To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed.
To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm. Shout for joy to God, all the earth;
You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs;
you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song. God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered; and those who hate him shall flee before him!
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him!
God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.
The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host:
though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.
You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there.
Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death.
I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons.
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Let their own table before them become a snare; and when they are at peace, let it become a trap.
May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.
I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
I have been as a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees.
Remember this, O Lord, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. In Judah God is known; his name is great in Israel.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt.
To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me.
I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:
You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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