Ketuvim
Tehillim107
Psalms · Chapter 107
O give thanks unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), for
he is good: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
Let the redeemed of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Hungry and thirsty, their nephesh fainted in them.
Then they cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in their trouble,
and he delivered them out of their distresses.
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Oh that
men would praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
for his goodness, and
for his wonderful works to the children of men!
For he satisfieth the longing nephesh, and filleth the hungry nephesh with goodness.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
being
bound in affliction and iron;
Because they rebelled against the words of Elohim, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and
there was none to help.
Then they cried unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in their trouble,
and he saved them out of their distresses.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
Oh that
men would praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
for his goodness, and
for his wonderful works to the children of men!
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Their nephesh abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
Then they cry unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in their trouble,
and he saveth them out of their distresses.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered
them from their destructions.
Oh that
men would praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
for his goodness, and
for his wonderful works to the children of men!
And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
These see the works of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and his wonders in the deep.
For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
They mount up to the shamayim, they go down again to the depths: their nephesh is melted because of trouble.
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
Then they cry unto 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Oh that
men would praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH)
for his goodness, and
for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness,
where there is no way.
Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh
him
families like a flock.
The righteous shall see
it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
Whoso
is wise, and will observe these
things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH).
Ketuvim
Tehillim108
Psalms · Chapter 108
O Elohim, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.
Awake, psaltery and harp: I
myself will awake early.
I will praise thee, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
For thy mercy
is great above the shamayim: and thy truth
reacheth unto the clouds.
Be thou exalted, O Elohim, above the shamayim: and thy glory above all the earth;
That thy beloved may be delivered: save
with thy right hand, and answer me.
Elohim hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Gilead
is mine; Manasseh
is mine; Ephraim also
is the strength of mine head; Judah
is my lawgiver;
Moab
is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.
Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
Wilt not
thou, O Elohim,
who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O Elohim, go forth with our hosts?
Give us help from trouble: for vain
is the help of man.
Through Elohim we shall do valiantly: for he
it is that shall tread down our enemies.
Ketuvim
Tehillim109
Psalms · Chapter 109
Hold not thy peace, O Elohim of my praise;
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I
give myself unto
prayer.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Let his days be few;
and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek
their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off;
and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH); and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Let it be unto him as the garment
which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Let this
be the reward of mine adversaries from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), and of them that speak evil against my nephesh.
But do thou for me, O Elohim the master, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy
is good, deliver thou me.
For I
am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
I became also a reproach unto them:
when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Help me, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) my Elohim: O save me according to thy mercy:
That they may know that this
is thy hand;
that
thou, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH), hast done it.
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
I will greatly praise 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHWH) with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save
him
from those that condemn his nephesh.