Jun 12 - Psalms 86-89
Psalms
1A Prayer of David himself. Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear me. For I am needy and poor2Preserve my soul, for I am holy. My God, bring salvation to your servant who hopes in you3O Lord, be merciful to me, for I have cried out to you all day long4Give joy to the soul of your servant, for I have lifted up my soul to you, Lord5For you are sweet and mild, Lord, and plentiful in mercy to all who call upon you6Pay attention, Lord, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplication7In the day of my tribulation, I cried out to you, because you heeded me8There is no one like you among the gods, O Lord, and there is no one like you in your works9All the nations, which you have made, will draw near and adore in your presence, O Lord. And they will glorify your name10For you are great, and you perform wonders. You alone are God11Lead me, O Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth. May my heart rejoice, so that it will fear your name12I will confess to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart. And I will glorify your name in eternity13For your mercy toward me is great, and you have rescued my soul from the lower part of Hell14O God, the iniquitous have risen up against me, and the synagogue of the powerful have sought my soul, and they have not placed you in their sight15And you, Lord God, are compassionate and merciful, being patient and full of mercy and truthful16Look down upon me and have mercy on me. Grant your authority to your servant, and bring salvation to the son of your handmaid17Make me a sign of what is good, so that those who hate me, may look and be confounded. For you, O Lord, have helped me and consoled me
1A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains2the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob3Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God4I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there5Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her6The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her7For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing
1A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Unto the end. For Mahalath, to answer the understanding of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, God of my salvation: I have cried out, day and night, in your presence2Let my prayer enter in your sight. Incline your ear to my petition3For my soul has been filled with evils, and my life has drawn near to Hell4I am considered to be among those who will descend into the pit. I have become like a man without assistance5idle among the dead. I am like the wounded sleeping in sepulchers, whom you no longer remember, and who have been repelled by your hand6They have lain me in the lower pit: in dark places and in the shadow of death7Your fury has been confirmed over me. And you have brought all your waves upon me8You have sent my acquaintances far from me. They have set me as an abomination to themselves. I was handed over, yet I did not depart9My eyes languished before destitution. All day long, I cried out to you, O Lord. I stretched out my hands to you10Will you perform wonders for the dead? Or will physicians raise to life, and so confess to you11Could anyone declare your mercy in the sepulcher, or your truth from within perdition12Will your wonders be known in the darkness, or your justice in the land of oblivion13And I have cried out to you, O Lord, and in early morning, my prayer will come before you14Lord, why do you reject my prayer? Why do you turn your face away from me15I am poor, and I have been amid hardships from my youth. And, though I have been exalted, I am humbled and disturbed16Your wrath has crossed into me, and your terrors have disturbed me17They have surrounded me like water, all day long. They have surrounded me, all at once18Friend and neighbor, and my acquaintances, you have sent far away from me, away from misery
1The understanding of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing the mercies of the Lord in eternity. I will announce your truth with my mouth, from generation to generation2For you have said: Mercy will be built in the heavens, unto eternity. Your truth will be prepared there3I have set up a covenant with my elect. I have sworn to David my servant4I will prepare your offspring, even in eternity. And I will build up your throne, from generation to generation5The heavens will confess your miracles, Lord, and also your truth, in the Church of the saints6For who among the clouds is equal to the Lord? Who among the sons of God is like God7God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him8O Lord, God of hosts, who is like you? You are powerful, Lord, and your truth is all around you9You rule over the power of the sea, and you even mitigate the movement of its waves10You have humbled the arrogant one, like one who has been wounded. You have scattered your enemies with the arm of your strength11Yours are the heavens, and yours is the earth. You founded the whole world in all its fullness12You created the north and the sea. Tabor and Hermon will exult in your name13Your arm acts with power. Let your hand be strengthened, and let your right hand be exalted14Justice and judgment are the preparation of your throne. Mercy and truth will precede your face15Blessed is the people that knows jubilation. They will walk in the light of your countenance, O Lord16and they will exult in your name all day long, and they will be exalted in your justice17For you are the glory of their virtue, and in your goodness, our horn will be exalted18For our assumption is of the Lord, and it is of our king, the holy one of Israel19Then you spoke in a vision to your holy ones, and you said: I have stationed help with the powerful one, and I have exalted the elect one from my people20I have found my servant David. I have anointed him with my holy oil21For my hand will assist him, and my arm will fortify him22The enemy will have no advantage over him, nor will the son of iniquity be positioned to harm him23And I will cut down his enemies before his face. And those who hate him, I will turn to flight24And my truth and my mercy will be with him. And his horn will be exalted in my name25And I will place his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers26He will invoke me: "You are my father, my God, and the support of my salvation.27And I will make him the first-born, preeminent before the kings of the earth28I will preserve my mercy for him eternally, and my covenant for him faithfully29And I will set his offspring from generation to generation, and his throne like the days of heaven30But if his sons abandon my law, and if they do not walk in my judgments31if they profane my justices, and if they do not keep my commandments32I will visit their iniquities with a rod, and their sins with a beating33But I will not scatter my mercy from him, and I will not do harm to my truth34And I will not profane my covenant, and I will not make void that which proceeds from my lips35I have sworn by my holiness one time: I will not lie to David36his offspring will remain for eternity. And his throne will be like the sun in my sight37and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven38Yet, truly, you have rejected and despised, you have pushed away, my Christ39You have overthrown the covenant of your servant. You have profaned his sanctuary on earth40You have destroyed all his fences. You have made his territory dreadful41All who pass by the way have plundered him. He has become a disgrace to his neighbors42You have exalted the right hand of those who oppress him. You have brought joy to all his enemies43You have diverted the help of his sword, and you have not assisted him in battle44You have torn him away from cleansing, and you have smashed his throne down to the ground45You have reduced the days of his time. You have flooded him with confusion46How long, O Lord? Will you turn away unto the end? Will your wrath flare up like a fire47Remember what my substance is. For could you really have appointed all the sons of men in vain48Who is the man that will live, and yet not see death? Who will rescue his own soul from the hand of the underworld49O Lord, where are your mercies of antiquity, just as you swore to David in your truth50Be mindful, O Lord, of the disgrace of your servants (which I have sustained in my sinews) among many nations51With these, your enemies have reproached you, O Lord; with these, they have reproached the commutation of your Christ52Blessed is the Lord for all eternity. Amen. Amen