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1 A Psalm of David. Judge me, O God, and discern my cause from that of a nation not holy; rescue me from a man unjust and deceitful.

2 For you are God, my strength. Why have you rejected me? And why do I walk in sadness, while the adversary afflicts me?

3 Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.

4 And I will enter, up to the altar of God, to God who enlivens my youthfulness. To you, O God, my God, I will confess upon a stringed instrument.

5 Why are you sad, my soul? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance and my God.

1 Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding.

2 We have heard, O God, with our own ears. Our fathers have announced to us the work that you wrought in their days and in the days of antiquity.

3 Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them.

4 For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, and their own arm did not save them. But your right hand and your arm, and the light of your countenance did so, because you were pleased with them.

5 You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob.

6 With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us.

7 For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.

8 For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us.

9 In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever.

10 But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God.

11 You have turned our back to our enemies, and those who hated us have plundered for themselves.

12 You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles.

13 You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them.

14 You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbors, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us.

15 You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

16 All day long my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,

17 before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.

18 All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant.

19 And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.

20 For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,

22 will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. For, because of you, we are being killed all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.

23 Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end.

24 Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?

25 For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.

26 Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.

1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. A Canticle for the Beloved.

2 My heart has uttered a good word. I speak of my works to the king. My tongue is like the pen of a scribe who writes quickly.

3 You are a brilliant form before the sons of men. Grace has been poured freely into your lips. Because of this, God has blessed you in eternity.

4 Fasten your sword to your thigh, O most powerful one.

5 With your splendor and your excellence extended, proceed prosperously, and reign for the sake of truth and meekness and justice, and so will your right hand lead you wondrously.

6 Your arrows are sharp; the people will fall under you, with the hearts of the enemies of the king.

7 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of true aim.

8 You have loved justice and hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you, before your co-heirs, with the oil of gladness.

9 Myrrh and balsam and cinnamon perfume your garments, from the houses of ivory. From these, they have delighted you:

10 the daughters of kings in your honor. The queen assisted at your right hand, in clothing of gold, encircled with diversity.

11 Listen, daughter, and see, and incline your ear. And forget your people and your father’s house.

12 And the king will desire your beauty. For he is the Lord your God, and they will adore him.

13 And the daughters of Tyre will entreat your countenance with gifts: all the rich men of the people.

14 All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes,

15 clothed all around with diversities. After her, virgins will be led to the king. Her neighbors will be brought to you.

16 They will be brought with gladness and exultation. They will be led into the temple of the king.

17 For your fathers, sons have been born to you. You will establish them as leaders over all the earth.

18 They will remember your name always, for generation after generation. Because of this, people will confess to you in eternity, even forever and ever.

1 Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, for confidants. A Psalm.

2 Our God is our refuge and strength, a helper in the tribulations that have greatly overwhelmed us.

3 Because of this, we will not be afraid when the earth will be turbulent and the mountains will be transferred into the heart of the sea.

4 They thundered, and the waters were stirred up among them; the mountains have been disturbed by his strength.

5 The frenzy of the river rejoices the city of God. The Most High has sanctified his tabernacle.

6 God is in its midst; it will not be shaken. God will assist it in the early morning.

7 The peoples have been disturbed, and the kingdoms have been bowed down. He uttered his voice: the earth has been moved.

8 The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our supporter.

9 Draw near and behold the works of the Lord: what portents he has set upon the earth,

10 carrying away wars even to the end of the earth. He will crush the bow and break the weapons, and he will burn the shield with fire.

11 Be empty, and see that I am God. I will be exalted among the peoples, and I will be exalted upon the earth.

12 The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our supporter.

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

2 All nations, clap your hands. Shout joyfully to God with a voice of exultation.

3 For the Lord is exalted and terrible: a great King over all the earth.

4 He has subjected the peoples to us and subdued the nations under our feet.

5 He has chosen us for his inheritance: the splendor of Jacob, whom he has loved.

6 God ascends with jubilation, and the Lord with the voice of the trumpet.

7 Sing psalms to our God, sing psalms. Sing psalms to our King, sing psalms.

8 For God is the King of all the earth. Sing psalms wisely.

9 God will reign over the peoples. God sits upon his holy throne.

10 The leaders of the peoples have been gathered together by the God of Abraham. For the strong gods of the earth have been exceedingly exalted.

1 A Canticle Psalm. To the sons of Korah, on the second Sabbath.

2 The Lord is great and exceedingly praiseworthy, in the city of our God, on his holy mountain.

3 Mount Zion is being founded with the exultation of the whole earth, on the north side, the city of the great king.

4 In her houses, God will be known, since he will support her.

5 For behold, the kings of the earth have been gathered together; they have convened as one.

6 Such did they see, and they were astonished: they were disturbed, they were moved.

7 Trembling took hold of them. In that place, their pains were that of a woman in labor.

8 With a vehement spirit, you will crush the ships of Tarshish.

9 As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God. God has founded it in eternity.

10 We have received your mercy, O God, in the midst of your temple.

11 According to your name, O God, so does your praise reach to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of justice.

12 Let mount Zion rejoice, and let the daughters of Judah exult, because of your judgments, O Lord.

13 Encircle Zion and embrace her. Discourse in her towers.

14 Set your hearts on her virtue. And distribute her houses, so that you may discourse of it in another generation.

15 For this is God, our God, in eternity and forever and ever. He will rule us forever.

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

2 Hear these things, all nations. Pay attention, all inhabitants of the world:

3 whoever is earth-born, you sons of men, together as one, the rich and the poor.

4 My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will speak prudence.

5 I will incline my ear to a parable. I will open my case with the psaltery.

6 Why should I fear in the evil day? The iniquity at my heel will surround me.

7 Those who trust in their own strength and who glory in the multitude of their riches,

8 no brother redeems, nor will man buy back. He will not give to God his appeasement,

9 nor the price for the redemption of his soul. And he will labor continuously,

10 and he will still live, until the end.

11 He will not see death, when he sees the wise dying: the foolish and the senseless will perish together. And they will leave their riches to strangers.

12 And their sepulchers will be their houses forever, their tabernacles from generation to generation. They have called their names in their own lands.

13 And man, when he was held in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

14 This way of theirs is a scandal to them. And afterwards, they will delight in their mouth.

15 They have been placed in Hell like sheep. Death will feed on them. And the just will have dominion over them in the morning. And their help will grow old in Hell for their glory.

16 Even so, truly God will redeem my soul from the hand of Hell, when he will receive me.

17 Do not be afraid, when a man will have been made rich, and when the glory of his house will have been multiplied.

18 For when he dies, he will take nothing away, and his glory will not descend with him.

19 For his soul will be blessed in his lifetime, and he will admit to you when you do good to him.

20 He will even enter with the progeny of his fathers, but, even in eternity, he will not see the light.

21 Man, when he was in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,

2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.

3 God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.

4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.

5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.

6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.

7 Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.

8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.

9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your flocks.

10 For all the wild beasts of the forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.

11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.

12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.

13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Most High.

15 And call upon me in the day of tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.

16 But to the sinner, God has said: Why do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your mouth?

17 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.

18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.

19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.

20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.

21 These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.

22 Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.

23 The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.

1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David,

2 when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.

3 Be merciful to me, O God, according to your great mercy. And, according to the plentitude of your compassion, wipe out my iniquity.

4 Wash me once again from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

5 For I know my iniquity, and my sin is ever before me.

6 Against you only have I sinned, and I have done evil before your eyes. And so, you are justified in your words, and you will prevail when you give judgment.

7 For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sinfulness did my mother conceive me.

8 For behold, you have loved truth. The obscure and hidden things of your wisdom, you have manifested to me.

9 You will sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be cleansed. You will wash me, and I will be made whiter than snow.

10 In my hearing, you will grant gladness and rejoicing. And the bones that have been humbled will exult.

11 Turn your face away from my sins, and erase all my iniquities.

12 Create a clean heart in me, O God. And renew an upright spirit within my inmost being.

13 Do not cast me away from your face; and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

14 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and confirm me with an unsurpassed spirit.

15 I will teach the unjust your ways, and the impious will be converted to you.

16 Free me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will extol your justice.

17 O Lord, you will open my lips, and my mouth will announce your praise.

18 For if you had desired sacrifice, I would certainly have given it, but with holocausts, you will not be delighted.

19 A crushed spirit is a sacrifice to God. A contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.

20 Act kindly, Lord, in your good will toward Zion, so that the walls of Jerusalem may be built up.

21 Then you will accept the sacrifice of justice, oblations, and holocausts. Then they will lay calves upon your altar.

1 Unto the end. The understanding of David.

2 When Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul, David went to the house of Ahimelech.

3 Why do you glory in malice, you who are powerful in iniquity?

4 All day long your tongue thinks up injustice. Like a sharp razor, you have wrought deceit.

5 You have loved malice above goodness, and iniquity more than speaking righteousness.

6 You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.

7 Because of this, God will destroy you in the end. He will pull you up, and he will remove you from your tabernacle and your root from the land of the living.

8 The just will see and be afraid, and they will laugh over him, and say:

9 “Behold the man who did not set God as his helper. But he hoped in the multitude of his riches, and so he prevailed in his emptiness.”

10 But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.

11 I will confess to you forever, because you have accomplished it. And I will wait on your name, for it is good in the sight of your saints.