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[29] I am poor and sorrowful; but the salvation of thy countenance has helped me. [30] I will praise the name of my God with a song, I will magnify him with praise; [31] and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs. [32] Let the poor see and rejoice; seek the Lord diligently, and ye shall live. [33] For the Lord hears the poor, and does not set at nought his fettered ones. [34] Let the heavens and the earth raise him, the sea, and all things moving in them. [35] For God will save Sion, and the cities of Judea shall be built; and men shall dwell there, and inherit it. [36] And the seed of his servants shall possess it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.
Psalm 70
For the end, by David for a remembrance, that the Lord may save me.
[1] Draw nigh, O God, to my help. [2] Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek my soul: let them be turned backward and put to shame, that wish me evil. [3] Let them that say to me, Aha, aha, be turned back and put to shame immediately. [4] Let all that seek thee exult and be glad in thee: and let those that love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. [5] But I am poor and needy; O God, help me: thou art my helper and deliverer, O Lord, delay not.
Psalm 71
By David, a Psalm sung by the sons of Jonadab, and the first that were taken captive.
[1] O Lord, I have hoped in thee: let me never be put to shame. [2] In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me: incline thine ear to me, and save me. [3] Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for thou art my fortress and my refuge. [4] Deliver me, O my God, from the hand of the sinner, from the hand of the transgressor and unjust man. [5] For thou art my support, O Lord; O Lord, thou art my hope from my youth. [6] On thee have I been stayed from the womb: from the belly of my mother thou art my protector: of thee is my praise continually.
[7] I am become as it were a wonder to many: but thou art my strong helper. [8] Let my mouth be filled with praise, that I may hymn thy glory, and thy majesty all the day. [9] Cast me not off at the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails. [10] For mine enemies have spoken against me; and they that lay wait for my soul have taken counsel together, [11] saying, God has forsaken him: persecute ye and take him; for there is none to deliver him. [12] O God, go not far from me, O my God, draw nigh to my help. [13] Let those that plot against my soul be ashamed and utterly fail: let those that seek my hurt be clothed with shame and dishonour.
[14] But I will hope continually, and will praise thee more and more. [15] My mouth shall declare thy righteousness openly, and thy salvation all the day; for I am not acquainted with the affairs of men. [16] I will go on in the might of the Lord: O Lord, I will make mention of thy righteousness only. [17] O God, thou hast taught me from my youth, and until now will I declare thy wonders; [18] even until I am old and advanced in years. O God, forsake me not; until I shall have declared thine arm to all the generation that is to come: [19] even thy power and thy righteousness, O God, up to the highest heavens, even the mighty works which thou has done: O God, who is like to thee?
[20] What afflictions many and sore hast thou shewed me! yet thou didst turn and quicken me, and broughtest me again from the depths of the earth. [21] Thou didst multiply thy righteousness, and didst turn and comfort me, and broughtest me again out of the depths of the earth. [22] I will also therefore give thanks to thee, O God, because of thy truth, on an instrument of psalmody: I will sing psalms to thee on the harp, O Holy One of Israel. [23] My lips shall rejoice when I sing to thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed. [24] Moreover also my tongue shall dwell all the day upon thy righteousness; when they shall be ashamed and confounded that seek my hurt.
Psalm 72
For Solomon.
[1] O God, give thy judgment to the king, and thy righteousness to the king’s son; [2] that he may judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
[3] Let the mountains and the hills raise peace to thy people: [4] he shall judge the poor of the people in righteousness, and save the children of the needy; and shall bring low the false accuser. [5] And he shall continue as long as the sun, and before the moon for ever. [6] He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; and as drops falling upon the earth. [7] In his days shall righteousness spring up; and abundance of peace till the moon be removed. [8] And he shall have dominion from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. [9] The Ethiopians shall fall down before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust. [10] The kings of Tharsis, and the isles, shall bring presents: the kings of the Arabians and Saba shall offer gifts. [11] And all kings shall worship him; all the Gentiles shall serve him. [12] For he has delivered the poor from the oppressor; and the needy who had no helper. [13] He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall deliver the souls of the needy. [14] He shall redeem their souls from usury and injustice: and their name shall be precious before him. [15] And he shall live, and there shall be given him of the gold of Arabia: and men shall pray for him continually; and all the day shall they praise him. [16] There shall be an establishment on the earth on the tops of the mountains: the fruit thereof shall be exalted above Libanus, and they of the city shall flourish as grass of the earth.
[17] Let his name be blessed for ever: his name shall endure longer than the sun: and all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
[18] Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, who alone does wonders. [19] And blessed is his glorious name for ever, even for ever and ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his glory. So be it, so be it. [20] The hymns of David the son of Jessae are ended.
Psalm 73
A Psalm for Asaph.
[1] How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart! [2] But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped. [3] For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.
[4] For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction. [5] They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men. [6] Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. [7] Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention. [8] They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily. [9] They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth. [10] Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them. [11] And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? [12] Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.
[13] And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency. [14] For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning. [15] If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children. [16] And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me, [17] until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end.
[18] Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up. [19] How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity. [20] As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.
[21] For my heart has rejoiced, and my reins have been gladdened. [22] But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before thee. [23] Yet I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand. [24] Thou hast guided me by thy counsel, and thou hast taken me to thyself with glory. [25] For what have I in heaven but thee? and what have I desired upon the earth beside thee? [26] My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever.
[27] For, behold, they that remove themselves far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed every one that goes a whoring from thee. [28] But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
Psalm 74
A Psalm of instruction for Asaph.
[1] Wherefore hast thou rejected us, O God, for ever? wherefore is thy wrath kindled against the sheep of thy pasture? [2] Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased from the beginning; thou didst ransom the rod of thine inheritance; this mount Sion wherein thou hast dwelt. [3] Lift up thine hands against their pride continually; because of all that the enemy has done wickedly in thy holy places.
[4] And they that hate thee have boasted in the midst of thy feast; they have set up their standards for signs, [5] ignorantly as it were in the entrance above; [6] they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter. [7] They have burnt thy sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of thy name. [8] They have said in their heart, even all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth. [9] We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and God will not know us any more.
[10] How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke thy name forever? [11] Wherefore turnest thou away thine hand, and thy right hand from the midst of thy bosom for ever? [12] But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. [13] Thou didst establish the sea, in thy might, thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water. [14] Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations. [15] Thou didst cleave fountains and torrents; thou driedst up mighty rivers. [16] The day is thine, and the night is thine; thou hast prepared the sun and the moon. [17] Thou hast made all the borders of the earth; thou hast made summer and spring.
[18] Remember this thy creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked thy name. [19] Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to thee: forget not for ever the souls of thy poor. [20] Look upon thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity. [21] let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise thy name. [22] Arise, O God, plead thy cause: remember thy reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day. [23] Forget not the voice of thy suppliants: let the pride of them that hate thee continually ascend before thee.
Psalm 75
For the end, Destroy not, a Psalm of a Song for Asaph.
[1] We will give thanks to thee, O God, we will give thanks, and call upon thy name: I will declare all thy wonderful works. [2] When I shall take a set time, I will judge righteously. [3] The earth is dissolved, and all that dwell in it: I have strengthened its pillars. Pause.
[4] I said unto the transgressors, Do not transgress; and to the sinners, Lift not up the horn. [5] Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God. [6] For good comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert mountains. [7] For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another. [8] For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and he has turned it from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink them.
[9] But I will exult for ever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. [10] And I will break all the horns of sinners; but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted.
Psalm 76
For the end, among the Hymns, a Psalm for Asaph; a Song for the Assyrian.
[1] God is known in Judea: his name is great in Israel. [2] And his place has been in peace, and his dwelling-place in Sion. [3] There he broke the power of the bows, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Pause.
[4] Thou dost wonderfully shine forth from the everlasting mountains. [5] All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands. [6] At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered. [7] Thou art terrible; and who shall withstand thee, because of thine anger? [8] Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, [9] when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek in heart. Pause.
[10] For the inward thought of man shall give thanks to thee: and the memorial of his inward thought shall keep a feast to thee. [11] Vow, and pay your vows to the Lord our God; all that are round about him shall bring gifts, even to him that is terrible, [12] and that takes away the spirits of princes; to him that is terrible among the kings of the earth.
Psalm 77
For the end, for Idithun, a Psalm of Asaph.
[1] I cried to the Lord with my voice, yea, my voice was addressed to God; and he gave heed to me. [2] In the day of mine affliction I earnestly sought the Lord; even with my hands by night before him, and I was not deceived; my soul refused to be comforted. [3] I remembered God, and rejoiced; I poured out my complaint, and my soul fainted. Pause. [4] All mine enemies set a watch against me: I was troubled, and spoke not.
[5] I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient years. [6] And I meditated; I communed with my heart by night, and diligently searched my spirit, saying, [7] Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be well pleased no more? [8] Will he cut off his mercy for ever, even for ever and ever? [9] Will God forget to pity? or will he shut up his compassions in his wrath? Pause.
[10] And I said, Now I have begun; this is the change of the right hand of the Most High. [11] I remembered the works of the Lord; for I will remember thy wonders from the beginning. [12] And I will meditate on all thy works, and will consider thy doings.
[13] O God, thy way is in the sanctuary; who is a great God as our God? [14] Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast made known thy power among the nations. [15] Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Pause. [16] The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and feared; and the depths were troubled. [17] There was an abundant sound of waters: the clouds uttered a voice; for thine arrows went abroad. [18] The voice of thy thunder was abroad, and around thy lightnings appeared to the world; the earth trembled a quaked. [19] Thy way is in the sea, and thy paths in many waters, and thy footsteps cannot be known. [20] Thou didst guide thy people as sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78
A Psalm of instruction for Asaph.
[1] Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth. [2] I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning. [3] All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us. [4] They were not hid from their children to a second generations; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought.
[5] And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children: [6] that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children. [7] That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments. [8] That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.
[9] The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle. [10] They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law. [11] And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he had shewed them; [12] the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes. [13] He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle. [14] And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire. [15] he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep. [16] And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers.
[17] And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness. [18] And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls. [19] They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness? [20] Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people?
[21] Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel. [22] Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. [23] Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, [24] and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven. [25] Man ate angels’ bread; he sent them provision to the full.
[26] He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the south-west wind. [27] And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas. [28] And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents. [29] So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.
