Psa. 18:1‑50• 1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said, I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
2Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my *God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3I will call upon Jehovah, who is to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.
4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
5The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.
6In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.
7Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth.
8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.
9And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
10And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind.
11He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.
13And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.
14And he sent his arrows, and scattered mine enemies; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.
15And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
16He reached forth from above, he took me, he drew me out of great waters:
17He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me; for they were mightier than I.
18They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay.
19And he brought me forth into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
21For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22For all his ordinances were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me;
23And I was upright with him, and kept myself from mine iniquity.
24And Jehovah hath recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
25With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;
26With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.
27For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.
28For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.
29For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
30As for *God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.
31For who is +God save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not our God?
32The *God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect,
33Who maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places;
34Who teacheth my hands to war, and mine arms bend a bow of brass;
35And thou didst give me the shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand held me up; and thy condescending gentleness hath made me great.
36Thou didst enlarge my steps under me, and mine ankles have not wavered.
37I pursued mine enemies, and overtook them; and I turned not again till they were consumed.
38I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet.
39And thou girdedst me with strength to battle; thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me.
40And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
41They cried, and there was none to save;--unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.
42And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
43Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me.
44At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me.
45Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places.
46Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of my salvation,
47The *God who hath avenged me, and hath subjected the peoples to me;
48Who hath delivered me from mine enemies: yea, thou hast lifted me up above them that rose up against me; from the man of violence hast thou delivered me.
49Therefore will I give thanks to thee, Jehovah, among the nations, and will sing psalms to thy name.
50It is he who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. (Psa. 18:1‑50)
Psa. 40:1‑17• 1To the chief Musician. Of David. A Psalm. I waited patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:
3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall confide in Jehovah.
4Blessed is the man that hath made Jehovah his confidence, and turneth not to the proud, and to such as turn aside to lies.
5Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak them, they are more than can be numbered.
6Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded;
7Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me--
8To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
9I have published righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, *thou* knowest.
10I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11Withhold not thou, Jehovah, thy tender mercies from me; let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.
13Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; Jehovah, make haste to my help.
14Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;
15Let them be desolate, because of their shame, that say unto me, Aha! Aha!
16Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee; let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified!
17But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay. (Psa. 40:1‑17)
Psa. 103:1‑22• 1A Psalm of David. Bless Jehovah, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name!
2Bless Jehovah, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
3Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases;
4Who redeemeth thy life from the pit, who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
5Who satisfieth thine old age with good things; thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
6Jehovah executeth righteousness and justice for all that are oppressed.
7He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
8Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.
9He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger for ever.
10He hath not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving-kindness toward them that fear him.
12As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13As a father pitieth his children, so Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.
14For himself knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
15As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.
17But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting and to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children,
18To such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his precepts to do them.
19Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all.
20Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, mighty in strength, that execute his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
21Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his that do his will.
22Bless Jehovah, all his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless Jehovah, O my soul! (Psa. 103:1‑22)
Psa. 106:1‑107:43• 1Hallelujah! Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever.
2Who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah? who can shew forth all his praise?
3Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
4Remember me, O Jehovah, with thy favour toward thy people; visit me with thy salvation:
5That I may see the prosperity of thy chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the joy of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
6We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
7Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.
8Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.
9And he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up; and he led them through the deeps as through a wilderness.
10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
11And the waters covered their oppressors: there was not one of them left.
12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
13They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:
14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted *God in the desert.
15Then he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
16And they envied Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the saint of Jehovah.
17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram;
18And fire was kindled in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.
19They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
20And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
21They forgot *God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,
22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
23And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.
24And they despised the pleasant land; they believed not his word,
25But murmured in their tents: they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah.
26And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
27And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.
28And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
29And they provoked him to anger with their doings; and a plague broke out among them.
30Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgment, and the plague was stayed;
31And that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, from generation to generation, for evermore.
32And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;
33For they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips.
34They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;
35But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
36And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
37And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
38And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
39And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.
40Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;
41And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:
42And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
43Often did he deliver them; but as for them they provoked him by their counsel, and they were brought low by their iniquity.
44But he regarded their distress, when he heard their cry;
45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses;
46And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives.
47Save us, Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
48Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, from eternity and to eternity! And let all the people say, Amen! Hallelujah!
1Give ye thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; for his loving-kindness endureth for ever.
2Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the oppressor,
3And gathered out of the countries, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the sea.
4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way, they found no city of habitation;
5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them:
6Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,
7And he led them forth by a right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
8Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
9For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good.
10Such as inhabit darkness and the shadow of death, bound in affliction and iron,
11Because they had rebelled against the words of *God, and had despised the counsel of the Most High; …
12And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:
13Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses;
14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.
15Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
16For he hath broken the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron.
17Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;
18Their soul abhorreth all manner of food, and they draw near unto the gates of death:
19Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses;
20He sendeth his word, and healeth them, and delivereth them from their destructions.
21Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men,
22And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works in joyful song.
23They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,
24These see the works of Jehovah, and his wonders in the deep.
25For he speaketh, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof:
26They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;
27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and they are at their wits' end:
28Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses;
29He maketh the storm a calm, and the waves thereof are still:
30And they rejoice because they are quiet; and he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
31Let them give thanks unto Jehovah for his loving-kindness, and for his wondrous works to the children of men;
32Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the session of the elders.
33He maketh rivers into a wilderness, and water-springs into dry ground;
34A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
35He maketh the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs;
36And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;
37And sow fields, and plant vineyards, which yield fruits of increase;
38And he blesseth them, so that they are multiplied greatly; and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
39And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:
40He poureth contempt upon nobles, and causeth them to wander in a pathless waste;
41But he secureth the needy one on high from affliction, and maketh him families like flocks.
42The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and all unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.
43Whoso is wise, let him observe these things, and let them understand the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah. (Psa. 106:1‑107:43)
Psa. 116:1‑19• 1I love Jehovah, for he hath heard my voice and my supplications;
2For he hath inclined his ear unto me, and I will call upon him during all my days.
3The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
4Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: I beseech thee, Jehovah, deliver my soul.
5Gracious is Jehovah and righteous; and our God is merciful.
6Jehovah keepeth the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me.
7Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for Jehovah hath dealt bountifully with thee.
8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
9I will walk before Jehovah in the land of the living.
10I believed, therefore have I spoken. As for me, I was greatly afflicted.
11I said in my haste, All men are liars.
12What shall I render unto Jehovah, for all his benefits toward me?
13I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of Jehovah.
14I will perform my vows unto Jehovah, yea, before all his people.
15Precious in the sight of Jehovah is the death of his saints.
16Yea, Jehovah! for I am thy servant; I am thy servant, the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
17I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of Jehovah.
18I will perform my vows unto Jehovah, yea, before all his people,
19In the courts of Jehovah's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah! (Psa. 116:1‑19)