Return, O Lord, how long? and be intreated concerning thy servants.
Hebrew / Jewish
Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)
Psalms
We have been satisfied in the morning with thy mercy; and we did exult and rejoice:
let us rejoice in all our days, in return for the days wherein thou didst afflict us, the years wherein we saw evil.
And look upon thy servants, and upon thy works; and guide their children.
And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and do thou direct for us the works of our hands.
Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.
He shall say to the Lord, Thou art my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him.
For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunters, from [every] troublesome matter.
He shall overshadow thee with his shoulders, and thou shalt trust under his wings: his truth shall cover thee with a shield.
Thou shalt not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day;
[nor] of the [evil] thing that walks in darkness; [nor] of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou observe and see the reward of sinners.
For thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou, my soul, hast made the Most High thy refuge.
No evils shall come upon thee, and no scourge shall draw nigh to thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee up on their hands, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt tread on the asp and basilisk: and thou shalt trample on the lion and dragon.
For he has hoped in me, and I will deliver him: I will protect him, because he has known my name.
He shall call upon me, and I will hearken to him: I am with him in affliction; and I will deliver him, and glorify him.
I will satisfy him with length of days, and shew him my salvation.
A Psalm of a Song for the Sabbath-day.
It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to thy name, O thou Most High;
to proclaim thy mercy in the morning, and thy truth by night,
on a psaltery of ten strings, with a song on the harp.
For thou, O Lord, hast made me glad with thy work: and in the operations of thy hands will I exult.
How have thy works been magnified, O Lord! thy thoughts are very deep.
A foolish man will not know, and a senseless man will not understand this.
When the sinners spring up as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity have watched; [it is] that they may be utterly destroyed for ever.
But thou, O Lord, art most high for ever.
For, behold, thine enemies shall perish; and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
But my horn shall be exalted as [the horn] of a unicorn; and mine old age with rich mercy.
And mine eye has seen mine enemies, and mine ear shall hear the wicked that rise up against me.
The righteous shall flourish as a palm-tree: he shall be increased as the cedar in Libanus.
They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
Then shall they be increased in a fine old age; and they shall be prosperous; that they may declare
that the Lord my God is righteous, and there is no iniquity in him.
For the day before the Sabbath, when the land was [first] inhabited, the praise of a Song by David. The Lord reigns; he has clothed himself with honour: the Lord has clothed and girded himself with strength; for he has established the world, which shall not be moved.
Thy throne is prepared of old: thou art from everlasting.
The rivers have lifted up, O Lord, the rivers have lifted up their voices,
at the voices of many waters: the billows of the sea are wonderful: the Lord is wonderful in high places.
Thy testimonies are made very sure: holiness becomes thine house, O Lord, for ever.
A Psalm of David for the fourth [day] of the week. The Lord is a God of vengeance; the God of vengeance has declared himself.
Be thou exalted, thou that judgest the earth: render a reward to the proud.
How long shall sinners, O Lord, how long shall sinners boast?
They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak [so].
They have afflicted thy people, O Lord, and hurt thine heritage.
They have slain the widow and fatherless, and murdered the stranger.
And they said, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob understand.
Understand now, ye simple among the people; and ye fools, at length be wise.
He that planted the ear, does he not hear? or he that formed the eye, does not he perceive?
He that chastises the heathen, shall not he punish, [even] he that teaches man knowledge?
The Lord knows the thoughts of men, that they are vain.
Blessed is the man whomsoever thou shalt chasten, O Lord, and shalt teach him out of thy law;
to give him rest from evil days, until a pit be digged for the sinful one.
For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;
until righteousness return to judgment, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Pause.
Who will rise up for me against the transgressors? or who will stand up with me against the workers of iniquity?
If the Lord had not helped me, my soul had almost sojourned in Hades.
If I said, My foot has been moved;
thy mercy, O Lord, helped me. O Lord, according to the multitude of my griefs within my heart, thy consolations have soothed my soul.
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by an ordinance?
They will hunt for the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope.
And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them.
The praise of a Song by David. Come, let us exult in the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to God our Saviour.
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
For the Lord is a great God, and a great king over all gods: for the Lord will not cast off his people.
For the ends of the earth are in his hands; and the heights of the mountains are his.
For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us.
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of irritation in the wilderness:
where your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works.
Forty years was I grieved with this generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.
When the house was built after the Captivity, a Song by David. Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing to the Lord, bless his name: proclaim his salvation from day to day.
Publish his glory among the Gentiles, his wonderful works among all people.
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is terrible above all gods.
For all the gods of the heathen are devils: but the Lord made the heavens.
Thanksgiving and beauty are before him: holiness and majesty are in his sanctuary.
Bring to the Lord, ye families of the Gentiles, bring to the Lord glory and honour.
Bring to the Lord the glory [becoming] his name: take offerings, and go into his courts.
Worship the Lord in his holy court: let all the earth tremble before him.
Say among the heathen, The Lord reigns: for he has established the world so that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people in righteousness.
Let the heavens rejoice, and the earth exult; let the sea be moved, and the fulness of it.
The plains shall rejoice, and all things in them: then shall all the trees of the wood exult before the presence of the Lord:
for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth; he shall judge the world in righteousness, and the people with his truth.
For David, when his land is established. The Lord reigns, let the earth exult, let many islands rejoice.
Cloud and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the establishment of his throne.
Fire shall go before him, and burn up his enemies round about.
His lightnings appeared to the world; the earth saw, and trembled.
The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
The heavens have declared his righteousness, and all the people have seen his glory.
Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; worship him, all ye his angels.
Sion heard and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judea exulted, because of thy judgments, O Lord.
For thou art Lord most high over all the earth; thou art greatly exalted above all gods.
Ye that love the Lord, hate evil; the Lord preserves the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of sinners.
Light is sprung up for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.