Your very own tribe that You redeemed,
Mount Zion, where You dwell.
3a-Bestir Yourself-a because of the b-perpetual tumult,-b
all the outrages of the enemy in the sanctuary.
4Your foes roar inside Your meeting-place;
they take their signs for true signs.
5b-It is like men wielding axes
against a gnarled tree;
6with hatchet and pike
they hacked away at its carved work.-b
7They made Your sanctuary go up in flames;
they brought low in dishonor the dwelling-place of Your
presence.
8They resolved, “Let us destroy them altogether!”
They burned all God’s tabernacles in the land.
9No signs appear for us;
there is no longer any prophet;
no one among us knows for how long.
10Till when, O God, will the foe blaspheme,
will the enemy forever revile Your name?
11Why do You hold back Your hand, Your right hand?
b-Draw it out of Your bosom!-b
12O God, my king from of old,
who brings deliverance throughout the land;
13it was You who drove back the sea with Your might,
who smashed the heads of the monsters in the waters;
14it was You who crushed the heads of Leviathan,
who left him as food for c-the denizens of the desert;-c
15it was You who released springs and torrents,
who made mighty rivers run dry;
16the day is Yours, the night also;
it was You who set in place the orb of the sun;
17You fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
summer and winter—You made them.
18Be mindful of how the enemy blasphemes the LORD,
how base people revile Your name.
19Do not deliver Your dove to the wild beast;
do not ignore forever the band of Your lowly ones.
20Look to the covenant!
For the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of
lawlessness.
21Let not the downtrodden turn away disappointed;
let the poor and needy praise Your name.
22Rise, O God, champion Your cause;
be mindful that You are blasphemed by base men all day
long.
23Do not ignore the shouts of Your foes,
the din of Your adversaries that ascends all the time.
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75 For the leader; al tashheth.
A psalm of Asaph, a song.
2We praise You, O God;
we praise You;
Your presence is near;
men tell of Your wondrous deeds.
3“At the time I choose,
I will give judgment equitably.
4Earth and all its inhabitants dissolve;
it is I who keep its pillars firm. Selah.
5To wanton men I say, ‘Do not be wanton!’
to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horns!’ ”
6Do not lift your horns up high
a-in vainglorious bluster.-a
7For what lifts a man comes not from the east
or the west or the wilderness;b
8for God it is who gives judgment;
He brings down one man, He lifts up another.
9There is a cup in the LORD’s hand
with foaming wine fully mixed;
from this He pours;
all the wicked of the earth drink,
draining it to the very dregs.
10As for me, I will declare forever,
I will sing a hymn to the God of Jacob.
11“All the horns of the wicked I will cut;
but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.”
76 For the leader; with instrumental music.
A psalm of Asaph, a song.
2God has made Himself known in Judah,
His name is great in Israel;
3Salem became His abode;
Zion, His den.
4There He broke the fiery arrows of the bow,
the shield and the sword of war. Selah.
5You were resplendent,
glorious, on the mountains of prey.
6The stout-hearted were despoiled;
they were in a stupor;
the bravest of men could not lift a hand.
7At Your blast, O God of Jacob,
horse and chariot lay stunned.
😯 You! You are awesome!
Who can withstand You
when You are enraged?
9In heaven You pronounced sentence;
the earth was numbed with fright
10as God rose to execute judgment,
to deliver all the lowly of the earth. Selah.
11a-The fiercest of men shall acknowledge You,
when You gird on the last bit of fury.-a
12Make vows and pay them to the LORD your God;
a-all who are around Him shall bring tribute to
the Awesome One.-a
13He curbs the spirit of princes,
inspires awe in the kings of the earth.
77 For the leader; on Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.
2I cry aloud to God;
I cry to God that He may give ear to me.
3In my time of distress I turn to the Lord,
a-with my hand [uplifted];
[my eyes] flow all night without respite;-a
I will not be comforted.
4I call God to mind, I moan,
I complain, my spirit fails.
Selah.
5You have held my eyelids open;
I am overwrought, I cannot speak.
6My thoughts turn to days of old,
to years long past.
7I recall at night their jibes at me;
I commune with myself;
my spirit inquires,
8“Will the Lord reject forever
and never again show favor?
9Has His faithfulness disappeared forever?
Will His promise be unfulfilled for all time?
10Has God forgotten how to pity?
Has He in anger stifled His compassion?”
Selah.
11And I said, a-“It is my fault
that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”-a
12I recall the deeds of the LORD;
yes, I recall Your wonders of old;
13I recount all Your works;
I speak of Your acts.
14O God, Your ways are holiness;
what god is as great as God?
15You are the God who works wonders;
You have manifested Your strength among the peoples.
16By Your arm You redeemed Your people,
the children of Jacob and Joseph.
Selah.
17The waters saw You, O God,
the waters saw You and were convulsed;
the very deep quaked as well.
18Clouds streamed water;
the heavens rumbled;
Your arrows flew about;
19Your thunder rumbled like wheels;
lightning lit up the world;
the earth quaked and trembled.
20Your way was through the sea,
Your path, through the mighty waters;
Your tracks could not be seen.
21You led Your people like a flock
in the care of Moses and Aaron.
78 A maskil of Asaph.
Give ear, my people, to my teaching,
turn your ear to what I say.
2I will expound a theme,
hold forth on the lessons of the past,
3things we have heard and known,
that our fathers have told us.
4We will not withhold them from their children,
telling the coming generation
the praises of the LORD and His might,
and the wonders He performed.
5He established a decree in Jacob,
ordained a teaching in Israel,
charging our fathers
to make them known to their children,
6that a future generation might know
—children yet to be born—
and in turn tell their children
7that they might put their confidence in God,
and not forget God’s great deeds,
but observe His commandments,
8and not be like their fathers,
a wayward and defiant generation,
a generation whose heart was inconstant,
whose spirit was not true to God.
9Like the Ephraimite bowmen
who played false in the day of battle,
10they did not keep God’s covenant,
they refused to follow His instruction;
11they forgot His deeds
and the wonders that He showed them.
12He performed marvels in the sight of their fathers,
in the land of Egypt, the plain of Zoan.
13He split the sea and took them through it;
He made the waters stand like a wall.
14He led them with a cloud by day,
and throughout the night by the light of fire.
15He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as if from the great deep.
16He brought forth streams from a rock
and made them flow down like a river.
17But they went on sinning against Him,
defying the Most High in the parched land.
18To test God was in their mind
when they demanded food for themselves.
19They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a feast in the wilderness?
20True, He struck the rock and waters flowed,
streams gushed forth;
but can He provide bread?
Can He supply His people with meat?”
21The LORD heard and He raged;
fire broke out against Jacob,
anger flared up at Israel,
22because they did not put their trust in God,
did not rely on His deliverance.
23So He commanded the skies above,
He opened the doors of heaven
24and rained manna upon them for food,
giving them heavenly grain.
25Each man ate a hero’s meal;
He sent them provision in plenty.
26He set the east wind moving in heaven,
and drove the south wind by His might.
27He rained meat on them like dust,
winged birds like the sands of the sea,
28making them come down inside His camp,
around His dwelling-place.
29They ate till they were sated;
He gave them what they craved.
30They had not yet wearied of what they craved,
the food was still in their mouths
31when God’s anger flared up at them.
He slew their sturdiest,
struck down the youth of Israel.
32Nonetheless, they went on sinning
and had no faith in His wonders.
33He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden death.
34When He strucka them, they turned to Him
and sought God once again.
35They remembered that God was their rock,
God Most High, their Redeemer.
36Yet they deceived Him with their speech,
lied to Him with their words;
37their hearts were inconstant toward Him;
they were untrue to His covenant.
38But He, being merciful, forgave iniquity
and would not destroy;
He restrained His wrath time and again
and did not give full vent to His fury;
39for He remembered that they were but flesh,
a passing breath that does not return.
40How often did they defy Him in the wilderness,
did they grieve Him in the wasteland!
41Again and again they tested God,
vexedb the Holy One of Israel.
42They did not remember His strength,
or the day He redeemed them from the foe;
43how He displayed His signs in Egypt,
His wonders in the plain of Zoan.
44He turned their rivers into blood;
He made their waters undrinkable.
45He inflicted upon them swarms of insects to devour them,
frogs to destroy them.
46He gave their crops over to grubs,
their produce to locusts.
47He killed their vines with hail,
their sycamores c-with frost.-c
48He gave their beasts over to hail,
their cattle to lightning bolts.
49He inflicted His burning anger upon them,
wrath, indignation, trouble,
a band of deadly messengers.
50He cleared a path for His anger;
He did not stop short of slaying them,
but gave them over to pestilence.
51He struck every first-born in Egypt,
the first fruits of their vigor in the tents of Ham.
52He set His people moving like sheep,
drove them like a flock in the wilderness.
53He led them in safety; they were unafraid;
as for their enemies, the sea covered them.
54He brought them to His holy realm,d
the mountain His right hand had acquired.
55He expelled nations before them,
e-settled the tribes of Israel in their tents,
allotting them their portion by the line.-e
56Yet they defiantly tested God Most High,
and did not observe His decrees.
57They fell away, disloyal like their fathers;
they played false like a treacherous bow.
58They vexed Him with their high places;
they incensed Him with their idols.
59God heard it and was enraged;
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