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Psalm 36 ()

For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.

[1] A revelation is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked:
There is no fear of God before his eyes.
[2] For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
too much to detect and hate his sin.
[3] The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
[4] He plots iniquity on his bed.
He sets himself in a way that is not good.
He doesn’t abhor evil.

[5] Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens.
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
[6] Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.
Your judgments are like a great deep.
Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.
[7] How precious is your loving kindness, God!
The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
[8] They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.
You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
[9] For with you is the spring of life.
In your light we will see light.
[10] Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you,
your righteousness to the upright in heart.
[11] Don’t let the foot of pride come against me.
Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.
[12] There the workers of iniquity are fallen.
They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

Psalm 37 ()

By David.

[1] Don’t fret because of evildoers,
neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
[2] For they shall soon be cut down like the grass,
and wither like the green herb.
[3] Trust in Yahweh, and do good.
Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
[4] Also delight yourself in Yahweh,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
[5] Commit your way to Yahweh.
Trust also in him, and he will do this:
[6] he will make your righteousness shine out like light,
and your justice as the noon day sun.
[7] Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him.
Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way,
because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
[8] Cease from anger, and forsake wrath.
Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.
[9] For evildoers shall be cut off,
but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.
[10] For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more.
Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.
[11] But the humble shall inherit the land,
and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
[12] The wicked plots against the just,
and gnashes at him with his teeth.
[13] The Lord will laugh at him,
for he sees that his day is coming.
[14] The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow,
to cast down the poor and needy,
to kill those who are upright on the path.
[15] Their sword shall enter into their own heart.
Their bows shall be broken.
[16] Better is a little that the righteous has,
than the abundance of many wicked.
[17] For the arms of the wicked shall be broken,
but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
[18] Yahweh knows the days of the perfect.
Their inheritance shall be forever.
[19] They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil.
In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

[20] But the wicked shall perish.
The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields.
They will vanish—
vanish like smoke.
[21] The wicked borrow, and don’t pay back,
but the righteous give generously.
[22] For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land.
Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
[23] A man’s steps are established by Yahweh.
He delights in his way.
[24] Though he stumble, he shall not fall,
for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.
[25] I have been young, and now am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
nor his children begging for bread.
[26] All day long he deals graciously, and lends.
His offspring is blessed.
[27] Depart from evil, and do good.
Live securely forever.
[28] For Yahweh loves justice,
and doesn’t forsake his saints.
They are preserved forever,
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
[29] The righteous shall inherit the land,
and live in it forever.

[30] The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom.
His tongue speaks justice.
[31] The law of his God is in his heart.
None of his steps shall slide.
[32] The wicked watch the righteous,
and seek to kill him.
[33] Yahweh will not leave him in his hand,
nor condemn him when he is judged.
[34] Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way,
and he will exalt you to inherit the land.
When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

[35] I have seen the wicked in great power,
spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
[36] But he passed away, and behold, he was not.
Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
[37] Mark the perfect man, and see the upright,
for there is a future for the man of peace.
[38] As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together.
The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
[39] But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh.
He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
[40] Yahweh helps them and rescues them.
He rescues them from the wicked and saves them,
because they have taken refuge in him.

Psalm 38 ()

A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

[1] Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath,
neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
[2] For your arrows have pierced me,
your hand presses hard on me.
[3] There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation,
neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.
[4] For my iniquities have gone over my head.
As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
[5] My wounds are loathsome and corrupt
because of my foolishness.
[6] I am in pain and bowed down greatly.
I go mourning all day long.
[7] For my waist is filled with burning.
There is no soundness in my flesh.
[8] I am faint and severely bruised.
I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
[9] Lord, all my desire is before you.
My groaning is not hidden from you.
[10] My heart throbs.
My strength fails me.
As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.
[11] My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.
My kinsmen stand far away.
[12] They also who seek after my life lay snares.
Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things,
and meditate deceits all day long.
[13] But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear.
I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
[14] Yes, I am as a man who doesn’t hear,
in whose mouth are no reproofs.
[15] For I hope in you, Yahweh.
You will answer, Lord my God.
[16] For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me,
or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
[17] For I am ready to fall.
My pain is continually before me.
[18] For I will declare my iniquity.
I will be sorry for my sin.
[19] But my enemies are vigorous and many.
Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
[20] They who render evil for good are also adversaries to me,
because I follow what is good.
[21] Don’t forsake me, Yahweh.
My God, don’t be far from me.
[22] Hurry to help me,
Lord, my salvation.

Psalm 39 ()

For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David.

[1] I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue.
I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
[2] I was mute with silence.
I held my peace, even from good.
My sorrow was stirred.
[3] My heart was hot within me.
While I meditated, the fire burned.
I spoke with my tongue:
[4] “Yahweh, show me my end,
what is the measure of my days.
Let me know how frail I am.
[5] Behold, you have made my days hand widths.
My lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely every man stands as a breath.”
Selah.

[6] “Surely every man walks like a shadow.
Surely they busy themselves in vain.
He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
[7] Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in you.
[8] Deliver me from all my transgressions.
Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
[9] I was mute.
I didn’t open my mouth,
because you did it.
[10] Remove your scourge away from me.
I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
[11] When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity,
you consume his wealth like a moth.
Surely every man is but a breath.”
Selah.

[12] “Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry.
Don’t be silent at my tears.
For I am a stranger with you,
a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
[13] Oh spare me, that I may recover strength,
before I go away and exist no more.”

Psalm 40 ()

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

[1] I waited patiently for Yahweh.
He turned to me, and heard my cry.
[2] He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,
out of the miry clay.
He set my feet on a rock,
and gave me a firm place to stand.
[3] He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
[4] Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,
and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
[5] Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,
and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can’t be declared back to you.
If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
[6] Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.
You have opened my ears.
You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
[7] Then I said, “Behold, I have come.
It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
[8] I delight to do your will, my God.
Yes, your law is within my heart.”
[9] I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.
Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
[10] I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.
I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.
I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
[11] Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh.
Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
[12] For innumerable evils have surrounded me.
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up.
They are more than the hairs of my head.
My heart has failed me.
[13] Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me.
Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
[14] Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.
Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
[15] Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
[16] Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”
[17] But I am poor and needy.
May the Lord think about me.
You are my help and my deliverer.
Don’t delay, my God.

Psalm 41 ()

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

[1] Blessed is he who considers the poor.
Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
[2] Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive.
He shall be blessed on the earth,
and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
[3] Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed,
and restore him from his bed of illness.
[4] I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me!
Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
[5] My enemies speak evil against me:
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
[6] If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
[7] All who hate me whisper together against me.
They imagine the worst for me.
[8] “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
[9] Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
who ate bread with me,
has lifted up his heel against me.

[10] But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up,
that I may repay them.
[11] By this I know that you delight in me,
because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
[12] As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.

[13] Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,
from everlasting and to everlasting!
Amen and amen.