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PSALMS, 51
To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.
51:1 When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy ; out of a full heart, take away my sin.
2 Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.
3 For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes ; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.
5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.
6 Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts : in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
7 Make me free from sin with hyssop : let me be washed whiter than snow.
8 Make me full of joy and rapture ; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
9 Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.
10 Make a clean heart in me, O God; give me a right spirit again.
11 Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.
12 Give me back the joy of your salvation ; let a free spirit be my support.
13 Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers ; and sinners will be turned to you.
14 Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation ; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
15 O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
16 You have no desire for an offering or I would give it ; you have no delight in burned offerings.
17 The offerings of God are a broken spirit ; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts ; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.
PSALMS, 67
To the chief music-maker. With corded instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
67:1 May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us ; (Selah.)
2 So that men may see your way on the earth, and your salvation among all nations.
3 Let the peoples give you praise, O God ; let all the peoples give you praise.
4 O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy ; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.)
5 Let the peoples give you praise, O God ; let all the peoples give you praise.
6 The earth has given her increase ; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing.
7 God will give us his blessing; so let all the ends of the earth be in fear of him.
PSALMS, 70
A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.
70:1 To the chief music-maker. Of David. To keep in memory. Let your salvation come quickly, O God ; come quickly to my help, O Lord.
2 Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble ; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.
3 Let those who say Aha, aha ! be turned back as a reward of their shame.
70:4 Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you ; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.
5 But I am poor and in need ; come to me quickly, O God ; you are my help and my saviour ; let there be no waiting, O Lord.
PSALMS, 75
To the chief music-maker ; put to Al-tashheth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song.
75:1 To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.
2 When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.
3 When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)
4 I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone : and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.
5 Let not your horn be lifted up : let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.
76:6 For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south ;
7 But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.
8 For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red ; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand : he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.
9 But I will ever be full of joy, making songs of praise to the God of Jacob.
10 By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.
PSALMS, 76
To the chief music-maker ; put to Neginoth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song.
76:1 In Judah is the knowledge of God ; his name is great in Israel,
2 In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.
3 There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.)
4 You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.
5 Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them ; the men of war have become feeble.
6 At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.
7 You, you are to be feared ; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath ?
8 From heaven you gave your decision ; the earth, in its fear, gave no sound,
9 When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)
10 The wrath of men will give you praise ; the rest of wrath you will put upon you.
11 Give to the Lord your God what is his by right ; let all who are round him give offerings to him who is to be feared.
12 He puts an end to the wrath of rulers ; he is feared by the kings of the earth.
PSALMS, 84
To the chief music-maker ; put to the Gittith. A Psalm.
84:1 Of the sons of Korah. How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies !
2 The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord ; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
84:3 The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.
4 Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house : they will still be praising you. (Selah.)
84:5 Happy is the man whose strength is in you ; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
6 Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs ; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.
7 They go from strength to strength ; every one of them comes before God in Zion.
8 O Lord God of armies, let my prayer come to you : give ear, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)
9 O God, let your eyes be on him who is our safe cover, and let your heart be turned to your king.
84:10 For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength : the Lord will give grace and glory : he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
12 O Lord of armies, happy is the man whose hope is in you.
PSALMS, 90
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
90:1 Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.
3 You send man back to his dust ; and say, Go back, you children of men.
4 For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.
5 ...
6 In the morning it is green ; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
10 The measure of our life is seventy years ; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
11 Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion ?
12 So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
13 Come back, O Lord ; how long ? let your purpose for your servants be changed.
14 In the morning give us your mercy in full measure ; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.
15 Make us glad in reward for the days of our sorrow, and for the years in which we have seen evil.
16 Make your work clear to your servants, and your glory to their children.
17 Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us : O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
PSALMS, 91
A Psalm of Praise.
91:1 Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High ;
2 Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength : he is my God, in whom is my hope.
3 He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.
4 You will be covered by his feathers ; under his wings you will be safe : his good faith will be your salvation.
5 You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,
6 Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.
7 You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
8 Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.
9 Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place ;
10 No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.
11 For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.
12 In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.
13 You will put your foot on the lion and the snake ; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.
14 Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger : I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
15 When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer : I will be with him in trouble ; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
16 With long life will he be rewarded ; and I will let him see my salvation.
PSALMS, 92
A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.
92:1 It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;
2 To make clear your mercy in the morning, and your unchanging faith every night ;
3 On a ten-corded instrument, and on an instrument of music with a quiet sound.
4 For you, O Lord, have made me glad through your work ; I will have joy in the works of your hands.
5 O Lord, how great are your works ! and your thoughts are very deep.
6 A man without sense has no knowledge of this ; and a foolish man may not take it in.
7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
8 But you, O Lord, are on high for ever.
9 For see! your haters, O Lord, will be put to death; all the workers of evil will be put to flight ;
10 But my horn is lifted up like the horn of the ox : the best oil is flowing on my head.
11 My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters ; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.
12 The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength ; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.
13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.
14 They will give fruit even when they are old ; they will be fertile and full of growth;
15 For a sign that the Lord is upright ; he is my Rock, there is no deceit in him.
PSALMS, 93
A Psalm of Praise.
93:1 The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory ; the Lord is clothed with strength ; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.
2 The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.
3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices ; they send them up with a loud cry.
4 The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.
5 Your witness is most certain ; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.
PSALMS, 94
94:1 O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
2 Be lifted up, O judge of the earth ; let their reward come to the men of pride.
3 How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us ?
4 Words of pride come from their lips ; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.
5 Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,
6 They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father ;
94:7 And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.
94:8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people ; you foolish men, when will you be wise ?
9 Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing ? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed ?
10 He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man ?
11 The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.
94:12 Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;
13 So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.
14 The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage ;
15 But decisions will again be made in righteousness ; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.
94:16 Who will give me help against the sinners ? and who will be my support against the workers of evil ?
17 If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.
94:18 If I say, My foot is slipping ; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.
19 Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.
20 What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?
21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.
22 But the Lord is my safe resting-place ; my God is the Rock where I am safe.
23 And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.
PSALMS, 95
95:1 O come, let us make songs to the Lord ; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his face with praises ; and make melody with holy songs.
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.
4 The deep places of the earth are in his hand ; and the tops of the mountains are his.
5 The sea is his, and he made it ; and the dry land was formed by his hands.
95:6 O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.
7 For he is our God ; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!
95:8 Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land ;
9 When your fathers put me to the test and saw my power and my work.
10 For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways ;
11 And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.
PSALMS, 96
96:1 O make a new song to the Lord ; let all the earth make melody to the Lord.
2 Make songs to the Lord, blessing his name ; give the good news of his salvation day by day.
3 Make clear his glory to the nations, and his wonders to all the peoples.
4 For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised ; he is more to be feared than all other gods.
5 For all the gods of the nations are false gods ; but the Lord made the heavens.
6 Honour and glory are before him : strong and fair is his holy place.
96:7 Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength.
8 Give to the Lord the glory of his name ; take with you an offering and come into his house.
9 O give worship to the Lord in holy robes ; be in fear before him, all the earth.
96:10 Say among the nations, The Lord is King ; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved ; he will be an upright judge of the peoples.
11 Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad ; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;
12 Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it ; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,
13 Before the Lord, for he is come ; he is come to be the judge of the earth ; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.
PSALMS, 97
97:1 The Lord is King, let the earth have joy ; let all the sea-lands be glad.
2 Dark clouds are round him ; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.
3 Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about.
4 His bright flames give light to the world ; the earth saw it with fear.
5 The mountains became like wax at the coming of the Lord, at the coming of the Lord of all the earth.
97:6 The heavens gave out the news of his righteousness, and all the people saw his glory.
7 Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods ; give him worship, all you gods.
8 Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.
9 For you, Lord, are most high over the earth ; you are lifted up over all other gods.
97:10 You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil ; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.
11 Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
12 Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.
PSALMS, 98
A Psalm.
98:1 O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder ; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome.
2 The Lord has given to all the knowledge of his salvation ; he has made clear his righteousness in the eyes of the nations.
3 He has kept in mind his mercy and his unchanging faith to the house of Israel ; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
98:4 Let all the earth send out a glad cry to the Lord; sounding with a loud voice, and praising him with songs of joy.
5 Make melody to the Lord with instruments of music; with a corded instrument and the voice of song.
6 With wind instruments and the sound of the horn, make a glad cry before the Lord, the King.
98:7 Let the sea be thundering, with all its waters; the world, and all who are living in it ;
8 Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands ; let the mountains be glad together,
9 Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth ; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.
PSALMS, 99
99:1 The Lord is King ; let the peoples be in fear : his seat is on the winged ones ; let the earth be moved.
2 The Lord is great in Zion ; he is high over all the nations.
3 Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared ; holy is he.
4 The king's power is used for righteousness ; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.
5 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet ; holy is he.
99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who gave honour to his name ; they made prayers to the Lord, and he gave answers to them.
7 His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud ; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.
99:8 You gave them an answer, O Lord our God ; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.
9 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill ; for the Lord our God is holy.
PSALMS, 100
A Psalm of Praise.
100:1 Make a glad sound to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Give worship to the Lord with joy ; come before him with a song.
3 Be certain that the Lord is God ; it is he who has made us, and we are his ; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.
4 Come into his doors with joy, and into his house with praise ; give him honour, blessing his name.
5 For the Lord is good, and his mercy is never-ending ; his faith is unchanging through all generations.
(Forever.) -- Selah, a refrain of praise.
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