Chapter 46
God Is Our Fortress
To the choirmaster: Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song
1: God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2: Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
3: though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah
4: There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
5: God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.
6: The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
7: The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
8: Come, behold the works of the Lord, how he has brought desolations on the earth.
9: He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.
10: “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
11: The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Chapter 47
God Is King over All the Earth
To the choirmaster: A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
1: Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout to God with loud songs of joy!
2: For the Lord, the Most High is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.
3: He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
4: He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah
5: God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
6: Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
7: For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm!
8: God reigns over the nations; God sits on his holy throne.
9: The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is highly exalted!
Chapter 48
Zion, the City of Our God
A Song - A Psalm of the Sons of Korah
1: Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God! His holy mountain,
2: beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.
3: Within her citadels God has made himself known as a fortress.
4: For behold, the kings assembled; they came on together.
5: As soon as they saw it, they were astounded; they were in panic; they took to flight.
6: Trembling took hold of them there, anguish as of a woman in labor.
7: By the east wind you shattered the ships of Tarshish.
8: As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God, which God will establish forever. Selah
9: We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple.
10: As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
11: Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments!
12: Walk about Zion, go around her, number her towers,
13: consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels, that you may tell the next generation
14: that this is God, our God forever and ever. He will guide us forever.
Chapter 49
Why Should I Fear in Times of Trouble?
To the choirmaster- A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
1: Hear this, all peoples! Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
2: both low and high, rich and poor together!
3: My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
4: I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.
5: Why should I fear in times of trouble, when the iniquity of those who cheat me surrounds me,
6: those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
7: Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life,
8: for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice,
9: that he should live on forever and never see the pit.
10: For he sees that even the wise die; the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
11: Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.
12: Man in his pomp will not remain; he is like the beasts that perish.
13: This is the path of those who have foolish confidence; yet after them people approve of their boasts. Selah
14: Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol; death shall be their shepherd, and the upright shall rule over them in the morning. Their form shall be consumed in Sheol, with no place to dwell
15: But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah
16: Be not afraid when a man becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases.
17: For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
18: For though, while he lives, he counts himself blessed —and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—
19: his soul will go to the generation of his fathers, who will never again see light.
20: Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
Chapter 50
God Himself Is Judge
A Psalm of Asaph
1: The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2: Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
3: Our God comes; he does not keep silence; before him is a devouring fire, around him a mighty tempest.
4: He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5: “Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”
6: The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah
7: “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8: Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9: I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds.
10: For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
11: I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine.
12: “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
13: Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14: Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,
15: and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
16: But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?
17: For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
18: If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.
19: “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
20: You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
21:These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that Ic was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
22: “Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
23: The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”
Chapter 51
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
To the choirmaster: A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba
1: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
2: Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4: Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
5: Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6: Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
7: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8: Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9: Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11: Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12: Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13: Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
14: Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15: O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
16: For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17: The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18: Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
19: then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Chapter 52
The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To the choirmaster: A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
1: Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
2: Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.
3: You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4: You love all words that devour O deceitful tongue.
5: But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
6: The righteous shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
7: “See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”
8: But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
9: I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.
Chapter 53
There Is None Who Does Good
To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
1: The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
2: God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand who seek after God.
3: They have all fallen away; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
4: Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
5: There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them.
6: Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.
Chapter 54
The Lord Upholds My Life
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?”
1: O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might.
2: O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.
3: For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah
4: Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.
5: He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them.
6: With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, for it is good.
7: For he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.
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