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Psalm 90 ()

A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.§

[1] Lord,§ you have been our dwelling place for all generations.
[2] Before the mountains were born,
before you had formed the earth and the world,
even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
[3] You turn man to destruction, saying,
“Return, you children of men.”
[4] For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past,
like a watch in the night.
[5] You sweep them away as they sleep.
In the morning they sprout like new grass.
[6] In the morning it sprouts and springs up.
By evening, it is withered and dry.
[7] For we are consumed in your anger.
We are troubled in your wrath.
[8] You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.
[9] For all our days have passed away in your wrath.
We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
[10] The days of our years are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty years;
yet their pride is but labor and sorrow,
for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
[11] Who knows the power of your anger,
your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
[12] So teach us to count our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
[13] Relent, Yahweh!§
How long?
Have compassion on your servants!
[14] Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
[15] Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen evil.
[16] Let your work appear to your servants,
your glory to their children.
[17] Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us.
Establish the work of our hands for us.
Yes, establish the work of our hands.

Psalms 90:1a The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
Psalms 90:1b The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”
Psalms 90:13 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “Lord” (all caps) in other translations.

Psalm 91 ()

[1] He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
[2] I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust.”
[3] For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
and from the deadly pestilence.
[4] He will cover you with his feathers.
Under his wings you will take refuge.
His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
[5] You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
nor of the arrow that flies by day,
[6] nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
[7] A thousand may fall at your side,
and ten thousand at your right hand;
but it will not come near you.
[8] You will only look with your eyes,
and see the recompense of the wicked.
[9] Because you have made Yahweh your refuge,
and the Most High your dwelling place,
[10] no evil shall happen to you,
neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
[11] For he will put his angels in charge of you,
to guard you in all your ways.
[12] They will bear you up in their hands,
so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.
[13] You will tread on the lion and cobra.
You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
[14] “Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him.
I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
[15] He will call on me, and I will answer him.
I will be with him in trouble.
I will deliver him, and honor him.
[16] I will satisfy him with long life,
and show him my salvation.”

Psalm 92 ()

A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day.

[1] It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh,
to sing praises to your name, Most High,
[2] to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning,
and your faithfulness every night,
[3] with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp,
and with the melody of the lyre.
[4] For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work.
I will triumph in the works of your hands.
[5] How great are your works, Yahweh!
Your thoughts are very deep.
[6] A senseless man doesn’t know,
neither does a fool understand this:
[7] though the wicked spring up as the grass,
and all the evildoers flourish,
they will be destroyed forever.
[8] But you, Yahweh, are on high forever more.
[9] For behold, your enemies, Yahweh,
for behold, your enemies shall perish.
All the evildoers will be scattered.
[10] But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox.
I am anointed with fresh oil.
[11] My eye has also seen my enemies.
My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
[12] The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree.
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
[13] They are planted in Yahweh’s house.
They will flourish in our God’s courts.
[14] They will still produce fruit in old age.
They will be full of sap and green,
[15] to show that Yahweh is upright.
He is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Psalm 93 ()

[1] Yahweh reigns!
He is clothed with majesty!
Yahweh is armed with strength.
The world also is established.
It can’t be moved.
[2] Your throne is established from long ago.
You are from everlasting.
[3] The floods have lifted up, Yahweh,
the floods have lifted up their voice.
The floods lift up their waves.
[4] Above the voices of many waters,
the mighty breakers of the sea,
Yahweh on high is mighty.
[5] Your statutes stand firm.
Holiness adorns your house,
Yahweh, forever more.

Psalm 94 ()

[1] Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs,
you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
[2] Rise up, you judge of the earth.
Pay back the proud what they deserve.
[3] Yahweh, how long will the wicked,
how long will the wicked triumph?
[4] They pour out arrogant words.
All the evildoers boast.
[5] They break your people in pieces, Yahweh,
and afflict your heritage.
[6] They kill the widow and the alien,
and murder the fatherless.
[7] They say, “Yah will not see,
neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
[8] Consider, you senseless among the people;
you fools, when will you be wise?
[9] He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear?
He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
[10] He who disciplines the nations, won’t he punish?
He who teaches man knows.
[11] Yahweh knows the thoughts of man,
that they are futile.
[12] Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah,
and teach out of your law,
[13] that you may give him rest from the days of adversity,
until the pit is dug for the wicked.
[14] For Yahweh won’t reject his people,
neither will he forsake his inheritance.
[15] For judgment will return to righteousness.
All the upright in heart shall follow it.
[16] Who will rise up for me against the wicked?
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
[17] Unless Yahweh had been my help,
my soul would have soon lived in silence.
[18] When I said, “My foot is slipping!”
Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
[19] In the multitude of my thoughts within me,
your comforts delight my soul.
[20] Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you,
which brings about mischief by statute?
[21] They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent blood.
[22] But Yahweh has been my high tower,
my God, the rock of my refuge.
[23] He has brought on them their own iniquity,
and will cut them off in their own wickedness.
Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

Proverbs 20 ()

[1] Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler.
Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
[2] The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion.
He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
[3] It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife,
but every fool will be quarreling.
[4] The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter;
therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.
[5] Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
[6] Many men claim to be men of unfailing love,
but who can find a faithful man?
[7] A righteous man walks in integrity.
Blessed are his children after him.
[8] A king who sits on the throne of judgment
scatters away all evil with his eyes.
[9] Who can say, “I have made my heart pure.
I am clean and without sin”?
[10] Differing weights and differing measures,
both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
[11] Even a child makes himself known by his doings,
whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
[12] The hearing ear, and the seeing eye,
Yahweh has made even both of them.
[13] Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty.
Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
[14] “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer;
but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
[15] There is gold and abundance of rubies,
but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.
[16] Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;
and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.
[17] Fraudulent food is sweet to a man,
but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
[18] Plans are established by advice;
by wise guidance you wage war!
[19] He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;
therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.
[20] Whoever curses his father or his mother,
his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
[21] An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning
won’t be blessed in the end.
[22] Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.”
Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
[23] Yahweh detests differing weights,
and dishonest scales are not pleasing.
[24] A man’s steps are from Yahweh;
how then can man understand his way?
[25] It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication,
then later to consider his vows.
[26] A wise king winnows out the wicked,
and drives the threshing wheel over them.
[27] The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp,
searching all his innermost parts.
[28] Love and faithfulness keep the king safe.
His throne is sustained by love.
[29] The glory of young men is their strength.
The splendor of old men is their gray hair.
[30] Wounding blows cleanse away evil,
and beatings purge the innermost parts.