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\id PSA - Translation 4 Translators 1
\ide 65001 - Unicode (UTF-8)
\h PSALMS
\toc1 Psalms
\toc2 Psalms
\toc3 Psa
\mt1 PSALMS
\imt Book One
\c 1
\s1 The people God is pleased with
\q1
\v 1 \add Yahweh\add* is pleased with those who do not do what the [MET] wicked people advise them to do,
\q2 and who do not imitate the behavior of [MET]sinful people,
\q1 and who do not join with people who ◄ridicule/sneer at► \add God\add*.
\q1
\v 2 Those whom God is pleased with delight in doing the things that Yahweh has instructed/taught us to do.
\q2 They read and think about Yahweh's requirements every day and every night.
\q1
\v 3 They \add constantly produce/do things that please God\add*
\q2 just like fruit trees that have been planted along the banks of a stream produce fruit at the right time every year.
\q1 \add Like\add* trees that never wither,
\q2 they succeed in everything that they do.
\b
\q1
\v 4 But wicked people are not like that!
\q2 Wicked people are \add as worthless as\add* chaff
\q2 that is blown away by the wind.
\q1
\v 5 Therefore, wicked people ◄will not be acquitted/will be condemned► [LIT] when \add God\add* judges people,
\q2 and furthermore, sinful people will not even be present when \add God\add* gathers righteous people together,
\q1
\v 6 because Yahweh guides and protects righteous people,
\q2 but the path that the wicked walk on leads them to where they will be destroyed/punished \add by God forever\add*.
\c 2
\q1
\v 1 ◄Why do the \add leaders of\add* nations rage \add against God\add*?/It is foolish for the nations to be angry \add with God\add*. ► [RHQ]
\q2 ◄Why do people plan to rebel \add against God\add* even though it is in vain?/It is useless for people to plan to rebel \add against God\add*!► [RHQ]
\q1
\v 2 The kings of the nations on earth prepared to revolt;
\q2 the rulers plotted together \add to fight\add* against Yahweh and against his chosen king.
\q1
\v 3 They shouted, “We should free ourselves from their control [MET];
\q2 we should not let them rule over us any longer!”
\b
\q1
\v 4 But the one who sits \add on his throne\add* in heaven laughs \add at them\add*;
\q2 Yahweh ridicules those rulers.
\q1
\v 5 Then, because he is angry with them, he rebukes them.
\q2 He causes them to be terrified when \add they realize\add* that he will furiously punish them.
\q1
\v 6 \add Yahweh says\add*, “I have put my king on a throne on Zion, my sacred hill \add in Jerusalem\add*.”
\q1
\v 7 \add And his king says\add*, “I will proclaim what Yahweh has decreed.
\q1 He said to me, ‘\add It is as though\add* you are my son;
\q2 today I have declared to everyone that \add it is as though\add* [MET] I am your father.
\q1
\v 8 Request me to give you the nations,
\q2 so that they belong to you \add permanently\add*,
\q2 and I will give them to you.
\q1 \add Even\add* the most remote nations will be yours.
\q1
\v 9 You will defeat them completely [MET];
\q2 you will \add destroy them like people\add* smash a clay pot with an iron rod. [SIM]’”
\b
\q1
\v 10 So then, you kings and other rulers on the earth, act wisely!
\q2 \add Heed what Yahweh is\add* warning you!
\q1
\v 11 Serve Yahweh, fervently respecting him;
\q2 Rejoice \add about what he has done for you\add* but tremble before him!
\q1
\v 12 Bow down humbly before his son!
\q2 If you do not do that, he will be angry,
\q2 and he will suddenly get rid of you.
\q1 Do not forget that he can, in one moment, show that he is very angry!
\q2 But he is very pleased with all those who request him to protect them [MET].
\c 3
\s1 A psalm written by David when he fled from his son Absalom
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I have many enemies [DOU]!
\q2 There are many people who oppose/rebel against me.
\q1
\v 2 Many people are saying about me,
\q2 “God will \add certainly\add* not help him.”
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q2
\v 3 But Yahweh, you are like a shield \add that protects me\add* [MET].
\q1 You greatly honor me, and you encourage me (OR, enable me to triumph over my enemies) [IDI].
\q1
\v 4 I cry out to you, Yahweh,
\q2 and you answer me from \add Zion\add*, your sacred hill.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 5 \add At night\add* I lie down and sleep, and I awake \add in the morning feeling good/refreshed\add*
\q2 because you, Yahweh, ◄take care of/protect► me \add all during the night\add*.
\q1
\v 6 There may be thousands of \add enemy\add* soldiers who surround me,
\q2 but I am not afraid.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, arise!
\q2 My God, \add come and\add* rescue me \add again\add*
\q1 You \add insult\add* my enemies by slapping them on their cheeks;
\q2 \add when you strike them\add*, you break their teeth,
\q2 \add with the result that they cannot hurt anyone\add* [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, you are the one who saves your people \add from their enemies\add*.
\q2 Yahweh, bless your people!
\qr (Think about that!)
\c 4
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director; a psalm to be accompanied by people playing stringed instruments
\q1
\v 1 God, answer me when I pray to you.
\q2 You are the one who vindicates me;
\q1 Rescue me from things that distress me.
\q2 Act mercifully toward me, and listen to me while I pray.
\q1
\v 2 How long will you people cause me to be disgraced instead of honoring me [RHQ]?
\q2 You \add people\add* love to falsely accuse me.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 3 All those who are loyal to Yahweh,
\q2 he has chosen them to belong to him.
\q1 Yahweh listens to me when I pray to him.
\b
\q1
\v 4 When you people get angry, do not \add allow your anger to control you and cause you to\add* sin.
\q1 While you lie on your bed,
\q2 silently examine what you are thinking in your inner being.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 5 Also, offer to Yahweh the proper sacrifices,
\q2 and continue trusting in him.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Some people ask, “Who will allow good things to happen to us?”
\q2 \add But I say\add*, “Yahweh, continue to act kindly toward us.
\q1
\v 7 You have caused me to be very happy;
\q2 I am happier than people who have harvested a great amount of grain and grapes.
\q1
\v 8 I can lie down \add at night\add* and sleep soundly
\q2 because \add I know that\add* you, Yahweh, will keep me safe.”
\c 5
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director; a psalm to be accompanied by playing flutes
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, listen to me while I pray!
\q2 Pay attention to me when I am groaning \add because I am suffering very much\add*.
\q1
\v 2 You are my King and my God.
\q1 When I call to you to request you to help me, listen to me,
\q2 because you are the one to whom I pray.
\q1
\v 3 Listen to me when I pray to you \add each\add* morning,
\q2 and I wait for you to reply.
\b
\q1
\v 4 You are not a god who is pleased with wicked people;
\q2 you do not ◄associate with/invite into your house► \add those who do what is\add* evil.
\q1
\v 5 You do not allow those who are proud to come to you to worship you.
\q2 You hate all those who do evil things.
\q1
\v 6 You get rid of liars,
\q2 and you despise those who murder \add others\add* and those who deceive \add others\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, because you greatly and faithfully love me,
\q2 I come into your temple.
\q1 I will have an awesome respect for you
\q2 and I bow down to worship you at your sacred temple.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, because you act righteously toward me,
\q2 show me what is right for me to do.
\q1 Because I have many enemies,
\q2 show me clearly what you want me to do.
\b
\q1
\v 9 My enemies never say what is true;
\q2 in their inner beings they want to destroy \add others\add*.
\q1 The things that they say [MTY] are \add as foul as\add* an open grave \add where a corpse has been buried\add*.
\q2 They use their tongues to tell lies.
\q1
\v 10 O God, declare that they are guilty [MTY] \add and punish them\add*.
\q2 Cause them to experience the same disasters/troubles that they plan to cause to happen to others.
\q1 Get rid of them because they have committed many sins,
\q2 and they have rebelled against you.
\b
\q1
\v 11 But cause that all those who go to you to be protected will rejoice;
\q2 cause them to sing joyfully to you forever.
\q1 Protect those who love you [MTY];
\q2 they are truly happy because ◄of what you \add do for them/they belong to\add* you►.
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh, you always bless those who act righteously;
\q2 you protect them like a \add soldier is protected by his\add* shield [SIM].
\c 6
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir leader, to be accompanied by people playing stringed instruments
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, do not punish me when you are angry \add with me\add*;
\q2 Do not even rebuke/scold me \add when you are angry\add*.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh, act kindly toward me and heal me because I have become weak.
\q2 My body [SYN] shakes because I am experiencing much pain.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, I am greatly troubled in my inner being.
\q2 How long ◄\add must I endure this/will it be before you help me\add*► [RHQ]?
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, please come and rescue me.
\q2 Save me because you faithfully love me.
\q1
\v 5 I will not be able to praise you after I die [RHQ];
\q2 No one in the place where the dead are praises you.
\b
\q1
\v 6 I am exhausted/groan \add because of my pain\add*.
\q2 At night I cry very much, with the result that my bed and my pillow become wet from my tears.
\q1
\v 7 Because I cry very much, I cannot see well.
\q2 My eyes have become weak because my enemies \add have caused me to cry constantly\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 8 You people who do evil things, get away from me
\q2 because Yahweh heard me when I was crying.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh heard me when I called out to him \add to help me\add*,
\q2 and he will answer my prayer.
\q1
\v 10 \add When that happens\add*, all my enemies will be ashamed,
\q2 and they will \add also\add* be terrified.
\q1 They will turn away \add from me\add* and suddenly \add leave me\add*
\q2 because they will be disgraced.
\c 7
\s1 A psalm that David sang to Yahweh because of David's enemy, Cush
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh my God, I come to you to protect me.
\q2 Rescue me, save me from all those who are pursuing me \add in order to harm me\add*.
\q1
\v 2 If you do not do that, they will tear me into pieces
\q2 like a lion does \add when it attacks the animals it want to kill\add*,
\q2 and no one will save me \add from them\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh my God, if I have done anything that is wrong,
\q2
\v 4 if I have done evil to some friend who did evil to me,
\q2 or if, for no good reason, I have spared (OR, acted violently toward) those who were my enemies,
\q1
\v 5 allow my enemies to pursue me and capture me.
\q1 Allow them to trample me into the ground
\q2 and leave me [SYN] \add lying dead\add* in the dirt.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, because you are \add very\add* angry \add with those who pursue me\add*,
\q2 arise and attack/defeat my enemies who are furiously/angrily \add attacking me\add*
\q1 Do to them what is just!
\q1
\v 7 Gather around you the people of \add all\add* nations,
\q2 and rule them from where you are in heaven [MTY].
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, judge the people of \add all\add* nations!
\q2 And, Yahweh, show that I have done nothing that is wrong.
\q1
\v 9 God, you know what every person is thinking in his inner being,
\q2 and because you are righteous, you \add always\add* do what is just/right.
\q1 \add So now\add* stop evil people from doing wicked \add deeds\add*,
\q2 and defend \add all of us who are\add* righteous!
\b
\q1
\v 10 God, you protect me like a shield \add protects soldiers\add* [MET];
\q2 you protect all those who are righteous in their inner being.
\q1
\v 11 You judge \add everyone\add* correctly,
\q2 and every day you punish \add wicked people\add*.
\q1
\v 12 Whenever your enemies do not ◄repent/change their behavior►,
\q2 \add it is as though\add* [MET] you sharpen your sword and put a string on your bow \add to get ready to kill them\add*.
\q1
\v 13 You are preparing your weapons that kill those whom they strike;
\q2 the arrows that you will shoot have flaming tips.
\q1
\v 14 Wicked people tell lies,
\q2 and they think that they surely will be able to do [MET] the evil things that they are planning to do
\q2 \add just as surely as\add* a pregnant woman \add knows that she is going to give birth to a child\add* [MET].
\q1
\v 15 But when they dig a deep pit \add to trap others\add*,
\q2 they themselves will fall into it.
\q1
\v 16 They themselves will experience the trouble that they want to cause others to have;
\q2 they will hurt themselves by the violent things that they want to do to others.
\b
\q1
\v 17 I praise Yahweh because he \add always acts\add* righteously/justly;
\q2 I sing to praise Yahweh, the one who is much greater than any other god.
\c 8
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, our Lord, people all over the world know that you [MTY] are very great!
\q2 Your glory reaches up higher than the heavens!
\q1
\v 2 You have taught little children and infants to praise you;
\q2 they cause your enemies and those who try to ◄get revenge on/get rid of► you to be silent.
\q1
\v 3 When I look up at the sky \add at night\add*,
\q2 and see the things that you have made—
\q2 the moon and the stars that you have set in place—
\q1
\v 4 it is amazing \add to me\add* that [RHQ] you think about people,
\q2 that you are concerned about \add us\add* humans!
\q1
\v 5 You made the angels in heaven to be only a little more important than we are;
\q2 you caused us to be like kings [MET] and you gave us splendor and honor [DOU]!
\q1
\v 6 You put us in charge of everything that you made;
\q2 you gave us authority over all things—
\q1
\v 7 the sheep and the cattle,
\q2 and even the wild animals,
\q1
\v 8 the birds, the fish,
\q2 and everything \add else\add* that swims in the seas.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, our Lord,
\q2 people all over the world know that you [MTY] are very great!
\c 9
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be sung using the tune ❛The death of my son❜ 
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I will praise you with all of my inner being.
\q2 I will tell \add others\add* about all the wonderful things that you have done.
\q1
\v 2 I will sing to celebrate what you [MTY], who are much greater than all other gods, \add have done\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 3 When my enemies realize \add that you are very powerful\add*,
\q2 they stumble, and then they are killed.
\q1
\v 4 You sat on your throne to judge people,
\q2 and you have judged fairly/justly concerning me.
\q1
\v 5 You rebuked the \add people of other\add* nations
\q2 and you have gotten rid of the wicked people;
\q2 you have erased their names forever.
\q1
\v 6 Our enemies have disappeared;
\q2 you destroyed their cities,
\q2 and people do not even remember them anymore.
\b
\q1
\v 7 But Yahweh rules forever.
\q2 He judges \add people while he sits\add* on his throne to judge people,
\q1
\v 8 and he will judge \add all the people in\add* [SYN] the world justly;
\q2 he will judge the people \add of all nations\add* fairly [DOU].
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh will be a refuge for those who are oppressed;
\q2 \add he will be like\add* a shelter for them when they have trouble.
\q1
\v 10 Those who know Yahweh [MTY] trust in him;
\q2 he never abandons those who come to him ◄\add for help/to worship him\add*►.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh rules from Zion \add Hill\add*;
\q2 praise him while you sing to him.
\q1 Tell \add the people of all\add* the nations the \add marvelous\add* things that he has done.
\q1
\v 12 He does not forget \add to punish\add* those who have murdered others;
\q2 \add he will punish them\add*,
\q2 and he will not ignore people who are crying because they are suffering.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh, act mercifully toward me!
\q1 Look at the ways that my enemies have injured me.
\q2 Do not allow me to die \add because of these injuries\add*.
\q1
\v 14 I want to live in order that I can praise you at the gates of Jerusalem [MTY]
\q2 and to rejoice because you rescued me.
\q1
\v 15 \add It is as though\add* the \add wicked people of many\add* nations have dug a pit for me to fall into [MET],
\q2 but they have fallen into that same pit.
\q1 \add It is as if\add* they spread out a net to catch me [MET],
\q2 but their feet have been caught in that same net.
\q1
\v 16 Because of what you have done, people know that you decide matters \add fairly/justly\add*,
\q2 but you allow wicked people to be trapped by the same evil things that they themselves do.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 17 Wicked people will all \add die and\add* be buried in their graves,
\q2 and \add their spirits\add* will go to be with all those who have ◄forgotten about/rejected► you.
\q1
\v 18 But you will not forget those who are needy/poor;
\q2 what they confidently expect will never be in vain.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh, arise and judge the \add wicked\add* people of the nations;
\q2 do not allow them to think that \add because they are strong\add* they will never be punished.
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh, teach them that they must have an awesome respect for you.
\q2 Cause them to know that they are merely human beings.
\qr (Think about that!)
\c 10
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, ◄why are you far away \add from us\add*?/it seems that you are far away \add from us\add*. ► [RHQ]
\q2 Why do you not pay attention when we have troubles [RHQ]?
\b
\q1
\v 2 People who are proud eagerly cause poor people to suffer.
\q2 So \add cause what they do to others to happen to them, like\add* people being caught in the \add same\add* traps that they set to catch others [MET]!
\q1
\v 3 They boast about the \add evil\add* things that they want to do.
\q2 They praise people who seize from others things that do not belong to them, and they curse you, Yahweh.
\q1
\v 4 The wicked people are very proud.
\q2 As a result, they do not ◄seek help from/are not concerned about► God;
\q2 they do not even think that God exists.
\q1
\v 5 But \add it seems that\add* they succeed in everything that they do.
\q2 They do not think that they will be condemned/punished for their deeds,
\q2 and they ◄sneer at/make fun of► their enemies.
\q1
\v 6 In their inner beings they think, “Nothing bad will happen to us!
\q2 We will never have troubles!”
\q1
\v 7 When they talk [MTY], they are always cursing, lying, and threatening to harm others.
\q2 They constantly say [MTY] evil things that show that they are ready to do cruel things to others.
\q1
\v 8 They hide in villages, ready to ◄ambush/suddenly attack► and kill people who ◄are innocent/have done nothing wrong►.
\q2 They constantly search for people who will not be able to ◄resist/defend themselves► \add when they are attacked\add*.
\q1
\v 9 They are like [MET] lions that crouch down and hide,
\q2 waiting to pounce on some animal.
\q2 They are like hunters that catch some helpless animal with a net and then drag it away.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Just like helpless animals are crushed,
\q2 people who cannot defend themselves are killed because wicked people are very strong.
\q1
\v 11 The wicked people say, “God will not pay any attention \add to what we do\add*.
\q2 His eyes are covered, with the result that he never sees anything.”
\b
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh God, arise \add and help us\add*
\q2 Punish [IDI] those wicked people!
\q2 And do not forget those who are suffering!
\q1
\v 13 Wicked people revile you [RHQ] continually.
\q2 They think, “God will never punish us!”
\q1
\v 14 But you see the trouble and the distress \add that they cause\add*.
\q2 People who are suffering expect that you will help them;
\q2 and you help orphans, also.
\q1
\v 15 ◄Break the arms/Destroy the power► of wicked [DOU] people!
\q2 Continue to pursue and punish them for the wicked things that they do, until they stop doing those things.
\b
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh, you are our king forever,
\q2 but \add wicked\add* nations will disappear from the earth.
\q1
\v 17 You have listened to afflicted/suffering people when they cry out to you.
\q2 You hear them \add when they pray\add*, and you encourage [IDI] them.
\q1
\v 18 You show that orphans and oppressed people have not done things that are wrong,
\q2 with the result that human beings will not cause people to be terrified anymore.
\c 11
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 I trust that Yahweh will protect [MTY] me.
\q2 So do not [RHQ] say to me, “You need to escape/flee to the mountains like birds do,
\q1
\v 2 because wicked people have hidden in the darkness,
\q1 they have pulled back their bowstrings and aimed their arrows
\q2 to shoot them at godly/righteous [IDI] people \add like you\add*.
\q1
\v 3 When people are not punished for disobeying the laws,
\q2 ◄what can righteous people do?/there is not much that righteous people can do.►” [RHQ]
\b
\q1
\v 4 But Yahweh is sitting on his throne in his sacred temple in heaven,
\q2 and he [SYN] watches everything that people do.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh examines what righteous people do and what wicked people do,
\q2 and he hates those who like to perform violent actions \add to injure others\add*.
\q1
\v 6 He will send down \add from the sky\add* flaming coals and burning sulfur,
\q2 and send scorching hot winds to punish the wicked people.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh is righteous and he loves those who act righteously;
\q2 righteous people are able to come into his presence.
\c 12
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, help us!
\q2 \add It seems that\add* people who are loyal to you have all vanished.
\q1
\v 2 Everyone tells lies to other people;
\q2 they deceive others by ◄flattering them/saying good things about them that they know are not true►.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, we wish that you would cut off their tongues
\q2 so that they cannot continue to boast.
\q1
\v 4 They say, “By telling lies we will get what we want;
\q2 we control what we say [MTY], so no one can tell us what we should not do!”
\b
\q1
\v 5 But Yahweh replies, “I have seen the violent things that they have done to helpless people;
\q2 and I have heard those people groaning,
\q2 so I will arise and rescue the people who are wanting me to help them.”
\b
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, you always do what you have promised to do;
\q2 what you have promised is \add as precious and pure as\add* silver
\q2 that has been heated seven times in a furnace \add to get rid of all the\add* impure material.
\b
\q1
\v 7-8 Wicked people strut around \add proudly\add*,
\q2 and people praise them for doing vile/wicked deeds,
\q1 but Yahweh, \add we know that\add* you will protect/rescue us
\q2 from those wicked people.
\c 13
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, how long will you continue to forget about me [RHQ]?
\q2 Will you hide yourself [SYN] from me forever?
\q1
\v 2 How long must I endure anguish/worry within myself?
\q2 Must I be miserable/sad every day?
\q2 How long will my enemies continue to defeat me?
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh my God, look at me and answer me.
\q2 Enable me to become strong \add again\add* [IDI], and do not allow me to die.
\q1
\v 4 Do not allow my enemies \add to boast and\add* to say, “We have defeated him!”
\q2 Do not allow them to defeat me,
\q2 with the result that they will rejoice about it!
\b
\q1
\v 5 But I trust that you will faithfully love me;
\q2 I will rejoice when you rescue me.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, you have done many good things for me,
\q2 so I will sing to you.
\c 14
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 \add Only\add* foolish people say to themselves, “There is no God!”
\q1 People who say those things are corrupt/worthless; they do abominable/detestable deeds;
\q2 there is not one \add of them\add* who does what is good/right.
\b
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh looks down from heaven and sees humans;
\q1 he looks to see if anyone is very wise,
\q2 with the result that he desires \add to know\add* God.
\q1
\v 3 But they are all corrupt/evil;
\q2 no one does what is good/right.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Will those evil people never learn \add what God will do to punish them\add* [RHQ]?
\q1 They act violently toward Yahweh's people while eating the food that he provides,
\q2 and they never pray to Yahweh.
\q1
\v 5 But \add some day\add* they will become very terrified
\q2 because God helps those who act righteously \add and will punish those who reject him\add*.
\q1
\v 6 Those who do evil may prevent helpless people from doing what they plan to do,
\q2 but Yahweh protects them [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 7 I wish/desire that \add Yahweh\add* would come from Jerusalem [MTY] and rescue \add us\add* Israeli people!
\q2 Yahweh, when you bless your people again,
\q2 all of us Israeli people, who are the descendants of Jacob, will rejoice.
\c 15
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, who are allowed to enter your Sacred Tent?
\q2 Who are allowed to live on your sacred mountain?
\b
\q1
\v 2 Only those who always do what is right and do not sin may do that.
\q2 They always say what is true
\q2
\v 3 and they do not slander others.
\q1 They do not do to others things that are wrong,
\q2 and they do not say bad things about others.
\q1
\v 4 \add Godly people\add* hate those whom God has rejected,
\q2 but they respect those who have an awesome respect for Yahweh.
\q1 They do what they have promised to do
\q2 even if it causes them trouble to do that.
\q1
\v 5 They lend money to others without charging interest,
\q2 and they never accept bribes in order to lie about people who have not done what is wrong.
\b
\q1 Those who do those things will never have disastrous things happen to them.
\c 16
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 God, protect me
\q2 because I go to you to keep me safe!
\b
\q1
\v 2 I said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord;
\q2 all the good things that I have come from you.”
\q1
\v 3 Your people who live in this land are wonderful;
\q2 I delight to be with them.
\q1
\v 4 Those who choose to worship other gods will have many things that cause them to be sad.
\q2 I will not join them when they make sacrifices \add to their gods\add*;
\q1 I will not even join them when they speak [MTY] the names of their gods.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, you are the one whom I have chosen,
\q2 and you give me great blessings.
\q1 You protect me and control what happens to me.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh has given me a wonderful place in which to live;
\q2 I am delighted with all the things that he has given me [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 7 I will praise Yahweh, the one who teaches/disciplines me;
\q2 even at night \add he\add* tells my inner being what is right for me to do.
\q1
\v 8 I know that Yahweh is always with me.
\q2 He is beside me;
\q2 so nothing will ◄perturb me/cause me to be worried►.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Therefore I am glad and I [MTY, DOU] rejoice;
\q2 and I can rest securely
\q1
\v 10 because you, Yahweh, will not allow my soul/spirit to remain in the place where the dead people are,
\q2 and you will not allow me, your godly one, to stay there.
\q1
\v 11 You will show me the road that leads to \add receiving eternal\add* life,
\q2 and you will make me joyful when I am with you.
\q2 I will have pleasure forever when I am ◄at your right hand/seated next to you►.
\c 17
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, listen to me while I plead with you to act justly toward me.
\q2 Hear me while I call out to you to help me.
\q1 Pay attention to what I say while I pray
\q2 because I am speaking [MTY] honestly/truthfully.
\q1
\v 2 You are the one who is able to declare that I ◄am innocent/have not done anything that was wrong►
\q2 because you see/know that I am telling the truth.
\b
\q1
\v 3 You know what I think, \add even\add* at night;
\q2 you have examined what I say and do,
\q1 and you know that I have determined to never tell any lies.
\q1
\v 4 I have not done like others do;
\q2 I have always done what is right [IDI],
\q1 and I have not acted cruelly toward others.
\q1
\v 5 I have always done what you told me to do [IDI],
\q2 I have ◄never failed to do/always done► [LIT] those things.
\b
\q1
\v 6 O God, I pray to you because you answer me;
\q2 please listen [MTY] to what I am saying.
\q1
\v 7 Show me that you faithfully love me.
\q2 By your great power [MTY] rescue those who ◄run to/trust in► you to protect them from their enemies.
\q1
\v 8 Protect me as carefully as people protect their own eyes;
\q2 protect me like \add birds\add* protect \add their babies\add* under their wings [MET].
\q1
\v 9 Do not allow wicked people to attack me;
\q2 my enemies surround me, wanting to kill me.
\b
\q1
\v 10 They never pity [IDI] anyone,
\q2 and they are always boasting.
\q1
\v 11 They have hunted/searched for me and found me.
\q2 They surround me, watching for an opportunity to throw me to the ground.
\q1
\v 12 They are like lions [SIM] that are ready to tear apart the animals that they capture;
\q2 They are like young lions that are hiding, waiting to pounce \add on some animal\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh, arise and ◄oppose/fight against► my enemies and defeat them!
\q2 With your sword, save me from those wicked people!
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh, by your power [MTY] rescue me from those people who are interested \add only\add* in things here in this world.
\b
\q1 But you provide plenty of food for those whom you love dearly;
\q2 their children also have many things that their grandchildren will inherit.
\q1
\v 15 Yahweh, because I act righteously, I will \add some day\add* see you [SYN].
\q2 When I awake, I will see you face-to-face, and then I will be happy.
\c 18
\s1 A psalm written by God's servant David. He sang it after Yahweh had rescued him from Saul and his other enemies.
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I love you, the one who enables me to be strong.
\b
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh is like a huge rock [DOU, MET] \add under which I can hide from my enemies\add*;
\q2 he is like a strong fortress, the one who protects me;
\q1 he protects me like a shield [MET] \add protects a soldier\add*;
\q2 he is the one to whom I go ◄for refuge/to be protected/safe►,
\q2 and he defends me by his great power [IDI].
\q1
\v 3 I called out to Yahweh, who deserves to be praised,
\q2 and he rescued me from my enemies.
\b
\q1
\v 4 All around me were dangerous situations in which I might be killed [PRS];
\q2 it was as though there were huge waves [MET] that almost crashed on me and killed me.
\q1
\v 5 \add It was as though\add* the place where dead people are had ropes that were wrapped around me,
\q2 or \add it was as though\add* there was a trap [MET] that would \add seize and\add* kill me.
\q1
\v 6 But when I was very distressed, I called out to Yahweh,
\q1 and from his temple he heard me.
\q2 He listened to me when I cried out \add for help\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Then the earth quaked/shook strongly [DOU],
\q2 and the mountains shook very strongly from their centers [DOU]
\q2 because Yahweh was angry.
\q1
\v 8 \add It was as though\add* smoke poured out from his nostrils,
\q2 and \add as though\add* burning coals came out of his mouth.
\q1
\v 9 He opened the sky and came down
\q2 with a black cloud under his feet.
\q1
\v 10 He flew, riding on the back of a creature that had wings,
\q2 traveling \add fast\add*, being blown along by the wind.
\q1
\v 11 Darkness was all around him \add like a blanket\add* [MET];
\q2 dark clouds, full of water moisture, covered him [MET].
\q1
\v 12 Hailstones and flashes of lightning were around him;
\q2 hail and burning coals fell down from the sky.
\q1
\v 13 Then Yahweh \add spoke in a loud voice\add* from the sky,
\q2 and \add his enemies\add* heard his voice that sounded like thunder.
\q1
\v 14 He shot his arrows at them and caused them to scatter;
\q2 His flashes of lightning caused them to become very confused (OR, to run away).
\q1
\v 15 The bottom of the ocean became visible,
\q2 and the foundations of the earth were uncovered,
\q2 when Yahweh rebuked his enemies
\q2 with the breath that came out of his nostrils.
\b
\q1
\v 16 \add It was as though\add* he reached down from heaven and grabbed me
\q2 and pulled me up out of the deep ocean.
\q1
\v 17 He rescued me from my strong enemies who hated me;
\q2 they were very strong,
\q2 with the result that I \add could not defeat them\add*.
\q1
\v 18 When I ◄was distressed/had troubles►, they attacked me,
\q2 but Yahweh defended/protected me.
\q1
\v 19 He led me to a place where I was safe;
\q2 he rescued me because he was pleased with me.
\b
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh has rewarded me because I do what is right;
\q2 he has blessed me because I ◄am innocent/have not done things that are wrong►.
\q1
\v 21 I have obeyed Yahweh's laws;
\q2 I have not abandoned him.
\q1
\v 22 My behavior was directed by his rules;
\q2 I have not stopped obeying them.
\q1
\v 23 He knows that I have not done what is wrong;
\q2 I have kept myself from sinning.
\q1
\v 24 So he rewards me because I do what is right;
\q2 he knows that I [SYN] have not committed sins.
\b
\q1
\v 25 Yahweh, you are faithful to those who faithfully \add do what you tell them to do\add*;
\q2 you always do what is good/right to those who do what you want them to do.
\q1
\v 26 You are kind to those who act kindly toward others,
\q2 but you act wisely toward those who ◄act perversely/do bad things►.
\q1
\v 27 You save those who are humble,
\q2 but you cause those who are proud to be humiliated/ashamed.
\q1
\v 28 You give light to my \add soul/spirit\add*;
\q2 you take away the darkness of my soul.
\q1
\v 29 You enable me to be strong,
\q2 with the result that I can run and attack a line of enemy soldiers;
\q2 with your help I can ◄scale/climb up► the walls \add that surround my enemies' cities\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 30 Everything that Yahweh my God does is perfect.
\q2 We can depend on him to do what he promises.
\q1 He is like a shield [MET] to protect all those who go to him for refuge.
\q1
\v 31 Yahweh is [RHQ] the only one who is God;
\q2 only he is like a huge rock \add under which we can be safe\add*.
\q1
\v 32 God is the one who enables me to be strong
\q2 and who keeps me safe on the roads that I walk on.
\q1
\v 33 He enables me to \add walk swiftly without stumbling\add*,
\q2 like a deer walks/runs in the mountains.
\q1
\v 34 He teaches me how to use a strong/metal bow
\q2 in order that I can use it to fight in battles.
\b
\q1
\v 35 Yahweh, you protect and save me with your shield;
\q2 you have made me safe by your power [MTY].
\q2 I have become ◄strong/a great \add king\add*► because you have helped me.
\q1
\v 36 You have made a wide path for me,
\q2 with the result that now I do not slip/stumble.
\b
\q1
\v 37 I have pursued my enemies and caught them;
\q2 I did not stop until I had defeated/killed them all.
\q1
\v 38 When I strike them, they are not able to get up again;
\q2 they lie on the ground, defeated.
\q1
\v 39 You have enabled me to be strong
\q2 in order that I can fight battles and defeat my enemies.
\q1
\v 40 You caused my enemies to run away (OR, you enabled me to put my foot on my enemies' necks \add after I captured them and forced them to lie on the ground\add*);
\q2 I have gotten rid of all those who hated me.
\q1
\v 41 They called out for someone to help them,
\q2 but no one saved them.
\q1
\v 42 I pulverize them,
\q2 with the result that they become like [MET] the dust that the wind \add blows away\add*;
\q2 I throw them out like [SIM] \add people throw\add* dirt out into the streets.
\b
\q1
\v 43 You enabled me to defeat those who fought against me,
\q2 and appointed me to be the ruler of many nations;
\q1 people whom I did not know about previously are now slaves \add in my kingdom\add*.
\q1
\v 44 When foreigners hear about me,
\q2 they ◄cringe/bow low before me► and they obey me.
\q1
\v 45 They are no longer courageous,
\q2 and from their forts \add where they were hiding\add* they come \add to me\add* trembling.
\b
\q1
\v 46 Yahweh is alive!
\q2 Praise the one who is like a huge rock [MET] \add under which I am safe\add*
\q2 Exalt the God who saves me!
\q1
\v 47 He enables me to get revenge on my enemies;
\q2 he causes me to defeat nations and to rule over them,
\q1
\v 48 and he rescues me from my enemies.
\q1 He has lifted me up high so that violent men could not reach me \add and harm me\add*.
\q1
\v 49 So I praise him \add and I tell\add* the nations \add the great things that he has done\add*.
\q1
\v 50 He has enabled me, his king, to powerfully defeat my enemies;
\q2 he faithfully loves me, David, the one he has chosen \add to be king\add*, and he will faithfully love my descendants forever.
\c 19
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 \add When people look at everything that\add* God \add has placed in\add* the skies, they can see that he is very great;
\q2 they can see the great things that he has created.
\q1
\v 2 Day after day \add it is as though the sun\add* proclaims \add the glory of God\add*,
\q2 and night after night \add it is as though the moon and stars\add* say that they know \add that God made them\add*.
\q1
\v 3 They do not really speak;
\q2 they do not say any words.
\q2 There is no voice \add from them\add* for anyone to hear.
\q1
\v 4 But what they declare \add about God\add* goes throughout the world,
\q2 and \add even people who live in\add* the most distant/remote places on earth can know it.
\b
\q1 The sun is in the skies where God placed it [MET];
\q1
\v 5 it rises each morning like a bridegroom \add who is happy\add* as he comes out of his bedroom after his wedding.
\q2 It is like a strong athlete who is very eager to start running in a race.
\q1
\v 6 The sun rises at one side of the sky and goes across \add the sky and sets on\add* the other side,
\q2 and nothing can hide from its heat.
\b
\q1
\v 7 The instructions that Yahweh has given us are perfect;
\q2 they ◄revive us/give us new strength►.
\q2 We can be sure that the things that Yahweh has told us will never change,
\q2 and \add by learning them\add* people who have not been previously taught/instructed will become wise.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh's laws are fair/just;
\q2 \add when we obey them\add*, we become joyful.
\q1 The commands of Yahweh are clear,
\q2 and \add by reading them\add* [PRS] we start to understand \add how God wants us to behave\add*.
\q1
\v 9 It is good for people to revere Yahweh;
\q2 that is something that they will do forever.
\q1 What Yahweh has decided is fair,
\q2 and it is always right.
\q1
\v 10 The things that God has decided are more valuable than gold,
\q2 even the finest/purest gold.
\q1 They are sweeter than honey
\q2 that drips from honeycombs.
\q1
\v 11 Furthermore, \add by reading them\add* I learn \add what things are good to do and what things are evil\add*,
\q1 and they promise a great reward
\q2 to \add us who\add* obey them.
\b
\q1
\v 12 But there is no one who can know all his errors [RHQ];
\q2 so Yahweh, forgive me for these things which I do that I do not realize are wrong.
\q1
\v 13 Keep me from doing things that I know are wrong;
\q2 do not let my sinful desires control me.
\q1 If you do that, I will no longer be guilty for committing such sins,
\q2 and I will not commit the great sin \add of rebelling terribly\add* against you.
\q1
\v 14 O Yahweh, you are \add like\add* a \add huge\add* rock [MET] under which I can be safe; you are the one who protects me.
\q2 I hope/desire that the things that I say and what I think will \add always\add* please you.
\c 20
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 I desire/hope that Yahweh will answer you \add when you call out to him\add* when you have troubles!
\q1 God is the one whom ◄\add our ancestor\add* Jacob/the Israeli people► \add worshiped\add*;
\q2 I desire/hope that he will protect you [MTY] \add from being harmed by your enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 2 I desire/hope that he will reach out from his sacred temple and help you,
\q2 and aid you from \add where he lives\add* on Zion \add Hill\add*.
\q1
\v 3 I desire/hope that he will accept all the offerings that you give him to be burned \add on the altar\add*,
\q2 and all your \add other\add* offerings.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 4 I desire/hope that he will give to you what you desire in your inner being,
\q2 and that you will be able to accomplish all that you desire to do.
\q1
\v 5 When \add we hear that\add* you have defeated \add your enemies\add*, we will shout joyfully.
\q2 We will lift up a banner proclaiming that it is God [MTY] \add who helps us \add*(inc).
\q1 I desire/wish that Yahweh will \add do for you\add* all that you request him to do.
\b
\q1
\v 6 I know now that Yahweh rescues \add me\add*, the one whom he has chosen \add to be king\add*.
\q1 From his holy place in heaven he will answer me from there,
\q2 and he will save me by his great power [MTY].
\q1
\v 7 Some \add kings\add* trust that because they have chariots \add they will be able to defeat their enemies\add*,
\q2 and some trust that their horses \add will enable them to defeat their enemies\add*,
\q2 but we will trust in the power [MTY] of Yahweh our God.
\q1
\v 8 Some will stumble and fall down,
\q2 but we will be strong and ◄not be moved/continue standing►.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, enable \add me\add*, your king, to defeat our enemies!
\q2 Answer us when we call out to you \add to help us.\add*
\c 21
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\b
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, ◄\add I\add*, your king am glad/the king is glad► because you have caused me/him to be strong.
\q2 ◄I rejoice/he rejoices► greatly because you have rescued me/him \add from my/his enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 2 You have given me/him the things that I/he [SYN] desired
\q2 and you have not refused to do what I requested you to do.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 3 In answer to my/his prayer, you enabled me/him to succeed and prosper.
\q2 You placed a gold crown on my/his head.
\q1
\v 4 I/He asked you to enable me/him to live \add for a long time\add*,
\q2 and that is what you gave me/him, a very long [HYP] life.
\q1
\v 5 ◄I am/He is► greatly honored because you have helped me/him to defeat my/his enemies;
\q2 you have given me/him splendor and majesty/praise.
\q1
\v 6 You will bless me/him forever,
\q2 and you have caused me/him to be joyful in your presence.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, you are God Almighty,
\q2 and ◄I trust/the king trusts► in you.
\q1 Because you faithfully love me/him,
\q2 disastrous things will never happen to me/him.
\b
\q1
\v 8 You will enable me/him to capture [MTY] all my/his enemies
\q2 and all those who hate me/him.
\q1
\v 9 When you appear, you will throw them into a fiery furnace.
\q1 Because you are angry \add with them\add*, you will swallow them up;
\q2 the fire will burn them up.
\q1
\v 10 You will remove their children from this earth;
\q2 their descendants will all disappear.
\q1
\v 11 They planned to harm you,
\q2 but what they plan will never succeed.
\q1
\v 12 You will cause them to run away [IDI]
\q2 by shooting arrows at them.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh, show us that you are very strong!
\q2 When you do that, while we sing we will praise you because you are very powerful.
\c 22
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be sung to the tune ❛Doe of the Dawn❜ 
\q1
\v 1 My God, my God, why have you abandoned/deserted me?
\q2 Why do you stay so far from me,
\q2 and why do you not hear/help me [RHQ]?
\q1 Why do you not hear me when I am groaning?
\q1
\v 2 My God, every day I call to you during the daytime, but you do not answer me.
\q2 I call to you during the night, but I am not able to rest/sleep.
\b
\q1
\v 3 But you are holy.
\q2 You sit on your throne as king, and \add we the people of\add* Israel praise you [PRS].
\q1
\v 4 Our ancestors trusted in you.
\q1 \add Because\add* they trusted in you, you rescued them.
\q1
\v 5 When they cried out to you, you saved them.
\q2 They trusted in you, and ◄they were not disappointed/you \add saved them\add* as you said that you would►.
\b
\q1
\v 6 But \add you have not rescued me\add*
\q2 \add People despise me and consider that I am not a man\add*;
\q2 \add they think that\add* I am a worm!
\q1 Everyone [HYP] scorns me and despises me.
\q1
\v 7 Everyone who sees me [HYP] makes fun of me.
\q2 They sneer at me and \add insult me by\add* shaking their heads \add at me as though I were an evil man\add*.
\q1 They say,
\q1
\v 8 “He trusts in Yahweh,
\q2 so Yahweh should save him!
\q1 \add He says that\add* Yahweh is very pleased with him;
\q2 if that is so, Yahweh should rescue him!”
\q1
\v 9 \add Why do\add* you \add not\add* protect me \add now as you did\add* when I was born?
\q2 I was safe even when I was ◄drinking milk from my mother's breasts/an infant►.
\q1
\v 10 \add It was as though\add* you adopted me right when I was born.
\q2 You have ◄been my God/taken care of me► ever since I was born.
\q1
\v 11 So, ◄do not stay far from/stay close to► [LIT] me now
\q2 because \add enemies who will cause me much\add* trouble are near me,
\q2 and there is no one \add else\add* who can help me.
\b
\q1
\v 12 \add My enemies\add* surround me \add like\add* a herd/group of wild bulls.
\q2 \add Fierce people, like those\add* strong bulls that graze \add on the hills\add* in Bashan \add area\add*, encircle me.
\q1
\v 13 \add They are like\add* roaring lions that are attacking the animals that they want to kill [MET] \add and eat\add*;
\q2 they rush toward me \add to kill\add* me;
\q1 they \add are like lions that\add* have their mouths open, \add ready to chew their victims to pieces\add* [MET].
\q1
\v 14 I am completely exhausted [MET],
\q2 and all my bones are out of their joints/places.
\q1 I \add no longer expect that God will save me\add*;
\q2 \add that expectation is gone completely\add*, like wax that has melted away.
\q1
\v 15 My strength is \add all dried up\add* [MET]
\q2 like a broken piece of a clay jar that has dried \add in the sun\add*.
\q2 \add I am so thirsty that\add* my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
\q2 O God, \add I think that you are about to let\add* my body die and become dust!
\q1
\v 16 My enemies [MET] surround me like a pack/group of wild dogs.
\q2 A group of evil men has encircled me, \add ready to attack me\add*.
\q2 They have \add already\add* gnashed my hands and my feet.
\q1
\v 17 \add I am so weak and thin that\add* I can count all my bones.
\q2 My enemies stare at me and ◄gloat/are happy► about \add what has happened to\add* me.
\q1
\v 18 They looked at the clothes that I \add was wearing\add*
\q2 and gambled to determine which piece each of them would get.
\b
\q1
\v 19 O Yahweh, do not stay far away from me!
\q2 You who are my \add source of\add* strength,
\q1 come quickly and help me!
\q1
\v 20 Rescue me from \add those who want to kill me with\add* their swords.
\q2 Save my life from the power of those who are \add like wild/fierce\add* dogs [MET].
\q1
\v 21 Snatch me away from \add my enemies who are\add* like lions whose jaws \add are already open, ready to chew me up\add*
\q2 Grab me away from \add those men who are like\add* wild oxen \add that attack other animals with\add* their horns [MET]!
\b
\q1
\v 22 \add If you save me from them\add*, I will declare to my fellow Israelis how great you [MTY] are.
\q2 I will praise you among the group of your people \add gathered together to worship you\add*.
\q1
\v 23 You people who have an awesome respect for Yahweh, praise him!
\q2 All you who are descended from Jacob, honor Yahweh!
\q2 All you Israeli people, revere him!
\q1
\v 24 He does not despise or ignore those who are suffering;
\q2 he does not hide ◄his face/himself► from them.
\q1 He has listened to them when they cried out to him for help.
\b
\q1
\v 25 Yahweh, in the great gathering \add of your people\add*, I will praise you for what you have done.
\q2 In the presence of those who have an awesome respect for you, I will offer \add the sacrifices\add* that I promised.
\q1
\v 26 The poor people \add whom I have invited to the meal\add* will eat as much as they want.
\q2 All who come worship Yahweh will praise him.
\q2 I pray that \add God will enable\add* you all to live a long and happy life!
\q1
\v 27 I pray that \add people in all nations, even\add* in the remote areas, will think about Yahweh and turn to him,
\q2 and that people from all the clans in the world will bow down before him.
\q1
\v 28 Because Yahweh is the king!
\q2 He rules all the nations.
\b
\q1
\v 29 I desire that all the rich people on the earth will bow before him.
\q2 Some day they will die,
\q2 but I want them to prostrate themselves on the ground in his presence \add before they die\add*.
\q1
\v 30 People ◄in the future generations/who have not been born yet► will also serve Yahweh.
\q2 Our descendants will be told about what Yahweh \add has done\add*.
\q1
\v 31 People who are not yet born, \add who will live in future years\add*, will be told how Yahweh rescued his people.
\q2 People will tell them, “Yahweh did it!”
\c 23
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you \add care for me like\add* a shepherd \add cares for his sheep\add* [MET].
\q2 \add So\add* I have everything that I need [LIT].
\q1
\v 2 You ◄\add refresh my soul/encourage me\add*►
\q1 and \add give me peace\add* [MET]
\q2 like a shepherd leads his sheep to places where is plenty of green grass \add for them to eat\add*,
\q2 and lets them rest beside streams where the water \add is flowing\add* slowly.
\q1
\v 3 You renew my strength.
\q1 You guide me along the roads that are the right ones \add for me\add*
\q2 in order that I can honor you.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Even when I walking through very dangerous dark ravines
\q2 where I might ◄die/be killed►,
\q1 I will not be afraid of anything
\q2 because you are with me.
\q1 You protect me \add like a shepherd protects his sheep\add*.
\q2 \add He uses\add* his club and his walking stick to protect them \add from being attacked by wild animals\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 5 You prepare a \add great\add* feast for me,
\q2 in a place where my enemies can see me.
\q1 You ◄\add welcome/joyfully receive me\add*►, \add as people\add* ◄\add welcome/joyfully receive\add*► \add the guests they have invited\add* [MET]
\q2 by pouring \add olive\add* oil over their heads.
\q1 You have given me very many blessings!
\q1
\v 6 I am certain that you will be good to me
\q1 and act mercifully toward me
\q2 as long as I live;
\q1 and \add then, O\add* Yahweh, I will live in your home \add in heaven\add* forever.
\c 24
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 The earth and everything in it belongs to Yahweh;
\q2 all the people in the world belong to him, too,
\q1
\v 2 because he caused the ground to be above the water,
\q2 above the water that was deep below the surface of the earth.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Who will be allowed to go up on \add Zion\add* Hill \add in Jerusalem\add*,
\q2 in order to stand \add and worship\add* in Yahweh's holy temple?
\q1
\v 4 \add Only\add* those whose actions [MTY] and thoughts are pure,
\q2 who have not worshiped idols,
\q2 and who do not tell lies when they have solemnly promised \add to tell the truth\add*.
\q1
\v 5 ◄They will be blessed by Yahweh/Yahweh will bless them►.
\q1 When God \add judges them\add*, he who has saved them will say that they ◄have done nothing wrong/are without fault►.
\q1
\v 6 They are the ones who approach God,
\q2 they are the ones who may worship God, the one we Israelis worship.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 7 Open up [APO] the \add temple\add* gates
\q2 in order that our glorious king may enter!
\q1
\v 8 \add Do you know\add* who the glorious king is?
\q2 It is Yahweh, the one who is very strong [DOU];
\q2 It is Yahweh, who conquers \add all his enemies\add* in battles!
\q1
\v 9 Open up the \add temple\add* gates
\q2 in order that our glorious king may enter!
\q1
\v 10 \add Do you know\add* who the glorious king is?
\q2 It is Yahweh almighty;
\q2 he is our glorious king!
\qr (Think about that!)
\c 25
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I give myself to you.
\q1
\v 2 My God, I trust in you.
\q1 Do not allow my enemies \add to defeat me\add*,
\q2 with the result that I would be ashamed/disgraced.
\q1 Do not allow my enemies to defeat/conquer me,
\q2 with the result that they would rejoice.
\q1
\v 3 Do not allow any of those who trust in you to be disappointed/disgraced.
\q2 Cause those who ◄act treacherously toward/try to deceive► others to be disappointed/disgraced.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, show me the way that I should ◄conduct my life/live as you want me to►,
\q2 teach me how to act in the manner that you want me to act/behave.
\q1
\v 5 Teach me to conduct my life \add by obeying\add* your truth
\q2 because you are my God, the one who saves me.
\q2 All during the day I trust in you.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, do not forget how you have acted mercifully to me and have faithfully loved me;
\q2 that is the way that you have acted toward me from long ago.
\q1
\v 7 Forgive me for all the sinful things I did and the ways that I rebelled against you when I was young;
\q2 I request this because you faithfully love your people and do good things for them,
\q1 Yahweh, do not forget me!
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh is good and fair/just;
\q2 therefore he shows sinners ◄how they should conduct their lives/how to live as you want them to►.
\q1
\v 9 He shows humble people what is right for them to do
\q2 and teaches them what he wants \add them to do\add*.
\q1
\v 10 He always faithfully loves and does what he has promised
\q2 to those who obey his agreement with them and who do what he requires.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, forgive me for all my sins, which are many,
\q2 in order that I may honor you [MTY].
\b
\q1
\v 12 To all those who have an awesome respect for you [RHQ],
\q2 you show them the ◄right way to conduct their lives/things that they should do►.
\q1
\v 13 They will always be prosperous,
\q2 and their descendants will continue to live in \add this\add* land.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh is a friend of those who have an awesome respect for him,
\q2 and he teaches them the agreement that he \add made with them\add*.
\q1
\v 15 I always request [MTY] Yahweh to help me,
\q2 and he rescues me from danger [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh, pay attention to me and be merciful to me because I am alone,
\q2 and I am greatly distressed because I am suffering/oppressed.
\q1
\v 17 Help me to not worry,
\q2 and rescue me from my troubles.
\q1
\v 18 Note that I am distressed and troubled [DOU],
\q2 and forgive \add me for\add* all my sins.
\q1
\v 19 Note that I have many enemies,
\q2 see that they hate me very much.
\q1
\v 20 Protect me, and rescue me from them;
\q2 do not allow \add them to defeat me\add*,
\q2 \add with the result that\add* I would be ashamed/disgraced;
\q1 I have gone to you to ◄get refuge/be safe►.
\q1
\v 21 Protect me because I do what is good and honest/just [PRS],
\q2 and because I trust in you.
\b
\q1
\v 22 God, rescue \add us\add* Israeli people from all of our troubles!
\c 26
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, show that I ◄am innocent/have not done what is wrong►.
\q1 I always do what is right;
\q2 I have trusted in you and never doubted \add that you would help me\add*.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh, examine what I have done and test me;
\q2 thoroughly evaluate what I think in my inner being [IDI].
\q1
\v 3 I never forget that you faithfully love me,
\q2 I conduct my life according to your truth.
\q1
\v 4 I do not spend my time with liars
\q2 and I stay away from hypocrites.
\q1
\v 5 I do not like to be with evil people,
\q2 and I avoid wicked people
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, I wash my hands to show that I ◄am innocent/have not done what was wrong►.
\q1 As I join with others marching around your altar,
\q1
\v 7 we sing songs to say that we thank you,
\q2 and we tell others the wonderful things that you \add have done\add*.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, I love \add to be in\add* the temple where you live,
\q2 in the place where your glory appears.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Do not get rid of me like you get rid of sinners;
\q2 do not cause me to die like you cause those who murder [MTY] people to die,
\q1
\v 10 and people who [SYN] are ready to do wicked things
\q2 and people who are always taking bribes.
\q1
\v 11 But as for me, I always try to do what is right.
\q2 So act kindly toward me and rescue me.
\b
\q1
\v 12 I stand in places where I am safe,
\q2 and when \add all your people\add* gather together, I praise you.
\c 27
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh is the one who gives light \add to my soul/spirit\add* and the one who saves me,
\q2 so I do not [RHQ] need to be afraid of anyone.
\q1 Yahweh is the one to whom I go for refuge,
\q2 so I will never be afraid.
\q1
\v 2 When those who do evil come near me to attack me,
\q2 they stumble and fall down.
\q1
\v 3 \add Even\add* if an army surrounds me,
\q2 I [SYN] will not be afraid.
\q1 \add Even\add* if they attack me,
\q2 I will trust \add in God\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 4 There is one thing that I have requested from Yahweh;
\q2 this is the one thing that I desire:
\q1 That I may worship in Yahweh's house/temple every day during my life,
\q2 and see that Yahweh is wonderful
\q2 and inquire \add what he wants me to do\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 5 He will protect me when I have troubles;
\q2 he will keep me safe in his temple.
\q1 He will set me safely ◄on a high rock/in a secure place►.
\q1
\v 6 Then I will triumph over [IDI] my enemies.
\q1 I will shout joyfully as I offer sacrifices in his temple,
\q2 and I will praise Yahweh as I sing.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, listen to me while I pray.
\q2 Act kindly toward me and answer my prayer.
\q1
\v 8 Within my inner being I heard you say, “Come and worship me [IDI],”
\q2 so, Yahweh, I will worship you.
\q1
\v 9 I am your servant;
\q2 Do not be angry with me and turn away from me.
\q2 You have always helped me.
\q1 You are the one who has saved me,
\q2 so do not abandon me \add now\add*.
\q1
\v 10 \add Even\add* if my father and mother desert me,
\q2 you will take care of [IDI] me.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, teach me to do what you want me to do,
\q1 and lead me on a safe path
\q2 because I have many enemies.
\q1
\v 12 Do not allow my enemies to do to me what they want;
\q2 they say many false things about me and \add threaten to do\add* violent things to me.
\b
\q1
\v 13 But I know that because I trust in you
\q2 I will experience your being good to me as long as I live.
\q1
\v 14 So trust in Yahweh, \add all of you\add*
\q2 Be strong and courageous,
\q2 and wait expectantly for him \add to help you.\add*
\c 28
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I call out to you;
\q1 \add you are like a huge\add* rock \add under which I can hide\add*.
\q1 Do not refuse to answer me,
\q2 because if you are silent, I will soon be with those who are in their graves.
\q1
\v 2 Listen to me when I call out for you \add to help me\add*,
\q2 when I lift up my hands as I face your sacred temple.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Do not drag me away with wicked people,
\q2 with those who do wicked deeds,
\q1 with those who pretend \add to act\add* peacefully toward others
\q2 while in their inner beings, they hate them.
\q1
\v 4 Punish those people in the way that they deserve for what they have done;
\q2 punish them for their evil deeds [DOU].
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, they do not pay attention to the \add wonderful\add* things that you have done and that you have created;
\q2 so get rid of them permanently and do not let them appear again!
\b
\q1
\v 6 Praise Yahweh
\q2 because he has heard me when I called out for him to help me!
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh makes me strong and \add protects\add* me \add like a shield\add* [MET];
\q2 I trusted in him, and he helped me.
\q1 I was glad in my inner being,
\q2 and from my inner being I praised him as I sang to him.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh causes us to me strong and protects us;
\q2 and he saves me, the one he appointed [MTY] to be king.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, save/rescue your people;
\q2 bless those who belong to you.
\q1 \add Take care of them like\add* a shepherd \add takes care of his sheep\add* [MET];
\q2 take care of them forever.
\c 29
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 You angels in heaven, praise Yahweh!
\q2 Praise him because he is very glorious and powerful.
\q1
\v 2 Proclaim that ◄he/his name► is glorious;
\q2 bow down before Yahweh \add when he appears\add* in his holy \add temple\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh's voice is heard above the oceans;
\q2 the glorious God thunders.
\q1 His voice thunders over the huge oceans [DOU].
\q1
\v 4 His voice is powerful and majestic.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh's voice breaks great cedar trees,
\q2 the cedars that grow in Lebanon.
\q1
\v 6 He causes \add the mountains in\add* Lebanon to jump like calves jump,
\q2 and causes Hermon Mountain to jump like a young bull jumps.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh's voice causes lightning to flash.
\q1
\v 8 His voice causes the desert to shake;
\q2 he shakes Kadesh Desert \add in the southern part of Judah\add*.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh's voice shakes the huge oak trees
\q2 and strips the leaves from the trees
\q2 while the people in the temple shout, “Praise \add God\add*!”
\b
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh ruled over the flood \add that covered the earth\add*;
\q2 he is our King who will rule forever.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh enables his people to be strong,
\q2 and he blesses them by causing things to go well for them.
\c 30
\s1 A psalm written by David for the dedication of the temple
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I praise you because you rescued me.
\q2 You did not allow \add me to die\add*,
\q2 \add with the result that\add* my enemies could gloat/rejoice.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh, my God, I called out for you to help \add me when I was ill\add*,
\q2 and you healed me.
\q1
\v 3 You saved/restored me when I was dying [MTY].
\q2 I was nearly dead,
\q2 but you caused me to become healthy again.
\b
\q1
\v 4 All you who belong to Yahweh, sing to praise him!
\q2 Think about what \add God\add*, the holy one, has done, and thank him!
\q1
\v 5 When he becomes angry, he is angry for only a very short time [HYP],
\q2 but he is good \add to us\add* all of our life.
\q1 We may cry during the night,
\q2 but the next morning we will be joyful.
\b
\q1
\v 6 As for me, when I had no troubles, I said \add to myself\add*,
\q2 “No one will defeat me!”
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, because you were good to me,
\q2 at first you caused me to be safe \add as though I was inside\add* [MET] a mountain.
\q1 But then \add I became ill, and I thought that\add* you had turned away from me,
\q2 and I became afraid.
\b
\q1
\v 8 \add Then\add* I called out to you,
\q2 and I pleaded for you \add to help me\add*.
\q1
\v 9 \add I said\add*, “Yahweh, what will you gain if I die [MTY]?
\q1 In what way will it benefit you if I go to the place where the dead people are [RHQ]?
\q1 Dead people are certainly not able to praise you [RHQ],
\q2 and they are not able to tell others that you are trustworthy [RHQ]!
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh, listen to me, and act mercifully to me!
\q2 Yahweh, help me!”
\b
\q1
\v 11 But \add now you have healed me\add*, and you have changed me from being sad to dancing \add joyfully\add*.
\q1 You have taken away the clothes that showed that I was very sad
\q2 and you have given me clothes that showed that I was \add very\add* joyful.
\q1
\v 12 So I will not be silent;
\q2 I will sing out \add loudly\add* to praise you.
\q1 Yahweh, you are my God,
\q2 and I will thank you forever.
\c 31
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I have come to you to be protected;
\q2 do not allow me to be \add defeated, with the result that I am\add* disgraced.
\q1 Since you always do what is fair/right,
\q2 rescue me!
\q1
\v 2 Listen to me, and save me right now!
\q1 Be \add like\add* a huge rock \add under which I can hide\add* [MET]
\q2 and \add like\add* a strong fort in which I will be safe.
\q1
\v 3 Yes, you are \add like\add* my huge rock and my fort;
\q2 guide me and lead me [DOU] in order that I can honor you [MTY].
\q1
\v 4 You are the one who protects me,
\q2 so keep me from falling into the hidden traps \add that my enemies have set for me\add*.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, you are a God who can be trusted,
\q1 so I put myself into your care
\q2 because you rescued me.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, I hate those who worship useless idols,
\q2 but I trust in you.
\q1
\v 7 I will be very glad [DOU] because you faithfully love me.
\q1 You see me when I have been afflicted,
\q2 and you have known when I have had troubles.
\q1
\v 8 You have not allowed my enemies to capture me;
\q2 instead, you have rescued me from danger.
\b
\q1
\v 9 \add But now\add*, Yahweh, act kindly toward me
\q2 because I am distressed.
\q1 Because I cry \add so much\add*, I cannot see well,
\q2 and I am completely exhausted.
\q1
\v 10 I have become very weak because I am \add so\add* miserable,
\q2 and it is causing my life to become shorter.
\q1 I have become weak because of all my troubles;
\q2 even my bones are becoming weaker.
\q1
\v 11 All of my enemies make fun of me,
\q2 and \add even\add* my neighbors despise me.
\q1 \add Even\add* my friends are afraid of me \add because they think I am being punished by God\add*,
\q2 and when they see me on the streets, they run away.
\q1
\v 12 People have forgotten me like they forget people who are dead.
\q2 \add They think I am as useless\add* as a broken pot.
\q1
\v 13 I have heard people slandering me,
\q2 and they have caused me to become terrified.
\q1 My enemies are making plans
\q2 in order to kill me.
\b
\q1
\v 14 But Yahweh, I trust in you.
\q2 You are my God.
\q1
\v 15 My whole life [MTY] is in your hands;
\q2 save me from my enemies,
\q2 from those who pursue me.
\q1
\v 16 Act kindly toward me
\q2 and rescue me because you always faithfully love me.
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh, I call out to you,
\q2 so do not allow me to be disgraced.
\q1 I desire that wicked people will be disgraced;
\q2 I desire/hope that they will \add soon die and\add* go down to the place where the dead people are.
\q1
\v 18 I desire that you will cause people [MTY] who tell lies to be unable to speak.
\q2 Do that for people who are proud and those who arrogantly accuse righteous people.
\b
\q1
\v 19 You have stored up many great and good things to do for those who have an awesome respect for you.
\q2 You do those good things for those who go to you to be protected;
\q2 everyone sees you doing that.
\q1
\v 20 You hide people in your presence where it is safe,
\q2 and protect them from people who plot \add to kill them\add*.
\q1 You hide them in safe places from their enemies [MTY] who accuse/insult them.
\b
\q1
\v 21 Praise Yahweh!
\q2 When my enemies surrounded the city \add in which I was living\add*,
\q2 he showed me wonderfully that he faithfully loves me.
\q1
\v 22 I was afraid, and I cried out, “I have been separated from Yahweh!”
\q2 but you heard me and answered my cry for help.
\b
\q1
\v 23 You people who belong to Yahweh, love him!
\q2 Those who are loyal to him, he protects,
\q2 but those who are very proud, he punishes them severely like they deserve to be punished.
\q1
\v 24 You who confidently expect Yahweh \add to do great things for you\add*,
\q2 be strong, be courageous!
\c 32
\s1 A psalm written by David, which will help people to be wise
\q1
\v 1 Those whom God has forgiven for rebelling against him,
\q2 whose stains of sin have been wiped away,
\q2 are truly blessed \add by God\add*
\q1
\v 2 Those whose record of their sins Yahweh has erased,
\q2 those who no longer do deceitful things,
\q2 are \add truly\add* blessed \add by God!\add*
\b
\q1
\v 3 When I did not confess my sins,
\q2 ◄my body/I► was very weak and sick,
\q2 and I groaned ◄all day long/continually►.
\q1
\v 4 Day and night, \add Yahweh\add*, you [SYN] punished me severely.
\q2 My strength disappeared like \add water that\add* ◄\add evaporates/dries up\add*► on a hot summer \add day\add*.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 5 \add Then/Finally\add* I admitted/confessed my sins to you;
\q2 I stopped trying to hide them.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1 I said \add to myself\add*,
\q2 “I will confess to Yahweh the wrong things that I have done.”
\q1 And \add when I confessed them\add*, you forgave me,
\q2 so now I ◄am no longer guilty/will no longer be punished► for my sins.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Therefore, the people who are godly should pray to you
\q2 \add when they\add* ◄ realize that they have sinned/have difficulties►.
\q1 If they do that, \add difficulties\add* [MET] will not come upon them \add like\add* a great flood.
\q1
\v 7 You are \add like\add* a place where I can hide \add from my enemies\add* [MET],
\q2 you protect me from troubles,
\q2 and you ◄enable me/\add put people around me who will enable me\add*► to shout, praising you for saving me \add from my enemies\add*.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 8 \add Yahweh says\add*, “I will instruct you about how you should conduct your life.
\q2 I will teach you and watch over you.
\q1
\v 9 Do not be stupid like horses and mules that do not have understanding;
\q2 they need ◄bits/pieces of metal put in their mouths► and ◄bridles/ropes fastened to their head►
\q2 so they will go in the direction you want them to go.”
\q1
\v 10 Wicked people will have many \add troubles that will make them\add* sad,
\q2 but those who trust in Yahweh will experience him faithfully loving them all the time.
\b
\q1
\v 11 \add So, all\add* you righteous people, rejoice about what Yahweh \add has done for you\add*;
\q2 you whose ◄inner beings/lives► are pure, be glad and shout joyfully!
\c 33
\q1
\v 1 You righteous people should shout joyfully to Yahweh
\q2 because that is what he deserves.
\q1
\v 2 Praise Yahweh as you play songs on the lyre/harp.
\q2 Praise him as you play \add other\add* instruments that have many strings.
\q1
\v 3 Sing a new song to him;
\q2 Play those instruments well, and shout joyfully as you play them.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh always does what he says that he will do;
\q2 we can trust that everything that he does is right.
\q1
\v 5 He loves everything that we do that is just and right.
\q2 People all over the earth can know that Yahweh faithfully loves us.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh created everything in the sky by commanding it.
\q2 By what he said [MTY] he created all the stars.
\q1
\v 7 He gathered all the water into one huge mass
\q2 like \add someone scoops liquid\add* into a container.
\q1
\v 8 Everyone on the earth should have a reverential respect for Yahweh [DOU].
\q1
\v 9 When he spoke, the world ◄was created/started to exist►.
\q2 Everything started to exist as a result of him commanding it.
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh frustrates the things that the \add pagan\add* nations decide to do.
\q2 He prevents them from doing the \add evil\add* things that they plan to do.
\q1
\v 11 But what Yahweh decides to do will last forever.
\q2 What he plans to do will never be changed.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh blesses those nations who choose him to be their God;
\q2 He is pleased with those whom he has chosen to receive what he has promised.
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh looks down from heaven and sees all us people.
\q1
\v 14 From where he rules [MTY], he looks down on all the people who live on the earth.
\q1
\v 15 He formed our inner beings,
\q2 and he sees everything that we do.
\q1
\v 16 It is not because a king has a great army that he is able to win \add battles\add*,
\q2 and it is not because a soldier is very strong that he is able to defeat \add his enemy\add*.
\q1
\v 17 It is foolish to trust that because horses are very strong
\q2 that they will able to win a battle and save their riders.
\q1
\v 18 Do not forget that Yahweh watches over those who have a reverential respect for him,
\q2 those who confidently expect him to faithfully love them.
\q1
\v 19 He saves them [SYN] from dying \add before they should die\add*
\q2 and preserves them when there is a famine.
\b
\q1
\v 20 We trust that Yahweh will help us;
\q2 he protects us like a shield protects a soldier [MET].
\q1
\v 21 We rejoice because of what he \add has done for us\add*;
\q2 we trust in him because he [MTY] is holy.
\q1
\v 22 Yahweh, we pray that you will always faithfully love us
\q2 while we confidently expect you \add to do great things for us\add*.
\c 34
\s1 A psalm written by David when he pretended to be insane in front of King Abimelech, so that the king would send him away
\q1
\v 1 I will always thank Yahweh;
\q2 I will constantly praise him [MTY].
\q1
\v 2 I will boast about what Yahweh \add has done\add*.
\q2 All those who are oppressed/discouraged should hear me and rejoice.
\q1
\v 3 Join with me in telling others that Yahweh is great!
\q2 You and I should together proclaim how glorious he is!
\b
\q1
\v 4 I prayed to Yahweh, and he ◄answered my prayer/did what I asked him to do►;
\q2 he rescued me from \add all those who caused me\add* to be afraid.
\q1
\v 5 Those who trust [IDI] that he \add will help them\add* will be joyful;
\q2 ◄they will never be disappointed/he will always do for them the things that he promises► [LIT].
\q1
\v 6 I was miserable/helpless, but I called out to Yahweh, and he heard me.
\q2 He rescued me from all my troubles.
\q1
\v 7 An angel from Yahweh guards those who have an awesome respect for him,
\q2 and the angel rescues them.
\q1
\v 8 Try for yourself, and you will experience that Yahweh is good to you!
\q2 He is very pleased with those who ask him to protect them.
\q1
\v 9 All you who belong to him, have an awesome respect for him!
\q2 Those who do that will always have the things that they need [LIT].
\q1
\v 10 Lions \add are usually\add* very strong, \add but sometimes\add* even young lions are hungry and become weak,
\q2 but those who trust in Yahweh will ◄have everything/not lack any good thing► [LIT] \add that they need\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 11 You ◄who are my students/whom I teach►, come and listen to me,
\q2 and I will teach you how to have an awesome respect for Yahweh.
\q1
\v 12 If [RHQ] any of you wants to enjoy life
\q2 and have a good long life,
\q1
\v 13 do not speak [MTY] what it evil!
\q2 Do not tell lies!
\q1
\v 14 Turn away from doing evil, and do what is good!
\q2 Always try hard to enable people to live peacefully \add with each other.\add*
\b
\q1
\v 15 Yahweh [MTY] carefully watches over those who \add act\add* righteously;
\q2 he always responds [MTY] to them when they call \add to him for help\add*.
\q1
\v 16 But Yahweh [SYN] ◄is opposed to/turns away from► those who do what is evil.
\q2 \add And after they die\add*, people here on earth will forget them completely.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh hears righteous people when they call out to him;
\q2 he rescues them from all their troubles.
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh is always ready to help those who are discouraged;
\q2 he rescues those who have nothing good to hope for.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Righteous people may have many troubles,
\q2 but Yahweh rescues them from all those troubles.
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh protects them from being harmed;
\q2 \add when their enemies attack them\add*,
\q3 they will not break any bones of those righteous people.
\b
\q1
\v 21 Wicked people will be killed by their own evil deeds (OR, by \add people doing to them\add* the same evil things \add that the wicked do to others\add*) [PRS],
\q2 and Yahweh will punish those who oppose righteous people.
\q1
\v 22 Yahweh will save those who serve him.
\q2 He will ◄not condemn/forgive► [LIT] those who trust in him.
\c 35
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, fight against those who fight against me!
\q2 Fight with \add my enemies\add* when they fight me!
\q1
\v 2 Be \add like\add* a shield [DOU] to protect me
\q2 and come to help me!
\q1
\v 3 Lift up your spear [DOU] and \add throw it\add* at those who pursue me!
\q2 Promise me that you will enable me to defeat \add my enemies\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Cause those who are trying to kill me to be defeated and disgraced!
\q1 Cause those who are planning to do evil things to me to be pushed back and become confused!
\q1
\v 5 Send your angel to pursue them,
\q2 and as a result cause them to disappear like chaff/straw blown away by the wind!
\q1
\v 6 Cause the path on which they run to be dark and slippery
\q2 as your angel pursues them!
\q1
\v 7 Although I did not do anything wrong to them,
\q2 they concealed a deep pit for me to fall into;
\q2 they hid a net in which they would catch me.
\q1
\v 8 Cause them to suddenly experience disaster!
\q2 Cause them to be trapped in their own nets!
\q1 Cause them to fall into the pits that they have dug for me and disappear!
\q1
\v 9 Then I will rejoice in what you, Yahweh, have done for me,
\q2 I will be glad that you have rescued me.
\q1
\v 10 With my whole inner being [SYN] I will say,
\q2 “There is no one like Yahweh [RHQ]!
\q1 No one else can rescue helpless people from powerful people [RHQ].
\q2 No one else can rescue weak and needy people from those who want to rob them.”
\b
\q1
\v 11 People who tell lies stand in court
\q2 and falsely accuse me of doing things that I do not know \add anything\add* about.
\q1
\v 12 In return for my doing good things for them, they do evil things to me,
\q2 with the result that I feel that I am alone.
\q1
\v 13 When they were ill, I showed that I was sad.
\q2 I did not eat any food, and I bowed my head as I prayed \add for them\add*.
\q1
\v 14 I mourned and bowed my head as I prayed
\q2 as though it was a friend or my mother for whom I was grieving.
\q1
\v 15 But when I had troubles, they were all happy about it.
\q2 They gathered around to make fun of me.
\q1 Strangers struck me,
\q2 and they would not stop.
\q1
\v 16 Worthless people ridicule me
\q2 and snarl at me.
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh, how long will you only watch them doing this?
\q2 Rescue me from their attacking me;
\q1 Save me from being killed by these men who are attacking me
\q2 like [MET] lions \add that are attacking other animals\add*
\q1
\v 18 Then, when many of your people gather,
\q2 I will praise you
\q1 and I will thank you in front of all of them.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Do not allow my enemies, who tell lies about me, defeat me
\q2 and then rejoice!
\q1 Do not allow those who hate me when there in no reason to hate me
\q2 to ◄smirk/smile happily►!
\q1
\v 20 They do not talk peacefully to people;
\q2 instead, they seek for ways to tell lies about people who are peaceful in their inner beings.
\q1
\v 21 They shout at me, to accuse me,
\q2 saying “We saw the wrong things that you did!”
\b
\q1
\v 22 Yahweh, you have seen these things, so do not be silent!
\q2 Do not stay far from me!
\q1
\v 23 Arise, my God, and plead my case in court,
\q2 and successfully defend me!
\q1
\v 24 Yahweh, my God, because you are righteous,
\q1 prove that I am innocent
\q2 in order that my enemies will not be able to gloat \add that I was judged to be guilty\add*.
\q1
\v 25 Do not allow them to be able to say to themselves,
\q2 “Yes, we have gotten rid of him [IDI] just like we desired!”
\b
\q1
\v 26 Cause those who rejoice about my misfortunes
\q2 to be completely defeated and disgraced;
\q1 cause those who boast that they are much greater than me
\q2 to be disgraced and dishonored!
\q1
\v 27 But cause those who desire that I be acquitted
\q2 to be happy and shout joyfully,
\q1 and cause them to continually say, “Yahweh is great!
\q2 He is delighted to cause things to go well for those who serve him.”
\q1
\v 28 Then I will proclaim that you act righteously,
\q2 and I will praise you all the day.
\c 36
\s1 A psalm written for the choir director by David, a man who served God faithfully
\q1
\v 1 \add A continual desire to\add* sin is in the inner beings of wicked people.
\q1 They consider [IDI] that they have do not need to have an awesome respect for God.
\q1
\v 2 Because they are very proud,
\q2 they do not think that God will discover their sins and condemn them (OR, they do not think about their sins and hate themselves for it).
\q1
\v 3 \add Everything\add* that they say is deceitful and full of lies;
\q2 they no longer do what is good
\q2 and are no longer wise.
\q1
\v 4 While they are lying on their beds they plan to do things to harm \add others\add*;
\q2 they are determined to do things that are not good,
\q2 and they never reject \add doing what is\add* evil.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, your faithful love for us reaches as high as the heavens,
\q2 your faithful doing what you have promised extends up to the clouds.
\q1
\v 6 Your righteous behavior is \add as permanent as\add* the highest mountains [MET],
\q2 your acting justly \add will continue as long as\add* the deepest oceans will continue.
\q1 You take care of people and you take care of animals.
\q1
\v 7 God, your faithful love for us is very precious.
\q1 You protect us like birds protect their baby birds under their wings [MET].
\q1
\v 8 You provide for us plenty of food from the abundant supply [IDI] that you have;
\q2 your great blessings for us \add flow\add* like a river.
\q1
\v 9 You are the one who causes everything to live;
\q2 your light is what enables us to see.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Continue to faithfully love those who have experienced a relationship with you,
\q2 and bless those who act righteously/justly.
\q1
\v 11 Do not allow proud people [SYN] to attack me,
\q2 or allow wicked people to chase me away.
\q1
\v 12 Look where evil people have fallen on the ground, defeated;
\q2 they were thrown down, and they will never rise again.
\c 37
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Do not be bothered/upset by what wicked \add people do\add*.
\q2 Do not desire to have the things that people who do wrong/evil things have,
\q1
\v 2 because they will soon disappear, like grass withers \add in the hot sun\add* and dries up.
\q2 Just like some green plants \add come up but\add* die \add during the hot summer\add*,
\q2 evil people will soon die also.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Trust in Yahweh, and do what is good;
\q2 if you do that, you will live safely in the land \add that he has given you\add*,
\q2 and you will live peacefully [MET].
\q1
\v 4 Be delighted with all that Yahweh \add does for you\add*;
\q2 if you do that, he will give you the things that you desire most.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Commit to Yahweh all the things that you plan to do;
\q2 trust in him,
\q2 and he will do \add whatever is needed to help you\add*.
\q1
\v 6 He will show \add as clearly\add* as the sunlight that you ◄are innocent/have done nothing that is wrong►;
\q2 he will show \add as clearly\add* as \add the sun at\add* noontime [SIM]
\q2 that all the things that you have decided are just.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Be quiet in Yahweh's presence, and wait patiently for him \add to do what you want him to do\add*.
\q2 Do not be bothered/upset when what evil men do is successful,
\q2 when they are able to do the wicked things that they plan.
\q1
\v 8 Do not be angry \add about what wicked people do\add*.
\q2 Do not want to punish them yourself.
\q2 Do not be envious of such people
\q2 because you will only harm \add yourself if you try to do that\add*.
\q1
\v 9 \add Some day Yahweh\add* will get rid of wicked people,
\q2 but those who trust in Yahweh will live \add safely\add* in the land \add that he has given to them\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Soon the wicked will disappear.
\q2 You will look for them, but they will be gone.
\q1
\v 11 But those who are humble will live safely in their land.
\q2 They will happily enjoy living peacefully and having the other good things \add that Yahweh gives them\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Wicked people plan to harm righteous/godly people;
\q2 they snarl at them [MET] \add like wild animals\add*.
\q1
\v 13 But Yahweh laughs \add at them\add*
\q2 because he knows that some day [MTY] \add he will judge and punish\add* the wicked people.
\b
\q1
\v 14 Wicked people pull out their swords/daggers
\q2 and they put strings on their bows,
\q1 ready to kill people who are poor [DOU]
\q2 and to slaughter those who live righteously.
\q1
\v 15 But they will be killed by their own swords/daggers,
\q2 and their bows will be broken.
\b
\q1
\v 16 It is good to be righteous/godly even if you do not have many possessions,
\q2 but it is bad to be wicked, even if you are very wealthy,
\q1
\v 17 because \add Yahweh\add* will completely remove the strength of wicked people,
\q2 but he will ◄sustain/take care of► people who live righteously.
\b
\q1
\v 18 Day by day Yahweh is concerned about those who have not done any evil things;
\q2 the things that Yahweh gives them will last forever.
\q1
\v 19 They will survive when calamities occur;
\q2 when there are famines, they will still have plenty to eat.
\b
\q1
\v 20 But wicked people will die;
\q2 \add just\add* like the beautiful wild flowers in the fields \add die under the hot sun\add* and disappear like smoke [MET],
\q2 Yahweh \add will cause\add* his enemies to suddenly disappear.
\b
\q1
\v 21 The wicked people borrow \add money\add*, but they are not able to repay it;
\q2 righteous/godly people, \add in contrast, have enough money that\add* they can give generously \add to others\add*.
\q1
\v 22 Those whom Yahweh has blessed will live safely in the land that he has given to them,
\q2 but he will get rid of those people whom he has cursed.
\b
\q1
\v 23 Yahweh protects those who do what is pleasing to him,
\q2 and he will enable them to walk confidently, wherever they go;
\q1
\v 24 even if they stumble, they will not fall down,
\q2 because Yahweh holds them by his hand.
\b
\q1
\v 25 I was young \add previously\add*, and now I am an old man,
\q2 but \add in all those years\add*, I have never seen that righteous/godly people have been abandoned by Yahweh,
\q2 nor have I seen that their children \add needed to\add* beg for food.
\q1
\v 26 Righteous/Godly people are generous, and happily lend \add money to others\add*,
\q2 and their children are a blessing to them.
\b
\q1
\v 27 Turn away from \add doing\add* evil, and do what is good.
\q2 If you do that, you \add and your descendants\add* will live in your land forever.
\q1
\v 28 \add That will happen\add* because Yahweh likes to see people doing what is just,
\q2 and he will never forsake righteous/godly people.
\b
\q1 He will protect them forever;
\q2 but he will get rid of the children of wicked people.
\q1
\v 29 Righteous/Godly people will own the land \add that Yahweh promised to give to them\add*,
\q2 and they will live there forever.
\b
\q1
\v 30 Righteous people give wise \add advice to others\add*,
\q2 and they [MTY] speak what is just/fair.
\q1
\v 31 They fill their minds with God's laws;
\q2 they do not stray from walking \add on God's\add* path.
\b
\q1
\v 32 Those who are evil wait in ambush for righteous people
\q2 in order to kill them \add as they walk by\add*.
\q1
\v 33 But Yahweh will not abandon righteous people,
\q2 with the result that ◄they fall into their enemies' hands/their enemies harm them►.
\q1 And he will not allow righteous people to be condemned
\q2 when someone takes them to a judge \add to be put on trial\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 34 Be patient and trust that Yahweh \add will help you\add*,
\q2 and ◄walk on his paths/do what he wants you to do►.
\q1 \add If you do that\add*, he will honor you by giving you the land \add that he promised\add*,
\q2 and when he gets rid of the wicked, you will see it happen.
\q1
\v 35 I have seen that wicked people who ◄act like tyrants/terrify people► \add sometimes\add* prosper, like trees that grow well in fertile soil,
\q1
\v 36 when I looked \add later\add*, they were gone!
\q2 I searched for them, but \add Yahweh had caused\add* them to disappear.
\b
\q1
\v 37 Notice the people who have not done evil things, those who act righteously:
\q2 Their descendants will have peace in their inner beings.
\q1
\v 38 But Yahweh will get rid of the wicked;
\q2 he will also get rid of their descendants (OR, as a result, they will not have any descendants).
\b
\q1
\v 39 Yahweh rescues righteous people;
\q2 in times of trouble he protects them [MET].
\q1
\v 40 Yahweh helps them and saves them;
\q2 he rescues them from \add being attacked/harmed by\add* wicked people
\q2 because they go to him to be protected [MET].
\c 38
\s1 A psalm written by David, asking God not to forget him
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, when you are angry \add with me\add*,
\q2 do not rebuke/scold me and punish me!
\q1
\v 2 \add Now it is as though\add* you have shot your arrows at me and wounded me;
\q2 you have struck me and knocked me down.
\q1
\v 3 Because you have been angry with me,
\q2 I am suffering great pain.
\q1 Because of my sin,
\q2 my whole body is diseased.
\q1
\v 4 All my sins are \add like a flood\add* that covers my head;
\q2 they are like a load that is very heavy, with the result that I cannot carry it.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Because I have done foolish things,
\q2 I have sores that have become worse, and they stink.
\q1
\v 6 \add Sometimes\add* I am bent over, and \add sometimes\add* I lie prostrate;
\q2 I am sad/cry all day.
\q1
\v 7 My body is burning with fever,
\q2 and I am very ill.
\q1
\v 8 I am completely exhausted, and I have no strength.
\q2 I am very distressed in my inner being, and I groan with pain.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, you know the that I desire \add to be healed\add*;
\q2 you hear me while I am groaning.
\q1
\v 10 My heat pounds heavily, and all my strength is gone.
\q2 I am no longer able to see well.
\q1
\v 11 My friends and neighbors stay away from me because of my sores;
\q2 even my own family stays far from me.
\q1
\v 12 And those who want to kill me set traps to catch me;
\q2 those who want to harm me discuss the ways that they can get rid of me;
\q2 they plot against me all day.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Now I act like a deaf man, and do not listen \add to what they say\add*.
\q2 I act like a man who cannot talk, and I say nothing \add to reply to them\add*.
\q1
\v 14 I act like a man who does not answer \add when people talk to him\add*,
\q2 because he cannot hear anything.
\q1
\v 15 But Yahweh, I trust in you.
\q2 My Lord God, you will answer me.
\q1
\v 16 I said to you, “Do not cause \add me to die, with the result that\add* my enemies will rejoice!
\q2 Do not cause me to stumble, with the result that they will be very happy!”
\b
\q1
\v 17 I say that because I am about to fall down,
\q2 and I constantly have pain.
\q1
\v 18 I confess the wrong things that I have done;
\q2 I am \add very\add* sorry for the sins that I have committed.
\q1
\v 19 My enemies are healthy and strong;
\q2 there are many people who hate me for no reason.
\q1
\v 20 Those who do evil things to me in return for my doing good things to them
\q2 oppose me because I try to do what is right.
\b
\q1
\v 21 Yahweh, do not abandon me!
\q2 My God, do not stay far from me!
\q1
\v 22 Lord, you are the one who saves/rescues me;
\q2 Quickly \add come and\add* help me!
\c 39
\s1 A psalm written by David for Jeduthun, the choir director
\q1
\v 1 I said \add to myself\add*, “I will be careful not to sin by the things that I say [MTY].
\q1 I will not say anything \add to complain to you\add*
\q2 while wicked people are near to me \add and can hear me\add*.”
\q1
\v 2 \add So\add* I was completely silent [DOU], and I did not \add even\add* talk about things that were good,
\q2 but it was useless because I began to suffer even more.
\q1
\v 3 I became very anxious/worried [IDI] in my inner being.
\q2 As I thought \add about my troubles\add*, I became more worried.
\q1 Then \add finally\add* I said [MTY],
\b
\q1
\v 4 “Yahweh, show/tell me how long I will live.
\q2 Tell me when I will die.
\q2 Tell me how many years I will live!
\q1
\v 5 \add It seems that\add* you have caused me to live only a short time;
\q2 ◄my lifetime/all the time that I have lived► seems nothing to you.
\q2 The time that all we humans live is \add as short as\add* [MET] a puff of wind.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 6 Then we disappear like a shadow does.
\q2 It seems that all that we do is for nothing/useless.
\q2 We \add sometimes\add* get a lot of money, but we do not know who will get it \add after we die\add*.
\q1
\v 7 So now, Yahweh, if I expect [RHQ] \add to receive blessings from other people\add*, I will be disappointed.
\q2 You are the \add only\add* one from whom I confidently expect \add to receive blessings\add*.
\q1
\v 8 Save me from \add being punished for\add* all the sins that I have committed.
\q2 And do not allow foolish people to make fun of me.
\q1
\v 9 I did not say anything \add when you punished me\add*,
\q2 because \add I knew that\add* you were the one who caused \add me to suffer\add*.
\q1
\v 10 But now, please stop punishing me!
\q2 \add If you do not do that\add*, I am about to die because of the ways that you [SYN] have struck/afflicted me.
\q1
\v 11 When you rebuke someone and punish him for the sin that he has committed,
\q2 you destroy the things that ◄he loves/are precious to him►, like moths' \add larva\add* destroy clothing.
\q2 Our lives \add disappear like\add* a puff of wind.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh, listen to me while I pray;
\q2 pay attention to me while I cry out to you.
\q2 Help me while I am crying.
\q1 I am here on the earth for only a short time,
\q2 like all my ancestors.
\q1
\v 13 Now please allow me to be alone \add and do not punish me anymore\add*
\q2 in order that I may smile and be happy for a while before I die. [EUP, DOU]”
\c 40
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 I waited patiently for Yahweh \add to help me\add*,
\q2 and he listened to me [DOU] when I called out to him.
\q1
\v 2 \add When I had many troubles, it was as though\add* I was in a deep pit.
\q2 But he lifted me up out of the mud and slime of that pit;
\q1 he set my feet on a \add solid\add* rock,
\q2 and enabled me to walk ◄safely/without falling►.
\q1
\v 3 He has given me a new song to sing,
\q2 a song to praise him who is our God.
\q1 Many people will find out \add what he has done for me\add*,
\q2 and they will revere and trust him.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh is pleased with those who trust him,
\q2 those who do not trust in idols
\q2 or join with those who worship those false gods.
\q1
\v 5 O Yahweh, my God, you have done many wonderful things!
\q2 No one can list all the wonderful things that you have planned for us.
\q1 If I tried to tell \add others\add* about all those wonderful things,
\q1 I would not be able to,
\q2 because there would be too many for me to mention.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Various kinds of sacrifices and other offerings are not the \add only\add* things that delight you.
\q2 You have enabled me to understand that very well [IDI].
\q1 \add Animals\add* burned \add on the altar\add* and \add other\add* offerings
\q2 are not all that you require \add for sins to be forgiven\add*.
\q1
\v 7 So I said \add to you\add*, “Yahweh, here I am,
\q2 \add to do\add* the things that have been written in the scroll \add that contains your laws\add*,
\q2 things that you want me \add to do\add*.”
\q1
\v 8 O my God, I delight to do what you desire;
\q2 I \add keep\add* your laws within my inner being.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Whenever all \add your people\add* are gathered,
\q2 I have told them about how you save us.
\q2 Yahweh, you know that I have not refused to tell that to them.
\q1
\v 10 And I have not kept within me the news that you always act justly/fairly;
\q2 when many of your people have gathered together \add to worship you in the temple\add*,
\q1 I have told them that you are faithful to us and save us.
\q2 I have not concealed that you faithfully love us and act loyally toward us.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, do not stop acting mercifully toward me.
\q2 Because you faithfully love \add me\add* [PRS] and are loyal \add to me\add*, always protect me.
\q1
\v 12 I have many troubles; I cannot count them.
\q2 My sins are like a flood that has covered me [PRS, MET];
\q2 \add they are so many that\add* I cannot see \add all of them\add*.
\q1 The sins that I have committed are more than the hairs on my head.
\q2 I am very discouraged.
\b
\q1
\v 13 O Yahweh, please save me!
\q2 Come quickly to help me!
\q1
\v 14 Humble those who are happy about my troubles, and cause them to be disgraced and ashamed.
\q2 Chase away those who are trying to get rid of me.
\q1
\v 15 I hope/desire that those who make fun of me
\q2 will be dismayed when you defeat them.
\q1
\v 16 But I hope that all those who go to \add worship\add* you will be very joyful [DOU].
\q2 I hope/desire that those who love you because you saved them will shout repeatedly,
\q1 “Yahweh is great!”
\b
\q1
\v 17 As for me, I am poor and needy [DOU];
\q2 but \add I know that\add* Yahweh has not forgotten me.
\q1 O my God, you are the one who saves and helps me,
\q2 so please come quickly \add and help me!\add*
\c 41
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh is pleased with those people who help to provide for the poor;
\q2 he will rescue those people when they have troubles.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh protects them and allows them to live \add for a long time\add*.
\q2 He enables them to be happy in the land \add of Israel\add*
\q2 and rescues them from their enemies.
\q1
\v 3 When they are sick, Yahweh strengthens them,
\q2 and he heals them.
\b
\q1
\v 4 \add When I was sick\add*, I said, “Yahweh, act mercifully toward me and heal me;
\q2 \add I know that I am sick because\add* have sinned against you.”
\q1
\v 5 My enemies say cruel things about me;
\q2 they say, “How soon will he die, and then everyone will forget about him [MTY] (OR, he will not have \add any descendants to continue\add* his name)?”
\q1
\v 6 When my enemies come to me, they falsely say that they \add are concerned about me\add*.
\q2 They listen to bad news about ◄me/my health►.
\q2 Then they go away and tell everywhere what is happening to me.
\b
\q1
\v 7 All those who hate me whisper to others about me,
\q2 and they hope/desire that very bad things will happen to me.
\q1
\v 8 They say, “He will soon die because of his being sick;
\q2 he will never get up from his bed \add before he dies\add*.”
\q1
\v 9 Even my best friend, whom I trusted very much,
\q2 who \add often\add* ate with me,
\q2 has ◄betrayed me/put me into my enemies' hands► [IDI].
\b
\q1
\v 10 But Yahweh, act mercifully to me, and enable me to become healthy \add again\add*.
\q2 When you do that, I will be able to ◄pay back my enemies/get revenge on my enemies/cause my enemies to suffer like they caused me to suffer►.
\q1
\v 11 \add If you enable me to\add* do that, with the result that my enemies do not defeat me,
\q2 I will know that you are pleased with me.
\q1
\v 12 \add I will know that\add* it is because I have done what is right that you have helped me,
\q2 and \add I will know that\add* you will enable me to be with you forever.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis \add worship\add*;
\q2 Praise him forever!
\q2 Amen! I desire that it will be so!
\c 42
\ms1 Book Two
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Deer pant, desiring to drink water from a stream \add when there is a drought\add* (OR, \add when they are being pursued by hunters\add*.
\q2 In the same way [SIM], God, I need you very much.
\q1
\v 2 I desire to have fellowship with [MET] you, the all-powerful God.
\q2 \add I say to myself\add*, “When will I be able to go \add back to the temple in Israel\add*
\q2 and worship in your presence again?”
\q1
\v 3 Every day and every night I cry;
\q2 the only thing I have to drink is my tears;
\q1 and while I do that, my enemies are continually asking me,
\q2 “Why does your god not \add help you\add*?”
\q1
\v 4 I am very distressed [IDI] as I remember
\q2 when I went with the crowd of people to the temple \add in Jerusalem\add*,
\q2 leading them as we walked along;
\q1 we were all shouting joyfully and singing to thank God \add for what he had done\add*;
\q2 we were a large group who were celebrating.
\b
\q1
\v 5 So \add I say to\add* myself, “◄Why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► [RHQ]
\q1 I confidently expect God \add to bless me\add*,
\q2 and again I will praise him,
\q2 my God, the one who saves me.”
\b
\q1
\v 6 \add But now, Yahweh\add*, I am very discouraged [IDI],
\q2 so I think about you.
\q1 \add You are there in Israel\add* where the Jordan \add River\add* rushes down from the bottom of Hermon \add Mountain\add* and Mizar Mountain.
\q1
\v 7 But here, the great sorrow that I feel is like water that you send down [MET];
\q2 \add it is like\add* a waterfall that tumbles down and floods over me.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh shows me each day that he faithfully loves me,
\q2 and each night I sing to him
\q2 and pray to him, the God who causes me to live.
\b
\q1
\v 9 I say to God, \add who is like\add* a huge rock \add under which I can hide\add* [MET],
\q1 “◄Why have you forgotten me, with the result that I <mourn/cry> constantly because my enemies act cruelly toward me?/It seems that you have forgotten me, with the result that I <mourn/cry> constantly because my enemies act cruelly toward me.►” [RHQ]
\q1
\v 10 They make fun of me constantly;
\q2 they continually ask, “Why does your god not help you?” [RHQ]
\q1 And when they insult me \add like that\add*,
\q2 \add it is like\add* wounds that shatter/smash my bones.
\b
\q1
\v 11 But \add I say to\add* myself,
\q2 “◄Why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► [RHQ]
\q1 I will confidently expect God \add to bless me\add*,
\q2 and I will praise him again,
\q2 my God, the one who saves me.”
\c 43
\s1 (A continuation of psalm 42)
\q1
\v 1 God, declare that I ◄am innocent/have not done things that are wrong►.
\q1 Defend me when ◄ungodly people/people who do not worship you► say things against me,
\q2 rescue me from people who deceive and \add say things about me that are\add* not true.
\q1
\v 2 You are God, the one who protects me;
\q2 ◄why have you abandoned me?/it seems that you have abandoned me!► [RHQ]
\q1 It does not seem right that [RHQ] I am forced to mourn/cry constantly
\q2 because of my enemies acting cruelly toward me.
\q1
\v 3 Show your light to me and speak your truth to me;
\q1 and by your words guide me,
\q2 and take me back to Zion, your sacred hill \add at Jerusalem\add*,
\q2 and to \add your temple\add*, where you live.
\q1
\v 4 When you do that, I will go to your altar,
\q2 to \add worship you\add*, my God, who causes me to be extremely joyful.
\q2 There I will praise you, the God whom I \add worship\add*, while I play my harp.
\b
\q1
\v 5 So ◄why am I sad and discouraged?/I should not be sad and discouraged!► [RHQ]
\q1 I confidently expect God \add to bless me\add*,
\q2 and I will praise him again,
\q2 my God, the one who saves me.
\c 44
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 God, we ourselves have heard
\q2 what our parents and grandparents told us.
\q1 They told us about the miracles
\q2 that you performed long ago.
\q1
\v 2 \add They told us\add* how you expelled the ungodly people
\q2 and enabled us to live in their land.
\q1 They told us that you punished those ungodly people
\q2 and enabled your own people to prosper [IDI].
\q1
\v 3 It was not by using their own swords that they conquered the people that lived in that land,
\q2 and it was not by their own power that they were victorious;
\q1 it was only by your power [MTY, DOU] \add that they did those things\add*;
\q2 and they were sure that you were with them,
\q2 and that showed that you were pleased with them.
\b
\q1
\v 4 You are my King and my God;
\q2 it is you who enable us, your people [MTY], to defeat our enemies.
\q1
\v 5 It is by your power that we knock our enemies down and tramp on them.
\q1
\v 6 I do not trust that I will be saved
\q2 by using my bow \add and arrows\add* and my sword.
\q1
\v 7 No, it is you who have rescued us from our enemies,
\q2 it is you who have caused those who hate us to become ashamed \add because they were defeated\add*.
\q1
\v 8 We have continually boasted about what God \add has done for us\add*,
\q2 and we will thank him [MTY] forever.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 9 But \add now\add* you have rejected us and caused us to be disgraced;
\q2 when our armies march out \add to fight a battle\add*, you no longer go with them.
\q1
\v 10 You have caused us to run away from our enemies,
\q2 with the result that they captured the things that belonged to us.
\q1
\v 11 You have allowed us to become like [MET] sheep that were ready to be slaughtered;
\q2 you scattered us \add far away\add* among other nations.
\q
\v 12 \add It is as though\add* [MET] you sold us, your people, \add to our enemies\add* for a very small price,
\q2 and you did not gain much profit from selling us!
\b
\q1
\v 13 People who live in nations near us make fun of us;
\q2 they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.
\q1
\v 14 They make jokes using the name of \add our country\add*,
\q2 they shake their heads \add to indicate that they despise us\add*.
\q1
\v 15 All day I feel disgraced;
\q2 from seeing my face, people know that I am ashamed.
\q
\v 16 I hear what those who sneer at me and revile me say;
\q2 I am ashamed in front of my enemies and those who want to harm me.
\b
\q1
\v 17 All these things have happened to us
\q2 \add even\add* though we have not forgotten you,
\q2 and we are not the ones who disobeyed the agreement you made with \add our ancestors\add*.
\q1
\v 18 We have not stopped being loyal to you,
\q2 and we have not stopped doing what you want us to do [IDI].
\q1
\v 19 But \add it is as though\add* you have allowed us to be helpless among wild animals,
\q2 and abandoned us in a deep dark \add ravine\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 20 If we had forgotten to worship [MTY] our God,
\q2 or if we had spread out our hands to \add worship\add* a foreign god,
\q1
\v 21 you certainly would have known that,
\q2 because you know \add even\add* what we secretly think.
\q1
\v 22 But it is because we belong to you,
\q2 \add that our enemies\add* are constantly killing us.
\q1 They act toward us as though we were only sheep to be slaughtered.
\b
\q1
\v 23 \add So\add*, Yahweh, arise! Why are you asleep?
\q2 Get up! Do not reject us forever!
\q
\v 24 Why are you not looking at us?
\q2 Why are you forgetting that we are suffering and being oppressed \add by our enemies\add*?
\b
\q1
\v 25 We are pushed down to the ground
\q2 and we cannot get up.
\q1
\v 26 Arise, and come and help us!
\q2 Rescue us because you faithfully love us.
\c 45
\s1 A love song written by one of the descendants of Korah, for the choir director, to be sung to the tune ❛Lilies❜ 
\q1
\v 1 In my inner being I am aroused/stimulated by a beautiful message
\q2 which will be sung to the king.
\q2 The words of this message will be written with a pen by me, a skilled writer.
\b
\q1
\v 2 \add O King\add*, you are the most handsome man in the world,
\q2 and you always speak [MTY] eloquently!
\q1 So God has always blessed you.
\q1
\v 3 You who are a mighty warrior, put on your sword!
\q2 You are glorious and majestic.
\q
\v 4 Ride on like a great chief
\q2 to defend the truth that you speak
\q2 and the fair decisions that you make!
\q1 Because you are strong [MTY],
\q2 you will do awesome deeds.
\q1
\v 5 Your arrows are sharp,
\q2 and they pierce the hearts of your enemies.
\q2 Soldiers of many nations will fall at your feet.
\q1
\v 6 The kingdom [MTY] that God will give to you will remain forever.
\q2 You rule [MTY] people justly.
\q1
\v 7 You love right actions,
\q2 and you hate evil actions.
\q1 Therefore God, your God, has chosen [MTY] you \add to be king\add*
\q2 and caused you to be happier [MET] than any other king.
\q1
\v 8 The perfume of various spices is on your robes.
\q2 \add People\add* ◄entertain you/make you happy► in ivory palaces
\q2 by playing stringed instruments.
\q1
\v 9 Among the women who stay in the place where the women who sleep with you [EUP] stay are daughters of \add other\add* kings.
\q2 And at your right hand stands \add your bride\add*, the queen, wearing beautiful ornaments of gold that comes from Ophir.
\b
\q1
\v 10 \add Now I will say something\add* to your bride:
\q1 Listen to me carefully [DOU]!
\q2 Forget the people who live in your home country,
\q2 forget your relatives!
\q1
\v 11 Because you are \add very \add*beautiful,
\q2 the king will desire \add to sleep with\add* [EUP] you.
\q2 He is your master, so you must obey him.
\q1
\v 12 The people from Tyre \add city\add* will bring gifts to you;
\q2 their rich people will try to persuade you to do favors for them.
\b
\q1
\v 13 \add O king\add*, your bride will be entering the palace
\q2 wearing beautiful robes made from gold thread.
\q1
\v 14 While she is wearing a gown that has many colors,
\q2 her companions will lead her to you.
\q2 She will have many other young women who accompany her.
\q1
\v 15 They will be very joyful [DOU] as they are led along
\q2 to enter your palace.
\b
\q1
\v 16 Some day, your sons and your grandsons will become kings,
\q2 just like your ancestors were.
\q1 You will enable them to become rulers in many countries [HYP].
\q1
\v 17 And as for me, I will enable people in every generation to remember the great things that you [MTY] have done,
\q2 and people will praise you forever.
\c 46
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 God is the one who protects us and causes us to be strong;
\q2 he is always ready to help us when we have troubles.
\q1
\v 2 So, even if the earth shakes,
\q2 we will not be afraid.
\q1 Even if the mountains fall into the middle of the sea,
\q1
\v 3 and if the water in the sea roars and foams,
\q2 and the hills shake violently,
\q2 we will not be afraid!
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 4 \add Blessings that come from\add* God are like a river that makes everyone in the city where \add we worship\add* God joyful.
\q2 It is the city where the temple of God, who is greater than any other god, exists.
\q1
\v 5 God is in this city, and it will never be destroyed;
\q2 he will \add come to\add* help \add the people in\add* that city at dawn every day.
\q1
\v 6 \add Sometimes\add* the \add people of many\add* nations are terrified;
\q2 kingdoms ◄are overthrown/cease to exist►;
\q1 God speaks \add loudly like thunder\add*,
\q2 and the earth melts (OR, people everywhere become terrified) [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 7 But Yahweh, the commander of the armies of heaven, is with us;
\q2 the God whom Jacob worshiped (OR, we Israeli people worship) is our refuge.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 8 Come and ◄see/think about► the amazing things that Yahweh has done [DOU]!
\q
\v 9 He stops wars all over the world;
\q2 he breaks bows \add and arrows\add*;
\q2 he destroys spears;
\q2 he burns up shields.
\q1
\v 10 \add God says\add*, “Be quiet, and remember that I am God!
\q2 I will be honored by the people of all nations.
\q2 I will be honored all over the earth.”
\b
\q1
\v 11 \add So never forget that\add* Yahweh, the commander of the armies of heaven, is with us;
\q2 the God whom Jacob worshiped (OR, we Israeli people worship) is our refuge.
\qr (Think about that!)
\c 47
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 You people all \add over the world\add*, clap your hands!
\q2 Shout joyfully to \add praise\add* God!
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh, who is much greater than any other god, is awesome;
\q2 he is a king who rules over all the world!
\q1
\v 3 He enabled us to defeat \add the armies of\add* the people-groups \add that lived in Canaan\add*.
\q
\v 4 He chose for us this land where we now live;
\q2 we Israeli people [MTY], whom he loves, are proud that we own this land.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 5 God has gone up \add into his temple\add*.
\q2 The people shouted joyfully and blew trumpets as Yahweh went up.
\q1
\v 6 Sing songs to praise our God!
\q2 Sing to praise him [DOU]!
\q2 Sing to God, our king!
\b
\q1
\v 7 God is the one who rules over everything in the world;
\q2 sing a psalm to him!
\q1
\v 8 God sits on his sacred throne
\q2 as he rules over the people of \add all\add* ethnic groups.
\q1
\v 9 The rulers of those people-groups gather as God's people \add do\add*, the people \add descended\add* from Abraham.
\q1 But God has more power than the weapons/shields \add of all the kings\add* on the earth;
\q2 ◄he is greatly honored/people honor him► everywhere.
\c 48
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh is great, and he deserved to be greatly praised in the city where he \add lives\add*,
\q2 \add which is built on Zion\add*, his sacred hill.
\q1
\v 2 That city, on a high \add hill\add*, is beautiful;
\q2 it is the city where the true \add God\add*, the great king \add lives\add*,
\q2 and it causes people all over the world to rejoice \add when they see it\add*.
\q1
\v 3 God is in the strong towers there,
\q2 and he shows that he protects the people in that city.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Many kings gathered \add with their armies\add* to attack \add that city\add*,
\q1
\v 5 but when they saw it, they were amazed;
\q2 they became terrified, and ran away.
\q1
\v 6 Because they were very afraid, they trembled
\q2 like a woman who is about to give birth to a child;
\q1
\v 7 they shook \add like\add* ships sailing from Tarshish are shaken by a strong wind.
\b
\q1
\v 8 We had heard \add that this city is glorious\add*,
\q1 and now we have seen that it is.
\q2 It is the city in which Yahweh, the one who is greater that all their gods, \add lives\add*.
\q2 It is the city which God will preserve/protect forever.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 9 God, \add here\add* in your temple we think about your faithfully loving us.
\q1
\v 10 You [MTY] are famous and ◄are praised/people praise you► all over the earth,
\q2 because you rule powerfully [MTY] and justly.
\q1
\v 11 The people who live near Zion Hill should be happy!
\q1 The people in \add all\add* the cities [MTY] of Judah should rejoice
\q2 because you judge people fairly.
\b
\q1
\v 12 \add You Israeli people should\add* walk around Zion \add Hill\add*
\q2 and count the towers there;
\q1
\v 13 notice the walls there and examine the forts
\q2 in order that you can tell about them to your children.
\q1
\v 14 \add Say to them\add*, “This is \add the city of\add* our God, \add the one who lives\add* forever;
\q2 he will guide us during all of our lives.”
\c 49
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 You people of all ethnic groups, listen!
\q1 You people all over the world,
\q2
\v 2 important people and unimportant people,
\q2 rich people and poor people,
\q1 everyone, \add listen to what I am saying\add*,
\q1
\v 3 \add because\add* what I am thinking is very sensible,
\q2 and what I say will enable you to become wise.
\q1
\v 4 I think about [MTY] ◄proverbs/wise sayings►,
\q2 and while I play my harp, I explain what they mean.
\b
\q1
\v 5 I am not [RHQ] afraid when I am in trouble/danger,
\q2 when I am surrounded by my enemies,
\q1
\v 6 by evil men who trust that \add things will always go well for them because\add* they are wealthy,
\q2 and who boast about being very rich.
\q1
\v 7 \add They may be rich\add*, but no one can pay money,
\q2 with the result that he would live forever!
\q1 No one can pay God enough so that God will allow him \add to continue\add* to live,
\q1
\v 8 because that is cost is too big,
\q2 and he will never be able to pay enough,
\q1
\v 9 with the result that he will live forever
\q2 and never \add die and\add* be buried!
\b
\q1
\v 10 We see that foolish and stupid people die,
\q1 but we see that wise people also die;
\q2 they all leave their wealth, and others inherit it.
\q1
\v 11 They once had \add houses on\add* land that they owned,
\q1 \add but now\add* their graves are their homes forever,
\q2 the place where they will stay for all time!
\b
\q1
\v 12 Even if people are great, that cannot prevent them from dying;
\q2 people all die, the same as the animals do.
\b
\q1
\v 13 That is what happens to those who foolishly trust \add in what they have accomplished\add*,
\q2 to those who are delighted in \add all\add* that they possess.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 14 They are certain to die just like sheep,
\q2 when a shepherd leads them away to be slaughtered. [PRS, MET]
\q1 In the morning the righteous people will rule over them,
\q1 and then \add those wealthy people will die and\add* their bodies will quickly decay in their graves;
\q2 they will be where dead people are, far from their homes.
\q1
\v 15 But it is certain that God will rescue me so that I am not held fast in the place of the dead;
\q2 he will take me \add to heaven\add*.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 16 \add So\add* do not be dismayed when someone becomes rich
\q2 and the houses where they live become more and more luxurious,
\q1
\v 17 because when he dies, he will take nothing with him;
\q2 his wealth will not go with him.
\q1
\v 18 While \add a rich person\add* is alive, he congratulates himself,
\q2 and people praise him for being successful,
\q1
\v 19 but he will \add die and\add* join his ancestors,
\q2 who will never see daylight again.
\b
\q1
\v 20 Even if someone is great, that cannot prevent him from dying;
\q2 he will die, the same as the animals do.
\c 50
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph
\q1
\v 1 God, the all-powerful one, speaks;
\q1 he summons all people,
\q2 from the east to the west.
\q1
\v 2 His glory shines from Zion \add Hill in Jerusalem\add*,
\q2 an extremely beautiful city.
\q
\v 3 Our God comes to us,
\q2 and he is not silent.
\q1 A great fire is in front of him,
\q2 and a storm is around him.
\q1
\v 4 He comes to judge his people.
\q1 He shouts to the \add angels in\add* heaven
\q2 and to \add the people on\add* the earth.
\q1
\v 5 He says, “Summon those who faithfully \add worship\add* me,
\q2 those who made an agreement with me by offering sacrifices to me.”
\q
\v 6 The \add angels in\add* heaven declare,
\q2 “God is righteous,
\q2 and he is the supreme judge.”
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 7 God says, “My people, listen!
\q2 You Israeli people, listen,
\q1 as I, your God, say what you have done that is wrong.
\q1
\v 8 I am not rebuking you for making sacrifices to me,
\q2 for the offerings that you completely burn \add on the altar\add*.
\q1
\v 9 But I do not really need the bulls from your barns
\q2 and the goats from your pens \add that you sacrifice\add*,
\q1
\v 10 because all the animals in the forest belong to me,
\q2 \add and all\add* the cattle on a thousand hills also belong to me.
\q1
\v 11 I \add own and\add* know all the birds
\q2 and all the creatures that move around in the fields.
\q1
\v 12 So, if I were hungry, I would not tell you \add to bring me some food\add*,
\q2 because everything in the world belongs to me!
\q1
\v 13 I do not eat the flesh of the bulls \add that you sacrifice\add*,
\q2 and I do not drink the blood of the goats \add that you offer to me\add*.
\q1
\v 14 The sacrifice \add that I really want is that\add* you thank me
\q2 and do all that you have promised to do.
\q1
\v 15 And pray to me when you have troubles.
\q2 \add If you do that\add*, I will rescue you, and \add then\add* you will praise me.
\q1
\v 16 But I say this to the wicked people:
\q1 ◄Why do you/It does not benefit you at all to► [RHQ] recite my commandments
\q2 or talk about the agreement that I made with you,
\q1
\v 17 because you have refused to allow me to discipline you,
\q2 and you have rejected what I told you to do.
\q1
\v 18 Every time that you see a thief, you become his friend,
\q2 and you spend \add much\add* time with those who commit adultery.
\q1
\v 19 You are \add always\add* talking [MTY] about doing wicked things,
\q2 and you are always trying to deceive people.
\q1
\v 20 You are always accusing members of your own family
\q2 and slandering them.
\q1
\v 21 You did \add all\add* those things, and I did not say anything to you,
\q2 \add so\add* you thought that I was \add a sinner\add* just like you.
\q1 But now I rebuke you and accuse you, right in front of you.
\b
\q1
\v 22 So, all you who have ignored me, pay attention to this,
\q1 because if you do not, I will tear you to pieces,
\q2 and there will be no one to rescue you.
\q
\v 23 The sacrifice that \add truly\add* honors me is to thank me \add for what I have done\add*;
\q2 and I will save those who always do the things that I want them to.”
\c 51
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, concerning the time when the prophet Nathan rebuked David after he had committed adultery with Bathsheba
\q1
\v 1 O God, act mercifully toward me,
\q2 because you love me faithfully;
\q2 because you are very merciful,
\q2 erase \add the record of\add* the ways that I disobeyed you!
\q1
\v 2 Make me pure from the wrong things that I have done;
\q2 make me clean from \add the guilt of\add* my sin.
\b
\q1
\v 3 \add I say that\add* because I know the ways that I have disobeyed you;
\q2 I cannot forget them.
\q1
\v 4 You, you only, are the one that I have \add really\add* sinned against,
\q2 and you have seen the evil things that I have done.
\q1 When you say that I am guilty, you are right/correct,
\q2 and when you judge me, you justly say \add that I deserve to be punished\add*.
\q1
\v 5 I have been a sinner since the day that I was born;
\q2 \add truly\add*, I have been like that since my mother conceived me.
\q1
\v 6 What you desire is that in my inner being I desire what is true
\q2 in order that you \add can\add* teach me in my inner being how to act wisely.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Purify me from the guilt of my sins, and \add after that happens\add*, I will be clean \add in my inner being\add*;
\q2 cleanse me, and \add then in my inner being\add* I will be ◄whiter than snow/very clean►.
\q1
\v 8 Allow/Cause me to be joyful [DOU] again;
\q2 you have ◄crushed my spirit/completely discouraged me► [MTY];
\q1 \add but now\add* let me rejoice \add again\add*.
\q1
\v 9 Do not continue to look at the sins [IDI] that I have committed;
\q2 erase the record of the evil things that I have done.
\b
\q1
\v 10 O God, cause my inner being to be pure.
\q2 Put a new and faithful spirit within me.
\q1
\v 11 Do not send me away from you \add because of my sin\add*,
\q2 and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
\q1
\v 12 Cause/Allow me to be happy again because of \add knowing\add* that you have freed me \add from the guilt of my sin\add*,
\q2 and make my spirit willing \add to obey you\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 13 If you do that, I will \add be able to\add* teach to \add other\add* sinners what you want them to do,
\q2 and they will repent and begin to obey you.
\q1
\v 14 O God, you are the one who saves me;
\q2 forgive me for being guilty of causing someone \add who was not my enemy\add* to die.
\q2 \add When you do that\add*, I will sing joyfully about your being very good and righteous.
\q1
\v 15 O Yahweh, help me to speak
\q2 \add in order that\add* I may praise you.
\q1
\v 16 You are not pleased \add only\add* with the sacrifices \add that people bring to you\add*.
\q2 If that were \add enough to\add* please you, I would bring you sacrifices.
\q1 You are not pleased with burnt offerings \add alone\add*.
\q1
\v 17 The sacrifice that you \add really\add* want is for people to be truly humble and sorry \add for having sinned\add*;
\q2 O God, you will not refuse that kind of sacrifice.
\b
\q1
\v 18 \add O God\add*, be good to \add the people who live in\add* Jerusalem [MTY],
\q2 \add and help them\add* to rebuild the city walls.
\q1
\v 19 When that happens, \add they will bring you\add* the proper sacrifices,
\q2 animals that they completely burn,
\q2 young bulls that they burn on your altar
\q2 and you will be pleased.
\c 52
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, when Doeg went to Saul and said, “David has gone to talk with Ahimelech, the Supreme Priest”
\q1
\v 1 You \add think that you\add* are strong
\q2 and brag about the sins that you have committed,
\q1 while you plan to harm godly people.
\q1
\v 2 All during the day you plan to get rid of \add others\add*;
\q1 what you say [MTY] \add injures others\add* like a sharp razor [SIM],
\q2 and you are \add always\add* deceiving \add others\add*.
\q1
\v 3 You like \add doing what is\add* evil more than you like doing what is good,
\q2 and you like telling lies more than you like telling the truth.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 4 You who say things [MTY] to deceive people,
\q2 you like to say ◄things that hurt people/cruel things►!
\b
\q1
\v 5 But God will get rid of you forever;
\q2 he will grab you and drag you from your home
\q2 and take you away from this world where people are alive.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 6 When righteous \add people\add* see that, they will be awestruck,
\q2 and they will laugh at \add what happened to\add* you, and say,
\q1
\v 7 “Look \add what happened to\add* the man who would not ask God to protect him;
\q2 he trusted that his great wealth \add would save him\add*;
\q2 he trusted in the money that he got by wickedly taking it from others!”
\b
\q1
\v 8 But I am \add secure/safe because I worship\add* in God's temple;
\q2 I am like a \add strong\add* green olive tree.
\q1 I trust in God, who faithfully loves us forever.
\b
\q
\v 9 God, I will always thank you for the things that you have done.
\q2 As I stand before godly \add people\add*, I will proclaim that you are good (OR, the many good [MTY] \add things you have done for us\add*).
\c 53
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be sung using a tune called ❛Mahalath❜ 
\q1
\v 1 \add Only\add* foolish people say to themselves, “There is no God!”
\q1 People who say that are corrupt; they commit terrible sins;
\q2 there is not one of them who does what is good/right.
\b
\q1
\v 2 God looks down from heaven and sees humans;
\q1 he looks to see if anyone is \add very\add* wise,
\q2 with the result that he seeks \add to know\add* God.
\q1
\v 3 \add But\add* they are all morally corrupt;
\q2 no one does what is good/right.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Will all these evil people never learn \add what God will do to them\add*?
\q1 They act violently toward Yahweh's people while eating the food that he provides,
\q2 and they never pray to Yahweh.
\q1
\v 5 But \add some day\add* those people will become very terrified,
\q2 like they have never been terrified before,
\q1 because God will cause those who are separated from God to die,
\q2 and he will scatter their bones.
\q1 They have rejected God,
\q2 so he will cause them to be \add defeated and\add* completely disgraced.
\b
\q1
\v 6 I wish/desire that someone from Jerusalem [MTY] would come and rescue the Israeli \add people\add*
\q2 God, when you bless your people again,
\q1 \add all\add* the Israeli \add people, all the descendants of\add* Jacob, will rejoice.
\c 54
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; it was written when the people of Ziph went to Saul and told him that David was hiding in their area
\q1
\v 1 God, by your power [MTY, DOU] save me \add from my enemies\add*,
\q2 and show people that I have not done anything that is wrong!
\q1
\v 2 God, listen to my prayer;
\q2 listen to what I say to you,
\q1
\v 3 because strangers are \add trying to\add* attack me;
\q2 proud men are wanting to kill me;
\q2 men who do not have any ◄respect for/interest in► you.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 4 But God is the one who helps me;
\q2 Yahweh defends/protects me \add from my enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 5 He will cause the evil things that they want to do to me to happen to them instead;
\q2 because he faithfully \add does what he promises\add*, he will get rid of them.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, I will gladly give an offering to you because I want to,
\q2 and I will thank you [MTY], for you are good \add to me\add*;
\q1
\v 7 you have rescued me from all my troubles,
\q2 and I have seen that you have defeated my enemies.
\c 55
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments
\q1
\v 1 God, listen to my prayer,
\q2 and do not turn away from me while I am pleading with you.
\q1
\v 2 Listen to me, and answer me,
\q2 because I am overwhelmed by \add all\add* my troubles.
\q1
\v 3 My enemies cause me to be terrified;
\q2 wicked people oppress me.
\q2 They cause me to have great troubles;
\q2 they are angry with me, and they hate me.
\b
\q1
\v 4 I am terrified,
\q2 and I am very much afraid that I will die.
\q1
\v 5 I am very fearful and I tremble/shake,
\q2 and I am completely terrified.
\q1
\v 6 I said, “I wish that I had wings like a dove!
\q1 If I had wings, I would fly away and find a place to rest.
\q1
\v 7 I would fly far away
\q2 and live in the desert.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q
\v 8 I would quickly find a shelter
\q2 where \add my enemies could not strike/harm me\add* like a strong wind and rainstorm.”
\b
\q1
\v 9 Lord, confuse my enemies, and cause their plans to fail,
\q2 because I see them acting violently and causing strife in the city \add of Jerusalem\add*.
\q1
\v 10 During \add each\add* day and night they march around on top of its walls,
\q2 committing crimes and causing trouble.
\q
\v 11 They destroy \add things\add* everywhere.
\q2 They oppress \add people\add* and defraud \add people\add* in the ◄marketplaces/public squares►.
\b
\q1
\v 12 If it were an enemy who was making fun of me,
\q2 I could endure it.
\q1 If it were someone who hates me, who despises me,
\q2 I could hide from him.
\q1
\v 13 But it is someone who is just like me, my companion,
\q2 someone who was my friend \add who is doing this to me\add*.
\q1
\v 14 We previously had many good talks together;
\q2 we walked around together in God's temple.
\b
\q1
\v 15 I desire/hope that my enemies will die suddenly
\q2 and, while they are still young, go down to the place where the dead people are.
\q2 They do evil things in their homes, and they think evil things in their inner beings.
\b
\q1
\v 16 But I \add will\add* ask Yahweh, \add my\add* God, to help me,
\q2 and he will save me.
\q1
\v 17 \add Each\add* morning and \add each\add* noontime and \add each\add* evening I tell him what I am concerned about, and I moan,
\q2 and he hears my voice.
\q1
\v 18 I have \add very\add* many enemies,
\q2 but he will rescue me and bring me back safely from the battles that I fight.
\q1
\v 19 God is the one who has ruled everything forever,
\q2 and he will listen to me.
\q1 He will cause my enemies to be \add defeated and\add* disgraced,
\q2 because they do not change their evil behavior
\q2 and they do not have a reverential respect for God.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 20 My companion, \add whom I mentioned previously\add*, betrayed his friends
\q2 and broke the agreement that he made with them.
\q1
\v 21 What he said was \add easy to listen to, like\add* butter \add is easy to swallow\add* [MET],
\q2 but in his inner being he hated people;
\q1 his words were \add soothing\add* like \add olive\add* oil,
\q2 \add but they hurt people like\add* sharp swords do [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 22 Put your troubles in Yahweh's hands,
\q2 and he will take care of you;
\q1 he will never allow righteous \add people\add* to experience disasters.
\q1
\v 23 God, you will cause murderers [MTY] and liars to die before they have lived half as long as they expect to live;
\q2 but \add as for me\add*, I will trust in you.
\c 56
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, concerning the time the Philistines seized David in Gath; to be sung using the tune ❛Dove on distant oaks❜ 
\q1
\v 1 God, act mercifully toward me because men have harassed me;
\q2 all day my enemies pursue me.
\q1
\v 2 My enemies harass me all day long;
\q2 there are many of them who proudly attack me.
\b
\q1
\v 3 But whenever I am afraid,
\q2 I trust in you.
\q1
\v 4 God, I praise/thank you because you do what you have promised;
\q2 I trust in you, and then I am not afraid.
\q2 Ordinary humans certainly cannot [RHQ] harm me!
\b
\q1
\v 5 All day long my enemies claim that I said things that I did not say (OR, try to destroy what I am doing);
\q2 they are always thinking of ways to harm me.
\q1
\v 6 In order to cause trouble for me, they hide
\q2 and watch everything that I do,
\q2 waiting for \add an opportunity\add* to kill me [MTY].
\b
\q1
\v 7 So, God, punish them for the wicked things that they are doing;
\q2 show that you are angry by defeating those people!
\q1
\v 8 You have counted \add all\add* the times that I have been wandering alone/distressed;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* you have put \add all\add* my tears in a bottle
\q2 \add in order that you can see how much I have cried\add*.
\q2 \add You have counted my tears and written\add* the number in your book.
\b
\q1
\v 9 When I call out to you, \add my\add* God, my enemies will be defeated;
\q2 I know that will happen, because you are fighting for me.
\q1
\v 10 I praise/thank you that you do what you have promised;
\q2 Yahweh, I \add will always\add* praise you for that [DOU].
\q2
\v 11 I trust in you, and as a result, I will not be afraid.
\q2 I know that humans cannot really [RHQ] harm me!
\b
\q1
\v 12 I will bring to you the offering that I promised;
\q1 I will bring an offering to you to thank you,
\q1
\v 13 because you have rescued me from being killed;
\q2 you have kept me from stumbling.
\q2 Ordinary humans certainly cannot [RHQ] harm me!
\q2 As a result, I will continue to live in your presence in the light that \add shines on those who are still\add* alive (OR, in the light that \add enables people to\add* live).
\c 57
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, when David went into a cave to escape from Saul; to be sung using the tune ❛Do not destroy❜ 
\q1
\v 1 God, act mercifully toward me!
\q1 Act mercifully toward me because I come to you to protect me.
\q2 I request you to protect me \add like little birds are protected under their mother's\add* wings [MET],
\q2 until the storm/danger is ended.
\b
\q1
\v 2 God, you who are greater than all other gods,
\q2 I cry out to you, the one who enables me to do all that he desires.
\q1
\v 3 You will answer me from heaven and rescue me,
\q2 but you will cause those who oppress me to be \add defeated and\add* disgraced!
\qr (Think about that!)
\q2 God will \add always\add* faithfully love me and ◄will be faithful/will do what he promises►.
\b
\q1
\v 4 \add Sometimes\add* I am surrounded by \add my enemies who are like\add* lions that \add kill\add* humans;
\q2 \add like\add* lions chew with their teeth \add animals that they kill\add*;
\q1 but my enemies have spears and arrows, not teeth;
\q2 and \add the false things that\add* they say [MTY] \add hurt people as much as\add* sharp swords \add hurt people\add* [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 5 God, show in the heavens that you are very great!
\q2 And show your glory to people all over the earth!
\b
\q1
\v 6 \add It is as if\add* [MET, HYP] my enemies spread a net to seize me,
\q2 and I became very distressed [IDI].
\q1 \add It is as if\add* [MET, HYP] they dug a deep pit along the path where I walk,
\q2 but they themselves fell into it!
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 7 God, I am very confident [DOU] in you.
\q1 I will sing to you,
\q2 and I will praise you while I sing.
\q1
\v 8 I will awaken myself;
\q2 I will arise before the sun rises
\q2 and \add praise you while I play\add* my big harp or my ◄lyre/small harp►.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Lord, I will thank you among \add all\add* the people;
\q1 and I will sing to praise you among \add many\add* ethnic groups,
\q2
\v 10 because your faithful love for us is \add as great as the distance from the earth\add* to the sky,
\q2 and because your ◄faithfulness/faithfully doing what you promise► is \add as great as the distance\add* up to the clouds [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 11 God, show in the heavens that you are very great!
\q2 And show your glory \add to people\add* all over the earth!
\c 58
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be sung using the tune ❛Do not destroy❜ 
\q1
\v 1 When you mighty men speak, you never say what is right;
\q2 you never decide things about people justly [RHQ]!
\q1
\v 2 No, in your inner beings you think only about doing what is wrong,
\q2 and you commit violent crimes in this land \add of Israel\add*.
\q1
\v 3 Wicked people do wrong things and tell lies from the time that they are born [DOU].
\q1
\v 4 God, show in the heavens how great you are!
\q2 And show your glory to people all over the earth!
\q1 What wicked people say \add injures people like\add* the venom of a snake [MET];
\q2 They refuse to listen to good advice, \add as though they were\add* cobras that were deaf [MET]!
\q
\v 5 As a result, \add like a snake that does not respond when\add* a charmer plays a flute or when someone sings magic songs,
\q2 \add they do not pay attention when others rebuke them\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 6 God, as for these enemies who \add want to attack me like\add* young lions,
\q2 break the teeth in their mouths!
\q1
\v 7 Cause them to disappear like water disappears \add in dry ground\add*
\q2 Cause the arrows that they shoot to have no ◄heads/sharp points►!
\q1
\v 8 Cause them to become like snails that disappear in the slime;
\q2 cause them to be like a baby that is born dead!
\b
\q1
\v 9 I hope/wish that you will get rid of them
\q2 \add as fast as\add* thornbushes are blown away \add after they are cut\add* (OR, \add as fast as\add* a fire heats a pot over burning thorns).
\q1
\v 10 Righteous people will rejoice when they see wicked people being punished as they deserve;
\q2 they will wash their feet in the blood of wicked people.
\q1
\v 11 \add Then\add* people will say, “It is true that there is a reward for righteous people;
\q2 and there is indeed a God who judges people justly here on the earth!”
\c 59
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, when Saul, wanting to kill David, sent men to watch David's house
\q1
\v 1 God, save me from my enemies!
\q2 Protect me from those who want to attack me!
\q1
\v 2 Rescue me from men who want to do what is wicked,
\q2 from men who are murderers!
\b
\q1
\v 3 Look! They are waiting to kill me!
\q2 Fierce men have gathered to assault me.
\q1 Yahweh, they are doing that even though I have not done what is wrong!
\q1
\v 4 It is not because I have committed any sin \add against them\add*
\q2 that they run and get ready to attack me.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh my God, commander of the armies of heaven, the one we Israelis \add worship\add*,
\q2 arise and punish the \add ungodly/heathen people of\add* all the nations;
\q2 do not act mercifully toward those \add wicked people\add* who have ◄acted treacherously toward/secretly planned to harm► us.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 6 They return each evening,
\q2 snarling like vicious dogs [SIM] as they prowl around this city.
\q
\v 7 They loudly say terrible things;
\q2 they say [MTY] many things that \add injure people like\add* [MET] swords do,
\q1 but they think, “No one will [RHQ] hear us!”
\q1
\v 8 But Yahweh, you laugh at them.
\q2 You ◄scoff at/ridicule► the \add people of the pagan\add* nations.
\b
\q1
\v 9 God, I have confidence in you because you are very strong;
\q2 you are my refuge.
\q1
\v 10 Because you love me, you will come to save me;
\q2 you will allow me to watch while you defeat my enemies.
\b
\q1
\v 11 But do not kill them \add immediately\add*
\q2 in order that my people will not forget \add how you punished them\add*
\q1 \add Instead\add*, Lord, \add you who are like a\add* shield \add that protects us\add* [MET],
\q2 scatter them by your power, and \add then\add* defeat them.
\q1
\v 12 Because what they say [MTY] is sinful,
\q2 allow them to be trapped for being proud.
\q1 Because they are \add always\add* cursing and telling lies,
\q1
\v 13 because you are angry, get rid of them;
\q2 destroy them completely
\q2 in order that people will know that you rule over us, your Israeli people,
\q2 and that you rule over all the earth.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 14 My enemies return each evening,
\q2 snarling like \add vicious\add* dogs as they prowl around this city.
\q1
\v 15 They roam around, searching for food;
\q1 and if they do not find enough, they growl \add like dogs\add*.
\q1
\v 16 But \add as for me\add*, I will sing about your power;
\q2 \add every\add* morning I will sing joyfully about your faithfully loving us.
\q1 I will sing about how you protected me when I was \add very\add* distressed.
\b
\q1
\v 17 God, you are the one who enables me to be strong;
\q2 you are my refuge;
\q2 you faithfully love me.
\c 60
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, a psalm for teaching, to be sung using the tune ❛Lily of the promise❜. David wrote it during the wars in northern Syria, and Joab's army, after returning from the battle, killed 12,000 of the Edom people-group in Salt Valley
\q1
\v 1 \add I prayed\add*, “God, you have rejected us \add Israelis\add*
\q1 Because you have been angry \add with us\add*,
\q2 you have \add enabled our enemies\add* to break through our ranks.
\q1 \add Please\add* enable us to be strong again!
\q1
\v 2 \add When we were defeated, it was as though\add* [MET] there was a big earthquake in our land that caused the ground to split open.
\q1 So now, \add just as you can\add* cause the cracks in the land to disappear,
\q2 \add help our army to be strong again\add*,
\q2 because \add it is as though\add* our country is ◄falling apart/being destroyed►.
\q1
\v 3 You have caused \add us\add*, your people, to suffer very much;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* you forced us to drink \add strong\add* wine that caused us to stagger around \add after we became drunk\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 4 But you have raised a battle flag for those who have a reverential respect for you
\q2 in order that they can gather around it and not \add be killed by the enemies'\add* arrows.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 5 Answer our \add prayers\add* and enable us by your power [MTY] to defeat \add our enemies\add*
\q2 in order that we, the people whom you love, will be saved.”
\b
\q1
\v 6 \add Then\add* God \add answered my prayer and\add* spoke from his temple, saying,
\q1 “Because I have conquered \add your enemies\add*, I will divide Shechem \add city\add*,
\q2 and I will distribute among my people \add the land in\add* Succoth \add Valley\add*.
\q1
\v 7 The Gilead \add region\add* is mine;
\q1 the \add people of the tribe of\add* Manasseh are mine;
\q1 \add the tribe of\add* Ephraim is \add like\add* my helmet [MET];
\q1 and \add the tribe of\add* Judah is \add like\add* the ◄scepter/stick \add that I hold which shows that I am the ruler\add*► [MET];
\q1
\v 8 the Moab \add region\add* is \add like\add* my washbasin [MET];
\q2 I throw my sandal in the Edom \add area to show that it belongs to me\add*;
\q2 I shout triumphantly because I have defeated \add the people of\add* the Philistia \add area\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 9 \add Because I want to defeat the people of\add* Edom,
\q1 ◄who will lead my \add army triumphantly\add* to their \add capital\add* city that has strong walls around it?/I want someone to lead my \add army triumphantly\add* to their \add capital\add* city that has strong walls around it.►” [RHQ]
\q1
\v 10 So, God, we \add desire/hope that\add* [RHQ] you have not truly abandoned us,
\q2 and that you will go with us when our armies march out \add to fight our enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 11 \add We need you to\add* help us when we fight against our enemies,
\q2 because the help that humans can give us is worthless.
\q
\v 12 But with you \add helping us\add*, we shall win;
\q2 you will enable us to defeat our enemies.
\c 61
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be accompanied by musical instruments
\q1
\v 1 God, listen to me,
\q2 and answer my prayer [DOU].
\q1
\v 2 While I am discouraged and far from my home,
\q1 I am calling out to you.
\b
\q1 Lead me to \add a place that will be like\add* a high rock [MET]
\q2 on top of which I will be safe.
\q1
\v 3 You have been my refuge;
\q2 you have been \add like\add* a strong tower [MET]
\q2 \add in which I am safe\add* from being attacked by my enemies.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Allow me to live close to your temple all during my life [HYP]!
\q1 Allow me to be safe [MET], \add like a little bird is safe\add* under \add its mother's\add* wings.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 5 God, you heard me when I solemnly promised \add to give offerings to you\add*;
\q2 you have given to me the blessings that belong to those who have an awesome respect for you [MTY].
\b
\q1
\v 6 \add I am\add* the king \add of Israel\add*;
\q1 \add please\add* allow me to live \add and rule\add* for many years,
\q2 and allow my descendants to rule \add also\add*.
\q1
\v 7 Allow us to rule forever while you observe us;
\q2 watch over us while you faithfully love us and do for us what you promised.
\b
\q1
\v 8 If you do that, I will always sing to praise you [MTY]
\q2 while I offer to you each day the sacrifices that I promised to give to you.
\c 62
\s1 A psalm written by David for Jeduthun, the choir leader
\q1
\v 1 God is the only one who can give me peace in my inner being,
\q2 and he is the one who saves me \add from my enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 2 Only he is like a huge rock \add under which I can be safe\add* [MET];
\q2 he will be \add like\add* a shelter, \add with the result that\add* I will never be defeated [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 3 When will you, \add my enemies\add*, stop attacking me [RHQ]?
\q2 I feel that I am \add as useless against you as\add* a leaning wall or a broken-down fence [MET].
\q1
\v 4 My enemies plan to remove me from my important position so that people no longer honor me.
\q2 They delight in telling lies.
\q1 They bless people by what they say [MTY],
\q2 but in their inner beings they curse \add those people\add*.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 5 God is the only one who gives me peace in my inner being;
\q2 he is the one whom I confidently expect \add to help me\add*.
\q1
\v 6 Only he is \add like a huge\add* rock \add under which I can be safe\add* [MET];
\q2 he is \add like\add* a shelter, and \add as a result\add* I will never be defeated.
\q1
\v 7 God is the one who saves me and honors me.
\q2 He is \add like a huge\add* strong rock under which I \add can\add* find shelter [MET].
\q1
\v 8 \add You my\add* people, always trust in him.
\q2 Tell him all your troubles,
\q2 because he is ◄our refuge/the one who protects us► [MET].
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 9 People who are considered to be unimportant are \add as worthless/unreliable as\add* a breath of air;
\q2 people who are considered to be important \add also\add* really ◄amount to nothing/cannot be trusted \add to help us►\add*.
\q1 If you put them all on a scale, \add it would be as if\add* they weighed less than a puff of air.
\q1
\v 10 Do not trust in money gained by extorting it from others;
\q2 do not try to gain anything by robbing others.
\q1 If you become very wealthy, do not trust in [IDI] your money.
\b
\q1
\v 11 I have heard God say more than once that he is the one who \add really\add* has power,
\q1
\v 12 and that he is the one who faithfully loves \add us\add*.
\q2 He rewards every one \add of us\add* according to the deeds that we do.
\c 63
\s1 A psalm written by David when he was in the desert in Judea
\q1
\v 1 God, you are the God whom I \add worship\add*.
\q1 I greatly desire to be with you
\q2 like [SIL] a person in a dry hot desert greatly desires \add some cool water\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 2 So, I want to see you in your temple;
\q1 I want to see that you are great and glorious.
\q1
\v 3 Your constantly loving \add me\add* is ◄worth more/more precious► than \add my\add* life,
\q2 so I [MTY] will \add always\add* praise you.
\q1
\v 4 I will praise you all the time that I live;
\q2 I will lift up my hands to you while I pray.
\q1
\v 5 \add Knowing you satisfies me more than\add* [IDI, MET] my eating a very big feast,
\q2 \add so\add* I will praise you while I sing [MTY] joyful songs.
\b
\q1
\v 6 While I lie on my bed, I think about you.
\q1 I think/meditate about you all during the night,
\q1
\v 7 because you have always helped me,
\q2 and I sing joyfully knowing that I am protected by you
\q2 \add as a little bird is protected\add* under \add its mother's\add* wings [MET].
\q1
\v 8 I cling to you;
\q2 and your hand/power protects me.
\b
\q1
\v 9 But those who are trying to kill me
\q2 will \add die and\add* descend into the place of the dead;
\q1
\v 10 they will be killed in battles [MTY]
\q2 and their \add corpses\add* will be eaten by jackals/wild dogs.
\b
\q1
\v 11 But I, the king \add of Israel\add*, will rejoice in what God has done;
\q2 and all those who ask God [MTY] to curse them if they do not do what they solemnly promise will praise him,
\q2 but he will not allow liars to say anything.
\c 64
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 God, listen to me as I tell you the things that I am worried about.
\q2 I am afraid of my enemies; so save/rescue me from them.
\q1
\v 2 Protect me from what wicked men are planning to do to me;
\q2 protect me from that group of men who do what is evil.
\b
\q1
\v 3 The hostile things they say [MTY] are like [SIM] \add sharp\add* swords;
\q2 their cruel words are like [SIM] arrows.
\q1
\v 4 Without being afraid, they \add lie about people and slander people\add* who have not done what is wrong,
\q2 like someone who suddenly jumps up from where he is hiding and shoots \add arrows\add* at his enemy [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 5 They encourage each other about doing the evil things that they are planning to do;
\q2 they talk \add with each other\add* about where they can set traps to catch people,
\q2 and they think, “No one [RHQ] will see what we are doing,
\q1
\v 6 because we have planned very well the crime that we are going to commit!”
\q2 No one can fully understand what people can think and plan in their inner beings!
\b
\q1
\v 7 But \add it will be as though\add* God will shoot his arrows at them,
\q2 and suddenly they will be wounded.
\q1
\v 8 Because of what they say [MTY], he will get rid of them,
\q2 and then everyone who sees \add what has happened to\add* them will shake their heads \add to ridicule them\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 9 And then everyone will be afraid \add to sin because of what might happen to them, also\add*;
\q2 they will tell others what God has done,
\q2 and they themselves will think much about it.
\q1
\v 10 Righteous people should rejoice because of what Yahweh \add has done\add*;
\q2 they should go to him to ◄find protection/be safe►;
\q1 and all those who are godly will praise him.
\c 65
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 God, it is right/appropriate \add for us\add* to praise you in Jerusalem,
\q1 and to do what \add we\add* have promised you that \add we\add* would do,
\q2
\v 2 \add because\add* you answer our prayers.
\q1 People everywhere will come to you
\q2
\v 3 because of the sins \add that they have committed\add*.
\q1 Our many sins are like a very heavy burden to us,
\q2 but you forgive us.
\q1
\v 4 You are pleased with those whom you have chosen
\q2 to live close to your temple.
\q1 We are happy with all the blessings that we receive from \add worshiping in\add* your sacred temple.
\b
\q1
\v 5 \add God, when we pray to you\add*, you answer us and save us by doing awesome deeds;
\q2 you are the one who rescues us;
\q1 people who live in very remote places on the earth, on the other side of the oceans, trust in you.
\q1
\v 6 By your strength you put the mountains in their places,
\q2 \add showing that\add* you are very powerful.
\q1
\v 7 You calm the seas when they roar,
\q2 and you stop the waves from pounding/crashing \add on the shore\add*;
\q1 you \add also\add* calm people when they ◄make a great uproar/shout angrily together►.
\q1
\v 8 People who live in very remote/distant places on the earth
\q2 ◄are awed by/have an awesome respect for you because of► the miracles that you perform;
\q1 because of what you do,
\q2 people who live far to the west and far to the east shout joyfully.
\b
\q1
\v 9 You take care of the soil and send rain,
\q2 causing many good things to grow;
\q1 you fill the streams with water,
\q2 and cause grain/crops to grow.
\q1 That is what you have determined/said would happen.
\q1
\v 10 You \add send plenty of rain\add* on the fields that have been plowed,
\q2 and you fill the furrows with water.
\q1 With showers you soften the \add hard clods/lumps of\add* soil,
\q2 and you bless the soil by causing young plants to grow.
\q1
\v 11 Because you bless the soil, there are very good crops at harvest season;
\q2 wherever you have gone [MTY], good crops are very abundant [IDI].
\q1
\v 12 The pastures are full of flocks \add of sheep and goats\add*;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* the hills are very joyful.
\q1
\v 13 The meadows are ◄covered with/full of► sheep and goats,
\q2 and the valleys are full of grain;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* they also sing and shout joyfully.
\c 66
\s1 A psalm which is a song for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 \add Tell\add* everyone on the earth
\q2 that they should sing joyfully to praise God!
\q1
\v 2 They should sing songs that say that God [MTY] is very great,
\q2 and they should tell everyone that he is very glorious!
\q1
\v 3 They should say to God, “The things that you do are awesome!
\q2 Your power is very great,
\q2 with the result that your enemies ◄cringe/bow down► in front of you.”
\q1
\v 4 Everyone on the earth \add should\add* worship God
\q2 and sing to praise him
\q2 and honor him [MTY].
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 5 Come and think about what God has done!
\q1 Think about the awesome things that he has done among people.
\q1
\v 6 He caused the \add Red\add* Sea to become dry land,
\q2 \add with the result that our\add* ancestors were able to walk right through it.
\q1 There we rejoiced because of what he \add had done\add*.
\q1
\v 7 He rules forever by his power,
\q2 and he keeps watching all the \add pagan\add* nations \add to see what evil things they do\add*,
\q2 \add so\add* those nations that want to rebel \add against him\add* should not be proud.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 8 You people \add of all nations\add*, praise our God!
\q2 Praise him loudly in order that people will hear you as you praise him.
\q1
\v 9 He has kept us alive,
\q2 and he has not allowed us to ◄stumble/be defeated►.
\b
\q1
\v 10 God, you have tested us;
\q1 you have allowed us to experience great difficulties \add to make our lives become pure\add*
\q2 as \add people\add* put precious metals in a hot fire \add to burn out what is impure\add* [MET].
\q1
\v 11 \add It is as if\add* you allowed us to fall into traps [MET],
\q2 and you \add forced us to endure difficult things which were like\add* putting heavy loads on our backs [MET].
\q1
\v 12 You allowed \add our\add* enemies to trample on us;
\q2 we \add experienced difficulties/troubles that were like\add* [MET] walking through fires and floods,
\q1 but now you have brought us into a place where ◄we are safe/we have plenty►.
\b
\q1
\v 13 \add Yahweh\add*, I will bring to your temple offerings that are to be completely burned \add on the altar\add*;
\q2 I will offer to you what I promised.
\q1
\v 14 When I was experiencing \add much\add* trouble, I said that I would bring offerings to you \add if you rescued me\add*;
\q2 \add and you did rescue me, so\add* I will bring to you what I promised.
\q1
\v 15 I will bring sheep to be burned on the altar,
\q2 and I will \add also\add* sacrifice bulls and goats,
\q2 and when they are burning, \add you will be pleased when\add* the smoke \add rises up\add* ◄\add to you/to the sky\add*►.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 16 All you \add people\add* who have a reverential respect for God, come and listen,
\q2 and I will tell you what he has done for me.
\q1
\v 17 I called out to him to help me,
\q2 and I praised him while I was speaking to him [MTY].
\q1
\v 18 If I had ignored the sins that I had committed,
\q2 the Lord would not have paid any attention to me.
\q1
\v 19 But because \add I confessed my sins\add*, God has listened to me
\q2 and he paid attention to my prayers.
\q
\v 20 I praise God
\q2 because he has not ignored my prayers
\q2 or stopped faithfully loving me.
\c 67
\s1 A psalm for the choir director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments
\q1
\v 1 God, act mercifully toward us and bless us;
\q1 act kindly/favorably toward us [IDI],
\qr (Think about that!)
\q2
\v 2 in order that \add everyone in\add* the world may know what you want them to do,
\q2 and \add the people of\add* all nations may know that you \add have the power to\add* save them.
\b
\q1
\v 3 God, I desire that \add all\add* people-groups \add will\add* praise you;
\q1 I want them all to praise you!
\q1
\v 4 I desire that \add the people of all\add* nations will be glad and sing joyfully,
\q2 because you judge the people-groups equally/justly,
\q2 and you guide \add all\add* nations in the world.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 5 God, I desire that the people-groups \add will\add* praise you;
\q1 I want them all to praise you!
\b
\q1
\v 6 Good crops have grown on our land;
\q1 God, our God, has blessed us.
\q1
\v 7 \add And because\add* God has blessed us,
\q1 I desire that all \add people\add* everywhere [MTY] on the earth will revere him.
\c 68
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 God, arise and scatter your enemies,
\q1 and you cause those who hate you to run away from you.
\q1
\v 2 Like \add wind\add* blows smoke away,
\q2 you chase your enemies away.
\q1 Like wax melts when it is near a fire,
\q2 you cause wicked people to ◄disappear/be destroyed►.
\q1
\v 3 But righteous people are joyful;
\q2 they rejoice when they are in God's presence;
\q2 they are happy, and they are very joyful.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Sing to God; sing to praise him;
\q1 sing a song (OR, make a road) for him who rides on the clouds;
\q1 his name is Yahweh; be glad when you are in his presence.
\q1
\v 5 God, who lives in his sacred temple, is \add like\add* [MET] a father to \add those who are\add* orphans,
\q2 and he is the one who protects widows.
\q1
\v 6 He provides families \add to live with\add* for those who have no one to live with.
\q1 He frees prisoners and enables them to be successful,
\q2 but those who rebel \add against him\add* will be forced to live in a very hot and dry land.
\b
\q1
\v 7 God, you led your people out \add of Egypt\add*,
\q2 and then you marched with them through the desert.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 8 After you did that, because you, the God \add worshiped by us\add* Israeli people, appeared to us,
\q1 the earth shook at Sinai \add Mountain\add*,
\q2 and rain poured down from the sky.
\q1
\v 9 You caused plenty of rain to fall there \add in the desert\add*,
\q2 \add and so\add* you enabled good crops to grow again on that land that you gave \add to us Israelis\add*.
\q1
\v 10 Your people built homes there;
\q2 and because you were good to them, you provided \add food\add* for those who were poor.
\b
\q1
\v 11 The Lord spoke this message,
\q2 and many women took his message to other places.
\q1
\v 12 \add They proclaimed\add*, “Many kings and their armies are running away \add from our army\add*!”
\q2 \add When our army brought back to their homes\add* the things that they captured,
\q1 the women who were at home divided up those things \add among themselves and among their families\add*.
\q1
\v 13 Even those women who were lying \add on the ground\add* in the pens where the sheep are kept \add received some of those things\add*;
\q2 they got statues of doves whose wings were covered with silver
\q2 and whose feathers were covered with pure yellow gold.
\q1
\v 14 When Almighty \add God\add* scattered the \add enemy\add* kings \add and their armies\add*,
\q2 \add the number of weapons that they abandoned there\add* seemed like there had been a snowstorm on Zalmon (OR, a black) \add Mountain.\add*
\b
\q1
\v 15 There is a very high mountain in the Bashan \add region\add*,
\q1 a mountain which has many peaks.
\q1
\v 16 But the \add people who live near\add* that mountain should not [RHQ] envy those who live near \add Zion\add*,
\q2 the mountain on which God chose to live!
\q1 Yahweh will live there forever!
\q1
\v 17 \add After we defeated all our enemies\add*,
\q1 \add it was as though\add* the Lord, surrounded by many thousands of strong chariots, descended from Sinai \add Mountain\add*
\q1 and came into the sacred temple \add in Jerusalem\add*.
\q1
\v 18 He ascended the sacred mountain \add where his temple is\add*,
\q1 and took with him many people who had been captured \add in battles\add*;
\q2 and received gifts from the enemies \add whom he had defeated\add*.
\q1 He received gifts even from those who had rebelled against him,
\q2 and Yahweh our God will live there \add in his sacred temple\add* forever.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Praise the Lord, who \add helps us\add* carry our heavy loads every day;
\q1 he is the one who saves/rescues us.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 20 Our God is the God who saves us;
\q2 He is Yahweh, our Lord, the one who ◄allows us to escape/prevents us► from being killed \add in battles\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 21 But God will smash the heads of his enemies,
\q2 the long-haired skulls of those who continue to behave sinfully.
\q1
\v 22 The Lord said, “I will bring back the \add corpses of those who were killed in\add* Bashan,
\q1 and I will bring back those who sank deep in the ocean \add and drowned\add*.
\q2
\v 23 I will do that in order that you may wash your feet in their blood,
\q2 and your dogs can \add also\add* lap up some of your enemies' blood.”
\b
\q1
\v 24 God, many people see you march triumphantly into your sacred temple
\q2 \add celebrating that you have defeated your enemies\add*.
\q2 You \add march like\add* a king does, and a large crowd walks with you.
\q1
\v 25 The singers are in front, and the people who play stringed instruments are at the rear,
\q2 and young women who are beating their tambourines are between them.
\q1
\v 26 \add They are all singing\add*, “You Israeli people, praise God when you gather together;
\q2 praise Yahweh, all you who are descendants of Jacob!”
\q1
\v 27 First come \add the people of the tribe of\add* Benjamin, the smallest \add tribe\add*,
\q2 and following them come the leaders of \add the tribe of\add* Judah and their group,
\q1 and following them come the leaders of \add the tribes of\add* Zebulun and Naphtali.
\q1
\v 28 God, show people that you are very powerful;
\q2 show people the power with which you have helped us previously.
\q1
\v 29 Show that power from your temple in Jerusalem,
\q2 where kings bring gifts to you.
\q1
\v 30 Rebuke \add your enemies, such as those in Egypt who are like\add* wild hippopotamuses/animals that live in the reeds;
\q1 and \add powerful nations that are like\add* bulls that control their calves [MET];
\q1 rebuke/trample them until they bow down and give you gifts of silver.
\q2 Scatter the people who delight to make wars.
\q1
\v 31 Then people will bring gifts of bronze (OR, of cloth) to you from Egypt;
\q2 if you do that, the people in Ethiopia will lift up their hands \add to praise you\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 32 \add You people who are citizens of\add* kingdoms/countries all over the world, sing to God!
\q1 Sing praises to the Lord!
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 33 Sing to the God, the one who rides in the sky,
\q2 the sky that \add he created\add* long ago.
\q1 Listen as he shouts with a very powerful voice.
\q1
\v 34 Proclaim that God is very powerful;
\q2 he is the king that rules over Israel,
\q2 and in the skies \add he also shows that\add* he is powerful.
\q1
\v 35 God is awesome as he comes out of his sacred temple;
\q2 he is the God whom \add we\add* Israeli people \add worship\add*.
\q1 He gives power and strength [DOU] to his people.
\b
\q1 Praise God!
\c 69
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 O God, save me,
\q2 because \add I am in great danger\add*.
\q2 \add It is as though\add* the flood water is up to my neck, \add and I am about to drown\add* [MET].
\q1
\v 2 I continue to sink in the deep mud,
\q2 and there is no solid ground for me to stand on.
\q1 I am in deep water,
\q2 and the flood is swirling around me.
\q1
\v 3 I am exhausted from calling out \add for help\add*;
\q2 my throat is very dry.
\q1 Because I have cried so much as I have waited for God \add to help me\add*,
\q2 my eyes are swollen.
\q1
\v 4 Those who hate me when there is no reason to hate me
\q2 are more than the number of hairs on my head [HYP]!
\q1 Those who want to get rid of me are strong,
\q2 and they tell lies about me.
\q1 They demand that I return to them things that I did not steal!
\q1
\v 5 O God, ◄you see the sins that I have committed/my sins are not hidden from you►.
\q2 You know that I have foolishly \add disobeyed your laws\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 6 O Yahweh God, \add you who are the commander\add* of the armies \add of heaven\add*,
\q2 do not allow the \add wrong things that\add* I \add have done\add*
\q2 to cause those who trust in you to be disappointed/disillusioned/dishonored.
\q1 O God whom \add we\add* Israeli people \add worship\add*,
\q2 do not allow me to cause them to be humiliated.
\q1
\v 7 People have insulted/ridiculed me because \add I am devoted to\add* you.
\q2 They have thoroughly humiliated [IDI] me.
\q1
\v 8 Even my own \add older\add* brothers act as if they do not know me;
\q2 they treat me like a foreigner.
\q1
\v 9 \add Some people have despised your temple\add*;
\q2 but my zeal for \add keeping\add* your temple \add holy\add* is like a fire burning inside me.
\q1 So \add it is as though\add* those who are insulting you are also insulting me.
\q1
\v 10 When I have humbled myself and ◄fasted/abstained from eating food►
\q2 \add to show my sadness about the disgraceful things that they have done to your temple\add*,
\q2 they just insult me.
\q1
\v 11 When I put on \add rough\add* sackcloth \add to show that I am sad\add*,
\q2 they laugh at [IDI] me.
\q1
\v 12 Even the elders \add of the city\add* say bad things about me.
\q2 The drunkards of the city sing \add disgusting\add* songs about me.
\b
\q1
\v 13 But Yahweh, I will \add continue\add* praying to you.
\q1 At the time that you choose, answer me and rescue me
\q2 because of your faithfully loving me.
\q1
\v 14 Do not allow me to sink anymore in the mud.
\q1 Rescue me from those who hate me!
\q2 Lift me up out of these deep waters!
\q1
\v 15 Do not allow the floods to swirl around me,
\q2 do not allow the deep \add mud\add* to swallow me;
\q2 keep me from sinking into the pit \add of death\add* [MET].
\q1
\v 16 O Yahweh, answer my prayer and help me
\q2 because you are good and love me faithfully,
\q1
\v 17 Do not ◄hide yourself from/refuse to hear► me;
\q1 answer me quickly
\q2 because I am in great trouble.
\q1
\v 18 Come near to me and save me;
\q1 rescue me from my enemies.
\b
\q1
\v 19 You know that I am insulted
\q2 and that \add people cause\add* me \add to feel\add* ashamed and dishonored;
\q1 you know \add who\add* all my enemies \add are\add*.
\q1
\v 20 \add Their\add* insults have deeply offended me,
\q2 and I ◄feel helpless/am in despair►.
\q1 I searched for \add someone who would\add* pity \add me\add*,
\q2 but there was no one.
\q1 I wanted someone to encourage/comfort me,
\q2 but there were none.
\q1
\v 21 \add Instead\add*, they gave me food \add that tasted like\add* poison,
\q2 and when I was thirsty, they gave me sour wine to drink.
\b
\q1
\v 22 I hope/desire that the feasts [MTY] \add that they enjoy\add* will ◄become a snare for/bring trouble to► them,
\q2 and that \add those whom they invite to\add* the sacrificial feasts will also be trapped.
\q1
\v 23 I hope/desire that their eyes will become dim so that they cannot see anything,
\q2 and that their backs/bodies will become weaker and weaker.
\q1
\v 24 Show them that you are very angry with them!
\q2 Because of your great/furious anger, chase after them and catch them.
\q1
\v 25 Cause their towns to become abandoned/deserted
\q2 and that there will be no one to live in their tents/houses.
\q1
\v 26 \add Do this\add* because they persecute those whom you have punished,
\q2 ◄they talk about the sins of/they want to hurt even more► those whom you have wounded.
\q1
\v 27 Keep making a record of all their sins,
\q2 do not acquit/pardon them \add for the evil things that they have done\add*.
\q1
\v 28 Erase their names [SYN] from the book \add containing the names of those who have eternal\add* life;
\q2 do not include them in the list of righteous people.
\b
\q1
\v 29 As for me, I have pain and am suffering.
\q2 O God, protect me and rescue me.
\b
\q1
\v 30 When God does that, I will sing as I praise God,
\q2 and I will honor him by thanking him.
\q1
\v 31 My doing that will please Yahweh more than \add sacrificing\add* oxen,
\q2 more than offering him full-grown bulls.
\q1
\v 32 Oppressed/Afflicted people will see \add that God has rescued me\add*,
\q2 and they will be glad.
\q1 I desire that all you who request God \add to help them\add* will be encouraged.
\q1
\v 33 Yahweh listens to those who are needy;
\q2 He does not ignore/forget those who are oppressed/imprisoned.
\b
\q1
\v 34 I desire that everything will praise God—
\q2 everything that is in heaven and on earth, and all the creatures that are in the seas.
\q1
\v 35 God will rescue the people of Jerusalem \add from their enemies\add*,
\q2 and he will rebuild the towns that are in Judah.
\q1 His people will live there and \add again\add* possess the land.
\q1
\v 36 The descendants of his people will inherit it,
\q2 and those who love him will live there \add safely\add*.
\c 70
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director, asking God to help David
\q1
\v 1 God, please save me!
\q2 Yahweh, come quickly to help me!
\q1
\v 2 Humble those who are happy about my troubles/difficulties and cause them to be disgraced/ashamed.
\q2 Chase away those who are trying to kill me.
\q1
\v 3 I hope/desire that you will cause them to become dismayed and ashamed
\q2 \add because you have defeated them\add*.
\q1
\v 4 \add But\add* I hope/desire that all those who go to \add worship\add* you will be very joyful [DOU].
\q2 I hope/desire that those who love you because you saved them will shout repeatedly [HYP],
\q1 “God is great!”
\b
\q1
\v 5 As for me, I am poor and needy [DOU];
\q2 \add so\add* God, come quickly to help me!
\q1 Yahweh, you are the one who saves and helps me,
\q2 \add so please\add* come quickly!
\c 71
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I have come to you to ◄get refuge/be protected►;
\q2 never allow me to become ashamed \add because of being defeated\add*.
\q1
\v 2 Because you always do what is right, help me and rescue me;
\q2 listen to me, and save me!
\q1
\v 3 Be \add like a huge\add* rock [MET] under which I \add can be\add* safe/protected;
\q1 \add be like\add* a strong fortress in which I am safe me [DOU].
\q1 You \add continually\add* command (OR, \add Continually\add* command) \add your angels\add* to rescue me.
\q1
\v 4 God, rescue me from wicked \add people\add*,
\q2 from the power of unjust and evil men.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, my Lord, you are the one whom I confidently expect \add to help me\add*;
\q2 I have trusted in you since I was young.
\q1
\v 6 I have depended on you all my life;
\q2 you have taken care of me [IDI] since the day that I was born,
\q1 \add so\add* I will always praise you.
\q1
\v 7 The manner in which I have conducted my life has been an example to many \add people\add*,
\q2 because \add they realize that\add* you have been my strong defender.
\q1
\v 8 I praise you all during the day,
\q2 and I proclaim that you are glorious/wonderful.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Now, when I have become an old man, do not reject/abandon me;
\q2 do not abandon me now, when I am not strong anymore.
\q1
\v 10 My enemies say \add that they want to kill\add* me;
\q2 they talk together and plan \add how they can do that\add*.
\q1
\v 11 They say, “God has abandoned him;
\q2 so now we can pursue him and seize him,
\q2 because there is no one who will rescue him.”
\q1
\v 12 God, do not stay far away from me;
\q2 hurry to help me!
\q1
\v 13 Cause those who ◄accuse me/say that I have done things that are wrong► to be defeated and destroyed;
\q2 cause those who want to harm me to be shamed and disgraced.
\b
\q1
\v 14 But \add as for me\add*, I will continually and confidently expect \add you to do great things for me\add*,
\q2 and I will praise you more and more.
\q1
\v 15 I will tell people that you do what is right;
\q1 all during the day I will tell people how you have saved me,
\q2 although what you have done is more than I can fully understand.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh, my Lord, I will praise you for your mighty deeds;
\q2 I will proclaim that only you always act justly.
\q1
\v 17 God, you have taught me \add many/those things\add* ever since I was young,
\q2 and I still tell people about your wonderful deeds.
\q1
\v 18 And now, God, when I am old and my hair is gray,
\q2 do not abandon me.
\q1 \add Stay with me\add* while I continue to proclaim to my children and grandchildren [HYP] that you are \add very\add* powerful!
\b
\q1
\v 19 God, you do many righteous deeds;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* they extend up to the sky.
\q1 You have done great things;
\q2 there is no one like you [RHQ].
\q1
\v 20 You have caused me to have many troubles and to suffer much,
\q1 \add but\add* you will cause me to become strong again;
\q1 when I am almost dead [HYP], you will keep me alive.
\q1
\v 21 You will cause me to be greatly honored
\q2 and you will encourage/comfort me again.
\b
\q1
\v 22 I will also praise you \add while I play\add* my harp;
\q1 I will praise you, my God, for faithfully \add doing what you have promised to do\add*.
\q1 I will play hymns to praise you, the holy God whom \add we\add* Israelis \add worship\add*.
\q1
\v 23 I [SYN] will shout joyfully while I play \add the harp\add* for you;
\q1 with my entire inner being I will sing
\q2 because you have rescued me.
\q1
\v 24 All during the day I will tell people that you act righteously,
\q2 because those who wanted to harm me will have been defeated and disgraced.
\c 72
\d A psalm written by Solomon.
\s1 A prayer for God to bless the king
\q1
\v 1 O God, enable the king \add whom you appointed in Israel\add* to rule justly.
\q2 Show/Teach him how to judge matters fairly
\q1
\v 2 in order that he will judge your people fairly,
\q2 that he will govern your oppressed people justly.
\q1
\v 3 I desire that \add all over the country—even\add* on the hills and mountains [DOU]—
\q2 people will live peacefully and righteously.
\q1
\v 4 Help your king to defend the poor people
\q2 and to rescue needy people and to defeat those who oppress them.
\b
\q1
\v 5 I desire that your that your people will revere you as long as the moon shines, \add forever\add*.
\q1
\v 6 I desire that his rule will \add be enjoyed by the people\add* [SIM]
\q2 like \add they enjoy\add* rain on the growing crops,
\q2 like \add they enjoy\add* the showers that fall on the land.
\q1
\v 7 I hope/desire that people will live righteously during the years that he rules,
\q2 and that the people will live peacefully and prosperously as long as the moon shines.
\b
\q1
\v 8 I hope/desire that the king \add of Israel\add* will rule \add the people\add*
\q2 in all the area from one sea \add in the east\add* to another \add in the west\add*,
\q2 and from the \add Euphrates\add* River to the most remote/distant places on earth.
\q1
\v 9 I hope/desire that those who live in the desert will bow down before him,
\q2 and that his enemies will throw themselves on the ground \add in submission\add* to our king.
\q1
\v 10 I hope/desire that the kings of Spain and of the islands \add in the Mediterranean Sea\add* will bring ◄tribute money/taxes► to the king \add of Israel\add*,
\q2 and that the kings of Sheba \add to the south\add* and of Seba \add to the southwest\add* will bring him gifts.
\q1
\v 11 I hope/desire that all the \add other\add* kings \add in the world\add* will bow before the king \add of Israel\add*,
\q2 and that \add people of\add* all nations will serve our king.
\b
\q1
\v 12 He will rescue poor people when they ◄cry out/plead► for help,
\q2 and he helps those who are needy and those who have no one to help them.
\q1
\v 13 He pities those who are weak and needy;
\q2 he saves the people's lives.
\q1
\v 14 Our king will rescue the people from being oppressed and from being treated cruelly,
\q2 \add because\add* ◄their lives/they► [MTY] are precious to our king.
\b
\q1
\v 15 I hope/desire that our king will live a long time!
\q2 I hope/desire that he will be given gold from Sheba.
\q1 I desire that people will always pray for our king
\q2 and praise him all the time, \add every day\add*.
\q1
\v 16 I hope/desire that the fields will produce plenty of grain \add everywhere, even\add* on the tops of the hills in the land where he rules,
\q2 like the grain that grows on the hills in Lebanon.
\q1 I hope/desire that the cities \add in Israel\add* will be full of people
\q2 like the fields are full of grass.
\q1
\v 17 I desire that the name of the king will never be forgotten.
\q2 I hope/desire that people will remember him as long as the sun shines.
\b
\q1 I hope/desire that people of all nations will ask ◄God to bless them/that they will be blessed by God►
\q2 just like he has blessed the king \add of Israel\add*.
\q1
\v 18 Praise Yahweh, the God whom \add we\add* Israelis \add worship\add*;
\q2 he is the only one who does wonderful things.
\q1
\v 19 Praise him forever!
\q2 I desire that ◄his glory will fill the whole world/people all over the world may see that he is very great► [MTY]!
\q2 Amen! May it be so!
\b
\q1
\v 20 That is the end of this group of prayers/songs written by David, the son of Jesse.
\c 73
\ms1 Book Three
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph
\q1
\v 1 God truly is good to \add us\add* Israeli people,
\q2 to those who with all their inner being want to do all that God desires.
\b
\q1
\v 2 As for me, I almost \add stopped trusting in God\add*;
\q1 \add it was as though\add* my feet slipped and I stumbled [MET],
\q1
\v 3 because I envied those who proudly \add said that they did not need God\add*,
\q2 and I saw that they prospered \add even though\add* they were wicked.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Those people do not have pains;
\q2 they are \add always\add* strong and healthy.
\q1
\v 5 They do not have the troubles/difficulties that other people have;
\q2 they do not have problems like others do.
\q1
\v 6 So they are proud, and their being proud is \add like\add* a necklace \add that they show to others\add*,
\q2 and they show off their violent actions like people show off their beautiful robes.
\q1
\v 7 From their inner beings they ◄pour out/do► evil deeds,
\q2 and in their inner beings they are always thinking about more evil things to do.
\q1
\v 8 They scoff at \add other people\add*, and they talk about doing evil things to them;
\q1 they are proud while they plan to oppress others.
\q1
\v 9 They say evil things about \add God who is in\add* heaven [MTY],
\q2 and they talk boastfully/proudly about things \add that they have done\add* here on the earth.
\q1
\v 10 The result is that people listen to what they say and praise them
\q2 and do not think that they have done anything that is wrong.
\q1
\v 11 Wicked people say \add to themselves\add*, “God will certainly not [RHQ] know \add what we have done\add*;
\q2 people say that he is greater than any other god, but he cannot [RHQ] find out.”
\b
\q1
\v 12 That is what wicked people are like;
\q2 they never worry about anything, and they are always becoming richer.
\b
\q1
\v 13 \add So, God\add*, I think it is useless that I have [RHQ] always done what you want me to,
\q2 and that I have not committed sins.
\q1
\v 14 During each day I have problems,
\q2 and every morning you punish me.
\b
\q1
\v 15 If I had said the things that the wicked people say,
\q2 I would have been sinning against your people.
\q1
\v 16 And when I tried to think about those things,
\q2 it was very difficult for me \add to understand them\add*.
\q1
\v 17 But when I went to your temple, \add you spoke to me\add*,
\q2 and I understood what will happen to the wicked people \add after they die\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 18 \add Now I know that\add* you will surely put them in slippery places,
\q2 and they will fall down and die.
\q1
\v 19 They will be destroyed instantly;
\q2 they will die in terrible ways.
\q
\v 20 They \add will disappear as quickly\add* as a dream disappears when a person awakes in the morning;
\q2 Lord, when you arise, you will ◄cause them to disappear/forget all about them►.
\b
\q1
\v 21 When I felt sad/bitter in my inner being,
\q1 and ◄my feelings were hurt/I had pain in my inner being►,
\q1
\v 22 I was stupid and ignorant,
\q2 and I behaved like an animal toward you.
\b
\q1
\v 23 But I am always close to you,
\q1 and you hold my hand.
\q1
\v 24 You guide me by teaching me,
\q2 and ◄at the end \add of my life\add*/when I die►, you will receive me and honor me.
\q1
\v 25 You are in heaven and I belong to you [RHQ],
\q1 and there is nothing on this earth that I desire more than that.
\q1
\v 26 My body and my mind may become very weak,
\q2 but God, you continue to enable me to be strong;
\q2 I belong to you forever.
\b
\q1
\v 27 Those who remain far from you will be destroyed;
\q1 you will get rid of those who abandon you.
\q1
\v 28 But \add as for\add* me, it is wonderful to be near to God
\q2 and to be protected by Yahweh,
\q2 and to proclaim to others all that he has done \add for me\add*.
\c 74
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph
\q1
\v 1 God, why have you abandoned/rejected us?
\q2 Will you keep rejecting us forever [RHQ]?
\q1 Why are you angry with us,
\q2 since we are like sheep in your pasture \add and you are like our shepherd\add*? [MET, RHQ]
\q1
\v 2 Do not forget your people whom you chose long ago,
\q2 the people whom you freed \add from being slaves in Egypt\add* and caused to become your tribe.
\q1 Do not forget Jerusalem, which was ◄your home/where you dwelt► \add on this earth\add*.
\q1
\v 3 Walk along \add and see\add* where everything has been totally ruined;
\q2 our enemies have destroyed everything in the sacred temple.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Your enemies shouted triumphantly in this sacred place;
\q1 they erected their banners \add to show they had defeated us\add*.
\q1
\v 5 They cut down all the \add engraved objects in the temple\add* like woodsmen cut down trees.
\q1
\v 6 Then they smashed all the carved wood with their axes and hammers.
\q1
\v 7 \add Then\add* they burned your temple to the ground;
\q2 they caused that place where you were worshiped to be unfit for people to worship in.
\q1
\v 8 They said to themselves, “We will destroy the Israelis completely,”
\q2 and they \add also\add* burned down all the other places where we gathered to worship God.
\q1
\v 9 All our sacred symbols (OR, miracles) are gone;
\q2 there are no prophets now/anymore,
\q2 and no one knows how long \add this situation will continue\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 10 God, how long will our enemies make fun of you [RHQ]?
\q1 Will they insult you [MTY] forever [RHQ]?
\q1
\v 11 Why do you refuse to help [MTY, RHQ] us?
\q2 Why do you keep your hand inside your cloak \add instead of using it to destroy our enemies\add* [RHQ]?
\b
\q1
\v 12 God, you have been our king \add during all the years\add* since we came out of Egypt [HYP],
\q1 and you have enabled us to defeat \add our enemies\add* in the land \add of Israel\add*.
\q1
\v 13 By your power you caused the \add Red\add* Sea to divide;
\q2 \add it was as though\add* you smashed the heads of the \add rulers of Egypt who were like\add* huge sea dragons [MET].
\q1
\v 14 \add It was as though\add* you crushed the head of the king of Egypt [MET]
\q2 and gave his body to the animals in the desert to eat.
\q1
\v 15 You caused springs and streams to flow,
\q2 and you \add also\add* rivers that had never dried up previously.
\q1
\v 16 You created the days and the nights,
\q2 and you put the sun and the moon in their places.
\q
\v 17 You determined where the oceans end and the land begins,
\q2 and you created the summer/hot season and the winter/cold season.
\b
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh, do not forget that your enemies laugh at you,
\q1 and that it is foolish people who despise you [MTY].
\q1
\v 19 Do not abandon your helpless people [MET] in the hands of their cruel enemies;
\q1 do not forget your suffering/persecuted people.
\q1
\v 20 ◄Continue thinking about/Do not forget► the agreement that you made with us;
\q2 Remember that there are violent people in every dark place on the earth.
\q1
\v 21 Do not allow your oppressed people to be disgraced;
\q2 help those poor and needy people in order that they will \add again\add* praise you [MTY].
\b
\q1
\v 22 God, arise and defend yourself \add by defending your people\add*
\q1 Do not forget that foolish people laugh at you ◄all during the day/continually►!
\q1
\v 23 Do not forget that your enemies shout angrily \add at you\add*;
\q2 the uproar that they make \add while they oppose you\add* never stops.
\c 75
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph for the choir director, to be sung using the tune ❛Do not destroy❜ 
\q1
\v 1 We give thanks to you;
\q2 our God, we thank you.
\q1 You are close to us,
\q2 and we proclaim to others the wonderful things that you have done \add for us\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 2 \add You have said\add*, “I have appointed a time when I will judge people,
\q2 and I will judge \add everyone\add* fairly.
\q1
\v 3 When the earth shakes
\q2 and all the creatures on the earth tremble,
\q1 I am the one who will ◄keep its foundations steady/prevent it from being destroyed►.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 4 I say to people who ◄boast/talk proudly about themselves►, ‘Stop bragging!’
\q1 and I say to wicked people, ‘Do not proudly \add do things to\add* show how great you are [IDI]!
\q
\v 5 Do not be arrogant,
\q2 and do not speak so boastfully!’”
\b
\q1
\v 6 The one who judges people does not come from the east or from the west,
\q1 and he does not come from the desert.
\q1
\v 7 God is the one who judges people;
\q2 he says that some have sinned and must be punished and that others have not done what is wrong.
\q1
\v 8 \add It is as though\add* Yahweh holds a cup in his hand;
\q2 it is filled with wine that \add has spices\add* mixed in it \add to cause those who drink it to become more drunk\add*;
\q1 and when Yahweh pours it out, he will force all the wicked people to drink it;
\q2 they will drink every drop of it,
\q2 \add which means that he will give them all the punishment that they deserve\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 9 But \add as for me\add*, I will never stop saying what the God whom Jacob \add worshiped has done\add*;
\q1 I will never quit singing to praise him.
\q1
\v 10 He will get rid of the power [IDI] of wicked people,
\q1 but he will increase the power of righteous people.
\c 76
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph for the choir director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments
\q1
\v 1 People in Judah know God;
\q1 the Israeli people honor him [MTY].
\q1
\v 2 His home is in Jerusalem;
\q2 he lives on Zion \add Hill\add*.
\q1
\v 3 There he broke the flaming arrows \add that his enemies shot\add*,
\q2 \add and he also broke\add* their shields and swords and other weapons that they used in battles.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 4 God, you are glorious!
\q1 You are like a king \add as you return from\add* the mountains \add where you defeated your enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 5 Their brave soldiers \add were killed, and then those who killed them\add* took away everything that those soldiers had.
\q1 Those enemies died [EUP],
\q2 \add so\add* they were unable to use their weapons \add anymore\add*
\q1
\v 6 When you, the God whom Jacob \add worshiped\add*, rebuked \add your enemies\add*,
\q2 \add the result was that their\add* horses and their riders fell down dead.
\q1
\v 7 But you cause everyone to be afraid.
\q1 When you are angry \add and you punish people\add*, no one can [RHQ] endure it.
\q1
\v 8 From heaven you proclaimed that you would judge people,
\q2 \add and then everyone on\add* the earth was afraid and did not say \add anything more\add*,
\q2
\v 9 when you arose to declare that you would punish \add wicked people\add*
\q2 and rescue all those whom they had oppressed.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 10 When \add you punish those\add* with whom you are angry, your people will praise you,
\q2 and \add your enemies\add* who ◄survive/are not killed► will worship you on your festival days.
\b
\q1
\v 11 \add So\add* give to Yahweh the offerings that you promised to give to him;
\q2 all the people of nearby people-groups should also bring gifts to him, the one who is awesome.
\q1
\v 12 He humbles [IDI] princes,
\q2 and \add even\add* causes \add great\add* kings to be terrified.
\c 77
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph for Jeduthun, the choir director
\q1
\v 1 I cry out to God;
\q1 I cry aloud to him, and he hears me.
\q1
\v 2 At the times when I have trouble, I pray to the Lord;
\q2 all during the night I lift up my hands while I pray,
\q2 \add but\add* nothing causes me to be comforted.
\b
\q1
\v 3 When I think about God, I ◄despair/think that he will never help me►;
\q1 when I meditate about him, I am discouraged.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 4 \add All during the night\add* he prevents me from sleeping;
\q2 I am very worried, with the result that I do not know what to say.
\q1
\v 5 I think about days that have passed;
\q2 I remember \add what happened in\add* previous years.
\q1
\v 6 I spend all the night thinking \add about things\add*;
\q2 I meditate, and this is what I ask myself:
\q1
\v 7 “Will the Lord always reject us?
\q2 Will he never again be pleased with us?
\q1
\v 8 Has he stopped faithfully loving us?
\q1 Will he not do for us what he promised to do?
\q1
\v 9 God promised to act mercifully toward us; has he forgotten that?
\q2 Because he is angry \add with us\add*, has he decided to not be kind to us?”
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 10 Then I said, “What causes me to be \add very\add* sad is that
\q1 \add it seems that\add* God, who is greater than any other god, is no longer powerful.”
\b
\q1
\v 11 \add But then\add*, Yahweh, I recall/remember your great deeds;
\q2 I remember the wonderful things that you did in the past.
\q2
\v 12 I meditate on all that you have done,
\q2 and I think about your mighty acts.
\b
\q1
\v 13 God, everything that you do is holy;
\q2 there is certainly no god [RHQ] who is great like you are!
\q1
\v 14 You are God, the one who performs miracles;
\q2 you showed to the people of many people-groups that you are powerful.
\q1
\v 15 By your power [MTY] you rescued your people \add from Egypt\add*;
\q2 you saved those who were descendants of Jacob and \add his son\add* Joseph.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 16 \add It was as though\add* the waters \add of the Red Sea\add* saw you and became very afraid,
\q2 and even the deepest part of the water shook.
\q
\v 17 Rain poured down from the clouds [PRS];
\q2 it thundered \add very loudly\add* [PRS],
\q2 and lightning flashed in all directions.
\q
\v 18 Thunder crashed in the whirlwind,
\q2 and lightning ◄lit up/flashed in► the entire sky [HYP];
\q1 the earth shook violently [DOU].
\q1
\v 19 \add Then\add* you walked through the sea
\q2 on a path that you made through the deep water,
\q2 but your footprints could not be seen.
\b
\q1
\v 20 You led your people like \add a shepherd leads his\add* flock \add of sheep\add*,
\q2 while Moses and Aaron were the leaders \add of your people\add*.
\c 78
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph
\q1
\v 1 My friends, listen to what I am going to teach you;
\q2 pay careful attention [IDI] to what I say.
\q1
\v 2 I am going to give you some sayings that wise people have said.
\q2 They will be sayings about things that happened long ago,
\q2 things that were difficult to understand [MET],
\q1
\v 3 things that we have heard and known previously,
\q2 things that our parents and grandparents told us.
\q1
\v 4 We will tell these things to our children [LIT],
\q1 but we will also tell to our grandchildren
\q2 \add about\add* Yahweh's power and the glorious/great things that he has done.
\q1
\v 5 He gave laws and commandments to the Israeli people,
\q1 \add those who are the descendants of\add* Jacob [DOU],
\q1 and he told our ancestors to teach them to their children
\q1
\v 6 in order that their children would \add also\add* know them
\q2 and then they would teach them to their children.
\q1
\v 7 In that way, they also would trust in God,
\q2 and not forget the things that he has done;
\q1 instead, they would obey his commandments.
\q1
\v 8 They would not be like their ancestors,
\q2 who were very stubborn and kept rebelling \add against God\add*;
\q1 they did not continue firmly trusting in God,
\q2 and they did not worship only him.
\b
\q1
\v 9 \add The soldiers of\add* the tribe of Ephraim had bows \add and arrows\add*
\q1 but they ran away \add from their enemies\add* on the day that they fought a battle with their enemies.
\q1
\v 10 They did not do what they had agreed with God that they would do;
\q2 they refused to obey his laws.
\q1
\v 11 They forgot what he had done;
\q2 they forgot about the miracles that they had seen him perform.
\q1
\v 12 While our ancestors were watching,
\q1 God performed miracles in the area around Zoan \add city\add* in Egypt.
\q1
\v 13 \add Then\add* he caused the \add Red\add* Sea to divide,
\q2 causing the water \add on each side\add* to pile up like a wall,
\q2 with the result that \add our ancestors\add* walked through it \add on dry ground\add*.
\q1
\v 14 He led them by a \add bright\add* cloud during the day
\q1 and by a fiery light during the night.
\q1
\v 15 He split rocks open in the desert
\q1 and gave to our ancestors plenty of water from deep inside the earth.
\q1
\v 16 He caused a stream of water to flow from the rock;
\q2 the water flowed like a river [DOU].
\b
\q1
\v 17 But \add our ancestors\add* continued to sin against God;
\q1 in the desert they rebelled against the one who is greater than any other god.
\q1
\v 18 By demanding that God give them the food that they desired,
\q1 they tried to find out if God would always do what they requested him to do.
\q1
\v 19 They insulted God by saying, “Can God supply food for us \add here\add* in this desert?
\q1
\v 20 \add It is true that\add* he struck the rock,
\q2 with the result that water gushed/flowed out,
\q1 \add but\add* ◄can he also provide bread and meat for \add us\add*, his people?/we doubt that he can also provide bread and meat for us, his people.►” [RHQ]
\q1
\v 21 So, when Yahweh heard that, he became very angry,
\q2 and he sent a fire to burn up \add some of\add* his Israeli \add people\add*. [MTY, DOU]
\q2
\v 22 \add He did that\add* because they did not trust in him,
\q2 and they did not believe that he would rescue them.
\q1
\v 23 But God spoke to the sky above them
\q2 and commanded it to open \add like\add* a door,
\q1
\v 24 and \add then food\add* fell down like rain,
\q3 \add food which they named\add* ❛manna❜;
\q2 God gave them grain from ◄heaven/the sky►.
\q1
\v 25 \add So\add* the people ate the food that angels eat,
\q2 \add and\add* God gave to them all the manna that they wanted.
\q1
\v 26 \add Later\add*, he caused the wind to blow from the east,
\q2 and by his power he also sent wind from the south,
\q1
\v 27 and the wind brought birds
\q2 which were as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore.
\q1
\v 28 God caused those birds to fall in the middle of ◄their camp►/the area where the people had put up their tents.
\q2 \add There were dead birds\add* all around their tents.
\q1
\v 29 \add So\add* the people \add cooked the birds and\add* ate the meat and their stomachs were full,
\q2 because God had given them what they wanted.
\q1
\v 30 But before they had eaten all that they wanted,
\q2 and while they were still eating it,
\q1
\v 31 God was \add still\add* very angry with them,
\q2 and he caused their strongest men to die;
\q2 he got rid of \add many of\add* the finest \add young\add* Israeli men.
\b
\q1
\v 32 In spite of all that, the people continued to sin;
\q1 in spite of all the miracles that God had performed,
\q2 they still did not trust that he \add would take care of them\add*.
\q1
\v 33 So, he caused their lives to end as quickly as a puff of wind ends;
\q2 they died when disasters suddenly struck them.
\q1
\v 34 When God caused \add some of\add* them to die,
\q1 \add the others\add* turned to God;
\q1 they repented and earnestly asked God \add to save them\add*.
\q1
\v 35 They remembered that God is \add like\add* a huge rock \add under which they would be safe\add* [MET],
\q1 and that he, who was greater than any other god, is the one who protected/rescued them.
\q1
\v 36 But they \add tried to\add* deceive God by what they said [MTY];
\q2 their words [MTY] were \add all\add* lies.
\q1
\v 37 They were not loyal to him;
\q2 they disregarded/ignored the agreement that he had made with them.
\q1
\v 38 But God acted mercifully toward his people.
\q1 He forgave them for having sinned
\q2 and did not get rid of them.
\q1 Many times he refrained from becoming angry \add with them\add*
\q1 and restrained himself from furiously/severely \add punishing them\add* [MTY].
\q1
\v 39 He remembered/considered that they were only humans who die;
\q2 they \add disappear quickly\add* [SIM], like a wind that blows by and then is gone.
\b
\q1
\v 40 Many times our ancestors rebelled against God in the desert
\q1 and caused him to become very sad.
\q1
\v 41 Many times they did evil things, to find out \add if they could do those things without God punishing them\add*.
\q2 They frequently caused the holy God of Israel to become disgusted/sad.
\q1
\v 42 They forgot about his \add great\add* power,
\q2 and they ◄forgot/did not think► about the time when he rescued them from their enemies.
\q1
\v 43 They forgot about when he performed many miracles
\q2 in the area near Zoan \add city\add* in Egypt.
\q1
\v 44 He caused the \add Nile\add* River (OR, their sources of water) to become \add red like\add* blood,
\q2 with the result that the people of Egypt had no water to drink.
\q1
\v 45 He sent among the people of Egypt swarms of flies that bit them,
\q1 and he sent frogs that ate up everything.
\q1
\v 46 He sent locusts to eat their crops
\q1 and the other things that grew in their fields.
\q1
\v 47 He sent hail that destroyed the grapevines,
\q1 and sent frost that ruined the figs.
\q1
\v 48 He sent hail that killed their cattle
\q1 and sent lightning that killed their sheep and cows.
\q1
\v 49 Because God was fiercely angry with the people of Egypt,
\q1 he caused them to be very distressed.
\q2 The disasters that struck them were like a group of angels that destroyed \add everything\add*.
\q1
\v 50 He did not lessen his being angry \add with them\add*,
\q2 and he did not ◄spare their lives/prevent them from dying►;
\q1 he sent a ◄plague/serious illness► that killed \add many of\add* them.
\q1
\v 51 In that plague he caused all the firstborn sons of the people of Egypt to die.
\q1
\v 52 Then he led his people out \add of Egypt\add* like \add a shepherd leads\add* his sheep [SIM],
\q2 and he guided them \add while they walked\add* through the desert.
\q1
\v 53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid,
\q1 but their enemies were drowned in the sea.
\q1
\v 54 \add Later\add* he brought them to \add Canaan\add*, his sacred land,
\q2 to \add Zion\add* Hill (OR, the hilly area)
\q2 and by his power [MTY] he enabled them to conquer \add the people who were living there\add*.
\q1
\v 55 He expelled the people-groups while his people were advancing;
\q2 he allotted part of the land for \add each tribe\add* to possess,
\q2 and he gave the houses of those people to the Israeli people.
\b
\q1
\v 56 However, the Israeli people rebelled against God, who is greater than any other God,
\q2 and they did many evil things to see if they could do those things without God punishing them,
\q2 and they did not obey his commandments.
\q1
\v 57 Instead, like their ancestors did, they rebelled against God and ◄were not loyal to/did not faithfully \add obey\add*► him;
\q2 they were as \add unreliable as\add* a crooked bow \add that does not shoot arrows straight\add* [SIM].
\q1
\v 58 Because they \add worshiped\add* carved images of their gods on the tops of hills,
\q1 they caused God to become angry [DOU].
\q1
\v 59 He saw what they were doing and became very angry,
\q2 so he rejected the Israeli people.
\q1
\v 60 He no longer appeared to them at Shiloh
\q2 in the tent where he had lived among them.
\q1
\v 61 He allowed their enemies to capture \add the sacred chest\add*,
\q2 \add which was the symbol of\add* his power and his glory.
\q1
\v 62 Because he was angry with his people,
\q2 he allowed them to be killed [MTY] \add by their enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 63 Young men were killed in battles,
\q2 with the result that the young women had no one to marry.
\q1
\v 64 \add Many\add* priests were killed by \add their enemies'\add* swords,
\q2 and ◄the people did not allow the priests' widows/the priests' widows were not allowed► to mourn.
\b
\q1
\v 65 Later, \add it was as though\add* the Lord awoke from sleeping;
\q1 he was like a strong man who ◄became stimulated/felt that he was strong► by (OR, became sober after) \add drinking\add* a lot of wine [SIM].
\q1
\v 66 He pushed their enemies back
\q1 and caused them to be \add very\add* ashamed for a long time [HYP]
\q2 \add because they had been defeated\add*.
\q1
\v 67 \add But\add* he did not set up his tent where \add the people of\add* the tribe of Ephraim lived;
\q2 he did not choose their area \add to do that\add*.
\q1
\v 68 Instead he chose \add the area where\add* the tribe of Judah \add lived\add*;
\q2 he chose Zion Hill, which he loves.
\q1
\v 69 He \add decided to have\add* his temple built \add there\add*, high up, like \add his home in\add* heaven;
\q1 he caused it to be firm, like the earth,
\q2 \add and intended that\add* his temple would last forever.
\q1
\v 70 He chose David, who served him \add faithfully\add*,
\q2 and took him from the pastures
\q2
\v 71 where he was taking care of his \add father's\add* sheep,
\q1 and appointed him to be the leader [MET] of the Israeli people,
\q2 the people who belonged to God.
\q1
\v 72 David took care of the Israeli people sincerely and wholeheartedly,
\q2 and guided them skillfully/wisely.
\c 79
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph
\q1
\v 1 God, other people-groups have invaded your land.
\q2 They have ◄desecrated your temple/caused your temple to be unfit for worship►,
\q1 and they have destroyed all the buildings in Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 2 \add Instead of burying\add* the corpses of your people \add whom they killed\add*,
\q2 they allowed the vultures to eat the flesh of those corpses,
\q2 and they also allowed wild animals to eat the corpses of your people.
\q1
\v 3 When they killed your people,
\q1 your people's blood flowed like water through \add the streets of\add* Jerusalem,
\q2 and there was \add almost\add* no one [HYP] left to bury their corpses.
\q1
\v 4 The people-groups that live in countries that surround our land insult us;
\q2 they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, how long \add will this continue\add*?
\q2 Will you be angry with us forever?
\q1 Will your being angry be like a fire burning \add within you\add*?
\q1
\v 6 \add Instead of being angry with us\add*,
\q2 be angry with the people-groups that do not know/worship you!
\q1 Be angry with kingdoms whose people do not pray to you,
\q2
\v 7 because they have killed Israeli people
\q2 and they have ruined your country.
\q1
\v 8 Do not punish us because of the sins that our ancestors committed!
\q1 Act mercifully toward us now/quickly,
\q2 because we are very discouraged.
\b
\q1
\v 9 God, you have saved/rescued \add us many times\add*,
\q2 \add so\add* help us \add now\add*;
\q1 rescue us and forgive us for having sinned
\q2 in order that other people will honor you [MTY].
\q1
\v 10 It is not right that [RHQ] the other people-groups say \add about us\add*,
\q2 “If their God \add is very powerful\add*, why does he not \add help them\add*?”
\q1 Allow us to see you punishing the people of other nations in return for their shedding our blood
\q1 and killing many of us, your people.
\q1
\v 11 Listen to your people groaning while they are in prison,
\q2 and by your great power free those whom our enemies say that they will certainly execute.
\b
\q1
\v 12 In return for their having \add often\add* insulted you,
\q1 punish them seven times as much!
\q1
\v 13 After you do that, we, whom you \add take care of like a shepherd takes care of\add* his sheep, will continue praising you;
\q2 we will continue to praise you forever [HYP].
\c 80
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph for the choir director, to be sung using the tune ❛Lilies of the covenant❜ 
\q1
\v 1 \add Yahweh\add*, you \add who lead us like\add* a shepherd leads his flock \add of sheep\add*,
\q1 listen to us Israeli people.
\q1 You sit on your throne \add in the Very Holy Place in the temple\add*, above the \add carvings of\add* winged creatures.
\q1
\v 2 Show yourself to \add the people of the tribes of\add* Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh!
\q2 Show us that you are powerful
\q2 and come and rescue us!
\b
\q1
\v 3 God, cause our nation to be strong like it was before;
\q2 act kindly toward us [IDI] in order that we may be saved \add from our enemies.\add*
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, you who are the commander of the armies of heaven,
\q2 how long will you be angry with us, your people, when we pray to you?
\q1
\v 5 \add It is as though\add* the only food and drink that you have given us is a cup full of our tears!
\q1
\v 6 You have allowed the people-groups that surround us to fight with \add each other to decide which part of our land each of them will take\add*;
\q2 our enemies laugh at us.
\b
\q1
\v 7 God, commander of the armies of heaven,
\q2 cause our nation to be strong like it was before!
\q1 Act kindly toward us in order that we may be saved!
\b
\q1
\v 8 \add Our ancestors were like\add* a grapevine [MET] that you brought out of Egypt;
\q1 you expelled the other people-groups \add from this land\add*,
\q2 and you put your people in their land.
\q1
\v 9 \add Like people\add* clear ground to plant a grapevine [MET],
\q1 \add you cleared out the people who were living in this land for us to live in it\add*.
\q1 \add Like\add* the roots of a grapevine go deep down into the ground and spread [MET],
\q2 \add you enabled our ancestors to prosper and start living in towns all over this land\add*.
\q1
\v 10 \add Like huge\add* grapevines cover the hills with their shade
\q2 and their branches are taller than big cedar \add trees\add* [MET],
\q1
\v 11 \add your people ruled all of Canaan\add*, from the \add Mediterranean\add* Sea \add in the west\add* to the \add Euphrates\add* River \add in the east\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 12 So why have you abandoned us
\q2 and \add allowed our enemies to\add* tear down our walls?
\q1 \add You are like\add* someone who tears down the fences \add around his vineyard\add*,
\q2 with the result that all \add the people\add* who pass by \add can\add* steal the grapes,
\q2
\v 13 and wild pigs \add can\add* trample \add the vines\add*,
\q2 and wild animals \add can also\add* eat \add the grapes\add*.
\q1
\v 14 You who are the commander of the armies of heaven, ◄turn to/stop abandoning► us!
\q2 Look down from heaven and see \add what is happening to\add* us!
\q1 Come and rescue \add us who are like\add* [MET] your grapevine,
\q1
\v 15 who are \add like\add* the young vine that you [SYN] planted and caused to grow!
\b
\q1
\v 16 Our enemies have torn down and burned everything in our land;
\q1 look at them angrily and get rid of them!
\q1
\v 17 But strengthen \add us\add* people whom you have chosen [IDI],
\q2 \add us\add* Israeli people whom you \add previously\add* caused to be very strong.
\q
\v 18 When you do that, we will never turn away from you again;
\q2 ◄revive us/cause us to be again like we were previously►, and \add then\add* we will praise/worship you.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh, commander of the armies of heaven, restore us;
\q2 act kindly toward us in order that we may be rescued \add from our enemies.\add*
\c 81
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Sing \add songs\add* to praise God, who enables us to be strong \add when we fight our enemies\add*;
\q1 shout joyfully to God, whom we ◄descendants of Jacob/Israeli people► \add worship\add*
\q1
\v 2 Start \add playing\add* the music, and beat the tambourines,
\q2 and play nice music on the harps and ◄lyres/other stringed instruments►.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Blow the trumpets \add during the festival to celebrate\add* each new moon
\q2 and each time the moon is full and during our \add other\add* festivals.
\q1
\v 4 \add Do that\add* because that is a law for \add us\add* Israeli \add people\add*;
\q2 it is a command that God made for the descendants of Jacob.
\q2
\v 5 He gave it to the Israeli \add people\add* when he punished \add the people of\add* Egypt.
\b
\q1 I heard someone [MTY] whose voice I did not recognize, saying,
\q1
\v 6 “\add After the rulers of Egypt forced you Israelis to work as slaves\add*,
\q1 I took those \add heavy\add* burdens off your backs,
\q2 and I enabled you to lay down those \add heavy\add* baskets \add of bricks that you were carrying\add*.
\q1
\v 7 When you were \add greatly\add* distressed, you called \add out to me\add*, and I rescued you;
\q2 I answered you out of a thundercloud.
\q2 \add Later\add* I tested \add whether you would trust me to give you\add* water \add when you were in the desert\add* at Meribah.
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 8 \add You who are\add* my people, listen while I warn you!
\q1 I wish that you Israeli \add people\add* would pay attention to what I \add say to you\add*
\q1
\v 9 You must not have any idols of other gods among you;
\q2 you must never bow to worship any of them!
\q1
\v 10 I am Yahweh, your God;
\q2 It was \add not any of those gods\add* who brought you out of Egypt,
\q1 I am the one who did it!
\q2 \add So\add* request what you want me to do for you [MTY], and I will do it.
\b
\q1
\v 11 But my people would not listen to me [SYN];
\q2 they would not obey me.
\q1
\v 12 So because they were very stubborn,
\q2 and I allowed them to do whatever they wanted to do.
\b
\q1
\v 13 I wish that my people would listen to me,
\q1 that the Israeli \add people\add* would behave as I want them to do.
\q1
\v 14 \add If they did that\add*, I would quickly defeat their enemies;
\q2 I would strike/punish \add all of\add* them [DOU].
\q1
\v 15 \add Then all\add* those who hate me would ◄cringe before/bow down to► me,
\q2 and \add then I\add* would punish them [MTY] forever.
\q1
\v 16 \add But\add* I would give you \add Israelis\add* very good wheat/grain,
\q2 and I would fill your stomachs with wild honey.”
\c 82
\s1 A psalm written by Asaph
\q1
\v 1 God gathers all the \add rulers and judges who think they are\add* gods for a meeting in heaven;
\q2 and he tells them that he has decided this:
\q1
\v 2 “You must [RHQ] stop judging \add people\add* unfairly;
\q1 you must no longer make decisions that favor wicked \add people\add*
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 3 You must defend \add people who are\add* poor and orphans;
\q2 you must act fairly toward those who are needy and those who have no one to help them.
\q1
\v 4 Rescue them from the power [MTY] of evil \add people\add* [DOU]!”
\b
\q1
\v 5 \add Those rulers\add* do not know or understand anything!
\q2 They are very corrupt/evil,
\q2 and \add as a result of their corrupt/evil behavior\add*,
\q2 \add it is as though\add* the foundation of the world is being shaken!
\b
\q1
\v 6 I \add previously\add* said to them, “You think you are gods!
\q1 \add It is as though\add* you are all my sons,
\q1
\v 7 but you will die like people do;
\q2 your lives will end, like the lives of all rulers end.”
\b
\q1
\v 8 God, arise and judge \add everyone on\add* [MTY] the earth,
\q2 because all the people-groups belong to you!
\c 83
\s1 A psalm which is a song written by Asaph
\q1
\v 1 God, do not continue to be silent!
\q1 Do not be quiet and say nothing,
\q1
\v 2 because your enemies are rioting against you;
\q2 those who hate you are rebelling against you!
\q1
\v 3 They are secretly planning to do things to harm \add us\add*, your people;
\q2 they are ◄conspiring together against/planning how to defeat► the people whom you protect.
\q1
\v 4 They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation,
\q2 with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
\q1
\v 5 They have agreed on \add what they want to do to destroy Israel\add*,
\q2 and they have formed an agreement against you.
\q1
\v 6 \add The people who have done that are\add* the people of Edom \add region\add*,
\q2 and the descendants of Ishmael \add who live on the east side of the Jordan River\add*,
\q2 and the Moab \add people-group\add*, and the descendants of Hagar \add who also live on the east side of the Jordan River\add*,
\q2
\v 7 the Gebal \add people-group\add*, and the Ammon \add people-group\add*, and the Amalek \add people-group\add*,
\q2 and the Philistia \add people-group\add*, and the people of Tyre \add city\add*.
\q2
\v 8 \add The people of \add*Assyria have joined them;
\q2 they are strong allies of the \add Moab and Ammon people-groups, who are\add* descendants of \add Abraham's nephew\add* Lot.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 9 \add God\add*, do to those people things like you did to the Midian \add people-group\add*,
\q2 like \add you did\add* to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon River.
\q1
\v 10 You destroyed them at Endor \add town\add*,
\q2 and their corpses \add lay on\add* the ground and decayed.
\q1
\v 11 Do to them things like you did to \add Kings\add* Oreb and Zeeb;
\q2 defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,
\q2
\v 12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that \add the Israelis say\add* belongs to God!”
\b
\q1
\v 13 My God, cause them \add to disappear quickly\add* like whirling dust,
\q2 like chaff that the wind blows away!
\q1
\v 14 Like a fire completely burns a forest
\q1 and like flames burn in the mountains,
\q1
\v 15 expel them with your storms
\q2 and cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
\q1
\v 16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed
\q2 in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
\q1
\v 17 Cause them to be forever disgraced \add because of being defeated\add*,
\q1 and cause them to die while they are still disgraced.
\q1
\v 18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh,
\q2 are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
\c 84
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Lord, you who are the Commander of the armies of angels,
\q2 your temple is very beautiful!
\q1
\v 2 I [SYN] would like to be there;
\q2 Yahweh, I desire that very much [DOU].
\q2 With all my inner being I sing joyfully to you, the all-powerful God.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Even sparrows and swallows have built nests \add near your temple\add* [DOU];
\q2 they take care of their young babies near the altars \add where people offer sacrifices to\add* you,
\q2 who are the commander of the armies of heaven, and my king and my God.
\q1
\v 4 ◄Happy are/You are pleased with► those who ◄live/continually worship► in your temple,
\q2 constantly singing to praise you.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 5 Happy are those who \add know that\add* you are the one who causes them to be strong,
\q1 those who strongly desire to ◄make the trip/go► to Zion \add Hill\add*.
\q1
\v 6 While they travel through the \add dry\add* Baca Valley,
\q1 \add you cause\add* it to become a place where there are springs of water,
\q2 where the rains ◄in the autumn/before the cold season► fill the valley with pools of water.
\q1
\v 7 \add As a result, those who travel through there\add* become stronger/refreshed
\q2 \add knowing that\add* they will appear in your presence ◄on Zion \add Hill\add*/in Jerusalem►.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, commander of the armies of heaven, listen to my prayer;
\q1 God, who \add is worshiped by us ◄descendants of\add* Jacob/Israeli people►, hear [IDI] what I am saying!
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 9 God, act kindly toward [IDI] our king, the one who protects us [MTY],
\q2 the one whom you have chosen [MTY] \add to rule us\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 10 \add For me\add*, spending one day in your temple
\q2 is better than spending a thousand days somewhere else;
\q1 \add standing\add* at the entrance to your temple, \add ready to go inside\add*,
\q2 is better than living in the tents/homes where wicked \add people live\add*.
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh our God is \add like\add* the sun \add that shines on us\add* and \add like\add* a shield \add that protects us\add* [MET];
\q2 he acts favorably toward \add us\add* and honors \add us\add*.
\q1 Yahweh does not refuse to give any good thing/blessing to those who do what is right.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh, commander of the armies of heaven,
\q2 ◄happy are/you are pleased with► those who trust in you!
\c 85
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you have acted kindly toward \add us people who live in\add* this land;
\q1 you have enabled \add us\add* Israeli people to become prosperous again.
\q1
\v 2 You forgave \add us\add*, your people, for the sins that we had committed;
\q2 you pardoned \add us\add* for all our sins [DOU].
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 3 You stopped being angry \add with us\add*
\q2 and turned away from severely punishing \add us\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Now, God, the one who saves/rescues us, ◄restore us/make us prosperous again►
\q1 and stop being angry with us!
\q1
\v 5 ◄Will you continue to be angry with us forever?/Please do not continue to be angry with us forever.► [DOU, RHQ]
\q1
\v 6 Please enable us [RHQ] to prosper again
\q2 in order that \add we\add*, your people, will rejoice about what you \add have done for us\add*.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, by rescuing us \add from our troubles/difficulties\add*,
\q2 show us that you faithfully love us.
\b
\q1
\v 8 I want to listen to what Yahweh \add our\add* God says,
\q2 because he promises/says that he will enable \add us\add*, his people, to live peacefully,
\q2 if we do not return to doing foolish things.
\q1
\v 9 He is surely ready to save/rescue those who have an awesome respect for him,
\q2 in order that \add his\add* glory/splendor will remain in our land.
\b
\q1
\v 10 \add When that happens\add*, he will both faithfully love us and faithfully \add do for us what he promised to do\add* [PRS];
\q1 and we will act/behave righteously, and he will give us peace,
\q2 which will be like a kiss that he gives us.
\q1
\v 11 Here on earth, we will ◄be loyal to/continually believe in► God,
\q1 and from heaven, God will act justly/fairly \add toward us\add*.
\q1
\v 12 Yes, Yahweh will do good things \add for us\add*,
\q2 and there will be great harvests in our land.
\q1
\v 13 \add Yahweh always acts\add* righteously [PRS, MET];
\q2 he acts righteously wherever he goes.
\c 86
\s1 A prayer written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, listen [IDI] to what I say and answer me,
\q2 because I am weak and needy.
\q1
\v 2 Prevent me from dying now, because I ◄am loyal to/continue to believe in► you;
\q2 save/rescue me, because I serve you and I trust in you, my God.
\q1
\v 3 Lord, act kindly toward me,
\q2 because I cry out to you all during each day.
\q1
\v 4 Lord, cause me to be glad,
\q2 because I ◄pray to/worship► [IDI] you.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Lord, you are good \add to us\add*, and you forgive \add us\add*;
\q1 you faithfully love very much all those who ◄pray/call out► to you.
\q1
\v 6 Lord, listen to my prayer;
\q2 hear me when I cry out to you to help me.
\q1
\v 7 When I have troubles, I call out to you,
\q2 because you answer me.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Lord, among all the gods \add whom the heathen nations worship\add*,
\q2 there is no one like you;
\q1 not one of them has done \add the great things\add* that you have done.
\q1
\v 9 Lord, \add some day, people from\add* all the nations that you have established will come and bow down in front of you
\q2 and they will praise you [MTY].
\q1
\v 10 You are great, and you do wonderful/marvelous things;
\q2 only you are God.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, teach me what you want me to do
\q2 in order that I may conduct my life according to what you say, which is true.
\q1 Cause/Teach me to have an awesome respect for you with all my inner being.
\q1
\v 12 Lord, my God, I \add will\add* thank you with all my inner being,
\q2 and I will praise you forever.
\q1
\v 13 You faithfully love me very much;
\q2 you have prevented me from \add dying and going to\add* the place where dead people are.
\b
\q1
\v 14 But God, proud men are \add trying to\add* attack me;
\q2 a gang/group of cruel men are wanting to kill me;
\q2 they are men who do not have any ◄respect for/interest in► you.
\q1
\v 15 But Lord, you always act mercifully and kindly;
\q2 you do not become angry quickly,
\q2 and you faithfully love us very much
\q2 and always do for us what you have promised to do.
\q1
\v 16 Look down toward me and act mercifully to me;
\q2 cause me to be strong and save/rescue me
\q2 who serves you \add faithfully\add* like my mother did.
\q1
\v 17 Yahweh, do something to show me that you are being good to me
\q2 in order that those who hate me will see that you have encouraged me and helped me
\q2 and as a result they will be ashamed.
\c 87
\s1 A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah
\q1
\v 1 The city that Yahweh established is on his sacred hill.
\q1
\v 2 He loves that city, Jerusalem, more than he loves any other city in Israel.
\q1
\v 3 \add You people in\add* [APO] the city that God ◄owns/lives in►,
\q2 people say wonderful things about your city.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 4 \add Some of those who know about God are the people of\add* Egypt and Babylonia,
\q2 and also \add the people of\add* Philistia and Tyre and Ethiopia;
\q2 \add some day they all\add* will say,
\q2 “\add Although I was not born in Jerusalem\add*,
\q2 \add because I belong to Yahweh, it is as though\add* I was born there.”
\q1
\v 5 And concerning Jerusalem, people will say
\q2 \add “It is as though\add* everyone was born there,
\q2 and Almighty God will cause that city to remain strong/safe/secure.”
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh will write a list of \add the names of\add* the people of various groups \add who belong to him\add*,
\q1 and he will say that \add he considers them\add* all to be citizens of Jerusalem.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 7 They will all dance and sing, saying,
\q2 “Jerusalem is the source of all our blessings.”
\c 88
\s1 A psalm that expresses sadness, written for the choir director by Zerah's son Heman, one of the descendants of Korah
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh God, you who rescues me, all during each day I call out \add to you\add* to help me,
\q1 and I cry out to you during each night also.
\q1
\v 2 Listen [IDI] to my prayer [DOU],
\q2 while I cry out to you \add for help!\add*
\b
\q1
\v 3 I have experienced many troubles/difficulties,
\q2 and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are.
\q1
\v 4 Because I have no more strength,
\q2 \add other people also\add* consider that I will soon die.
\q1
\v 5 I am like a corpse that has been abandoned;
\q2 I am like dead people who lie in their graves,
\q2 people who have been completely forgotten,
\q2 because you do not take care of them anymore.
\b
\q1
\v 6 \add It is as though\add* you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit,
\q2 into a place where they throw corpses.
\q1
\v 7 \add It seems like\add* you are very angry with me,
\q1 and \add it is as though\add* you have crushed me like \add ocean\add* waves \add crash down on people\add* [MET].
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 8 You have caused my friends to ◄avoid/stay away from► me;
\q2 I have become repulsive to them.
\q1 \add It is as though\add* I am in a prison and cannot escape.
\q1
\v 9 My eyes cannot see well because I cry very much.
\q2 Yahweh, every day I call out to you \add to help me\add*;
\q2 I lift up my hands to you \add while I pray\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 10 You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people!
\q1 Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!
\qr (Think about that!)
\q1
\v 11 Corpses in the grave certainly do not tell about your faithfully loving us [RHQ],
\q2 and in the place where people are finally destroyed,
\q2 no one tells about what you faithfully \add do for us\add* [RHQ].
\q1
\v 12 No one in the deep dark pit ever sees the miracles that you perform [RHQ],
\q2 and no one in the place where people have been completely forgotten tells about your being good to us.
\b
\q1
\v 13 But \add as for me\add*, Yahweh, I cry out to you \add to help me\add*;
\q2 each morning I pray to you.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh, why do you reject me?
\q2 Why do you turn away from me?
\b
\q1
\v 15 All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died;
\q1 I am ◄in despair/very discouraged► because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
\q1
\v 16 \add I feel that\add* you have crushed me because of your being angry with me;
\q2 the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me.
\q1
\v 17 \add I feel as though\add* they surround me like a flood [SIM];
\q2 they are ◄closing in on/crushing► me from all sides.
\q1
\v 18 You have caused \add even\add* my friends and others whom I love to avoid me,
\q2 and \add it is as though\add* the only friend that I have is darkness.
\c 89
\s1 A song written by Ethan, from the clan of Ezra
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I will sing forever about the ways you faithfully love me;
\q2 people not yet born will hear that you faithfully \add do all that you have promised\add*.
\q1
\v 2 I will tell people that you will faithfully love us forever,
\q2 and that your being faithful \add to do what you have promised\add* is as permanent as the sky.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh said, “I have made an agreement with David, whom I chose \add to serve me\add*.
\q2 I have made this solemn ◄agreement with/promise to► him:
\q1
\v 4 ‘I will enable various ones of your descendants to always be kings;
\q2 the line of kings descended from you [MTY] will never end.’”
\qr (Think about that!) 10
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, I desire that all \add those beings who are in\add* [MTY] heaven will praise you for the wonderful things that you do,
\q2 and that all your holy angels will sing about how you faithfully \add do what you promise\add*.
\q1
\v 6 There is no one [RHQ] in heaven who can be compared with you, Yahweh.
\q2 There are no angels [RHQ] in heaven who are equal to you.
\q1
\v 7 When your holy angels gather together,
\q2 they declare that you must be revered;
\q1 they say that you are more awesome than all the angels that surround your throne!
\q1
\v 8 O Yahweh, God Almighty, there is no one [RHQ] who is powerful like you are;
\q2 your faithfully doing \add all that you promise\add* is \add like a cloak that\add* [MET] \add always\add* surrounds you.
\b
\q1
\v 9 You rule over the powerful seas;
\q2 when their waves rise up, you calm them.
\q1
\v 10 You are the one who crushed \add and killed the great sea monster named\add* Rahab.
\q2 You \add defeated and\add* scattered your enemies with your great power [MTY].
\q1
\v 11 The heavens are yours, and the earth is yours;
\q2 and everything on the earth is yours, because you created it all.
\q1
\v 12 You created \add everything from\add* the north to the south.
\q2 Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon joyfully praise you [MTY].
\q1
\v 13 ◄You/Your arms► are very powerful;
\q2 ◄you/your hands► are extremely strong.
\b
\q1
\v 14 ◄Your rule [MTY] over us is based on/As you rule over us, you are always► treating people fairly and justly,
\q2 and on/are always faithfully loving us and doing \add what you promised\add*.
\q1
\v 15 Yahweh, happy are the people who worship you with joyful shouts,
\q2 who live knowing that you are always watching over them.
\q1
\v 16 Every day, throughout the day, they rejoice in what you [MTY] \add have done\add*,
\q2 and they praise you for being very good \add to them\add*.
\q1
\v 17 You give us your glorious strength;
\q2 because you act in our favor, we defeat [MET] \add our enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh, you gave us \add the one who\add* protects us [MET];
\q2 you, the holy God whom we Israelis worship, chose a king for us.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Long ago you spoke in a vision to one of your servants/prophets, saying,
\q2 “I have helped a famous soldier;
\q1 I chose him from among all the people to be a king.
\q1
\v 20 That man is David, the one who will serve me \add faithfully\add*,
\q2 and I anointed him with sacred olive oil \add to make him king\add*.
\q1
\v 21 My strength [MTY] will always be with him;
\q2 with my power [MTY] I will make him strong.
\q1
\v 22 His enemies will never find ways to defeat him,
\q2 and wicked people will never defeat him.
\q1
\v 23 I will crush his enemies in front of him
\q2 and get rid of those who hate him.
\q1
\v 24 I will always be loyal to him and faithfully love him
\q2 and enable him to defeat [MET] \add his enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 25 I will cause ◄his kingdom/the area that he rules► to include all the land from the \add Mediterranean\add* Sea to the \add Euphrates\add* River.
\q1
\v 26 He will say to me, ‘You are my Father,
\q2 my God, the one who protects [MET] and saves me.’
\q1
\v 27 I will give him \add the rights/privileges that a man's\add* firstborn son has [MET];
\q2 he will be the greatest king on the earth.
\q1
\v 28 I will always be loyal to him,
\q2 and my agreement \add to bless\add* him will last forever.
\q1
\v 29 I will establish a line of his descendants that will never end,
\q2 various ones of his descendants will always be kings.
\b
\q1
\v 30 But, if \add some of\add* his descendants disobey my laws,
\q2 and do no not behave like my commands say that they should,
\q1
\v 31 if they disregard my requirements
\q2 and do not do the right things that I have told them to do,
\q1
\v 32 I will punish them severely [MTY]
\q2 and cause them to suffer for doing wrong.
\q1
\v 33 But I will not stop faithfully loving \add David\add*,
\q2 and I will always do what I promised him.
\q1
\v 34 I will not break the agreement that I made with him;
\q2 I will not change even one word that I spoke \add to him\add*.
\q1
\v 35 Once I made a solemn promise to David, and that will never change,
\q2 and because I am God, I will never lie to David.
\q1
\v 36 \add I promised that\add* the line of kings descended from him will go on forever;
\q2 it will last as long as the sun \add shines\add*.
\q1
\v 37 That line will ◄be as permanent/last as long► as the moon
\q2 that is always watching everything \add here on earth\add*.”
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 38 But \add Yahweh\add*, now you have rejected [DOU] him!
\q2 You are very angry with the king whom you appointed.
\q1
\v 39 \add It seems that\add* you have broken the agreement that you made with your servant, \add David\add*;
\q2 it seems as though you have thrown his crown into the dust/dirt.
\q1
\v 40 You have torn down the walls \add that protect\add* his \add city\add*,
\q2 and allowed all his forts to become ruins.
\q1
\v 41 All those who pass by plunder/steal his possessions;
\q2 his neighbors ◄laugh at/ridicule► him.
\q1
\v 42 You have enabled his enemies to defeat him;
\q2 you have made them all happy.
\q1
\v 43 You have caused his sword to become useless,
\q2 and you have not helped him in his battles.
\q1
\v 44 You have caused his splendor to end (OR, You have taken away his power as king [MTY])
\q2 and knocked his throne to the ground.
\q1
\v 45 You have caused him to become old when he is still young
\q2 and caused him to be very shamed/disgraced.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 46 O Yahweh, how long \add will this continue\add*?
\q2 Will you ◄hide yourself from/ignore► me forever?
\q1 How long will your anger \add against me\add* burn like a fire?
\q1
\v 47 Do not forget that my life is very short;
\q2 have you created all us people in vain?
\q1
\v 48 No one can [RHQ] keep on living and never die;
\q2 ◄No one can [RHQ] avoid going/Everyone will go► to the place of the dead.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 49 Yahweh, you promised long ago
\q2 that you would faithfully love me;
\q1 why are you not doing that?
\q1 You solemnly promised that to David!
\q1
\v 50 Yahweh, do not forget that people insult me!
\q2 ◄Heathen people/People who do not know you► curse me!
\q1
\v 51 Yahweh, your enemies insult me, your chosen king!
\q2 They insult/ridicule me wherever I go.
\b
\q1
\v 52 I hope/desire that Yahweh will be praised forever!
\q1 Amen! May it be so!
\c 90
\ms1 Book Four
\s1 A prayer by the prophet Moses
\b
\q1
\v 1 Lord, you have always ◄been \add like\add* a home for us/protected us► [MET].
\q1
\v 2 Before you created the mountains,
\q2 before you formed the earth and everything that is in it,
\q1 you were eternally God,
\q2 and you will be God forever.
\b
\q1
\v 3 \add When people die\add*, you cause their corpses to become soil again;
\q2 you change their corpses to become dirt like \add the first man\add* was created from.
\q1
\v 4 When you ◄consider/think about► time,
\q2 a thousand years are \add as short as\add* [SIM] one day which passes;
\q2 \add you consider that\add* [HYP] they are as short as a few hours in the night.
\q1
\v 5 You cause people suddenly to die [MET];
\q2 they \add live only a short time\add*, like a dream lasts only a short time.
\q2 They are like grass/weeds [SIM] that grow up.
\q1
\v 6 In the morning [DOU] the grass sprouts and grows well,
\q2 but in the evening it dries up and ◄completely withers/dies►.
\b
\q1
\v 7 \add Similarly\add*, \add because of the sins that we have committed\add*, you become angry with us;
\q2 you terrify us and then you destroy us.
\q1
\v 8 \add It is as though\add* you place our sins in front of you,
\q2 you spread out even our secret sins where you can see them.
\q1
\v 9 Because you are angry with us, you cause our lives to end;
\q2 the years that we live pass as quickly as a sigh does.
\q1
\v 10 People live for only 70 years;
\q2 but if they are strong, some of them live for 80 years.
\q1 But even during good years we have much pain and troubles;
\q2 our lives soon end, and we die [EUP].
\b
\q1
\v 11 No one [RHQ] has really experienced the powerful things you can do to them when you are angry with them,
\q1 and people are not afraid that you will greatly punish them because of your being angry with them.
\q1
\v 12 So teach/help us to realize that we live for only a short time
\q2 in order that we may \add use our time\add* wisely.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh, how long \add will you be angry with us\add*?
\q1 Pity us who serve you.
\q1
\v 14 Each morning show us that your faithfully loving us is enough for us
\q2 in order that we may shout joyfully and be happy all during the years that we live.
\q1
\v 15 Cause us to now be as happy for as many years as you ◄afflicted us/caused us to be sad► and we experienced troubles.
\q1
\v 16 Enable us to see the \add great\add* things that you do
\q2 and enable our descendants to \add also\add* see your glorious power.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Lord, our God, ◄give us your blessings/act kindly toward us►
\q2 and enable us to be successful;
\q2 yes, cause us to be successful in \add everything\add* that we do [DOU]!
\c 91
\q1
\v 1 Those who live under the protection of God Almighty,
\q2 will be able to rest \add safely\add* under his care.
\q1
\v 2 I will declare to Yahweh,
\q2 “You protect me;
\q2 \add you are like\add* a fort [MET] in which I am safe.
\q2 You are my God, the one in whom I trust.”
\b
\q1
\v 3 He will rescue you from all hidden traps
\q2 and save you from deadly diseases.
\q1
\v 4 He will shield/protect you \add like a bird shields/protects its chicks\add* [MET] with/under her wings.
\q2 You will be safe ◄in his care/because he takes care of you►.
\q2 His faithfully doing what he has promised is like a shield [MET] that will protect you.
\q1
\v 5 You will not be afraid of things that happen during the night that could ◄terrorize you/cause you to be very afraid►,
\q2 or of arrows that \add your enemies will shoot at you\add* during the day.
\q1
\v 6 You will not be afraid of ◄plagues/widespread sicknesses► that demons cause when they attack people at night,
\q2 or of other \add evil forces\add* that kill people at midday.
\q1
\v 7 Even if a thousand people fall \add dead\add* alongside you,
\q2 even if ten thousand \add people are dying\add* around you,
\q2 you will not be harmed.
\q1
\v 8 Look and see
\q2 that ◄wicked people are being punished/God is punishing wicked people►!
\b
\q1
\v 9 If you allow Yahweh to protect you,
\q2 if you trust God Almighty to ◄shelter/take care of► you,
\q1
\v 10 nothing evil will happen to you;
\q2 no plague will come near your house,
\q1
\v 11 because Yahweh will command his angels
\q2 to protect you wherever you go.
\q1
\v 12 They will hold you up with their hands,
\q2 with the result that you will not hurt your foot on a big stone.
\q1
\v 13 You will be \add kept safe from being harmed by your enemies\add* [MET];
\q2 \add it will be as though\add* you are stepping on lions and poisonous snakes \add without them harming you!\add*
\b
\q1
\v 14 \add Yahweh says\add*, “I will rescue those who love me,
\q2 I will protect them because they ◄acknowledge that I am Yahweh/know me►.
\q1
\v 15 When they call out to me, I will answer them.
\q2 I will help them when they are experiencing trouble;
\q2 I will rescue them and honor them.
\q1
\v 16 I will reward them by enabling them to live a long time,
\q2 and I will save them.”
\c 92
\s1 A psalm that is to be sung on Sabbath days
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, it is good for people to thank you
\q2 and to sing to praise you [MTY] who are greater than any other god.
\q1
\v 2 It is good to proclaim every morning that you faithfully love us,
\q2 and each night \add to sing songs that\add* declare that you always do what you have promised to do,
\q2
\v 3 accompanied by \add musicians playing\add* harps that have ten strings,
\q2 and by the sounds made by a lyre.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, you have caused me to be glad;
\q2 I sing joyfully because of what you [SYN] have done.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, the things that you do are great!
\q2 But it is difficult for us to understand \add all\add* that you think.
\q1
\v 6 There are things \add that you do\add* that foolish people cannot know about,
\q2 things that stupid people cannot understand.
\q1
\v 7 They do not understand that although the number of wicked \add people\add* increases \add like blades of\add* grass do [SIM],
\q2 and those who do what is evil prosper,
\q1 they will be completely destroyed.
\b
\q1
\v 8 But Yahweh, you \add will \add*◄be exalted/be honored/rule► forever.
\b
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, your enemies will \add certainly\add* die,
\q2 and those who do wicked things will be defeated/scattered.
\q1
\v 10 But you have caused me to be as strong [MTY] as [SIM] a wild ox;
\q1 you have caused me to be very joyful [MTY].
\q1
\v 11 I [SYN] have seen you defeat my enemies,
\q2 and I have heard those evil men wail/scream while they were being slaughtered.
\b
\q1
\v 12 But righteous \add people\add* will prosper like [SIM] palm trees that grow well,
\q2 or like [SIM] cedar \add trees\add* that grow in Lebanon.
\q1
\v 13 \add They are like the trees\add* that grow near the temple of Yahweh \add in Jerusalem\add*,
\q2 the trees that are close to the courtyard of the temple of our God.
\q1
\v 14 \add Even\add* when righteous people become old, they do many things [IDI] \add that please God\add*.
\q2 They remain strong and full of energy, \add like trees that\add* [MET] remain full of sap.
\q2
\v 15 That shows that Yahweh is just;
\q2 he is \add like a huge\add* rock \add under which I am safe/protected\add*,
\q2 and he never does anything that is wicked/wrong.
\c 93
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you have become the King!
\q2 The majesty and the power that you have are \add like\add* [MET] robes that a king wears.
\q1 You put the world firmly in place, and it will never be moved/shaken.
\q1
\v 2 You started to rule as king a very long time ago;
\q2 you have always existed.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, \add when you created the world, you separated\add* the water from \add the chaotic mass and formed oceans\add*,
\q2 and the waves of the waters \add of those oceans\add* still roar,
\q1
\v 4 \add but\add* you are greater than the roar of those oceans,
\q2 more powerful than the ocean waves!
\q2 You are Yahweh, the one who is greater than any other god!
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, your laws never change,
\q2 and your temple has always been holy/sacred.
\q2 And that will be true forever.
\c 94
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you are able to get revenge \add on your enemies\add*.
\q2 \add So\add* show them that you are going to punish them!
\b
\q1
\v 2 You are the one who judges all \add people on\add* the earth;
\q1 \add so\add* arise, and give/punish the proud \add leaders of our\add* people what/like they deserve.
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, how long will those wicked \add people\add* be glad/happy?
\q2 It is not right that [RHQ] they continue being glad!
\b
\q1
\v 4 They do evil things, and they boast about doing them;
\q2 how long will they \add be allowed to\add* continue doing that?
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, \add it is as though\add* those wicked people crush \add us\add*, your people;
\q2 they ◄oppress/treat cruelly► those who belong to you [DOU].
\q1
\v 6 They murder widows and orphans
\q2 and people from other countries who \add think it is safe to\add* live in our land.
\q2
\v 7 Those wicked people say, “Yahweh does not see anything;
\q2 \add so\add* the God whom those Israelis \add worship\add* does not see \add the evil things that we do\add*.”
\b
\q1
\v 8 You evil people \add who rule Israel\add*, you are foolish and stupid;
\q2 when will you become wise [RHQ]?
\q1
\v 9 God made our ears;
\q2 so \add do you think that\add* he cannot hear \add what you say\add* [RHQ]?
\q1 He created our eyes;
\q2 so do you think that he cannot see \add the evil things that you do\add* [RHQ]?
\q1
\v 10 He scolds \add the leaders of other\add* nations;
\q2 so do you think that he will not punish \add you\add* [RHQ]?
\q1 He is the one who knows everything;
\q2 \add so why do you think that he does not know what you do\add* [RHQ]?
\q2
\v 11 Yahweh knows \add everything\add* that people are thinking;
\q2 he knows that what they think ◄\add is useless/vanishes as quickly as\add*► smoke [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh, you are pleased with people who \add want you to\add* discipline/correct them,
\q2 with people who \add want you to\add* teach them your laws.
\q1
\v 13 When those people have had troubles, you cause those troubles to cease,
\q1 and some day \add it will be as though\add* you will dig pits for the wicked people,
\q2 and they will fall into those pits \add and die\add*.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh will not abandon his people;
\q2 he will not desert those who belong to him [DOU].
\q1
\v 15 \add Some day\add* judges will decide matters fairly for people,
\q2 and all honest/righteous people will be pleased about that.
\b
\q1
\v 16 But when wicked \add people\add* ◄\add oppressed me/treated me cruelly\add*►,
\q1 ◄who defended me?/no one defended me.► [RHQ]
\q2 No one stood up to testify for me against those evil people [RHQ].
\q1
\v 17 If Yahweh had not helped me \add at that time\add*,
\q2 \add I would have been executed\add*,
\q2 \add and\add* my soul/spirit would have gone to the place where \add dead people\add* say nothing.
\q1
\v 18 I said/thought \add to myself\add*, “I am ◄falling/about to die►,”
\q2 but Yahweh, you held me up by faithfully loving me.
\q1
\v 19 Whenever I am very worried,
\q2 you comfort/encourage me and cause me to be happy.
\b
\q1
\v 20 You have nothing to do with wicked judges,
\q2 who establish laws that allow people to do what is not legal.
\q1
\v 21 They plan to get rid of righteous \add people\add*,
\q1 and they declare that ◄innocent people/people who have not done what is wrong► must be executed.
\q1
\v 22 But Yahweh ◄has become \add like\add* my fortress/protects me► [MET];
\q2 my God is \add like a huge\add* rock under which I am protected/safe [MET].
\q1
\v 23 He will punish those wicked leaders in return for the wicked things that they have done,
\q2 and will get rid of them for the sins that they have committed;
\q2 \add yes\add*, Yahweh our God will ◄wipe them out/destroy them completely►.
\c 95
\q1
\v 1 Come, sing to Yahweh;
\q2 sing joyfully to the one who protects us [MET] and saves us!
\q1
\v 2 We should thank him as we come before him,
\q2 and sing ◄joyful songs/joyfully► as we praise him.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Because Yahweh is a great God,
\q2 he is a great king \add who rules\add* over all \add other\add* gods.
\q1
\v 4 He rules over the whole earth,
\q2 from the deepest places/caves to the highest mountains.
\q1
\v 5 The seas are his, because he made them.
\q2 He is \add also\add* the one who [SYN] formed/made the dry land.
\b
\q1
\v 6 We should come, worship, and bow down before him.
\q2 We should kneel before Yahweh, the one who made us.
\q1
\v 7 He is our God,
\q2 and we are the people whom he takes care of [MET];
\q2 like sheep \add that a shepherd\add* takes care of.
\b
\q1 I desire/pray that today you will hear what Yahweh is saying to you.
\q2
\v 8 He says, “Do not become stubborn [IDI] like \add your ancestors\add* did at Meribah,
\q2 and like \add they did\add* at Massah in the desert.
\q1
\v 9 There your ancestors ◄wanted to see/tried to determine► if they could do many very evil things \add without my punishing them\add*.
\q2 Even though they had seen me perform \add many\add* miracles, they tested whether I \add would continue to be patient with them\add*.
\q1
\v 10 For forty years I was angry with those people,
\q2 and I said, ‘Those people ◄are fickle/say that they want to please me, but they do things that I detest►.
\q2 They refuse to obey my commands.’
\q1
\v 11 So because I was very angry, I solemnly said/declared about them:
\q2 ‘They will never enter \add the land of Canaan\add* where I would have allowed them to rest!’”
\c 96
\q1
\v 1 Sing to Yahweh a new song!
\q1 \add You people\add* throughout the earth, sing to Yahweh!
\q1
\v 2 Sing to Yahweh and praise him [MTY]!
\q2 Every day proclaim \add to others\add* that he has saved/rescued us.
\q1
\v 3 Tell about his glory/greatness to all people-groups;
\q2 tell all people-groups the marvelous \add things that he has done\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh is great, and he deserves to be praised very much;
\q1 he should be revered more than for all the gods,
\q1
\v 5 because all the gods of the other people-groups \add worship\add* are \add only\add* idols,
\q2 but Yahweh \add is truly great\add*; he created the skies!
\q1
\v 6 Those who are in his presence honor him and can see that he is a great king.
\q2 They can see in his temple that he is very powerful and is very beautiful.
\b
\q1
\v 7 You people in nations all over the earth, praise Yahweh!
\q1 Praise Yahweh for his glorious power [HEN]!
\q1
\v 8 Praise Yahweh like he deserves to be praised,
\q2 Bring an offering and come to his temple.
\q2
\v 9 Bow down before Yahweh \add when he appears\add* in his holy/sacred temple;
\q2 everyone on the earth should, tremble in front of him,
\q2 because he is majestic and holy.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Say to all the people-groups, “Yahweh is the king!
\q2 He put the world in its place, and nothing will ever be able to move/shake it.
\q1 He will judge \add all\add* the people-groups fairly.”
\q1
\v 11 \add All the beings that are in\add* [MTY] the heavens should be glad, and all \add the people on the\add* earth should rejoice.
\q2 The oceans and all the creatures that are in the oceans should roar \add to praise Yahweh\add*.
\q1
\v 12 The fields and everything that grows in them should rejoice.
\q1 When they do that, \add it will be as though\add* all the trees in the forests will sing joyfully
\q2
\v 13 in front of Yahweh.
\q1 That will happen when he comes to judge \add everyone on\add* [MTY] the earth.
\q2 He will judge all the people fairly/justly, according to \add what he knows is\add* true.
\c 97
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh is the king!
\q2 I want \add everyone on\add* the earth to be glad/happy,
\q2 and the \add people who live on\add* the islands in the oceans to \add also\add* rejoice \add about that!\add*
\b
\q1
\v 2 There are very dark clouds around him;
\q1 he rules [MTY] righteously/justly and fairly.
\q1
\v 3 He \add sends\add* fire in front of him,
\q2 and he completely burns all his enemies in that fire.
\q1
\v 4 All around the world he sends lightning to flash;
\q2 \add people on\add* the earth see it, and it causes them to \add be afraid and\add* tremble.
\q1
\v 5 The mountains/hills melt like wax in front of Yahweh,
\q2 in front of the one who is the Lord, \add who rules\add* over all the earth.
\q1
\v 6 The \add angels in\add* [MTY] heaven proclaim that he acts righteously,
\q2 and all the people-groups see his glory.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Everyone who worships idols should be ashamed;
\q2 all those who are proud of their false gods \add should realize that their gods are useless\add*,
\q1 \add It is as though\add* all those gods bow down \add to worship\add* Yahweh.
\b
\q1
\v 8 \add The people\add* [MTY] of Jerusalem hear \add about Yahweh\add* and are glad/happy,
\q2 and \add people in the other\add* [MTY] cities in Judah \add also\add* rejoice,
\q2 because Yahweh judges \add and punishes wicked people\add*.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh is the supreme \add king\add* over all the earth;
\q2 he has very great power, and all the \add other\add* gods have no power.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh loves those who hate what \add people do that\add* is evil;
\q2 he protects the lives of his people,
\q2 and he rescues them when the wicked \add people try to harm them\add*.
\q1
\v 11 His light shines on the righteous \add people\add*;
\q2 he causes those who are righteous in their inner beings to rejoice.
\q1
\v 12 You righteous \add people\add*, rejoice about what Yahweh \add has done\add*,
\q2 and thank him, our holy God!
\c 98
\s1 A psalm
\q1
\v 1 Sing to Yahweh a new song,
\q1 because he has done wonderful things!
\q1 By his power [MTY] and his great strength [DOU] he has defeated \add his enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh has declared to people that he has defeated his enemies;
\q2 he has revealed that he has punished \add his enemies\add*,
\q2 and \add people in\add* all the world have seen that he has done it.
\q1
\v 3 Like he promised to us Israeli people [MTY],
\q2 he has faithfully loved us and ◄been loyal to/not abandoned► us.
\q1 \add People who live\add* in very remote places in all the earth
\q2 have seen that our God has defeated \add his enemies\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 4 All you \add people\add* [MTY] everywhere should sing joyfully to Yahweh;
\q1 praise him while you sing and shout joyfully!
\q1
\v 5 Praise Yahweh while you play the lyres/harps,
\q2 playing \add delightful\add* music.
\q1
\v 6 \add Some of you should\add* blow trumpets and other horns,
\q2 \add while others\add* shout joyfully to Yahweh, \add our\add* king.
\b
\q1
\v 7 The oceans and all \add the creatures\add* that are in the oceans should roar \add to praise Yahweh\add*.
\q1 Everyone on the earth should sing!
\q1
\v 8 \add It should seem as though\add* the rivers are clapping their hands \add to praise Yahweh\add*
\q2 and that the hills are singing together joyfully in front of Yahweh,
\q1
\v 9 because he will come to judge \add everyone on\add* [MTY] the earth!
\q2 He will judge \add all\add* the people-groups \add in the world\add* justly and fairly [DOU].
\c 99
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh is the \add supreme\add* king,
\q1 so \add all\add* the people-groups should tremble ◄\add in his presence/in front of him\add*►!
\q1 He sits on his throne \add in the temple\add* above the \add statues of\add* winged creatures,
\q2 \add so\add* the earth should quake/shake!
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh is a mighty \add king\add* in Jerusalem;
\q2 \add but\add* he is \add also\add* the supreme ruler of all the people-groups.
\q2
\v 3 \add So\add* they should praise him because he is very great/powerful;
\q2 and he is holy!
\b
\q1
\v 4 He is a mighty king who ◄loves/is pleased with► what is just/right;
\q2 he has acted justly and fairly [DOU] in Israel.
\q1
\v 5 Praise Yahweh our God!
\q2 Worship him \add in front of the Sacred Chest in his temple\add* [MTY],
\q2 where he rules people.
\q2 He is holy!
\b
\q1
\v 6 Moses and Aaron were two of his priests;
\q1 Samuel also was someone who prayed to him.
\q1 Those \add three\add* cried out to Yahweh \add to help them\add*,
\q2 and he answered them.
\q1
\v 7 He spoke to Moses and Aaron from the cloud \add that was like a huge\add* pillar;
\q2 they obeyed \add all\add* the laws and commandments [DOU] that he gave to them.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, our God, you answered \add your people\add*
\q2 \add when they cried out to you to help them\add*;
\q1 you are a God who forgave them \add for the sins that they had committed\add*,
\q1 even though you punished them for the things that they did that are wrong.
\q1
\v 9 Praise Yahweh, our God,
\q2 and worship him \add at the temple\add* on his sacred hill;
\q2 \add it is right to do that\add* because Yahweh, our God, is holy!
\c 100
\s1 A psalm of thanksgiving
\q1
\v 1 Everyone in the world should shout joyfully to Yahweh!
\q2
\v 2 We should worship Yahweh gladly!
\q2 We should come before him singing joyful songs.
\q1
\v 3 We should acknowledge/recognize that Yahweh is God;
\q2 it is he who made us, and \add so\add* we belong to him.
\q2 We are the people that he takes care of [MET];
\q2 we are \add like\add* sheep that are cared for by their shepherd.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Enter the gates \add of his temple\add* thanking him;
\q2 enter the courtyard \add of the temple\add* singing songs to praise him!
\q1 Thank him and praise him,
\q1
\v 5 because Yahweh always \add does\add* good \add things for us\add*.
\q2 He faithfully loves us,
\q2 and ◄is faithful/is loyal to us forever/will never forsake us►.
\c 101
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I will sing to you!
\q1 I will sing about \add your\add* faithfully loving \add us\add* (OR, my being loyal to you and acting justly/fairly \add toward people\add*).
\q1
\v 2 \add I promise that\add* while I rule people [MTY],
\q2 I will behave in such a way that no one will be able to criticize me.
\q2 Yahweh, ◄when will you come to \add help\add* me?/I need you to come to \add help\add* me.► [RHQ]
\q1 I will do things that are right.
\b
\q1
\v 3 I will not allow anyone who does what is evil to come to me [SYN].
\q1 I hate the deeds of those who ◄\add turn away from/sin against\add*► you;
\q2 I will ◄completely avoid those people/not allow those people to come near me►.
\b
\q1
\v 4 I will not be dishonest,
\q2 and I will not have anything to do with evil (OR, evil people).
\b
\q1
\v 5 I will get rid of anyone who secretly slanders someone else,
\q1 and I will not ◄tolerate/allow to be near me► anyone who is proud and arrogant [DOU].
\b
\q1
\v 6 I will approve of [IDI] people in this land who ◄are loyal to/faithfully \add obey\add*► \add God\add*,
\q1 and I will allow them to ◄live with/work for► me.
\q2 I will allow those who behave in such a way that no one can criticize them to ◄serve me/be my officials►.
\b
\q1
\v 7 I will not allow anyone who deceives others to work in my palace,
\q1 and no one who tells lies will be allowed to continually come to \add work for\add* me.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Every day I will \add try to\add* get rid of all the wicked people in this land;
\q1 I will expel them from \add this\add* city, which is Yahweh's city.
\c 102
\s1 A prayer written by someone who was afflicted, when he was discouraged and pleaded for Yahweh to help
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, listen to what I am praying;
\q1 hear me while I cry out to you!
\q1
\v 2 Do not ◄turn away/hide yourself► from me when I ◄have troubles/am distressed►!
\q1 Listen to me,
\q2 and answer me quickly now, when I am calling out to you!
\b
\q1
\v 3 My life is ending, like smoke that disappears [SIM];
\q1 I have \add a big fever which\add* burns my body like a fire burns [SIM].
\q1
\v 4 \add I feel like\add* I am drying up like grass [SIM] that has been beaten/trampled down,
\q2 and I no longer have a desire to eat food.
\q1
\v 5 I groan loudly,
\q2 and my bones can be seen under my skin \add because I have become very thin\add*.
\q1
\v 6 I am like a \add lonely and despised\add* vulture in the desert,
\q2 like an owl by itself in the abandoned ruins \add of a building/city\add*.
\q1
\v 7 I lie awake \add at night\add*;
\q2 \add because there is no one to comfort me\add*,
\q2 I am like a lonely bird \add sitting\add* on a housetop [SIM].
\q1
\v 8 All during each day my enemies insult me;
\q2 those who make fun of me mention my name
\q2 \add and say, “May you be like him”\add* when they curse people.
\q1
\v 9-10 Because you are very angry [DOU] with me,
\q1 now \add I sit in\add* ashes \add while I am suffering greatly\add*;
\q2 and those ashes \add fall on\add* the bread/food that I eat,
\q2 and what I drink has my tears mixed with it.
\q1 \add It is as though\add* you have picked me up and thrown me away!
\q1
\v 11 My time \add to remain alive\add* is short,
\q2 like an evening shadow \add that will soon be gone\add* [SIM].
\q2 I am withering like grass withers \add in the hot sun\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 12 But Yahweh, you are our king who rules [MTY] forever;
\q1 people who are not yet born will remember you.
\q1
\v 13 You will arise and act mercifully toward \add the people of\add* [MTY] Jerusalem;
\q2 it is now time for you to do that;
\q1 this is the time for you to be kind to them.
\q1
\v 14 Even though ◄the city has been destroyed/our enemies have destroyed our city►,
\q2 we who serve you still love the stones that \add were formerly\add* in the city walls;
\q1 because now there is rubble everywhere,
\q2 we, your people, are very sad when we see it.
\q1
\v 15 Yahweh, \add some day the people of other\add* nations will have an awesome respect for you [MTY];
\q1 all the kings on the earth will see that you are very glorious/great.
\q1
\v 16 You will rebuild Jerusalem,
\q2 and you will appear there with your glory/brightness.
\q1
\v 17 You will listen to the prayers of your people who are homeless,
\q2 and you will ◄not ignore them/do what they request► [LIT]
\q2 when they plead with you to help them.
\b
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh, \add I want to\add* write these words
\q2 in order that people in future years \add will know what\add* you have done,
\q2 in order that people who are not born yet will praise you.
\q1
\v 19 They will know that you looked down from your holy/sacred place in heaven [DOU]
\q1 and saw \add what was happening on\add* the earth.
\q1
\v 20 They will know that you hear prisoners groaning
\q2 and that you will set free those who have been told, “You will be executed.”
\q1
\v 21 As a result, people in Jerusalem will praise you [DOU] for what you \add have done\add*
\q2
\v 22 when many people \add from other people-groups\add* and \add those who are citizens of other\add* kingdoms gather to worship you.
\b
\q1
\v 23 \add But now\add* you have caused me to become weak while I am still young;
\q2 \add I think that\add* I will ◄not remain alive very long/soon die►.
\q1
\v 24 I say to you, “My God, do not take me away \add from the earth\add* now,
\q2 before I become old!
\q1 You live forever!
\q1
\v 25 You created the world long ago,
\q2 and you made ◄the heavens/everything in the sky► with your own hands.
\q1
\v 26 The earth and the heavens/sky will disappear, but you will remain.
\q2 They will wear out like clothes wear out.
\q1 You will get rid of them like \add people get rid of\add* old clothes,
\q2 and they will no longer exist,
\q1
\v 27 but you are \add not like the things that you created\add*,
\q2 \add because you are\add* always the same;
\q2 you never die.
\q1
\v 28 \add Some day\add* our children will live safely \add in Jerusalem\add*,
\q1 and their descendants will be protected in your presence.”
\c 103
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 \add I tell\add* myself that I should praise Yahweh.
\q2 I will praise him [MTY] with all of my inner being, \add because\add* he [MTY] is holy.
\q1
\v 2 \add I tell\add* myself that I should praise Yahweh
\q2 and never forget all the kind things he has done for me:
\q1
\v 3 He forgives all my sins,
\q2 and he heals me from all my diseases/sicknesses;
\q1
\v 4 he keeps/rescues me from dying [MTY],
\q2 and blesses me by faithfully loving me and acting mercifully to me.
\q1
\v 5 He gives me good things during my entire life.
\q2 He makes me feel young and strong like eagles.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh judges justly and ◄vindicates/does what is right for► all those who have been treated unfairly.
\q1
\v 7 \add Long ago\add* he revealed to Moses what he planned to do;
\q2 he showed to the \add ancestors of us\add* Israeli people the mighty things that he was able to do.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh acts mercifully and kindly;
\q2 he does not quickly ◄get angry/punish us► \add when we sin\add*;
\q1 he is always \add showing us that he\add* faithfully loves us.
\q1
\v 9 He will not keep rebuking us,
\q2 and he will not remain angry forever.
\q1
\v 10 He punishes us for our sins,
\q2 but he does not punish us \add severely\add* as we deserve [DOU]!
\q1
\v 11 The skies are very high above the earth,
\q2 and Yahweh's faithful love for all those who revere him is just as great.
\q1
\v 12 He has taken away \add the guilt for\add* [MTY] our sins
\q2 and put it as far from us as the east is from the west.
\q1
\v 13 Just like parents act mercifully toward their children,
\q2 Yahweh is kind to those who revere him.
\q1
\v 14 He knows what our bodies are like;
\q2 he remembers that \add he created us from\add* dust/dirt,
\q2 and so we quickly fail \add to do what pleases him\add* [MET].
\q1
\v 15 We humans do not live forever [SIM];
\q2 we are like grass [SIM] \add that withers and dies\add*.
\q1 We are like wild flowers: They bloom \add for a short while\add*,
\q1
\v 16 but then the \add hot\add* wind blows over them, and they disappear;
\q2 no one sees them again.
\q1
\v 17 But Yahweh will faithfully keep loving forever
\q2 all those who revere him.
\q2 He will act fairly to our children and to their children;
\q1
\v 18 he will act that way to all those who obey the agreement he made with them \add to bless them if they did what he told them to do\add*,
\q2 to all those who obey what he has commanded.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Yahweh made/caused the heavens to be the place where he rules [MTY];
\q2 from there he rules over everything.
\q1
\v 20 You angels who belong to Yahweh, praise him!
\q2 You are powerful creatures/beings who do what he tells you to do;
\q2 you obey what he commands.
\q1
\v 21 Praise Yahweh, you armies/thousands of angels who serve him and do what he desires.
\q1
\v 22 All you things that Yahweh has created, praise him;
\q2 praise him in every place where he rules, everywhere!
\b
\q1 And I \add also\add* will praise Yahweh!
\c 104
\q1
\v 1 \add I tell\add* myself that I should praise Yahweh.
\q1 Yahweh, my God, you are very great!
\q2 Like a king has on his royal robes [MET],
\q1 you have honor and majesty/greatness all around you!
\q1
\v 2 You \add created/caused\add* light to be like your robe [MET].
\q2 You put the stars in the sky like \add a man sets up\add* a tent.
\q2
\v 3 You made/put your home \add in heaven\add*, above the rain clouds in the sky, \add like a man puts the\add* rafters of his house in place [MET].
\q1 You made/caused the clouds to be like chariots \add to carry you\add*.
\q1
\v 4 You caused the winds to be \add like\add* your messengers [MET],
\q1 and flames of fire to be \add like\add* your servants.
\b
\q1
\v 5 You placed the world firmly on its foundation
\q2 so that it can never be moved/shaken.
\q1
\v 6 \add Later\add*, you covered the earth with a flood, like a blanket;
\q2 \add and\add* the water covered the mountains.
\q1
\v 7 \add But\add* when you rebuked the water, the oceans receded;
\q2 your voice spoke like thunder,
\q1 and then the waters rushed away.
\q1
\v 8 Mountains rose up \add from the water\add*,
\q2 and the valleys sank down
\q2 to the levels that you had determined for them.
\q1
\v 9 \add Then\add* you set a boundary for the oceans, a boundary that they cannot cross;
\q2 their water will never again cover the \add whole\add* earth.
\b
\q1
\v 10 You make/cause springs to pour \add water\add* into ravines;
\q2 their \add water\add* flows down between the mountains.
\q1
\v 11 Those \add streams\add* provide water for all the animals \add to drink\add*;
\q2 the wild donkeys \add drink the water and\add* are no longer thirsty.
\q1
\v 12 Birds make their nests alongside \add the streams\add*,
\q2 and they sing among the branches \add of the trees\add*.
\q1
\v 13 From ◄your home in heaven/the sky► you send rain down on the mountains,
\q2 and you fill the earth with many good things that you create.
\q1
\v 14 You make/cause grass to grow for the cattle \add to eat\add*,
\q2 and you make/cause plants to grow for people.
\q2 In that way \add animals and people\add* get their food from \add what grows in\add* the soil.
\q1
\v 15 We get \add grapes to make\add* [MTY] wine to \add drink and\add* make us cheerful,
\q2 and we get \add olives to make\add* [MTY] olive oil to \add put on our\add* skin and make/cause it to shine,
\q2 and we get \add grain to make\add* [MTY] bread to give us strength.
\q1
\v 16 Yahweh, you \add send plenty of rain to\add* water your trees,
\q2 the cedar \add trees\add* that you planted in Lebanon.
\q1
\v 17 Birds make their nests in those \add trees\add*,
\q2 and storks make their nests in pine/fir trees.
\q1
\v 18 High up in the mountains the wild goats live,
\q2 and hyraxes/badgers live in the crags/crevices in the rocks.
\b
\q1
\v 19 \add Yahweh\add*, you made the moon to indicate the times for our festivals,
\q2 and you made the sun that knows when to go down.
\q1
\v 20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
\q2 when all the animals in the forest prowl around, \add looking for food\add*.
\q1
\v 21 At night the young lions roar as they seek their prey,
\q2 \add but\add* they depend on you to give them food.
\q1
\v 22 At dawn, they go back to their dens and lie down.
\q1
\v 23 And during the daytime, people go to their work;
\q2 they work until it is evening.
\b
\q1
\v 24 Yahweh, you have made so many different kinds of things!
\q2 You were \add very\add* wise as you made them all.
\q2 The earth is full of the creatures that you \add made\add*.
\q1
\v 25 \add We see\add* the ocean which is very large [DOU]!
\q2 It is full of many kinds of living creatures,
\q2 big ones and little ones.
\q1
\v 26 We see the ships which sail/travel along!
\q2 We see the huge sea monster, which you made to ◄splash around/play► in the sea.
\b
\q1
\v 27 All of those creatures depend on you
\q2 to give them the food that they need.
\q1
\v 28 When you give them the food that they need,
\q2 they gather it.
\q1 You give them what you have in your hand,
\q2 and they \add eat it and\add* are satisfied.
\q1
\v 29 \add But\add* if you refuse to give food to them,
\q2 they become terrified.
\q1 And when you cause them to stop breathing, they die;
\q2 their bodies \add decay and\add* become soil again.
\q1
\v 30 When you cause newborn creatures to begin to breathe,
\q2 they start to live;
\q2 You give new life to all the living creatures on the earth.
\b
\q1
\v 31 I hope/desire that the glory of Yahweh will last forever.
\q2 I hope/desire that he will rejoice about \add all\add* the things that he has created.
\q1
\v 32 He makes/causes the earth to shake \add just\add* by looking at it!
\q2 By \add merely\add* touching the mountains he makes/causes them to pour out fire and smoke!
\b
\q1
\v 33 I will sing to Yahweh ◄as long as I live/throughout my entire life►.
\q2 I will praise my God until the day that I die.
\q1
\v 34 I hope that Yahweh will be pleased by all those things that I have thought \add about him\add*,
\q2 because I rejoice about \add knowing\add* him.
\q1
\v 35 \add But\add* I hope/desire that sinners will disappear from the earth,
\q2 and that there will be no more wicked \add people!\add*
\b
\q1 \add But as for\add* me, I will praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 ◄Praise him/Hallelujah►!
\c 105
\q1
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh, and tell others that he is very great!
\q2 Tell everyone in the world what he has done!
\q1
\v 2 Sing to him; praise him as you sing to him;
\q2 tell others about his wonderful miracles.
\q1
\v 3 Be happy because \add you know that\add* he [MTY] is holy!
\q2 You people who worship Yahweh, rejoice!
\q1
\v 4 Ask Yahweh to help you and give you his strength,
\q2 and continue to ask him!
\b
\q1
\v 5-6 You people who are descendants of God's servant Abraham,
\q2 you descendants of Jacob, the man God chose,
\q2 think about \add all\add* the wonderful things that he has done:
\q2 He performed miracles, and he punished \add all our enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 7 He is Yahweh, our God.
\q1 He rules and judges \add people\add* throughout the earth.
\b
\q1
\v 8 He never forgets the agreement that he made;
\q2 he made a promise that will last for a thousand generations;
\q1
\v 9 that is the agreement that he made with Abraham,
\q2 and he repeated that agreement with Isaac.
\q1
\v 10 \add Later\add* he confirmed it \add again\add* to Jacob
\q2 as an agreement for the Israeli \add people\add* that would last forever.
\q1
\v 11 What he said was, “I will give you the Canaan region;
\q2 it will belong to you \add and your descendants forever\add*.”
\b
\q1
\v 12 \add He said that to them\add* when they were only a few of them,
\q2 a tiny group of people who were living in that land ◄like strangers/that belonged to other people►.
\q1
\v 13 They continued to wander from one place to another,
\q2 from one kingdom to another.
\q1
\v 14 But he did not others to oppress them.
\q2 He warned those kings by saying to them,
\q1
\v 15 “Do not do harm the \add people\add* whom I have chosen!
\q2 Do not harm my prophets!”
\b
\q1
\v 16 He sent a famine to Canaan, and \add as a result all the people\add* had no food to eat.
\q1
\v 17 So his people went to Egypt, but first he sent someone there.
\q2 He sent Joseph, who had been sold to be a slave.
\q1
\v 18 \add Later, while Joseph was in prison in Egypt\add*,
\q2 they put his legs in shackles that bruised his feet,
\q1 and they put an iron collar around his neck.
\q1
\v 19 There, Yahweh ◄refined Joseph's character/tested Joseph to see if Joseph would continue to trust him►,
\q2 until what Joseph predicted would happen ◄came true/happened►.
\q1
\v 20 The king \add of Egypt\add* summoned him, and he set Joseph free;
\q2 this ruler of many people-groups released Joseph \add from prison\add*.
\q1
\v 21 \add Then\add* he appointed him to take care of everything in the king's household,
\q2 to take care of everything that the king possessed.
\q1
\v 22 ◄Joseph was permitted/He permitted Joseph► to command the king's servants
\q2 to do anything that Joseph wanted them to do,
\q2 and \add even\add* to tell the king's advisors the things that they should do \add for the people of Egypt\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 23 Later, \add Joseph's father\add* Jacob arrived in Egypt.
\q2 He lived like a foreigner in the land that belonged to the descendants of Ham.
\q1
\v 24 And \add years later\add* Yahweh caused the descendants of Jacob to become very numerous.
\q2 \add As a result\add*, their enemies, \add the Egyptians\add*, considered that the Israelis were too strong.
\q1
\v 25 \add So\add* Yahweh caused the rulers of Egypt to ◄turn against/hate► the Israeli people,
\q2 and they planned ways to get rid of his people.
\q1
\v 26 \add But then\add* Yahweh sent his servant Moses
\q2 along with \add Moses' older brother\add* Aaron, whom Yahweh had \add also\add* chosen \add to be his servant\add*.
\q1
\v 27 Those two performed amazing miracles among the people of Egypt,
\q2 in that land where the descendants of Ham lived.
\q1
\v 28 Yahweh sent darkness, so that the people of Egypt could not see anything [DOU],
\q2 but the rulers of Egypt refused [RHQ] to obey when \add Moses and Aaron\add* commanded \add them to let the Israeli people leave Egypt\add*.
\q1
\v 29 Yahweh caused \add all\add* the water in Egypt to become ◄blood/\add red like\add* blood►,
\q2 and \add his doing that\add* caused all the fish to die.
\q1
\v 30 \add Then he caused\add* the land to become full of frogs;
\q2 the king and his officials even had frogs in their bedrooms.
\q1
\v 31 \add Then\add* Yahweh commanded that flies come, and swarms of them descended \add on the people of Egypt\add*,
\q2 and gnats \add also\add* swarmed across the whole country.
\q1
\v 32 Instead of sending rain, Yahweh sent \add terrible\add* hail,
\q2 and lightning flashed throughout the land.
\q1
\v 33 The hail ruined their grapevines and fig trees
\q2 and shattered all the \add other\add* trees.
\q1
\v 34 He commanded locusts to come, and hordes/swarms of them came;
\q2 \add so many that\add* they could not be counted.
\q1
\v 35 The locusts ate every green plant in the land,
\q2 ruining all the crops.
\q1
\v 36 \add Then\add* Yahweh killed the oldest son in every house \add of the people of Egypt\add* [DOU].
\b
\q1
\v 37 Then he brought the Israeli \add people\add* out \add from Egypt\add*;
\q2 they were carrying heavy loads of \add jewelry made of\add* silver and gold \add that the people of Egypt had given to them\add*.
\q1 No one was left behind because of being sick.
\q1
\v 38 \add The people of\add* Egypt were glad when the Israeli people left,
\q2 because they had become very afraid of the Israelis.
\q1
\v 39 \add Then\add* Yahweh spread a cloud to cover the Israelis;
\q2 and \add at night it became\add* a big fire \add in the sky\add* to give them light.
\q1
\v 40 \add Later\add* the Israelis asked for \add meat to eat\add*,
\q2 and Yahweh sent \add flocks of\add* quail to them,
\q1 and he gave them plenty of manna \add food\add* from the sky \add each morning\add*.
\q1
\v 41 \add One day\add* he caused a rock to open up and water poured out \add for them to drink\add*;
\q2 it was like a river flowing in that desert.
\b
\q1
\v 42 \add He did that\add* because he kept thinking about the sacred promise \add that he had given\add* to his servant, Abraham.
\q1
\v 43 So his people were joyful as he brought them out from Egypt;
\q2 those people whom he had chosen were shouting joyfully as they went.
\q1
\v 44 He gave to them the land that belonged to the people-groups \add that lived there in Canaan\add*,
\q2 and the Israelis harvested crops that \add other\add* people had planted.
\q1
\v 45 \add Yahweh did all these things\add*
\q2 in order that his people would do all the things that he had commanded them to do [DOU].
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh/Hallelujah!
\c 106
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\q1 Praise Yahweh, because he does good things \add for us\add*;
\q2 he faithfully loves \add us\add* forever/continually!
\q1
\v 2 \add Because Yahweh has done many great things\add*,
\q2 no one can [RHQ] tell all the great things that Yahweh has done,
\q2 and no one can praise him enough/sufficiently.
\q
\v 3 ◄Happy are/He is pleased with► those who act fairly/justly,
\q2 with those who always do what is right.
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, be kind to me when you help your people;
\q2 help me when you rescue/save them.
\q1
\v 5 Allow me to see it when your people become prosperous again
\q2 and when \add all the people of\add* your nation, \add Israel\add*, are happy;
\q2 allow me to be happy with them!
\q2 I want to praise you along with \add all\add* those \add others\add* who belong to you.
\b
\q1
\v 6 We and our ancestors have sinned;
\q2 we have done what is wicked and what is evil [DOU].
\q1
\v 7 When our ancestors were in Egypt,
\q2 they did not pay attention to the wonderful things that Yahweh did;
\q2 they forgot about the many times that he showed that he faithfully loved them.
\q1 Instead, when they were at the Red Sea,
\q2 they rebelled against God, who is greater than any other god.
\q1
\v 8 But he rescued them for the sake of his own \add reputation\add*
\q2 in order that he could show that he is very powerful.
\q1
\v 9 He rebuked the Red Sea and it became dry,
\q2 and \add then\add* while he led our ancestors,
\q2 they walked through it as though it were as dry as a desert [SIM].
\q1
\v 10 In that way he rescued them from the power [MTY] of their enemies who hated them [DOU].
\q1
\v 11 \add Then\add* their enemies were drowned in the water \add of the Red Sea\add*;
\q2 not one of them was left.
\q1
\v 12 When that happened, our ancestors believed \add that Yahweh had truly done for them\add* what he had promised to do,
\q2 and they sang to praise him.
\b
\q1
\v 13 But they soon forgot when he had done for them;
\q2 they \add did things\add* without waiting to find out what Yahweh wanted them to do.
\q1
\v 14 They intensely wanted \add food like they formerly ate in Egypt\add*.
\q2 They \add did evil things to\add* find out \add if they could do those things without God punishing them\add*.
\q1
\v 15 \add So\add* he gave them what they requested,
\q2 but he \add also\add* caused a terrible disease to afflict them.
\b
\q1
\v 16 \add Later\add* when \add some of\add* the men became jealous of Moses
\q1 and \add his older brother\add* Aaron, who was dedicated \add to serve Yahweh by being a priest\add*,
\q1
\v 17 the ground opened up and swallowed Dathan
\q2 and \add also\add* buried Abiram and his family.
\q1
\v 18 And \add God sent\add* a fire down \add from heaven\add*
\q2 which burned up \add all\add* the wicked \add people who ◄supported them/agreed with► them\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 19 Then the \add Israeli leaders\add* made a gold \add statue of a\add* calf at Sinai \add Mountain\add*
\q2 and worshiped it.
\q1
\v 20 Instead of worshiping \add our\add* glorious God,
\q2 they \add started to\add* worship a statue of an ox that eats grass!
\q1
\v 21 They forgot about God, who had rescued them by the great miracles that he performed in Egypt.
\q1
\v 22 They forgot about the wonderful things that he did for them in Egypt
\q2 and the amazing/awesome things that he did for them at the Red Sea.
\q1
\v 23 Because of that, God said that he would get rid of the Israelis,
\q2 but Moses, whom God had chosen \add to serve him\add*, stood up to persuade God \add not to get rid of them\add*.
\q2 And as a result God did not destroy them.
\b
\q1
\v 24 \add Later\add*, our ancestors ◄refused/were afraid► to enter beautiful \add Canaan\add* land
\q2 because they did not believe \add that God would enable them to take the land from the people who were living there as\add* he had promised.
\q1
\v 25 They stayed in their tents and grumbled
\q2 and would not pay attention to what Yahweh said that they should do.
\q1
\v 26 So he solemnly [MTY] told them
\q2 that he would cause them to die \add there\add* in the desert,
\q2
\v 27 and that he would scatter their descendants among the \add people of other\add* nations/people-groups \add who did not believe in him\add*,
\q2 and that he would allow them to die in those lands.
\b
\q1
\v 28 Later the Israeli people \add started to\add* worship \add the idol of\add* Baal \add who they thought lived\add* at Peor \add Mountain\add*,
\q1 and they ate \add meat that had been\add* sacrificed to \add Baal and those other\add* lifeless gods.
\q1
\v 29 Yahweh became \add very\add* angry because of what they had done,
\q2 \add so again\add* he sent a terrible disease to attack/strike them.
\q1
\v 30 But Phinehas stood up and punished/killed \add the ones who had sinned greatly\add*,
\q2 and as a result the ◄plague/serious disease► ended.
\q1
\v 31 People have remembered that righteous deed that Phinehas did,
\q2 and in future years people will remember it.
\b
\q1
\v 32 \add Then\add* at Meribah Springs our ancestors caused Yahweh to become angry,
\q2 and as a result Moses had trouble.
\q1
\v 33 They caused Moses to become very angry [IDI],
\q2 and he said things that were foolish.
\b
\q1
\v 34 Our ancestors did not destroy the people \add who did not believe in Yahweh\add*
\q2 like he told them to do.
\q1
\v 35 Instead, the men took women from those people-groups,
\q2 and they started to do the evil things that those people did.
\q1
\v 36 Our ancestors worshiped the idols of those people,
\q2 which resulted in their being destroyed/exiled/taken to another country [MET].
\q1
\v 37 \add Some of\add* the Israelis sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons \add that those idols represented\add*.
\q1
\v 38 They killed [MTY] their own children, who ◄were innocent/had not done things that were wrong►,
\q1 and offered them as sacrifices to the idols in Canaan.
\q2 \add As a result\add*, Canaan land was polluted by those murders [MTY].
\q1
\v 39 So by their deeds they caused themselves to become unacceptable to God;
\q2 \add because they did not faithfully worship only God\add*,
\q2 \add they became like\add* women who sleep with other men \add instead of sleeping only with their husbands\add* [MET].
\b
\q1
\v 40 So Yahweh became very angry with his people;
\q2 he was completely disgusted with them.
\q1
\v 41 \add As a result\add* he allowed people-groups \add who did not believe in him\add* to conquer them,
\q2 so those who hated our ancestors started to rule over them.
\q1
\v 42 Their enemies ◄oppressed them/treated them cruelly►
\q2 and caused them to be completely controlled by their enemies [MET].
\q1
\v 43 Many times Yahweh rescued them,
\q2 but they continued to rebel against him,
\q2 and they were finally destroyed because of the sins that they committed.
\b
\q1
\v 44 However, Yahweh \add always\add* heard them when they cried out to him,
\q2 and he listened to them when they were distressed.
\q1
\v 45 For their sake, he thought about the agreement/promise that he had made \add to bless\add* them,
\q2 and because he never stopped loving them very much,
\q2 he changed his mind \add about punishing them more\add*.
\q1
\v 46 He caused all those who had taken the Israelis \add to Babylonia\add* to ◄feel sorry for/pity► them.
\b
\q1
\v 47 Yahweh our God, rescue/save us
\q1 and bring us back \add to Israel\add* from among those people-groups
\q2 in order that we may thank you [MTY]
\q2 and joyfully praise you.
\b
\q1
\v 48 Praise Yahweh, the God whom \add we\add* Israelis \add worship\add*,
\q1 praise him now and forever!
\b
\q1 And I wish/desire that everyone say, “Amen/May it be so!”
\q2 Praise Yahweh!
\c 107
\ms1 Book Five
\q1
\v 1 Give thanks to Yahweh, because he always does good \add things for us\add*
\q2 His faithful love \add for us\add* lasts forever!
\q1
\v 2 Those whom Yahweh has saved should tell others
\q2 that he has rescued them from their enemies.
\q1
\v 3 He has gathered \add those of you\add* who were \add ◄exiled/taken forcefully►\add* to many lands;
\q2 \add he has gathered you together from\add* the east and the west,
\q2 from the north and from the south.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Some of those \add who returned from those countries\add* wandered in the desert;
\q2 they were lost and had no homes to live in.
\q1
\v 5 They were hungry and thirsty,
\q2 and they were very discouraged.
\q1
\v 6 When they were in trouble, they called out to Yahweh,
\q2 and he rescued them from ◄being distressed/their difficulties►.
\q1
\v 7 He led them along a straight road \add where they walked safely\add*
\q2 to cities \add in Canaan\add* where they could live.
\q1
\v 8 They should praise/thank Yahweh for loving them faithfully
\q2 and for the wonderful things that he does for people.
\q1
\v 9 He gives thirsty people plenty \add of water\add* to drink,
\q2 and he gives hungry people plenty of good things \add to eat\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Some of them were in very dark [HEN] ◄places \add in Babylonia/other countries\add*►;
\q2 they were prisoners, suffering because of chains \add fastened to their hands and feet\add*.
\q1
\v 11 They were in prison because they had ◄rebelled against/not obeyed► the message of God;
\q1 they were there because they had despised the advice given by God,
\q2 who is greater than all other gods.
\q1
\v 12 \add That is why\add* their bodies were worn out from hard labor;
\q2 when they fell down, there was no one who would help them.
\q1
\v 13 In their troubles, they called out to Yahweh,
\q2 and he rescued them from their being distressed.
\q1
\v 14 He broke the chains that were on their hands and feet;
\q2 and brought them out of those very dark \add prisons\add*.
\q1
\v 15-16 He broke down the \add prison\add* gates that were made of bronze,
\q2 and cut through the \add prison\add* bars that were made of iron.
\q1 \add So they also\add* should praise/thank Yahweh for faithfully loving \add them\add*,
\q2 and for \add all\add* the wonderful things that he does for people.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Some of them foolishly rebelled \add against God\add*,
\q2 so they suffered for their sins.
\q1
\v 18 They did not want to eat any food,
\q2 and they almost died.
\q1
\v 19 In their troubles, they \add also\add* called out to Yahweh,
\q2 and he rescued them from their being distressed.
\q1
\v 20 When he commanded that they be healed, they were healed;
\q2 he saved them from dying.
\q1
\v 21 They \add also\add* should praise/thank Yahweh for faithfully loving them,
\q2 and for \add all\add* the wonderful things that he does for people.
\q1
\v 22 They should give offerings to him to show that they are thankful,
\q2 and they should sing joyfully about the miracles that he has performed.
\b
\q1
\v 23 Some of them sailed in ships;
\q2 they were selling things \add in ports\add* throughout the world.
\q1
\v 24 \add As they were sailing\add*, they also saw the miracles that Yahweh performed,
\q2 the wonderful things that he did \add when they were\add* on very deep seas.
\q1
\v 25 He commanded the winds, and they became strong
\q2 and ◄stirred up high waves/caused waves to rise high►.
\q1
\v 26 The ships \add in which they were sailing\add* were tossed high in the air,
\q2 and \add then\add* they sank into the ◄troughs/low places► \add between the high waves\add*;
\q1 then the were terrified.
\q1
\v 27 They stumbled about and staggered like drunken men,
\q2 and they did not know what to do.
\q1
\v 28 In their troubles, they \add also\add* called out to Yahweh,
\q2 and he rescued them from their distresses.
\q1
\v 29 He ◄calmed the storm/caused the wind to stop blowing►,
\q2 and he stilled/flattened the waves.
\q1
\v 30 They were \add very\add* glad when it became calm;
\q2 and Yahweh brought them safely into a harbor.
\q1
\v 31 They \add also\add* should praise/thank Yahweh for faithfully loving \add them\add*,
\q2 and for \add all\add* the wonderful things that he does for people.
\q1
\v 32 They should praise him among the \add Israeli\add* people when they have gathered together,
\q2 and they should praise him in front of the leaders \add of the country\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 33 \add Sometimes\add* Yahweh causes rivers \add to become dry\add*,
\q2 \add with the result that the land\add* becomes a desert,
\q2 and springs of water become dry land.
\q1
\v 34 \add Sometimes\add* he causes land that has produced lots of crops to become salty wastelands,
\q2 \add with the result that they do not produce crops\add*.
\q2 He does that because the people who live there are \add very\add* wicked.
\q1
\v 35 \add But sometimes\add* he causes pools of water to appear in deserts,
\q2 and he causes springs to flow in very dry ground.
\q1
\v 36 He brings hungry \add people\add* into that land, to live there and build cities \add there\add*.
\q1
\v 37 They plant seeds in their fields,
\q2 and they plant grapevines that produce big crops \add of grapes\add*.
\q1
\v 38 He blesses the people, and the women give birth to many children,
\q2 and they have large herds of cattle.
\b
\q1
\v 39 When the number of people becomes smaller and they have been humiliated \add by their enemies\add*
\q2 by being oppressed and caused to suffer [DOU],
\q1
\v 40 Yahweh shows contempt for the leaders who oppress them,
\q2 and causes them to wander in deserts where there are no roads.
\q1
\v 41 But he rescues poor \add people\add* from ◄being in misery/suffering►,
\q2 and causes their families \add to increase in number \add*like flocks of sheep.
\q1
\v 42 Godly/Righteous \add people will ◄see/hear about►\add* these things, and they will rejoice,
\q2 and wicked people \add will hear about these things, too\add*,
\q2 \add but\add* they will have nothing to say \add against Yahweh\add* in reply.
\b
\q1
\v 43 Those who are wise should think carefully about those things;
\q2 they should consider \add all the things\add* that Yahweh \add has done to show that he\add* faithfully loves \add them\add*.
\c 108
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 God, I am ◄very confident/trusting completely► [IDI] in you.
\q1 I will sing to praise \add you\add*.
\q2 I will awaken myself.
\q1
\v 2 I will arise before the sun rises,
\q2 and I will \add praise you while I play\add* my \add big\add* harp and my ◄lyre/small harp►.
\q1
\v 3 \add I prayed\add*, “Yahweh, I will thank you among \add all\add* the people-groups;
\q2 I will sing to praise you among the nations,
\q1
\v 4 because your faithful love for us reaches up to the heavens,
\q2 and your faithfully doing what you promise \add is as great as the distance\add* up to the clouds.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, \add show\add* in the heavens that you are very great!
\q2 And \add show\add* your glory \add to people\add* all over the earth!
\b
\q1
\v 6 Answer our \add prayers\add* and by your power help us [MTY] \add to defeat our enemies\add*
\q1 in order that we, the people whom you love, may be saved/rescued.”
\q1
\v 7 And \add Yahweh answered our prayers and\add* spoke from his temple, saying, “Because I have conquered \add your enemies\add*, I will joyfully divide Shechem \add city\add*
\q2 and I will distribute among my people in Succoth \add Valley\add*.
\q1
\v 8 The Gilead \add region\add* in mine;
\q2 the \add people of the tribe of\add* Manasseh are mine;
\q1 and \add the tribe of Judah\add* is like the ◄scepter/stick that I hold which shows that I am the ruler► [MET];
\q
\v 9 the Moab \add region\add* is \add like\add* my washbasin [MET];
\q2 I throw my sandal in the Edom \add area to show that it belongs to me\add*;
\q2 I shout triumphantly because I have defeated \add the people of\add* the Philistia \add area\add*.”
\b
\q1
\v 10 \add Because we want to attack the people of\add* Edom,
\q1 ◄who will lead my \add army triumphantly\add* to their \add capital\add* city that has strong walls around it?/I want someone to lead my \add army triumphantly\add* to their \add capital\add* city that has strong walls around it.► [RHQ]
\q
\v 11 God, we \add desire/hope that\add* [RHQ] you have not abandoned us,
\q2 and that you will go with us when our army marches out \add to fight our enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 12 \add We need you to\add* help us when we fight against our enemies,
\q2 because the help that humans can give us is worthless.
\q1
\v 13 \add But\add* with you \add helping us\add*, we shall win;
\q2 you will \add enable us to\add* defeat our enemies.
\c 109
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 God, you are the one whom I praise,
\q1 \add So please\add* answer \add my prayer\add*,
\q1
\v 2 because wicked people slander me
\q2 and tell [MTY] lies about me.
\q1
\v 3 They are constantly saying that they hate me,
\q1 and they say evil things about me for no reason.
\q1
\v 4 I show them that I want to be their friends
\q1 and I pray for them,
\q2 but \add instead of being kind to me\add*, they say that I have done evil things.
\q1
\v 5 In return for my doing good things for them and loving them,
\q2 they do evil things to me and hate me.
\b
\q1
\v 6 \add So\add*, appoint a wicked \add judge\add* who will judge my enemy,
\q1 and bring in one of his enemies who will stand up and accuse him.
\q1
\v 7 And cause that when the trial \add ends\add*,
\q2 \add the judge will\add* declare that he is guilty,
\q2 and that \add even\add* his prayer will be considered to be a sin.
\q1
\v 8 \add Then\add*, cause that he will soon die
\q2 and that someone else will have his job/work (OR, possessions).
\q1
\v 9 Cause that his children will not have a father anymore
\q2 and that his wife will become a widow.
\q1
\v 10 Cause that his children will be forced to leave the ruined homes that they have been living in
\q2 and wander around begging for food.
\q1
\v 11 Cause that all the people to whom he owed money will seize all his property;
\q2 Cause that strangers will take away everything that he worked to acquire.
\q1
\v 12 Cause that \add while he is still living\add* no one will act kindly to him,
\q2 and \add after he dies\add*, cause that no one will pity his children.
\q1
\v 13 Cause that all his descendants will die
\q2 and that his grandchildren will not remember who he [MTY] was.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh, remember \add and do not forgive\add* his ancestors for the evil things that they did,
\q2 and do not \add even\add* forgive the sins that his mother committed;
\q1
\v 15 think about his sins continually,
\q2 and cause that his name will be completely forgotten.
\b
\q1
\v 16 \add I pray these things\add* because that man, \add my enemy\add*, never acted kindly to anyone;
\q2 he ◄persecuted/cause problems for► poor and needy \add people\add*
\q2 and even killed helpless \add people\add*.
\q1
\v 17 He liked to curse \add people\add*.
\q2 \add So\add* cause those terrible things that he requested to happen to others to happen to him!
\q1 He did not want to bless \add others\add*,
\q2 \add so\add* cause that no one will bless him!
\q1
\v 18 He cursed other people \add as often/easily\add* as he put on his clothes [SIM];
\q2 cause that the terrible things that he wanted to happen to others will \add happen to him and\add* enter his body like water \add that he drinks\add* [SIM],
\q2 like \add olive\add* oil soaks into a person's bones \add when it is rubbed on his skin\add* [SIM].
\q1
\v 19 Cause that those terrible things will cling to him like his clothes
\q1 and be around him like the belt that he wears every day.
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh, I wish/hope that you will punish all my enemies that way,
\q2 those who say evil things about me.
\b
\q1
\v 21 But Yahweh, my God, do good things for me
\q2 in order that I may honor you;
\q1 rescue me \add from my enemies\add*
\q2 because your faithfully loving me is good.
\q1
\v 22 \add I request you to do this\add* because I am poor and needy
\q2 and my inner being is ◄full of pain/very troubled/discouraged►.
\q1
\v 23 \add I think that\add* my time \add to remain alive\add* is short,
\q2 like an evening shadow \add that will soon disappear\add* [SIM].
\q2 I will be blown away like a locust/grasshopper is blown \add by the wind\add*.
\q1
\v 24 My knees are weak because I have ◄fasted/abstained from eating food► very often,
\q2 and my body has become very thin.
\q1
\v 25 The people who accuse me make fun of me;
\q2 when they see me, they \add insult me by\add* shaking their heads \add at me as though I were an evil man\add*.
\q1
\v 26 Yahweh, my God, help me!
\q1 Because you faithfully love \add me\add*, rescue me!
\q1
\v 27 \add When you save me\add*,
\q2 cause my enemies to know that you are the one who has done it!
\q1
\v 28 They may curse me, but I ask that you bless me.
\q2 Cause those who ◄persecute/cause problems for► me \add to be defeated and as a result\add* to be disgraced/ashamed,
\q1 and cause me to be glad/happy!
\q1
\v 29 Cause those who accuse me to be completely disgraced;
\q2 cause \add other people to see\add* that they are disgraced, as \add easily as they see\add* the clothes that they wear [SIM]!
\b
\q1
\v 30 But I will thank Yahweh very greatly;
\q2 I will praise him \add when I am\add* among the crowd \add of people who are worshiping him\add*.
\q1
\v 31 \add I will do that\add* because he defends [MTY] needy \add people like me\add*,
\q2 and saves us from those who have decided/declared that we must be executed.
\c 110
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh said to my lord \add the king\add*,
\q1 “Sit \add here\add*, close to me, in the place of highest honor [MTY]
\q2 until I \add completely defeat\add* your enemies [MET]
\q2 \add and\add* make \add them like\add* a stool for your feet!”
\b
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh \add said to him\add*, “I will extend your power as king
\q2 from Jerusalem \add to other lands\add*;
\q2 you will rule over all your enemies.
\q1
\v 3 On the day that you lead your armies into battle,
\q2 many of your people will volunteer \add to join your army\add*.
\q1 Like the dew refreshes the earth early in the morning,
\q2 young men will \add encourage you by\add* coming to help you.”
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh has made a solemn promise,
\q2 and he will never change his mind;
\q1 he has said to the king, “You will be a priest forever
\q2 like those who are in the line \add descended from\add* Melchizedek.”
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh stands at your right side;
\q2 when he becomes angry, he will defeat \add many kings\add*.
\q1
\v 6 He will judge and punish the people of \add many\add* nations;
\q2 he will fill the \add valleys\add* with their corpses.
\q1 He will crush kings all over the earth.
\q1
\v 7 But the king will drink from the stream alongside the road;
\q2 he will be refreshed after defeating his enemies.
\c 111
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 I will thank Yahweh with my entire inner being,
\q2 every time I am with a large group of godly/righteous people.
\b
\q1
\v 2 The things that Yahweh has done are wonderful!
\q1 All those who are delighted/pleased with those things
\q2 desire to ◄study/think about► them.
\q1
\v 3 \add Because of everything\add* that he does,
\q2 people greatly honor him and respect him because he is a great king;
\q1 the righteous/just things that he does will endure forever.
\q1
\v 4 He has \add appointed/established festivals in which\add* we ◄remember/talk about► the wonderful things that he has done;
\q2 Yahweh \add always\add* acts kindly and mercifully.
\q1
\v 5 He provides food for those who have an awesome respect for him;
\q2 he never forgets the agreement that he made \add with our ancestors\add*.
\q1
\v 6 By enabling his people to capture the lands that belonged to other people-groups,
\q1 he has shown to \add us\add*, his people, that he is very powerful.
\q1
\v 7 He [MTY] faithfully \add does what he has promised\add* and always does what is just/fair,
\q2 and we can depend on him \add to help us\add* when he commands us to do things.
\q1
\v 8 What he commands must be obeyed forever;
\q2 and he acted in a true and righteous manner when he gave us those commands.
\q1
\v 9 He rescued \add us\add*, his people, \add from being slaves in Egypt\add*,
\q2 and he made an agreement \add with us\add* that will last forever.
\q2 He [MTY] is holy and awesome!
\b
\q1
\v 10 Having an awesome respect for Yahweh is the way to become wise.
\q2 All those who obey \add his commands\add* will know what is good \add for them to decide to do\add*.
\q2 We should praise him forever!
\c 112
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 ◄Happy are/He is pleased with► those who have an awesome respect for him,
\q2 those who happily obey his commands.
\b
\q1
\v 2 Their children will prosper in their land;
\q1 and their descendants will be blessed \add by God\add*.
\q1
\v 3 Their families [MTY] will be very wealthy [DOU],
\q2 and their righteous deeds will endure forever.
\q1
\v 4 Godly/Righteous people are \add like\add* lights [SIM] that shine in the darkness
\q2 on those who are kind, merciful and righteous.
\q1
\v 5 Things \add will\add* go well for those who generously lend money to others
\q2 and who conduct their businesses honestly.
\q1
\v 6 Righteous people will not be overwhelmed/worried/distressed \add because of their troubles\add*,
\q2 and they will never be forgotten \add by other people\add*.
\q1
\v 7 They are not afraid of \add receiving\add* bad news;
\q2 they confidently/completely trust in Yahweh.
\q1
\v 8 They are confident and not afraid,
\q2 because they know that they will see \add God defeat\add* their enemies.
\q1
\v 9 They give things generously to poor/needy \add people\add*;
\q2 their kind deeds will endure forever,
\q2 and they \add will\add* be exalted and honored.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Wicked people see those things and are angry;
\q2 they gnash their teeth \add angrily\add*,
\q2 but they \add will\add* disappear \add and die\add*.
\q2 The \add wicked\add* things that they want to do \add will\add* never happen.
\c 113
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 You people who serve Yahweh, praise him!
\q1 Praise ◄him/his name►!
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh should be praised now and forever!
\q1
\v 3 People who live in the east and people who live in the west,
\q2 everyone, should praise Yahweh [MTY]!
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh rules [MTY] over all the nations,
\q1 and he shows high in the heavens that his glory is very great.
\q1
\v 5 There is no one [RHQ] who is like Yahweh, our God,
\q2 who lives/sits/rules in the highest heaven,
\q2
\v 6 and looks far down through the heavens and sees the \add people on\add* the earth.
\b
\q1
\v 7 \add Sometimes\add* he lifts poor people up \add so that they no longer sit in\add* the dirt;
\q1 he lifts needy \add people\add* up \add so that they no longer sit on\add* heaps of ashes
\q1
\v 8 and causes them to \add be honored\add* by sitting next to princes,
\q2 the sons of the kings \add who rule\add* their people.
\q1
\v 9 He also enables women who have no children to have homes to live in,
\q2 and he causes them to be happy by enabling them to give birth to children.
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\c 114
\q1
\v 1 When the Israeli \add people\add* left Egypt,
\q1 when they who were descendants of Jacob left people who spoke a foreign/different language,
\q2
\v 2 \add the land of\add* Judah became the place where people worshiped God;
\q2 and Israel became the land (OR, the \add Israeli people\add* became the people) that he ruled over.
\b
\q1
\v 3 \add When they came to the Red Sea\add*,
\q1 \add it was as though\add* the water saw them and ran away!
\q1 When they came to the Jordan \add River\add*,
\q2 that \add water in the\add* river stopped flowing \add so that the Israelis could cross it\add*.
\q1
\v 4 \add When they came to Sinai Mountain and there was a big earthquake\add*,
\q2 \add it was as though\add* the mountains skipped/jumped like goats do
\q2 and the hills jumped around like lambs do.
\b
\q1
\v 5 \add If someone asks\add*, “What happened at the \add Red\add* Sea that caused the water to run away?
\q1 What happened that caused \add the water in\add* the Jordan \add River\add* to stop flowing?
\q1
\v 6 What happened that caused the mountains to skip like goats
\q2 and caused the hills to jump around like lambs?”
\b
\q1
\v 7 \add I would reply that\add* it was the presence of the Lord that caused those things to happen!
\q1 \add Everyone/Everything on\add* the earth should tremble in the presence of God, whom ◄Jacob \add worshiped\add*/the Israeli people \add worship\add*►!
\q1
\v 8 He is the one who caused pools of water \add for the Israeli people to drink to flow\add* from a rock,
\q2 and who caused a spring \add to flow\add* from a solid rock cliff!
\c 115
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, people should praise \add only\add* you [MTY];
\q2 they must praise you, not us,
\q2 because you faithfully love us and always do what you have promised to do.
\b
\q1
\v 2 It is not right that [RHQ] \add other\add* people-groups should say about us,
\q1 “\add They claim that\add* their God \add is very powerful\add*,
\q2 but \add if that is true\add*, why does he not \add help them\add*?”
\q1
\v 3 Our God is in heaven,
\q2 and he does whatever he wants to!
\q1
\v 4 \add But\add* their idols are only \add statues made of\add* silver and gold,
\q2 things that humans have made.
\q1
\v 5 Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say \add anything\add*;
\q2 they have eyes, but they cannot see \add anything\add*.
\q1
\v 6 They have ears, but they cannot hear \add anything\add*;
\q2 they have noses, but they cannot smell \add anything\add*.
\q1
\v 7 They have hands, but they cannot feel \add anything\add*;
\q2 they have feet, but they cannot walk,
\q2 and they cannot \add even\add* make any sounds in their throats!
\q1
\v 8 The people who make those idols are \add as powerless\add* as those idols,
\q2 and those who trust in those idols \add can accomplish nothing\add*, just like their idols!
\b
\q1
\v 9 You, \add my fellow\add* Israeli people, trust in Yahweh!
\q2 He is the one who helps you and \add protects you like\add* [MET] a shield.
\q1
\v 10 You priests [MTY], trust in Yahweh!
\q2 He is the one who helps you and \add protects you like\add* [MET] a shield.
\q1
\v 11 \add All\add* you who have a reverential respect for Yahweh, trust in him!
\q2 He is the one who helps you and \add protects you like\add* [MET] a shield.
\b
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh has not forgotten us;
\q2 he will bless us Israeli people [MTY]!
\q2 He will bless the priests,
\q1
\v 13 and he will bless \add all\add* those who revere him;
\q2 he will bless important \add people\add* and people \add who are considered to be\add* unimportant, \add everyone!\add*
\b
\q1
\v 14 I wish/hope that Yahweh will give many children
\q2 to you \add my fellow-Israeli people\add*, and to your descendants.
\q1
\v 15 I wish/hope that Yahweh, the one who made heaven and the earth, will bless \add all of\add* you!
\b
\q1
\v 16 The \add highest\add* heavens belong to Yahweh,
\q2 but he gave \add everything that is on\add* the earth to \add us\add* people.
\q1
\v 17 Dead \add people\add* are not \add able to\add* praise Yahweh;
\q2 when they descend into the place where dead people are,
\q2 they are unable to speak and cannot praise him.
\q1
\v 18 But we \add who are alive\add* will thank/praise him,
\q2 now and forever.
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\c 116
\q1
\v 1 I love Yahweh,
\q2 because he hears me when I cry to him for him to help me.
\q1
\v 2 He listens to me,
\q2 so I will call out to him all during my life.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Everything around me [MET] caused me to think that I would die;
\q2 I was very afraid that I would \add die and go to\add* the place where dead people are.
\q1 I was very distressed/worried and afraid.
\q1
\v 4 \add But\add* then I called out to Yahweh, saying,
\q2 “Yahweh, I plead with you to save/rescue me!”
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh is kind and does what is right;
\q2 he is our God, and he acts mercifully \add to us\add*.
\q1
\v 6 He protects those who ◄are helpless/cannot defend themselves►;
\q2 and when I thought that I would die, he saved me.
\b
\q1
\v 7 I must encourage/tell myself to ◄have inner peace/not worry anymore►,
\q2 because Yahweh has done very good things for me.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh has saved me [SYN] from dying,
\q2 and has kept/protected me from \add troubles that would cause me to\add* cry.
\q1 He has kept/protected me from ◄stumbling/being defeated►.
\q1
\v 9 \add So here\add* on the earth, where people are still alive,
\q2 I live knowing that Yahweh is \add directing\add* me.
\q1
\v 10 I continued to believe/trust \add in Yahweh\add*,
\q2 even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted/troubled.”
\q1
\v 11 \add Even\add* when I was distressed/worried and said, “I cannot trust anyone,”
\q2 \add I continued to trust in Yahweh\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 12 So now \add I will tell you\add* [RHQ] what I will offer to Yahweh,
\q2 because of all the good things that he has done for me.
\q1
\v 13 I will offer to him a cup \add of wine\add*
\q2 to thank him for saving/rescuing me.
\q1
\v 14 When I am together with many [HYP] people who belong to Yahweh,
\q2 I will give to him the offerings that I solemnly promised to give to him.
\b
\q1
\v 15 Yahweh is very grieved/sad when one of his people dies.
\q1
\v 16 I am one of those who serve Yahweh;
\q2 I serve him like my mother did.
\q2 He has freed/saved me from dying (OR, from being fastened by chains).
\b
\q1
\v 17 \add So\add* I will offer to him a sacrifice to thank him,
\q1 and I will ◄pray to him/continue to request that he [MTY] help me►.
\q1
\v 18-19 When I am together with many of [HYP] the people who belong to Yahweh,
\q2 \add in the courtyard\add* outside his temple in Jerusalem,
\q2 I will give to him the offerings that I solemnly promised to give to him.
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\c 117
\q1
\v 1 You \add people of\add* all nations, praise Yahweh!
\q1 All you people-groups, extol/praise him,
\q2
\v 2 because \add very\add* much/greatly does he faithfully love us,
\q2 and he will forever faithfully do \add for us\add* what he promised that he would do.
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\c 118
\q1
\v 1 Tell Yahweh that you thank him very much for the good \add things that he has done for you\add*
\q2 He faithfully loves \add us, his people\add*, forever.
\b
\q1
\v 2 You Israeli \add people\add* should \add repeatedly\add* shout,
\q2 “He faithfully loves \add us, his people\add*, forever!”
\q1
\v 3 You \add priests\add* who are descendants of Aaron should repeatedly shout,
\q2 “He faithfully loves us, his people, forever!”
\q1
\v 4 All you who revere him should repeatedly shout,
\q2 “He faithfully loves \add us, his people\add*, forever!”
\b
\q1
\v 5 When I was distressed, I called out to Yahweh,
\q2 and he answered me and set me free \add from my worries/troubles\add*.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh is ◄on my side/helping me►,
\q2 so I will not be afraid \add of anything\add*.
\q2 No one [RHQ] can do anything that will \add prevent God from blessing\add* me forever.
\q1
\v 7 \add Yes\add*, Yahweh is ◄on my side/helping me►,
\q2 \add so\add* I will look triumphantly at my enemies \add while he defeats them\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 8 It is better to trust in Yahweh
\q2 than to ◄depend on/trust in► people.
\q1
\v 9 It is better to trust Yahweh to protect \add us\add*
\q2 than to trust \add that influential/important\add* people \add will protect us\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Armies of [MTY] many nations surrounded me,
\q2 \add but\add* Yahweh enabled me to defeat them by his power [MTY].
\q1
\v 11 They completely surrounded me,
\q2 \add but\add* I defeated them all by the power of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 12 They swarmed around me like \add angry\add* bees;
\q2 they were like a fire that blazes strongly, but only briefly, in a thornbush,
\q2 \add but\add* I defeated them by the power [MTY] that Yahweh gave me.
\b
\q1
\v 13 \add My enemies\add* attacked me fiercely and almost defeated me,
\q2 but Yahweh helped me.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh is the one who makes me strong,
\q1 and he is the one about whom I \add always\add* sing;
\q2 he has saved me \add from my enemies\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 15 Listen to the joyful songs of victory being sung in the tents of godly/righteous people!
\q2 They sing, “Yahweh has defeated our enemies by his mighty power [MTY];
\q1
\v 16 he has raised his strong right arm \add to show he is happy over defeating his enemies\add*.
\q2 Yahweh has completely defeated them!”
\b
\q1
\v 17 I will not be killed \add in battle\add*;
\q2 I will live to proclaim the great things that Yahweh has done.
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh has punished me severely,
\q2 but he has not allowed ◄me to die/\add my enemies\add* to kill me►.
\b
\q1
\v 19 \add You gatekeepers\add*, open for me the gates of the temple
\q2 in order that I may enter and thank Yahweh.
\q1
\v 20 Those are the gates \add through which we enter the temple to worship\add* Yahweh;
\q2 godly/righteous people enter those gates.
\q1
\v 21 \add Yahweh\add*, I thank you that you answered my prayer,
\q2 and you saved me \add from my enemies\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 22 \add Yahweh's promised/chosen king is like\add* [MET] the stone which the builders rejected
\q2 \add when they were building a house\add*,
\q1 \add but that stone\add* became the ◄cornerstone/most important stone in the building►.
\q1
\v 23 ◄This was done by Yahweh/Yahweh has done this►,
\q1 and it is a wonderful thing for us to see.
\q1
\v 24 This is the day in which \add we remember that\add* Yahweh acted \add powerfully to defeat our enemies\add*;
\q2 we will rejoice and be glad/happy today.
\q1
\v 25 Yahweh, we plead with you to \add keep\add* rescuing us \add from our enemies\add*.
\q2 Yahweh, please help us ◄accomplish/do well► \add what we want to do\add*.
\q1
\v 26 Yahweh, bless the one who will come with your power [MTY].
\q2 And from the temple we ◄bless/\add ask Yahweh to\add* bless► all of you.
\q1
\v 27 Yahweh is God,
\q2 and he has caused his light/blessings to come to us.
\q1 Come, carrying \add palm\add* branches, and join the people \add who are starting\add* the festival as they go to the altar.
\b
\q1
\v 28 \add Yahweh\add*, you are the God whom I \add worship\add*, and I will praise you!
\q2 You are my God, and I will tell \add everyone\add* that you are great!
\b
\q1
\v 29 Thank Yahweh, because he does good things \add for us\add*
\q2 He will faithfully love \add us\add* forever.
\c 119
\q1
\v 1 ◄Yahweh is pleased with/Happy are► those about whom no one can say truthfully that they have done things that are wrong,
\q1 those who always obey the laws of Yahweh.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh is pleased with those who ◄obey his requirements/do what he has instructed them to do►,
\q1 those who request him with their entire inner beings to help them \add to do that\add*.
\q1
\v 3 They do not do things that are wrong;
\q2 they behave like Yahweh wants them to.
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, you have given \add us\add* ◄your principles of behavior/all the things that you have declared that we should do►,
\q2 \add and you told us\add* to obey them faithfully/always.
\q1
\v 5 I desire that I will faithfully/always obey all ◄your statutes/that you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\q1
\v 6 If I continually ◄heed/pay attention to► all ◄your commands/that you have commanded►,
\q2 I will not be disgraced/ashamed.
\q1
\v 7 When I learn \add all of\add* ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given \add to us►\add*,
\q2 I will praise you with a pure inner being [IDI].
\q1
\v 8 I will obey all ◄your statutes/that you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►;
\q2 do not desert/abandon me!
\q1
\v 9 \add I know\add* [RHQ] how a youth can ◄keep his life pure/avoid sinning►;
\q2 it is by obeying ◄your words/what you have told us to do►.
\q1
\v 10 I try to serve you with my entire inner being;
\q2 do not allow me to ◄wander away from/disobey► ◄your commands/what you have commanded►.
\q1
\v 11 I have ◄memorized/stored in my mind► \add parts of\add* ◄your words/what you have promised►
\q2 in order that I will not sin against you.
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh, I praise you;
\q2 teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed►.
\q1
\v 13 I [MTY] declare ◄with my mouth/\add to others\add*► ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given \add to us►\add*.
\q1
\v 14 I delight to obey ◄your requirements/what you have instructed \add us to do►\add*;
\q1 I enjoy that more than being very rich.
\q1
\v 15 I will ◄study/think about► ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►,
\q2 and I will pay attention to the ways that you have showed \add me\add*.
\q1
\v 16 I will be happy \add to obey\add* ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►,
\q2 and I will not forget your words.
\q1
\v 17 Do good things for me, who serve you,
\q2 in order that I may continue to live and obey ◄your words/what you have told us to do► during all my life.
\q1
\v 18 Open my eyes
\q2 in order that I may see the wonderful things that \add are written\add* in your laws.
\q1
\v 19 I am living \add here\add* on the earth for only a short time;
\q2 ◄do not prevent me from \add understanding\add*/help me to understand► [LIT] ◄your commands/what you have commanded►.
\q1
\v 20 In my inner being I strongly desire to know all the time ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►.
\q1
\v 21 You rebuke those who are proud;
\q2 you curse those who disobey ◄your commands/what you have commanded►.
\q1
\v 22 Do not allow them to continue to insult and scorn me;
\q2 \add I request this\add* because I have obeyed ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►.
\q1
\v 23 Rulers gather together and plan ways to harm me,
\q2 but I will ◄meditate on/study► ◄your statutes/what you have decreed►.
\q1
\v 24 I am delighted with ◄your requirements/what you have instructed \add us to do►\add*;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* they are my advisors.
\b
\q1
\v 25 \add I think that\add* I will soon die [IDI];
\q2 revive/heal me, as you have told me that you would.
\q1
\v 26 When I told you about my behavior, you answered me;
\q2 teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.
\q1
\v 27 Help me to understand ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►,
\q2 and \add then\add* I will ◄meditate on/think about► the wonderful things that you ◄\add have done/teach\add*►.
\q1
\v 28 I am very sad/sorrowful [IDI], with the result that I have no strength;
\q2 enable me to be strong \add again\add*, like you promised me that you would do.
\q1
\v 29 Prevent me from doing what is wrong,
\q2 and be kind to me by teaching me your laws.
\q1
\v 30 I have decided that I will faithfully/always \add obey you\add*;
\q2 I have ◄paid attention to/heeded► ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►.
\q1
\v 31 Yahweh, I try to carefully cling to ◄your requirements/what you have instructed \add us to do\add*►;
\q2 do not \add abandon me, with the result that\add* I would become disgraced.
\q1
\v 32 I will eagerly obey [IDI] ◄your commands/what you have commanded►,
\q2 because you have enabled me to understand more \add what you want me to do\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 33 Yahweh, teach me the meaning of ◄your statutes/the things that you have decreed that we should do►,
\q2 and \add then\add* I will obey them, every one of them.
\q1
\v 34 Help me to understand your laws
\q2 in order that I may obey them with all my inner being.
\q1
\v 35 I am happy with ◄your commands/what you have commanded►,
\q2 so ◄lead me along the paths/enable me to walk on the road► that you \add have chosen for me\add*.
\q1
\v 36 Cause me to want to obey your rules
\q2 and not to want to become rich.
\q1
\v 37 Do not allow me to look at things that are worthless
\q2 and allow me to continue to live, like you promised that you would do.
\q1
\v 38 \add Because\add* I am one who serves you, do what you promised to do for me,
\q2 which is what you also promise to do for \add all\add* those who have a reverent respect for you.
\q1
\v 39 \add My enemies\add* insult me \add because I\add* ◄\add serve/am devoted to\add*► you;
\q2 remove them from me, \add because\add* I am afraid of them.
\q2 The ◄regulations/rules that you have given \add to us\add*► are \add very\add* good!
\q1
\v 40 I very much desire \add to obey\add* ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►;
\q2 because you are righteous, allow me to continue to live (OR, be good to me).
\b
\q1
\v 41 Yahweh, show me that you faithfully love me,
\q2 and rescue/save me, like you have said/promised that you would.
\q1
\v 42 After you do that, I will be able to reply to those who insult me,
\q2 because I trust in ◄your word/what you have promised that you would do►.
\q1
\v 43 ◄Never prevent me from speaking/Always enable me to [LIT] speak► your truth,
\q2 because I have confidence in ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given us►.
\q1
\v 44 I will always obey your laws,
\q2 forever.
\q1
\v 45 I will be free \add from ◄difficulties/my enemies' attacks►\add*,
\q2 because I have tried \add to obey\add* ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 46 I will tell to kings ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►,
\q2 and \add because I did not abandon you\add*, they will not cause me to be ashamed.
\q1
\v 47 I am delighted to \add obey\add* ◄your commands/what you have commanded►,
\q2 and I love them.
\q1
\v 48 I respect/revere [IDI] ◄your commands/what you have commanded►,
\q2 and I love them,
\q2 and I will ◄meditate on/think about► ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\b
\q1
\v 49 Do not forget what you said/promised to do for me, who serve you,
\q2 \add because\add* what you have said has caused me to confidently expect \add good things from you\add*.
\q1
\v 50 When I have been suffering, you comforted me;
\q2 you did what you promised me, and that [PRS] revived me.
\q1
\v 51 Proud people are always making fun of me,
\q2 but I do not ◄turn away from/stop► \add obeying\add* your laws.
\q1
\v 52 Yahweh, when I think about ◄your regulations/the rules► that you gave to us long ago,
\q2 I am comforted/encouraged.
\q1
\v 53 When \add I see that\add* wicked people have disregarded your laws,
\q2 I become very angry.
\q1
\v 54 While I have been living here for a short time on the earth,
\q2 I have written songs about ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.
\q1
\v 55 Yahweh, during the night I think about you [MTY],
\q2 and \add so\add* I obey your laws.
\q1
\v 56 What I have always done is to obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\b
\q1
\v 57 Yahweh, you are the one whom I have chosen,
\q2 and I promise to ◄obey your words/do what you have told us to do►.
\q1
\v 58 With all my inner being I plead with you to be good to me;
\q2 act kindly to me, like you promised/said that you would do.
\q1
\v 59 I have thought about my behavior,
\q2 and I \add have decided to\add* return to \add obeying\add* ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►.
\q1
\v 60 I hurry to obey ◄your commands/what you have commanded►;
\q2 I do not delay \add at all\add*.
\q1
\v 61 Wicked people have \add tried to\add* seize me \add like a hunter tries to catch an animal\add* with a net [MET],
\q2 but I do not forget your laws.
\q1
\v 62 In the middle of the night I awake,
\q2 and I praise you for ◄your commands/the rules that you have given us to do►;
\q2 they are fair/just.
\q1
\v 63 I am a friend of all those who have an awesome respect for you,
\q2 those who obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 64 Yahweh, you faithfully/always love \add people\add* all over the earth;
\q2 teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\b
\q1
\v 65 Yahweh, you have done good things for me,
\q2 like you promised/said that you would do.
\q1
\v 66 Teach me to think carefully before I decide what to do,
\q2 and \add teach me other things that I need to\add* know,
\q2 because I believe \add that it is good for us to obey\add* ◄your commands/what you have commanded►.
\q1
\v 67 Before you afflicted/punished me, I did things that were wrong,
\q2 but now I obey ◄your words/what you have told us to do►.
\q1
\v 68 You are \add very\add* good, and what you do is good;
\q2 teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\q1
\v 69 Proud people have told many lies about me,
\q2 but \add the truth is that\add* with all my inner being I obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 70 Those people ◄are stupid/do not understand your laws► [IDI],
\q2 but \add as for me\add*, I am delighted with your laws.
\q1
\v 71 It was good for me that \add you\add* afflicted/punished me,
\q2 because the result was that I learned ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\q1
\v 72 The laws that you [MTY] gave/told \add to us\add* are \add worth\add* more to me than gold,
\q2 more than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
\b
\q1
\v 73 You created me and formed my body (OR, kept me safe);
\q2 help me to be wise in order that I may learn ◄your commands/what you have commanded►.
\q1
\v 74 Those who have an awesome respect for you will see \add what you have done for\add* me, and they will rejoice,
\q2 because \add they will see that\add* I have trusted in ◄your words/what you told us►.
\q1
\v 75 Yahweh, I know that ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us► are right/fair
\q2 and that you have afflicted/punished me because you faithfully do \add what you have promised\add*.
\q1
\v 76 Cause me to be comforted/encouraged by \add knowing that\add* you faithfully love \add me\add*,
\q2 like you said to me that you would do.
\q1
\v 77 Act mercifully to me in order that I may \add continue to\add* live,
\q2 because I am delighted with your laws.
\q1
\v 78 Cause the proud people who falsely accuse me to be ashamed,
\q2 \add but\add* as for me, I will \add continue\add* ◄meditating on/thinking about► ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 79 Cause those who have an awesome respect for you to come \add back\add* to me
\q2 in order that they may (OR, specifically, those who) know ◄your requirements/what you have instructed \add us to do\add*►.
\q1
\v 80 Enable me to perfectly \add obey\add* ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►
\q2 in order that I may not be ashamed \add because of not doing that\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 81 I am very tired/exhausted while I wait for you to save \add me from my enemies\add*;
\q2 \add but\add* I confidently expect that you will tell \add me what you will do\add*.
\q1
\v 82 My eyes are tired from waiting a long time for you to do what you promised/said that you would do,
\q2 and I ask, “When will you help/encourage me?”
\q1
\v 83 I have become \add as useless as\add* [MET] a wineskin that is \add shriveled from hanging a long time\add* in the smoke \add inside a house\add*,
\q2 but I have not forgotten ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\q1
\v 84 How long must I wait?
\q2 When will you punish those who ◄persecute/cause trouble for► me?
\q1
\v 85 \add It is as though\add* proud people have dug deep pits for me \add to fall into\add*,
\q2 people who do not obey your laws.
\q1
\v 86 All ◄your commands are/what you have commanded is► trustworthy;
\q2 \add but\add* people are ◄persecuting/causing trouble for► me by telling lies \add about me, so please\add* help me!
\q1
\v 87 Those people have almost killed me,
\q2 but I have not stopped \add obeying\add* ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 88 Because you faithfully love \add me\add*, allow me \add to continue\add* to live
\q2 in order that I may \add continue to\add* obey ◄your rules/what you have instructed \add us to do\add*►.
\b
\q1
\v 89 Yahweh, ◄your words/what you have promised \add to do for us\add*► will last forever;
\q2 it is firmly \add fixed\add* in heaven.
\q1
\v 90 You will faithfully \add continue doing\add* ◄\add for people who are not yet born/in every generation\add*► what you have ◄promised/said that you would do►;
\q2 you have put the earth in its place, and it remains firmly \add there\add*.
\q1
\v 91 To this day, \add all things on the earth\add* remain because you decided that they should remain;
\q2 everything \add on the earth\add* serves/obeys you.
\q1
\v 92 If I had not been delighted \add in obeying\add* your laws,
\q2 I would have died because of what I was suffering.
\q1
\v 93 I will never forget ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►,
\q2 because as a result of \add my obeying them\add* you have enabled me to \add continue to\add* live.
\q1
\v 94 I belong to you; save/rescue me \add from my enemies\add*,
\q2 because I have tried to obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 95 Wicked \add men\add* are waiting to kill me,
\q2 but I \add will\add* think about ◄your requirements/what you have instructed \add us to do\add*►.
\q1
\v 96 I have learned that there is a limit/end for everything,
\q2 but ◄your commands/what you command► ◄has no limits/never ends►.
\b
\q1
\v 97 I love your laws very much.
\q2 I ◄meditate on/think about► them all during the day.
\q1
\v 98 Because I know ◄your commands/what you have commanded►,
\q2 and because I think about them all the time,
\q2 I have become wiser than my enemies.
\q1
\v 99 I understand more than my teachers do,
\q2 because I ◄meditate on/think about► ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►.
\q1
\v 100 I understand more than \add many\add* old people do,
\q2 because I obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 101 I have avoided all evil behavior
\q2 in order that I may obey ◄your words/what you have told us to do►.
\q1
\v 102 I have not ◄turned away from/quit► \add obeying\add* ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►,
\q2 because you have taught me \add while I have studied them\add*.
\q1
\v 103 \add When I read\add* your words,
\q2 they are like [MET] sweet things that I taste/eat,
\q2 \add yes\add*, they are even sweeter than honey.
\q1
\v 104 Because \add I have learned\add* ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►,
\q2 I am able to understand \add many things\add*;
\q2 therefore, I hate all evil things \add that some people do\add*.
\q1
\v 105 ◄Your words/What you have told us to do► are \add like\add* [MET] a lamp to guide me,
\q2 and \add like\add* a light [MET] to show me the path \add that I should walk on\add*.
\q1
\v 106 I have solemnly promised, and I am solemnly promising it again,
\q2 that I will \add always\add* obey your ◄regulations/rules that you have given to us►,
\q2 and they are \add all\add* fair/just.
\q1
\v 107 Yahweh, I am suffering very much;
\q2 cause me to be strong/healthy \add again\add*, as you have promised to do.
\q1
\v 108 Yahweh, when I thank you while I pray, it is \add like\add* [MET] a sacrifice to you;
\q2 \add please\add* accept it,
\q2 and teach me your ◄regulations/rules that you have given to us►.
\q1
\v 109 \add My enemies are\add* often trying to kill me [IDI],
\q2 but I do not forget your laws.
\q1
\v 110 Wicked \add people\add* have tried to seize me \add like a hunter tries to catch an animal\add* with a trap [MET],
\q2 but I have not disobeyed ◄your principles of behavior/what you declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 111 ◄Your requirements/What you have instructed us to do► are my possession forever;
\q2 because of them [PRS], I am joyful in my inner being.
\q1
\v 112 I ◄have decided/am determined► [IDI] to obey ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do► until the day that I die [MTY].
\b
\q1
\v 113 I hate people who are \add only\add* partly committed to you,
\q2 but I love your laws.
\q1
\v 114 You are \add like\add* a place where I can hide \add from my enemies\add*,
\q2 and you are \add like\add* a shield [MET] \add behind which I am protected from them\add*,
\q2 and I trust in your promises.
\q1
\v 115 You evil people, go away from me
\q2 in order than I may obey ◄my God's commands/what my God has commanded►!
\q1
\v 116 Enable me to be strong, as you promised/said that you would do,
\q2 in order that I may \add continue to\add* live.
\q1 I am confidently expecting \add that you will restore me\add*;
\q2 ◄do not disappoint me/do not allow me to be disappointed►.
\q1
\v 117 Hold me up in order that I will be safe
\q2 and always ◄pay attention to/heed► ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.
\q1
\v 118 You reject all those who disobey ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►;
\q2 but what they deceitfully plan to do will be ◄useless/in vain►.
\q1
\v 119 You get rid of all the wicked \add people\add* on the earth like [SIM] \add people throw away\add* trash;
\q2 therefore I love ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►.
\q1
\v 120 I [SYN] tremble because I am afraid of you;
\q2 I am afraid \add because you punish those who do not obey\add* ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►.
\b
\q1
\v 121 \add But\add* I have done what is right and fair/just;
\q2 \add so\add* do not allow people to oppress/mistreat me.
\q1
\v 122 Promise me that you will do good things for me
\q2 and do not allow proud \add people\add* to oppress me.
\q1
\v 123 My eyes are tired from waiting a long time for you to rescue \add me\add*,
\q2 for you to save \add me\add* like you promised/said that you would.
\q1
\v 124 Do something for me to show that you faithfully love \add me\add*
\q2 and teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that we should do►.
\q1
\v 125 I am one who serves you;
\q1 enable me to understand \add what you want me to know\add*
\q2 in order that I will know ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►.
\q1
\v 126 Yahweh, now is the time for you to \add punish people\add*
\q2 because they have disobeyed your laws.
\q1
\v 127 Truly, I love ◄your commands/what you have commanded► more than I love gold;
\q2 I love them more than I love \add very\add* pure gold.
\q1
\v 128 So I conduct my life by ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►,
\q2 and I hate all the evil things that \add some people do\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 129 ◄Your requirements are/All the things that you have instructed us to do are► wonderful,
\q2 so I obey them with all my inner being.
\q1
\v 130 When someone explains ◄your words/what you have said►,
\q2 \add it is as though\add* they are lighting a light;
\q2 what they say causes \add even\add* people who have not learned your laws to be wise.
\q1
\v 131 I eagerly desire to know ◄your commands/what you have commanded►,
\q2 like [SIM] a \add dog\add* that pants with its mouth open \add wanting to be fed\add*.
\q1
\v 132 Listen to me and act kindly to me,
\q2 like you do to \add all\add* those who love you [MTY].
\q1
\v 133 Guide me as you promised/said that you would do and help me not to fall/sin;
\q2 do not allow evil \add people\add* to control what I do.
\q1
\v 134 Rescue/Save me from those who oppress me
\q2 in order that I may obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 135 Act kindly toward me
\q2 and teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\q1
\v 136 I cry very much
\q2 because \add many\add* people do not obey your laws.
\b
\q1
\v 137 Yahweh, you are righteous
\q2 and ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us► are just/fair.
\q1
\v 138 ◄Your requirements/All the things that you have instructed us to do► are true
\q2 and are all very right and fair.
\q1
\v 139 I am ◄furious/very angry►
\q2 because my enemies disregard ◄your words/what you have told us to do►.
\q1
\v 140 ◄Your promises are/All the things that you have said that you will do are► dependable
\q2 and I love them.
\q1
\v 141 I am not important and people despise me,
\q2 but I do not forget ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 142 You are righteous and you will be righteous forever,
\q2 and your laws will never be changed.
\q1
\v 143 I \add constantly\add* have troubles/difficulties and I am worried,
\q2 but ◄your commands cause/what you have commanded causes► me to be happy.
\q1
\v 144 ◄Your requirements are/All the things that you have instructed us to do are► always fair;
\q2 help me to understand them in order that I may \add continue to\add* live.
\b
\q1
\v 145 Yahweh, with all my inner being I call out to you;
\q2 answer me and I will obey ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\q1
\v 146 I call out to you;
\q2 save/rescue me in order that I \add can continue to\add* obey \add all\add* ◄your requirements/the things that you have instructed us to do►.
\q1
\v 147 \add Each morning\add* I arise before dawn and call to you to help me;
\q2 I confidently expect you to do what you have ◄promised/said that you will do►.
\q1
\v 148 All during the night I am awake,
\q2 and I ◄meditate on/think about► what you have ◄promised/said that you would do►.
\q1
\v 149 Yahweh, because you faithfully love me,
\q2 listen to me \add while I pray\add*
\q2 and keep me safe because of \add my obeying\add* ◄your regulations/what you have told us to do►.
\q1
\v 150 Those evil people who oppress/persecute me are coming closer to me;
\q2 they do not pay any attention to your laws.
\q1
\v 151 But Yahweh, you are near to me,
\q2 and \add I know that\add* ◄your commands/what you command► will never be changed.
\q1
\v 152 Long ago I found out about ◄your requirements/all the things that you have instructed us to do►,
\q2 and \add I know that\add* you intended them to last forever.
\b
\q1
\v 153 Look at me and see that I am suffering \add very much\add* and heal me,
\q2 because I do not forget your laws.
\q1
\v 154 Defend me \add when others accuse me\add* and rescue me \add from them\add*;
\q2 allow me to \add continue to\add* live, as you promised/said that you would.
\q1
\v 155 Wicked \add people\add* do not obey ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►,
\q2 so you will certainly not save them.
\q1
\v 156 Yahweh, you are very merciful;
\q2 allow me to \add continue to\add* live because of \add my obeying\add* ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►.
\q1
\v 157 Many \add people\add* are my enemies and \add many people\add* ◄cause me to suffer/persecute me►,
\q2 but I ◄do not turn aside from/have not stopped obeying► [LIT] ◄your requirements/what you have instructed us to do►.
\q1
\v 158 When I look at those who are not faithful to you, I am disgusted
\q2 because they do not obey ◄your requirements/what you have instructed \add us\add* to do►.
\q1
\v 159 \add Yahweh\add*, notice that I love ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►;
\q2 because you faithfully love \add me\add*, allow me to \add continue to\add* live.
\q1
\v 160 All that you have said is truth,
\q2 and all ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us► will endure forever.
\b
\q1
\v 161 Rulers persecute me for no reason,
\q2 but in my inner being I have a very awesome respect for ◄your words/what you have said►.
\q1
\v 162 I am happy about ◄your words/what you have promised \add to do for me►\add*,
\q2 as happy as someone who has found a great treasure.
\q1
\v 163 I thoroughly hate [DOU] \add all\add* lies
\q2 but I love your laws.
\q1
\v 164 Seven/Many times each day I thank you for ◄your regulations/the rules that you have given to us►,
\q2 and they are \add all\add* just/fair.
\q1
\v 165 Things go well for those who love your laws;
\q2 there is nothing adverse/bad that will happen to them.
\q1
\v 166 Yahweh, I confidently expect that you will rescue me \add from my troubles\add*,
\q2 and I obey ◄your commands/what you have commanded us►.
\q1
\v 167 I obey ◄what you require/what you have instructed► us to do;
\q2 I love it \add all\add* very much.
\q1
\v 168 I obey ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►,
\q2 and you see everything that I do.
\b
\q1
\v 169 Yahweh, listen while I pray \add for you to help me\add*;
\q2 help me to understand \add ◄your words/what you have told us to do►\add*.
\q1
\v 170 Hear me while I pray
\q2 and rescue/save me as you promised/said that you would.
\q1
\v 171 I [MTY] will always praise you
\q2 because you teach me ◄your statutes/what you have decreed that \add we\add* should do►.
\q1
\v 172 I will sing about ◄your words/what you have promised to do►
\q2 because ◄all your commands are/everything that you have commanded is► just/fair.
\q1
\v 173 I request you [SYN] to \add always\add* be ready to help me
\q2 because I have chosen \add to obey\add* ◄your principles of behavior/what you have declared that we should do►.
\q1
\v 174 Yahweh, I eagerly desire for you to rescue/save me \add from my enemies\add*;
\q2 I am delighted with your laws.
\q1
\v 175 Allow me to \add continue to\add* live in order that I can \add continue to\add* praise you
\q2 and that your regulations/rules \add that you have given to us\add* will continue to help me.
\q1
\v 176 I have \add wandered away from you\add* like [SIM] a sheep that has become lost;
\q2 search for me, because I have not forgotten ◄your commands/what you have commanded us►.
\c 120
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 When I was had troubles, I called out to Yahweh
\q2 and he answered me.
\q1
\v 2 \add I prayed\add*,
\q2 “Yahweh, rescue/save me from people [SYN, MTY] who lie to me and \add try to\add* deceive me!”
\b
\q1
\v 3 You people who lie to me, \add I will tell you\add* [RHQ] what \add God\add* will do to you
\q2 and what he will do to punish you.
\q1
\v 4 He will shoot sharp arrows at you like soldiers do,
\q2 and he will \add burn you with\add* red-hot coals from \add the wood of\add* a broom tree.
\b
\q1
\v 5 It is terrible for me, living among cruel/savage [DOU] people
\q2 \add like those who live\add* in Meshech \add region\add* and Kedar \add region\add*.
\q1
\v 6 I have lived for a long time among people who hate \add to live with others\add* peacefully.
\q1
\v 7 Every time I talk about living together peacefully,
\q2 they talk about starting a war.
\c 121
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 \add When we travel toward Jerusalem\add*,
\q2 I look up toward the hills \add and I ask myself\add*, “Who will help me?”
\q1
\v 2 \add And my answer is\add* that Yahweh is the one who helps me;
\q2 he is the one who made heaven and the earth.
\b
\q1
\v 3 He will not allow us to fall/stumble;
\q2 God, who protects us, will not fall asleep.
\q1
\v 4 The one who protects us Israeli people
\q2 ◄never gets sleepy or sleeps/is always awake► [LIT].
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh watches over us;
\q2 he is like the shade [MET] \add that protects us from the sun\add*.
\q1
\v 6 \add He will not allow\add* the sun to harm us during the day,
\q2 and \add he will not allow\add* the moon to harm us during the night.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh will protect us from being harmed in any manner;
\q2 he will keep us safe.
\q1
\v 8 He will protect us from the time that we leave \add our houses in the morning\add* until we return \add in the evening\add*;
\q2 he will protect us now and he will protect us forever.
\c 122
\s1 A psalm written by David for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 I was glad/happy when people said to me,
\q2 “We should go to the temple of Yahweh \add in Jerusalem\add*!”
\q1
\v 2 And now we are here,
\q2 standing inside the gates/city of [APO] Jerusalem.
\q1
\v 3 Jerusalem is a city that has been rebuilt,
\q2 with the result that people can gather together in it.
\q1
\v 4 We \add people of the\add* tribes of Israel who belong to Yahweh can now go up there
\q2 as Yahweh commanded that we should do,
\q2 and we can thank him.
\q1
\v 5 There the kings of Israel who were descendants of \add King\add* David sit on their thrones
\q2 and decide cases \add fairly when the people have disputes\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Pray that there will be peace in Jerusalem;
\q1 I wish/hope that those who love Jerusalem will ◄prosper/live peacefully►.
\q1
\v 7 I hope/wish that there will be peace inside the walls of the city
\q2 and that \add people who are\add* inside the palaces will be safe.
\q1
\v 8 For the sake of my relatives and friends I say,
\q2 “I wish/hope that inside Jerusalem \add people will live\add* peacefully.”
\q1
\v 9 And because I love the temple of Yahweh our God,
\q2 I pray that things will go well for the people who live \add in Jerusalem\add*.
\c 123
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I look up toward you,
\q2 up to heaven, from where you rule.
\q1
\v 2 Like servants request [IDI] their masters \add for what they need\add*
\q1 and like maids request their mistresses \add for what they need\add*,
\q2 we request you, Yahweh our God, \add for what we need\add*,
\q2 and we request you to act mercifully toward us.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, act very mercifully [DOU] toward us
\q2 because \add our enemies\add* have acted very contemptuously toward us.
\q1
\v 4 Rich people have made fun of us for a long time,
\q2 and proud \add people\add* who have ◄oppressed/acted cruelly toward► us have acted toward us as though we were worthless.
\c 124
\s1 A psalm written by David for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 You Israeli \add people\add*, \add answer this question:\add*
\q1 What \add would have happened to us\add* if Yahweh had not been ◄helping/fighting for► us?
\q1
\v 2 When \add our enemies\add* attacked us,
\q1 if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,
\q1
\v 3 we would have all been killed [IDI]
\q2 because they were very angry with us!
\q1
\v 4 \add They would have been like\add* [MET] a flood that swept/carried us away;
\q1 \add it would have been as though\add* the water would have covered us,
\q2
\v 5 and we would \add all\add* have drowned in the flood that was ◄raging/flowing very fast►.
\b
\q1
\v 6 \add But\add* praise Yahweh
\q2 because he has not allowed our \add enemies to destroy us\add*
\q2 \add like wild animals\add* [MET] tear apart \add the creatures that they capture\add*.
\q1
\v 7 We have escaped \add from our enemies\add* like a bird escapes from the trap that hunters have set;
\q1 \add it is as though\add* the trap \add that our enemies set for us\add* was broken
\q2 and we have escaped from it!
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh is the one who helps us [MTY];
\q2 he is the one who made heaven and the earth.
\c 125
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 Those/We who trust in Yahweh are \add as secure/steadfast\add* [SIM] as Zion Hill,
\q2 which cannot be shaken and can never be moved.
\q1
\v 2 Like the hills that surround Jerusalem \add protect the city\add*,
\q2 Yahweh protects \add us\add*, his people,
\q2 and he will protect us forever.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Wicked people [MTY] should not \add be allowed to\add* rule over the land where righteous \add people\add* live.
\q2 If they did that, those righteous \add people\add* might \add ◄be encouraged to imitate them and\add*► do things that are wrong.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, do good things to those who do good things to others
\q2 and to those who sincerely obey your commands [IDI].
\q1
\v 5 But when you punish the wicked people \add who are not Israelis\add*,
\q2 also punish those \add Israelis\add* who turn away from walking on the good roads that you have shown them!
\b
\q1 I wish that things will go well for \add people in\add* Israel!
\c 126
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 When Yahweh brought \add us Israeli people\add* back to Jerusalem (OR, enabled us Israelis to prosper again),
\q1 \add it was wonderful\add*;
\q2 it seemed as though [SIM] we were dreaming.
\q1
\v 2 We were extremely happy
\q1 and we [SYN] continued shouting joyfully.
\q1 Then the \add other\add* people-groups said about us,
\q2 “Yahweh has done great things for them!”
\q1
\v 3 \add And we say, “Yes\add*, Yahweh \add truly\add* has done great things for us,
\q2 and we are \add very\add* happy.”
\b
\q1
\v 4 \add But\add* Yahweh, when it rains, water flows in the streams again \add after they were dry\add* [SIM].
\q2 Similarly, enable our nation to become great again like it was before.
\q1
\v 5 We cried when we planted \add seeds because it was hard work preparing the soil that had not been plowed for many years\add*;
\q1 \add now we want to\add* shout joyfully because we are gathering a \add big\add* harvest.
\q1
\v 6 Those who cried as they carried the \add bags of\add* seeds \add to the fields\add* will shout joyfully
\q2 when they bring the crops \add to their houses at harvest time\add*.
\c 127
\s1 A psalm written by Solomon for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 If people are building a house without \add knowing whether\add* it is Yahweh's \add will to build it\add*,
\q2 they are building it in vain.
\q1 \add Similarly\add*, if Yahweh does not protect a city,
\q2 it is useless for guards/sentries to stay awake \add to tell people if their enemies come to attack it\add*.
\q1
\v 2 It is \add also\add* useless to arise very early and go to sleep late at night
\q2 in order that you can work hard \add all day\add* to \add earn money to buy\add* food,
\q1 because Yahweh gives food to those whom he loves.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Children are a gift \add that comes to parents\add* from Yahweh;
\q2 they are a reward/blessing from him.
\q1
\v 4 If a man has sons while he is still young,
\q1 \add when they grow up, they will be able to help him defend his family\add*
\q2 like [SIM] a soldier \add can defend himself if\add* he has \add a bow and\add* arrows in his hand.
\q1
\v 5 A man \add who has many sons\add* is \add very\add* happy,
\q2 like [MET] \add a soldier who has many arrows\add* in his quiver is very happy.
\q1 If a man \add with his many grown sons is taken\add* by his enemies to the place where they decide matters, his enemies will never be able to defeat that man,
\q2 \add because his sons will help to defend him\add*.
\c 128
\s1 A psalm written for those going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 ◄Happy are/Yahweh is pleased with► those of you who have an awesome respect for him
\q2 and do what he wants you to do [IDI].
\q1
\v 2 You will \add be able to earn the money\add* that you [MTY] need to buy food;
\q1 you will be happy and you will be prosperous.
\q1
\v 3 Your wife will be like a grapevine that bears many grapes [SIM];
\q2 she will give birth to many children/sons.
\q1 Your children who sit around your table
\q1 will be like a strong olive \add tree that has many\add* shoots \add growing up around it\add* [SIM].
\q1
\v 4 Every man who has an awesome respect for Yahweh
\q2 will be blessed like that.
\b
\q1
\v 5 I wish/hope that Yahweh will bless all of you from \add where he dwells\add* ◄on Zion \add Hill\add*/\add in Jerusalem\add*►
\q1 and that you will see \add the people of\add* Jerusalem prospering every day that you live!
\q2
\v 6 I wish/hope that you will live many years
\q2 with the result that you will \add have\add* grandchildren and be able to see them.
\b
\q1 I wish/desire/hope that things will go well for \add the people in\add* Israel!
\c 129
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 \add I say that\add* my enemies have ◄afflicted/caused trouble for► me ever since I was young.
\q1 \add Now I request you, my fellow\add* Israelis, to repeat those same words:
\q1
\v 2 “Our enemies have afflicted us since our nation began,
\q2 but they have not defeated us!
\q1
\v 3 \add Our enemies struck us with whips\add* that cut into our backs [MET]
\q2 like a \add farmer uses a\add* plow to cuts deep furrows into the ground.”
\q1
\v 4 \add But\add* Yahweh is righteous,
\q2 and he has freed \add me\add* from being a slave [MTY] of wicked \add people\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 5 I wish/hope that all those who hate Jerusalem/Israel will be ashamed because of being defeated.
\q1
\v 6 I hope/wish that they will be \add of no value\add*, like grass that grows on the roofs of houses
\q2 that dries up and does not grow tall;
\q1
\v 7 \add as a result\add* no one \add cuts it and\add* puts it in bundles and carries it away \add to thatch a roof with it\add*.
\q1
\v 8 People who pass by \add and see men harvesting grain usually greet them by saying to them\add*,
\q2 “We wish/hope that Yahweh will bless you!”
\q1 But this will not happen \add to those who hate Israel\add*
\q2 \add because they will not harvest any grain\add*.
\q1 We, acting as Yahweh's representatives, bless you \add Israelis.\add*
\c 130
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I have great troubles/difficulties, so I call out to you.
\q1
\v 2 Yahweh, hear me,
\q2 while I call out to you [SYN] to help me!
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, if you kept a record of the sins \add that we have committed\add*,
\q2 not one \add of us\add* [RHQ] would escape from being condemned \add and punished\add*
\q1
\v 4 But you forgive \add us\add*,
\q2 with the result that \add we\add* greatly revere you.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh has said \add that he would help/rescue me\add*;
\q2 I trust what he said, and I wait eagerly for him to do that.
\q1
\v 6 I wait for Yahweh \add to help me\add*
\q2 more than watchmen wait for the light to dawn;
\q2 yes, I wait more eagerly than they do!
\b
\q1
\v 7 You \add my fellow\add* Israelis, confidently expect that Yahweh \add will bless us\add*.
\q2 \add He will bless us\add* because he faithfully loves \add us\add*,
\q2 and he is very willing to save/rescue \add us\add*.
\q1
\v 8 And he will save us Israeli \add people\add* from \add being punished for\add* all the sins that \add we\add* have committed.
\c 131
\s1 A psalm written by David for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I am not proud
\q2 and I have not thought highly about ◄myself/the things that I have done►.
\q1 And I do not worry about things \add that you have done\add* that are very big or very wonderful.
\q1
\v 2 Instead, I am calm and peaceful in my inner being,
\q2 like a \add small\add* child who lies quietly at its mother's breast [SIM].
\q2 In the same way, I am peaceful within my inner being.
\b
\q1
\v 3 You \add my fellow\add* Israelis, confidently expect that Yahweh \add will do good things for you\add*,
\q2 now and forever!
\c 132
\s1 A song to sing along the road up to Jerusalem
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, do not forget \add King\add* David
\q2 and all the hardships/troubles he endured!
\b
\q1
\v 2 He made a solemn promise to you,
\q2 the mighty God whom \add our ancestor\add* Jacob \add worshiped\add*.
\q1
\v 3 He said, “I will not go home,
\q1 I will not \add rest\add* on my bed,
\q1
\v 4 I will not sleep at all
\q1
\v 5 until I build a place for Yahweh,
\q2 a home for the mighty God whom Jacob \add worshiped\add*.”
\b
\q1
\v 6 In Bethlehem we heard news about the sacred chest.
\q2 We \add went and\add* found it in the fields of Jearim \add city, and we took it to Jerusalem\add*.
\q1
\v 7 \add Later we said\add*, “Let's go to the temple of Yahweh \add in Jerusalem\add*;
\q2 let's worship \add there\add* in front of the throne \add where he is sitting\add*.”
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, come to the place where you live eternally,
\q2 to the place where your sacred chest is,
\q2 to that place that shows that you are very powerful.
\q1
\v 9 I want/desire that the righteous behavior of your priests \add will always be evident\add*,
\q2 \add just like the beautiful\add* robes that they wear [MET],
\q1 and that your people will \add always\add* shout joyfully.
\b
\q1
\v 10 You chose David to serve you \add as king of Israel\add*;
\q2 do not reject/abandon him!
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, you made a solemn promise to David,
\q2 a promise that you will not ◄break/take back►.
\q1 You said, “I will cause your descendants to rule [MTY] as kings like you.
\q2
\v 12 If they obey my agreement with them
\q2 and obey \add all\add* the commands that I will give them,
\q1 the line of kings descended from you will never end.”
\b
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh has chosen Jerusalem;
\q1 he has wanted to make that city his home;
\q1
\v 14 he said, “This is the city where I will live forever [DOU];
\q2 this is the place where I wanted to stay.
\q1
\v 15 I will give to the people of Jerusalem all that they need;
\q2 I will give \add enough\add* food \add even\add* to satisfy the poor people there.
\q1
\v 16 I will cause the priests \add to behave in a manner worthy of\add* ones whom I have saved;
\q2 \add that will be as evident as the beautiful\add* robes that they wear [MET];
\q2 and all my people who live there will shout joyfully.
\b
\q1
\v 17 There \add in Jerusalem\add* I will cause one of David's descendants [MET] to become a great king;
\q2 he also will be my chosen king,
\q1 and he will be \add like a bright\add* lamp [MET] \add that shines continually\add*.
\q1
\v 18 I will \add defeat his\add* enemies and cause them to be very ashamed/disgraced;
\q2 but the crown that my king wears will \add always\add* shine.”
\c 133
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 It is very good and very pleasant
\q2 for God's people to gather together harmoniously.
\q1
\v 2 It is \add as delightful as\add* the precious/expensive ◄\add olive\add* oil/perfume►
\q2 that runs down from \add the Supreme Priest\add* Aaron's head onto his beard \add when he is anointed\add*
\q2 and runs down onto the collar of his robes.
\q1
\v 3 Gathering together harmoniously \add is as delightful as\add* the dew \add that falls on\add* Hermon \add Mountain\add*
\q2 and the dew that falls on the hills near Zion \add Hill\add*.
\q1 Yahweh has promised to bless \add his people there in Jerusalem\add*
\q2 \add by giving them\add* everlasting (OR, a long-lasting) life.
\c 134
\s1 A psalm written for people going up to the temple to worship
\q1
\v 1 All you people who serve Yahweh,
\q2 who stand up and ◄serve/pray to► him at night in his temple,
\q1 come and praise him!
\q1
\v 2 Lift up your hands/arms \add to pray to him\add* in the temple
\q2 and praise him!
\b
\q1
\v 3 And I hope/wish that Yahweh, who created heaven and the earth,
\q2 will bless you from \add where he lives in the temple\add* on Zion \add Hill.\add*
\c 135
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\q1 You who ◄do work for/serve► Yahweh,
\q1 praise him!
\q1
\v 2 You who stand in the temple of Yahweh our God and in the surrounding courtyard,
\q2 praise him [MTY]!
\q1
\v 3 Praise Yahweh, because he does good things \add for us\add*;
\q2 sing to him [MTY], because he acts kindly \add to us\add*.
\q1
\v 4 He has chosen \add us, the descendants of\add* Jacob;
\q2 he has chosen \add us\add* Israelis to belong to him [DOU].
\b
\q1
\v 5 I know that Yahweh is great;
\q2 he is greater than all the gods.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh does whatever he desires to do,
\q2 in heaven and on the earth
\q2 and in the seas/oceans, \add down\add* to the bottom of the seas.
\q1
\v 7 He is the one who causes clouds to appear from very distant places on the earth;
\q2 he sends lightning with the rain,
\q2 and he brings the winds from the places where he stores them.
\b
\q1
\v 8 He is the one who killed \add all\add* the firstborn \add males\add* in Egypt,
\q2 the firstborn of people and of animals.
\q1
\v 9 There he performed many kinds of miracles [DOU]
\q2 to punish the king and all his officials.
\q1
\v 10 He destroyed many nations
\q2 and the powerful kings \add who ruled them:\add*
\q1
\v 11 Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group,
\q2 and Og, the king of Bashan \add region\add*,
\q2 and all the other kings in Canaan \add land\add*.
\q1
\v 12 Then he gave their land to \add us\add* Israeli people
\q2 to belong to us \add forever\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 13 Yahweh your will endure forever,
\q2 and people who are not yet born will remember the great things \add that you have done\add*.
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh, \add you\add* declare that we your people ◄are innocent/have not done things that are wrong►,
\q2 and you act mercifully toward us.
\b
\q1
\v 15 But the idols that the \add other\add* people-groups \add worship\add* are only \add statues made of\add* silver and gold,
\q2 things that humans have made.
\q1
\v 16 Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say \add anything\add*;
\q2 they have eyes, but they cannot see \add anything\add*.
\q1
\v 17 They have ears, but they cannot hear \add anything\add*,
\q2 and they are not \add even able to\add* breathe.
\q1
\v 18 The people who make those idols are as \add powerless as\add* those idols,
\q2 and those who trust in those idols \add can accomplish no more than\add* their idols can!
\b
\q1
\v 19 \add My fellow\add* Israelis, praise Yahweh!
\q1 You \add priests\add* who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
\q1
\v 20 You \add men\add* who are descended from Levi, \add you who assist the priests\add*, praise Yahweh!
\q1 \add All\add* you who have a reverential respect for Yahweh, praise him!
\q1
\v 21 Praise Yahweh in \add the temple on\add* Zion \add Hill\add* in Jerusalem,
\q2 where he lives!
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\c 136
\q1
\v 1 Thank Yahweh, because he does good things \add for us\add*;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 2 Thank God, the one who is greater than all other gods;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 3 Thank the Lord who is greater than all other lords/rulers;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\b
\q1
\v 4 He is the only one who performs great miracles;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 5 He is the one who by being very wise created the heavens;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 6 He is the one who caused the ground to rise up above the deep waters;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 7 He is the one who created great lights \add in the sky\add*;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 8 He created the sun to shine in the daytime;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 9 He created the moon and stars to shine during the nighttime;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\b
\q1
\v 10 He is the one who killed the firstborn \add males\add* in Egypt;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 11 He led the Israeli people out of Egypt;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 12 With his ◄strong hand/great power► he led them out;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\b
\q1
\v 13 He is the one who caused the Red Sea to divide;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 14 He enabled the Israeli people to walk through it \add on dry land\add*;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 15 But he caused the king of Egypt and his army to drown in it;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\b
\q1
\v 16 He is the one who led his people \add safely through the desert\add*;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 17 He killed powerful kings;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 18 He killed kings who were famous;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 19 He killed Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 20 He killed Og, the king of Bashan \add region\add*;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 21 He gave their lands to us, his people;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 22 He gave those lands to us people of Israel, who serve him;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\b
\q1
\v 23 He is the one who did not forget about us when we were defeated \add by our enemies\add*;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 24 He rescued us from our enemies;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\q1
\v 25 He is the one who gives food to all living creatures;
\q2 his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever.
\b
\q1
\v 26 \add So\add* thank God, who \add lives in\add* heaven, \add for all that\add*,
\q2 because his faithful love \add for us\add* endures forever!
\c 137
\q1
\v 1 When we \add had been taken to\add* Babylonia, \add far from Jerusalem\add*,
\q1 we sat down by the rivers there,
\q2 and we cried when we thought about \add the temple on\add* Zion \add Hill in Jerusalem\add*.
\q1
\v 2 On the willow trees \add alongside the rivers\add* we hung our harps
\q2 \add because we did not want to play them anymore because we were very sad\add*.
\q1
\v 3 The \add soldiers\add* who had captured us \add and taken us to Babylonia\add* told us to sing \add for them\add*;
\q2 they told us to ◄entertain them/make them happy►, saying,
\q2 “Sing for us one of the songs \add that you previously sang in\add* Jerusalem!”
\q1
\v 4 But \add we thought to ourselves\add*,
\q2 “We \add are sad because we have been punished by Yahweh and brought to this\add* foreign land,
\q2 so we cannot [RHQ] sing songs about Yahweh while we are here!”
\b
\q1
\v 5 If I forget about Jerusalem [APO], I hope/wish that my right hand will wither
\q2 \add with the result that I will be unable to play my harp\add*
\q1
\v 6 I hope that I will not be able to sing again [MTY],
\q1 if I forget about Jerusalem,
\q2 if I do not consider that Jerusalem causes me to be more joyful than anything else does.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, \add punish\add* the people of the Edom people-group
\q2 for what they did on the day that the army of Babylon captured Jerusalem.
\q1 Do not forget that they said,
\q2 “Tear down all the buildings! Destroy them completely! Leave only the foundations!”
\b
\q1
\v 8 And you people of Babylon, you will certainly be destroyed!
\q2 Those who punish you in return for what you did to us will be happy;
\q1
\v 9 they will take your babies
\q2 and completely smash them on the rocks.
\c 138
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I thank you with all my inner being.
\q1 I sing to praise you in front of \add the idols of false\add* gods \add to ridicule/belittle them\add*.
\q1
\v 2 I bow down while I look towards your sacred temple,
\q2 and I thank you [MTY] because you faithfully love \add us\add* and faithfully do all that you have promised.
\q2 You have shown that you [MTY] and what you have promised to do are greater than anything else.
\q1
\v 3 On the day when I called out to you, you answered me;
\q2 you enabled me to be strong and brave.
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, \add some day\add* all the kings of this earth will praise you,
\q2 because they will have heard what you have said.
\q1
\v 5 They will sing about what you have done,
\q2 and they will sing and say that you are very great.
\b
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh, you are supreme,
\q2 but you take care of people \add who are considered to be\add* unimportant.
\q1 And you know what proud people \add are doing\add*
\q2 even though they are far away \add from you and think that you do not see them\add*.
\q1
\v 7 When I am in the midst of \add many\add* troubles/difficulties,
\q2 you save/rescue me.
\q1 With your hand/power [MTY] you rescue me from my enemies who are angry at me.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, you will do for me everything that you promised;
\q2 you faithfully love \add us\add* forever.
\q2 Finish what you started to do \add for us, your Israeli people.\add*
\c 139
\s1 A psalm written by David for the choir director
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, you have examined what is in my \add inner being\add*,
\q2 and you know \add everything about\add* me.
\q1
\v 2 You know when I sit down and when I stand up.
\q1 \add Even though you are\add* far away from me,
\q2 you know what I am thinking.
\q1
\v 3 \add From the time that I rise in the morning\add* until I lie down \add to sleep at night\add*,
\q2 you know everything that I do.
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, even before I say [MTY] anything,
\q2 you know everything that I am going to say!
\b
\q1
\v 5 You protect me on all sides;
\q2 you put your hand on me \add to protect me with your power\add* [MTY].
\q1
\v 6 I am not able to understand that you know \add everything about me\add*.
\q2 That is too great for me to really understand.
\b
\q1
\v 7 ◄Where could I go to escape from your Spirit?/I could not go anywhere to escape from your Spirit.► [RHQ]
\q1 ◄Where could I go to get away from you?/I could not go anywhere to get away from you.► [RHQ]
\q1
\v 8 If I went up to heaven, you would be there.
\q1 If I lay down in the place where the dead people are, you would be there.
\q1
\v 9 If I had wings and flew very far east [MTY],
\q1 or if I flew west and made a place to live \add on an island\add* in the ocean,
\q1
\v 10 you would be there also, to lead me by your hand,
\q2 and you would help me.
\b
\q1
\v 11 I could request the darkness to hide me,
\q1 or I could request the light around me to become darkness,
\q1
\v 12 but even \add if that happened\add*, the darkness would not be darkness for you!
\q1 For you, the night is \add as bright\add* as the daytime is,
\q2 because for you, daylight and darkness are ◄not different/the same►.
\b
\q1
\v 13 You created \add all\add* the parts of my body;
\q2 you put \add the parts of\add* my body together when I was still in my mother's womb.
\q1
\v 14 I praise you because you made my \add body very\add* awesomely and wonderfully.
\q1 Everything that you do is amazing!
\q2 I know that very well.
\q1
\v 15 When my body was being formed,
\q1 while it was being put together where no one else could see it,
\q2 you saw it!
\q1
\v 16 You saw me before I was born.
\q1 You wrote in your book the number of days that you had decided that I would live.
\q2 You did that before any of those days had \add even\add* started!
\b
\q1
\v 17 God, what you think about me is very precious (OR, is very hard to understand).
\q2 There is a huge amount of the things that you think about.
\q1
\v 18 If I could count them, \add I would see that\add* they are more than the grains of sand \add at the seashore\add*.
\q1 And when I awake, I am still with you
\q2 \add and I know that there are still more of your thoughts about me to count\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 19 God, I wish/desire that you would kill the wicked people!
\q2 And I wish that violent [MTY] men would ◄leave/go away from► me.
\q1
\v 20 They say wicked/malicious things about you;
\q2 they slander your name.
\q1
\v 21 Yahweh, I certainly [RHQ] hate those who hate you!
\q2 And I despise [RHQ] those who rebel against you.
\q1
\v 22 I hate them ◄completely/with all my inner being►,
\q2 and I consider that they are my enemies.
\b
\q1
\v 23 God, search my inner being;
\q2 find out what I am thinking!
\q1
\v 24 Find out whether there is anything evil in my \add inner being\add*,
\q2 and lead me along the road \add that leads to my being with you\add* forever.
\c 140
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, rescue/save me from \add being attacked by\add* evil men;
\q2 and \add even more\add*, ◄keep me safe/protect me► from being attacked by violent people.
\q1
\v 2 They are always planning to do evil things
\q2 and they are always inciting/urging people to start quarrels.
\q1
\v 3 By what they say [MTY] \add they injure people like\add* poisonous snakes do;
\q2 the words that they speak [MTY] \add can kill people as easily as\add* cobras/vipers do.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh, protect me from the power [MTY] of wicked \add people\add*.
\q2 Keep me safe from violent men who plan to ruin/defeat me [SYN].
\q1
\v 5 \add It is as though\add* proud people have set a trap for me;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* they have spread their nets to catch me;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* they have put those things along the road to catch/seize me.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 6 I say to you, “Yahweh, you are my God;”
\q2 \add so\add* listen to me while I cry out to you to help me.
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, my Lord, you are the one who defends me strongly;
\q2 you have \add protected me\add* during battles [MET] \add as though you had put a helmet on\add* my head.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, do not give to wicked \add people\add* the things that they desire,
\q2 and do not allow them to do the \add evil things that\add* they plan to do.
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 9 \add Do not allow\add* my enemies to ◄become proud/defeat me►;
\q2 cause the evil things that they say [MTY] they will do to me to happen to them, \add instead\add*.
\q1
\v 10 Cause burning coals to fall on their \add heads\add*
\q2 Cause them to be thrown into deep pits, from which they cannot climb out!
\q1
\v 11 Do not allow those who slander others to succeed;
\q2 cause evil things to happen to violent men and destroy them!
\b
\q1
\v 12 Yahweh, I know that you defend those who are oppressed,
\q2 and that you do what is just/fair for those who are needy/poor.
\q1
\v 13 Righteous \add people\add* will surely thank you [MTY],
\q2 and they will live ◄in your presence/with you►.
\c 141
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I call out to you;
\q2 \add please\add* help me quickly!
\q1 Listen to me when I am calling to you.
\q1
\v 2 Accept my prayer as though it were incense \add being burned as an offering\add* [SIM] to you.
\q2 And accept me while I lift up my hands \add to pray\add* to you
\q2 like you accept sacrifices \add that are offered to you in the\add* evening [SIM].
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, do not allow me to say [MTY] things that are wrong
\q2 as a sentry/guard \add does not allow people who want to do things that are wrong\add* [MET] to enter a door \add of a building\add*.
\q1
\v 4 Prevent me from wanting to do anything that is wrong,
\q2 and from joining with wicked men when they want to do evil deeds [DOU].
\q1 Do not \add even\add* allow me to share in eating delightful food with them!
\b
\q1
\v 5 It is all right if righteous people strike/hit me or rebuke me
\q2 because they are trying to act kindly toward me \add to teach me to do what is right\add*,
\q1 but I do not want wicked \add people\add* to \add honor me by\add* anointing my head with \add olive\add* oil;
\q2 I am always praying \add that you will punish them because of\add* the wicked deeds \add that they do\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 6 When their rulers are thrown down from the top of rocky cliffs,
\q2 people will know that what you, Yahweh, said \add about them\add* is true.
\q1
\v 7 Like a log that is split and cut into small pieces [SIM],
\q2 their shattered bones will be scattered \add on the ground\add* near \add other\add* graves.
\b
\q1
\v 8 But Yahweh God, I \add continue to\add* request that you \add help me\add*.
\q2 I request you to protect me;
\q2 do not allow me to ◄die/be killed► \add now\add*
\q1
\v 9 \add It is as though\add* people have set traps for me;
\q2 protect me from falling into those traps,
\q2 \add It is as though\add* they have spread nets to catch me;
\q2 keep me from being caught in those nets.
\q1
\v 10 I wish/hope that wicked \add people\add* will fall into the traps they have set \add to catch me\add*
\q2 while I escape \add from them\add*.
\c 142
\s1 A psalm that David prayed when he was hiding in a cave
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, I cry out to you;
\q2 I plead \add that you will help me\add*.
\q1
\v 2 I am bringing to you \add all\add* my problems;
\q2 I am telling you \add all\add* my troubles/difficulties.
\q1
\v 3 When I am very discouraged,
\q2 you know what I should do.
\b
\q1 Wherever I walk, \add it is as though\add* my enemies have hidden traps for me \add to fall into\add*.
\q1
\v 4 I look around,
\q2 but there is no one who sees me,
\q2 no one who will protect me,
\q2 no one who cares about \add what happens to\add* me.
\b
\q1
\v 5 \add So\add* Yahweh, I cry out to you \add to help me\add*;
\q2 you are the one who protects me;
\q1 and you are all that I need while I am alive.
\q1
\v 6 Listen to me while I cry out to you \add for help\add*
\q2 because I am very distressed.
\q1 Rescue/Save me from those who are pursuing me,
\q2 because they are very strong,
\q2 with the result that I cannot \add escape from them\add*.
\q1
\v 7 Free/Rescue me from my troubles/difficulties [MET]
\q2 in order that I may thank you.
\b
\q1 If you do that, when I am with godly/righteous \add people\add*,
\q2 \add I will praise you\add* for having been very good to me.
\c 143
\s1 A psalm written by David
\q1
\v 1 Yahweh, hear me while I pray to you!
\q2 Because you are righteous
\q2 and because you faithfully do what you have promised,
\q2 listen to what I am pleading that you \add do for me\add*.
\q1
\v 2 I am one who serves you;
\q1 do not judge me,
\q2 because you do not consider anyone to ◄be completely innocent/never have done anything that is wrong►.
\b
\q1
\v 3 \add My\add* enemies have pursued me;
\q2 they have completely defeated me.
\q1 \add It is as though\add* they have put me in a dark \add prison\add*,
\q1 where I \add have nothing good to\add* ◄\add hope for/expect\add*►, like those who died long ago [SIM].
\q1
\v 4 So I am very discouraged in my inner being;
\q2 I am very dismayed/worried.
\b
\q1
\v 5 I remember what has happened previously:
\q2 I ◄meditate on/think about► all the things that you have done;
\q1 I consider \add all\add* the \add great\add* deeds that you [SYN] have performed.
\q1
\v 6 I lift up my hands/arms to you while I pray;
\q2 I [SYN] need you, like very dry ground \add needs rain\add* [SIM].
\qr (Think about that!)
\b
\q1
\v 7 Yahweh, I am very discouraged,
\q2 \add so\add* please answer me right now!
\q1 Do not hide from me,
\q2 because if you do that, I will \add soon\add* be [SIM] among those who descend to where the dead people are.
\q1
\v 8 \add Every\add* morning cause me to remember that you faithfully love \add me\add*,
\q2 because I trust in you.
\q1 I ◄pray/send my prayers up [IDI]► to you;
\q2 show me the things that I should do.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, I have gone/run to you to be protected,
\q2 \add so\add* rescue me from my enemies.
\q1
\v 10 You are my God;
\q2 teach me to do what you want me to do.
\q1 I want your good Spirit to lead me on a path that is not difficult to walk on.
\b
\q1
\v 11 Yahweh, restore me when I am close to dying, as you promised to do.
\q2 Because you are righteous/good, rescue me from my troubles/difficulties!
\q1
\v 12 I am one who serves you;
\q1 so because you faithfully love \add me\add*,
\q2 kill my enemies
\q2 and get rid of all those who ◄oppress/cause trouble for► me.
\c 144
\s1 Written by David
\q1
\v 1 I praise Yahweh, who is \add like a huge\add* rock \add under which I\add* ◄\add get refuge/am protected\add*►!
\q1 He trains my hands so that I can use them to fight battles;
\q2 he trains my fingers so that I can \add shoot arrows in a war\add*.
\q1
\v 2 He is the one who protects me;
\q2 he is \add like\add* a fortress [DOU] in which I am safe,
\q2 he protects me \add like \add*shields \add protect soldiers\add* [MET],
\q2 and he gives me refuge.
\q1 He defeats \add other\add* nations and \add then\add* puts them under my power.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh, \add we\add* people are \add very insignificant/unimportant\add*, so why ◄are you concerned/do you care about us► [RHQ]?
\q1 \add It is amazing to me that\add* you pay attention to humans.
\q1
\v 4 \add The time that we live is as short\add* as [SIM] a puff of wind;
\q2 our time to live disappears like a shadow does.
\b
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh, ◄tear open/open up► the sky and come down!
\q2 Touch the mountains in order that smoke will pour out from them!
\q1
\v 6 Cause lightning to flash with the result that \add your enemies\add* will run away!
\q2 Shoot your arrows \add at them\add* and cause them to ◄run away/scatter►.
\q1
\v 7 \add It is as though my enemies are like\add* a flood around me;
\q2 reach your hand down from heaven
\q1 and rescue me from them [SYN].
\q1 They are men from other countries
\q1
\v 8 who [SYN] \add always\add* tell lies.
\q1 \add Even in a courtroom where\add*
\q2 they tell lies.
\b
\q1
\v 9 God, I will sing a new song to you,
\q2 and I will play my ten-stringed harp \add while I sing\add* to you.
\q1
\v 10 You enable kings to defeat \add their enemies\add*;
\q2 you rescue/save \add those who\add* serve you \add like\add* I \add did\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 11 \add So I ask you to\add* save me from \add being killed by\add* the swords \add that those\add* evil \add people carry\add*.
\q1 Rescue me from the power [MTY] of those foreigners
\q2 who [SYN] \add always\add* tell lies,
\q2 and \add who raise\add* their right hands \add in courtrooms when they solemnly declare that they will tell the truth\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 12 I wish/hope that our young sons will grow up to be like strong plants [SIM],
\q1 and I wish/hope that our daughters will \add grow up to\add* be \add straight and tall\add*
\q2 like the pillars [SIM] that stand in the corners of palaces.
\q1
\v 13 I wish/hope that our barns will be full of many different crops.
\q1 I wish/hope that the sheep in our fields will give birth to tens of thousands of baby lambs.
\q1
\v 14 I wish/hope that our cows will give birth to many calves
\q2 without having any miscarriages or deaths when they are born (OR, that no enemies will break through our city walls and take us ◄into exile/to their own countries►).
\q1 I wish/hope that \add there will not be a time when the people in\add* our streets cry out in distress
\q2 \add because foreign armies are invading\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 15 If good things like that happen to a nation,
\q2 the people will be very happy.
\q1 The people whose God is Yahweh are the ones who will be happy!
\c 145
\s1 A psalm written by David to praise God
\q1
\v 1 My God and King, I will proclaim that you are very great/glorious;
\q1 I will praise you [MTY] now and forever.
\q1
\v 2 Every day I will praise you;
\q2 \add Yes\add*, I will praise you [MTY] forever.
\b
\q1
\v 3 Yahweh you are great, and ◄you ought to be praised/people should praise you► very much;
\q2 \add we\add* cannot fully realize how great you are.
\q1
\v 4 Parents should tell their children the things that you have done;
\q2 they should tell their children about your mighty deeds.
\q1
\v 5 They should tell them that you are very glorious and majestic [DOU],
\q1 and I will ◄meditate on/think about► \add all\add* your wonderful deeds.
\q1
\v 6 People will speak about your powerful and awesome deeds,
\q2 and I will proclaim that you are \add very\add* great.
\q1
\v 7 People will remember and proclaim that you are very good \add to us\add*,
\q2 and they will sing joyfully that you \add always act\add* justly/fairly.
\b
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh, you \add act\add* kindly and mercifully \add toward us\add*;
\q2 you do not quickly become angry;
\q2 you faithfully love \add us\add* very much.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh, you are good to everyone,
\q2 and you act mercifully to everything that you have made.
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh, \add all\add* the creatures that you \add made\add* will thank you,
\q2 and all your people will praise you.
\q1
\v 11 They will tell \add others\add* that about you rule \add very\add* gloriously as \add our\add* king
\q2 and that you are \add very\add* powerful.
\q1
\v 12 \add They will do that\add* in order that everyone will know about your powerful deeds
\q2 and that you rule \add over us\add* gloriously.
\q1
\v 13 You will never stop being king;
\q2 you \add will\add* rule ◄throughout all generations/forever►.
\q1 Yahweh, you faithfully do all that you have promised to do,
\q2 and all that you do, you do mercifully.
\b
\q1
\v 14 Yahweh, you help all those who are discouraged
\q2 and you lift up all those who ◄stumble and fall down/are distressed►.
\q1
\v 15 All of the creatures that you made expect that you \add will provide food for them\add*,
\q2 and you give them food when they need it.
\q1
\v 16 You give food to all living creatures generously [IDI],
\q2 and you cause them to ◄be satisfied/have all the food that they need►.
\b
\q1
\v 17 Everything that Yahweh does, he does justly/fairly,
\q2 and all that he does, he does mercifully.
\q1
\v 18 Yahweh ◄comes near to/is ready to help► all those who call out to him,
\q2 to those who call to him sincerely.
\q1
\v 19 To all those who have an awesome respect for him, he gives them what they need.
\q2 He hears them when they cry out to him and saves/rescues them.
\q1
\v 20 Yahweh protects all those who love him,
\q2 but he will get rid of all the wicked \add people\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 21 I [SYN] will always praise Yahweh;
\q2 \add He is\add* holy; and I wish/hope that all humans will praise him [MTY] forever.
\c 146
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 With my whole inner being I will praise Yahweh.
\q1
\v 2 I will praise Yahweh as long as I am alive;
\q2 I will sing to praise my God all \add the rest of\add* my life.
\b
\q1
\v 3 \add You people\add*, do not trust in your leaders;
\q2 do not trust humans because they cannot save/rescue you \add from your difficulties/problems\add*.
\q1
\v 4 And when they die, their corpses \add decay and\add* become soil again.
\q2 After they die, they can no longer do the things that they planned to do.
\b
\q1
\v 5 But those whose helper is the God whom Jacob \add worshiped\add* are happy.
\q2 The one whom they confidently expect \add to help them\add* is Yahweh, their God.
\q1
\v 6 He is the one who created heaven and the earth
\q2 and the oceans and all \add the creatures\add* that are in them.
\q1 He always does what he has promised to do.
\q1
\v 7 He decides matters fairly for those who are ◄treated unfairly/oppressed►,
\q2 and he provides food for those who are hungry.
\q1 He frees those who ◄are in prison/have great troubles►.
\q1
\v 8 Yahweh ◄enables those who are blind to see again/helps those who are helpless►.
\q1 He lifts up those who have fallen down.
\q2 He loves righteous \add people\add*.
\q1
\v 9 Yahweh takes care of those from other countries who live in our land,
\q2 and he helps widows and orphans.
\q2 But he ◄blocks the roads/gets rid► of wicked \add people\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 10 Yahweh will \add continue to\add* be our king forever;
\q2 you people of Israel, your God will rule forever!
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\c 147
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 It is good to sing to praise our God.
\q2 It is a delightful thing to do and the right thing to do.
\b
\q1
\v 2 \add Jerusalem was destroyed, but\add* Yahweh is \add enabling us to\add* build Jerusalem again.
\q2 He is bringing back the people who were taken \add to Babylonia\add*.
\q1
\v 3 He enables those who were very discouraged to be encouraged again;
\q2 \add it is as though\add* they have wounds and he bandages them.
\b
\q1
\v 4 He has determined how many stars there will be,
\q2 and gives names to all of them.
\q1
\v 5 Yahweh is great and very powerful,
\q2 and no one can measure how much he understands.
\q1
\v 6 Yahweh lifts up those who have been oppressed,
\q2 and he throws the wicked down to the ground.
\b
\q1
\v 7 Thank Yahweh while you are singing to him to praise him;
\q2 on the harps, play music to our God.
\q1
\v 8 He covers the sky with clouds,
\q2 \add and then\add* he sends rain to the earth
\q2 and causes grass to grow on the hills.
\q1
\v 9 He gives to animals the food that they \add need\add*,
\q2 and gives food to young crows/birds when they cry out \add because they are hungry\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 10 He is not pleased with strong horses
\q2 or with men who can run [MTY] fast.
\q1
\v 11 Instead, what pleases him are those who have an awesome respect for him,
\q2 those who confidently expect him to continue to faithfully love them.
\b
\q1
\v 12 \add You people of\add* [APO] Jerusalem, praise Yahweh!
\q2 Praise your God!
\q1
\v 13 He \add guards your city\add* by keeping its gates strong.
\q1 He blesses the people who live there.
\q1
\v 14 He protects the borders \add of your country, so that enemies from other countries cannot attack you\add*.
\q2 He gives you plenty of very good wheat/grain to eat.
\b
\q1
\v 15 He ◄sends his commands down/commands what he wants to be done► on the earth,
\q2 and his words quickly reach the place to which he sends them.
\q1
\v 16 He sends snow which \add covers the ground\add* like a white wool blanket [SIM],
\q2 and he scatters frost \add on the ground\add* like \add wind scatters\add* ashes [SIM].
\q1
\v 17 He sends hail down like ◄pebbles/tiny stones►;
\q2 \add when that happens\add*, ◄it is very difficult to endure because the air becomes very cold./who can endure because the air becomes very cold?► [RHQ]
\q1
\v 18 \add But\add* he commands the wind to blow and it blows.
\q2 \add Then the hail\add* melts and \add the water\add* flows \add into the streams\add*.
\b
\q1
\v 19 He sends his message to \add the descendants of\add* Jacob;
\q2 \add he tells to his\add* Israeli people the things that he has decreed and what he has decided.
\q1
\v 20 He has not done that for any other nation;
\q2 the other nations do not know his laws.
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\c 148
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 Praise him, you who are in heaven;
\q2 praise him from way up in the sky!
\q1
\v 2 All you angels who belong to him, praise him!
\q2 All you who are in the armies of heaven, praise him!
\q1
\v 3 Sun and moon, \add you also\add* praise him!
\q2 You shining stars, you praise him!
\q1
\v 4 You highest heavens, praise him!
\q2 And you waters that are high above the sky, praise him!
\q1
\v 5 I want \add all of\add* these to praise Yahweh [MTY]
\q2 because by commanding \add that they exist\add*, he created them.
\q1
\v 6 He determined the places where they should be \add in the sky\add*,
\q2 and he commanded that they should be there forever.
\q2 They cannot disobey that command!
\b
\q1
\v 7 And everything on the earth, praise Yahweh!
\q2 You \add huge\add* creatures/dragons and \add everything else that is\add* deep \add in the ocean\add*,
\q1
\v 8 and fire and hail, and snow and frost,
\q2 and strong winds that obey what he commands,
\q1 \add I tell\add* all of you to praise Yahweh!
\q1
\v 9 Hills and mountains,
\q2 fruit trees and cedar \add trees\add*,
\q1
\v 10 all the wild animals and all \add you\add* cattle,
\q2 and the ◄reptiles/creatures that crawl on the ground►,
\q2 and \add all\add* the birds, \add I tell all of them to praise Yahweh\add*
\q1
\v 11 You kings on this earth and all the people \add that you rule\add*,
\q2 you princes and all \add other\add* rulers,
\q1
\v 12 you young men and young women,
\q2 you old people and children, \add everyone, praise Yahweh!\add*
\b
\q1
\v 13 I want them \add all\add* to praise Yahweh [MTY]
\q2 because he is greater than anyone else.
\q2 His power/glory is greater than \add the power/glory of anything on\add* the earth or \add in\add* heaven.
\q1
\v 14 He caused us, his people, to be strong
\q2 in order that we, his people,
\q2 we Israeli people ◄who are very precious to him/whom he loves very much►,
\q2 would praise him.
\b
\q1 So praise Yahweh!
\c 149
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 Sing a new song to Yahweh,
\q2 praise him whenever \add his\add* faithful \add people\add* gather together!
\b
\q1
\v 2 \add You\add* Israeli people, be glad because of \add what God\add*, who created you, \add has done for you\add*
\q2 You people of Jerusalem, rejoice because of \add what God\add* your king \add has done for you\add*
\q1
\v 3 Praise Yahweh by dancing, by beating/playing tambourines
\q2 and by playing harps to praise him!
\q1
\v 4 Yahweh is pleased with his people;
\q2 he honors humble \add people\add* by helping them to defeat \add their enemies\add*.
\q1
\v 5 God's people should rejoice because they have won battles
\q2 and sing joyfully all during the night!
\b
\q1
\v 6 They [MTY] should shout loudly to praise God;
\q2 but \add they should also hold\add* sharp swords in their hands,
\q1
\v 7 \add ready to use them\add* to defeat the \add soldiers of\add* nations \add that do not worship God\add*,
\q1 and to punish the people \add of those nations\add*,
\q1
\v 8 and to fasten their kings and other leaders with iron chains,
\q1
\v 9 to judge \add and punish\add* the people of those nations, like \add God\add* wrote/declared \add should be done\add*.
\q2 It is ◄a privilege/an honor► for God's faithful people to do that!
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!
\c 150
\q1
\v 1 Praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 Praise God in his sacred temple!
\q2 And praise him in his fortress in heaven!
\q1
\v 2 Praise him for the mighty deeds that he has performed;
\q2 praise him for his being extremely great!
\q1
\v 3 Praise him by \add blowing\add* trumpets loudly;
\q2 praise him by \add playing\add* harps and ◄small lyres/other instruments that have many strings►!
\q1
\v 4 Praise him by \add beating\add* drums and by dancing.
\q2 Praise him by \add playing\add* stringed instruments and by \add playing\add* flutes!
\q1
\v 5 Praise him by \add clashing\add* cymbals;
\q2 praise him by clashing \add very\add* loud cymbals!
\b
\q1
\v 6 I want all living creatures to praise Yahweh!
\b
\q1 Praise Yahweh!