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Glory
to the Father and / to the / Son //
and
/ to the / Holy / Spirit;
as
it was in the be/ginning is / now //
and
shall be for / ever. / A/men.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.64. | | Have mercy upon me O God - miserere - Allegri |
To the leader. A Psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bethsheba. ( ... read about it HERE.)
OR RSCM CW Psalter--No.65. |
Parish Psalter (BCP) |
ASB Psalter |
RSCM Common Worship Psalter |
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1 (FULL) Have mercy upon me, O God, after / thy great / goodness: // 2 (FULL) Wash me throughly / from my / wickedness: // 3 For I ac/knowledge my / faults: // 4 Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil / in thy / sight: // 5 Behold, I was / shapen in / wickedness: // 6 But lo, thou requirest truth in the / inward / parts: // 7 Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and / I shall be / clean: // 8 Thou shalt make me hear of / joy and / gladness: // 9 Turn thy / face · from my / sins: // 10 Make me a clean / heart, O / God: // 11 Cast me not a/way from thy / presence: // 12 O give me the comfort of thy / help a/gain: // 13 (2nd part) Then shall I teach thy ways / unto the / wicked: // 14 Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou that art the / God of my / health: // 15 Thou shalt open my / lips, O / Lord: // 16 For thou desirest no sacrifice, / else would I / give it thee: // 17 The sacrifice of God is a / troubled / spirit: // 18 O be favourable and gracious / unto / Sion: // 19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings / and ob/lations: // |
1 (FULL) Have mercy on me, O God, in your en/during / goodness:
// 2 (FULL) Wash me thoroughly / from my / wickedness:
// 3 For I acknowledge / my re/bellion:
// 4 Against you only have I sinned;
and done what is evil / in your / eyes:
// 5 Surely in wickedness I was / brought to / birth:
// 6 You that desire truth in the / inward / parts:
// 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I / shall be / clean:
// 8 Make me hear of / joy and / gladness:
// 9 Hide your / face · from my / sins:
// 10 Create in me a clean / heart, O / God:
// 11 Do not cast me / out · from your / presence:
// 12 O give me the gladness of your / help a/gain:
// 13 Then will I teach trans/gressors · your /ways:
// 14 O Lord God of my salvation, de/liver me · from / bloodshed:
// 15 O Lord, / open my / lips:
// 16 You take no pleasure in sacrifice, or / I would / give it:
// 17 The sacrifice of God is a / broken / spirit:
// 18 In your graciousness do / good to / Zion:
// 19 Then will you delight in right sacrifices;
in burnt-offerings / and ob/lations:
// |
1 (FULL) Have mercy on me, O God, in / your great / goodness; // 2 (FULL) Wash me thoroughly / from my / wickedness // 3 For I ac/knowledge my / faults // 4 Against you only / have I / sinned // 5 (2nd part) So that you are justified / in your / sentence // 6 I have been wicked even / from my / birth, // 7 Behold, you desire truth / deep with/in me // 8 Purge me with hyssop and I / shall be / clean; // 9 Make me hear of / joy and / gladness, // 10 Turn your / face from my / sins // 11 Make me a clean / heart, O / God, // 12 Cast me not a/way from your / presence // 13 Give me again the joy of / your sal/vation // 14 (2nd part) Then shall I teach your / ways · to the / wicked // 15 Deliver me from my guilt, O God,
the God of / my sal/vation, // 16 O Lord, / open my / lips // 17 For you desire no sacrifice, / else · I would / give it; // 18 The sacrifice of God is a / broken / spirit; // 19 O be favourable and / gracious to / Zion; // 20 Then you will accept sacrifices offered in righteousness,
the burnt offerings / and ob/lations; // |
RSCM CW Psalter--No.66. |
1 Why do you glory in / evil, you / tyrant, //
while the goodness of / God en/dures con/tinually?
2 You plot destruction, you deceiver; //
your tongue is like a sharpened razor.
3 You love evil / rather than / good, //
falsehood / rather · than the / word of / truth.
4 You love all / words that / hurt, //
O / you de/ceitful /tongue.
5 Therefore God shall utterly / bring you / down; //
he shall take you and pluck you out of your tent
and root you / out of the / land · of the / living.
6 The righteous shall / see this and / tremble; //
they shall / laugh you to / scorn, and / say:
7 'This is the one who did not take / God · for a / refuge, //
but trusted in great riches / and re/lied upon / wickedness.'
8 But I am like a spreading olive tree in the / house of / God; //
I trust in the goodness of / God for / ever and / ever.
9 I will always give thanks to you for / what you have / done; //
I will hope in your name,
for your / faithful / ones de/light in it.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.67. |
1 The fool has said in his heart, 'There / is no / God.' //
Corrupt are they, and abominable in their wickedness;
there is / no one / that does / good.
2 God has looked down from heaven upon the / children of / earth, //
to see if there is anyone who is / wise and / seeks after / God.
3 They are all gone out of the way;
all alike have be/come cor/rupt; //
there is no one that does / good, / no not / one.
4 Have they no knowledge, those / evil/doers, //
who eat up my people as if they ate bread,
and / do not / call upon / God?
5 There shall they be in great fear,
such fear as / never / was; //
for God will scatter the / bones of / the un/godly.
6 They will be / put to / shame, //
because / God / has re/jected them.
7 O that Israel's salvation would / come · out of / Zion! //
When God restores the fortunes of his people
then will Jacob re/joice and / Israel be / glad.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.68. |
1 Save me, O God, / by your / name //
and / vindi·cate me / by your / power.
2 Hear my / prayer, O / God; //
give / heed · to the / words of my / mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up against me,
and the ruthless seek / after my / life; //
they have / not set / God be/fore them.
4 Behold, / God is my / helper; //
it is the / Lord · who up/holds my / life.
5 May evil rebound on those who / lie in / wait for me; //
des/troy them / in your / faithfulness.
6 An offering of a free heart / will I / give you //
and praise your name, O / Lord, for / it is / gracious.
7 For he has delivered me out of / all my / trouble, //
and my eye has seen the / downfall / of my / enemies.
RSCM CW Psalter--No 69. |
1 Hear my / prayer, O / God; //
hide not your/self from / my pe/tition.
2 Give heed to / me and / answer me; //
I am / restless in / my com/plaining.
3 I am alarmed at the / voice of the / enemy //
and at the / clamour / of the / wicked;
4 For they would bring down / evil up/on me //
and are / set a/gainst me in / fury.
5 My heart is dis/quieted with/in me, //
and the terrors of / death have / fallen up/on me.
6 Fearfulness and trembling are / come up/on me, //
and a horrible / dread has / over/whelmed me.
7 And I said: 'O that I had / wings · like a / dove, //
for then would I fly a/way and / be at / rest.
8 'Then would I flee / far a/way //
and make my / lodging / in the / wilderness.
9 'I would make / haste to es/cape //
from the / stormy / wind and / tempest.'
10 Confuse their tongues, O Lord, / and di/vide them, //
for I have seen violence and / strife / in the / city.
11 Day and night they go a/bout · on her / walls; //
mischief and / trouble are / in her / midst.
12 Wickedness /walks in her / streets; //
oppression and guile / never / leave her / squares.
13 For it was not an open enemy / that re/viled me, //
for / then I / could have / borne it;
14 Nor was it my adversary that puffed himself / up a/gainst me, //
for then I / would have / hid myself / from him.
15 But it was even you, one / like my/self, //
my companion and my / own fa/miliar /friend.
16 We took sweet / counsel to/gether //
and walked with the multitude / in the / house of / God.
17
for wickedness inhabits their / dwellings, their / very / hearts. Let death come suddenly upon them;
let them go down a/live · to the / Pit; //
RSCM CW Psalter--No 70. |
18 As for me, I will / call upon / God //
and the / Lord / will de/liver me.
19 In the evening and morning and at noonday
I will pray and make my / suppli/cation, //
and / he shall / hear my / voice.
20 He shall redeem my soul in peace
from the battle / waged a/gainst me, //
for / many have / come up/on me.
21 God, who is enthroned of old,
will hear and / bring them / down; //
they will not repent, for they / have no / fear of / God.
22 My companion stretched out his hands a/gainst his / friend //
and has / broken / his / covenant;
23 His speech was softer than butter, though war was / in his / heart; //
his words were smoother than oil, yet / are they / naked / swords.
24 Cast your burden upon the Lord and / he will sus/tain you, //
and will not let the / righteous / fall for / ever.
25 But those that are bloodthirsty and de/ceitful, O / God, //
you will bring / down · to the / pit of des/truction.
26
but my trust shall / be in / you, O / Lord.
RSCM CW Psalter--No 71. |
1 Have mercy on me, O God, for they / trample / over me; //
all day long / they as/sault · and / oppress me.
2 My adversaries trample over me / all the day / long; //
many are they that / make proud / war a/gainst me.
3 In the day of my fear I put my / trust in / you, //
in / God whose / word I / praise.
4 In God I trust, and / will not / fear, //
for / what can / flesh / do to me?
5 All day long they / wound me with / words; //
their every / thought · is to / do me / evil.
6 They stir up trouble; they / lie in / wait; //
marking my / steps, they / seek my / life.
7 Shall they escape for / all their / wickedness? //
In anger, O God, / cast the / peoples / down.
8 You have counted up my groaning;
put my tears / into your / bottle; //
are they not / written / in your / book?
RSCM CW Psalter--No 72. |
9 Then shall my enemies turn back
on the day when I / call up/on you; //
this I know, for / God is / on my / side.
10 In God whose word I praise,
in the Lord whose / word I / praise, //
in God I trust and will not fear:
/ what can / flesh / do to me?
11 To you, O God, will I ful/fil my / vows; //
to you will I pre/sent my / offerings of / thanks,
12 For you will deliver my soul from death
and my / feet from / falling, //
that I may walk before / God · in the / light of the / living.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.73. |
1 Be merciful to me, O God, be / merciful to / me, //
for my / soul takes / refuge in / you;
2 In the shadow of your wings will / I take / refuge //
until the storm of des/truction / has passed / by.
3 I will call upon the / Most High / God, //
the God who ful/fils his / purpose / for me.
4 He will send from heaven and save me
and rebuke those that would / trample up/on me; //
God will send forth his / love / and his / faithfulness.
5 I lie in the / midst of / lions, //
people whose teeth are spears and arrows,
and their / tongue a / sharp / sword.
6
and your glory / over / all the / earth.
7 They have laid a / net for my / feet; //
my soul is / pressed / down;
7a.
they have dug a / pit be/fore me //
and will / fall · into / it them/selves.
8 My heart is ready, O God, my / heart is / ready; //
I will / sing and / give you / praise.
9 Awake, my soul; awake, / harp and / lyre, //
that / I · may a/waken the / dawn.
10 I will give you thanks, O Lord, a/mong the / peoples; //
I will sing praise to / you a/mong the / nations.
11 For your loving-kindness is as / high as the / heavens, //
and your faithfulness / reaches / to the / clouds.
12
and your glory / over / all the / earth.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.74. |
1 Do you indeed speak / justly, you / mighty? //
Do you / rule the / peoples with / equity?
2 With unjust heart you act through/out the / land; //
your / hands / mete out / violence.
3 The wicked are estranged, even / from the / womb; //
those who speak falsehood go a/stray / from their / birth.
4 They are as venomous / as a / serpent; //
they are like the deaf / adder which / stops its / ears,
5
and is deaf to the / skilful / weaver of / spells.
6 Break, O God, their / teeth in their / mouths; //
smash the / fangs of these / lions, O / Lord.
7 Let them vanish like water that / runs a/way; //
let them / wither like / trodden / grass.
8 Let them be as the slimy / track of the / snail, //
like the untimely birth that / never / sees the / sun.
9 Before ever their pots feel the / heat of the / thorns, //
green or blazing, / let them be / swept a/way.
10 The righteous will be glad when they / see God's / vengeance; //
they will bathe their / feet · in the / blood of the / wicked.
11 So that people will say,
'Truly, there is a harvest / for the / righteous; //
truly, there is a God who / judges / in the / earth.'
RSCM CW Psalter--No.75. |
1 Rescue me from my enemies, / O my / God; //
set me high above / those that rise / up a/gainst me.
2 Save me from the / evil/doers //
and from / murderous / foes de/liver me.
3 For see how they lie in / wait · for my / soul //
and the mighty / stir up / trouble a/gainst me.
4 Not for any fault or sin of / mine, O / Lord; //
for no offence, they run and pre/pare them/selves for /war.
5 Rouse yourself, come to my / aid and / see; //
for you are the Lord of / hosts, the / God of / Israel.
6 Awake, and judge / all the / nations; //
show no mercy / to the / evil / traitors.
7 They return at nightfall and / snarl like / dogs //
and / prowl a/ bout the / city.
8 They pour out evil words with their mouths;
swords are / on their / lips; //
'For / who', they / say, 'can / hear us?'
9 But you / laugh at them, O / Lord; //
you hold all the / nations / in de/rision.
10 For you, O my strength, / will I / watch; //
you, O God, / are my / strong / tower.
11 My God in his steadfast / love will / come to me; //
he will let me behold the / downfall / of my / enemies.
12 Slay them not, lest my / people for/get; //
send them reeling by your might
and bring them / down, O / Lord our / shield.
13 For the sins of their mouth, for the / words of their / lips, //
let them be / taken / in their / pride.
14 For the cursing and falsehood / they have / uttered, //
consume them in wrath, consume them / till they / are no / more.
15 And they shall know that God / rules in / Jacob, //
and / to the / ends of the / earth.
16 And still they return at nightfall and / snarl like / dogs //
and / prowl a/bout the / city.
17 Though they forage for / something · to de/vour, //
and / howl · if they / are not / filled,
18 Yet will I / sing of your / strength //
and every morning / praise your / steadfast / love;
19 For you have / been my / stronghold, //
my refuge / in the / day of my / trouble.
20 To you, O my strength, / will I / sing; //
for you, O God, are my refuge,
my / God of / steadfast / love.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.76. |
1 O God, you have cast us / off and / broken us; //
you have been angry; re/store us · to your/self a/gain.
2 You have shaken the earth and / torn it a/part; //
heal its / wounds, / for it / trembles.
3 You have made your people drink / bitter / things; //
we reel from the / deadly . wine · you have / given us.
4 You have made those who / fear you to / flee, //
to es/cape · from the / range of the / bow.
5
save us by / your right / hand and / answer us.
6 God has spoken / in his / holiness: //
'I will triumph and divide Shechem,
and share / out the / valley of / Succoth.
7 'Gilead is mine and Ma/nasseh is / mine; //
Ephraim is my / helmet and / Judah my / sceptre.
8
across Philistia / will I / shout in / triumph.'
9 Who will lead me into the / strong / city? //
Who will / bring me / into / Edom?
10 Have you not cast us / off, O / God? //
Will you no longer / go forth / with our / troops? [TROOPS -- better: (BCP) HOSTS or (NRSV, NEB) ARMIES.]
11 Grant us your help a/gainst the / enemy, //
for / earthly / help · is in / vain.
12 Through God will we / do great / acts, //
for it is he that / shall tread / down our / enemies.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.77. |
1 Hear my / crying, O / God, //
and / listen / to my / prayer.
2 From the end of the earth I call to you with / fainting / heart; //
O set me on the / rock · that is / higher than / I.
3 For / you are my / refuge, //
a strong / tower a/gainst the / enemy.
4 Let me dwell in your / tent for / ever //
and take refuge under the / cover / of your / wings.
5 For you, O God, will / hear my / vows; //
you will grant the request of / those who / fear your / name.
6 You will add length of days to the / life of the / king, //
that his years may endure through/ out all / gene/rations.
7 May he sit enthroned before / God for / ever; //
may steadfast / love and / truth watch / over him.
8 So will I always sing / praise to your / name, //
and day by / day ful/fil my / vows.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.78. |
1 On God alone my soul in / stillness / waits; //
from / him comes / my sal/vation.
2 He alone is my rock and / my sal/vation, //
my stronghold, so that / I shall / never be / shaken.
3 How long will all of you assail me / to des/troy me, //
as you would a tottering wall / or a / leaning / fence?
4 They plot only to thrust me down from my place of honour;
lies are their / chief de/light; //
they bless with their mouth, but / in their / heart they / curse.
5 Wait on God alone in stillness, / O my / soul; //
for in / him / is my / hope.
6 He alone is my rock and / my sal/vation, //
my stronghold, so that / I shall / not be / shaken.
7 In God is my strength / and my / glory; //
God is my strong rock; in / him / is my / refuge.
8 Put your trust in him / always, my / people; //
pour out your hearts before him, for / God / is our / refuge.
9 The peoples are but a breath,
the whole human / race · a de/ceit; //
on the scales they are alto/gether / lighter than / air.
10 Put no trust in oppression; in robbery take no / empty / pride; //
though wealth increase, / set not your / heart up/on it.
11 God spoke once, and twice have I / heard the / same, //
that / power be/longs to / God.
12 Steadfast love belongs to / you, O / Lord, //
for you repay everyone ac/cording / to their / deeds.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.79. |
1 O God, you are my God; / eagerly I / seek you; //
my / soul · is a/thirst for / you.
2 My flesh / also / faints for you, //
as in a dry and thirsty / land · where there / is no / water.
3 So would I gaze upon you in your / holy / place, //
that I might behold your / power / and your / glory.
4 Your loving-kindness is better than / life it/self //
and / so my / lips shall / praise you.
5 I will bless you as / long as I / live //
and lift up my / hands / in your / name.
6 My soul shall be satisfied, as with / marrow and / fatness, //
and my mouth shall / praise you with / joyful / lips,
7 When I remember you up/on my / bed //
and meditate on you in the / watches / of the / night.
8 For you have / been my / helper //
and under the shadow of your / wings will / I re/joice.
9 My / soul / clings to you; //
your / right hand shall / hold me / fast.
10 But those who seek my soul / to des/troy it //
shall go / down · to the / depths of the / earth;
11 Let them fall by the / edge of the / sword //
and be/come a / portion for / jackals.
12 But the king shall rejoice in God;
all those who swear by him / shall be / glad, //
for the mouth of those who speak / lies / shall be / stopped.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.80. |
1 Hear my voice, O God, in / my com/plaint; //
preserve my / life from / fear of the / enemy.
2 Hide me from the conspiracy / of the / wicked, //
from the / gathering of / evil/doers.
3 They sharpen their / tongue · like a / sword //
and aim their / bitter / words like / arrows,
4 That they may shoot at the / blameless from / hiding places; //
suddenly they / shoot, and / are not / seen.
5 They hold fast to their / evil / course; //
they talk of laying snares, / saying, / 'Who will / see us?'
6 They search out wickedness and lay a / cunning / trap, //
for deep are the / inward / thoughts of the / heart.
7 But God will shoot at them with his / swift / arrow, //
and / suddenly / they shall be / wounded.
8 Their own tongues shall / make them / fall, //
and all who see them shall / wag their / heads in / scorn.
9 All peoples shall fear and tell what / God has / done, //
and they will / ponder / all his / works.
10 The righteous shall rejoice in the Lord
and put their / trust in / him, //
and all that are true of / heart / shall ex/ult.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.81. | | or THIS anthem |
1 Praise is due to you, O / God, in / Zion; //
to you that answer / prayer shall / vows be / paid.
2 To you shall all flesh come to con/fess their / sins; //
when our misdeeds prevail against us,
/ you will / purge them a/way.
3 Happy are they whom you choose
and draw to your / courts to / dwell there. //
We shall be satisfied with the blessings of your house,
/ even · of your / holy / temple.
4 With wonders you will answer us in your righteousness,
O God of / our sal/vation, //
O hope of all the ends of the earth
and / of the / farthest / seas.
5 In your strength you set / fast the / mountains //
and are / girded a/bout with / might.
6 You still the / raging · of the / seas, //
the roaring of their waves
and the / clamour / of the / peoples.
7
the gates of the morning and / evening / sing your / praise.
8 You visit the / earth and / water it; //
you / make it / very / plenteous.
9 The river of God is / full of / water; //
you prepare grain for your people,
for / so you pro/vide · for the / earth.
10 You drench the furrows and / smooth out the / ridges; //
you soften the ground with / showers and / bless its / increase.
11 You crown the / year with your / goodness, //
and your / paths · over/flow with / plenty.
12 May the pastures of the wilderness / flow with / goodness //
and the / hills be / girded with / joy.
13 May the meadows be clothed with / flocks of / sheep //
and the valleys stand so thick with corn
that / they shall / laugh and / sing.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.82. |
1 Be joyful in God, / all the / earth; //
sing the glory of his name;
sing the / glory / of his / praise.
2 Say to God, 'How awesome / are your / deeds! //
Because of your great strength
your / enemies shall / bow be/fore you.
3 'All the / earth shall / worship you, //
sing to you, sing / praise / to your / name.'
4 Come now and behold the / works of / God, //
how wonderful he is in his / dealings with / human/kind.
5 He turned the sea into dry land;
the river they passed / through on / foot; //
there / we re/joiced in / him.
6 In his might he rules for ever;
his eyes keep watch / over the / nations; //
let no / rebel rise / up a/gainst him.
7 Bless our God, / O you / peoples; //
make the voice of his / praise / to be / heard,
8 Who holds our / souls in / life //
and suffers / not our / feet to / slip.
9 For you, O / God, have / proved us; //
you have / tried us as / silver is / tried.
10 You brought us / into the / snare; //
you laid heavy / burdens up/on our / backs.
11
we went through / fire and / water; //
but you brought us out / into a / place of / liberty.
12 I will come into your house with burnt offerings
and will / pay you my / vows, //
which my lips uttered
and my mouth promised / when I / was in / trouble.
13 I will offer you fat burnt sacrifices
with the / smoke of / rams; //
I will / sacrifice / oxen and / goats.
14 Come and listen, all / you who fear / God, //
and I will tell you what / he has / done for my / soul.
15 I called out to him / with my / mouth //
and his / praise was / on my / tongue.
16 If I had nursed evil / in my / heart, //
the / Lord would / not have / heard me,
17 But in truth / God has / heard me; //
he has / heeded the / voice of my / prayer.
18
nor withheld his / loving / mercy / from me.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.83. |
Parish Psalter (BCP) |
RSCM Common Worship Psalter |
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1 God be merciful unto / us, and / bless us: // 2 That thy way may be / known upon / earth: // 3 (2nd part, unison) Let the people / praise thee O / God: // 4 O let the nations re/joice and be / glad: // 5 (unison) Let the people / praise thee O / God: // 6 Then shall the earth bring / forth her / increase: // 7 God / shall / bless us: // |
1 God be gracious to / us and / bless us // 2 That your way may be / known upon / earth, // 3 (2nd part, unison) Let the peoples / praise you, O / God; // 4 O let the nations re/joice and be / glad, // 5 (unison) Let the peoples / praise you, O / God; // 6 Then shall the earth bring / forth her / increase, // 7 God / will / bless us, // |
RSCM CW Psalter--No.84. |
1 Let God arise and let his / enemies be / scattered; //
let those that / hate him / flee be/fore him.
2 As the smoke vanishes, so may they / vanish a/way; //
as wax melts at the fire,
so let the wicked / perish · at the / presence of / God.
3 But let the righteous be glad and re/joice before / God; //
let / them make / merry with / gladness.
4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name;
exalt him who / rides · on the / clouds. //
The Lord is his / name; re/joice be/fore him.
5 Father of the fatherless, de/fender of / widows, //
God in his / holy / habi/tation!
6 God gives the solitary a home
and brings forth prisoners to / songs of / welcome, //
but the rebellious in/habit a / burning / desert.
7 O God, when you went forth be/fore your / people, //
when you / marched / through the / wilderness,
8 The earth shook and the heavens dropped down rain,
at the presence of God, the / Lord of / Sinai, //
at the presence of / God, the / God of / Israel.
9 You sent down a gracious / rain, O / God; //
you refreshed your in/heritance when / it was / weary.
10 Your people / came to / dwell there; //
in your goodness, O God, / you pro/vide · for the / poor.
11 The Lord / gave the / word; //
great was the company of / women who / bore the / tidings:
11a.
'Kings and their armies they / flee, they / flee!' //
and women at home / are di/viding the / spoil.
12 Though you stayed a/mong the / sheepfolds, //
see now a dove's wings covered with silver
and its / feathers with / green / gold.
13 When the Almighty / scattered the / kings, //
it was like / snowflakes / falling on / Zalmon.
14 You mighty mountain, great / mountain of / Bashan! //
You towering / mountain, great / mountain of / Bashan!
15 Why look with envy, you towering mountains,
at the mount which God has / desired · for his / dwelling, //
the place where the / Lord will / dwell for / ever?
16 The chariots of God are twice ten thousand,
even / thousands · upon / thousands; //
the Lord is among them, the Lord of / Sinai in / holy / power.
17 You have gone up on high and led / captivity / captive; //
you have received tribute,
even from those who rebelled,
that you may / reign as / Lord and / God.
18 Blessed be the Lord who bears our burdens / day by / day, //
for / God is / our sal/vation.
19 God is for us the God of / our sal/vation; //
God is the Lord who / can de/liver from / death.
20
the hairy scalp of / those who / walk in / wickedness.
21 The Lord has said, 'From the / heights of / Bashan, //
from the depths of the / sea · will I / bring them / back,
22 'Till you dip your / foot in / blood //
and the tongue of your / dogs · has a / taste of your / enemies.'
23 We see your solemn / processions, O / God, //
your processions into the sanctuary, my / God / and my / King.
24 The singers go before, the musicians / follow / after, //
in the midst of / maidens / playing on / timbrels.
25 In your companies, / bless your / God; //
bless the Lord, you that / are · of the / fount of / Israel.
26 At the head there is Benjamin, least of the tribes,
the princes of Judah in / joyful / company, //
the princes of / Zebu/lun and / Naphtali.
27 Send forth your / strength, O / God; //
establish, O God, what / you have / wrought in / us.
28 For your temple's sake / in Jer/usalem //
kings shall / bring their / gifts to / you.
29 Drive back with your word the wild / beast of the / reeds, //
the herd of the / bull-like, the / brutish / hordes.
30 Trample down those who / lust · after / silver; //
scatter the / peoples · that de/light in / war.
31
Ethiopia will stretch / out her / hands to /God.
32 Sing to God, you / kingdoms · of the / earth; //
make music in / praise / of the / Lord;
33 He rides on the ancient / heaven of / heavens //
and sends forth his / voice, a / mighty / voice.
34 Ascribe power to God, whose splendour is / over / Israel, //
whose / power · is a/bove the / clouds.
35 How terrible is God in his / holy / sanctuary, //
the God of Israel, who gives power and strength to his / people!
/ Blessed be / God.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.86. |
1 Save me, / O / God, //
for the waters have come up, / even / to my / neck.
2 I sink in deep mire where there / is no / foothold; //
I have come into deep waters / and the / flood sweeps / over me.
3 I have grown weary with crying; my / throat is / raw; //
my eyes have failed from / looking so / long · for my / God.
4 Those who hate me with/out · any / cause //
are more than the / hairs / of my / head;
5 Those who would des/troy me are / mighty; //
my enemies accuse me falsely:
must I now give / back · what I / never / stole?
6 O God, you / know my / foolishness, //
and my / faults · are not / hidden / from you.
7 Let not those who hope in you
be put to shame through me, Lord / God of / hosts; //
let not those who seek you be disgraced because of / me,
O / God of / Israel.
8,9. For your sake have I suffered reproach;
shame has / covered my / face. //
I have become a stranger to my kindred,
an alien / to my / mother's / children.
10 Zeal for your house has / eaten me / up; //
the scorn of those who / scorn you has / fallen up/on me.
11 I humbled my/self with / fasting, //
but that was / turned to / my re/proach.
12 I put on / sackcloth / also //
and be/came a / byword a/mong them.
13 Those who sit at the gate / murmur a/gainst me, //
and the / drunkards make / songs a/bout me.
14 But as for me, I make my prayer to / you, O / Lord; //
at an ac/ceptable / time, O / God.
15 Answer me, O God, in the abundance / of your / mercy //
and / with your / sure sal/vation.
16 Draw me out of the mire, / that I / sink not; //
let me be rescued from those who hate me
and / out of the / deep / waters.
17 Let not the water flood drown me,
neither the deep / swallow me / up; //
let not the Pit / shut its / mouth up/on me.
18 Answer me, Lord, for your loving/kindness is / good; //
turn to me in the / multitude / of your / mercies.
19 Hide not your / face · from your / servant; //
be swift to answer me, / for I / am in / trouble.
20 Draw near to my / soul and re/deem me; //
de/liver me be/cause of my / enemies.
21 You know my reproach, my shame and / my dis/honour; //
my adversaries are / all / in your / sight.
22 Reproach has broken my heart; I am / full of / heaviness. //
I looked for some to have pity, but there was no one,
neither / found I / any to / comfort me.
23 They gave me / gall to / eat, //
and when I was thirsty, they / gave me / vinegar to / drink.
24 Let the table before them / be a / trap //
and their / sacred / feasts a / snare.
25 Let their eyes be darkened, that they / cannot / see, //
and give them continual / trembling / in their / loins.
26 Pour out your indig/nation up/on them, //
and let the heat of your / anger / over/take them.
27 Let their camp be desolate, //
and let there be / no one to / dwell in their / tents.
28
and increase the sorrows of / him whom / you have / pierced.
29 Lay to their charge / guilt upon / guilt, //
and let them not re/ceive your / vindi/cation.
30 Let them be wiped out of the / book of the / living //
and not be / written a/mong the / righteous.
31 As for me, I am / poor · and in / misery; //
your saving help, O / God, will / lift me / up.
32 I will praise the name of / God · with a / song; //
I will pro/claim his / greatness with / thanksgiving.
33 This will please the Lord more than an / offering of / oxen, //
more than / bulls with / horns and / hooves.
34 The humble shall / see · and be / glad; //
you who seek / God, your / heart shall / live.
35 For the Lord / listens · to the / needy, //
and his own who are imprisoned / he does / not des/pise.
36 Let the heavens and the / earth / praise him, //
the seas and / all that / moves / in them; [ ..... moves there/in;]
37 For God will save Zion and rebuild the / cities of / Judah; //
they shall live there and / have it / in pos/session.
38 The children of his servants / shall in/herit it, //
and they that love his / name shall / dwell there/in.
RSCM CW Psalter--No 90. |
1 O God, make / speed to / save me; //
O / Lord, make / haste to / help me.
2 Let those who seek my life
be put to / shame and con/fusion; //
let them be turned back and dis/graced
who / wish me / evil.
3 Let those who / mock [me] and de/ride me //
turn / back be/cause of their / shame.
4 But let all who seek you rejoice and be / glad in / you; //
let those who love your salvation say / always, / 'Great is the / Lord!'
5 As for me, I am / poor and / needy; //
come to me / quickly, / O / God.
6 You are my help and / my de/liverer; //
O / Lord, do / not de/lay.
RSCM CW Psalter--No 91. |
1 In you, O Lord, do / I seek / refuge; //
let me / never be / put to / shame.
2 In your righteousness, deliver me and / set me / free; //
incline your / ear to / me and / save me.
3 Be for me a stronghold to which I may / ever re/sort; //
send out to save me, for / you are my / rock · and my / fortress.
4 Deliver me, my God, from the / hand of the / wicked, //
from the grasp of the evil/doer / and the op/pressor.
5 For you are my hope, / O Lord / God, //
my confidence, / even / from my / youth.
6 Upon you have I leaned from my birth,
when you drew me from my / mother's / womb; //
my praise / shall be / always of / you.
7 I have become a / portent to / many, //
but you are my / refuge / and my / strength.
8 Let my mouth be / full of your / praise //
and your / glory / all the day / long.
9 Do not cast me away in the time of / old / age; //
forsake me / not · when my / strength / fails.
10 For my enemies are / talking a/gainst me, //
and those who lie in wait for my / life take / counsel to/gether.
11 They say, 'God has forsaken him;
pur/sue him and / take him, //
be/cause · there is / none · to de/liver him.'
12 O God, / be not / far from me; //
come quickly to / help me, / O my / God.
13
let those who seek to do me evil
be / covered with / scorn · and re/proach. Let those who are against me
be put to / shame and dis/grace; //
14 But as for me I will / hope con/tinually //
and will / praise you / more and / more.
15 My mouth shall tell of your righteousness
and salvation / all the day / long, //
for I / know no / end of the / telling.
16 I will begin with the mighty works of the / Lord / God; //
I will recall your / righteousness, / yours / alone.
17 O God, you have taught me since / I was / young, //
and to this day I / tell · of your / wonderful / works.
18 Forsake me not, O God,
when I am / old and grey-/headed, //
till I make known your deeds to the next generation
and your power to / all that / are to / come.
19 Your righteousness, O God, / reaches · to the / heavens; //
in the great things you have done, / who is like / you, O / God?
20 What troubles and adversities / you have / shown me, //
and yet you will turn and refresh me
and bring me from the / deep of the / earth a/gain.
21 In/crease my / honour; //
turn a/gain / and comfort / me. [ turn / a/gain and / comfort me.]
22 Therefore will I praise you upon the harp
for your faithfulness, / O my / God; //
I will sing to you with the lyre, O / Holy / One of / Israel.
23 My lips will sing / out · as I / play to you, //
and so will my / soul, which / you have re/deemed.
24
for they shall be shamed and disgraced
who / sought to / do me / evil.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.93. |
1 Give the king your / judgements, O / God, //
and your righteousness / to the / son of a / king.
2 Then shall he judge your / people / righteously //
and your / poor / with / justice.
3 May the mountains / bring forth / peace, //
and the little hills / righteousness / for the / people.
4 May he defend the poor a/mong the / people, //
deliver the children of the / needy and / crush · the op/pressor.
5 May he live as long as the sun and / moon en/dure, //
from one gener/ation / to an/other.
6 May he come down like rain upon the / mown / grass, //
like the / showers that / water the / earth.
7
and abundance of peace
till the / moon shall / be no / more.
8 May his dominion extend from / sea to / sea //
and from the River / to the / ends of the / earth.
9 May his foes / kneel be/fore him //
and his / enemies / lick the / dust.
10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles / shall pay / tribute; //
the kings of Sheba and / Seba / shall bring / gifts.
11 All kings shall fall / down be/fore him; //
all / nations shall / do him / service.
12 For he shall deliver the / poor that cry / out, //
the needy and / those who / have no / helper.
13 He shall have pity on the / weak and / poor; //
he shall pre/serve the / lives of the / needy.
14 He shall redeem their lives from op/pression and / violence, //
and dear shall their / blood be / in his / sight.
15 Long may he live;
unto him may be given / gold from / Sheba; //
may prayer be made for him continually
and may they / bless him / all the day / long.
16 May there be abundance of grain on the earth,
standing thick up/on the / hilltops; //
may its fruit flourish like Lebanon
and its grain / grow · like the / grass of the / field.
17 May his name remain for ever
and be established as long as the / sun en/dures; //
may all nations be blest in / him
and / call him / blessed.
18 Blessed be the Lord, the / God of / Israel, //
who a/lone does / wonderful / things.
19 And blessed be his glorious / name for / ever. //
May all the earth be filled with his / glory.
A/men. A/men.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.94. |
1 Truly, God is / loving to / Israel, //
to those / who are / pure in / heart.
2 Nevertheless, my feet were / almost / gone; //
my / steps had / well-nigh / slipped.
3 For I was / envious · of the / proud; //
I saw the / wicked in / such pros/perity;
4 For they / suffer no / pains //
and their / bodies are / sleek and / sound;
5 They come to no mis/fortune like / other folk; //
nor are they / plagued as / others / are;
6 Therefore pride / is their / necklace //
and violence / wraps them / like a / cloak.
7 Their iniquity / comes from with/in; //
the conceits of their / hearts / over/flow.
8 They scoff, and speak / only of / evil; //
they talk of op/pression / from on / high.
9 They set their mouth a/gainst the / heavens, //
and their tongue / ranges / round the / earth;
10 And so the / people / turn to them //
and / find in / them no / fault.
11 They say, / 'How should / God know? //
Is there knowledge / in the / Most / High?'
12 Behold, / these are the / wicked; //
ever at ease, / they in/crease their / wealth.
13 Is it in vain that I / cleansed my / heart //
and / washed my / hands in / innocence?
14 All day long have / I been / stricken //
and / chastened / every / morning.
15 If I had said, 'I will / speak as / they do,' //
I should have betrayed the gene/ration / of your / children.
16 Then thought I to / under/stand this, //
but it / was too / hard for / me,
17 Until I entered the / sanctuary of / God //
and under/stood the / end of the / wicked:
18 How you set them in / slippery / places; //
you / cast them / down · to des/truction.
19 How suddenly do they / come to des/truction, //
perish and / come to a / fearful / end!
20 As with a dream / when one a/wakes, //
so, Lord, when you arise you / will des/pise their / image.
21 When my heart be/came em/bittered //
and / I was / pierced · to the / quick,
22 I was but / foolish and / ignorant; //
I was like a brute / beast in / your / presence.
23 Yet I am / always / with you; //
you hold me / by my / right / hand.
24 You will guide me / with your / counsel //
and / afterwards re/ceive me with / glory.
25 Whom have I in / heaven but / you? //
And there is nothing upon earth that I de/sire
· in com/parison with / you.
26 Though my flesh and my / heart / fail me, //
God is the strength of my heart / and my / portion for / ever.
27 Truly, those who forsake you will perish; //
you will put to silence the faithless who betray you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God; //
in the Lord God have I made my refuge,
that I may tell of all your works.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.95. |
1 O God, why have you / utterly dis/owned us? //
Why does your anger burn
a/gainst the / sheep of your / pasture?
2 Remember your congregation that you / purchased of / old, //
the tribe you redeemed for your own possession,
and Mount / Zion / where you / dwelt.
3 Hasten your steps towards the / endless / ruins, //
where the enemy has laid / waste / all your / sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries roared in the / place · of your / worship; //
they set up their / banners as / tokens of / victory.
5 Like men brandishing axes on high in a / thicket of / trees, //
all her carved work they smashed / down with / hatchet and / hammer.
6 They set fire to your / holy / place; //
they defiled the dwelling place of your name
and / razed it / to the / ground.
7 They said in their heart, 'Let us make havoc of them / alto/gether,' //
and they burned down all the sanctuaries of / God / in the / land. [ ... / sanctuaries · of / God · in the / land.]
8 There are no signs to see, not one / prophet / left, //
not one a/mong us who / knows how / long.
9 How long, O God, will the / adver· sary / scoff? //
Shall the enemy blas/pheme your / name for / ever?
10 Why have you with/held your / hand //
and hidden your / right hand / in your / bosom?
11 Yet God is my / king · from of / old, //
who did deeds of sal/vation · in the / midst of the / earth.
12 It was you that divided the / sea · by your / might //
and shattered the heads of the / dragons / on the / waters;
13 You alone crushed the / heads of Le/viathan //
and gave him to the / beasts · of the / desert for / food.
14 You cleft the rock for / fountain and / flood; //
you dried up / ever/flowing / rivers.
15 Yours is the day, yours / also the / night; //
you es/tablished the / moon · and the / sun.
16 You set all the / bounds of the / earth; //
you / fashioned both / summer and / winter.
17 Remember now, Lord, how the / enemy / scoffed, //
how a foolish / people des/pised your / name.
18 Do not give to wild beasts the / soul of your / turtle dove; //
forget not the / lives of your / poor for / ever.
19 Look upon / your cre/ation,
for the earth is full of darkness, //
/ full of the / haunts of / violence.
20 Let not the oppressed turn a/way a/shamed, //
but let the poor and / needy / praise your / name.
21 Arise, O God, maintain your / own / cause; //
remember how fools re/vile you / all the day / long.
22 Forget not the / clamour · of your / adversaries, //
the tumult of your enemies / that as/cends con/tinually.
RSCM CW Psalter--No.97. |
1 We give you thanks, O God, we / give you / thanks, //
for your name is near, as your / wonderful / deeds de/clare.
2 'I will seize the ap/pointed / time; //
I, the / Lord, will / judge with / equity.
3 'Though the earth reels and / all that / dwell in her, //
it is I that / hold her / pillars / steady.
4 'To the boasters I say,/ “Boast no / longer,” //
and to the wicked, / “Do not / lift up your / horn.
5 ' “Do not lift up your / horn on / high; //
do not / speak · with a / stiff / neck.” '
6 For neither from the east / nor from the / west, //
nor yet from the / wilderness comes / exal/tation.
7 But God a/lone is / judge; //
he puts down one and / raises / up an/other.
8 For in the hand of the Lord there / is a / cup, //
well mixed and / full of / foaming / wine.
9
they shall / drink it, and / drain the / dregs.
10 But I will re/joice for / ever //
and make / music · to the / God of / Jacob.
11 All the horns of the wicked / will I / break, //
but the horns of the / righteous shall / be ex/alted.