4“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn to My servant David:
5I will establish your offspring forever,
I will confirm your throne for all generations.”
Selah.
6Your wonders, O LORD, are praised by the heavens,
Your faithfulness, too, in the assembly of holy beings.
7For who in the skies can equal the LORD,
can compare with the LORD among the divine beings,
8a God greatly dreaded in the council of holy beings,
held in awe by all around Him?
9O LORD, God of hosts,
who is mighty like You, O LORD?
Your faithfulness surrounds You;
10You rule the swelling of the sea;
when its waves surge, You still them.
11You crushed Rahab; he was like a corpse;
with Your powerful arm You scattered Your enemies.
12The heaven is Yours,
the earth too;
the world and all it holds—
You established them.
13North and south—
You created them;
Tabor and Hermon sing forth Your name.
14Yours is an arm endowed with might;
Your hand is strong;
Your right hand, exalted.
15Righteousness and justice are the base of Your throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness stand before You.
16Happy is the people who know the joyful shout;
O LORD, they walk in the light of Your presence.
17They rejoice in Your name all day long;
they are exalted through Your righteousness.
18For You are their strength in which they glory;
our horn is exalted through Your favor.
19Truly our shield is of the LORD,
our king, of the Holy One of Israel.
20Thena You spoke to Your faithful ones in a vision
and said, “I have conferred power upon a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
21I have found David, My servant;
anointed him with My sacred oil.
22My hand shall be constantly with him,
and My arm shall strengthen him.
23No enemy shall b-oppress him,-b
no vile man afflict him.
24I will crush his adversaries before him;
I will strike down those who hate him.
25My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with him;
his horn shall be exalted through My name.
26I will set his hand upon the sea,
his right hand upon the rivers.
27He shall say to Me,
‘You are my father, my God, the rock of my deliverance.’
28I will appoint him first-born,
highest of the kings of the earth.
29I will maintain My steadfast love for him always;
My covenant with him shall endure.
30I will establish his line forever,
his throne, as long as the heavens last.
31If his sons forsake My Teaching
and do not live by My rules;
32if they violate My laws,
and do not observe My commands,
33I will punish their transgression with the rod,
their iniquity with plagues.
34But I will not take away My steadfast love from him;
I will not betray My faithfulness.
35I will not violate My covenant,
or change what I have uttered.
36I have sworn by My holiness, once and for all;
I will not be false to David.
37His line shall continue forever,
his throne, as the sun before Me,
38as the moon, established forever,
an enduring witness in the sky.”
Selah.
39Yet You have rejected, spurned,
and become enraged at Your anointed.
40You have repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have dragged his dignity in the dust.
41You have breached all his defenses,
shattered his strongholds.
42All who pass by plunder him;
he has become the butt of his neighbors.
43You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries,
and made all his enemies rejoice.
44You have turned back the blade of his sword,
and have not sustained him in battle.
45You have brought b-his splendor-b to an end
and have hurled his throne to the ground.
46You have cut short the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame.
Selah.
47How long, O LORD; will You forever hide Your face,
will Your fury blaze like fire?
48O remember b-how short my life is;-b
why should You have created every man in vain?
49What man can live and not see death,
can save himself from the clutches of Sheol?
Selah.
50O LORD, where is Your steadfast love of old
which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?
51Remember, O LORD, the abuse flung at Your servants
b-that I have borne in my bosom [from] many peoples,-b
52how Your enemies, O LORD, have flung abuse,
abuse at Your anointed at every step.
53Blessed is the LORD forever;
Amen and Amen.
book four
90 A prayer of Moses, the man of God.
O Lord, You have been our refuge in every generation.
2Before the mountains came into being,
before You brought forth the earth and the world,
from eternity to eternity You are God.
3You return man to dust;a
You decreed, “Return you mortals!”
4b-For in Your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that has past,
like a watch of the night.
5You engulf men in sleep;-b
at daybreak they are like grass that renews itself;
6at daybreak it flourishes anew;
by dusk it withers and dries up.
7So we are consumed by Your anger,
terror-struck by Your fury.
8You have set our iniquities before You,
our hidden sins in the light of Your face.
9All our days pass away in Your wrath;
we spend our years like a sigh.
10The span of our life is seventy years,
or, given the strength, eighty years;
but the b-best of them-b are trouble and sorrow.
They pass by speedily, and we c-are in darkness.-c
11Who can know Your furious anger?
Your wrath matches the fear of You.
12Teach us to count our days rightly,
that we may obtain a wise heart.
13Turn, O LORD!
How long?
Show mercy to Your servants.
14Satisfy us at daybreak with Your steadfast love
that we may sing for joy all our days.
15Give us joy for as long as You have afflicted us,
for the years we have suffered misfortune.
16Let Your deeds be seen by Your servants,
Your glory by their children.
17May the favor of the LORD, our God, be upon us;
let the work of our hands prosper,
O prosper the work of our hands!
91 O you who dwell in the shelter of the Most High
and abide in the protection of Shaddai—
2I say of the LORD, my refuge and stronghold,
my God in whom I trust,
3that He will save you from the fowler’s trap,
from the destructive plague.
4He will cover you with His pinions;
you will find refuge under His wings;
His fidelity is an encircling shield.
5You need not fear the terror by night,
or the arrow that flies by day,
6the plague that stalks in the darkness,
or the scourge that ravages at noon.
7A thousand may fall at your left side,
ten thousand at your right,
but it shall not reach you.
8You will see it with your eyes,
you will witness the punishment of the wicked.
9Because you took the LORD—my refuge,
the Most High—as your haven,
10no harm will befall you,
no disease touch your tent.
11For He will order His angels
to guard you wherever you go.
12They will carry you in their hands
lest you hurt your foot on a stone.
13You will tread on cubs and vipers;
you will trample lions and asps.
14“Because he is devoted to Me I will deliver him;
I will keep him safe, for he knows My name.
15When he calls on Me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in distress;
I will rescue him and make him honored;
16I will let him live to a ripe old age,
and show him My salvation.”
92 A psalm. A song; for the sabbath day.
2It is good to praise the LORD,
to sing hymns to Your name, O Most High,
3To proclaim Your steadfast love at daybreak,
Your faithfulness each night
4With a ten-stringed harp,
with voice and lyre together.
5You have gladdened me by Your deeds, O LORD;
I shout for joy at Your handiwork.
6How great are Your works, O LORD,
how very subtlea Your designs!
7A brutish man cannot know,
a fool cannot understand this:
8though the wicked sprout like grass,
though all evildoers blossom,
it is only that they may be destroyed forever.
9But You are exalted, O LORD, for all time.
10Surely, Your enemies, O LORD,
surely, Your enemies perish;
all evildoers are scattered.
11You raise my horn high like that of a wild ox;
I am soaked in freshening oil.
12I shall see the defeat of my watchful foes,
hear of the downfall of the wicked who beset me.
13The righteous bloom like a date-palm;
they thrive like a cedar in Lebanon;
14planted in the house of the LORD,
they flourish in the courts of our God.
15In old age they still produce fruit;
they are full of sap and freshness,
16attesting that the LORD is upright,
my rock, in whom there is no wrong.
93 The LORD is king,
He is robed in grandeur;
the LORD is robed,
He is girded with strength.
The world stands firm;
it cannot be shaken.
2Your throne stands firm from of old;
from eternity You have existed.
3The ocean sounds, O LORD,
the ocean sounds its thunder,
the ocean sounds its pounding.
4Above the thunder of the mighty waters,
more majestic than the breakers of the sea
is the LORD, majestic on high.
5Your decrees are indeed enduring;
holiness befits Your house,
O LORD, for all times.
94 God of retribution, LORD,
God of retribution, appear!
2Rise up, judge of the earth,
give the arrogant their deserts!
3How long shall the wicked, O LORD,
how long shall the wicked exult,
4shall they utter insolent speech,
shall all evildoers vaunt themselves?
5They crush Your people, O LORD,
they afflict Your very own;
6they kill the widow and the stranger;
they murder the fatherless,
7thinking, “The LORD does not see it,
the God of Jacob does not pay heed.”
8Take heed, you most brutish people;
fools, when will you get wisdom?
9Shall He who implants the ear not hear,
He who forms the eye not see?
10Shall He who disciplines nations not punish,
He who instructs men in knowledge?
11The LORD knows the designs of men to be futile.
12Happy is the man whom You discipline, O LORD,
the man You instruct in Your teaching,
13to give him tranquillity in times of misfortune,
until a pit be dug for the wicked.
14For the LORD will not forsake His people;
He will not abandon His very own.
15Judgment shall again accord with justice
and all the upright shall rally to it.
16Who will take my part against evil men?
Who will stand up for me against wrongdoers?
17Were not the LORD my help,
I should soon dwell in silence.
18When I think my foot has given way,
Your faithfulness, O LORD, supports me.
19When I am filled with cares,
Your assurance soothes my soul.
20Shall the seat of injustice be Your partner,
that frames mischief by statute?
21They band together to do away with the righteous;
they condemn the innocent to death.
22But the LORD is my haven;
my God is my sheltering rock.
23He will make their evil recoil upon them,
annihilate them through
