⁵Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence,

⁶Who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows. God in his holy place:

⁷God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.

⁸O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert:

⁹The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.

¹⁰Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect.

¹¹In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.

¹²The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings with great power.

¹³The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.

¹⁴If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.

¹⁵When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall be whited with snow in Selmon.

¹⁶The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain.

¹⁷Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.

¹⁸The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.

¹⁹Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in men. Yea for those also that do not believe, the dwelling of the Lord God.

²⁰Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make our journey prosperous to us.

²¹Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, of the Lord are the issues from death.

²²But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins.

²³The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea:

²⁴That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.

²⁵They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanctuary.

²⁶Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels.

²⁷In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from the fountains of Israel.

²⁸There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of mind. The princes of Juda are their leaders: the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali.

²⁹Command thy strength, O God confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.

³⁰From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee.

³¹Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

³²Ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.

³³Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing ye to God,

³⁴Who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east. Behold he will give to his voice the voice of power:

³⁵Give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power is in the clouds.

³⁶God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.

Psalm 68

¹Unto the end, for them that shall be changed; for David.

²Save me, O God: for the waters are come in even unto my soul.

³I stick fast in the mire of the deep and there is no sure standing. I am come into the depth of the sea, and a tempest hath overwhelmed me.

⁴I have laboured with crying; my jaws are become hoarse, my eyes have failed, whilst I hope in my God.

⁵They are multiplied above the hairs of my head, who hate me without cause. My enemies are grown strong who have wrongfully persecuted me: then did I pay that which I took not away.

⁶O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my offences are not hidden from thee:

⁷Let not them be ashamed for me, who look for thee, O Lord, the Lord of hosts. Let them not be confounded on my account, who seek thee, O God of Israel.

⁸Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

⁹I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to the sons of my mother.

¹⁰For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up: and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

¹¹And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.

¹²And I made haircloth my garment: and I became a byword to them.

¹³They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

¹⁴But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

¹⁵Draw me out of the mire, that I may not stick fast: deliver me from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

¹⁶Let not the tempest of water drown me, nor the deep water swallow me up: and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

¹⁷Hear me, O Lord, for thy mercy is kind; look upon me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

¹⁸And turn not away thy face from thy servant: for I am in trouble, hear me speedily.

¹⁹Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.

²⁰Thou knowest my reproach, and my confusion, and my shame.

²¹In thy sight are all they that afflict me; my heart hath expected reproach and misery. And I looked for one that would grieve together with me, but there was none: and for one that would comfort me, and I found none.

²²And they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²³Let their table become as a snare before them, and a recompense, and a stumblingblock.

²⁴Let their eyes be darkened that they see not; and their back bend thou down always.

²⁵Pour out thy indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.

²⁶Let their habitation be made desolate: and let there be none to dwell in their tabernacles.

²⁷Because they have persecuted him whom thou hast smitten; and they have added to the grief of my wounds.

²⁸Add thou iniquity upon their iniquity: and let them not come into thy justice.

²⁹Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; and with the just let them not be written.

³⁰But I am poor and sorrowful: thy salvation, O God, hath set me up.

³¹I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise.

³²And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.

³³Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.

³⁴For the Lord hath heard the poor: and hath not despised his prisoners.

³⁵Let the heavens and the earth praise him; the sea, and every thing that creepeth therein.

³⁶For God will save Sion, and the cities of Juda shall be built up. And they shall dwell there, and acquire it by inheritance.

³⁷And the seed of his servants shall possess it; and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

Psalm 69

¹Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the Lord saved him.

²O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.

³Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek my soul:

⁴Let them be turned backward, and blush for shame that desire evils to me: Let them be presently turned away blushing for shame that say to me: ‘Tis well, ‘tis well.

⁵Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified.

⁶But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and my deliverer: O lord, make no delay.

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