Psalm 73–83

Psalm 73

^||A Psalm of ^*Asaph.

^1||Truly God is good to ^aIsrael,

Even to such as are ^†of a clean heart.

²But as for me, my feet were almost ^bgone;

My steps had well nigh slipped.

^3cFor I was ^denvious at the ^efoolish,

When I saw the ^fprosperity of the wicked.

⁴For there are no ^gbands in their death:

But their strength is ^†firm.

⁵They are not ^†in trouble as other men;

Neither are they ^hplagued ^†like other men.

⁶ⁿTherefore pride compasseth them about ⁱas a chain;

Violence covereth them ^jas a garment.

^7kTheir eyes stand out with fatness:

^†They have more than heart could wish.

⁸They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:

^lThey speak ^mloftily.

⁹They set their mouth against the heavens,

And their tongue walketh through the earth.

¹⁰ⁿTherefore his people return hither:

And waters of a full ^ocup ^pare wrung out to them.

¹¹And they say, ^qHow doth God know?

And is there knowledge in the most High?

¹²Behold, these are the ungodly,

^rWho prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

^13sVerily I have cleansed my heart in vain,

And ^twashed my hands in innocency.

¹⁴For all the day long have I been ^hplagued,

And ^†chastened ^ttevery morning.

¹⁵If I say, I will speak ^uthus;

Behold, I should offend against ^vthe generation of thy children.

¹⁶When I ^wthought to know this,

^†It was too painful for me;

¹⁷Until I went into ^xthe sanctuary of God;

Then ^yunderstood I ^ztheir end.

^18sSurely thou didst set them in ^aslippery places:

Thou castedst them down into ^bdestruction.

¹⁹How are they brought into desolation, ^cas in a moment!

They are utterly ^dconsumed with ^eterrors.

^20fAs a dream when one awaketh;

So, O Lord, ^gwhen thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

²¹Thus my heart was grieved,

And I was pricked in my reins.

²²So ^hfoolish was I, and ^†ignorant:

I was as ⁱa beast ^†before thee.

²³Nevertheless I am continually with thee:

Thou hast holden me by my right hand.

^24jThou shalt guide me with thy counsel,

And afterward ^jjreceive me to glory.

²⁵Whom have I in heaven but thee?

And there is none upon earth that I desire ^kbeside thee.

^26lMy flesh and my heart faileth:

But God is the ^†strength of my heart, and ^mmy portion ⁿfor ever.

²⁷For, lo, ^othey that are far from thee shall perish:

Thou hast destroyed all them that ^pgo a whoring from thee.

²⁸But it is good for me to draw near to God:

I have put my trust in the Lord God,

That I may ^qdeclare all thy works.

Psalm 74

^||Maschil of ^†Asaph.

¹O God, why hast thou ^acast us off for ever?

Why doth thine anger ^bsmoke against ^cthe sheep of thy pasture?

²Remember thy congregation, which ^dthou hast purchased of old;

The ^||erod of ^fthine inheritance, which ^gthou hast redeemed;

This mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

³Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ^hdesolations;

Even ⁱall that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

⁴Thine enemies ⁱroar in the midst of thy ^jcongregations;

^kThey set up their ensigns for signs.

⁵A man was famous according as he had lifted up

Axes upon the thick trees.

⁶But now they break down ^lthe carved work thereof

At once with axes and hammers.

^7m†They have cast fire into thy sanctuary,

ⁿThey have defiled ^oby casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

^8pThey said in their hearts, Let us ^†destroy them together:

They have burned up all the ^jsynagogues of God in the land.

⁹We see not our ^ksigns:

^qThere is no more any prophet:

Neither is there among us any that knoweth ^rhow long.

¹⁰O God, ^rhow long shall the adversary ^sreproach?

Shall the enemy ^sblaspheme thy name for ever?

¹¹Why ^twithdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand?

Pluck it out of thy bosom.

¹²For ^uGod is my King of old,

Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

^13xThou didst ^†divide the sea by thy strength:

^yThou brakest the heads of the ^||dragons in the waters.

¹⁴Thou brakest the heads of ^zleviathan in pieces,

And gavest ^ahim to be meat ^bto the people inhabiting the wilderness.

^15cThou didst ^dcleave the fountain and the flood:

^eThou driedst up ^†mighty rivers.

¹⁶The day is thine, the night also is thine:

Thou hast prepared ^fthe light and the sun.

¹⁷Thou hast ^gset all the borders of the earth:

Thou hast ^†made ^hsummer and winter.

¹⁸ⁱRemember this, that the enemy hath ^kreproached, O Lord,

And ^lthat ^mthe foolish people have ^kblasphemed thy name.

¹⁹O deliver not the soul of ⁿthy turtledove unto the ^omultitude of the wicked:

Forget not the ^ocongregation of thy poor for ever.

²⁰Have respect unto ^pthe covenant:

For ^qthe dark places of the earth are full of ^rthe habitations of cruelty.

²¹O let not ^sthe oppressed return ashamed:

Let ^tthe poor and needy praise thy name.

²²Arise, O God, ^uplead thine own cause:

ⁱRemember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

²³Forget not the voice of thine enemies:

^wThe tumult of those that rise up against thee ^†increaseth continually.

Psalm 75

To the chief Musician, ^||*Al-taschith, ^†A Psalm or Song ^||of Asaph.

¹Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks:

For that thy name is ^anear thy wondrous works declare.

^2b||When I shall receive the congregation

I will judge ^cuprightly.

^3dThe earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved:

I bear up ^ethe pillars of it. Selah.

⁴I said unto the ^ffools, Deal not foolishly:

And to the wicked, ^gLift not up the horn:

⁵Lift not up your horn on high:

Speak not with a ^hstiff ⁱneck.

⁶For promotion cometh neither from the east,

Nor from the west, nor from the ^†south.

⁷But ^kGod is the judge:

^lHe putteth down one, and setteth up another.

⁸For ^min the hand of the Lord there is ⁿa cup, and the wine is red;

It is full of ^omixture; and he poureth out of the same:

But the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall ^pwring them out, and drink them.

⁹But I will declare for ever;

I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰All ^qthe horns of the wicked also will I cut off;

But ^rthe horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Psalm 76

To the chief Musician on ^*Neginoth, ^†A Psalm or Song ^||of Asaph.

¹In ^aJudah is God known:

His name is great in Israel.

²In ^bSalem also is his ^ctabernacle,

And his dwelling place in Zion.

³There ^dbrake he the ^earrows of the bow,

The shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

⁴Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of ^fprey.

^5gThe stouthearted are spoiled, they have ^hslept their sleep:

And none of the men of might have found their hands.

⁶At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,

Both ⁱthe chariot and horse ^hare cast into a dead sleep.

⁷Thou, even thou, art ^rto be feared:

And who may ^kstand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

^8lThou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven;

The earth feared, and was still,

⁹When God arose ^lto judgment,

To save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

^10mSurely the wrath of man shall praise thee:

The remainder of wrath shalt thou ⁿrestrain.

^11oVow, and pay unto the Lord your God:

^pLet all that be round about him ^qbring presents ^†unto him that ought to be feared.

¹²He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is ^rterrible to the kings of the earth.

Psalm 77

To the chief Musician, ^*to Jeduthun, A Psalm ^||of Asaph.

^1aI cried unto God with my voice,

Even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

^2bIn the day of my trouble I sought the Lord:

^†My sore ran ^cin the night, and ceased not:

My soul ^drefused to be comforted.

³I remembered God, and was ^etroubled:

I complained, and ^fmy spirit was ^goverwhelmed. Selah.

⁴Thou holdest mine eyes waking:

I am so ^htroubled that I cannot speak.

⁵I have ⁱconsidered ⁱⁱthe days of old,

^jThe years of ancient times.

⁶I call to remembrance my ^ksong ^lin the night:

I commune with mine own heart:

And my spirit made diligent search.

⁷Will the Lord ^mcast off for ever?

And will he ⁿbe favourable no more?

⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever?

Doth ^ohis promise fail ^†for evermore?

^9pHath God forgotten to be gracious?

^qHath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

¹⁰And I said, This is ^rmy infirmity:

But I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

¹¹I will remember the works of ^sthe Lord:

Surely ^tI will remember thy ^uwonders of old.

^12tI will meditate also of all ^xthy work, and ^ttalk of ^ythy doings.

¹³Thy way, O God, is in ^zthe sanctuary:

^aWho is so great a God as our God?

¹⁴Thou art the God ^abthat doest ^uwonders:

Thou hast ^bbdeclared thy strength among the people.

¹⁵Thou hast ^cwith thine arm ^cdredeemed thy people,

The sons of Jacob and ^ddJoseph. Selah.

^16efThe waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; ^fthey were afraid:

The depths also ^mwere troubled.

^17†The clouds ^fpoured out water:

The skies ^gsent out a sound:

^hThine arrows also went abroad.

¹⁸ⁱThe voice of thy thunder was in the heaven:

^kThe lightnings lightened the world:

^lThe earth ^mtrembled and ^lshook.

¹⁹ⁿThy way is in the sea,

And thy ^opath in the great waters,

And thy ^pfootsteps ^qare not known.

^20rThou leddest thy people ^slike a flock

^tBy the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 78

^*||Maschil of Asaph.

^1aGive ear, O my people, to my law:

Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

^2bI will open my mouth in a ^cparable:

I will ^dutter ^edark sayings of old:

³Which we have heard and known,

And ^four fathers have told us.

^4gWe will not hide them from their children,

^hShewing to the generation to come

The praises of the Lord, and his strength,

And ⁱhis wonderful works that he hath done.

⁵For he established ^ja testimony in ^kJacob,

And appointed a law in ^kIsrael,

Which he commanded our fathers,

^gThat they should make them known to their children:

⁶That ^lthe generation to come might know them, even ^mthe children which should be born;

Who should arise and ^gdeclare them to their children:

⁷That they might set their ⁿhope in God,

And not forget the works of God,

But ⁿⁿkeep his commandments:

⁸And ^omight not be as their fathers,

A ^pqstubborn and ^prrebellious generation;

A generation ^†that set not their heart aright,

And whose spirit was not ^sstedfast with God.

⁹The children of Ephraim, being ^tarmed, and ^†carrying ^tubows,

^wTurned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God,

And refused to walk in his law;

¹¹And ^xforgat his works,

And ⁱhis wonders that he had shewed them.

^12yMarvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,

In the land of Egypt, in ^zthe field of…