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For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.

1My soul rests in God alone.

My salvation is from him.

2He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress.

I will never be greatly shaken.

3How long will you assault a man?

Would all of you throw him down,

like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

4They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place.

They delight in lies.

They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

5My soul, wait in silence for God alone,

for my expectation is from him.

6He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress.

I will not be shaken.

7My salvation and my honor is with God.

The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

8Trust in him at all times, you people.

Pour out your heart before him.

God is a refuge for us. Selah.

9Surely men of low degree are just a breath,

and men of high degree are a lie.

In the balances they will go up.

They are together lighter than a breath.

10Don’t trust in oppression.

Don’t become vain in robbery.

If riches increase,

don’t set your heart on them.

11God has spoken once;

twice I have heard this,

that power belongs to God.

12Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness,

for you reward every man according to his work.

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A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.

1God, you are my God.

I will earnestly seek you.

My soul thirsts for you.

My flesh longs for you,

in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

2So I have seen you in the sanctuary,

watching your power and your glory.

3Because your loving kindness is better than life,

my lips shall praise you.

4So I will bless you while I live.

I will lift up my hands in your name.

5My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food.

My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

6when I remember you on my bed,

and think about you in the night watches.

7For you have been my help.

I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

8My soul stays close to you.

Your right hand holds me up.

9But those who seek my soul to destroy it

shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

10They shall be given over to the power of the sword.

They shall be jackal food.

11But the king shall rejoice in God.

Everyone who swears by him will praise him,

for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

1Hear my voice, God, in my complaint.

Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked,

from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

3who sharpen their tongue like a sword,

and aim their arrows, deadly words,

4to shoot innocent men from ambushes.

They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

5They encourage themselves in evil plans.

They talk about laying snares secretly.

They say, “Who will see them?”

6They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!”

Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

7But God will shoot at them.

They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

8Their own tongues shall ruin them.

All who see them will shake their heads.

9All mankind shall be afraid.

They shall declare the work of God,

and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

10The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh,

and shall take refuge in him.

All the upright in heart shall praise him!

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.

1Praise waits for you, God, in Zion.

Vows shall be performed to you.

2You who hear prayer,

all men will come to you.

3Sins overwhelmed me,

but you atoned for our transgressions.

4Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near,

that he may live in your courts.

We will be filled with the goodness of your house,

your holy temple.

5By awesome deeds of righteousness, you answer us,

God of our salvation.

You who are the hope of all the ends of the earth,

of those who are far away on the sea.

6By your power, you form the mountains,

having armed yourself with strength.

7You still the roaring of the seas,

the roaring of their waves,

and the turmoil of the nations.

8They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders.

You call the morning’s dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

9You visit the earth, and water it.

You greatly enrich it.

The river of God is full of water.

You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

10You drench its furrows.

You level its ridges.

You soften it with showers.

You bless it with a crop.

11You crown the year with your bounty.

Your carts overflow with abundance.

12The wilderness grasslands overflow.

The hills are clothed with gladness.

13The pastures are covered with flocks.

The valleys also are clothed with grain.

They shout for joy!

They also sing.

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For the Chief Musician. A song. A Psalm.

1Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth!

2Sing to the glory of his name!

Offer glory and praise!

3Tell God, “How awesome are your deeds!

Through the greatness of your power, your enemies submit themselves to you.

4All the earth will worship you,

and will sing to you;

they will sing to your name.” Selah.

5Come, and see God’s deeds—

awesome work on behalf of the children of men.

6He turned the sea into dry land.

They went through the river on foot.

There, we rejoiced in him.

7He rules by his might forever.

His eyes watch the nations.

Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.

8Praise our God, you peoples!

Make the sound of his praise heard,

9who preserves our life among the living,

and doesn’t allow our feet to be moved.

10For you, God, have tested us.

You have refined us, as silver is refined.

11You brought us into prison.

You laid a burden on our backs.

12You allowed men to ride over our heads.

We went through fire and through water,

but you brought us to the place of abundance.

13I will come into your temple with burnt offerings.

I will pay my vows to you, 14which my lips promised,

and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.

15I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals,

with the offering of rams,

I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.

16Come and hear, all you who fear God.

I will declare what he has done for my soul.

17I cried to him with my mouth.

He was extolled with my tongue.

18If I cherished sin in my heart,

the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

19But most certainly, God has listened.

He has heard the voice of my prayer.

20Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer,

nor his loving kindness from me.

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For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.

1May God be merciful to us, bless us,

and cause his face to shine on us. Selah.

2That your way may be known on earth,

and your salvation among all nations,

3let the peoples praise you, God.

Let all the peoples praise you.

4Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy,

for you will judge the peoples with equity,

and govern the nations on earth. Selah.

5Let the peoples praise you, God.

Let all the peoples praise you.

6The earth has yielded its increase.

God, even our own God, will bless us.

7God will bless us.

All the ends of the earth shall fear him.

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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.

1Let God arise!

Let his enemies be scattered!

Let them who hate him also flee before him.

2As smoke is driven away,

so drive them away.

As wax melts before the fire,

so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

3But let the righteous be glad.

Let them rejoice before God.

Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

4Sing to God! Sing praises to his name!

Extol him who rides on the clouds:

to Yah, his name!

Rejoice before him!

5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows,

is God in his holy habitation.

6God sets the lonely in families.

He brings out the prisoners with singing,

but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

7God, when you went out before your people,

when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.

8The earth trembled.

The sky also poured down rain at the presence of the God of Sinai—

at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

9You, God, sent a plentiful rain.

You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.

10Your congregation lived therein.

You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

11The Lord announced the word.

The ones who proclaim it are a great company.

12“Kings of armies flee! They flee!”

She who waits at home divides the plunder,

13while you sleep among the camp fires,

the wings of a dove sheathed with silver,

her feathers with shining gold.

14When the Almighty scattered kings in her,

it snowed on Zalmon.

15The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains.

The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains,

at the mountain where God chooses to reign?

Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.

17The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands.

The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

18You have ascended on high.

You have led away captives.

You have received gifts among people,

yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens,

even the God who is our salvation. Selah.

20God is to us a God of deliverance.

To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

21But God will strike through the head of his enemies,

the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

22The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan,

I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,

23that you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood,

that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies.”

24They have seen your processions, God,

even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

25The singers went before, the minstrels followed after,

among the ladies playing with tambourines,

26“Bless God in the congregations,

even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”

27There is little Benjamin, their ruler,

the princes of Judah, their council,

the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

28Your God has commanded your strength.

Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

29Because of your temple at Jerusalem,

kings shall bring presents to you.

30Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds,

the multitude of the bulls with the calves of the peoples.

Trample under foot the bars of silver.

Scatter the nations who delight in war.

31Princes shall come out of Egypt.

Ethiopia shall hurry to stretch out her hands to God.

32Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth!

Sing praises to the Lord— Selah—

33to him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old;

behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.

34Ascribe strength to God!

His excellency is over Israel,

his strength is in the skies.

35You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries.

The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people.

Praise be to God!