Psalms 82

1 A psalm of Asaph. I God rises in the divine council, gives judgment in the midst of the gods.
2 How long will you judge unjustly and favor the cause of the wicked? Selah
3 Defend the lowly and fatherless; render justice to the afflicted and needy.
4 Rescue the lowly and poor; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.
5 II The gods neither know nor understand, wandering about in darkness, and all the world's foundations shake.
6 I declare: Gods though you be, offspring of the Most High all of you,
7 Yet like any mortal you shall die; like any prince you shall fall.
8 Arise, O God, judge the earth, for yours are all the nations.

Psalms 83

1 A song; a psalm of Asaph. I God, do not be silent; God, be not still and unmoved!
2 See how your enemies rage; your foes proudly raise their heads.
3 They conspire against your people, plot against those you protect.
4 They say, Come, let us wipe out their nation; let Israel's name be mentioned no more!
5 They scheme with one mind, in league against you:
6 The tents of Ishmael and Edom, the people of Moab and Hagar,
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Assyria, too, in league with them gives aid to the descendants of Lot. Selah
9 II Deal with them as with Midian; as with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent Kishon,
10 Those destroyed at Endor, who became dung for the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who made a plan together, Let us seize the pastures of God.
13 My God, turn them into withered grass, into chaff flying before the wind.
14 As a fire raging through a forest, a flame setting mountains ablaze,
15 Pursue them with your tempest; terrify them with your storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame, till they pay you homage, LORD.
17 Let them be dismayed and shamed forever; let them perish in disgrace.
18 Show them you alone are the LORD, the Most High over all the earth.

Psalms 84

1 For the leader; upon the gittith. A psalm of the Korahites. I How lovely your dwelling, O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the LORD. My heart and flesh cry out for the living God.
3 As the sparrow finds a home and the swallow a nest to settle her young, My home is by your altars, LORD of hosts, my king and my God!
4 Happy are those who dwell in your house! They never cease to praise you. Selah
5 II Happy are those who find refuge in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrim roads.
6 As they pass through the Baca valley, they find spring water to drink. Also from pools the Lord provides water for those who lose their way.
7 They pass through outer and inner wall and see the God of gods on Zion.
8 III LORD of hosts, hear my prayer; listen, God of Jacob. Selah
9 O God, look kindly on our shield; look upon the face of your anointed.
10 IV Better one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Better the threshold of the house of my God than a home in the tents of the wicked.
11 For a sun and shield is the LORD God, bestowing all grace and glory. The LORD withholds no good thing from those who walk without reproach.
12 O LORD of hosts, happy are those who trust in you!

Psalms 85

1 For the leader. A psalm of the Korahites. I You once favored, LORD, your land, restored the good fortune of Jacob.
2 You forgave the guilt of your people, pardoned all their sins. Selah
3 You withdrew all your wrath, turned back your burning anger.
4 II Restore us once more, God our savior; abandon your wrath against us.
5 Will you be angry with us forever, drag out your anger for all generations?
6 Please give us life again, that your people may rejoice in you.
7 Show us, LORD, your love; grant us your salvation.
8 III I will listen for the word of God; surely the LORD will proclaim peace To his people, to the faithful, to those who trust in him.
9 Near indeed is salvation for the loyal; prosperity will fill our land.
10 Love and truth will meet; justice and peace will kiss.
11 Truth will spring from the earth; justice will look down from heaven.
12 The LORD will surely grant abundance; our land will yield its increase.
13 Prosperity will march before the Lord, and good fortune will follow behind.

Psalms 86

1 A prayer of David. I Hear me, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and oppressed.
2 Preserve my life, for I am loyal; save your servant who trusts in you.
3 You are my God; pity me, Lord; to you I call all the day.
4 Gladden the soul of your servant; to you, Lord, I lift up my soul.
5 Lord, you are kind and forgiving, most loving to all who call on you.
6 LORD, hear my prayer; listen to my cry for help.
7 In this time of trouble I call, for you will answer me.
8 II None among the gods can equal you, O Lord; nor can their deeds compare to yours.
9 All the nations you have made shall come to bow before you, Lord, and give honor to your name.
10 For you are great and do wondrous deeds; and you alone are God.
11 III Teach me, LORD, your way that I may walk in your truth, single-hearted and revering your name.
12 I will praise you with all my heart, glorify your name forever, Lord my God.
13 Your love for me is great; you have rescued me from the depths of Sheol.
14 O God, the arrogant have risen against me; a ruthless band has sought my life; to you they pay no heed.
15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, most loving and true.
16 Turn to me, have pity on me; give your strength to your servant; save this child of your handmaid.
17 Give me a sign of your favor: make my enemies see, to their confusion, that you, LORD, help and comfort me.

Psalms 87

1 A psalm of the Korahites. A song. I The LORD loves the city founded on holy mountains,
2 Loves the gates of Zion more than any dwelling in Jacob.
3 Glorious things are said of you, O city of God! Selah
4 II From Babylon and Egypt I count those who acknowledge the LORD. Philistia, Ethiopia, Tyre, of them it can be said: This one was born there.
5 But of Zion it must be said: They all were born here. The Most High confirms this;
6 the Lord notes in the register of the peoples: This one was born here. Selah
7 So all sing in their festive dance: Within you is my true home.

Psalms 88

1 A song; a psalm of the Korahites. For the leader; according to Mahalath. For singing; a maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. I LORD, my God, I call out by day; at night I cry aloud in your presence.
2 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.
3 For my soul is filled with troubles; my life draws near to Sheol.
4 I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit; I am weak, without strength.
5 My couch is among the dead, with the slain who lie in the grave. You remember them no more; they are cut off from your care.
6 You plunged me into the bottom of the pit, into the darkness of the abyss.
7 Your wrath lies heavy upon me; all your waves crash over me. Selah
8 Because of you my friends shun me; you make me loathsome to them; Caged in, I cannot escape;
9 my eyes grow dim from trouble. II All day I call on you, LORD; I stretch out my hands to you.
10 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the shades arise and praise you? Selah
11 Is your love proclaimed in the grave, your fidelity in the tomb?
12 Are your marvels declared in the darkness, your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion?
13 III But I cry out to you, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you.
14 Why do you reject me, LORD? Why hide your face from me?
15 I am mortally afflicted since youth; lifeless, I suffer your terrible blows.
16 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have reduced me to silence.
17 All the day they surge round like a flood; from every side they close in on me.
18 Because of you companions shun me; my only friend is darkness.

Psalms 89

1 A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I The promises of the LORD I will sing forever, proclaim your loyalty through all ages.
2 For you said, My love is established forever; my loyalty will stand as long as the heavens.
3 I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:
4 I will make your dynasty stand forever and establish your throne through all ages. Selah
5 II The heavens praise your marvels, LORD, your loyalty in the assembly of the holy ones.
6 Who in the skies ranks with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the gods?
7 A God dreaded in the council of the holy ones, greater and more awesome than all who sit there!
8 LORD, God of hosts, who is like you? Mighty LORD, your loyalty is always present.
9 You rule the raging sea; you still its swelling waves.
10 You crushed Rahab with a mortal blow; your strong arm scattered your foes.
11 Yours are the heavens, yours the earth; you founded the world and everything in it.
12 Zaphon and Amanus you created; Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
13 Mighty your arm, strong your hand, your right hand is ever exalted.
14 Justice and judgment are the foundation of your throne; love and loyalty march before you.
15 Happy the people who know you, LORD, who walk in the radiance of your face.
16 In your name they sing joyfully all the day; at your victory they raise the festal shout.
17 You are their majestic strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.
18 Truly the LORD is our shield, the Holy One of Israel, our king!
19 III Once you spoke in vision; to your faithful ones you said: I have set a leader over the warriors; I have raised up a hero from the army.
20 I have chosen David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him.
21 My hand will be with him; my arm will make him strong.
22 No enemy shall outwit him, nor shall the wicked defeat him.
23 I will crush his foes before him, strike down those who hate him.
24 My loyalty and love will be with him; through my name his horn will be exalted.
25 I will set his hand upon the sea, his right hand upon the rivers.
26 He shall cry to me,'You are my father, my God, the Rock that brings me victory!'
27 I myself make him firstborn, Most High over the kings of the earth.
28 Forever I will maintain my love for him; my covenant with him stands firm.
29 I will establish his dynasty forever, his throne as the days of the heavens.
30 If his descendants forsake my law, do not follow my decrees,
31 If they fail to observe my statutes, do not keep my commandments,
32 I will punish their crime with a rod and their guilt with lashes.
33 But I will not take my love from him, nor will I betray my bond of loyalty.
34 I will not violate my covenant; the promise of my lips I will not alter.
35 By my holiness I swore once for all: I will never be false to David.
36 His dynasty will continue forever, his throne, like the sun before me.
37 Like the moon it will stand eternal, forever firm like the sky! Selah
38 IV But now you have rejected and spurned, been enraged at your anointed.
39 You renounced the covenant with your servant, defiled his crown in the dust.
40 You broke down all his defenses, left his strongholds in ruins.
41 All who pass through seize plunder; his neighbors deride him.
42 You have exalted the right hand of his foes, have gladdened all his enemies.
43 You turned back his sharp sword, did not support him in battle.
44 You brought to an end his splendor, hurled his throne to the ground.
45 You cut short the days of his youth, covered him with shame. Selah
46 How long, LORD? Will you stay hidden forever? Must your wrath smolder like fire?
47 Remember how brief is my life, how frail the race you created!
48 What mortal can live and not see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah
49 Where are your promises of old, Lord, the loyalty sworn to David?
50 Remember, Lord, the insults to your servants, how I bear all the slanders of the nations.
51 Your enemies, LORD, insult your anointed; they insult my every endeavor.
52 Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen!