Tehillim, starting at chapter 43
Psalm 43
{43:1} Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation.
Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
{43:2} For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
{43:3} Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me.
Let them bring me to your holy hill,
To your tents.
{43:4} Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God, my exceeding joy.
I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
{43:5} Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him,
My Savior, my helper, and my God.
Psalm 44
For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korach. A maskil.
{44:1} We have heard with our ears, God;
Our fathers have told us,
What work you did in their days,
In the days of old.
{44:2} You drove out the nations with your hand,
But you planted them.
You afflicted the peoples,
But you spread them abroad.
{44:3} For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword,
Neither did their own arm save them;
But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face,
Because you were favorable to them.
{44:4} You are my King, God.
Command victories for Ya`akov!
{44:5} Through you, will we push down our adversaries.
Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
{44:6} For I will not trust in my bow,
Neither shall my sword save me.
{44:7} But you have saved us from our adversaries,
And have put them to shame those who hate us.
{44:8} In God have we made our boast all day long,
We will give thanks to your name forever.
Selah.
{44:9} But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor,
And don't go out with our armies.
{44:10} You make us turn back from the adversary.
Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
{44:11} You have made us like sheep for food,
And have scattered us among the nations.
{44:12} You sell your people for nothing,
And have gained nothing from their sale.
{44:13} You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
{44:14} You make us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head among the peoples.
{44:15} All day long my dishonor is before me,
And shame covers my face,
{44:16} At the taunt of one who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the enemy and the avenger.
{44:17} All this has come on us,
Yet have we not forgotten you,
Neither have we been false to your covenant.
{44:18} Our heart has not turned back,
Neither have our steps declined from your way,
{44:19} That you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.
{44:20} If we have forgotten the name of our God,
Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
{44:21} Won't God search this out?
For he knows the secrets of the heart.
{44:22} Yes, for your sake are we killed all day long.
We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
{44:23} Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord?
Arise! Don't reject us forever.
{44:24} Why do you hide your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
{44:25} For our soul is bowed down to the dust.
Our body cleaves to the [1>]eretz[<1].
{44:26} Rise up to help us.
Redeem us for your lovingkindness' sake.
Psalm 45
For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A maskil by the sons of
Korach. A wedding song.
{45:1} My heart overflows with a noble theme.
I recite my verses for the king.
My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
{45:2} You are the most excellent of the sons of men.
Grace has anointed your lips,
Therefore God has blessed you forever.
{45:3} Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one,
Your splendor and your majesty.
{45:4} In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth,
humility, and righteousness.
Let your right hand display awesome deeds.
{45:5} Your arrows are sharp.
The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's
enemies.
{45:6} Your throne, God, is forever and ever.
A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.
{45:7} You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness
above your fellows.
{45:8} All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia.
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
{45:9} Kings' daughters are among your honorable women.
At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ofir.
{45:10} Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.
Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
{45:11} So will the king desire your beauty,
Honor him, for he is your lord.
{45:12} The daughter of Tzor comes with a gift.
The rich among the people entreat your favor.
{45:13} The princess inside is all glorious.
Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
{45:14} She shall be led to the king in embroidered work.
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
{45:15} With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led.
They shall enter into the king's palace.
{45:16} Your sons will take the place of your fathers.
You shall make them princes in all the [1>]eretz[<1].
{45:17} I will make your name to be remembered in all generations.
Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever.
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Footnotes:
[1] {44:25} earth
[1] {45:16} earth
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