span> But I will declare this forever:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v75_10">10</span> I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch76" data-chapter="76">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">76</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_1">1</span> In Judah, God is known.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His name is great in Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_2">2</span> His tabernacle is also in Salem.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His dwelling place in Zion.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_3">3</span> There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_4">4</span> Glorious are you, and excellent,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">more than mountains of game.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_5">5</span> Valiant men lie plundered,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they have slept their last sleep.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">None of the men of war can lift their hands.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_6">6</span> At your rebuke, God of Jacob,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_7">7</span> You, even you, are to be feared.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_8">8</span> You pronounced judgment from heaven.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The earth feared, and was silent,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v76_9">9</span> when God arose to judgment,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_10">10</span> Surely the wrath of man praises you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The survivors of your wrath are restrained.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_11">11</span> Make vows to the LORD your God, and fulfill them!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v76_12">12</span> He will cut off the spirit of princes.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is feared by the kings of the earth.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch77" data-chapter="77">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">77</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_1">1</span> My cry goes to God!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Indeed, I cry to God for help,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and for him to listen to me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_2">2</span> In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My soul refused to be comforted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_3">3</span> I remember God, and I groan.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_4">4</span> You hold my eyelids open.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am so troubled that I can’t speak.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_5">5</span> I have considered the days of old,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the years of ancient times.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_6">6</span> I remember my song in the night.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I consider in my own heart;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my spirit diligently inquires:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_7">7</span> “Will the Lord reject us forever?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will he be favorable no more?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_8">8</span> Has his loving kindness vanished forever?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Does his promise fail for generations?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_9">9</span> Has God forgotten to be gracious?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_10">10</span> Then I thought, “I will appeal to this:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the years of the right hand of the Most High.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_11">11</span> I will remember the LORD’s deeds;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I will remember your wonders of old.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_12">12</span> I will also meditate on all your work,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and consider your doings.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_13">13</span> Your way, God, is in the sanctuary.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">What god is great like God?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_14">14</span> You are the God who does wonders.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have made your strength known among the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_15">15</span> You have redeemed your people with your arm,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the sons of Jacob and Joseph.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_16">16</span> The waters saw you, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The waters saw you, and they writhed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The depths also convulsed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_17">17</span> The clouds poured out water.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The skies resounded with thunder.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your arrows also flashed around.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_18">18</span> The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The lightnings lit up the world.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The earth trembled and shook.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_19">19</span> Your way was through the sea,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your paths through the great waters.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your footsteps were not known.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v77_20">20</span> You led your people like a flock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">by the hand of Moses and Aaron.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch78" data-chapter="78">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">78</h2>
      <p class="d">A contemplation by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_1">1</span> Hear my teaching, my people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_2">2</span> I will open my mouth in a parable.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will utter dark sayings of old,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_3">3</span> which we have heard and known,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and our fathers have told us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_4">4</span> We will not hide them from their children,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_5">5</span> For he established a covenant in Jacob,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and appointed a teaching in Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which he commanded our fathers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they should make them known to their children;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_6">6</span> that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who should arise and tell their children,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_7">7</span> that they might set their hope in God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and not forget God’s deeds,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but keep his commandments,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_8">8</span> and might not be as their fathers—</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a stubborn and rebellious generation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whose spirit was not steadfast with God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_9">9</span> The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">turned back in the day of battle.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_10">10</span> They didn’t keep God’s covenant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and refused to walk in his law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_11">11</span> They forgot his doings,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_12">12</span> He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_13">13</span> He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He made the waters stand as a heap.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_14">14</span> In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and all night with a light of fire.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_15">15</span> He split rocks in the wilderness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_16">16</span> He brought streams also out of the rock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and caused waters to run down like rivers.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_17">17</span> Yet they still went on to sin against him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to rebel against the Most High in the desert.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_18">18</span> They tempted God in their heart</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">by asking food according to their desire.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_19">19</span> Yes, they spoke against God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_20">20</span> Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and streams overflowed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Can he give bread also?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will he provide meat for his people?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_21">21</span> Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">A fire was kindled against Jacob,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">anger also went up against Israel,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_22">22</span> because they didn’t believe in God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and didn’t trust in his salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_23">23</span> Yet he commanded the skies above,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and opened the doors of heaven.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_24">24</span> He rained down manna on them to eat,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and gave them food from the sky.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_25">25</span> Man ate the bread of angels.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He sent them food to the full.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_26">26</span> He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">By his power he guided the south wind.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_27">27</span> He also rained meat on them as the dust,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">winged birds as the sand of the seas.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_28">28</span> He let them fall in the middle of their camp,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">around their habitations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_29">29</span> So they ate, and were well filled.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He gave them their own desire.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_30">30</span> They didn’t turn from their cravings.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their food was yet in their mouths,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v78_31">31</span> when the anger of God went up against them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">killed some of their strongest,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and struck down the young men of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_32">32</span> For all this they still sinned,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_33">33</span> Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their years in terror.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_34">34</span> When he killed them, then they inquired after him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They returned and sought God earnestly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_35">35</span> They remembered that God was their rock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the Most High God, their redeemer.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_36">36</span> But they flattered him with their mouth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and lied to him with their tongue.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_37">37</span> For their heart was not right with him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither were they faithful in his covenant.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_38">38</span> But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, many times he turned his anger away,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and didn’t stir up all his wrath.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_39">39</span> He remembered that they were but flesh,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_40">40</span> How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and grieved him in the desert!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_41">41</span> They turned again and tempted God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and provoked the Holy One of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_42">42</span> They didn’t remember his hand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_43">43</span> how he set his signs in Egypt,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his wonders in the field of Zoan,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_44">44</span> he turned their rivers into blood,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their streams, so that they could not drink.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_45">45</span> He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and frogs, which destroyed them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_46">46</span> He also gave their increase to the caterpillar,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their labor to the locust.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_47">47</span> He destroyed their vines with hail,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">their sycamore fig trees with frost.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_48">48</span> He also gave over their livestock to the hail,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_49">49</span> He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">wrath, indignation, and trouble,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and a band of angels of evil.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_50">50</span> He made a path for his anger.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He didn’t spare their soul from death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but gave their life over to the pestilence,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_51">51</span> and struck all the firstborn in Egypt,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_52">52</span> But he led out his own people like sheep,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_53">53</span> He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_54">54</span> He brought them to the border of his sanctuary,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_55">55</span> He also drove out the nations before them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">allotted them for an inheritance by line,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_56">56</span> Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and didn’t keep his testimonies,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_57">57</span> but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They were twisted like a deceitful bow.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_58">58</span> For they provoked him to anger with their high places,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_59">59</span> When God heard this, he was angry,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and greatly abhorred Israel,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_60">60</span> so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the tent which he placed among men,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_61">61</span> and delivered his strength into captivity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his glory into the adversary’s hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_62">62</span> He also gave his people over to the sword,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and was angry with his inheritance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_63">63</span> Fire devoured their young men.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their virgins had no wedding song.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_64">64</span> Their priests fell by the sword,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their widows couldn’t weep.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_65">65</span> Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_66">66</span> He struck his adversaries backward.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He put them to a perpetual reproach.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_67">67</span> Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_68">68</span> But chose the tribe of Judah,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Mount Zion which he loved.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_69">69</span> He built his sanctuary like the heights,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like the earth which he has established forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_70">70</span> He also chose David his servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and took him from the sheepfolds;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_71">71</span> from following the ewes that have their young,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and Israel, his inheritance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v78_72">72</span> So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch79" data-chapter="79">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">79</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_1">1</span> God, the nations have come into your inheritance.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have defiled your holy temple.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_2">2</span> They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_3">3</span> They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There was no one to bury them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_4">4</span> We have become a reproach to our neighbors,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_5">5</span> How long, LORD?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will you be angry forever?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will your jealousy burn like fire?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_6">6</span> Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_7">7</span> for they have devoured Jacob,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and destroyed his homeland.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_8">8</span> Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your tender mercies speedily meet us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for we are in desperate need.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_9">9</span> Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_10">10</span> Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_11">11</span> Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_12">12</span> Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v79_13">13</span> So we, your people and sheep of your pasture,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">will give you thanks forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We will praise you forever, to all generations.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch80" data-chapter="80">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">80</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_1">1</span> Hear us, Shepherd of Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you who lead Joseph like a flock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you who sit above the cherubim, shine out.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_2">2</span> Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your might!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Come to save us!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_3">3</span> Turn us again, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Cause your face to shine,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and we will be saved.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_4">4</span> LORD God of Armies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_5">5</span> You have fed them with the bread of tears,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and given them tears to drink in large measure.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_6">6</span> You make us a source of contention to our neighbors.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our enemies laugh among themselves.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_7">7</span> Turn us again, God of Armies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Cause your face to shine,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and we will be saved.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_8">8</span> You brought a vine out of Egypt.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You drove out the nations, and planted it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_9">9</span> You cleared the ground for it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It took deep root, and filled the land.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_10">10</span> The mountains were covered with its shadow.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Its boughs were like God’s cedars.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_11">11</span> It sent out its branches to the sea,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">its shoots to the River.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_12">12</span> Why have you broken down its walls,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_13">13</span> The boar out of the wood ravages it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The wild animals of the field feed on it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_14">14</span> Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_15">15</span> the stock which your right hand planted,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the branch that you made strong for yourself.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_16">16</span> It’s burned with fire.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It’s cut down.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They perish at your rebuke.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_17">17</span> Let your hand be on the man of your right hand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_18">18</span> So we will not turn away from you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive us, and we will call on your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v80_19">19</span> Turn us again, LORD God of Armies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch81" data-chapter="81">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">81</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_1">1</span> Sing aloud to God, our strength!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_2">2</span> Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the pleasant lyre with the harp.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_3">3</span> Blow the trumpet at the New Moon,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">at the full moon, on our feast day.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_4">4</span> For it is a statute for Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">an ordinance of the God of Jacob.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_5">5</span> He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when he went out over the land of Egypt,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I heard a language that I didn’t know.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_6">6</span> “I removed his shoulder from the burden.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His hands were freed from the basket.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_7">7</span> You called in trouble, and I delivered you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I answered you in the secret place of thunder.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_8">8</span> “Hear, my people, and I will testify to you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Israel, if you would listen to me!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_9">9</span> There shall be no strange god in you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither shall you worship any foreign god.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_10">10</span> I am the LORD, your God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_11">11</span> But my people didn’t listen to my voice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Israel desired none of me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_12">12</span> So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they might walk in their own counsels.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_13">13</span> Oh that my people would listen to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that Israel would walk in my ways!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_14">14</span> I would soon subdue their enemies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and turn my hand against their adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_15">15</span> The haters of the LORD would cringe before him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their punishment would last forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v81_16">16</span> But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch82" data-chapter="82">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">82</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v82_1">1</span> God presides in the great assembly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He judges among the gods.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v82_2">2</span> “How long will you judge unjustly,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and show partiality to the wicked?”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v82_3">3</span> “Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v82_4">4</span> Rescue the weak and needy.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v82_5">5</span> They don’t know, neither do they understand.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They walk back and forth in darkness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the foundations of the earth are shaken.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v82_6">6</span> I said, “You are gods,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all of you are sons of the Most High.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v82_7">7</span> Nevertheless you shall die like men,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and fall like one of the rulers.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v82_8">8</span> Arise, God, judge the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you inherit all of the nations.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch83" data-chapter="83">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">83</h2>
      <p class="d">A song. A Psalm by Asaph.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_1">1</span> God, don’t keep silent.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t keep silent,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t be still, God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_2">2</span> For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_3">3</span> They conspire with cunning against your people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They plot against your cherished ones.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_4">4</span> “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_5">5</span> For they have conspired together with one mind.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They form an alliance against you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_6">6</span> The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Moab, and the Hagrites;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_7">7</span> Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_8">8</span> Assyria also is joined with them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have helped the children of Lot.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_9">9</span> Do to them as you did to Midian,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_10">10</span> who perished at Endor,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who became as dung for the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_11">11</span> Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v83_12">12</span> who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_13">13</span> My God, make them like tumbleweed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like chaff before the wind.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_14">14</span> As the fire that burns the forest,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v83_15">15</span> so pursue them with your tempest,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and terrify them with your storm.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_16">16</span> Fill their faces with confusion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they may seek your name, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_17">17</span> Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, let them be confounded and perish;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v83_18">18</span> that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref83_1" href="#fn83_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">are the Most High over all the earth.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn83_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref83_1">83:18</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch84" data-chapter="84">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">84</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_1">1</span> How lovely are your dwellings,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD of Armies!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_2">2</span> My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_3">3</span> Yes, the sparrow has found a home,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">near your altars, LORD of Armies, my King, and my God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_4">4</span> Blessed are those who dwell in your house.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are always praising you.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_5">5</span> Blessed are those whose strength is in you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_6">6</span> Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_7">7</span> They go from strength to strength.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Every one of them appears before God in Zion.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_8">8</span> LORD, God of Armies, hear my prayer.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Listen, God of Jacob.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_9">9</span> Behold, God our shield,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">look at the face of your anointed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_10">10</span> For a day in your courts is better than a thousand.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_11">11</span> For the LORD God is a sun and a shield.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD will give grace and glory.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v84_12">12</span> LORD of Armies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">blessed is the man who trusts in you.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch85" data-chapter="85">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">85</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_1">1</span> LORD, you have been favorable to your land.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_2">2</span> You have forgiven the iniquity of your people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have covered all their sin.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_3">3</span> You have taken away all your wrath.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_4">4</span> Turn us, God of our salvation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and cause your indignation toward us to cease.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_5">5</span> Will you be angry with us forever?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will you draw out your anger to all generations?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_6">6</span> Won’t you revive us again,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that your people may rejoice in you?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_7">7</span> Show us your loving kindness, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Grant us your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_8">8</span> I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he will speak peace to his people, his saints;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but let them not turn again to folly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_9">9</span> Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that glory may dwell in our land.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_10">10</span> Mercy and truth meet together.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_11">11</span> Truth springs out of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Righteousness has looked down from heaven.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_12">12</span> Yes, the LORD will give that which is good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our land will yield its increase.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v85_13">13</span> Righteousness goes before him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and prepares the way for his steps.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch86" data-chapter="86">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">86</h2>
      <p class="d">A Prayer by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_1">1</span> Hear, LORD, and answer me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I am poor and needy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_2">2</span> Preserve my soul, for I am godly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You, my God, save your servant who trusts in you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_3">3</span> Be merciful to me, Lord,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I call to you all day long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_4">4</span> Bring joy to the soul of your servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_5">5</span> For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_6">6</span> Hear, LORD, my prayer.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Listen to the voice of my petitions.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_7">7</span> In the day of my trouble I will call on you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you will answer me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_8">8</span> There is no one like you among the gods, Lord,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor any deeds like your deeds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_9">9</span> All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They shall glorify your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_10">10</span> For you are great, and do wondrous things.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are God alone.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_11">11</span> Teach me your way, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will walk in your truth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Make my heart undivided to fear your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_12">12</span> I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will glorify your name forever more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_13">13</span> For your loving kindness is great toward me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.<a class="noteref" id="fnref86_1" href="#fn86_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_14">14</span> God, the proud have risen up against me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">A company of violent men have sought after my soul,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and they don’t hold regard for you before them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_15">15</span> But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_16">16</span> Turn to me, and have mercy on me!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give your strength to your servant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Save the son of your servant.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v86_17">17</span> Show me a sign of your goodness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because you, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn86_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref86_1">86:13</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch87" data-chapter="87">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">87</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v87_1">1</span> His foundation is in the holy mountains.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v87_2">2</span> The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v87_3">3</span> Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v87_4">4</span> I will record Rahab<a class="noteref" id="fnref87_1" href="#fn87_1"><sup>*</sup></a> and Babylon among those who acknowledge me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“This one was born there.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v87_5">5</span> Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her;”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the Most High himself will establish her.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v87_6">6</span> The LORD will count, when he writes up the peoples,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“This one was born there.”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v87_7">7</span> Those who sing as well as those who dance say,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“All my springs are in you.”</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn87_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref87_1">87:4</a> <span class="ft">Rahab is a reference to Egypt.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch88" data-chapter="88">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">88</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Suffering of Affliction.” A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_1">1</span> LORD, the God of my salvation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have cried day and night before you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_2">2</span> Let my prayer enter into your presence.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Turn your ear to my cry.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_3">3</span> For my soul is full of troubles.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My life draws near to Sheol.<a class="noteref" id="fnref88_1" href="#fn88_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_4">4</span> I am counted among those who go down into the pit.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am like a man who has no help,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v88_5">5</span> set apart among the dead,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like the slain who lie in the grave,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whom you remember no more.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are cut off from your hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_6">6</span> You have laid me in the lowest pit,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the darkest depths.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_7">7</span> Your wrath lies heavily on me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have afflicted me with all your waves.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_8">8</span> You have taken my friends from me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have made me an abomination to them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am confined, and I can’t escape.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_9">9</span> My eyes are dim from grief.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have called on you daily, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have spread out my hands to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_10">10</span> Do you show wonders to the dead?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Do the departed spirits rise up and praise you?</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_11">11</span> Is your loving kindness declared in the grave?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Or your faithfulness in Destruction?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_12">12</span> Are your wonders made known in the dark?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_13">13</span> But to you, LORD, I have cried.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the morning, my prayer comes before you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_14">14</span> LORD, why do you reject my soul?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Why do you hide your face from me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_15">15</span> I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_16">16</span> Your fierce wrath has gone over me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your terrors have cut me off.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_17">17</span> They came around me like water all day long.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They completely engulfed me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v88_18">18</span> You have put lover and friend far from me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my friends into darkness.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn88_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref88_1">88:3</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch89" data-chapter="89">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">89</h2>
      <p class="d">A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_1">1</span> I will sing of the loving kindness of the LORD forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">With my mouth, I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_2">2</span> I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You established the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your faithfulness is in them.”</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_3">3</span> “I have made a covenant with my chosen one,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have sworn to David, my servant,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_4">4</span> ‘I will establish your offspring forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and build up your throne to all generations.’ ”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_5">5</span> The heavens will praise your wonders, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_6">6</span> For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_7">7</span> a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to be feared above all those who are around him?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_8">8</span> LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref89_1" href="#fn89_1"><sup>*</sup></a> God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref89_2" href="#fn89_2"><sup>†</sup></a> your faithfulness is around you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_9">9</span> You rule the pride of the sea.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When its waves rise up, you calm them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_10">10</span> You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_11">11</span> The heavens are yours.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The earth also is yours,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the world and its fullness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have founded them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_12">12</span> You have created the north and the south.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_13">13</span> You have a mighty arm.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_14">14</span> Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Loving kindness and truth go before your face.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_15">15</span> Blessed are the people who learn to acclaim you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_16">16</span> In your name they rejoice all day.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In your righteousness, they are exalted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_17">17</span> For you are the glory of their strength.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In your favor, our horn will be exalted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_18">18</span> For our shield belongs to the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">our king to the Holy One of Israel.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_19">19</span> Then you spoke in vision to your saints,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and said, “I have given strength to the warrior.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have exalted a young man from the people.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_20">20</span> I have found David, my servant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have anointed him with my holy oil,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_21">21</span> with whom my hand shall be established.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My arm will also strengthen him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_22">22</span> No enemy will tax him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">No wicked man will oppress him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_23">23</span> I will beat down his adversaries before him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and strike those who hate him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_24">24</span> But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In my name, his horn will be exalted.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_25">25</span> I will set his hand also on the sea,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and his right hand on the rivers.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_26">26</span> He will call to me, ‘You are my Father,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my God, and the rock of my salvation!’</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_27">27</span> I will also appoint him my firstborn,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the highest of the kings of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_28">28</span> I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My covenant will stand firm with him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_29">29</span> I will also make his offspring endure forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and his throne as the days of heaven.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_30">30</span> If his children forsake my law,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t walk in my ordinances;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_31">31</span> if they break my statutes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t keep my commandments;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_32">32</span> then I will punish their sin with the rod,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their iniquity with stripes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_33">33</span> But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor allow my faithfulness to fail.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_34">34</span> I will not break my covenant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor alter what my lips have uttered.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_35">35</span> Once I have sworn by my holiness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will not lie to David.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_36">36</span> His offspring will endure forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his throne like the sun before me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_37">37</span> It will be established forever like the moon,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the faithful witness in the sky.”</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_38">38</span> But you have rejected and spurned.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have been angry with your anointed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_39">39</span> You have renounced the covenant of your servant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have defiled his crown in the dust.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_40">40</span> You have broken down all his hedges.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have brought his strongholds to ruin.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_41">41</span> All who pass by the way rob him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has become a reproach to his neighbors.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_42">42</span> You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have made all of his enemies rejoice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_43">43</span> Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and haven’t supported him in battle.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_44">44</span> You have ended his splendor,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and thrown his throne down to the ground.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_45">45</span> You have shortened the days of his youth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have covered him with shame.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_46">46</span> How long, LORD?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will you hide yourself forever?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Will your wrath burn like fire?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_47">47</span> Remember how short my time is,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for what vanity you have created all the children of men!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_48">48</span> What man is he who shall live and not see death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol?<a class="noteref" id="fnref89_3" href="#fn89_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_49">49</span> Lord, where are your former loving kindnesses,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which you swore to David in your faithfulness?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_50">50</span> Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_51">51</span> With which your enemies have mocked, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v89_52">52</span> Blessed be the LORD forever more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Amen, and Amen.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn89_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref89_1">89:8</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn89_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref89_2">89:8</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn89_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref89_3">89:48</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch90" data-chapter="90">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">90</h2>
      <h3 class="ms">BOOK 4</h3>
      <p class="d">A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.<a class="noteref" id="fnref90_1" href="#fn90_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_1">1</span> Lord,<a class="noteref" id="fnref90_2" href="#fn90_2"><sup>†</sup></a> you have been our dwelling place for all generations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v90_2">2</span> Before the mountains were born,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">before you had formed the earth and the world,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_3">3</span> You turn man to destruction, saying,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Return, you children of men.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_4">4</span> For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a watch in the night.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_5">5</span> You sweep them away as they sleep.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the morning they sprout like new grass.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_6">6</span> In the morning it sprouts and springs up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">By evening, it is withered and dry.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_7">7</span> For we are consumed in your anger.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We are troubled in your wrath.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_8">8</span> You have set our iniquities before you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">our secret sins in the light of your presence.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_9">9</span> For all our days have passed away in your wrath.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We bring our years to an end as a sigh.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_10">10</span> The days of our years are seventy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or even by reason of strength eighty years;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it passes quickly, and we fly away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_11">11</span> Who knows the power of your anger,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_12">12</span> So teach us to count our days,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that we may gain a heart of wisdom.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_13">13</span> Relent, LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref90_3" href="#fn90_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">How long?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Have compassion on your servants!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_14">14</span> Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_15">15</span> Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for as many years as we have seen evil.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_16">16</span> Let your work appear to your servants,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your glory to their children.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v90_17">17</span> Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Establish the work of our hands for us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, establish the work of our hands.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn90_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref90_1">^</a> <span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn90_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref90_2">90:1</a> <span class="ft">The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn90_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref90_3">90:13</a> <span class="ft">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch91" data-chapter="91">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">91</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_1">1</span> He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_2">2</span> I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my God, in whom I trust.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_3">3</span> For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and from the deadly pestilence.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_4">4</span> He will cover you with his feathers.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Under his wings you will take refuge.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_5">5</span> You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor of the arrow that flies by day,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v91_6">6</span> nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_7">7</span> A thousand may fall at your side,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and ten thousand at your right hand;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but it will not come near you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_8">8</span> You will only look with your eyes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and see the recompense of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_9">9</span> Because you have made the LORD your refuge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the Most High your dwelling place,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_10">10</span> no evil shall happen to you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_11">11</span> For he will put his angels in charge of you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to guard you in all your ways.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_12">12</span> They will bear you up in their hands,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_13">13</span> You will tread on the lion and cobra.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_14">14</span> “Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will set him on high, because he has known my name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_15">15</span> He will call on me, and I will answer him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will be with him in trouble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will deliver him, and honor him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v91_16">16</span> I will satisfy him with long life,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and show him my salvation.”</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch92" data-chapter="92">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">92</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_1">1</span> It is a good thing to give thanks to the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to sing praises to your name, Most High,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_2">2</span> to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your faithfulness every night,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_3">3</span> with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and with the melody of the lyre.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_4">4</span> For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will triumph in the works of your hands.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_5">5</span> How great are your works, LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your thoughts are very deep.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_6">6</span> A senseless man doesn’t know,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither does a fool understand this:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_7">7</span> though the wicked spring up as the grass,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and all the evildoers flourish,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they will be destroyed forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_8">8</span> But you, LORD, are on high forever more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_9">9</span> For behold, your enemies, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for behold, your enemies shall perish.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the evildoers will be scattered.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_10">10</span> But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am anointed with fresh oil.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_11">11</span> My eye has also seen my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_12">12</span> The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_13">13</span> They are planted in the LORD’s house.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will flourish in our God’s courts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v92_14">14</span> They will still produce fruit in old age.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will be full of sap and green,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v92_15">15</span> to show that the LORD is upright.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He is my rock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and there is no unrighteousness in him.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch93" data-chapter="93">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">93</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v93_1">1</span> The LORD reigns!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is clothed with majesty!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD is armed with strength.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">The world also is established.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It can’t be moved.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v93_2">2</span> Your throne is established from long ago.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are from everlasting.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v93_3">3</span> The floods have lifted up, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the floods have lifted up their voice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The floods lift up their waves.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v93_4">4</span> Above the voices of many waters,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the mighty breakers of the sea,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the LORD on high is mighty.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v93_5">5</span> Your statutes stand firm.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Holiness adorns your house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, forever more.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch94" data-chapter="94">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">94</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_1">1</span> LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref94_1" href="#fn94_1"><sup>*</sup></a> you God to whom vengeance belongs,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_2">2</span> Rise up, you judge of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Pay back the proud what they deserve.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_3">3</span> LORD, how long will the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">how long will the wicked triumph?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_4">4</span> They pour out arrogant words.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the evildoers boast.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_5">5</span> They break your people in pieces, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and afflict your heritage.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_6">6</span> They kill the widow and the alien,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and murder the fatherless.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_7">7</span> They say, “The LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref94_2" href="#fn94_2"><sup>†</sup></a> will not see,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither will Jacob’s God consider.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_8">8</span> Consider, you senseless among the people;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you fools, when will you be wise?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_9">9</span> He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He who formed the eye, won’t he see?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_10">10</span> He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He who teaches man knows.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_11">11</span> The LORD knows the thoughts of man,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they are futile.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_12">12</span> Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref94_3" href="#fn94_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and teach out of your law,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_13">13</span> that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until the pit is dug for the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_14">14</span> For the LORD won’t reject his people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither will he forsake his inheritance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_15">15</span> For judgment will return to righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the upright in heart shall follow it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_16">16</span> Who will rise up for me against the wicked?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_17">17</span> Unless the LORD had been my help,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my soul would have soon lived in silence.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_18">18</span> When I said, “My foot is slipping!”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_19">19</span> In the multitude of my thoughts within me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your comforts delight my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_20">20</span> Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which brings about mischief by statute?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_21">21</span> They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and condemn the innocent blood.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_22">22</span> But the LORD has been my high tower,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my God, the rock of my refuge.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v94_23">23</span> He has brought on them their own iniquity,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will cut them off in their own wickedness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD, our God, will cut them off.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn94_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref94_1">94:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn94_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref94_2">94:7</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn94_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref94_3">94:12</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch95" data-chapter="95">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">95</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_1">1</span> Oh come, let’s sing to the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let’s shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_2">2</span> Let’s come before his presence with thanksgiving.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let’s extol him with songs!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_3">3</span> For the LORD is a great God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a great King above all gods.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_4">4</span> In his hand are the deep places of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The heights of the mountains are also his.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_5">5</span> The sea is his, and he made it.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His hands formed the dry land.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_6">6</span> Oh come, let’s worship and bow down.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Maker,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v95_7">7</span> for he is our God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">We are the people of his pasture,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the sheep in his care.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Today, oh that you would hear his voice!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v95_8">8</span> Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_9">9</span> when your fathers tempted me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">tested me, and saw my work.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_10">10</span> Forty long years I was grieved with that generation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and said, “They are a people who err in their heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have not known my ways.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v95_11">11</span> Therefore I swore in my wrath,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“They won’t enter into my rest.”</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch96" data-chapter="96">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">96</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_1">1</span> Sing to the LORD a new song!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sing to the LORD, all the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_2">2</span> Sing to the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Bless his name!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Proclaim his salvation from day to day!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_3">3</span> Declare his glory among the nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his marvelous works among all the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_4">4</span> For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is to be feared above all gods.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_5">5</span> For all the gods of the peoples are idols,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the LORD made the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_6">6</span> Honor and majesty are before him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_7">7</span> Ascribe to the LORD, you families of nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_8">8</span> Ascribe to the LORD the glory due to his name.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Bring an offering, and come into his courts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_9">9</span> Worship the LORD in holy array.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Tremble before him, all the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_10">10</span> Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns.”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The world is also established.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It can’t be moved.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will judge the peoples with equity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v96_11">11</span> Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the sea roar, and its fullness!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v96_12">12</span> Let the field and all that is in it exult!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v96_13">13</span> before the LORD; for he comes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he comes to judge the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He will judge the world with righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the peoples with his truth.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch97" data-chapter="97">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">97</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_1">1</span> The LORD reigns!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the earth rejoice!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the multitude of islands be glad!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_2">2</span> Clouds and darkness are around him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_3">3</span> A fire goes before him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and burns up his adversaries on every side.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_4">4</span> His lightning lights up the world.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The earth sees, and trembles.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_5">5</span> The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_6">6</span> The heavens declare his righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the peoples have seen his glory.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_7">7</span> Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who boast in their idols.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Worship him, all you gods!<a class="noteref" id="fnref97_1" href="#fn97_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_8">8</span> Zion heard and was glad.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The daughters of Judah rejoiced</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of your judgments, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_9">9</span> For you, LORD, are most high above all the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are exalted far above all gods.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_10">10</span> You who love the LORD, hate evil!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He preserves the souls of his saints.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_11">11</span> Light is sown for the righteous,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and gladness for the upright in heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v97_12">12</span> Be glad in the LORD, you righteous people!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give thanks to his holy Name.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn97_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref97_1">97:7</a> <span class="ft">LXX reads “angels” instead of “gods”.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch98" data-chapter="98">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">98</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_1">1</span> Sing to the LORD a new song,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he has done marvelous things!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_2">2</span> The LORD has made known his salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_3">3</span> He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_4">4</span> Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_5">5</span> Sing praises to the LORD with the harp,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with the harp and the voice of melody.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_6">6</span> With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_7">7</span> Let the sea roar with its fullness;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the world, and those who dwell therein.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_8">8</span> Let the rivers clap their hands.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the mountains sing for joy together.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v98_9">9</span> Let them sing before the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he comes to judge the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He will judge the world with righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the peoples with equity.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch99" data-chapter="99">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">99</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_1">1</span> The LORD reigns! Let the peoples tremble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He sits enthroned among the cherubim.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the earth be moved.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_2">2</span> The LORD is great in Zion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is high above all the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_3">3</span> Let them praise your great and awesome name.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is Holy!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_4">4</span> The King’s strength also loves justice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You establish equity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You execute justice and righteousness in Jacob.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_5">5</span> Exalt the LORD our God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Worship at his footstool.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is Holy!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_6">6</span> Moses and Aaron were among his priests,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Samuel was among those who call on his name.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They called on the LORD, and he answered them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_7">7</span> He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They kept his testimonies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the statute that he gave them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_8">8</span> You answered them, LORD our God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are a God who forgave them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">although you took vengeance for their doings.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v99_9">9</span> Exalt the LORD, our God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Worship at his holy hill,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the LORD, our God, is holy!</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch100" data-chapter="100">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">100</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm of thanksgiving.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v100_1">1</span> Shout for joy to the LORD, all you lands!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v100_2">2</span> Serve the LORD with gladness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Come before his presence with singing.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v100_3">3</span> Know that the LORD, he is God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It is he who has made us, and we are his.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v100_4">4</span> Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and into his courts with praise.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give thanks to him, and bless his name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v100_5">5</span> For the LORD is good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His loving kindness endures forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his faithfulness to all generations.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch101" data-chapter="101">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">101</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v101_1">1</span> I will sing of loving kindness and justice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">To you, LORD, I will sing praises.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v101_2">2</span> I will be careful to live a blameless life.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When will you come to me?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v101_3">3</span> I will set no vile thing before my eyes.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I hate the deeds of faithless men.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will not cling to me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v101_4">4</span> A perverse heart will be far from me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will have nothing to do with evil.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v101_5">5</span> I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I won’t tolerate one who is arrogant and conceited.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v101_6">6</span> My eyes will be on the faithful of the land,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they may dwell with me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">He who walks in a perfect way,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he will serve me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v101_7">7</span> He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v101_8">8</span> Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the LORD’s city.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch102" data-chapter="102">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">102</h2>
      <p class="d">A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_1">1</span> Hear my prayer, LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref102_1" href="#fn102_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let my cry come to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_2">2</span> Don’t hide your face from me in the day of my distress.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Turn your ear to me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Answer me quickly in the day when I call.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_3">3</span> For my days consume away like smoke.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My bones are burned as a torch.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_4">4</span> My heart is blighted like grass, and withered,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I forget to eat my bread.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_5">5</span> By reason of the voice of my groaning,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my bones stick to my skin.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_6">6</span> I am like a pelican of the wilderness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have become as an owl of the waste places.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v102_7">7</span> I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_8">8</span> My enemies reproach me all day.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_9">9</span> For I have eaten ashes like bread,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and mixed my drink with tears,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v102_10">10</span> because of your indignation and your wrath;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you have taken me up and thrown me away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_11">11</span> My days are like a long shadow.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have withered like grass.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_12">12</span> But you, LORD, will remain forever;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your renown endures to all generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_13">13</span> You will arise and have mercy on Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it is time to have pity on her.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, the set time has come.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_14">14</span> For your servants take pleasure in her stones,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have pity on her dust.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_15">15</span> So the nations will fear the LORD’s name,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all the kings of the earth your glory.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_16">16</span> For the LORD has built up Zion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has appeared in his glory.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_17">17</span> He has responded to the prayer of the destitute,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and has not despised their prayer.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_18">18</span> This will be written for the generation to come.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">A people which will be created will praise the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref102_2" href="#fn102_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_19">19</span> for he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">From heaven, the LORD saw the earth,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_20">20</span> to hear the groans of the prisoner,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to free those who are condemned to death,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_21">21</span> that men may declare the LORD’s name in Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and his praise in Jerusalem,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_22">22</span> when the peoples are gathered together,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_23">23</span> He weakened my strength along the course.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He shortened my days.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_24">24</span> I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your years are throughout all generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_25">25</span> Of old, you laid the foundation of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The heavens are the work of your hands.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_26">26</span> They will perish, but you will endure.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_27">27</span> But you are the same.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your years will have no end.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v102_28">28</span> The children of your servants will continue.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their offspring will be established before you.”</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn102_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref102_1">102:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn102_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref102_2">102:18</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch103" data-chapter="103">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">103</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_1">1</span> Praise the LORD, my soul!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All that is within me, praise his holy name!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_2">2</span> Praise the LORD, my soul,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and don’t forget all his benefits,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_3">3</span> who forgives all your sins,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who heals all your diseases,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_4">4</span> who redeems your life from destruction,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_5">5</span> who satisfies your desire with good things,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_6">6</span> The LORD executes righteous acts,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and justice for all who are oppressed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_7">7</span> He made known his ways to Moses,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his deeds to the children of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_8">8</span> The LORD is merciful and gracious,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_9">9</span> He will not always accuse;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither will he stay angry forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_10">10</span> He has not dealt with us according to our sins,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor repaid us for our iniquities.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_11">11</span> For as the heavens are high above the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_12">12</span> As far as the east is from the west,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so far has he removed our transgressions from us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_13">13</span> Like a father has compassion on his children,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_14">14</span> For he knows how we are made.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He remembers that we are dust.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_15">15</span> As for man, his days are like grass.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_16">16</span> For the wind passes over it, and it is gone.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Its place remembers it no more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_17">17</span> But the LORD’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his righteousness to children’s children,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_18">18</span> to those who keep his covenant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to those who remember to obey his precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_19">19</span> The LORD has established his throne in the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His kingdom rules over all.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_20">20</span> Praise the LORD, you angels of his,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who are mighty in strength, who fulfill his word,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">obeying the voice of his word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_21">21</span> Praise the LORD, all you armies of his,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you servants of his, who do his pleasure.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v103_22">22</span> Praise the LORD, all you works of his,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in all places of his dominion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD, my soul!</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch104" data-chapter="104">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">104</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_1">1</span> Bless the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref104_1" href="#fn104_1"><sup>*</sup></a> my soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD, my God, you are very great.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are clothed with honor and majesty.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_2">2</span> He covers himself with light as with a garment.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_3">3</span> He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He makes the clouds his chariot.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He walks on the wings of the wind.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_4">4</span> He makes his messengers<a class="noteref" id="fnref104_2" href="#fn104_2"><sup>†</sup></a> winds,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and his servants flames of fire.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_5">5</span> He laid the foundations of the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that it should not be moved forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_6">6</span> You covered it with the deep as with a cloak.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The waters stood above the mountains.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_7">7</span> At your rebuke they fled.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_8">8</span> The mountains rose,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the valleys sank down,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to the place which you had assigned to them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_9">9</span> You have set a boundary that they may not pass over,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_10">10</span> He sends springs into the valleys.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They run among the mountains.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_11">11</span> They give drink to every animal of the field.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The wild donkeys quench their thirst.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_12">12</span> The birds of the sky nest by them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They sing among the branches.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_13">13</span> He waters the mountains from his rooms.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_14">14</span> He causes the grass to grow for the livestock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and plants for man to cultivate,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that he may produce food out of the earth:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_15">15</span> wine that makes the heart of man glad,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">oil to make his face to shine,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and bread that strengthens man’s heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_16">16</span> The LORD’s trees are well watered,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_17">17</span> where the birds make their nests.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The stork makes its home in the cypress trees.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_18">18</span> The high mountains are for the wild goats.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_19">19</span> He appointed the moon for seasons.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The sun knows when to set.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_20">20</span> You make darkness, and it is night,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in which all the animals of the forest prowl.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_21">21</span> The young lions roar after their prey,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and seek their food from God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_22">22</span> The sun rises, and they steal away,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and lie down in their dens.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_23">23</span> Man goes out to his work,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to his labor until the evening.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_24">24</span> LORD, how many are your works!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In wisdom, you have made them all.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The earth is full of your riches.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_25">25</span> There is the sea, great and wide,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in which are innumerable living things,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">both small and large animals.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_26">26</span> There the ships go,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and leviathan, whom you formed to play there.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_27">27</span> These all wait for you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you may give them their food in due season.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_28">28</span> You give to them; they gather.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_29">29</span> You hide your face; they are troubled.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_30">30</span> You send out your Spirit and they are created.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You renew the face of the ground.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_31">31</span> Let the LORD’s glory endure forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the LORD rejoice in his works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_32">32</span> He looks at the earth, and it trembles.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He touches the mountains, and they smoke.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_33">33</span> I will sing to the LORD as long as I live.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_34">34</span> Let my meditation be sweet to him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will rejoice in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v104_35">35</span> Let sinners be consumed out of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the wicked be no more.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Bless the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref104_3" href="#fn104_3"><sup>‡</sup></a> my soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref104_4" href="#fn104_4"><sup>§</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn104_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref104_1">104:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn104_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref104_2">104:4</a> <span class="ft">or, angels</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn104_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref104_3">104:35</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn104_4" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">§</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref104_4">104:35</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch105" data-chapter="105">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">105</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_1">1</span> Give thanks to the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref105_1" href="#fn105_1"><sup>*</sup></a> Call on his name!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Make his doings known among the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_2">2</span> Sing to him, sing praises to him!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Tell of all his marvelous works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_3">3</span> Glory in his holy name.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the heart of those who seek the LORD rejoice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_4">4</span> Seek the LORD and his strength.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Seek his face forever more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_5">5</span> Remember his marvelous works that he has done:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_6">6</span> you offspring of Abraham, his servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_7">7</span> He is the LORD, our God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His judgments are in all the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_8">8</span> He has remembered his covenant forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_9">9</span> the covenant which he made with Abraham,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his oath to Isaac,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_10">10</span> and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to Israel for an everlasting covenant,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_11">11</span> saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the lot of your inheritance,”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_12">12</span> when they were but a few men in number,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, very few, and foreigners in it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_13">13</span> They went about from nation to nation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from one kingdom to another people.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_14">14</span> He allowed no one to do them wrong.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_15">15</span> “Don’t touch my anointed ones!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Do my prophets no harm!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_16">16</span> He called for a famine on the land.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He destroyed the food supplies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_17">17</span> He sent a man before them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Joseph was sold for a slave.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_18">18</span> They bruised his feet with shackles.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His neck was locked in irons,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_19">19</span> until the time that his word happened,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the LORD’s word proved him true.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_20">20</span> The king sent and freed him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_21">21</span> He made him lord of his house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and ruler of all of his possessions,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_22">22</span> to discipline his princes at his pleasure,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and to teach his elders wisdom.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_23">23</span> Israel also came into Egypt.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Jacob lived in the land of Ham.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_24">24</span> He increased his people greatly,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and made them stronger than their adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_25">25</span> He turned their heart to hate his people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to conspire against his servants.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_26">26</span> He sent Moses, his servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and Aaron, whom he had chosen.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_27">27</span> They performed miracles among them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and wonders in the land of Ham.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_28">28</span> He sent darkness, and made it dark.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They didn’t rebel against his words.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_29">29</span> He turned their waters into blood,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and killed their fish.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_30">30</span> Their land swarmed with frogs,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even in the rooms of their kings.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_31">31</span> He spoke, and swarms of flies came,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and lice in all their borders.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_32">32</span> He gave them hail for rain,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with lightning in their land.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_33">33</span> He struck their vines and also their fig trees,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and shattered the trees of their country.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_34">34</span> He spoke, and the locusts came</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with the grasshoppers, without number.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_35">35</span> They ate up every plant in their land,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and ate up the fruit of their ground.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_36">36</span> He struck also all the firstborn in their land,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the first fruits of all their manhood.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_37">37</span> He brought them out with silver and gold.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There was not one feeble person among his tribes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_38">38</span> Egypt was glad when they departed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the fear of them had fallen on them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_39">39</span> He spread a cloud for a covering,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">fire to give light in the night.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_40">40</span> They asked, and he brought quails,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_41">41</span> He opened the rock, and waters gushed out.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They ran as a river in the dry places.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_42">42</span> For he remembered his holy word,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and Abraham, his servant.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_43">43</span> He brought his people out with joy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his chosen with singing.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_44">44</span> He gave them the lands of the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They took the labor of the peoples in possession,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v105_45">45</span> that they might keep his statutes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and observe his laws.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref105_2" href="#fn105_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn105_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref105_1">105:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn105_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref105_2">105:45</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch106" data-chapter="106">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">106</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref106_1" href="#fn106_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_2">2</span> Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or fully declare all his praise?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_3">3</span> Blessed are those who keep justice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Blessed is one who does what is right at all times.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_4">4</span> Remember me, LORD, with the favor that you show to your people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Visit me with your salvation,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_5">5</span> that I may see the prosperity of your chosen,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may rejoice in the gladness of your nation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may glory with your inheritance.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_6">6</span> We have sinned with our fathers.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We have committed iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We have done wickedly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_7">7</span> Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_8">8</span> Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that he might make his mighty power known.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_9">9</span> He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_10">10</span> He saved them from the hand of him who hated them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_11">11</span> The waters covered their adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There was not one of them left.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_12">12</span> Then they believed his words.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They sang his praise.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_13">13</span> They soon forgot his works.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They didn’t wait for his counsel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v106_14">14</span> but gave in to craving in the desert,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and tested God in the wasteland.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_15">15</span> He gave them their request,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but sent leanness into their soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_16">16</span> They envied Moses also in the camp,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and Aaron, the LORD’s saint.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_17">17</span> The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and covered the company of Abiram.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_18">18</span> A fire was kindled in their company.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The flame burned up the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_19">19</span> They made a calf in Horeb,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and worshiped a molten image.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_20">20</span> Thus they exchanged their glory</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for an image of a bull that eats grass.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_21">21</span> They forgot God, their Savior,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who had done great things in Egypt,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v106_22">22</span> wondrous works in the land of Ham,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and awesome things by the Red Sea.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_23">23</span> Therefore he said that he would destroy them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_24">24</span> Yes, they despised the pleasant land.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They didn’t believe his word,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v106_25">25</span> but murmured in their tents,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_26">26</span> Therefore he swore to them</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v106_27">27</span> that he would overthrow their offspring among the nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and scatter them in the lands.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_28">28</span> They joined themselves also to Baal Peor,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and ate the sacrifices of the dead.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_29">29</span> Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The plague broke in on them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_30">30</span> Then Phinehas stood up and executed judgment,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so the plague was stopped.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_31">31</span> That was credited to him for righteousness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for all generations to come.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_32">32</span> They angered him also at the waters of Meribah,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_33">33</span> because they were rebellious against his spirit,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he spoke rashly with his lips.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_34">34</span> They didn’t destroy the peoples,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as the LORD commanded them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v106_35">35</span> but mixed themselves with the nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and learned their works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_36">36</span> They served their idols,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which became a snare to them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_37">37</span> Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v106_38">38</span> They shed innocent blood,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The land was polluted with blood.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_39">39</span> Thus they were defiled with their works,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and prostituted themselves in their deeds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_40">40</span> Therefore the LORD burned with anger against his people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He abhorred his inheritance.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_41">41</span> He gave them into the hand of the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who hated them ruled over them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_42">42</span> Their enemies also oppressed them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They were brought into subjection under their hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_43">43</span> He rescued them many times,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but they were rebellious in their counsel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and were brought low in their iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_44">44</span> Nevertheless he regarded their distress,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when he heard their cry.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_45">45</span> He remembered for them his covenant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and repented according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_46">46</span> He made them also to be pitied</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">by all those who carried them captive.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_47">47</span> Save us, LORD, our God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">gather us from among the nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to give thanks to your holy name,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to triumph in your praise!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v106_48">48</span> Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from everlasting even to everlasting!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Let all the people say, “Amen.”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref106_2" href="#fn106_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn106_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref106_1">106:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn106_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref106_2">106:48</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch107" data-chapter="107">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">107</h2>
      <h3 class="ms">BOOK 5</h3>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_1">1</span> Give thanks to the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref107_1" href="#fn107_1"><sup>*</sup></a> for he is good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_2">2</span> Let the redeemed by the LORD say so,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v107_3">3</span> and gathered out of the lands,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the east and from the west,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the north and from the south.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_4">4</span> They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They found no city to live in.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_5">5</span> Hungry and thirsty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">their soul fainted in them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_6">6</span> Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he delivered them out of their distresses.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_7">7</span> He led them also by a straight way,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they might go to a city to live in.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_8">8</span> Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_9">9</span> For he satisfies the longing soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He fills the hungry soul with good.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_10">10</span> Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">being bound in affliction and iron,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v107_11">11</span> because they rebelled against the words of God,<a class="noteref" id="fnref107_2" href="#fn107_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and condemned the counsel of the Most High.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_12">12</span> Therefore he brought down their heart with labor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They fell down, and there was no one to help.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_13">13</span> Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he saved them out of their distresses.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_14">14</span> He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and broke away their chains.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_15">15</span> Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_16">16</span> For he has broken the gates of bronze,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and cut through bars of iron.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_17">17</span> Fools are afflicted because of their disobedience,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and because of their iniquities.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_18">18</span> Their soul abhors all kinds of food.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They draw near to the gates of death.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_19">19</span> Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he saves them out of their distresses.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_20">20</span> He sends his word, and heals them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and delivers them from their graves.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_21">21</span> Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_22">22</span> Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and declare his deeds with singing.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_23">23</span> Those who go down to the sea in ships,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who do business in great waters,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v107_24">24</span> these see the LORD’s deeds,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and his wonders in the deep.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_25">25</span> For he commands, and raises the stormy wind,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which lifts up its waves.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_26">26</span> They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their soul melts away because of trouble.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_27">27</span> They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and are at their wits’ end.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_28">28</span> Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and he brings them out of their distress.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_29">29</span> He makes the storm a calm,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that its waves are still.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_30">30</span> Then they are glad because it is calm,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so he brings them to their desired haven.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_31">31</span> Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_32">32</span> Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and praise him in the seat of the elders.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_33">33</span> He turns rivers into a desert,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">water springs into a thirsty ground,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v107_34">34</span> and a fruitful land into a salt waste,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_35">35</span> He turns a desert into a pool of water,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and a dry land into water springs.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_36">36</span> There he makes the hungry live,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that they may prepare a city to live in,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v107_37">37</span> sow fields, plant vineyards,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and reap the fruits of increase.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_38">38</span> He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_39">39</span> Again, they are diminished and bowed down</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_40">40</span> He pours contempt on princes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_41">41</span> Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and increases their families like a flock.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_42">42</span> The upright will see it, and be glad.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All the wicked will shut their mouths.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v107_43">43</span> Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn107_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref107_1">107:1</a> <span class="ft">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn107_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref107_2">107:11</a> <span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch108" data-chapter="108">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">108</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_1">1</span> My heart is steadfast, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing and I will make music with my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_2">2</span> Wake up, harp and lyre!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will wake up the dawn.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_3">3</span> I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing praises to you among the peoples.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_4">4</span> For your loving kindness is great above the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_5">5</span> Be exalted, God, above the heavens!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your glory be over all the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_6">6</span> That your beloved may be delivered,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">save with your right hand, and answer us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_7">7</span> God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_8">8</span> Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Ephraim also is my helmet.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Judah is my scepter.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_9">9</span> Moab is my wash pot.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will toss my sandal on Edom.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will shout over Philistia.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_10">10</span> Who will bring me into the fortified city?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who will lead me to Edom?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_11">11</span> Haven’t you rejected us, God?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You don’t go out, God, with our armies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_12">12</span> Give us help against the enemy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the help of man is vain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v108_13">13</span> Through God, we will do valiantly,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it is he who will tread down our enemies.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch109" data-chapter="109">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">109</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_1">1</span> God of my praise, don’t remain silent,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v109_2">2</span> for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_3">3</span> They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and fought against me without a cause.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_4">4</span> In return for my love, they are my adversaries;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but I am in prayer.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_5">5</span> They have rewarded me evil for good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and hatred for my love.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_6">6</span> Set a wicked man over him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let an adversary stand at his right hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_7">7</span> When he is judged, let him come out guilty.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let his prayer be turned into sin.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_8">8</span> Let his days be few.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let another take his office.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_9">9</span> Let his children be fatherless,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and his wife a widow.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_10">10</span> Let his children be wandering beggars.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them be sought from their ruins.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_11">11</span> Let the creditor seize all that he has.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_12">12</span> Let there be no one to extend kindness to him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_13">13</span> Let his posterity be cut off.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the generation following let their name be blotted out.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_14">14</span> Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered by the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let the sin of his mother be blotted out.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_15">15</span> Let them be before the LORD continually,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that he may cut off their memory from the earth;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_16">16</span> because he didn’t remember to show kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but persecuted the poor and needy man,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the broken in heart, to kill them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_17">17</span> Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_18">18</span> He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It came into his inward parts like water,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like oil into his bones.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_19">19</span> Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the belt that is always around him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_20">20</span> This is the reward of my adversaries from the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">of those who speak evil against my soul.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_21">21</span> But deal with me, GOD the Lord,<a class="noteref" id="fnref109_1" href="#fn109_1"><sup>*</sup></a> for your name’s sake,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v109_22">22</span> for I am poor and needy.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart is wounded within me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_23">23</span> I fade away like an evening shadow.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am shaken off like a locust.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_24">24</span> My knees are weak through fasting.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My body is thin and lacks fat.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_25">25</span> I have also become a reproach to them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When they see me, they shake their head.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_26">26</span> Help me, LORD, my God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Save me according to your loving kindness;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_27">27</span> that they may know that this is your hand;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you, LORD, have done it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_28">28</span> They may curse, but you bless.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When they arise, they will be shamed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but your servant shall rejoice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_29">29</span> Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_30">30</span> I will give great thanks to the LORD with my mouth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, I will praise him among the multitude.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v109_31">31</span> For he will stand at the right hand of the needy,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to save him from those who judge his soul.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn109_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref109_1">109:21</a> <span class="ft">The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch110" data-chapter="110">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">110</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v110_1">1</span> The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v110_2">2</span> The LORD will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Rule among your enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v110_3">3</span> Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v110_4">4</span> The LORD has sworn, and will not change his mind:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v110_5">5</span> The Lord is at your right hand.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v110_6">6</span> He will judge among the nations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will heap up dead bodies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v110_7">7</span> He will drink of the brook on the way;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore he will lift up his head.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch111" data-chapter="111">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">111</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref111_1" href="#fn111_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will give thanks to the LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref111_2" href="#fn111_2"><sup>†</sup></a> with my whole heart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the council of the upright, and in the congregation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_2">2</span> The LORD’s works are great,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">pondered by all those who delight in them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_3">3</span> His work is honor and majesty.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His righteousness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_4">4</span> He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD is gracious and merciful.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_5">5</span> He has given food to those who fear him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He always remembers his covenant.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_6">6</span> He has shown his people the power of his works,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in giving them the heritage of the nations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_7">7</span> The works of his hands are truth and justice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All his precepts are sure.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_8">8</span> They are established forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are done in truth and uprightness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_9">9</span> He has sent redemption to his people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has ordained his covenant forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His name is holy and awesome!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v111_10">10</span> The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All those who do his work have a good understanding.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">His praise endures forever!</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn111_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref111_1">111:1</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah. Psalm 111 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise the LORD!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn111_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref111_2">111:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch112" data-chapter="112">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">112</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref112_1" href="#fn112_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Blessed is the man who fears the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref112_2" href="#fn112_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who delights greatly in his commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_2">2</span> His offspring will be mighty in the land.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The generation of the upright will be blessed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_3">3</span> Wealth and riches are in his house.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His righteousness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_4">4</span> Light dawns in the darkness for the upright,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">gracious, merciful, and righteous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_5">5</span> It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will maintain his cause in judgment.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_6">6</span> For he will never be shaken.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The righteous will be remembered forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_7">7</span> He will not be afraid of evil news.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_8">8</span> His heart is established.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_9">9</span> He has dispersed, he has given to the poor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His righteousness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His horn will be exalted with honor.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v112_10">10</span> The wicked will see it, and be grieved.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The desire of the wicked will perish.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn112_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref112_1">112:1</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah. Psalm 112 is an acrostic poem, with each verse after the initial “Praise the LORD!” starting with a letter of the alphabet (ordered from Alef to Tav).</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn112_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref112_2">112:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch113" data-chapter="113">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">113</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v113_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref113_1" href="#fn113_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise, you servants of the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref113_2" href="#fn113_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">praise the LORD’s name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v113_2">2</span> Blessed be the LORD’s name,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from this time forward and forever more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v113_3">3</span> From the rising of the sun to its going down,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the LORD’s name is to be praised.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v113_4">4</span> The LORD is high above all nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his glory above the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v113_5">5</span> Who is like the LORD, our God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who has his seat on high,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v113_6">6</span> who stoops down to see in heaven and on the earth?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v113_7">7</span> He raises up the poor out of the dust,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v113_8">8</span> that he may set him with princes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even with the princes of his people.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v113_9">9</span> He settles the barren woman in her home</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as a joyful mother of children.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref113_3" href="#fn113_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn113_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref113_1">113:1</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn113_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref113_2">113:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה‎ Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn113_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref113_3">113:9</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch114" data-chapter="114">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">114</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v114_1">1</span> When Israel went out of Egypt,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v114_2">2</span> Judah became his sanctuary,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Israel his dominion.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v114_3">3</span> The sea saw it, and fled.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The Jordan was driven back.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v114_4">4</span> The mountains skipped like rams,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the little hills like lambs.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v114_5">5</span> What was it, you sea, that you fled?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You Jordan, that you turned back?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v114_6">6</span> You mountains, that you skipped like rams?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You little hills, like lambs?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v114_7">7</span> Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">at the presence of the God of Jacob,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v114_8">8</span> who turned the rock into a pool of water,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the flint into a spring of waters.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch115" data-chapter="115">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">115</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_1">1</span> Not to us, LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref115_1" href="#fn115_1"><sup>*</sup></a> not to us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but to your name give glory,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_2">2</span> Why should the nations say,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Where is their God, now?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_3">3</span> But our God is in the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He does whatever he pleases.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_4">4</span> Their idols are silver and gold,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the work of men’s hands.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_5">5</span> They have mouths, but they don’t speak.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have eyes, but they don’t see.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_6">6</span> They have ears, but they don’t hear.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have noses, but they don’t smell.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_7">7</span> They have hands, but they don’t feel.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have feet, but they don’t walk,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither do they speak through their throat.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_8">8</span> Those who make them will be like them;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, everyone who trusts in them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_9">9</span> Israel, trust in the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is their help and their shield.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_10">10</span> House of Aaron, trust in the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is their help and their shield.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_11">11</span> You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He is their help and their shield.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_12">12</span> The LORD remembers us. He will bless us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will bless the house of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will bless the house of Aaron.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_13">13</span> He will bless those who fear the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">both small and great.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_14">14</span> May the LORD increase you more and more,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you and your children.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_15">15</span> Blessed are you by the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who made heaven and earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_16">16</span> The heavens are the LORD’s heavens,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but he has given the earth to the children of men.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_17">17</span> The dead don’t praise the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref115_2" href="#fn115_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor any who go down into silence,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v115_18">18</span> but we will bless the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref115_3" href="#fn115_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from this time forward and forever more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref115_4" href="#fn115_4"><sup>§</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn115_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref115_1">115:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn115_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref115_2">115:17</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn115_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref115_3">115:18</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn115_4" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">§</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref115_4">115:18</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch116" data-chapter="116">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">116</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_1">1</span> I love the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref116_1" href="#fn116_1"><sup>*</sup></a> because he listens to my voice,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my cries for mercy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_2">2</span> Because he has turned his ear to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore I will call on him as long as I live.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_3">3</span> The cords of death surrounded me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the pains of Sheol<a class="noteref" id="fnref116_2" href="#fn116_2"><sup>†</sup></a> got a hold of me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I found trouble and sorrow.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_4">4</span> Then I called on the LORD’s name:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“LORD, I beg you, deliver my soul.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_5">5</span> The LORD is gracious and righteous.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, our God is merciful.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_6">6</span> The LORD preserves the simple.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I was brought low, and he saved me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_7">7</span> Return to your rest, my soul,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_8">8</span> For you have delivered my soul from death,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my eyes from tears,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my feet from falling.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_9">9</span> I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_10">10</span> I believed, therefore I said,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“I was greatly afflicted.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_11">11</span> I said in my haste,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“All people are liars.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_12">12</span> What will I give to the LORD for all his benefits toward me?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v116_13">13</span> I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the LORD’s name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_14">14</span> I will pay my vows to the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, in the presence of all his people.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_15">15</span> Precious in the LORD’s sight is the death of his saints.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_16">16</span> LORD, truly I am your servant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am your servant, the son of your servant girl.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have freed me from my chains.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_17">17</span> I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will call on the LORD’s name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_18">18</span> I will pay my vows to the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, in the presence of all his people,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v116_19">19</span> in the courts of the LORD’s house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the middle of you, Jerusalem.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref116_3" href="#fn116_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn116_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref116_1">116:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn116_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref116_2">116:3</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn116_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref116_3">116:19</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch117" data-chapter="117">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">117</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v117_1">1</span> Praise the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref117_1" href="#fn117_1"><sup>*</sup></a> all you nations!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Extol him, all you peoples!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v117_2">2</span> For his loving kindness is great toward us.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD’s faithfulness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref117_2" href="#fn117_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn117_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref117_1">117:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn117_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref117_2">117:2</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch118" data-chapter="118">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">118</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_1">1</span> Give thanks to the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref118_1" href="#fn118_1"><sup>*</sup></a> for he is good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_2">2</span> Let Israel now say</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_3">3</span> Let the house of Aaron now say</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_4">4</span> Now let those who fear the LORD say</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_5">5</span> Out of my distress, I called on the LORD.<a class="noteref" id="fnref118_2" href="#fn118_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref118_3" href="#fn118_3"><sup>‡</sup></a> answered me with freedom.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_6">6</span> The LORD is on my side. I will not be afraid.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">What can man do to me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_7">7</span> The LORD is on my side among those who help me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_8">8</span> It is better to take refuge in the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">than to put confidence in man.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_9">9</span> It is better to take refuge in the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">than to put confidence in princes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_10">10</span> All the nations surrounded me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but in the LORD’s name I cut them off.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_11">11</span> They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the LORD’s name I indeed cut them off.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_12">12</span> They surrounded me like bees.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are quenched like the burning thorns.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the LORD’s name I cut them off.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_13">13</span> You pushed me back hard, to make me fall,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the LORD helped me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_14">14</span> The LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref118_4" href="#fn118_4"><sup>§</sup></a> is my strength and song.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has become my salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_15">15</span> The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_16">16</span> The right hand of the LORD is exalted!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The right hand of the LORD does valiantly!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_17">17</span> I will not die, but live,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and declare the LORD’s works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_18">18</span> The LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref118_5" href="#fn118_5"><sup>*</sup></a> has punished me severely,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but he has not given me over to death.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_19">19</span> Open to me the gates of righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will enter into them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will give thanks to the LORD.<a class="noteref" id="fnref118_6" href="#fn118_6"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_20">20</span> This is the gate of the LORD;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the righteous will enter into it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_21">21</span> I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have become my salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_22">22</span> The stone which the builders rejected</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">has become the cornerstone.<a class="noteref" id="fnref118_7" href="#fn118_7"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_23">23</span> This is the LORD’s doing.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It is marvelous in our eyes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_24">24</span> This is the day that the LORD has made.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We will rejoice and be glad in it!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_25">25</span> Save us now, we beg you, LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, we beg you, send prosperity now.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_26">26</span> Blessed is he who comes in the LORD’s name!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We have blessed you out of the LORD’s house.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_27">27</span> The LORD is God, and he has given us light.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_28">28</span> You are my God, and I will give thanks to you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are my God, I will exalt you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v118_29">29</span> Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn118_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref118_1">118:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn118_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref118_2">118:5</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn118_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref118_3">118:5</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn118_4" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">§</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref118_4">118:14</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn118_5" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref118_5">118:18</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn118_6" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref118_6">118:19</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn118_7" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref118_7">118:22</a> <span class="ft">Literally, <span class="fqa">head of the corner</span></span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch119" data-chapter="119">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">119</h2>
      <p class="d">ALEPH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_1">1</span> Blessed are those whose ways are blameless,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who walk according to the LORD’s law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_2">2</span> Blessed are those who keep his statutes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who seek him with their whole heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_3">3</span> Yes, they do nothing wrong.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They walk in his ways.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_4">4</span> You have commanded your precepts,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that we should fully obey them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_5">5</span> Oh that my ways were steadfast</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to obey your statutes!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_6">6</span> Then I wouldn’t be disappointed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when I consider all of your commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_7">7</span> I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when I learn your righteous judgments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_8">8</span> I will observe your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t utterly forsake me.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">BETH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_9">9</span> How can a young man keep his way pure?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">By living according to your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_10">10</span> With my whole heart I have sought you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let me wander from your commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_11">11</span> I have hidden your word in my heart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I might not sin against you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_12">12</span> Blessed are you, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Teach me your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_13">13</span> With my lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_14">14</span> I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as much as in all riches.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_15">15</span> I will meditate on your precepts,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and consider your ways.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_16">16</span> I will delight myself in your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will not forget your word.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">GIMEL</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_17">17</span> Do good to your servant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will live and I will obey your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_18">18</span> Open my eyes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may see wondrous things out of your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_19">19</span> I am a stranger on the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t hide your commandments from me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_20">20</span> My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_21">21</span> You have rebuked the proud who are cursed,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who wander from your commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_22">22</span> Take reproach and contempt away from me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I have kept your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_23">23</span> Though princes sit and slander me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your servant will meditate on your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_24">24</span> Indeed your statutes are my delight,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my counselors.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">DALETH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_25">25</span> My soul is laid low in the dust.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive me according to your word!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_26">26</span> I declared my ways, and you answered me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Teach me your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_27">27</span> Let me understand the teaching of your precepts!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_28">28</span> My soul is weary with sorrow;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">strengthen me according to your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_29">29</span> Keep me from the way of deceit.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Grant me your law graciously!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_30">30</span> I have chosen the way of truth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have set your ordinances before me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_31">31</span> I cling to your statutes, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let me be disappointed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_32">32</span> I run in the path of your commandments,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you have set my heart free.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">HE</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_33">33</span> Teach me, LORD, the way of your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will keep them to the end.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_34">34</span> Give me understanding, and I will keep your law.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_35">35</span> Direct me in the path of your commandments,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I delight in them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_36">36</span> Turn my heart toward your statutes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">not toward selfish gain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_37">37</span> Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive me in your ways.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_38">38</span> Fulfill your promise to your servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you may be feared.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_39">39</span> Take away my disgrace that I dread,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your ordinances are good.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_40">40</span> Behold, I long for your precepts!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive me in your righteousness.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">VAV</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_41">41</span> Let your loving kindness also come to me, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your salvation, according to your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_42">42</span> So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I trust in your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_43">43</span> Don’t snatch the word of truth out of my mouth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I put my hope in your ordinances.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_44">44</span> So I will obey your law continually,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_45">45</span> I will walk in liberty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I have sought your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_46">46</span> I will also speak of your statutes before kings,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will not be disappointed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_47">47</span> I will delight myself in your commandments,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because I love them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_48">48</span> I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will meditate on your statutes.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">ZAYIN</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_49">49</span> Remember your word to your servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because you gave me hope.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_50">50</span> This is my comfort in my affliction,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your word has revived me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_51">51</span> The arrogant mock me excessively,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but I don’t swerve from your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_52">52</span> I remember your ordinances of old, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have comforted myself.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_53">53</span> Indignation has taken hold on me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of the wicked who forsake your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_54">54</span> Your statutes have been my songs</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the house where I live.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_55">55</span> I have remembered your name, LORD, in the night,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and I obey your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_56">56</span> This is my way,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I keep your precepts.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">HETH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_57">57</span> The LORD is my portion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I promised to obey your words.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_58">58</span> I sought your favor with my whole heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Be merciful to me according to your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_59">59</span> I considered my ways,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and turned my steps to your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_60">60</span> I will hurry, and not delay,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to obey your commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_61">61</span> The ropes of the wicked bind me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but I won’t forget your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_62">62</span> At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of your righteous ordinances.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_63">63</span> I am a friend of all those who fear you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">of those who observe your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_64">64</span> The earth is full of your loving kindness, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Teach me your statutes.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">TETH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_65">65</span> You have treated your servant well,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">according to your word, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_66">66</span> Teach me good judgment and knowledge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I believe in your commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_67">67</span> Before I was afflicted, I went astray;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but now I observe your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_68">68</span> You are good, and do good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Teach me your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_69">69</span> The proud have smeared a lie upon me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_70">70</span> Their heart is as callous as the fat,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but I delight in your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_71">71</span> It is good for me that I have been afflicted,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may learn your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_72">72</span> The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">YODH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_73">73</span> Your hands have made me and formed me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_74">74</span> Those who fear you will see me and be glad,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because I have put my hope in your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_75">75</span> LORD, I know that your judgments are righteous,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_76">76</span> Please let your loving kindness be for my comfort,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">according to your word to your servant.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_77">77</span> Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your law is my delight.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_78">78</span> Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will meditate on your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_79">79</span> Let those who fear you turn to me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will know your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_80">80</span> Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may not be disappointed.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">KAPF</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_81">81</span> My soul faints for your salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I hope in your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_82">82</span> My eyes fail for your word.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I say, “When will you comfort me?”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_83">83</span> For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I don’t forget your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_84">84</span> How many are the days of your servant?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_85">85</span> The proud have dug pits for me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">contrary to your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_86">86</span> All of your commandments are faithful.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They persecute me wrongfully.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Help me!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_87">87</span> They had almost wiped me from the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but I didn’t forsake your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_88">88</span> Preserve my life according to your loving kindness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so I will obey the statutes of your mouth.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">LAMEDH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_89">89</span> LORD, your word is settled in heaven forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_90">90</span> Your faithfulness is to all generations.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have established the earth, and it remains.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_91">91</span> Your laws remain to this day,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for all things serve you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_92">92</span> Unless your law had been my delight,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I would have perished in my affliction.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_93">93</span> I will never forget your precepts,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for with them, you have revived me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_94">94</span> I am yours.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Save me, for I have sought your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_95">95</span> The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will consider your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_96">96</span> I have seen a limit to all perfection,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but your commands are boundless.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">MEM</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_97">97</span> How I love your law!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It is my meditation all day.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_98">98</span> Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your commandments are always with me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_99">99</span> I have more understanding than all my teachers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your testimonies are my meditation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_100">100</span> I understand more than the aged,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because I have kept your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_101">101</span> I have kept my feet from every evil way,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I might observe your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_102">102</span> I have not turned away from your ordinances,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you have taught me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_103">103</span> How sweet are your promises to my taste,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">more than honey to my mouth!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_104">104</span> Through your precepts, I get understanding;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore I hate every false way.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">NUN</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_105">105</span> Your word is a lamp to my feet,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and a light for my path.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_106">106</span> I have sworn, and have confirmed it,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I will obey your righteous ordinances.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_107">107</span> I am afflicted very much.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive me, LORD, according to your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_108">108</span> Accept, I beg you, the willing offerings of my mouth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">LORD, teach me your ordinances.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_109">109</span> My soul is continually in my hand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yet I won’t forget your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_110">110</span> The wicked have laid a snare for me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_111">111</span> I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they are the joy of my heart.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_112">112</span> I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even to the end.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">SAMEKH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_113">113</span> I hate double-minded men,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but I love your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_114">114</span> You are my hiding place and my shield.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I hope in your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_115">115</span> Depart from me, you evildoers,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may keep the commandments of my God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_116">116</span> Uphold me according to your word, that I may live.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let me not be ashamed of my hope.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_117">117</span> Hold me up, and I will be safe,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will have respect for your statutes continually.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_118">118</span> You reject all those who stray from your statutes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for their deceit is in vain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_119">119</span> You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Therefore I love your testimonies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_120">120</span> My flesh trembles for fear of you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am afraid of your judgments.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">AYIN</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_121">121</span> I have done what is just and righteous.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t leave me to my oppressors.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_122">122</span> Ensure your servant’s well-being.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let the proud oppress me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_123">123</span> My eyes fail looking for your salvation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for your righteous word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_124">124</span> Deal with your servant according to your loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Teach me your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_125">125</span> I am your servant. Give me understanding,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may know your testimonies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_126">126</span> It is time to act, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they break your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_127">127</span> Therefore I love your commandments more than gold,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, more than pure gold.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_128">128</span> Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I hate every false way.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">PE</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_129">129</span> Your testimonies are wonderful,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore my soul keeps them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_130">130</span> The entrance of your words gives light.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It gives understanding to the simple.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_131">131</span> I opened my mouth wide and panted,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I longed for your commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_132">132</span> Turn to me, and have mercy on me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as you always do to those who love your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_133">133</span> Establish my footsteps in your word.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_134">134</span> Redeem me from the oppression of man,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so I will observe your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_135">135</span> Make your face shine on your servant.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Teach me your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_136">136</span> Streams of tears run down my eyes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because they don’t observe your law.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">TZADHE</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_137">137</span> You are righteous, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your judgments are upright.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_138">138</span> You have commanded your statutes in righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are fully trustworthy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_139">139</span> My zeal wears me out,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because my enemies ignore your words.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_140">140</span> Your promises have been thoroughly tested,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your servant loves them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_141">141</span> I am small and despised.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I don’t forget your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_142">142</span> Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your law is truth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_143">143</span> Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your commandments are my delight.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_144">144</span> Your testimonies are righteous forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give me understanding, that I may live.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">QOPH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_145">145</span> I have called with my whole heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Answer me, LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will keep your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_146">146</span> I have called to you. Save me!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will obey your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_147">147</span> I rise before dawn and cry for help.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I put my hope in your words.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_148">148</span> My eyes stay open through the night watches,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I might meditate on your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_149">149</span> Hear my voice according to your loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive me, LORD, according to your ordinances.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_150">150</span> They draw near who follow after wickedness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are far from your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_151">151</span> You are near, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All your commandments are truth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_152">152</span> Of old I have known from your testimonies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that you have founded them forever.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">RESH</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_153">153</span> Consider my affliction, and deliver me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I don’t forget your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_154">154</span> Plead my cause, and redeem me!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive me according to your promise.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_155">155</span> Salvation is far from the wicked,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they don’t seek your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_156">156</span> Great are your tender mercies, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive me according to your ordinances.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_157">157</span> Many are my persecutors and my adversaries.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_158">158</span> I look at the faithless with loathing,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because they don’t observe your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_159">159</span> Consider how I love your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Revive me, LORD, according to your loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_160">160</span> All of your words are truth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">SIN AND SHIN</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_161">161</span> Princes have persecuted me without a cause,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but my heart stands in awe of your words.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_162">162</span> I rejoice at your word,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as one who finds great plunder.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_163">163</span> I hate and abhor falsehood.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I love your law.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_164">164</span> Seven times a day, I praise you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of your righteous ordinances.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_165">165</span> Those who love your law have great peace.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Nothing causes them to stumble.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_166">166</span> I have hoped for your salvation, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have done your commandments.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_167">167</span> My soul has observed your testimonies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I love them exceedingly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_168">168</span> I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for all my ways are before you.</p>
      </div>
      <p class="d">TAV</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_169">169</span> Let my cry come before you, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Give me understanding according to your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_170">170</span> Let my supplication come before you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Deliver me according to your word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_171">171</span> Let my lips utter praise,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you teach me your statutes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_172">172</span> Let my tongue sing of your word,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for all your commandments are righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_173">173</span> Let your hand be ready to help me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I have chosen your precepts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_174">174</span> I have longed for your salvation, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your law is my delight.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_175">175</span> Let my soul live, that I may praise you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your ordinances help me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v119_176">176</span> I have gone astray like a lost sheep.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch120" data-chapter="120">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">120</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v120_1">1</span> In my distress, I cried to the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He answered me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v120_2">2</span> Deliver my soul, LORD, from lying lips,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from a deceitful tongue.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v120_3">3</span> What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you deceitful tongue?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v120_4">4</span> Sharp arrows of the mighty,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with coals of juniper.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v120_5">5</span> Woe is me, that I live in Meshech,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v120_6">6</span> My soul has had her dwelling too long</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with him who hates peace.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v120_7">7</span> I am for peace,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but when I speak, they are for war.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch121" data-chapter="121">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">121</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v121_1">1</span> I will lift up my eyes to the hills.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Where does my help come from?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v121_2">2</span> My help comes from the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who made heaven and earth.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v121_3">3</span> He will not allow your foot to be moved.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He who keeps you will not slumber.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v121_4">4</span> Behold, he who keeps Israel</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">will neither slumber nor sleep.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v121_5">5</span> The LORD is your keeper.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD is your shade on your right hand.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v121_6">6</span> The sun will not harm you by day,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor the moon by night.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v121_7">7</span> The LORD will keep you from all evil.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will keep your soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v121_8">8</span> The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from this time forward, and forever more.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch122" data-chapter="122">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">122</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents. By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v122_1">1</span> I was glad when they said to me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Let’s go to the LORD’s house!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v122_2">2</span> Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v122_3">3</span> Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v122_4">4</span> where the tribes go up, even the LORD’s tribes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">according to an ordinance for Israel,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to give thanks to the LORD’s name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v122_5">5</span> For there are set thrones for judgment,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the thrones of David’s house.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v122_6">6</span> Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who love you will prosper.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v122_7">7</span> Peace be within your walls,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and prosperity within your palaces.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v122_8">8</span> For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will now say, “Peace be within you.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v122_9">9</span> For the sake of the house of the LORD our God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will seek your good.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch123" data-chapter="123">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">123</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v123_1">1</span> I lift up my eyes to you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you who sit in the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v123_2">2</span> Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so our eyes look to the LORD, our God,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">until he has mercy on us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v123_3">3</span> Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for we have endured much contempt.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v123_4">4</span> Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with the contempt of the proud.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch124" data-chapter="124">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">124</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents. By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v124_1">1</span> If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">let Israel now say,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v124_2">2</span> if it had not been the LORD who was on our side,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when men rose up against us,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v124_3">3</span> then they would have swallowed us up alive,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when their wrath was kindled against us,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v124_4">4</span> then the waters would have overwhelmed us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the stream would have gone over our soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v124_5">5</span> Then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v124_6">6</span> Blessed be the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v124_7">7</span> Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The snare is broken, and we have escaped.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v124_8">8</span> Our help is in the LORD’s name,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who made heaven and earth.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch125" data-chapter="125">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">125</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v125_1">1</span> Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which can’t be moved, but remains forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v125_2">2</span> As the mountains surround Jerusalem,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so the LORD surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v125_3">3</span> For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v125_4">4</span> Do good, LORD, to those who are good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to those who are upright in their hearts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v125_5">5</span> But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Peace be on Israel.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch126" data-chapter="126">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">126</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v126_1">1</span> When the LORD brought back those who returned to Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">we were like those who dream.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v126_2">2</span> Then our mouth was filled with laughter,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and our tongue with singing.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Then they said among the nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“The LORD has done great things for them.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v126_3">3</span> The LORD has done great things for us,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and we are glad.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v126_4">4</span> Restore our fortunes again, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like the streams in the Negev.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v126_5">5</span> Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v126_6">6</span> He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch127" data-chapter="127">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">127</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v127_1">1</span> Unless the LORD builds the house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they who build it labor in vain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Unless the LORD watches over the city,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the watchman guards it in vain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v127_2">2</span> It is vain for you to rise up early,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to stay up late,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">eating the bread of toil,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he gives sleep to his loved ones.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v127_3">3</span> Behold, children are a heritage of the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The fruit of the womb is his reward.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v127_4">4</span> As arrows in the hand of a mighty man,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so are the children of youth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v127_5">5</span> Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch128" data-chapter="128">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">128</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v128_1">1</span> Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who walks in his ways.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v128_2">2</span> For you will eat the labor of your hands.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will be happy, and it will be well with you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v128_3">3</span> Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your children like olive shoots around your table.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v128_4">4</span> Behold, this is how the man who fears the LORD is blessed.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v128_5">5</span> May the LORD bless you out of Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v128_6">6</span> Yes, may you see your children’s children.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Peace be upon Israel.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch129" data-chapter="129">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">129</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v129_1">1</span> Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let Israel now say:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v129_2">2</span> many times they have afflicted me from my youth up,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yet they have not prevailed against me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v129_3">3</span> The plowers plowed on my back.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They made their furrows long.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v129_4">4</span> The LORD is righteous.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v129_5">5</span> Let them be disappointed and turned backward,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all those who hate Zion.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v129_6">6</span> Let them be as the grass on the housetops,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which withers before it grows up,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v129_7">7</span> with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v129_8">8</span> Neither do those who go by say,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“The blessing of the LORD be on you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We bless you in the LORD’s name.”</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch130" data-chapter="130">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">130</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v130_1">1</span> Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.<a class="noteref" id="fnref130_1" href="#fn130_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v130_2">2</span> Lord, hear my voice.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v130_3">3</span> If you, LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref130_2" href="#fn130_2"><sup>†</sup></a> kept a record of sins,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lord, who could stand?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v130_4">4</span> But there is forgiveness with you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore you are feared.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v130_5">5</span> I wait for the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My soul waits.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I hope in his word.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v130_6">6</span> My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">more than watchmen for the morning.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v130_7">7</span> Israel, hope in the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for there is loving kindness with the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Abundant redemption is with him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v130_8">8</span> He will redeem Israel from all their sins.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn130_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref130_1">130:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn130_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref130_2">130:3</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch131" data-chapter="131">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">131</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents. By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v131_1">1</span> LORD, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor do I concern myself with great matters,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or things too wonderful for me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v131_2">2</span> Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a weaned child with his mother,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like a weaned child is my soul within me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v131_3">3</span> Israel, hope in the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from this time forward and forever more.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch132" data-chapter="132">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">132</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_1">1</span> LORD, remember David and all his affliction,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_2">2</span> how he swore to the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_3">3</span> “Surely I will not come into the structure of my house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor go up into my bed;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_4">4</span> I will not give sleep to my eyes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">or slumber to my eyelids,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_5">5</span> until I find out a place for the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_6">6</span> Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We found it in the field of Jaar.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_7">7</span> “We will go into his dwelling place.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We will worship at his footstool.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_8">8</span> Arise, LORD, into your resting place,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you, and the ark of your strength.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_9">9</span> Let your priests be clothed with righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let your saints shout for joy!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_10">10</span> For your servant David’s sake,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">don’t turn away the face of your anointed one.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_11">11</span> The LORD has sworn to David in truth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will not turn from it:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_12">12</span> If your children will keep my covenant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my testimony that I will teach them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">their children also will sit on your throne forever more.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_13">13</span> For the LORD has chosen Zion.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has desired it for his habitation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_14">14</span> “This is my resting place forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will live here, for I have desired it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_15">15</span> I will abundantly bless her provision.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will satisfy her poor with bread.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_16">16</span> I will also clothe her priests with salvation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Her saints will shout aloud for joy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_17">17</span> I will make the horn of David to bud there.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v132_18">18</span> I will clothe his enemies with shame,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but on himself, his crown will shine.”</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch133" data-chapter="133">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">133</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents. By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v133_1">1</span> See how good and how pleasant it is</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for brothers to live together in unity!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v133_2">2</span> It is like the precious oil on the head,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that ran down on the beard,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even Aaron’s beard,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that came down on the edge of his robes,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v133_3">3</span> like the dew of Hermon,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that comes down on the hills of Zion;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for there the LORD gives the blessing,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even life forever more.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch134" data-chapter="134">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">134</h2>
      <p class="d">A Song of Ascents.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v134_1">1</span> Look! Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who stand by night in the LORD’s house!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v134_2">2</span> Lift up your hands in the sanctuary.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v134_3">3</span> May the LORD bless you from Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even he who made heaven and earth.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch135" data-chapter="135">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">135</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref135_1" href="#fn135_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD’s<a class="noteref" id="fnref135_2" href="#fn135_2"><sup>†</sup></a> name!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him, you servants of the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_2">2</span> you who stand in the LORD’s house,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the courts of our God’s house.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_3">3</span> Praise the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref135_3" href="#fn135_3"><sup>‡</sup></a> for the LORD is good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_4">4</span> For the LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref135_4" href="#fn135_4"><sup>§</sup></a> has chosen Jacob for himself,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Israel for his own possession.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_5">5</span> For I know that the LORD is great,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that our Lord is above all gods.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_6">6</span> Whatever the LORD pleased, that he has done,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_7">7</span> He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He makes lightnings with the rain.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He brings the wind out of his treasuries.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_8">8</span> He struck the firstborn of Egypt,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">both of man and animal.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_9">9</span> He sent signs and wonders into the middle of you, Egypt,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">on Pharaoh, and on all his servants.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_10">10</span> He struck many nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and killed mighty kings—</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_11">11</span> Sihon king of the Amorites,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Og king of Bashan,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and all the kingdoms of Canaan—</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_12">12</span> and gave their land for a heritage,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a heritage to Israel, his people.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_13">13</span> Your name, LORD, endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your renown, LORD, throughout all generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_14">14</span> For the LORD will judge his people</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have compassion on his servants.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_15">15</span> The idols of the nations are silver and gold,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the work of men’s hands.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_16">16</span> They have mouths, but they can’t speak.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have eyes, but they can’t see.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_17">17</span> They have ears, but they can’t hear,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither is there any breath in their mouths.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_18">18</span> Those who make them will be like them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yes, everyone who trusts in them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_19">19</span> House of Israel, praise the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">House of Aaron, praise the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_20">20</span> House of Levi, praise the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You who fear the LORD, praise the LORD!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v135_21">21</span> Blessed be the LORD from Zion,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who dwells in Jerusalem.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref135_5" href="#fn135_5"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn135_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref135_1">135:1</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn135_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref135_2">135:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn135_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref135_3">135:3</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn135_4" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">§</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref135_4">135:4</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn135_5" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref135_5">135:21</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch136" data-chapter="136">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">136</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_1">1</span> Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_2">2</span> Give thanks to the God of gods,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_3">3</span> Give thanks to the Lord of lords,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_4">4</span> to him who alone does great wonders,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_5">5</span> to him who by understanding made the heavens,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_6">6</span> to him who spread out the earth above the waters,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_7">7</span> to him who made the great lights,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_8">8</span> the sun to rule by day,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_9">9</span> the moon and stars to rule by night,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_10">10</span> to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_11">11</span> and brought out Israel from among them,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_12">12</span> with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_13">13</span> to him who divided the Red Sea apart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_14">14</span> and made Israel to pass through the middle of it,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_15">15</span> but overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Red Sea,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_16">16</span> to him who led his people through the wilderness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_17">17</span> to him who struck great kings,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_18">18</span> and killed mighty kings,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_19">19</span> Sihon king of the Amorites,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_20">20</span> Og king of Bashan,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_21">21</span> and gave their land as an inheritance,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_22">22</span> even a heritage to Israel his servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_23">23</span> who remembered us in our low estate,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_24">24</span> and has delivered us from our adversaries,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_25">25</span> who gives food to every creature,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v136_26">26</span> Oh give thanks to the God of heaven,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his loving kindness endures forever.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch137" data-chapter="137">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">137</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_1">1</span> By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_2">2</span> On the willows in that land,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">we hung up our harps.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_3">3</span> For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy:</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_4">4</span> How can we sing the LORD’s song in a foreign land?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_5">5</span> If I forget you, Jerusalem,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">let my right hand forget its skill.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_6">6</span> Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_7">7</span> Remember, LORD, against the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who said, “Raze it!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Raze it even to its foundation!”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_8">8</span> Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he will be happy who repays you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as you have done to us.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v137_9">9</span> Happy shall he be,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch138" data-chapter="138">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">138</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v138_1">1</span> I will give you thanks with my whole heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Before the gods,<a class="noteref" id="fnref138_1" href="#fn138_1"><sup>*</sup></a> I will sing praises to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v138_2">2</span> I will bow down toward your holy temple,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v138_3">3</span> In the day that I called, you answered me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You encouraged me with strength in my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v138_4">4</span> All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they have heard the words of your mouth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v138_5">5</span> Yes, they will sing of the ways of the LORD,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the LORD’s glory is great!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v138_6">6</span> For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but he knows the proud from afar.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v138_7">7</span> Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your right hand will save me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v138_8">8</span> The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn138_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref138_1">138:1</a> <span class="ft">The word elohim, used here, usually means “God” but can also mean “gods”, “princes”, or “angels”.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch139" data-chapter="139">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">139</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_1">1</span> LORD, you have searched me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and you know me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_2">2</span> You know my sitting down and my rising up.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You perceive my thoughts from afar.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_3">3</span> You search out my path and my lying down,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and are acquainted with all my ways.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_4">4</span> For there is not a word on my tongue,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_5">5</span> You hem me in behind and before.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You laid your hand on me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_6">6</span> This knowledge is beyond me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It’s lofty.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I can’t attain it.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_7">7</span> Where could I go from your Spirit?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Or where could I flee from your presence?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_8">8</span> If I ascend up into heaven, you are there.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">If I make my bed in Sheol,<a class="noteref" id="fnref139_1" href="#fn139_1"><sup>*</sup></a> behold, you are there!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_9">9</span> If I take the wings of the dawn,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_10">10</span> even there your hand will lead me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and your right hand will hold me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_11">11</span> If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The light around me will be night,”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_12">12</span> even the darkness doesn’t hide from you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but the night shines as the day.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The darkness is like light to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_13">13</span> For you formed my inmost being.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You knit me together in my mother’s womb.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_14">14</span> I will give thanks to you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Your works are wonderful.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My soul knows that very well.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_15">15</span> My frame wasn’t hidden from you,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when I was made in secret,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">woven together in the depths of the earth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_16">16</span> Your eyes saw my body.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In your book they were all written,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the days that were ordained for me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when as yet there were none of them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_17">17</span> How precious to me are your thoughts, God!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">How vast is their sum!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_18">18</span> If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">When I wake up, I am still with you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_19">19</span> If only you, God, would kill the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_20">20</span> For they speak against you wickedly.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your enemies take your name in vain.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_21">21</span> LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_22">22</span> I hate them with perfect hatred.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have become my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_23">23</span> Search me, God, and know my heart.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Try me, and know my thoughts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v139_24">24</span> See if there is any wicked way in me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and lead me in the everlasting way.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn139_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref139_1">139:8</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch140" data-chapter="140">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">140</h2>
      <p class="d">For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_1">1</span> Deliver me, LORD, from evil men.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Preserve me from violent men:</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_2">2</span> those who devise mischief in their hearts.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They continually gather themselves together for war.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_3">3</span> They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Viper’s poison is under their lips.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_4">4</span> LORD, keep me from the hands of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Preserve me from the violent men who have determined to trip my feet.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_5">5</span> The proud have hidden a snare for me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they have spread the cords of a net by the path.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have set traps for me.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_6">6</span> I said to the LORD, “You are my God.”</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Listen to the cry of my petitions, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_7">7</span> LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you have covered my head in the day of battle.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_8">8</span> LORD, don’t grant the desires of the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_9">9</span> As for the head of those who surround me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">let the mischief of their own lips cover them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_10">10</span> Let burning coals fall on them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them be thrown into the fire,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">into miry pits, from where they never rise.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_11">11</span> An evil speaker won’t be established on the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_12">12</span> I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and justice for the needy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v140_13">13</span> Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The upright will dwell in your presence.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch141" data-chapter="141">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">141</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_1">1</span> LORD, I have called on you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Come to me quickly!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Listen to my voice when I call to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_2">2</span> Let my prayer be set before you like incense;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_3">3</span> Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Keep the door of my lips.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_4">4</span> Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_5">5</span> Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">don’t let my head refuse it;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_6">6</span> Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_7">7</span> “As when one plows and breaks up the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”<a class="noteref" id="fnref141_1" href="#fn141_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_8">8</span> For my eyes are on you, LORD, the Lord.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I take refuge in you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t leave my soul destitute.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_9">9</span> Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">from the traps of the workers of iniquity.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v141_10">10</span> Let the wicked fall together into their own nets</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">while I pass by.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn141_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref141_1">141:7</a> <span class="ft">Sheol is the place of the dead.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch142" data-chapter="142">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">142</h2>
      <p class="d">A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v142_1">1</span> I cry with my voice to the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">With my voice, I ask the LORD for mercy.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v142_2">2</span> I pour out my complaint before him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I tell him my troubles.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v142_3">3</span> When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you knew my route.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">On the path in which I walk,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">they have hidden a snare for me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v142_4">4</span> Look on my right, and see;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for there is no one who is concerned for me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Refuge has fled from me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">No one cares for my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v142_5">5</span> I cried to you, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I said, “You are my refuge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my portion in the land of the living.”</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v142_6">6</span> Listen to my cry,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I am in desperate need.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Deliver me from my persecutors,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for they are too strong for me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v142_7">7</span> Bring my soul out of prison,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may give thanks to your name.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">The righteous will surround me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you will be good to me.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch143" data-chapter="143">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">143</h2>
      <p class="d">A Psalm by David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_1">1</span> Hear my prayer, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Listen to my petitions.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_2">2</span> Don’t enter into judgment with your servant,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for in your sight no man living is righteous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_3">3</span> For the enemy pursues my soul.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has struck my life down to the ground.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_4">4</span> Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart within me is desolate.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_5">5</span> I remember the days of old.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I meditate on all your doings.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I contemplate the work of your hands.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_6">6</span> I spread out my hands to you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.</p>
      <p class="qs line" data-indent="3">Selah.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_7">7</span> Hurry to answer me, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My spirit fails.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Don’t hide your face from me,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_8">8</span> Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I trust in you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I lift up my soul to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_9">9</span> Deliver me, LORD, from my enemies.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I flee to you to hide me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_10">10</span> Teach me to do your will,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for you are my God.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Your Spirit is good.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lead me in the land of uprightness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_11">11</span> Revive me, LORD, for your name’s sake.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v143_12">12</span> In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and destroy all those who afflict my soul,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I am your servant.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch144" data-chapter="144">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">144</h2>
      <p class="d">By David.</p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_1">1</span> Blessed be the LORD, my rock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who trains my hands to war,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my fingers to battle—</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_2">2</span> my loving kindness, my fortress,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my high tower, my deliverer,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">my shield, and he in whom I take refuge,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who subdues my people under me.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_3">3</span> LORD, what is man, that you care for him?</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Or the son of man, that you think of him?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_4">4</span> Man is like a breath.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His days are like a shadow that passes away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_5">5</span> Part your heavens, LORD, and come down.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_6">6</span> Throw out lightning, and scatter them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Send out your arrows, and rout them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_7">7</span> Stretch out your hand from above,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">out of the hands of foreigners,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v144_8">8</span> whose mouths speak deceit,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_9">9</span> I will sing a new song to you, God.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_10">10</span> You are he who gives salvation to kings,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_11">11</span> Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whose mouths speak deceit,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.</p>
      </div>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_12">12</span> Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_13">13</span> Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our sheep produce thousands and ten thousands in our fields.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_14">14</span> Our oxen will pull heavy loads.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no breaking in, and no going away,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and no outcry in our streets.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v144_15">15</span> Happy are the people who are in such a situation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Happy are the people whose God is the LORD.</p>
      </div>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch145" data-chapter="145">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">145</h2>
      <p class="d">A praise psalm by David.<a class="noteref" id="fnref145_1" href="#fn145_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_1">1</span> I will exalt you, my God, the King.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will praise your name forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_2">2</span> Every day I will praise you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will extol your name forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_3">3</span> Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His greatness is unsearchable.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_4">4</span> One generation will commend your works to another,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will declare your mighty acts.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_5">5</span> I will meditate on the glorious majesty of your honor,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">on your wondrous works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_6">6</span> Men will speak of the might of your awesome acts.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will declare your greatness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_7">7</span> They will utter the memory of your great goodness,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will sing of your righteousness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_8">8</span> The LORD is gracious, merciful,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_9">9</span> The LORD is good to all.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His tender mercies are over all his works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_10">10</span> All your works will give thanks to you, LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your saints will extol you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_11">11</span> They will speak of the glory of your kingdom,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and talk about your power,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_12">12</span> to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_13">13</span> Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your dominion endures throughout all generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">The LORD is faithful in all his words,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and loving in all his deeds.<a class="noteref" id="fnref145_2" href="#fn145_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_14">14</span> The LORD upholds all who fall,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and raises up all those who are bowed down.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_15">15</span> The eyes of all wait for you.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You give them their food in due season.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_16">16</span> You open your hand,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and satisfy the desire of every living thing.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_17">17</span> The LORD is righteous in all his ways,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and gracious in all his works.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_18">18</span> The LORD is near to all those who call on him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to all who call on him in truth.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_19">19</span> He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He also will hear their cry, and will save them.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_20">20</span> The LORD preserves all those who love him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but he will destroy all the wicked.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v145_21">21</span> My mouth will speak the praise of the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.</p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn145_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref145_1">^</a> <span class="ft">This is an acrostic psalm, with every verse (including the second half of verse 13) starting with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn145_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref145_2">145:13</a> <span class="ft">Some manuscripts omit these last two lines.</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch146" data-chapter="146">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">146</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref146_1" href="#fn146_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref146_2" href="#fn146_2"><sup>†</sup></a> my soul.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_2">2</span> While I live, I will praise the LORD.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_3">3</span> Don’t put your trust in princes,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in a son of man in whom there is no help.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_4">4</span> His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In that very day, his thoughts perish.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_5">5</span> Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">whose hope is in the LORD, his God,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_6">6</span> who made heaven and earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the sea, and all that is in them;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who keeps truth forever;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_7">7</span> who executes justice for the oppressed;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who gives food to the hungry.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">The LORD frees the prisoners.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v146_8">8</span> The LORD opens the eyes of the blind.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD raises up those who are bowed down.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD loves the righteous.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_9">9</span> The LORD preserves the foreigners.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He upholds the fatherless and widow,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v146_10">10</span> The LORD will reign forever;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your God, O Zion, to all generations.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref146_3" href="#fn146_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn146_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref146_1">146:1</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn146_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref146_2">146:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn146_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref146_3">146:10</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch147" data-chapter="147">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">147</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_1">1</span> Praise the LORD,<a class="noteref" id="fnref147_1" href="#fn147_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it is good to sing praises to our God;</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_2">2</span> The LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref147_2" href="#fn147_2"><sup>†</sup></a> builds up Jerusalem.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_3">3</span> He heals the broken in heart,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and binds up their wounds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_4">4</span> He counts the number of the stars.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He calls them all by their names.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_5">5</span> Great is our Lord, and mighty in power.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His understanding is infinite.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_6">6</span> The LORD upholds the humble.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He brings the wicked down to the ground.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_7">7</span> Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sing praises on the harp to our God,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_8">8</span> who covers the sky with clouds,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who prepares rain for the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who makes grass grow on the mountains.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_9">9</span> He provides food for the livestock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and for the young ravens when they call.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_10">10</span> He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_11">11</span> The LORD takes pleasure in those who fear him,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in those who hope in his loving kindness.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_12">12</span> Praise the LORD, Jerusalem!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise your God, Zion!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_13">13</span> For he has strengthened the bars of your gates.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has blessed your children within you.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_14">14</span> He makes peace in your borders.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He fills you with the finest of the wheat.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_15">15</span> He sends out his commandment to the earth.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His word runs very swiftly.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_16">16</span> He gives snow like wool,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and scatters frost like ashes.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_17">17</span> He hurls down his hail like pebbles.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who can stand before his cold?</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_18">18</span> He sends out his word, and melts them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_19">19</span> He shows his word to Jacob,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v147_20">20</span> He has not done this for just any nation.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They don’t know his ordinances.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref147_3" href="#fn147_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn147_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref147_1">147:1</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn147_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref147_2">147:2</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn147_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref147_3">147:20</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch148" data-chapter="148">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">148</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref148_1" href="#fn148_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref148_2" href="#fn148_2"><sup>†</sup></a> from the heavens!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him in the heights!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_2">2</span> Praise him, all his angels!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him, all his army!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_3">3</span> Praise him, sun and moon!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him, all you shining stars!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_4">4</span> Praise him, you heavens of heavens,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you waters that are above the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_5">5</span> Let them praise the LORD’s name,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for he commanded, and they were created.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_6">6</span> He has also established them forever and ever.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has made a decree which will not pass away.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_7">7</span> Praise the LORD from the earth,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">you great sea creatures, and all depths,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_8">8</span> lightning and hail, snow and clouds,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">stormy wind, fulfilling his word,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_9">9</span> mountains and all hills,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">fruit trees and all cedars,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_10">10</span> wild animals and all livestock,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">small creatures and flying birds,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_11">11</span> kings of the earth and all peoples,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">princes and all judges of the earth,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_12">12</span> both young men and maidens,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">old men and children.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_13">13</span> Let them praise the LORD’s name,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for his name alone is exalted.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">His glory is above the earth and the heavens.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v148_14">14</span> He has lifted up the horn of his people,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the praise of all his saints,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">even of the children of Israel, a people near to him.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref148_3" href="#fn148_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn148_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref148_1">148:1</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn148_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref148_2">148:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn148_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref148_3">148:14</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch149" data-chapter="149">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">149</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref149_1" href="#fn149_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Sing to the LORD a new song,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">his praise in the assembly of the saints.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_2">2</span> Let Israel rejoice in him who made them.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_3">3</span> Let them praise his name in the dance!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_4">4</span> For the LORD takes pleasure in his people.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He crowns the humble with salvation.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_5">5</span> Let the saints rejoice in honor.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let them sing for joy on their beds.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_6">6</span> May the high praises of God be in their mouths,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and a two-edged sword in their hand,</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_7">7</span> to execute vengeance on the nations,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and punishments on the peoples;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_8">8</span> to bind their kings with chains,</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their nobles with fetters of iron;</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v149_9">9</span> to execute on them the written judgment.</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All his saints have this honor.</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref149_2" href="#fn149_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn149_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref149_1">149:1</a> <span class="ft">LORD or GOD in all caps is from the Hebrew יהוה Yahweh except when otherwise noted as being from the short form יה Yah.</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn149_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref149_2">149:9</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
    <section class="chapter" id="ch150" data-chapter="150">
      <h2 class="chapter-number">150</h2>
      <div class="poetry">
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v150_1">1</span> Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref150_1" href="#fn150_1"><sup>*</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise God in his sanctuary!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v150_2">2</span> Praise him for his mighty acts!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him according to his excellent greatness!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v150_3">3</span> Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him with harp and lyre!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v150_4">4</span> Praise him with tambourine and dancing!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v150_5">5</span> Praise him with loud cymbals!</p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise him with resounding cymbals!</p>
      <p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v150_6">6</span> Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref150_2" href="#fn150_2"><sup>†</sup></a></p>
      <p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Praise the LORD!<a class="noteref" id="fnref150_3" href="#fn150_3"><sup>‡</sup></a></p>
      </div>
      <section class="footnotes">
        <h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
        <ol>
          <li class="note" id="fn150_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref150_1">150:1</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn150_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref150_2">150:6</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
          <li class="note" id="fn150_3" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">‡</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref150_3">150:6</a> <span class="ft">Hebrew: יה Yah</span></li>
        </ol>
      </section>
    </section>
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