1  Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,

you who lead ^gJoseph like ^ha flock.

You who are ⁱenthroned upon the cherubim, ^jshine forth.

2  Before ^kEphraim and Benjamin and Manasseh,

^lstir up your might

and ^mcome to save us!

3  ⁿRestore us,¹ O God;

^olet your face shine, that we may be saved!

4  O ^pLord God of hosts,

^qhow long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?

5  You have fed them with ^rthe bread of tears

and given them tears to drink in full measure.

6  ^sYou make us an object of contention for our ^sneighbors,

and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7  ⁿRestore us, O God of hosts;

let your face shine, that we may be saved!

8  You brought ^ta vine out of Egypt;

you ^udrove out the nations and planted it.

9  You ^vcleared the ground for it;

it took deep root and filled the land.

10  The mountains were covered with its shade,

the mighty cedars with its branches.

11  It sent out its branches to ^wthe sea

and its shoots to ^wthe River.²

12  Why then have you ^xbroken down its walls,

so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?

13  ^yThe boar from the forest ravages it,

and all that move in the field feed on it.

14  Turn again, O God of hosts!

^zLook down from heaven, and see;

have regard for this vine,

15  the stock that your right hand planted,

and for the son whom you made strong for yourself.

16  They have ^aburned it with fire; they have ^acut it down;

may they perish at ^bthe rebuke of your face!

17  But ^clet your hand be on the man of your right hand,

the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

18  Then we shall not turn back from you;

^dgive us life, and we will call upon your name!

19  ^eRestore us, O Lord God of hosts!

Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

1  ^hSing aloud to God our strength;

ⁱshout for joy to the God of Jacob!

2  Raise a song; sound ^jthe tambourine,

^kthe sweet lyre with ^kthe harp.

3  Blow the trumpet at ^lthe new moon,

at the full moon, on our feast day.

4  For it is a statute for Israel,

a rule⁴ of the God of Jacob.

5  He made it ^ma decree in ⁿJoseph

when he ^owent out over⁵ the land of Egypt.

^pI hear a language ^qI had not known:

6  “I ^rrelieved your⁶ shoulder of ^sthe burden;

your hands were freed from the basket.

7  In distress you ^tcalled, and I delivered you;

I ^uanswered you in the secret place of thunder;

I ^vtested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

8  ^wHear, O my people, while I admonish you!

O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

9  There shall be no ^xstrange god among you;

you shall not bow down to a ^yforeign god.

10  ^zI am the Lord your God,

who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

^aOpen your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11  “But my people did not listen to my voice;

Israel ^bwould not submit to me.

12  So I ^cgave them over to their ^dstubborn hearts,

to follow their own ^ecounsels.

13  ^fOh, that my people would listen to me,

that Israel would ^gwalk in my ways!

14  I would soon subdue their enemies

and ^hturn my hand against their foes.

15  Those who hate the Lord would ⁱcringe toward him,

and their fate would last forever.

16  But he would feed you⁷ with ^jthe finest of the wheat,

and with ^khoney from the rock I would satisfy you.”

1  ^mGod ⁿhas taken his place in the divine council;

in the midst of ^pthe gods he ^qholds judgment:

2  “How long will you judge unjustly

and ^rshow partiality to ^sthe wicked? Selah

3  ^tGive justice to ^uthe weak and the fatherless;

^vmaintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.

4  ^wRescue the weak and the needy;

^xdeliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

5  ^yThey have neither knowledge nor understanding,

^zthey walk about in darkness;

^aall the foundations of the earth are ^bshaken.

6  ^cI said, “You are gods,

sons of the Most High, all of you;

7  nevertheless, like men ^dyou shall die,

and fall like any prince.”⁸

8  ^eArise, O God, judge the earth;

for you shall ^finherit all the nations!

1  O God, do not keep silence;

^hdo not hold your peace or be still, O God!

2  For behold, your enemies ⁱmake an uproar;

those who hate you have ^jraised their heads.

3  They lay ^kcrafty plans against your people;

they consult together against your ^ltreasured ones.

4  They say, “Come, ^mlet us wipe them out as a nation;

let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

5  For they conspire with one accord;

against you they make a covenant—

6  the tents of ⁿEdom and ^othe Ishmaelites,

^pMoab and ^qthe Hagrites,

7  ^rGebal and ^pAmmon and ^sAmalek,

^tPhilistia with the inhabitants of ^uTyre;

8  ^vAsshur also has joined them;

they are the strong arm of ^wthe children of Lot. Selah

9  Do to them as you did to ^xMidian,

as to ^ySisera and Jabin at ^zthe river Kishon,

10  who were destroyed at ^aEn-dor,

who became ^bdung for the ground.

11  Make their nobles like ^cOreb and Zeeb,

all their princes like ^dZebah and Zalmunna,

12  who said, ^e“Let us take possession for ourselves

of the pastures of God.”

13  O my God, make them like ^fwhirling dust,⁹

like ^gchaff before the wind.

14  As ^hfire consumes the forest,

as the flame ⁱsets the mountains ablaze,

15  so may you pursue them ^jwith your tempest

and terrify them with your hurricane!

16  ^kFill their faces with shame,

that they may seek your name, O Lord.

17  Let them be ^lput to shame and dismayed forever;

let them perish in disgrace,

18  that they may ^mknow that you alone,

ⁿwhose name is the Lord,

are ^othe Most High over all the earth.

1  O Lord, ^cGod of my salvation,

I ^dcry out day and night before you.

2  Let my prayer come before you;

^eincline your ear to my cry!

3  For my soul is full of troubles,

and ^fmy life draws near to ^gSheol.

4  I am counted among those who ^hgo down to the pit;

I am a man who has no strength,

5  like one set loose among the dead,

like the slain that lie in the grave,

like those whom ⁱyou remember no more,

for they are ^jcut off from your hand.

6  You have put me in ^kthe depths of the pit,

in the ^lregions dark and ^mdeep.

7  Your wrath ⁿlies heavy upon me,

and you overwhelm me with ^oall your waves. Selah

8  You have caused ^pmy companions to shun me;

you have made me ^qa horror² to them.

I am ^rshut in so that I cannot escape;

9  ^smy eye grows dim through sorrow.

Every day I call upon you, O Lord;

I ^tspread out my hands to you.

10  Do you work wonders for the dead?

^uDo the departed rise up to praise you? Selah

11  Is your steadfast love declared in the grave,

or your faithfulness in Abaddon?

12  Are your ^vwonders known in ^wthe darkness,

or your righteousness in the land of ^xforgetfulness?

13  But I, O Lord, cry ^yto you;

^zin the morning my prayer comes before you.

14  O Lord, why ^ado you cast my soul away?

Why ^bdo you hide your face from me?

15  Afflicted and close to death from my youth up,

I suffer your terrors; I am helpless.³

16  Your wrath has swept over me;

your ^cdreadful assaults destroy me.

17  They ^dsurround me like a flood ^eall day long;

they ^fclose in on me together.

18  You have caused ^gmy beloved and my friend to shun me;

my companions have become darkness.⁴