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1 A Psalm of Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to those who are upright in heart.

2 But my feet were nearly moved; my steps had nearly slipped.

3 For I was zealous over the iniquitous, seeing the peacefulness of sinners.

4 For they have no respect for their death, nor do they have support in their wounds.

5 They are not with the hardships of men, nor will they be scourged with men.

6 Therefore, arrogance has held on to them. They have been covered with their iniquity and impiety.

7 Their iniquity has proceeded, as if from fat. They have parted from the affection of the heart.

8 They have thought and spoken wickedness. They have spoken iniquity in high places.

9 They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has traversed the earth.

10 Therefore, my people will be converted here, and fullness of days will be found in them.

11 And they said, “How would God know?” and, “Isn’t there knowledge in high places?”

12 Behold, these are sinners, and, abounding in this age, they have obtained riches.

13 And I said: So then, it is without purpose that I have justified my heart and washed my hands among the innocent.

14 And I have been scourged all day long, and I have received my chastisement in the mornings.

15 If I were to say that I would explain this: Behold, I would condemn this nation of your sons.

16 I considered, so that I might know this. It is a hardship before me,

17 until I may enter into the Sanctuary of God, and understand it to its last part.

18 So, because of deceitfulness, truly, you have placed it before them. While they were being lifted up, you were casting them down.

19 How have they been brought to desolation? They have suddenly failed. They have perished because of their iniquity.

20 As a dream is to those who awaken, O Lord, so will you reduce their image to nothing in your city.

21 For my heart has been inflamed, and my temperament has been changed.

22 And so, I have been reduced to nothing, and I did not know it.

23 I have become like a beast of burden to you, and I am always with you.

24 You have held my right hand. And in your will, you have conducted me, and with your glory, you have taken me up.

25 For what is there for me in heaven? And what do I wish for on earth before you?

26 My body has failed, and my heart: O God of my heart, and God my portion, into eternity.

27 For behold, those who put themselves far from you will perish. You have perished all those who fornicate away from you.

28 But it is good for me to adhere to God, to put my hope in the Lord God, so that I may announce all your prophecies, at the gates of the daughter of Zion.

1 The understanding of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us to the end. Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture?

2 Be mindful of your congregation, which you have possessed from the beginning. You redeemed the scepter of your inheritance, mount Zion, in which you have dwelt.

3 Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!

4 And those who hate you have been glorified, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their own signs as a proof,

5 as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,

6 they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.

7 They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.

8 They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land.

9 We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us.”

10 How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?

11 Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?

12 But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.

13 In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.

14 You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.

15 You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan.

16 Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.

17 You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.

18 Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.

19 Do not hand over to beasts the souls that confess to you; and do not forget the souls of your poor until the end.

20 Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.

21 Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. The poor and the needy will praise your name.

22 Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long.

23 Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually.

1 Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.

2 We will confess to you, O God. We will confess, and we will call upon your name. We will describe your wonders.

3 While I have time, I will judge justices.

4 The earth has been dissolved, with all who dwell in it. I have confirmed its pillars.

5 I said to the iniquitous: “Do not act unjustly,” and to the offenders: “Do not exalt the horn.”

6 Do not exalt your horn on high. Do not speak iniquity against God.

7 For it is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor before the desert mountains.

8 For God is judge. This one he humbles and that one he exalts.

9 For, in the hand of the Lord, there is a cup of undiluted wine, full of consternation. And he has tipped it from here to there. So, truly, its dregs have not been emptied. All the sinners of the earth will drink.

10 But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob.

11 And I will break all the horns of sinners. And the horns of the just will be exalted.

1 Unto the end. With Praises. A Psalm of Asaph. A Canticle to the Assyrians.

2 In Judea, God is known. In Israel, his name is great.

3 And his place has been formed with peace. And his dwelling place is in Zion.

4 In that place, he has broken the powers of the bows, the shield, the sword, and the battle.

5 You illuminate wondrously from the mountains of eternity.

6 All the foolish of heart have been disturbed. They have slept their sleep, and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.

7 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, those who were mounted on horseback have fallen asleep.

8 You are terrible, and so, who can withstand you? From thence is your wrath.

9 You have caused judgment to be heard from heaven. The earth trembled and was quieted,

10 when God rose up in judgment in order to bring salvation to all the meek of the earth.

11 For the thinking of man will confess to you, and the legacy of his thinking will keep a feast day to you.

12 Make vows and pay them to the Lord, your God. All you who surround him bring gifts: to him who is terrible,

13 even to him who takes away the spirit of leaders, to him who is terrible with the kings of the earth.

1 Unto the end. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.

2 I cried out to the Lord with my voice, to God with my voice, and he attended to me.

3 In the days of my tribulation, I sought God, with my hands opposite him in the night, and I was not deceived. My soul refused to be consoled.

4 I was mindful of God, and I was delighted, and I was distressed, and my spirit fell away.

5 My eyes anticipated the vigils. I was disturbed, and I did not speak.

6 I considered the days of antiquity, and I held the years of eternity in my mind.

7 And I meditated in the night with my heart, and I was distressed, and I examined my spirit.

8 So then, will God reject for eternity? Will he not continue to allow himself to show favor?

9 Or, will he cut off his mercy in the end, from generation to generation?

10 And would God ever forget to be merciful? Or, would he, in his wrath, restrict his mercies?

11 And I said, “Now I have begun. This change is from the right hand of the Most High.”

12 I was mindful of the works of the Lord. For I will be mindful from the beginning of your wonders,

13 and I will meditate on all your works. And I will take part in your intentions.

14 Your way, O God, is in what is holy. Which God is great like our God?

15 You are the God who performs miracles. You have made your virtue known among the peoples.

16 With your arm, you have redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and of Joseph.

17 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you, and they were afraid, and the depths were stirred up.

18 Great was the sound of the waters. The clouds uttered a voice. For your arrows also pass by.

19 The voice of your thunder is like a wheel. Your flashes have illuminated the whole world. The earth has quaked and trembled.

20 Your way is through the sea, and your paths are through many waters. And your traces will not be known.

21 You have conducted your people like sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

1 The understanding of Asaph. O my people, attend to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in parables. I will speak about concepts that are from the beginning.

3 We have heard and known such great things, as our fathers have described to us.

4 These things have not been hidden from their sons in any generation: declaring the praises of the Lord, and his virtues, and the wonders that he has done.

5 And he has received testimony with Jacob, and he has set a law within Israel. Such great things, he has commanded our fathers, so as to make these things known to their sons,

6 so that another generation might know them, and so that the sons, who will be born and who will grow up, shall describe them to their sons.

7 So then, may they put their hope in God, and may they not forget the works of God, and may they seek his commandments.

8 May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God.

9 The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, have been turned back in the day of battle.

10 They have not kept the covenant of God. And they were not willing to walk in his law.

11 And they have been forgetful of his benefits, and of his miracle, which he revealed to them.

12 He performed miracles in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.

13 He broke the sea and he led them through. And he stationed the waters, as if in a vessel.

14 And he led them with a cloud by day, and with illumination by fire throughout the night.

15 He broke through the rock in the wasteland, and he gave them to drink, as if from the great abyss.

16 He brought forth water from the rock, and he conducted the waters, as if they were rivers.

17 And yet, they continued to sin against him. In a waterless place, they provoked the Most High with resentment.

18 And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking for food according to their desires.

19 And they spoke badly about God. They said, “Would God be able to prepare a table in the desert?

20 He struck the rock, and so waters flowed and the torrents flooded, but would even he be able to provide bread, or provide a table, for his people?”

21 Therefore, the Lord heard, and he was dismayed, and a fire was kindled within Jacob, and an anger ascended into Israel.

22 For they neither put their trust in God, nor did they hope in his salvation.

23 And he commanded the clouds from above, and he opened the doors of heaven.

24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and he gave them the bread of heaven.

25 Man ate the bread of Angels. He sent them provisions in abundance.

26 He transferred the south wind from heaven, and, in his virtue, he brought in the Southwest wind.

27 And he rained down flesh upon them, as if it were dust, and feathered birds, as if they were the sand of the sea.

28 And they fell down in the midst of their camp, encircling their tabernacles.

29 And they ate until they were greatly satisfied, and he brought to them according to their desires.

30 They were not cheated out of what they wanted. Their food was still in their mouth,

31 and then the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones among them, and he impeded the elect of Israel.

32 In all these things, they continued to sin, and they were not trustworthy with his miracles.

33 And their days faded away into vanity, and their years with haste.

34 When he slew them, then they sought him. And they returned, and they drew near to him in the early morning.

35 And they were mindful that God is their helper and that the Most High God is their redeemer.

36 And they chose him with their mouth, and then they lied to him with their tongue.

37 For their heart was not upright with him, nor have they been living faithfully in his covenant.

38 Yet he is merciful, and he will pardon their sins. And he will not destroy them. And he has abundantly turned aside his own wrath. And he did not enflame his wrath entirely.

39 And he remembered that they are flesh: with a spirit that goes forth and does not return.

40 How often did they provoke him in the desert and stir him to wrath in a waterless place?

41 And they turned back and tempted God, and they exasperated the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the one troubling them.

43 Thus, he positioned his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

44 And he turned their rivers into blood, along with their rain showers, so that they could not drink.

45 He sent among them the common fly, and it devoured them, and the frog, and it scattered them.

46 And he gave up their fruits to mold and their labors to the locust.

47 And he slew their vineyards with hail and their mulberry trees with severe frost.

48 And he delivered their cattle to the hail and their possessions to fire.

49 And he sent the wrath of his indignation among them: indignation and wrath and tribulation, sent forth by evil angels.

50 He made way for the path of his anger. He did not spare their souls from death. And he enclosed their beasts of burden in death.

51 And he struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt: the first-fruits of all their labor in the tabernacles of Ham.

52 And he took away his own people like sheep, and he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

53 And he led them out in hope, and they did not fear. And the sea covered their enemies.

54 And he led them to the mountain of his sanctification: the mountain that his right hand had acquired. And he cast out the Gentiles before their face. And he divided their land by lot to them, with a line of distribution.

55 And he caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

56 Yet they tempted and aggravated God Most High, and they did not keep his testaments.

57 And they turned themselves aside, and they did not serve the covenant. In the same manner as their fathers, they were turned backwards, like a crooked bow.

58 They impelled him to anger on their hills, and they provoked him to rivalry with their graven images.

59 God listened, and he spurned them, and he reduced Israel greatly, almost to nothing.

60 And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh, his tabernacle where he had dwelt among men.

61 And he delivered their virtue into captivity, and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

62 And he enclosed his people with the sword, and he spurned his inheritance.

63 Fire consumed their young men, and their virgins were not lamented.

64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows did not weep.

65 And the Lord was awaked, as if out of sleep, and like a powerful man impaired by wine.

66 And he struck his enemies on the back. He gave them over to everlasting disgrace.

67 And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

68 But he chose the tribe of Judah: mount Zion, which he loved.

69 And he built up his sanctuary, like a single-horned beast, in the land that he founded for all ages.

70 And he chose his servant David, and he took him from the flocks of the sheep: he received him from following the ewes with their young,

71 in order to pasture Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.

72 And he fed them with the innocence of his heart. And he led them with the understanding of his hands.

1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees.

2 They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.

3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one who would bury them.

4 We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us.

5 How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? Will your zeal be kindled like a fire?

6 Pour out your wrath among the Gentiles, who have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not invoked your name.

7 For they have devoured Jacob, and they have desolated his place.

8 Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor.

9 Help us, O God, our Savior. And free us, Lord, for the glory of your name. And forgive us our sins for the sake of your name.

10 Let them not say among the Gentiles, “Where is their God?” And may your name become known among the nations before our eyes. For the retribution of your servants’ blood, which has been poured out:

11 may the groans of the shackled enter before you. According to the greatness of your arm, take possession of the sons of those who have been killed.

12 And repay our neighbors sevenfold within their sinews. It is the reproach of the same ones who brought reproach against you, O Lord.

13 But we are your people and the sheep of your pasture: we will give thanks to you in all ages. From generation to generation, we will announce your praise.

1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed. The testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.

2 The One who reigns over Israel: Be attentive. For you lead Joseph like a sheep. The One who sits upon the cherubim: Shine forth

3 in the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh. Awaken your power and draw near, so as to accomplish our salvation.

4 Convert us, O God. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

5 O Lord, God of hosts, how long will you be angry over the prayer of your servant?

6 How long will you feed us the bread of tears, and give us to drink a full measure of tears?

7 You have set us as a contradiction to our neighbors. And our enemies have ridiculed us.

8 O God of hosts, convert us. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

9 You have transferred a vineyard from Egypt. You have cast out the Gentiles, and planted it.

10 You were the leader of the journey in its sight. You planted its roots, and it filled the earth.

11 Its shadow covered the hills, and its branches covered the cedars of God.

12 It extended its new branches even to the sea, and its new seedlings even to the river.

13 So then, why have you destroyed its walls, so that all those who pass by the way gather its grapes?

14 The wild boar of the forest has trampled it, and a single wild beast has laid waste to it.

15 Turn back, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard;

16 and complete what your right hand has planted, and look upon the son of man, whom you have confirmed for yourself.

17 Whatever has been set on fire and dug under will perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

18 Let your hand be over the man on your right, and over the son of man, whom you have confirmed for yourself.

19 For we do not depart from you, and you will revive us. And we will invoke your name.

20 O Lord, God of hosts, convert us. And reveal your face, and we will be saved.

1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.

2 Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.

3 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

4 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,

5 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.

6 He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.

7 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.

8 You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.

9 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,

10 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.

11 For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.

12 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.

13 And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.

14 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,

15 I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.

16 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.

17 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.

1 A Psalm of Asaph. God has stood in the synagogue of gods, but, in their midst, he decides between gods.

2 How long will you judge unjustly and favor the faces of sinners?

3 Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.

4 Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner.

5 They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved.

6 I said: You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.

7 But you will die like men, and you will fall just like one of the princes.

8 Rise up, O God. Judge the earth. For you will inherit it with all the nations.