For we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture; we will give thee thanks for ever; we will declare thy praise throughout all generations.
Hebrew / Jewish
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)
Psalms
For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian.
Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself;
before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us.
Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered.
O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant?
Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure.
Thou hast made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us.
Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause.
Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it].
Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars.
It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river.
Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it?
The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it.
O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine;
and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
[It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself.
So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
For the end, a Psalm for Asaph, concerning the wine-presses.
Rejoice ye in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.
Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast.
For [this] is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob.
He made it [to be] a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not.
He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets.
Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause.
Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me;
there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god.
For I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me.
So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways.
If my people had hearkened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways,
I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them.
The Lord's enemies [should have] lied to him: but their time shall be for ever.
And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.
A Psalm for Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst [of them] will judge gods.
How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.
Judge the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy.
Rescue the needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner.
They know not, nor understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be shaken.
I have said, Ye are gods; and all [of you] children of the Most High.
But ye die as men, and fall as one of the princes.
Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.
O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.
For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.
They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.
For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee;
even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.
Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.
Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.
They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.
Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes:
who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.
O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.
As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;
so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.
Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.
Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.
And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.
For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine-presses.
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.
Yea, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will praise thee evermore. Pause.
Blessed is the man whose help is of thee, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up
the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for [there] the law-giver will grant blessings.
They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: hearken, O God of Jacob. Pause.
Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.
For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.
O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee.
For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core.
O Lord, thou hast taken pleasure in thy land: thou hast turned back the captivity of Jacob.
Thou hast forgiven thy people their transgressions; thou hast covered all their sins. Pause.
Thou hast caused all thy wrath to cease: thou hast turned from thy fierce anger.
Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn thine anger away from us.
Wouldest thou be angry with us for ever? or wilt thou continue thy wrath from generation to generation?
O God, thou wilt turn and quicken us; and thy people shall rejoice in thee.
Shew us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me: for he shall speak peace to his people, and to his saints, and to those that turn their heart toward him.
Moreover his salvation is near them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
Mercy and truth are met together: righteousness and peace have kissed [each other].
Truth has sprung out of the earth; and righteousness has looked down from heaven.
For the Lord will give goodness; and our land shall yield her fruit.
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set his steps in the way.
A Prayer of David. O Lord, incline thine ear, and hearken to me; for I am poor and needy.
Preserve my soul, for I am holy; save thy servant, O God, who hopes in thee.
Pity me, O Lord: for to thee will I cry all the day.
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, have I lifted up my soul.
For thou, O Lord, art kind, and gentle; and plenteous in mercy to all that call upon thee.
Give ear to my prayer, O Lord; and attend to the voice of my supplication.
In the day of my trouble I cried to thee: for thou didst hear me.
There is none like to thee, O Lord, among the gods; and there are no [works] like to thy works.