In You I Have Taken Refuge
A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Yahweh concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.
O Yahweh my God, ain You I have taken refuge;
Save me from all those who pursue me, and bdeliver me,
2 Lest he tear my soul alike a lion,
Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
3 O Yahweh my God, if I have done this,
If there is ainjustice in my hands,
4 If I have arewarded evil to him who is at peace with me,
Or have bplundered my adversary without cause,
5 Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it;
And let him trample my life down to the ground
And cause my glory to dwell in the dust. Selah.
6 aArise, O Yahweh, in Your anger;
bLift up Yourself against cthe fury of my adversaries,
And darouse Yourself for me; You have appointed judgment.
7 Let the congregation of the apeoples encompass You,
And over them return on high.
8 Yahweh ajudges the peoples;
bGive justice to me, O Yahweh, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.
9 O let athe evil of the wicked come to an end, but bestablish the righteous;
For the righteous God ctests the hearts and minds.
10 My ashield is with God,
Who bsaves the upright in heart.
11 God is a arighteous judge,
And a God who has bindignation every day.
12 If a man adoes not repent, He will bsharpen His sword;
He has cbent His bow and prepared it.
13 He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;
He makes His aarrows fiery shafts.
14 Behold, he travails with wickedness,
And he aconceives mischief and gives birth to falsehood.
15 He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has afallen into the hole which he made.
16 His amischief will return upon his own head,
And his bviolence will descend upon his own skull.
17 I will give thanks to Yahweh aaccording to His righteousness
And will bsing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
How Majestic Is Your Name
For the choir director. According to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
O Yahweh, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who adisplays Your splendor above the heavens!
2 aFrom the mouth of infants and nursing babies You have established bstrength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make cthe enemy and the revengeful cease.
3 When I asee bYour heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The cmoon and the stars, which You have established;
4 aWhat is man that You remember him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
5 Yet You have made him a alittle lower than the angels,
And bYou crown him with cglory and majesty!
6 You make him to arule over the works of Your hands;
You have bput all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen,
And also the animals of the field,
8 The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
9 aO Yahweh, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!
Yahweh Will Judge the World in Righteousness
For the choir director. Almuth-labben. A Psalm of David.
א Aleph
I will give thanks to Yahweh with all amy heart;
I will brecount all Your wondrous deeds.
א Aleph
2 I will be glad and aexult in You;
I will bsing praise to Your name, O cMost High.
ב Beth
3 When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and aperish before You.
4 For You have amaintained my justice and my cause;
You have sat on the throne bjudging righteously.
ג Gimel
5 You have arebuked the nations, You have made the wicked perish;
You have bblotted out their name forever and ever.
ה He
6 The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very amemory of them has perished.
ו Vav
7 But aYahweh abides forever;
He has established His bthrone for judgment,
ו Vav
8 And He will ajudge the world in righteousness;
He will render justice for the peoples with equity.
ו Vav
9 Yahweh also will be a astronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of distress;
ו Vav
10 And those who aknow Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Yahweh, have not bforsaken those who seek You.
ז Zayin
11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who aabides in Zion;
bDeclare among the peoples His acts.
12 For aHe who requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget bthe cry of the afflicted.
ח Heth
13 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh;
See my affliction from those awho hate me,
You who blift me up from the gates of death,
14 That I may recount aall Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may brejoice in Your salvation.
ט Teth
15 The nations have sunk down ain the pit which they have made;
In the bnet which they hid, their own foot has been caught.
16 Yahweh has amade Himself known;
He has bexecuted judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.
י Yodh
17 The wicked will areturn to Sheol,
Even all the nations who bforget God.
כ Kaph
18 For the aneedy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the bhope of the afflicted perish forever.
19 aArise, O Yahweh, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be bjudged before You.
20 Put them ain fear, O Yahweh;
Let the nations know that they are bbut men. Selah.
Do Not Forget the Afflicted
ל Lamedh
Why ado You stand afar off, O Yahweh?
Why bdo You hide Yourself in times of distress?
2 In his alofty pride the wicked hotly pursues the afflicted;
Let them be bcaught in the thoughts which they have devised.
3 For the wicked aboasts of his bsoul’s desire,
And the greedy man curses and cspurns Yahweh.
4 The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, adoes not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “bThere is no God.”
5 His ways aprosper at all times;
Your judgments are on high, bout of his sight;
As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.
6 He says in his heart, “aI will not be shaken;
From generation to generation bI will not be in adversity.”
פ Pe
7 His amouth is full of curses and deceit and boppression;
cUnder his tongue is mischief and wickedness.
ע Ayin
8 He sits in the aplaces of the villages where one lies in wait;
In the hiding places he bkills the innocent;
His eyes stealthily watch for the cunfortunate.
9 He lies in wait in a hiding place as aa lion in his lair;
He blies in wait to catch cthe afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his dnet.
10 He crouches, he bows down,
And the unfortunate fall by his mighty ones.
11 He asays in his heart, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”
ק Qoph
12 Arise, O Yahweh; O God, alift up Your hand.
bDo not forget the afflicted.
13 Why has the wicked aspurned God?
He has said in his heart, “You will not require it.”
ר Resh
14 You have seen it, for You have beheld amischief and vexation to take it into Your hand.
The bunfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the chelper of the orphan.
שׁ Shin
15 aBreak the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,
bSeek out his wickedness until You find none.
16 Yahweh is aKing forever and ever;
bNations have perished from His land.
ת Tav
17 O Yahweh, You have heard the adesire of the humble;
You will bstrengthen their heart, cYou will cause Your ear to give heed
18 To give justice to the aorphan and the boppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause cterror.
Yahweh Is in His Holy Temple
For the choir director. Of David.
In Yahweh I atake refuge;
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your bmountain;
2 For, behold, the wicked abend the bow,
They bmake ready their arrow upon the string
To cshoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
3 If the afoundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?”
4 Yahweh is in His aholy temple; Yahweh’s bthrone is in heaven;
His ceyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.
5 Yahweh atests the righteous,
But bthe wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
6 May He arain snares upon the wicked;
bFire and brimstone and cburning wind will be the portion of dtheir cup.
7 For Yahweh is arighteous, bHe loves righteousness;
The upright will cbehold His face.
Yahweh Will Set the Needy in Safety
For the choir director. According to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
Save, O Yahweh, for athe holy man ceases to be,
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
2 They aspeak worthlessness to one another;
With a bflattering lip and with a double heart they speak.
3 May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that aspeaks great things;
4 Who ahave said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”
5 “Because of the adevastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now bI will arise,” says Yahweh; “I will cset him in the safety for which he longs.”
6 The awords of Yahweh are pure words;
As silver btried in a furnace on the ground, refined seven times.
7 You, O Yahweh, will keep them;
You will aguard him from this generation forever.
8 The awicked strut about on every side
When bvileness is exalted among the sons of men.