Psalms 90-96

Psalm 90

¹A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, *thou* hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

²Before the mountains were brought forth, and thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from eternity to eternity thou art God.

³Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

⁴For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

⁶In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.

⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy fury are we troubled.

⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days pass away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a passing thought.

¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger? and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart.

¹³Return, Jehovah: how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us early with thy loving-kindness; that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, according to the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy majesty unto their sons.

¹⁷And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be upon us; and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: yea, the work of our hands, establish thou it.

Psalm 91

¹He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

²I say of Jehovah, My refuge and my fortress; my God, I will confide in him.

³Surely *he* shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the destructive pestilence.

⁴He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou find refuge: his truth is a shield and buckler.

⁵Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, for the arrow that flieth by day,

⁶For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

⁷A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

⁸Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the reward of the wicked.

⁹Because *thou* hast made Jehovah, my refuge, the Most High, thy dwelling-place,

¹⁰There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.

¹¹For he shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to keep thee in all thy ways:

¹²They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

¹³Thou shalt tread upon the lion and the adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under foot.

¹⁴Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

¹⁵He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honour him.

¹⁶With length of days will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Psalm 92

¹A Psalm, a Song, for the Sabbath day. It is good to give thanks unto Jehovah, and to sing psalms unto thy name, O Most High;

²To declare thy loving-kindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness in the nights,

³Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon the Higgaion with the harp.

⁴For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work; I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

⁵Jehovah, how great are thy works! Thy thoughts are very deep:

⁶A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.

⁷When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

⁸And thou, Jehovah, art on high for evermore.

⁹For lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, for lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹⁰But my horn shalt thou exalt like a buffalo's: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

¹¹And mine eye shall see its desire on mine enemies; mine ears shall hear it of the evil-doers that rise up against me.

¹²The righteous shall shoot forth like a palm-tree; he shall grow like a cedar on Lebanon.

¹³Those that are planted in the house of Jehovah shall flourish in the courts of our God:

¹⁴They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;

¹⁵To shew that Jehovah is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Psalm 93

¹Jehovah reigneth, he hath clothed himself with majesty: Jehovah hath clothed himself, he hath girded himself with strength; yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved.

²Thy throne is established of old; thou art from eternity.

³The floods lifted up, O Jehovah, the floods lifted up their voice; the floods lifted up their roaring waves.

⁴Jehovah on high is mightier than the voices of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea.

⁵Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thy house, O Jehovah, for ever.

Psalm 94

¹O God of vengeances, Jehovah, God of vengeances, shine forth;

²Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render the reward to the proud.

³How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked triumph?

⁴How long shall they utter and speak insolence -- all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

⁵They crush thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict thine inheritance;

⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,

⁷And say, Jah will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it.

⁸Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?

¹⁰He that instructeth the nations, shall not he correct -- he that teacheth man knowledge?

¹¹Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jah, and whom thou teachest out of thy law;

¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

¹⁴For Jehovah will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance;

¹⁵For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷If Jehovah had not been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.

²⁰Shall the throne of wickedness be united to thee, which frameth mischief into a law?

²¹They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

²²But Jehovah will be my high tower; and my God the rock of my refuge.

²³And he will bring upon them their iniquity, and will cut them off in their own evil: Jehovah our God will cut them off.

Psalm 95

¹Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

²Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

³For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

⁵The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

⁷For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

⁸Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

¹¹So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.

Psalm 96

¹Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: sing unto Jehovah, all the earth.

²Sing unto Jehovah, bless his name; publish his salvation from day to day.

³Declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all the peoples.

⁴For Jehovah is great and exceedingly to be praised; he is terrible above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but Jehovah made the heavens.

⁶Majesty and splendour are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷Give unto Jehovah, ye families of peoples, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;

⁸Give unto Jehovah the glory of his name; bring an oblation and come into his courts;

⁹Worship Jehovah in holy splendour; tremble before him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth! yea, the world is established, it shall not be moved; he will execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.

¹¹Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;

¹²Let the field exult and all that is therein. Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy,

¹³Before Jehovah, for he cometh; for he cometh to judge the earth: he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples in his faithfulness.