Psalm 68
68
1 Unto the end. For those who will be changed: of David.
2 Save me, O God, for the waters have entered, even to my soul.
3 I have become stuck in a deep quagmire, and there is no firm footing. I have arrived at the height of the sea, and a tempest has overwhelmed me.
4 I have endured hardships, while crying out. My jaws have become hoarse; my eyes have failed. Meanwhile, I hope in my God.
5 Those who hate me without cause have been multiplied beyond the hairs of my head. My enemies, who persecuted me unjustly, have been strengthened. Then I was required to pay for what I did not take.
6 O God, you know my foolishness, and my offenses have not been hidden from you.
7 Let those who wait for you, O Lord, the Lord of hosts, not be shamed in me. Let those who seek you, O God of Israel, not be confounded over me.
8 For because of you, I have endured reproach; confusion has covered my face.
9 I have become a stranger to my brothers and a sojourner to the sons of my mother.
10 For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproached you have fallen upon me.
11 And I covered my soul with fasting, and it has become a reproach to me.
12 And I put on a haircloth as my garment, and I became a parable to them.
13 Those who sat at the gate spoke against me, and those who drank wine made me their song.
14 But as for me, truly, my prayer is to you, O Lord. This time has pleased you well, O God. In the multitude of your mercy, in the truth of your salvation, hear me.
15 Rescue me from the quagmire, so that I may not become trapped. Free me from those who hate me and from deep waters.
16 Do not allow the tempest of water to submerge me, nor the deep to absorb me. And do not allow the well to close in on me.
17 Hear me, O Lord, for your mercy is kind. Look upon me, according to the fullness of your compassion.
18 And do not turn your face away from your servant, for I am in trouble: heed me quickly.
19 Attend to my soul, and free it. Rescue me, because of my enemies.
20 You know my reproach, and my confusion, and my reverence.
21 All those who trouble me are in your sight; my heart has anticipated reproach and misery. And I sought for one who might grieve together with me, but there was no one, and for one who might console me, and I found no one.
22 And they gave me gall for my food. And in my thirst, they gave me vinegar to drink.
23 Let their table be a snare before them, and a retribution, and a scandal.
24 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they may not see, and may their back always be crooked.
25 Pour out your indignation upon them, and may the fury of your anger take hold of them.
26 May their dwelling place be deserted, and may there be no one who dwells in their tabernacles.
27 For they persecuted whomever you struck. And they have added to the grief of my wounds.
28 Assign an iniquity upon their iniquity, and may they not enter into your justice.
29 Delete them from the Book of the Living, and let them not be written down with the just.
30 I am poor and sorrowful, but your salvation, O God, has taken me up.
31 I will praise the name of God with a canticle, and I will magnify him with praise.
32 And it will please God more than a new calf producing horns and hoofs.
33 Let the poor see and rejoice. Seek God, and your soul will live.
34 For the Lord has heard the poor, and he has not despised his prisoners.
35 Let the heavens and the earth praise him: the sea, and everything that crawls in it.
36 For God will save Zion, and the cities of Judah will be built up. And they will dwell there, and they will acquire it by inheritance.
37 And the offspring of his servants will possess it; and those who love his name will dwell in it.
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Psalms 68
68
To the Overseer. — A Psalm, a song of David.
1Rise doth God — scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.
2As the driving away of smoke Thou drivest away, As the melting of wax before fire, The wicked perish at the presence of God.
3And the righteous rejoice, they exult before God, And they joy with gladness.
4Sing ye to God — praise His name, Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, In Jah [is] His name, and exult before Him.
5Father of the fatherless, and judge of the widows, [Is] God in His holy habitation.
6God — causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only — the refractory have inhabited a dry place.
7O God, in Thy going forth before Thy people, In Thy stepping through the wilderness, Selah.
8The earth hath shaken, Yea, the heavens have dropped before God, This Sinai — before God, the God of Israel.
9A shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it.
10Thy company have dwelt in it, Thou preparest in Thy goodness for the poor, O God.
11The Lord doth give the saying, The female proclaimers [are] a numerous host.
12Kings of hosts flee utterly away, And a female inhabitant of the house apportioneth spoil.
13Though ye do lie between two boundaries, Wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.
14When the Mighty spreadeth kings in it, It doth snow in Salmon.
15A hill of God [is] the hill of Bashan, A hill of heights [is] the hill of Bashan.
16Why do ye envy, O high hills, The hill God hath desired for His seat? Jehovah also doth tabernacle for ever.
17The chariots of God [are] myriads, thousands of changes, The Lord [is] among them, in Sinai, in the sanctuary.
18Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast taken captive captivity, Thou hast taken gifts for men, That even the refractory may rest, O Jah God.
19Blessed [is] the Lord, day by day He layeth on us. God Himself [is] our salvation. Selah.
20God Himself [is] to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.
21Only — God doth smite The head of His enemies, The hairy crown of a habitual walker in his guilt.
22The Lord said: ‘From Bashan I bring back, I bring back from the depths of the sea.
23So that thou dashest thy foot in blood, [In the blood of] enemies — the tongue of Thy dogs.’
24They have seen Thy goings, O God, Goings of my God, my king, in the sanctuary.
25Singers have been before, Behind [are] players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.
26In assemblies bless ye God, The Lord — from the fountain of Israel.
27There [is] little Benjamin their ruler, Heads of Judah their defence, Heads of Zebulun — heads of Naphtali.
28Thy God hath commanded thy strength, Be strong, O God, this Thou hast wrought for us.
29Because of Thy temple at Jerusalem, To Thee do kings bring a present.
30Rebuke a beast of the reeds, a company of bulls, With calves of the peoples, Each humbling himself with pieces of silver, Scatter Thou peoples delighting in conflicts.
31Come do fat ones out of Egypt, Cush causeth her hands to run to God.
32Kingdoms of the earth, sing ye to God, Praise ye the Lord. Selah.
33To him who is riding on the heavens of the heavens of old, Lo, He giveth with His voice a strong voice.
34Ascribe ye strength to God, Over Israel [is] His excellency, and His strength in the clouds.
35Fearful, O God, out of Thy sanctuaries, The God of Israel Himself, Giving strength and might to the people. Blessed [is] God!
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