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¹Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!

²Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.

³Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

⁴For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob.

⁵He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known:

⁶“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.

⁷In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

⁸Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

⁹There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.

¹⁰I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.

¹²So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.

¹³Oh, that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes.

¹⁵Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.

¹⁶But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

¹God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:

²“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

³Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

⁴Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

⁵They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

⁶I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;

⁷nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.”

⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations!

¹O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

²For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads.

³They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.

⁴They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

⁵For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant —

⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁸Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah

⁹Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

¹⁰who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.”

¹³O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

¹⁴As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

¹⁵so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.

¹⁷Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,

¹⁸that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.

¹How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!

²My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.

³Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.

⁴Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise! Selah

⁵Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁶As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.

⁷They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.

⁸O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

⁹Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!

¹⁰For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

¹²O LORD of hosts, blessed is the one who trusts in you!

¹LORD, you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.

²You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah

³You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your hot anger.

⁴Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us!

⁵Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations?

⁶Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

⁷Show us your steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us your salvation.

⁸Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

⁹Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

¹⁰Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

¹¹Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness looks down from the sky.

¹²Yes, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.

¹³Righteousness will go before him and make his footsteps a way.

¹Incline your ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

²Preserve my life, for I am godly; save your servant, who trusts in you — you are my God.

³Be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day.

⁴Gladden the soul of your servant, for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

⁵For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

⁶Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace.

⁷In the day of my trouble I call upon you, for you answer me.

⁸There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like yours.

⁹All the nations you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord, and shall glorify your name.

¹⁰For you are great and do wondrous things; you alone are God.

¹¹Teach me your way, O LORD, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

¹²I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.

¹³For great is your steadfast love toward me; you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

¹⁴O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, and they do not set you before them.

¹⁵But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

¹⁶Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant.

¹⁷Show me a sign of your favor, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame because you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

¹On the holy mount stands the city he founded;

²the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

³Glorious things of you are spoken, O city of God. Selah

⁴Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush — “This one was born there,” they say.

⁵And of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; for the Most High himself will establish her.

⁶The LORD records as he registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah

⁷Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”

¹O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you.

²Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry!

³For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

⁴I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength,

⁵like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.

⁶You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep.

⁷Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah

⁸You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

⁹my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you.

¹⁰Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah

¹¹Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?

¹²Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

¹⁴O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me?

¹⁵Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.

¹⁶Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me.

¹⁷They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together.

¹⁸You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.