# bible

book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Please look,<note>Or "Look here"</note> I have prepared <transChange type="added">my</transChange> case; I know that I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will be vindicated.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="19">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he who will contend with me? For {then} I would be silent, and I would pass away.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="20">"Only you<note>Singular; the antecedent is God</note> must not do <transChange type="added">these</transChange> two <transChange type="added">things</transChange> to me; then I will not hide from your face:</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="21">withdraw your<note>Singular</note> hand from me, and let not your<note>Singular</note> dread terrify me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="22">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> call, and I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will answer; or let me speak, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> reply to me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="23">"{How many}<note>Literally "Like what"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="24">Why do you<note>Singular</note> hide your<note>Singular</note> face and count me as your<note>Singular</note> enemy?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="25">Will you<note>Singular</note> terrify a blown leaf? And will you<note>Singular</note> pursue dry stubble?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="26">"Indeed, you<note>Singular</note> write bitter things against me, and you<note>Singular</note> make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">And you<note>Singular</note> put my feet in the block, and you<note>Singular</note> watch all my paths; you carve <transChange type="added">a mark</transChange> on the soles of my feet.<note>Or "You mark/note my footprints"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="28">And he himself <note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note>wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moth has eaten.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="1">"A human being born of a woman <transChange type="added">is</transChange> short of days and full of troubles.<note>Literally "trouble"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="2">Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a<note>Or "the"</note> shadow, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he does not last.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="3">Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="4">"Who can bring a clean <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> from an unclean <transChange type="added">thing</transChange>? No one!<note>Or "Not one"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="5">If his days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> determined, the number of his months <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="6">Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="7">"Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease;</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="9">at<note>Hebrew "from"</note> the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="10">"But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus<note>Hebrew "And"</note> a human being passes away, and where is he?<note>Or "where is he <transChange type="added">then</transChange>?"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">As</transChange> water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up,<note>Or "it dries up"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="12">{so}<note>Literally "and"</note> a man lies down, and he does not arise. {Until the heavens are no more},<note>Literally "Until not heavens"</note> they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of their sleep.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="13">"{O that}<note>Literally "Who shall give"</note> you would conceal me in Sheol, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you would hide me {until your wrath is past},<note>Literally "until the return of your nose"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you would appoint a set time for me and remember me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="14">If a man dies, will he live <transChange type="added">again</transChange>? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="15">You would call, and I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="16">For then<note>Hebrew "now"</note> you would count my steps, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> you would not keep watch over my sin.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="17">My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="18">"But<note>Or "And but"</note> a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="19">Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away <transChange type="added">the</transChange> soil of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth; so<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you destroy the hope of human beings.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="20">You overpower him forever, and he passes away; <transChange type="added">you</transChange> change {his countenance},<note>Literally "his faces"</note> {then}<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you send him away.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="21">His children may <transChange type="added">come to</transChange> honor, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he does not know <transChange type="added">it</transChange>; or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they may become lowly, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he does not realize it.<note>Or "them"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="22">He feels only the pain of his own body,<note>Hebrew "his body on him"</note> and his inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> mourns for him."<note>Or "for himself"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="2">"Should <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise answer <transChange type="added">with</transChange> windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> east wind?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="3">Should he argue in talk <transChange type="added">that</transChange> is not profitable or <transChange type="added">in</transChange> words with which he cannot do good?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="4">"{What is worse},<note>Literally "Also," or "Even"</note> you yourself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> God.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="5">For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tongue of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> crafty.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="7">"Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hills?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="8">Have you listened in God's confidential discussion? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="9">What do you know that we do not know? <transChange type="added">What</transChange> do you understand that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not clear to us?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="10">Both <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gray-haired and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> old <transChange type="added">are</transChange> among us-- {those older than your father}.<note>Literally "more aged than your father <transChange type="added">in</transChange> days"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="11">"Are the consolations of God too small for you, a word <transChange type="added">spoken</transChange> gently with you?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="13">that you turn your spirit against God, and you let <transChange type="added">such</transChange> words go out of your mouth?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="14">"What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a human being, that he can be clean, or<note>Or "and"</note> that <transChange type="added">one</transChange> born of a woman can be righteous?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens are not clean in his eyes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">{How much less}<note>Literally "Also for," or "Indeed for," or "Indeed that"</note> he who is abominable and corrupt,<note>Or "he who is corrupt"</note> a man drinking wickedness like water.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="17">"I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell<note>Literally "and I will tell"</note>--</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="18">what wise men have told, and they have not hidden <transChange type="added">that which is</transChange> from their ancestors,</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="19">{to whom alone}<note>Literally "to them to alone them"</note> the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="20">"All of the wicked <transChange type="added">one's</transChange> days he is writhing, even<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">through</transChange> the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="21">Sounds of terror <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in his ears; in prosperity <transChange type="added">the</transChange> destroyer will come <transChange type="added">against</transChange> him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">{He cannot trust that he will return}<note>Literally "He cannot trust to return," or "He is not certain to return," or "He cannot be sure to return" (compare NJPS)</note> from darkness, and he himself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> is destined for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="23">"He is wandering for bread, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, 'Where <transChange type="added">is it</transChange>?' He knows that a day of darkness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> ready {at hand}.<note>Hebrew "at his hand"; the meaning seems to be, "his ruin is certain"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="24">Anguish and distress terrify him; they<note>Hebrew "it"</note> overpower him like a king ready for the battle.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="25">Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai;</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="26">he {stubbornly}<note>Literally "with neck"</note> runs against him {with his thick-bossed shield}.<note>Literally "with the thickness of the boss of his shield"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">"Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon <transChange type="added">his</transChange> loins,</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="28">{he will dwell}<note>Hebrew "and he will dwell"</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="29">He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.<note>See HCSB, ESV; or "will not reach to the earth"; perhaps "his possessions will not go to the underworld"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="30">"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="31">Let him not trust in emptiness--he will be deceiving himself-- for worthlessness will be his recompense.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="32">It will be paid in full {before his time},<note>Literally "in not his day," or "without his day"</note> and his branch will not flourish.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="33">"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="34">for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> company of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless <transChange type="added">is</transChange> barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="35"><transChange type="added">They</transChange> conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="2">"I have heard many <transChange type="added">things</transChange> like these; all of you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {miserable comforters}.<note>Literally "comforters of trouble"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">Is there</transChange> a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="4">I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun;</note> also could talk as you, if {you were in my place};<note>Literally "there is your soul in place of my soul"</note> I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="5">I could<note>Or "would"</note> encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would<note>Or "should"</note> ease the pain.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="6">If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I cease, how much will leave me?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="7">"Surely now he has worn me out; you<note>Singular</note> have devastated all my company.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="8">Thus<note>Hebrew "And"</note> you shriveled me up;<note>Or "you have seized me"</note> it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="9">His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="10">They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="11">God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="12">"I was at ease, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he broke me in two, and he seized <transChange type="added">me</transChange> by my neck; then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he shattered me and set me up as a target for him.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="13">His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="14">He breached me {breach upon breach};<note>Literally "breach upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> faces of breach"</note> he rushes at me like a warrior.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="15">"I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted {my pride}<note>Literally "my horn"</note> in the dust.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="16">My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on my eyelids,</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="17">{although}<note>Literally "upon," or "because"</note> violence <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not on my hands, and my prayer <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pure.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="18">"O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place<note>Or "do not let it become a place"</note> for my cry for help.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="19">So now look, my witness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the heavens, and he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> vouches for me <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the heights.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="21">and it argues<note>Or "but may <transChange type="added">someone</transChange> argue"</note> for a mortal with God, and <transChange type="added">as</transChange> {a human}<note>Literally "a son of man"</note> for his friend.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="22">Indeed, <transChange type="added">after</transChange> {a few years}<note>Literally "years of number"</note> have come, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I will go <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way <transChange type="added">from which</transChange> I will not return.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="1">"My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> graveyard <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="2">{Surely}<note>Literally "If not"</note> mockery <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me, and my eye {rests}<note>Literally "spends the night"</note> on their provocation.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="3">Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> will give security for my hand?<note>Or "who will give security for me?"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="4">Indeed,<note>Or "For"</note> you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let <transChange type="added">them</transChange> triumph.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="5">He denounces friends for reward, so<note>Hebrew "and"</note> his children's eyes will fail.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="6">"And he has made me a proverb for<note>Hebrew "of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples, {and I am one before whom people spit}.<note>Literally "and spitting to the faces I am"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="7">And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all<note>Hebrew "all of them"</note> like a shadow.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> upright are appalled at this, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent excites himself over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="9">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous holds on to his way, and {he who has clean hands}<note>Literally "the clean of hands"</note> increases in strength.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="10">But<note>Literally "And but"</note> {all of you must return}<note>Literally "all of them you must return"</note>--{please come}!<note>Literally "and please come," or "come on!"</note> But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> I shall not find a wise <transChange type="added">person</transChange> among you.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="11">"My days are past; my plans are broken down-- <transChange type="added">even</transChange> the desires of my heart.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="12">They make night into day, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, 'Light <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {near to darkness}.'<note>Literally "near from the faces of darkness"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="13">If I hope <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Sheol <transChange type="added">as</transChange> my house, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I spread my couch in the darkness,</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">if</transChange> I call to the pit, 'You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my father,' to the maggot, '<transChange type="added">You are</transChange> my mother or<note>Or "and"</note> my sister,'</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="15">where<note>Hebrew "and where"</note> then <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my hope? And {who will see my hope}?<note>Literally "my hope who will see it"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="16">Will they go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?"</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="2">"{How long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> {will you<note>Plural</note> hunt for words}?<note>Literally "will you set a snare for words"</note> Consider,<note>Or "you should consider"; plural second person</note> and afterward we shall speak.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="3">Why are we considered as animals? <transChange type="added">Why</transChange> are we taken as<note>Or "considered"</note> stupid in your<note>Plural</note> eyes?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="4">"<transChange type="added">You who</transChange> are tearing {yourself}<note>Literally "his soul," or "his individual self"</note> in your<note>Hebrew "his"</note> anger, will <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth be forsaken because of you?<note>Singular</note> Or<note>Hebrew "And"</note> will <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock be removed from its place?</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="5">Furthermore,<note>Or "Also"</note> the light of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="7">"{His strong steps}<note>Literally "The steps of his power"</note> are shortened, and his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> schemes<note>Collective singular</note> throw him down,</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="9">A trap seizes <transChange type="added">him</transChange> by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heel; a snare takes hold of him.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="10">His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> path.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="14">He is torn from his tent {in which he trusted},<note>Literally "his trust"</note> and it brought him to the king of terrors.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="15">"{Nothing}<note>Literally "From not"</note> remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="16">His roots dry up {below},<note>Literally "from under"</note> and its branches<note>Singular collective</note> wither away above.<note>Hebrew "from above"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="17">His remembrance perishes from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> not a name for him on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> street.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="18">"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">There is</transChange> no offspring for him nor<note>Hebrew "and not"</note> a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">Those of the</transChange> west are appalled over {his fate},<note>Literally "his day"</note> and <transChange type="added">those of the</transChange> east {are seized with horror}.<note>Literally "they seize horror"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="21">Surely these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the dwellings of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless, and this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the dwelling place of him <transChange type="added">who</transChange> knows not God."</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="2">"{How long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> will you<note>Plural</note> torment me<note>Hebrew "my soul," or "my self"</note> and crush me with words?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">These ten times you<note>Plural</note> have disgraced me; you<note>Plural</note> are not ashamed <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you<note>Plural</note> have attacked<note>Or "astonished"</note> me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="4">And what is more, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I have truly erred, my error remains with me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="5">If indeed you<note>Plural</note> must magnify yourselves against me, and you<note>Plural</note> must let my disgrace argue against me,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his net.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="7">"Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but<note>Or "and"</note> I am not answered; I cry out, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> there is no justice.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="8">He has walled up my way so that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="9">He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of<note>Or "from"</note> my head.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="10">He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">and he has kindled his wrath against me, and {he has counted me as one of his foes}.<note>Literally "he has counted me for him as his foes"</note></verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="12">His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart<note>Or "siege works"; compare NRSV</note> against me and have encamped around my tent.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="13">"He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only<note>Or "completely"</note> turned aside from me.</verse>


book: Job
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<verse num="15">The sojourners in<note>Or "of"</note> my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">I call to my servant, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he does not answer; I must {personally}<note>Literally "with my mouth"</note> plead with him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to {my own family}.<note>Literally "to the children of my womb"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Little boys also despise me; <transChange type="added">when</transChange> I rise, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they talk against me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">All {my intimate friends}<note>Literally "the men of the circle of my confidants"</note> abhor me, and these <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> I have loved have turned against me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">My bones<note>Collective singular</note> cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">Why do you<note>Plural</note> pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">"{O that}<note>Literally "Who then shall give and"</note> my words could be written down! {O that they could be inscribed in a scroll}!<note>Literally "Who shall give in the scroll and they could be inscribed"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24"><transChange type="added">That</transChange> with a pen of iron and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> lead they might be engraved on a rock forever!</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> know <transChange type="added">that</transChange> my redeemer <transChange type="added">is</transChange> alive, and <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> last he will stand up upon {the earth}.<note>Literally "dust"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> from<note>Or "without"</note> my flesh I will see God,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">whom {I will see for myself},<note>Literally "I myself will see for myself"; emphatic personal pronoun as subject to the singular verb</note> and <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> my eyes will see and not a stranger.<note>Or "another"</note> {My heart faints within me}.<note>Literally "My kidneys fail in my lap"; see NRSV</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">"If you<note>Plural</note> say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,<note>Or " 'The root of the trouble is found' in him"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">be afraid for yourselves {because of the sword},<note>Literally "from the faces of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> for wrath <transChange type="added">brings</transChange> punishment by<note>Literally "of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, so that you may know that <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> judgment."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back {for the sake of}<note>Literally "and in because of"</note> my inward excitement.<note>Or "my inward haste"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">I hear discipline that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">"Did you<note>Singular</note> know this from of old, since the setting of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> human being on earth,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rejoicing of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {short},<note>Literally "from near"</note> and the joy of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless {lasts only a moment}?<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> until a moment"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">he will perish forever like his dung; <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> have seen him will say, 'Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he?'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> night.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> eye <transChange type="added">that</transChange> saw him {will not see him again},<note>Literally "and it will not do again"</note> and his place will no longer behold him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">His children will seek favors from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor, and his hands will return his wealth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">His bones were full of his vigor, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it will lie down with him on<note>Or "in"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> he hides it under his tongue,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">though</transChange> he spares it and does not let it go <transChange type="added">and</transChange> holds it back in the midst of his palate,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">in his bowels his food is turned, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> venom of horned vipers <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {within him}.<note>Literally "in his entrails"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">He swallows riches, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he vomits them<note>Hebrew "it"</note> <transChange type="added">up</transChange>; God drives them<note>Hebrew "it"</note> out from his stomach.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">He will suck <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poison of horned vipers; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> viper's tongue will kill him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">{He will not enjoy the streams},<note>Literally "He will not look on streams"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> torrents of honey and curds.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Returning <transChange type="added">the</transChange> products of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> toil, he will not swallow;<note>Hebrew "and he will not swallow"</note> according to the profit of his trade, {he will not enjoy},<note>Literally "and he will not taste"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">for he has oppressed; he has abandoned <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor; he has seized a house but<note>Or "and"</note> did not build it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Because he has not known satisfaction in his stomach, {he lets nothing escape that he desires}.<note>Literally "in his desire he does not let be saved"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">{There is nothing left after he has eaten};<note>Literally "There is not a remnant at his eating"</note> therefore his prosperity will not endure.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">In the fullness of his excess {he will be in distress};<note>Literally "it will be in distress for him"</note> all of misery's power will come <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">{When his stomach fills up},<note>Literally "It will be to fill up his stomach"</note> <transChange type="added">God</transChange> will send {his burning anger}<note>Literally "the blaze of his nose/anger"</note> upon him, and he will let <transChange type="added">it</transChange> rain down upon him<note>Or "them"</note> as his food.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">"He will flee from an iron weapon, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> an arrow of bronze will pierce him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">He draws <transChange type="added">it</transChange> forth, and it comes out from <transChange type="added">his</transChange> body, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> glittering point comes from his gall-bladder; terrors come upon him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">{Total darkness}<note>Literally "All darkness"</note> is hidden for his treasures;<note>Or "His treasures are hidden <transChange type="added">by</transChange> total darkness"</note> {an unfanned fire}<note>Literally "a fire not fanned"</note> will devour him; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> remnant<note>Of his treasures</note> {will be consumed}<note>Literally "will be evil," or "will be bad"</note> in his tent.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> heavens will reveal his guilt, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth will rise up against him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">The products of his house will be carried away<note>Or "the produce of his house will go away into exile"</note> <transChange type="added">like</transChange> gushing waters<note>Or "<transChange type="added">by</transChange> gushing waters"</note> on the day of his wrath.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a wicked human being's portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God."<note>Or "and the inheritance decreed for him by God" (compare ESV, NJPS)</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your<note>Plural</note> consolation.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">Bear <transChange type="added">with</transChange> me, and I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> will speak; then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> after my speaking you can mock.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">As for</transChange> me, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my complaint for human beings? And if <transChange type="added">so</transChange>, why cannot I be impatient?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Turn to me and be appalled, and place <transChange type="added">your</transChange> hand on <transChange type="added">your</transChange> mouth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">And when I think of <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, I am horrified,<note>Hebrew "and I am horrified"</note> and shuddering seizes my flesh.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"Why do <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty <transChange type="added">in</transChange> power?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">With them their offspring <transChange type="added">are</transChange> established {before them},<note>Literally "to their faces"</note> and their descendants before their eyes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">Their houses <transChange type="added">are</transChange> safe without fear, and the rod of God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not upon them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">They {sing}<note>Literally "they lift up <transChange type="added">their voices</transChange>"</note> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> long flute.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for<note>Hebrew "and"</note> we do not desire to know your ways.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Shaddai that we should serve him, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> what would we benefit when we plead with him?'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">Look, their prosperity <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not in their hands; the schemes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked are repugnant<note>Or "the plan of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked is repugnant"</note> to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">"How often is <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lamp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He<note>The antecedent is "God," or possibly "the Almighty"</note> distributes pains in his anger.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">How often</transChange> are they like straw {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> the wind, and like chaff that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> storm carries away?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">'God stores up his iniquity for his children'?<note>Or "<transChange type="added">You say,</transChange> 'God stores up his iniquity for his children.'"</note> <transChange type="added">Then</transChange> let him repay <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to him that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he may know.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">for what {does he care for}<note>Literally "his joy in"</note> his house after him, when the number of his months is<note>Hebrew "are"</note> cut off?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he himself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> judges high ones?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">This <transChange type="added">one</transChange> dies {in full prosperity},<note>Literally "in the vigor of his prosperity"</note> {completely}<note>Literally "all of him"</note> at ease and secure.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">His vats are full <transChange type="added">with</transChange> milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">Yet<note>Hebrew "And"</note> another dies with a bitter inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> and has not tasted prosperity.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">They lie down together in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust, and maggots cover them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">"Look, I know your<note>Plural</note> thoughts and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> schemes you devise against me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {the tents in which the wicked dwell}?'<note>Literally "tent of dwelling places of wicked"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">Do you not ask <transChange type="added">those</transChange> traveling <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roads, and do you not take notice of their accounts?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">Indeed, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked is spared from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of disaster; he is delivered from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of wrath.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="31">Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him <transChange type="added">for what</transChange> he has done?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="32">When<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he is brought to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grave, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> someone stands guard over <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tomb.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="33"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> clods of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before}<note>Literally "to the faces of"</note> him {they are innumerable}.<note>Literally "there is not number"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="34">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> how will you comfort me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> emptiness, when<note>Hebrew "and"</note> fraud is left <transChange type="added">in</transChange> your answers?"</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise be of use to him?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> a gain if you make your ways blameless?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">Does he reprove you because of your reverence <transChange type="added">or</transChange> enter into judgment with you?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">"Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clothes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> naked.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">You have given no water <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> weary to drink, and you withheld food from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hungry.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">And the land {belongs to the man of power},<note>Literally "man of power for him"</note> and {the favored}<note>Literally "lifted up of face"</note> lives in it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">You have sent widows away empty-handed, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arms of orphans were crushed.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">Therefore trapping nets <transChange type="added">are</transChange> all around you, and panic suddenly terrifies you,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">or <transChange type="added">it is so</transChange> dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">"<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not God <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> height of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens? But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> see how lofty are {the highest stars}.<note>Literally "top of stars," or "head of stars"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">Thick clouds <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dome of heaven.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Will you keep <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> way of old that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people of mischief have trod,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">who were snatched away {before their time},<note>Literally "and not time"</note> whose foundation was washed away <transChange type="added">by</transChange> a current?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">Those</transChange> who said to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can Shaddai do to us?'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Yet<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he himself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> filled up their houses <transChange type="added">with</transChange> good <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> schemes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked are repugnant to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> righteous see, and they rejoice, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent <transChange type="added">one</transChange> mocks at them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">{Surely}<note>Literally "If not"</note> our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder.<note>Or "their wealth"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">"Please reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; {in this way},<note>Literally "by them"</note> good will come to you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; <transChange type="added">if</transChange> you remove wickedness from your tent,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">and <transChange type="added">if you</transChange> put gold ore in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gold of Ophir in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock of wadis,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Shaddai will be your gold ore and {your precious silver}.<note>Literally "silver of the best for you," or "silver of the best belonging to you"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and {you will expect that God will be good to you}.<note>Literally "you will lift up to God your face"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">And you will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">When they are humiliated, {you say},<note>Literally "and you say," or "then you say"</note> '<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> pride,' for<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he saves {the humble}.<note>Literally "downward of eyes"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">He will deliver the guilty, and he will escape because of the cleanness of your hands."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Even today my complaint <transChange type="added">is</transChange> bitter; my hand is heavy in addition to my groaning.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">{O that}<note>Literally "Who shall give"</note> I knew and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I might find him; <transChange type="added">O that</transChange> I might come to his dwelling.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">I would lay <transChange type="added">my</transChange> case {before him},<note>Literally "to his face"</note> and I would fill my mouth <transChange type="added">with</transChange> arguments.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">I want to know <transChange type="added">the</transChange> words <transChange type="added">with which</transChange> he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Would he contend with me in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> greatness of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> strength? No, but he himself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> would give heed to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"When I go forward, {he is not there},<note>Literally "and there is not he," or "and he is not"</note> or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> backward, I cannot see him.<note>Hebrew "and I cannot see him"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">{When he works}<note>Literally "At his working"</note> <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> left, {I cannot perceive}<note>Literally "and I cannot see"</note> <transChange type="added">him</transChange>; he turns to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> right, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I cannot see <transChange type="added">him</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">But he knows {the way that I take};<note>Literally "way with me"</note> he tests me--I shall come out like gold.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">From</transChange> the commandment of his lips, indeed<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">"But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {alone},<note>Literally "as one"</note> and who can dissuade him? And {whatever he desires},<note>Literally "his inner self desires," or "his soul desires"</note> {indeed},<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he does <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">For he will carry out {what he appoints for me},<note>Literally "my portion," or "my allotment"</note> and many <transChange type="added">things</transChange> like these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Therefore, I am horrified because of his presence; <transChange type="added">when</transChange> I consider, I tremble<note>Hebrew "and I tremble," or "then I tremble"</note> because of him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">Indeed,<note>Hebrew "And"</note> God has made my heart faint, and Shaddai has terrified me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness},<note>Literally "from the face of darkness"</note> and because of me he<note>Or "it"</note> conceals thick darkness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"Why are not times kept by Shaddai, and <transChange type="added">why</transChange> do not <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> know him see his days?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">They<note>Or "Some" (NASU, ESV) or "Men" (NIV, NET)</note> remove border <transChange type="added">stones</transChange>; they seize flocks, and they pasture <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">They drive away <transChange type="added">the</transChange> donkey of orphans; they take <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow's ox as a pledge.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">They thrust <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor off the road; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth hide themselves together.<note>Or "altogether"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">"Look, <transChange type="added">like</transChange> wild donkeys in the desert they<note>That is, the poor</note> go out to their labor <transChange type="added">as</transChange> searchers for the prey; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wilderness <transChange type="added">is</transChange><note>Or "provides"</note> {their}<note>Hebrew "for their"</note> food for the young.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">They reap their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> fodder in the field, and they glean <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> vineyard of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">They spend the night naked, {without}<note>Literally "from not"</note> clothing, and <transChange type="added">they</transChange> have no garment in the cold.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains,<note>Or "from the mountain rainstorm"</note> and they cling to the rock {without}<note>Literally "from not"</note> refuge.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">"They<note>That is, those who oppress the poor</note> snatch <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breast, and they take a pledge against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy.<note>Or "And they take <transChange type="added">the</transChange> child of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy as a pledge"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">They<note>That is, the poor</note> go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sheaves.<note>Or "and they carry <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sheaves <transChange type="added">though</transChange> hungry"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread <transChange type="added">the</transChange> presses, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they are thirsty.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">From <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city people groan, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> throat<note>Or "soul," or "inner self"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wounded cries for help; yet<note>Hebrew "and"</note> God does not {regard it as unseemly}.<note>Literally "he puts offensiveness"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">"Those are among <transChange type="added">the ones</transChange> rebelling <transChange type="added">against the</transChange> light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">{At dusk}<note>Literally "At the light"</note> the murderer rises; he kills <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor, and in the night he is like a<note>Or "the"</note> thief.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eye of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'}<note>Literally " 'An eye will not see me'"</note> and he places a covering <transChange type="added">on his</transChange> face.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know <transChange type="added">the</transChange> light</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about <transChange type="added">the</transChange> terrors of deep darkness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">"He himself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> swift on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. {No one turns toward the path of their vineyards}.<note>Literally "He does not turn toward <transChange type="added">the</transChange> path of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vineyard"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">Drought and heat snatch away <transChange type="added">the</transChange> snow waters, <transChange type="added">like</transChange> Sheol <transChange type="added">snatches away</transChange> those<note>Or "they/them"</note> <transChange type="added">who have</transChange> sinned.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> womb forgets him. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> maggot feasts on him <transChange type="added">until</transChange> he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a<note>Or "the"</note> tree.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> feeds on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> barren, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> does not have a child, and does no good to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">Yet<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he<note>The probable antecedent is God</note> carries off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tyrants by his strength; <transChange type="added">if</transChange> he rises up, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he<note>The antecedent of the singular here probably changes to the wicked person</note> cannot be certain of life.<note>Hebrew "the life"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">He<note>The probable antecedent is God</note> gives security to him, and he is<note>Or "they are"</note> supported, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> his eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon their ways.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">They are exalted a little while, then<note>Literally "and"</note> {they are gone}.<note>Literally "he is not"</note> And they are brought low; they are cut off like all <transChange type="added">others</transChange>, and like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heads of grain they wither away.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">"And if <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not <transChange type="added">so</transChange>, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?"</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Bildad the Shuhite answered and {said},<note>Hebrew "he said"</note> </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Domination and dread <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with him who makes peace in his high heavens.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">"Indeed,<note>Hebrew "And"</note> how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Look, even <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moon {is not bright},<note>Literally "and it is not bright"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stars are not pure in his sight.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">{How much less}<note>Literally "Also"</note> for a human being <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> a maggot, and {a human}<note>Literally "a son of man," or "a son of Adam"</note> <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> a worm?"</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"How you<note>Singular</note> have helped {one who has no power}!<note>Literally "for not power"</note> <transChange type="added">How</transChange> you<note>Singular</note> have assisted <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arm {that has no strength}!<note>Literally "not strength"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">How you<note>Singular</note> have advised {one who has no wisdom}!<note>Literally "for not wisdom"</note> And <transChange type="added">what</transChange> sound wisdom you<note>Singular</note> have made known {in abundance}!<note>Literally "as far as the multitude," or "for multitude"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">{With whose help}<note>Literally "With whom"</note> have you<note>Singular</note> uttered words, and whose breath has come forth from you?<note>Singular</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">"The spirits of the dead tremble below <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters and their inhabitants.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Sheol <transChange type="added">is</transChange> naked before him, and there is no covering for Abaddon.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">He stretches out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north over emptiness; <transChange type="added">he</transChange> hangs <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth {over nothing}.<note>Literally "over not what"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> ties up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> water in its clouds, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cloud is not torn open beneath it.<note>Hebrew "them"; antecedent for "them" is "water" (literally "waters")</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> covers <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> full moon;<note>Text reads "throne"; "full moon" is based on a change of the vowels</note> <transChange type="added">he</transChange> spreads his cloud over it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">{He has described a circle}<note>NRSV; literally "a limit he has circled"</note> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> water {between light and darkness}.<note>Literally "at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end of light with darkness"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">"<transChange type="added">The</transChange> pillars of heaven tremble, and they are astounded at his rebuke.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he struck down Rahab.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">By his breath {the heavens were made clear};<note>Literally "heavens clearness"</note> his hand pierced <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fleeing snake.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">Look, these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word}<note>Literally "how whisper of word"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> we hear of him! But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> who can understand the thunder of his power?"</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"{As God lives},<note>Literally "The life of God"</note> he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> bitter.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">For {as long as}<note>Literally "all of still"</note> my breath <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in me, and the spirit of God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in my nose,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Far be it from me that {I would say that you<note>Plural</note> are right};<note>Literally "I would declare you as in the right"</note> until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame <transChange type="added">any</transChange> of my days.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"Let my enemy be like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked and my opponent like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> unrighteous,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">for what <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> hope of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless when he cuts <transChange type="added">them</transChange> off, when God takes away his life?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">"I will teach you<note>Plural</note> about<note>Or "concerning"</note> God's hand; I will not conceal that <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> with Shaddai.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world}<note>Literally "why this"</note> {have you become altogether vain}?<note>Literally "vain you have become vain"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">"This <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> portion of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inheritance of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ruthless.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">If their children multiply, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, and his offspring {do not have enough to eat}.<note>Literally "they are not satisfied with bread"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Their<note>Hebrew "His"</note> survivors are buried through<note>Or "because of"</note> the plague, and their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> widows do not weep.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">he makes <transChange type="added">it</transChange> ready, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous will wear <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent will divide <transChange type="added">the</transChange> silver.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">"He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth <transChange type="added">that</transChange> a watchman has made.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">He goes to bed <transChange type="added">with</transChange> wealth, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> {he will do so no more};<note>Literally "he will not do again"</note> he opens his eyes, and {it is gone}.<note>Literally "it is not"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> night.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"Indeed, there is a mine for silver and a place {for gold to be refined}.<note>Literally "for the gold they refine"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">Iron is taken from dust, and he pours out copper <transChange type="added">from</transChange> ore.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> ore <transChange type="added">in</transChange> gloom and deep shadow.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">He breaks open a mine shaft {away from where people dwell};<note>Literally "from with dwelling"</note> <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who are forgotten {by travelers},<note>Literally "by feet"</note> they dangle, they sway <transChange type="added">far away</transChange> from human beings.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">As for the</transChange> earth, from it comes food,<note>Or "bread"</note> but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> underneath it, it is turned up as <transChange type="added">by</transChange> fire.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Its stones <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> place of sapphire, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earthen dirt {has}<note>Literally "for it"</note> gold.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> a path a bird of prey does not know and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> black kite's eye has not seen.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">{Proud wild animals}<note>Literally "The sons of pride"</note> have not trodden it; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lion in its prime has not prowled over it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">He puts his hand on the hard rock; he overturns mountains by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roots.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">He dams up rivers from <transChange type="added">their</transChange> sources, and he brings secret things to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> light.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">"But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> from where will wisdom be found? And {where in the world}<note>Literally "where this"</note> <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> place of understanding?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">A human being does not know its proper value, and it is not found in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of the living.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">The deep says, 'It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not in me,' and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea says, 'It is not with me.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">"Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out <transChange type="added">as</transChange> its price.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> sapphire.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">Gold and glass cannot be compared with it, and its substitution <transChange type="added">cannot be</transChange> an ornament of refined gold.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Black corals and crystal will not be mentioned, and wisdom's price <transChange type="added">is</transChange> more than red corals.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">The topaz of Cush cannot be compared with it; it cannot be bought for pure gold.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Indeed,<note>Hebrew "And"</note> from where does wisdom come? And {where in the world}<note>Literally "where this"</note> <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> place of understanding?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">It is hidden from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyes of all living, and it is concealed from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> birds of the heaven.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">for he himself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> looks to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end of the earth; he sees under all the heaven.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">{When he gave}<note>Literally "To give"</note> weight to the wind and he apportioned <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters by measure,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">{when he made}<note>Literally "at his making"</note> a rule for the rain and a way for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thunder's lightning bolt,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">then he saw it and talked about it; he established it, and moreover, he explored it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord <transChange type="added">is</transChange> wisdom, and to depart from evil <transChange type="added">is</transChange> understanding.'"</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"{O that I were}<note>Literally "Who shall give me"</note> as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the months before, as <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the days <transChange type="added">when</transChange> God watched over me,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">when his shining lamp <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">as when I was in the days of my prime, when God's confiding <transChange type="added">was</transChange> over my {house},<note>Literally "tent"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">when Shaddai<transChange type="added">was</transChange> still with me, my children <transChange type="added">were</transChange> all around me,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">when my paths were washed in sour milk, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock poured out streams of oil for me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"At my going out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gate to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city, I secured my seat in the square.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">Young men saw me and stepped aside, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> aged rose up <transChange type="added">and</transChange> stood.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">Officials refrained from talking, and they laid <transChange type="added">their</transChange> hand on their mouth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> voices<note>Hebrew "voice"; collective singular by context, governing a plural verb</note> of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">"When <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ear heard and commended me, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eye saw and testified in support of me</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">because I saved <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy who cried for help, and <transChange type="added">I saved</transChange><note>Supplying the elided verb from the preceding parallel line</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan for whom <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> no helper.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> blessing of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wretched came upon me, and I caused <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow's heart to sing for joy.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like a robe and a headband.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">"I was eyes to the blind, and I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> feet to the lame.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">I <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a father to the poor, and I investigated {the stranger's}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> I knew not"</note> legal dispute.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">And I broke <transChange type="added">the</transChange> evil one's jaw bones, and I made <transChange type="added">his</transChange> prey drop from his teeth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">"And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply <transChange type="added">my</transChange> days.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">My roots <transChange type="added">were</transChange> open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches;</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">My glory <transChange type="added">was</transChange> new with me, and {I was revitalized regularly}.'<note>See NJPS; literally "my bow in my hand was new"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down <transChange type="added">like dew</transChange> upon them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">And they waited for me as <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the rain, and they opened their mouth wide <transChange type="added">as</transChange> for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spring rain.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">I smiled for them <transChange type="added">when</transChange> they had no confidence <transChange type="added">in anything</transChange>, and they did not extinguish the light of my face.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">I chose their way, and I sat <transChange type="added">as</transChange> head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who comforts mourners.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"But now <transChange type="added">those</transChange> younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">Moreover, {what use to me is the strength of their hands}?<note>Literally "the strength of their hands what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for me"</note> With them, vigor is destroyed.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> dry region <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> darkness of desolation and waste.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roots of broom trees to warm themselves.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as <transChange type="added">at</transChange> a<note>Hebrew "the"</note> thief,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">{so that they dwell}<note>Literally "to dwell"</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> holes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ground and <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> rocks.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">They bray among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bushes; they are gathered under <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nettles.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">{A senseless crowd},<note>Literally "sons of good-for-nothing"</note> yes, {a disreputable brood},<note>Literally "sons of no name"</note> they were cast out from the land.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">because he has loosened his bowstring and humbled me, and they have thrown off restraint {in my presence}.<note>Literally "from my face"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">On <transChange type="added">the</transChange> right hand the brood rises<note>Hebrew "rise"</note> up; {they put me to flight},<note>Literally "my feet they send away"</note> and they build up their {siege ramps}<note>Literally "the ways/paths of their disaster"</note> against me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">As <transChange type="added">through</transChange> a wide breach they come; amid a crash they rush on.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">"And now my life is poured out onto me; days of misery have taken hold of me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">{At night I am in great pain};<note>Literally "night my bones he pierces upon me," or "night pierces my bones upon me"</note> my pains do not take a rest.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">He seizes my clothing with {great power};<note>Literally "much of strength"</note> he grasps me by my tunic's collar.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust<note>Hebrew "the dust"</note> and ashes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">I cry to you for help, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you do not answer me; I stand, and you <transChange type="added">merely</transChange> look at me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">You lift me up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind--you make me ride <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and you toss me about <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the storm.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">Indeed, I know <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you will bring me to death and <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> house of assembly for all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">"Surely someone must not send a hand against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy when, in his misfortune, <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a cry of help for them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">Have I not wept for {the unfortunate},<note>Literally "hard of day"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> grieved myself over the poor?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">My bowels are in turmoil, and they are not still; days of misery come to confront me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">I go <transChange type="added">about</transChange> in mourning garb, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> not in sunlight; I stand up in the assembly, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> I cry for help.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">I am a companion for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> jackals and a companion for {ostriches}.<note>Literally "daughters of ostrich"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="31">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> my lyre came to be <transChange type="added">used</transChange> for mourning, and my flute <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> weep.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"I made a covenant with my eyes, so<note>Hebrew "and"</note> how could I look closely upon a virgin?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">And what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the portion of God from above or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> the heritage of Shaddai from on high?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">Is not disaster for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> evil one and ruin for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> workers of mischief?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">let him weigh me in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">let my wife grind for another, and let other <transChange type="added">men</transChange> kneel over her,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">for that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a shameful act, and that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {a criminal offense}.<note>Literally "an iniquity of judges"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Indeed, that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">"If I have rejected my male or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> female slave's case when their complaint <transChange type="added">was</transChange> against me,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Did not he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">"If I have withheld <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desire of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor from <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I have caused <transChange type="added">the</transChange> widow's eyes to fail,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">or I have eaten my morsel {alone},<note>Literally "to alone me"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan has not eaten from it</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">(for from my childhood he<note>Probably referring to "the orphan"</note> {grew up with}<note>Literally "reared"</note> me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her<note>Probably referring to "the widow"</note>),</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">if I have seen <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> perishes because of no clothing or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> there is no covering for the poor,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">if his loins have not blessed me, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">then</transChange> let my shoulder blade fall from <transChange type="added">my</transChange> shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">Indeed, the disaster from God <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a dread for me, and {I was powerless}<note>Literally "I was not able"</note> because of his majesty.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">"If I have made gold my trust, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I have called fine gold my security,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">if I have rejoiced because my wealth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> great or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> because my hand found a fortune,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">if I looked at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun when it shone or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> moon moving <transChange type="added">in</transChange> splendor,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">and {I was secretly enticed},<note>Literally "it was gullible in the secrecy of my heart"</note> and {my hand threw them a kiss},<note>Literally "my hand kissed for my mouth"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">this also <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an iniquity <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> judged, for I have deceived God above.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">"If I have rejoiced at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ruin of <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> hated me or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> have exulted when evil overtook him--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">no,<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="31">{Have the people of my tent not said},<note>Literally "If the people of my tent have not said"</note> '{O that}<note>Literally "who shall give"</note> someone<note>Or "he"</note> had not been satisfied with his meat'?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="32">An alien has not lodged in the street; I have opened my door to the traveler.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="33">{Have I concealed}<note>Literally "If I have concealed"</note> my transgressions as <transChange type="added">other</transChange> human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="34">because I dreaded <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great multitude, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> doorway?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="35">{O that}<note>Literally "Who shall give"</note> {I had}<note>Literally "for me"</note> someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! {As for}<note>Hebrew "And," or "But"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> written communication <transChange type="added">that</transChange> {my adversary}<note>Literally "the man of my indictment"</note> has written,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="36">I would {surely}<note>Literally "if not"</note> carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me <transChange type="added">like</transChange> a crown.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="39">if I have eaten its yield without payment, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I have caused <transChange type="added">the</transChange> breath of its owners to die,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="40">let thorns grow in place of wheat and noxious weeds in place of barley." The words of Job are ended.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">Then these three men ceased from answering Job because he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> righteous in his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> eyes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, {became angry}.<note>Literally "the nose of Elihu became hot"</note> {He became angry}<note>Literally "His nose became hot"</note> at Job because he justified himself rather than God,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">and {he became angry}<note>Literally "his nose became hot"</note> at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">Thus Elihu had waited for Job {to speak}<note>Literally "in words"</note> because {they were older than he}.<note>Literally "they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> older than he as far as days"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, {he became angry}.<note>Literally "his nose became hot"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite {spoke up}<note>Literally "answered"; see NET</note> and said, </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">I thought,<note>Or "said"</note> 'Let days<note>Compare the idiom of "as far as days" in vv. 4 and 6</note> speak, and let many years teach wisdom.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"Truly, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a spirit in a human being, and the breath of Shaddai teaches them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">It is</transChange> not {the aged}<note>Literally "many <transChange type="added">in days</transChange>"</note> <transChange type="added">who</transChange> are wise, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">it is not</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> elders <transChange type="added">who</transChange> understand justice.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">"Look, I waited for your<note>Plural</note> words; I listened for your<note>Plural</note> insight, until you searched out {what to say}.<note>Literally "words," or "sentences"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">And I directed my attention to you;<note>Plural</note> and, look, there is no <transChange type="added">one</transChange> for Job <transChange type="added">who</transChange> refuted, answering his words among you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he did not direct <transChange type="added">his</transChange> words<note>Or "sentences," or "what he said"</note> to me, and I will not answer him with your<note>Plural</note> words.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">"They are dismayed; they no longer answer; {they have nothing to say}.<note>Literally "words fail from them," or "sentences fail from them," or "what to say fails from them"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">And I have waited because they do not speak, because they stand <transChange type="added">there</transChange> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> no longer answer.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">I myself will answer my share also; I myself will declare my knowledge also,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">for I am full of words;<note>Or "sentences," or "what to say"</note> {the spirit within me}<note>Literally "the spirit of my stomach"</note> urges me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">"Look, my internal organs <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like unopened wine, like new wineskins it<note>Antecedent is "wine"</note> is <transChange type="added">ready</transChange> to burst open.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Let me speak {that I may find relief};<note>Literally "and let it find relief for me"</note> let me open my lips, and let me answer.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">{Please let me not show partiality to anyone},<note>Literally "Not please I will lift up face of a man"</note> and let me not show flattery to human beings,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">for I do not know <transChange type="added">how</transChange> {to flatter},<note>Literally "I will flatter"</note> <transChange type="added">else</transChange> my Maker would {soon}<note>Literally "like little"</note> put an end to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"But now, please hear my speeches,<note>Or "my sentences," or "what I have to say"</note> Job, and hear<note>Or "give ear to"</note> all my words.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">My words <transChange type="added">declare</transChange> my heart's uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak {what my lips know}.<note>Literally "the knowledge of my lips"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">"If you are able, answer me. Present <transChange type="added">your argument</transChange> {before me};<note>Literally "to the face of me"</note> take your stand.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Look, before God {I am like you};<note>Literally "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> like your mouth"</note> I myself was also formed from clay.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of <transChange type="added">your</transChange> words:<note>Or "sentences," or "what <transChange type="added">you</transChange> say"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> clean, without transgression; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> pure, and <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> no guilt in me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">"Look, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> this you are not right--I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">Indeed, God speaks in one <transChange type="added">way</transChange>, even<note>Hebrew "and"</note> in two,<note>Or "time and again" (NJPS, HCSB)</note> <transChange type="added">yet</transChange> <transChange type="added">someone</transChange> does not perceive it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">"In a dream, a vision of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on <transChange type="added">their</transChange> bed,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">then he opens <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ear of men, and {he frightens them with a warning}<note>Literally "with their warning he frightens"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">to turn human beings aside <transChange type="added">from their</transChange> deeds, and he keeps man from pride.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">He spares his life from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit and his life from passing over the river <transChange type="added">of death</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">"And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the strife of his bones continually,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">{so that}<note>Hebrew "and"</note> his life loathes bread, and his inner self<note>Or "soul"</note> <transChange type="added">loathes</transChange> {appetizing food}.<note>Literally "food of desire"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, <transChange type="added">which</transChange> are invisible, are bared.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">And {he}<note>Literally "his inner self/soul"</note> draws near to the pit and his life to the killers.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">"If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand,<note>That is, "unique," or "one of a kind"</note> to declare to a human being his uprightness</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">{so that}<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he is gracious <transChange type="added">to</transChange> him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit; I have found a ransom.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">His flesh is renewed with <transChange type="added">his</transChange> youth; he returns to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> days of his youthful strength.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">"He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> right, and it was not paid back to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so<note>Hebrew "and"</note> {I will enjoy the light}.'<note>Literally "my life in the light will see"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">Look, God does all these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> twice, three times<note>Or "time and again," or "oftentimes" (NASB, NASU), or "several times"</note> with a person</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">to bring his life back from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit {so that he may enjoy the light of life}.<note>Literally "to be lighted with the light of the life"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="32">If {you have anything to say},<note>Literally "If there are words," or "If there are sentences"</note> {answer me};<note>Literally "return to me"</note> speak, for I desire {to justify you}.<note>Literally "your righteousness"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">Thus<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Elihu {spoke up}<note>Literally "answered"; see NET</note> and said, </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ear tests words, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> palate tastes {food}.<note>Literally "to eat"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">Let us choose justice for ourselves; let us determine among ourselves what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Should I lie concerning my justice? <transChange type="added">Though I am</transChange> without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">What man <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like Job, who drinks scorn like water?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">"Therefore, listen to me, {people who have sense}:<note>Literally "men of heart"</note> far be it from God {that he should commit wickedness}<note>Literally "from wickedness"</note> and that Shaddai {should do wrong}.<note>Literally "from wrong"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Indeed, he will repay <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> a human being's deeds, and according to a man's way he will let <transChange type="added">it</transChange> happen <transChange type="added">to</transChange> him.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">What's more, God truly does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">Who gave him charge <transChange type="added">over the</transChange> earth? Or<note>Hebrew "And"</note> who laid on <transChange type="added">him</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> whole world?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">"But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> if <transChange type="added">you have</transChange> understanding, hear this; listen to {what I say}.<note>Literally "the voice/sound of my words"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">Shall <transChange type="added">he who</transChange> hates justice really govern? Or will you<note>Singular</note> declare <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty?--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">the one who says to a king, 'You worthless man,' to noblemen, 'You wicked man,'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">who {shows no partiality to officials}<note>Literally "he does not lift the face of officials"</note> and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> {does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant},<note>Literally "he does not regard <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eminent to the face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor/insignificant"</note> for all of them <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the work of his hands?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">In</transChange> a moment they die, and <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the middle of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> night <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty {effortlessly}.<note>Literally "not by a hand"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">"Indeed, his eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ways of man, and he sees all his steps.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">Indeed, he has not yet appointed <transChange type="added">a time</transChange> for man to go to God in the judgment.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">He shatters the mighty without investigation, and he sets others in their place.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns <transChange type="added">them</transChange> <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> night {so that}<note>Hebrew "and"</note> they are crushed.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">He strikes them {where the wicked stood},<note>Literally "among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked"</note> {where there are onlookers},<note>Literally "in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> place of seers"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">because they have turned aside from him and have not understood any of his ways,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">so that <transChange type="added">they</transChange> cause <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cry of distress from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> helpless to come to him, and he hears <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cry of distress from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides <transChange type="added">his</transChange> face, and who can behold him? Yet<note>Hebrew "And"</note> <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> over a nation and over a person alike,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="31">"Indeed, does anyone say to God, 'I have endured <transChange type="added">chastisement</transChange>; I will not act corruptly <transChange type="added">again</transChange>;</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="32">teach me yourself {what I cannot see};<note>Literally "apart from <transChange type="added">what</transChange> I can see"</note> if I have done wrong, I will not repeat <transChange type="added">it</transChange>'?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="33">{According to your judgment},<note>Literally "from with you"</note> must he repay <transChange type="added">it</transChange> because you rejected <transChange type="added">this</transChange>? Indeed, you must choose, and not I, so<note>Hebrew "And"</note> declare what you know.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="34">{Those who have sense}<note>Literally "Men of heart"</note> say to me, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise man hearing me <transChange type="added">says</transChange>:</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="35">'Job speaks without knowledge, and his words <transChange type="added">are</transChange> without insight.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="36">Would that Job were tested up to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end because <transChange type="added">his</transChange> answers <transChange type="added">are</transChange> like <transChange type="added">those from</transChange> men of mischief,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="37">for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us, and he multiplies his words against God.'"</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">Moreover,<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Elihu {spoke up}<note>Literally "answered"; see NET</note> and said, </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Do you think this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> justice when you say, '{I am right}<note>Literally "My righteousness"</note> before God'?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'<note>Literally "from my sin"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">I myself<note>Emphatic personal pronoun</note> {will give answer to you}<note>Literally "will return you words"</note> and <transChange type="added">to</transChange> your friends with you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">"Look at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens, and see; and observe <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clouds <transChange type="added">that</transChange> are higher than you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And <transChange type="added">if</transChange> your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">Your wickedness <transChange type="added">affects</transChange> a person like yourself, and your righteousness <transChange type="added">affects</transChange> humans.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">"Because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arm of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> no one says, 'Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God my Maker, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> gives songs in the night,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">who</transChange> teaches us more than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animals of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">There they cry out, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he does not answer {because of the pride of evildoers}.<note>Literally "from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pride of evildoers"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">{How much less}<note>Literally "Also for"</note> <transChange type="added">when</transChange> you say <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you do not see him, that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> case <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {before him},<note>Literally "to the face of him"</note> and you are waiting for him!</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">{therefore}<note>Hebrew "and," or "so"</note> Job opens his mouth in empty talk-- without knowledge he multiplies words."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Bear with me a little longer, and {I will explain},<note>Literally "I will show you"</note> for {I still have something to say on God's behalf}.<note>Literally "yet on behalf of God words/sentences"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my maker,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">for truly my words<note>Or "what I have to say"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not falsehood; <transChange type="added">one who has</transChange> perfect knowledge <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you.<note>In other words, "Somebody who knows what he is talking about is addressing you"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Look, God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mighty but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> does not despise <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange>; <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> mighty <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {good in understanding}.<note>Literally "strength of heart"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">He does not keep <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked alive but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> grants justice <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> afflicted.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">He does not withdraw his eyes from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he sets them forever with kings on the throne, and they are exalted.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"And if <transChange type="added">they</transChange> are tied up with fetters, <transChange type="added">if</transChange> they are caught in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cords of misery,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> he declares their work to them, and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">If they listen and serve <transChange type="added">him</transChange>, they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> if they do not listen, they perish by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, and they pass away without knowledge.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> godless of heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">{They die in their youth},<note>Literally "It dies in the youth of their self"</note> and their life <transChange type="added">ends</transChange> among the male shrine prostitutes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">He delivers <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">And what's more, he allured you {out of distress}<note>Literally "from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of distress"</note> <transChange type="added">into</transChange> a broad place, <transChange type="added">where</transChange> in place of it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> no constraint; and <transChange type="added">what</transChange> was set on your table is full of fatness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">But<note>Hebrew "And"</note> you are obsessed with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> judgment of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Yes,<note>Or "Indeed"</note> <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ransom's greatness turn you aside.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">Will your cry for help sustain <transChange type="added">you</transChange> without distress, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> efforts of <transChange type="added">your</transChange> strength?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">You must not long for the night, to cut off people {in their place}.<note>Literally "in place of them"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">"Look, God is exalted in his power; who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a teacher like him?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">Who has prescribed his way for him? Or<note>Hebrew "And"</note> who says, 'You have done wrong'?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">Remember that you should extol his work, <transChange type="added">of</transChange> which people have sung.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">"Look, God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> exalted, and we do not know <transChange type="added">him</transChange>; the number of his years is unsearchable.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">Indeed, he draws up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> drops of water; he distills <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rain into its mist,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">which <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">"Moreover, {can anyone understand}<note>Literally "if he can understand"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spreading of clouds, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thundering of his dwelling place?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">Look, he scatters his lightning around him, and he covers the roots of the sea.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="31">Indeed, he judges people by them; he gives food {in abundance}.<note>Literally "as far as providing in abundance"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="32">He covers <transChange type="added">his</transChange> hands <transChange type="added">with</transChange> lightning, and he commands it the place at <transChange type="added">which</transChange> to strike.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="33">His thundering tells about him; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> livestock also <transChange type="added">tell</transChange> {concerning what rises}.<note>Literally "about going up"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">Listen carefully to his voice's thunder and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rumbling <transChange type="added">that</transChange> goes out from his mouth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">He lets it loose under all the heavens, and his lightning to the earth's corners.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">After it, his voice roars; it thunders {with his majestic voice},<note>Literally "with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of his majesty"</note> and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">"God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">For to the snow he says, 'Fall <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> earth'; and {the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> shower of rain and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> show of rains of his strength"</note>--</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">{he stops all human beings from working}<note>Literally "on the hand of all man he seals"</note> {so that everyone whom he has made may know it}.<note>Literally "to know all men of his work"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animal goes into <transChange type="added">its</transChange> den, and it remains in its den.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">"<transChange type="added">The</transChange> storm wind comes from its chamber and cold from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north wind.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">By God's breath, ice is given, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> broad waters <transChange type="added">are</transChange> frozen.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture; his lightning scatters <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clouds.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">And {they}<note>Collective "clouds" in the first line takes the singular "it" here with the plural meaning</note> turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of {the habitable world}.<note>Literally "world of earth"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">Whether as {correction}<note>Literally "a rod"</note> or for his land, or as loyal love, he lets it happen.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">"Hear this, Job; stand <transChange type="added">still</transChange> and consider carefully God's wondrous works.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Do you know {how God commands them}<note>Literally "at the putting of God upon them"</note> and <transChange type="added">how</transChange> he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">Do you know about the hovering of the clouds, {the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge}?<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> marvelous works of perfect knowledge"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">You</transChange> whose garments <transChange type="added">are</transChange> hot, when <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth is being still because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south wind,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">with him can you spread out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> skies, hard as a molten mirror?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> presence of darkness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">So then, they do not look at the light <transChange type="added">when it is</transChange> bright in the skies, when<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind has passed and has cleansed them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">From <transChange type="added">the</transChange> north comes gold-- awesome majesty <transChange type="added">is</transChange> around God.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23"><transChange type="added">As for</transChange> Shaddai, we cannot attain him; <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> exalted <transChange type="added">in</transChange> power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any<note>Or "all"</note> {who think that they are wise}."<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> wise of heart"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said, </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this darkening counsel by words without knowledge?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man},<note>Literally "Gird up like a man your loins"</note> and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">"Where were you at my laying the foundation of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth? Tell <transChange type="added">me</transChange>, if you possess understanding.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched <transChange type="added">the</transChange> measuring line upon it?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">when <transChange type="added">the</transChange> morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God<note>Or "heavenly beings"</note> shouted for joy?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"Or <transChange type="added">who</transChange> shut <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea in with doors at its bursting, <transChange type="added">when</transChange> it went out of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">at my making <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> you shall not go further, and here it will set <transChange type="added">a boundary</transChange> {for your proud surging waves}'?<note>Literally "for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pride of your surging waves"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">"Have you {ever in your life}<note>Literally "from your days"</note> commanded <transChange type="added">the</transChange> morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">to take hold of the earth's skirts so that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> the wicked might be shaken off from it?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">It is changed like clay <transChange type="added">under</transChange> a seal, and they appear like a garment.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">And their light is withheld from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked, and <transChange type="added">their</transChange> uplifted arm is broken.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">"Have you entered into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea's sources? Or have you walked around in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> recesses of the deep?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">Have <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gates of deep shadow?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Have you considered closely <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth's vast expanse? Declare <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, if you know all of it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">"Where then<note>Or "Where exactly"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the way <transChange type="added">where</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> light dwells? And where then<note>Or "where exactly"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its place,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">that you may take it to its territory, and that you might discern the paths to its home?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">Have you entered into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> storehouses of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> snow, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> have you seen <transChange type="added">the</transChange> storehouses of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hail,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">which I have reserved for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of trouble, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of battle and war?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">Where then<note>Or "Where exactly"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the way <transChange type="added">where</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> light is distributed, <transChange type="added">where</transChange> he scatters <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east wind upon <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">"Who has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {thunder bolts},<note>Literally "bolt of thunders"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">to bring rain on a land {where no one lives},<note>Literally "not a man"</note> a desert {where no humans live},<note>Literally "not humans in it"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause <transChange type="added">the ground</transChange> to put forth <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rising of grass?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered <transChange type="added">the</transChange> drops of dew?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered <transChange type="added">the</transChange> frost of heaven?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">Like stone <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters become hard, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> faces of the deep freeze.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="31">"Can you bind <transChange type="added">the</transChange> chains of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Pleiades, or can you loosen <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cords of Orion?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="32">Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> can you lead <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Bear with its children?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="33">Do you know heaven's statutes, or can you establish their rule on the earth?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="34">Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> a flood of water may cover you?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="35">Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="36">Who has put wisdom in the ibis,<note>Or "inner parts"</note> or who has given understanding to the rooster?<note>Or "mind"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="37">Who can number <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clouds with wisdom? Or<note>Hebrew "And"</note> who can tilt heaven's jars,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="38">at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flowing of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust into a cast and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clods cling together?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="39">"Can you hunt prey for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lion? And can you satisfy <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hunger of strong lions</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="40">when they are crouched in the dens, <transChange type="added">when</transChange> they lie in the thicket in an ambush?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="41">Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> they wander around {for lack of food}?<note>Literally "for no food"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1">"Do you know <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time when <transChange type="added">the</transChange> goats of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rocks give birth? Do you observe <transChange type="added">the</transChange> doe deer's giving birth?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">Can you number <transChange type="added">the</transChange> months they fulfill, and do you know <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of its giving birth?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains.<note>Or "deliver their fetuses"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">"Who has sent forth <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wild ass free? And who has released <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wild donkey's bonds,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">to</transChange> which I have given <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wilderness <transChange type="added">as</transChange> its house and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> salt flat <transChange type="added">as</transChange> its dwelling place?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">It scorns <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city's turmoil; it does not hear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> driver's shouts.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">It explores <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains <transChange type="added">as</transChange> its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">"Is <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">Can you tie <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wild ox <transChange type="added">with</transChange> its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow <transChange type="added">the</transChange> valleys after you?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Can you trust it because its strength <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great, or will you hand your labor over to it?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and <transChange type="added">that</transChange> it will gather <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to your threshing floor?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">"<transChange type="added">The</transChange> wings<note>Hebrew "wing"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> female ostrich flap<note>Or "flaps"</note>-- <transChange type="added">are they</transChange><note>Or "if," or "or"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pinions of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stork or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> falcon?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth, and it lets <transChange type="added">them</transChange> be warmed on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ground,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg,<note>Hebrew "it"; or a collective singular ("them") referring to "eggs" in v. 14</note> and {a wild animal}<note>Literally "an animal of the field"</note> might trample it.<note>Or a collective singular ("them") referring to "eggs" in v. 14</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">It deals cruelly with its young ones, as <transChange type="added">if</transChange> <transChange type="added">they were</transChange> not its <transChange type="added">own</transChange>, as <transChange type="added">if</transChange> without fear <transChange type="added">that</transChange> its labor <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in vain,</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">When it spreads its wings {aloft},<note>Literally "in the height"</note> it laughs at the horse and its rider.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">"Do you give power to the horse? Do you clothe its neck <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a mane?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Do you make it leap like the locust? <transChange type="added">The</transChange> majesty of its snorting <transChange type="added">is</transChange> terrifying.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">They paw in the valley, and it exults with strength; it goes out to meet <transChange type="added">the</transChange> battle.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">It laughs at danger and is not dismayed, and it does not turn back from {before}<note>Literally "from faces of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">Upon it <transChange type="added">the</transChange> quiver rattles <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flash of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spear and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> short sword.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">With roar and rage {it races over the ground},<note>Or "it paws <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ground"; literally "it swallows <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth/ground"</note> and it cannot stand still at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> horn.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">{Whenever}<note>Literally "At enough"</note> a horn <transChange type="added">sounds</transChange>, it says, 'Aha!' And it smells <transChange type="added">the</transChange> battle from a distance-- <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thunder of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> commanders and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> war cry.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">"Does <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hawk soar by your wisdom? Does it spread its wings to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="27">Or does <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eagle fly high at your command and construct its nest high?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">It lives <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> rock and spends the night {on the rock point and the mountain stronghold}.<note>Literally "on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tooth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stronghold"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">From there it spies out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> prey; its eyes look from far away.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">And its young ones lick blood greedily, and where <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dead carcasses <transChange type="added">are</transChange>, there they <transChange type="added">are</transChange>."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai? Anyone who argues with God must answer it."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">"Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; even<note>Hebrew "And"</note> twice, but<note>Or "and"</note> I will not proceed."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">"{Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man},<note>Literally "Gird up like a man your loins"</note> and I will question you, and you shall declare to me.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">"Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">Adorn<note>The particle sometimes translated "please" is present, but an almighty God or sovereign king does not say "please" when commanding his subjects</note> yourself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> pride and dignity, and clothe yourself <transChange type="added">with</transChange> splendor.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> proud, and humble them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">Look at all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> proud, humble them, and tread down <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked {where they stand}.<note>Literally "in place of them"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">And I will also praise you, that your <transChange type="added">own</transChange> right hand can save you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">"Look, Behemoth,<note>Some interpret as a hippopotamus</note> which I have made just as <transChange type="added">I made</transChange> you; it eats grass like the ox.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">Look, its strength <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in its loins and its power in the muscles of its stomach.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">It keeps its tail straight like a cedar; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">Its bones <transChange type="added">are</transChange> tubes of copper, its limbs like rods of iron.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="19">"It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the first of God's actions; the <transChange type="added">one who</transChange> made him furnishes <transChange type="added">it with</transChange> his sword.<note>See NET; nearly all other English translations: "Only his Maker can draw the sword against him" (NJPS; compare NLT), or "only its Maker can approach it with the sword" (NRSV, NIV, ESV, HCSB, NASU)</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Yes, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains yield produce for it, and all {wild animals}<note>Literally "all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animals of the field"</note> play there.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="21">Under <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lotus tree it lies, in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hiding place of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> reeds and <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> marsh.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> lotus trees cover it <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their shade; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wadi's<note>A seasonal stream that is often dry</note> poplar trees surround it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">Look, <transChange type="added">if the</transChange> river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident even though <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Jordan rushes against its mouth.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">Can anyone take it by its eyes? Can he pierce <transChange type="added">its</transChange> nose with a snare?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="1"><note>Job 41:1-34 in the English Bible is 40:25-41:26 in the Hebrew Bible</note> "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or<note>Hebrew "And"</note> {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?<note>Literally "with a cord can you press down its tongue"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">Can you put a rope in its nose? Or<note>Hebrew "And"</note> can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">Will you play with it as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> birds and put it on a leash for your girls?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">Can you fill its kin with harpoons or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> its head with fish spears?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">Lay your hands on it; think about <transChange type="added">the</transChange> battle--you will not do <transChange type="added">it</transChange> again!</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">"Look, {the hope of capturing it}<note>Literally "its hope"</note> is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who <transChange type="added">then</transChange> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> would stand {before it}?<note>Or "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he <transChange type="added">then</transChange><transChange type="added">who</transChange> could stand before me?"; literally "to the face of me"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">Who has come to confront me, that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I should repay <transChange type="added">him</transChange>? Under all the heavens, {it belongs to me}.<note>Literally "to me"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">"I will not keep quiet <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> its limbs or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> concerning <transChange type="added">the</transChange> extent of its might and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gracefulness of its frame.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">Who can strip off {its outer covering}?<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> surface of its garment"</note> Who can penetrate its double harness?</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">Who can open <transChange type="added">the</transChange> doors of its face? Its teeth all around <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fearsome.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">Its back<note>LXX; or "pride"</note> <transChange type="added">has</transChange> scales of shields; it is shut up closely <transChange type="added">as with</transChange> a seal.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">They are close {to one another}--<note>Literally "one to one"</note> even<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> air cannot come between them.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="17">They are joined {one to another};<note>Literally "a man to his brother"</note> they cling together and cannot be separated.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="18">"Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {red like dawn}.<note>Literally "like eyelids of dawn"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="20">Smoke comes from its nostrils as <transChange type="added">from</transChange> a kettle boiling and <transChange type="added">burning</transChange> bulrushes.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="22">"Strength abides in its neck, and dismay<note>Or "strength"</note> dances {before it}.<note>Literally "to the face of him/it"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="23">Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it--it will not be moved.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="24">Its heart is cast as stone; yes,<note>Hebrew "and"</note> it is cast as <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lower millstone.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="25">{When it raises itself},<note>Literally "From his/its rising up"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="26">Reaching it <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> sword does not avail, <transChange type="added">nor</transChange> <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> spear, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dart, or<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> javelin.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="28">{An arrow}<note>Literally "A son of a bow"</note> will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="29">Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> short sword's rattle.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="30">"Its underparts <transChange type="added">are</transChange> shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud <transChange type="added">like</transChange> a threshing sledge.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="31">It makes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea like a pot of ointment.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="32">Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake};<note>Literally "it lights up <transChange type="added">the</transChange> path"</note> one would think <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the deep <transChange type="added">has</transChange> gray hair.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="33">"{On the ground it has no equal}<note>Literally "There is not on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ground its likeness"</note>-- a<note>Hebrew "the"</note> creature without fear.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="34">It observes all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lofty; it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> king {over all that are proud}."<note>Literally "over all sons of pride"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="2">"I know that you can do all <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and <transChange type="added">any</transChange> scheme from you will not be thwarted.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="3">'Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this darkening counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I uttered, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> I did not understand; {things too wonderful for me},<note>Literally "wonderful things from me"</note> but I did not know.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="4">'Hear and I will speak; I will question you, then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> inform me.'</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="5">By the ear's hearing I heard <transChange type="added">of</transChange> you, but<note>Hebrew "and"</note> now my eye has seen you.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="6">Therefore I despise <transChange type="added">myself</transChange> and repent in dust and ashes."</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="7">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled}<note>Literally "My nose became hot"</note> against you<note>Singular</note> and against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> two of your friends, for you<note>Plural</note> have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job <transChange type="added">has</transChange>.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="8">{So then},<note>Or "And now," or "Therefore"</note> take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you,<note>Plural</note> for {I will certainly accept his prayer},<note>Literally "if his face I will lift up," or "indeed his face I will lift up" ("if" used as an oath particle)</note> so that it will not be done with you<note>Plural</note> <transChange type="added">according to your</transChange> folly, for you<note>Plural</note> have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job <transChange type="added">has</transChange>." </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="9">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite <transChange type="added">and</transChange> Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and {Yahweh accepted Job's prayer}.<note>Literally "Yahweh lifted up the face of Job"</note> </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="10">Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.<note>Literally "all which for Job to twice"</note></verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="11">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> all his brothers and all his sisters and all <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> had known him {before}<note>Literally "to faces"</note> came to him, and they ate bread<note>Or "food"</note> with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster<note>Or "evil"</note> that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then<note>Hebrew "And"</note> each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one <transChange type="added">gave to him</transChange> one ornamental ring of gold. </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="12">So<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. {Thus he had}<note>Literally "And it came to be for him," or "And it was for him"</note> fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="13">{And he had}<note>Literally "And it came to be for him," or "And it was for him"</note> seven sons and three daughters.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="14">And he called the name of the first Jemimah and the name of the second Keziah and the name of the third Qeren-Happuk.</verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="15">And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job's daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers. </verse>


book: Job
content:
<verse num="16">And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his {grandsons}<note>Literally "the sons of his sons"</note> <transChange type="added">for</transChange> four generations.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked; nor does he stand in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way of sinners; nor does he sit in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> assembly of mockers.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Instead, in the law of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water that gives its fruit in its season; its leaf also does not wither. Therefore all that he does prospers.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Not so the wicked. Instead, <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> like the chaff that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind scatters.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Therefore <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous;</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">for Yahweh knows <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous,<note>Plural</note> but <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked will perish.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting<note>Or "muttering"</note> in vain?<note>Or "an empty thing"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> kings of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth establish themselves, and the rulers conspire<note>Or "make themselves firm"</note> together against Yahweh and his anointed:</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">He who</transChange> sits <transChange type="added">enthroned</transChange> in the heavens laughs. The Lord derides them.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">I will tell the decree; Yahweh said to me: "You are my son; today I have begotten you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Ask from me and I will make <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations your heritage, and your possession <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">You will break them with an iron rod. Like a potter's vessel you will shatter them."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">So then, O kings, be wise. Be warned, O rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all <transChange type="added">who</transChange> take refuge in him.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh, how many are my enemies; many <transChange type="added">are</transChange> rising against me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Many <transChange type="added">are</transChange> saying about my soul, "There is no deliverance for him from<note>Or "in"</note> God. Selah<note>Meaning uncertain; probably a musical or liturgical direction</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">But<note>Or "And"</note> you, Yahweh, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a shield around me, my glory and the one who lifts up my head.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">With</transChange> my voice I call to Yahweh and he answers me from {his holy hill}.<note>Literally "the hill of his holiness"</note> Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God; for you strike all my enemies <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> cheek. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> teeth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked you break.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">To Yahweh belongs deliverance; <transChange type="added">may</transChange> your blessing <transChange type="added">be</transChange> over your people. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness.<note>Or "vindication"</note> In trouble {deliver me}.<note>Literally "make wide for me"</note> Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">O sons of man, how long will my honor<note>Or "glory"</note> be a disgrace? <transChange type="added">How long</transChange> will you love vanity? <transChange type="added">How long</transChange> will you seek lies?<note>Or "falsehood"</note> Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">But know that Yahweh has set apart<note>Or "treated specially"</note> for himself <transChange type="added">the</transChange> faithful one.<note>Or "pious, godly one"</note> Yahweh hears when I call to him.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Be disturbed but do not sin. Commune in your heart<note>That is, "think it over"</note> on your bed and be silent. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Offer correct sacrifices,<note>Or "right sacrifices"</note> and {trust in}<note>Literally "trust to"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">Many are saying, "Who will show us <transChange type="added">something</transChange> good?" Lift up over<note>Or "upon"</note> us the light of your face, O Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">You have put gladness in my heart more than {when}<note>Literally "the time of"</note> their grain and their wine abound.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">In peace I will lie down and sleep {at once},<note>Literally "together"</note> for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Listen to the sound of my pleading,<note>Or "cry for help"</note> my king and my God, for to you I pray.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">O Yahweh, in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> morning you will hear my voice. In <transChange type="added">the</transChange> morning I will set forth<note>Or "present"</note> <transChange type="added">my case</transChange> to you and I will watch.<note>Or "look expectantly"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">For you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not a God <transChange type="added">who</transChange> desires<note>Or "takes delight in"</note> wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">The boastful do not stand before<note>Or "in front of"</note> your eyes. You hate all evildoers.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">You destroy speakers of lies.<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> {A man of bloodshed}<note>Literally "a man of bloods"</note> and deceit Yahweh abhors.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">{But as for me},<note>Literally "And I"</note> through the abundance of your steadfast love<note>Or "covenant love"</note> I will enter your house.<note>Or "temple"</note> I will bow down<note>Or "I will worship"</note> toward {your holy temple}<note>Literally "the temple of your holiness"</note> in awe <transChange type="added">of</transChange> you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">O Yahweh, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight before me your way.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">For there is not <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> reliable in his mouth; their inner part <transChange type="added">is</transChange> destruction.<note>Hebrew "destructions"</note> Their throat is an open grave; <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their tongue they speak deceit.<note>Or "flattery; smooth words"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">But let all who take shelter in you rejoice. Let them ever<note>Or "perpetually"</note> sing for joy, {because}<note>Literally "and"</note> you spread protection over them; And let those<note>Or "So that those"</note> <transChange type="added">who</transChange> love your name exult in you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">For you bless <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous. O Yahweh, like a<note>Hebrew "the"</note> shield you surround him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> good favor.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger, and do not discipline me in your wrath.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I am feeble. Heal me, O Yahweh, for my bones are terrified.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Turn, O Yahweh; deliver my life.<note>Or "my soul"; same word as in v. 3</note> Save me for the sake of your steadfast love.<note>Or "loyal love"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">I am weary with my groaning; {I flood}<note>Literally "I make my bed float"</note> my bed every night. With my tears {I drench}<note>Literally "I cause to melt"</note> my couch.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">My eye wastes away because of vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Depart from me, all workers of evil, for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">All my enemies shall be ashamed and shall be very terrified. They shall turn back; they shall suddenly be ashamed.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge. Save me from all <transChange type="added">who</transChange> pursue me, and deliver me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none <transChange type="added">to</transChange> deliver.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">if I have repaid {my ally}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">one</transChange> being at peace with me"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> harm, or <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I have plundered my enemy without cause,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath<note>Or "outbursts"</note> of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">And let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> assembly of peoples surround you, and over it return on high.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence<note>Or "righteousness"</note> and according to my integrity within me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">My shield <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with God who saves the upright of heart.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">If he<note>That is, a person</note> does not repent, he<note>That is, God</note> will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has {strung}<note>Literally "prepared"</note> it.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">And he has prepared for him weapons of death. He has made his arrows fiery shafts.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">See, he<note>That is, the wicked</note> travails with<note>Or "conceives"</note> evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> trap he has made.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">His trouble comes back on his head, and his violence comes down on his skull.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17">I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Most High.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your name in all the earth, who put your splendor above the heavens.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">From the mouth of children and infants you have founded<note>Or "ordained"</note> strength on account of your enemies, to silence <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> avenger.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moon and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> stars which you set in place--</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings,<note>Or "than God"</note> and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> glory and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> majesty you crowned him.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">You make him over the works of your hands; all <transChange type="added">things</transChange> you have placed under his feet:</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">sheep and cattle, all of them, and also <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wild animals of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">the</transChange> birds of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sky and the fish of the sea, <transChange type="added">everything</transChange> that passes along the paths of seas.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your name in all of the earth!</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">I will thank Yahweh with all my heart. I will tell of all your wonderful deeds.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing <transChange type="added">the praise of</transChange> your name, O Most High.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish because of your presence.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> throne judging correctly.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">You have rebuked <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations; you have destroyed <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked. Their name you have blotted out forever and ever.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">The enemies are destroyed <transChange type="added">in</transChange> ruins forever, and you have uprooted <transChange type="added">their</transChange> cities; their very memory has perished.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">But Yahweh sits <transChange type="added">enthroned</transChange> forever. He has established his throne for judgment.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">And he will judge <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world with righteousness. He will judge <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples with equity.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">And Yahweh will be a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of distress.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">And those who know your name will trust in you, for you do not forsake those <transChange type="added">who</transChange> seek you, O Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Sing <transChange type="added">praises</transChange> to Yahweh <transChange type="added">who</transChange> sits <transChange type="added">enthroned</transChange><note>Or "who dwells"</note> in Zion. Tell his deeds among the peoples,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">for he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> {avenges bloodshed}<note>Literally "seeks bloods"</note> remembers them. He does not forget the distressed cry of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">Be gracious to me, O Yahweh. See my suffering from <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> hate me, <transChange type="added">you who</transChange> lift me up from the gates of death,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">so that I may tell of all your praises. In the gates of the daughter of Zion let me rejoice in your salvation.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> nations have fallen in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit <transChange type="added">that</transChange> they made; their foot is caught in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> net that they hid.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. Higgaion<note>Hebrew musical term</note> Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> wicked shall turn back to Sheol, all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations forgetting God,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy shall not always be forgotten; the hope of the poor shall never perish.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">Rise up, O Yahweh, let not humans<note>Hebrew "human"</note> prevail; let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations be judged before you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="20">O Yahweh, put them in fear. Let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations know they <transChange type="added">are merely</transChange> human. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off? <transChange type="added">Why</transChange> do you hide<note>Or "shut <transChange type="added">your eyes</transChange>"</note> during times of distress?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">In arrogance <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked persecutes<note>Or "pursues"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor. Let them be caught in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> schemes that they devised,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked boasts about the desire of his {heart},<note>Literally "soul"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one greedy for gain curses <transChange type="added">and</transChange> treats Yahweh with contempt.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">{With bald-faced pride}<note>Literally "According to the height of his nose"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked will not seek <transChange type="added">God</transChange>. There is no God in any of his thoughts.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">His ways<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> endure at all times.<note>Hebrew "time"</note> Your judgments are aloof from him. <transChange type="added">As for</transChange> all his enemies, he scoffs at them.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations},<note>Literally "for a generation and a generation"</note> <transChange type="added">during</transChange> which <transChange type="added">I will have</transChange> no trouble."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent. His eyes {lurk}<note>Literally "lie hid"</note> for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> helpless.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">He lies in ambush {secretly,}<note>Literally "in the secret places"</note> like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor; he seizes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor by catching him in his net.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">He is crushed;<note>Or "and he <transChange type="added">the wicked</transChange> stoops"</note> he is bowed down;<note>Or "he <transChange type="added">the wicked</transChange> crouches"</note> so<note>Or "and"</note> the helpless host<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> falls by his {might}.<note>Literally "mighty ones"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">Rise up, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, "You will not call <transChange type="added">me</transChange> to account."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">But</transChange> you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take <transChange type="added">it</transChange> into your hand. The helpless abandons <transChange type="added">himself</transChange> upon you; you have been <transChange type="added">the</transChange> helper <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> orphan.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">Break <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arm of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked, and <transChange type="added">as for the</transChange> evil <transChange type="added">man</transChange>-- seek out his wickedness <transChange type="added">until</transChange> you find none.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> king forever and ever; the nations have perished from his land.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> longing of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh. You will make their heart secure. You will {listen attentively}<note>Literally "cause your ear to hear"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">to render judgment <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> fatherless and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressed <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> a <transChange type="added">mere</transChange> mortal from the earth will no longer cause terror.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain <transChange type="added">like</transChange> a bird"?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">For look: The wicked {string the bow}.<note>Literally "tread the bow," that is, placing the foot on the bow to bend and string it</note> They have fitted their arrow to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> string, to shoot from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> darkness at the upright of heart.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">When the foundations are destroyed what can <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous do?<note>Or "what has the righteous done"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in his holy temple; Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the heavens <transChange type="added">on</transChange> his throne. His eyelids see; they test <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children of humankind.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Yahweh tests <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous, but <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lover of violence his soul hates.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">He will rain coals<note>According to Symmachus (compare also Targum Psalms) a form slightly different from the MT's "snares"</note> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> the portion of their cup.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">For Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> righteous; he loves righteous deeds. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> upright shall see his face.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Save, O Yahweh, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pious have ceased <transChange type="added">to be</transChange>; for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> faithful have vanished from <transChange type="added">among the</transChange> children of humankind.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">They speak falseness {to each other}.<note>Literally "each with his companion"</note> <transChange type="added">With</transChange> flattering lips, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> {a double heart}<note>Literally "a heart and a heart"</note> they speak.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tongue speaking great boasts--</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">those</transChange> who say, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on our side. Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> master over us?"</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">"Because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppression of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted, because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> groaning of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor, now I will rise up," Yahweh says. "I shall put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> safety <transChange type="added">for which</transChange> they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> long."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">The words of Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> pure words <transChange type="added">like</transChange> silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">You, O Yahweh, will protect them. You will preserve him<note>Or "us"</note> from this generation always.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> wicked prowl about when vileness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> exalted among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children of humankind.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">How long must I take counsel<note>Hebrew pl.; with a slight modification of the Hebrew this reads "set pains"</note> in my soul, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> sorrow in my heart <transChange type="added">all the</transChange> day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">Consider<note>Literally "Look"</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep <transChange type="added">the sleep of</transChange> death,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">and</transChange> lest my enemy should say, "I have overcome him," <transChange type="added">lest</transChange> my enemies rejoice because I am shaken.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">But as for me, I have trusted in your steadfast love.<note>Or, "loyal love"</note> My heart will rejoice in your deliverance.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6"><note>In the Hebrew Bible, the previous verse continues</note> I will sing to Yahweh because he has dealt bountifully with me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">All who do evil--do they not know, <transChange type="added">they</transChange> who eat my people <transChange type="added">as though</transChange> they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">There {they are very fearful}<note>Literally "they feared a fear"</note> because God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> generation of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">You would put to shame <transChange type="added">the</transChange> plan of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor, because<note>Or "but"</note> Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his refuge.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">{Oh that from Zion}<note>Literally "Who will give <transChange type="added">that</transChange> from Zion"</note> <transChange type="added">would come</transChange> salvation <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Israel! When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">He who walks blamelessly and does what is right. He who speaks honestly in his heart.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor {bring up}<note>Literally "lift up"</note> a disgrace against his neighbor.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">In his eyes a rejected one <transChange type="added">is</transChange> contemptible, but he honors those who respect Yahweh. He takes an oath to <transChange type="added">his own</transChange> injury and does not retract it.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> innocent. He who does these <transChange type="added">things</transChange> will never be shaken.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2"><transChange type="added">Oh my soul</transChange> you have said<note>Reading a feminine singular verb; some Hebrew manuscripts and translations read "I said"</note> to Yahweh, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my Lord. I have no good apart from you."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">With regard to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> saints who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the land, they <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> noble ones in <transChange type="added">whom is</transChange> all my desire.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Those <transChange type="added">who</transChange> hurry <transChange type="added">after</transChange><note>Or "they who acquire"</note> another <transChange type="added">god</transChange> increase their sorrows. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood, nor take up their names on my lips.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the portion <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> my share and my cup. You hold my lot.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, <transChange type="added">my</transChange> inheritance is delightful for me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">I will bless Yahweh who advises me; yes, <transChange type="added">at</transChange> night my {innermost being}<note>Literally "kidneys"</note> instructs me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">I have set Yahweh before me always. Because <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> at my right hand I will not be shaken.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. Yes, my body will dwell in safety,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you will not give your faithful one to see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> grave.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">You will make known to me <transChange type="added">the</transChange> path of life. In your presence <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fullness of joy. At your right hand <transChange type="added">are</transChange> pleasures forever.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer <transChange type="added">I make</transChange> without deceitful lips.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">You have tried my heart; you have examined <transChange type="added">me</transChange> by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided <transChange type="added">that</transChange> my mouth will not transgress.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">As for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> works of humankind, by the word of your lips, I have kept <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the ways of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> violent.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">I have</transChange> held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words.<note>Hebrew "word"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Show wondrously your acts of loyal love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand<note>Or "saving by your right hand those"</note> from those who rise up against <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Keep me as {the apple of your eye}.<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> little man of the daughter of <transChange type="added">your</transChange> eye"</note> Hide me in the shadow of your wings</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {presence}<note>Literally "face"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked who destroy me, <transChange type="added">those</transChange> enemies against my life, <transChange type="added">they that</transChange> surround me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">They have shut off their calloused<note>Or "fat"</note> <transChange type="added">heart</transChange>; <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their mouth they speak arrogantly.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Now they surround us at our <transChange type="added">every</transChange> step. They {intend}<note>Literally "set their eyes"</note> {to pin}<note>Literally "to stretch"</note> <transChange type="added">me</transChange> to the ground.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">{He is like}<note>Literally "His image"</note> a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">Rise up, O Yahweh, confront {him}.<note>Literally "his face"</note> Make him bow down. Rescue with your sword my life from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of <transChange type="added">this</transChange> world. Their share <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in {this life},<note>Literally "the life"</note> and you fill their stomach <transChange type="added">with</transChange> your treasure. They are satisfied <transChange type="added">with</transChange> children. They bequeath their excess to their children.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">By contrast,</transChange> I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied <transChange type="added">seeing</transChange> your form.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.</verse>


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<verse num="3">I called upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies.</verse>


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<verse num="5">The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> snares of death confronted me.</verse>


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<verse num="6">In my trouble I called on Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help came up before his presence into his ears.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then the earth shook and quaked, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foundations of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains trembled, and they staggered because he was angry.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Smoke went forth from his nose, and fire from his mouth consumed. Burning coals blazed from him.</verse>


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<verse num="9">So he bowed <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens and came down with a thick cloud under his feet.</verse>


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<verse num="11">He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a darkness of waters, {thick clouds}.<note>Literally "clouds of clouds"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">From the brightness before him his clouds passed over <transChange type="added">with</transChange> hail and coals of fire.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice <transChange type="added">with</transChange> hail and coals of fire.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And he shot his arrows and scattered them,<note>That is, the enemy</note> and many lightning bolts and routed them.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then the channels of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea became visible, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foundations of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world were uncovered by your rebuke, O Yahweh, by the {blast}<note>Or "breath"</note> of the wind of your nose.</verse>


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<verse num="16">He reached<note>Or "sent"</note> from on high; he seized me. He drew me from many waters.</verse>


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<verse num="17">He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> hated me because they were stronger than I.</verse>


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<verse num="19">So he brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me.</verse>


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<verse num="20">Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God,</verse>


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<verse num="22">because all his ordinances <transChange type="added">are</transChange> before me, and his statutes I have not removed from me,</verse>


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<verse num="24">Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.</verse>


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<verse num="25">To <transChange type="added">the</transChange> loyal you show yourself loyal. To <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blameless you show yourself blameless.</verse>


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<verse num="26">To <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pure you show yourself pure. but to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked you show yourself shrewd.</verse>


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<verse num="30">This<note>Hebrew "The"</note> God--his way <transChange type="added">is</transChange> blameless. The word of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> flawless.<note>Or "refined"</note> He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a shield for all those who take refuge in him.</verse>


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<verse num="31">For who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God apart from Yahweh, and who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a rock except our God?</verse>


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<verse num="32">The God who girded me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> strength, and made safe<note>Or "blameless"</note> my way,</verse>


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<verse num="34"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.</verse>


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<verse num="35">You also gave me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your humility made me great.</verse>


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<verse num="37">I chased my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were finished <transChange type="added">off</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And you girded me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> strength for the battle; <transChange type="added">those</transChange> rising against me you made to kneel under me.</verse>


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<verse num="40">And you {made my enemies turn their backs},<note>Literally "turned to me my enemies' neck"</note> then I destroyed those <transChange type="added">who</transChange> hated me.</verse>


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<verse num="41">They cried out but there was no rescuer, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.</verse>


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<verse num="42">And I ground them like dust {in the wind},<note>Literally "on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> face of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind"</note> I emptied them<note>Many Hebrew manuscripts, the LXX, Syriac, and 2 Sam 22:43 read "I crushed them"</note> out like mud of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> streets.</verse>


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<verse num="43">You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me;</verse>


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<verse num="44">as soon as {they heard},<note>Literally "hearing of ear"</note> they obeyed me. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me.</verse>


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<verse num="45"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> children of a foreign land {lost heart},<note>Literally "sunk down"</note> and they came trembling from their strongholds.</verse>


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<verse num="46">Yahweh lives, and blessed <transChange type="added">be</transChange> my rock, and may the God of my salvation be exalted--</verse>


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<verse num="48">who delivered me from my enemies. Indeed, you exalted me higher than <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> rose against me. You delivered me from the man of violence.</verse>


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<verse num="49">Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations, O Yahweh, and I will sing <transChange type="added">the praise</transChange> of your name:</verse>


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<verse num="50">the one who makes great victories for his king, and <transChange type="added">who</transChange> shows loyal love for his anointed, to David and to his descendants forever.</verse>


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<verse num="1">The heavens <transChange type="added">are</transChange> telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands.</verse>


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<verse num="2">{Every day}<note>Literally "day to day"</note> <transChange type="added">they</transChange> pour forth speech, and {every night}<note>Literally "night to night"</note> <transChange type="added">they</transChange> tell knowledge.</verse>


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<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">Yet</transChange> in all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world their line<note>LXX "line"</note> goes out, and their words to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> end of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world. In them<note>That is, the heavens</note> he has pitched a tent for the sun,</verse>


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<verse num="5">and it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like a bridegroom who comes out of his bridal chamber. It is glad like a strong man to run <transChange type="added">its</transChange> course.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Its rising <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from <transChange type="added">one</transChange><note>Hebrew "the"</note> end of the heavens and its circuit to the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> end<note>Hebrew "ends"</note> of them; and nothing <transChange type="added">is</transChange> hidden from its heat.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The law of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> perfect, reviving life.<note>Or "soul"</note> The testimony of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> firm, making wise <transChange type="added">the</transChange> simple.</verse>


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<verse num="8">The precepts of Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> right, making <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pure, enlightening <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The fear of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> true; they are righteous altogether,</verse>


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<verse num="10">more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> comb.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Moreover, your servant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> warned<note>Or "illumined"</note> by them; in keeping them <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great reward.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Who can perceive <transChange type="added">his</transChange> errors? Acquit me from hidden <transChange type="added">faults</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Also, keep back your servant from arrogant <transChange type="added">sins</transChange>;<note>Usage elsewhere might suggest "arrogant people"</note> let them not rule over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your presence, O Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer.</verse>


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<verse num="1">May Yahweh answer you in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of trouble. May the name of Jacob's God protect<note>The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress</note> you.</verse>


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<verse num="2">May he send you help<note>Hebrew "your help"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sanctuary, and from Zion may he sustain you.</verse>


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<verse num="3">May he remember all your offerings, and your burnt offering may he {regard favorably}.<note>Literally "find <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> fat"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">May he give to you {your heart's desire},<note>Literally "according to your heart"</note> and your every plan may he fulfill. Selah</verse>


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<verse num="5">May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God may we set up banners. May Yahweh fulfill all your requests.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Now I know that Yahweh will help his anointed.<note>Hebrew "messiah"</note> He will answer him from his holy heaven with the victorious power of his right hand.</verse>


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<verse num="7">{Some boast in chariots and others in horses},<note>Literally "These in the chariots and those in the horses"</note> but we boast in the name of Yahweh, our God.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Rescue,<note>Or "Grant victory"</note> O Yahweh. Let the king answer us when we call.</verse>


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<verse num="1">O Yahweh, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king will rejoice in your strength, and how greatly he will delight in your help.<note>Or "victory"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">You have given him the desire of his heart, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah</verse>


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<verse num="3">For you meet him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> blessings of good <transChange type="added">things</transChange>. You set on his head a crown of fine gold.</verse>


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<verse num="4">He asked life from you; you gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to him-- length of days forever and ever.</verse>


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<verse num="5">His honor <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great because of your help.<note>Or "victory"</note> Splendor and majesty you have bestowed upon him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">For you set <transChange type="added">on</transChange> him blessings forever. You make him glad with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> joy <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your presence.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Because the king trusts Yahweh, and through the steadfast love<note>Or "loyal love"</note> of the Most High he shall not be moved.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Your hand will find all your enemies; your right hand will find those who hate you.</verse>


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<verse num="9">You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.</verse>


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<verse num="10">You will destroy their {offspring}<note>Literally "fruit"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, and their {descendants}<note>Literally "seed"</note> from among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children of humankind.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">Though they have {plotted}<note>Literally "spread out"</note> evil against you, <transChange type="added">though</transChange> they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">For you will {turn them to flight};<note>Literally "make them a shoulder"</note> you will aim <transChange type="added">arrows</transChange> on your bowstrings at their faces.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">My God, my God why have you forsaken me? <transChange type="added">Why are you</transChange> far from helping me, <transChange type="added">far from</transChange> the words of my groaning?</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night but I have no rest.<note>Or "I am not silent"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Yet you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> trusted you; they trusted and you delivered them.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">But I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">All <transChange type="added">who</transChange> see me mock me. They open wide <transChange type="added">their</transChange> lips; they shake <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>:</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">"{He trusts Yahweh}.<note>Literally "Commit to Yahweh"</note> Let him rescue him. Let him deliver him because he delights in him."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">Yet <transChange type="added">you</transChange> took me from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> belly; you made me trust <transChange type="added">while</transChange> on my mother's breasts.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="10">On you I was cast from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb. From my mother's belly you <transChange type="added">have been</transChange> my God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">Do not be far from me because trouble <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near; because there is no helper.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">Many bulls have encircled me; mighty <transChange type="added">bulls</transChange> of Bashan have surrounded me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13">They open their mouth against me <transChange type="added">like</transChange> a lion tearing and roaring.</verse>


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<verse num="14">I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted {within me}.<note>Literally "in the midst of my intestines"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my jaws; and you have placed me in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust of death.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion<note>Or "they gouge out" or "they bind." Not the same word for "lion" found in vv. 14(13), 22(21). The Hebrew text presents such problems that any interpretation must be lightly held.</note> <transChange type="added">they are at</transChange> my hands and my feet.</verse>


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<verse num="18">They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.<note>Hebrew "lot"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">Rescue my life from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword, my only <transChange type="added">life</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> power of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dogs.<note>Hebrew "dog"</note></verse>


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<verse num="21">Save me from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lion, and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> horns of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wild oxen answer me.</verse>


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<verse num="22">I will tell your name to my brothers; inside <transChange type="added">the</transChange> assembly I will praise you.</verse>


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<verse num="23">You who revere Yahweh, praise him! Glorify him, all <transChange type="added">you</transChange> seed of Jacob, and be in awe of him, all <transChange type="added">you</transChange> seed of Israel,</verse>


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<verse num="24">because he has not despised nor abhorred <transChange type="added">the</transChange> affliction of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted, and has not hid his face from him; but he listened to him when he cried for help.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="25">From you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my praise. In <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great assembly, I will pay my vows before those who revere him.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="26"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> afflicted will eat and will be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise Yahweh. May your<note>Plural</note> heart live forever.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="27">All <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth will remember and turn to Yahweh. All <transChange type="added">the</transChange> families of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations will worship before you.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and <transChange type="added">he</transChange> rules over the nations.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="29">All <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {healthy ones}<note>Or "prosperous"; Literally "fat ones"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth will eat and worship. Before him all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> those descending <transChange type="added">into the</transChange> dust will kneel, even he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> cannot keep his soul alive.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="30">Descendants<note>Hebrew "Descendant"</note> will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the <transChange type="added">next</transChange> generation.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="31">They will come and tell his saving<note>Or "righteousness"</note> <transChange type="added">deeds</transChange> to a people <transChange type="added">yet</transChange> to be born, that he has done <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="1">Yahweh is my shepherd; I will not lack <transChange type="added">for anything</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="3">He restores my life.<note>Or "my soul"</note> He leads me in {correct paths}<note>Literally "paths of righteousness"</note> for the sake of his name.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.</verse>


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<verse num="5">You prepare before me a table in the presence of my oppressors. You anoint my head with oil; my cup <transChange type="added">is</transChange> overflowing.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will stay<note>Hebrew "return"</note> in the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of Yahweh {for a very long time}.<note>Literally "for length of days"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world and those who live in it,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">because he has founded it on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seas, and has established it on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rivers.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Who may ascend <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountain of Yahweh? And who may stand in his holy place?</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">He will receive blessing from Yahweh, and justice<note>Or "vindication"</note> from the God of his salvation.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">Such <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> sort of those who seek<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> him, those who seek your face, even Jacob. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">Lift up your heads, O gates, and rise up, O ancient doorways, that the king of glory<note>Literally "the king of the glory"</note> may enter.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the king of glory?<note>Literally "the king of the glory"</note> Yahweh, strong and mighty; Yahweh, mighty in war!</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift up, O ancient doorways, that the king of glory<note>Literally "the king of the glory"</note> may enter.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="10">Who is the king of glory?<note>Literally "the king of the glory"</note> Yahweh of hosts, He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the king of glory!<note>Literally "the king of the glory"</note> Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">O my God, I trust you; let me not be put to shame. Do not let my enemies exult over me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame. Those who betray without cause should be put to shame.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the God of my salvation. I await you {all day long}.<note>Literally "all of the day"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">Remember your compassion, O Yahweh, and your acts of loyal love, because they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> from of old.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me <transChange type="added">if</transChange> you <transChange type="added">will</transChange>, for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">Good and right <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh; therefore he instructs sinners in the way.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">He causes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> humble to walk in justice, and teaches <transChange type="added">the</transChange> humble his way.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">All the paths of Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> loyal love and faithfulness for those who keep his covenant and statutes.<note>Or "covenant statutes"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Also, for the sake of your name, O Yahweh, forgive my sin, because it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man fearing Yahweh? He will instruct him in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way he should choose.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">His soul will lodge in prosperity, and his offspring will possess <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">Intimate fellowship with Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for those who fear him, and <transChange type="added">he</transChange> makes known his covenant to them.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">My eyes <transChange type="added">are</transChange> continually toward Yahweh, because he will take my feet from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> net.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">Turn to me and have mercy on me because I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> lonely and afflicted.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">Consider my affliction and trouble, and forgive<note>Or "take away"</note> all my sins.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">Consider that my enemies are many, and they hate me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> violent hatred.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="20">Protect my life and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my {innermost being}<note>Literally "kidneys," the locus of intense thoughts and emotions in biblical Hebrew</note> and my {mind}.<note>Literally "heart"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">Because your loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before my eyes, and I walk about in your faithfulness.</verse>


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<verse num="5">I hate <transChange type="added">the</transChange> crowd of evildoers, and with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked I will not sit.</verse>


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<verse num="6">I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh,</verse>


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<verse num="7">to declare with a voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous deeds.</verse>


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<verse num="8">O Yahweh, I love <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dwelling of your house,<note>Or "temple"</note> and {the place where your glory abides}.<note>Literally "the place of the dwelling place of your glory"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">Do not destroy me<note>Or "gather my soul <transChange type="added">for judgment</transChange>"</note> with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sinners, nor my life with men of bloodshed,</verse>


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<verse num="10">in whose hands <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes.<note>Hebrew "bribe"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be gracious to me.</verse>


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<verse num="1">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the refuge of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?</verse>


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<verse num="2">When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh-- my adversaries and my enemies <transChange type="added">who drew near</transChange> to me-- they themselves stumbled and fell.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, <transChange type="added">even</transChange> in this I <transChange type="added">will</transChange> remain confident.</verse>


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<verse num="4">One <transChange type="added">thing</transChange> I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I may dwell in the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider<note>Or "inquire in"</note> his temple.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Because he will hide me in his shelter in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Hear, O Yahweh, my voice <transChange type="added">when</transChange> I call, and be gracious to me and answer me.</verse>


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<verse num="8">On your behalf my heart says, "Seek my face." Your face, O Yahweh, I do seek.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Do not hide your face from me; do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and <transChange type="added">each</transChange> breathing out violence.<note>Or "and <transChange type="added">each</transChange> a witness of violence"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">Surely<note>Hebrew text is uncertain</note> I believe <transChange type="added">that I will</transChange> see the goodness of Yahweh in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Wait for Yahweh. Be strong and let your heart show strength, and wait for Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="1">To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Do not drag me away with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked or with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> workers of evil, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in their heart.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Give to them according to their work, even according to the evil of their deeds. Give to them according to the work of their hands; repay them their rightful due.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh, nor the work of his hands, he will destroy them and not rebuild them.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Blessed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their strength, and he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the refuge for the salvation of his anointed one.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Save your people and bless your heritage. Shepherd them also and carry them always.</verse>


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<verse num="1">Ascribe to Yahweh, O sons of God,<note>Or "heavenly beings"</note> ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Ascribe to Yahweh the glory {due}<note>Literally "of"</note> his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array.</verse>


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<verse num="3">The voice of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> over the waters; the God of glory thunders. Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> over many waters.</verse>


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<verse num="4">The voice of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> powerful. The voice of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> majestic.</verse>


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<verse num="5">The voice of Yahweh breaks <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cedars. Yahweh shatters even the cedars of Lebanon.</verse>


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<verse num="8">The voice of Yahweh shakes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The voice of Yahweh causes deer<note>A slightly different Hebrew word here yields, "makes the oaks tremble"</note> to give birth and strips <transChange type="added">the</transChange> forests bare. And at his temple all in it say, "Glory!"</verse>


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<verse num="10">Yahweh sits <transChange type="added">enthroned</transChange> at the flood, and Yahweh sits <transChange type="added">as</transChange> king forever.</verse>


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<verse num="11">May Yahweh give strength to his people. May Yahweh bless his people with peace.</verse>


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<verse num="1">I will exalt you, O Yahweh, because you have drawn me up, and have not made my enemies rejoice over me.</verse>


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<verse num="3">O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol. You preserved me alive from among those going down <note>According to the Kethib; the reading tradition (Qere) reads "so I would not go down"</note> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Sing praises to Yahweh, you his faithful ones, and give thanks {to his holy fame}.<note>Literally "to the fame of his holiness"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">For <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a moment in his anger; <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning <transChange type="added">comes</transChange> rejoicing.</verse>


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<verse num="7">O Yahweh, by your favor you caused my strong mountain to stand. You hid your face. I was bewildered.</verse>


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<verse num="8">To you, O Yahweh, I called, and to the Lord I pleaded for grace <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>,</verse>


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<verse num="9">"What gain <transChange type="added">is there</transChange> in my {death},<note>Literally "blood"</note> in my going down into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit? Will <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?</verse>


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<verse num="11">You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> joy</verse>


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<verse num="12">so that {I}<note>Literally "my glory"</note> may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever.</verse>


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<verse num="1">In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge. Let me not be put to shame ever. Deliver me by your righteousness.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Incline your ear to me. Quickly deliver me. Become my rock of refuge, {a fortified keep}<note>Literally "a house of strongholds"</note> to save me.</verse>


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<verse num="3">For you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Bring me out of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> net that they have secretly set for me, for you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my refuge.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Into your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.<note>Or "God of truth"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.<note>Or "soul"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And you have not delivered me into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy. You have set my feet in a broad place.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Be gracious <transChange type="added">to</transChange> me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> my soul and my {body}.<note>Literally "belly"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. <transChange type="added">Those who</transChange> see me in the street flee from me.</verse>


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<verse num="12">I have become forgotten like <transChange type="added">one</transChange> dead, out of {mind}.<note>Literally "heart"</note> I am like a destroyed vessel.</verse>


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<verse num="13">For I hear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.</verse>


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<verse num="14">But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh. I say, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my God."</verse>


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<verse num="15">My times<note>Or "destiny"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> pursue me.</verse>


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<verse num="17">O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them <transChange type="added">go</transChange> silently<note>Or "let them <transChange type="added">with</transChange> wailing <transChange type="added">enter</transChange>"</note> to Sheol.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous<note>Or "the innocent one"</note> unrestrained with arrogance and contempt.</verse>


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<verse num="19">How abundant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your goodness that you have stored up for <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children of humankind.</verse>


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<verse num="20">You will hide them in the protection of your presence from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> plots of man. You will hide them in a shelter from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> strife of tongues.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Blessed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh, because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me in a besieged city.</verse>


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<verse num="22">As for me, I said in my alarm, "I am cut off from before your eyes." However you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you for help.</verse>


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<verse num="23">Love Yahweh, all you his faithful ones. Yahweh preserves <transChange type="added">the</transChange> faithful but repays abundantly <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who acts arrogantly.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Be strong and let your<note>Plural</note> heart show strength, all <transChange type="added">you</transChange> who wait for Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="1">Happy <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he whose transgression is taken away, whose sin is covered.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Happy <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit.</verse>


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<verse num="4">For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dry heat of summer. Selah</verse>


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<verse num="5">I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah</verse>


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<verse num="6">Therefore let all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> faithful pray to you at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time <transChange type="added">for</transChange> finding <transChange type="added">you</transChange>. Surely at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flood of many waters they will not reach him.</verse>


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<verse num="7">You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my hiding place; from trouble you preserve me. <transChange type="added">With</transChange> cries of deliverance you surround me. Selah</verse>


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<verse num="8">I<note>Yahweh is speaking in vv. 8-9</note> will instruct you and teach you in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way that you should go. I will advise <transChange type="added">you</transChange> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> my eye upon you.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Do not be like a horse <transChange type="added">or</transChange> like a mule, without understanding; <transChange type="added">that needs</transChange> his tackle--bridle and rein--for restraint <transChange type="added">or he would not</transChange> come near you.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Many are <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pains of the wicked, but <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the one who trusts Yahweh loyal love surrounds him.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> righteous, and shout for joy, all <transChange type="added">you</transChange> upright of heart.</verse>


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<verse num="1">Exult in Yahweh, O <transChange type="added">you</transChange> righteous, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> praise <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fitting for the upright.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Give thanks to Yahweh with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lyre; with a harp of ten strings play to him.</verse>


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<verse num="4">For the word of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> upright, and all his work <transChange type="added">is done</transChange> in faithfulness.</verse>


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<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loyal love of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="6">By the word of Yahweh <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.</verse>


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<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> gathered the waters of the sea like a heap. <transChange type="added">He</transChange> put <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deeps in storehouses.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world stand in awe of him.</verse>


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<verse num="9">For {he himself spoke}<note>Literally "he, he spoke"</note> and it came to pass. {He himself commanded}<note>Literally "He, he commanded"</note> and it stood firm.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Yahweh brings to nothing<note>Or "breaks"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> plan of nations; he frustrates<note>Or "nullifies"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> intents of peoples.</verse>


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<verse num="11">The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever, the intents of his heart {from one generation to the next}.<note>Literally "to a generation and a generation"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">Blessed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the nation whose God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh, the people he has chosen for his inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="14">From his dwelling place<note>Or "the place where he sits enthroned"</note> he gazes on all the inhabitants of the earth,</verse>


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<verse num="16">The king <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not saved by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> greatness of an army. The warrior is not delivered by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> greatness of strength.</verse>


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<verse num="17">The horse <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a false hope for victory, nor can it save by the greatness of its power.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Behold, the eye of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on those who fear him, on those who hope<note>Or "wait expectantly"</note> for his loyal love</verse>


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<verse num="20">Our soul waits for Yahweh; he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our help and our shield.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Let your loyal love, O Yahweh, be upon us, {even as}<note>Literally "as which"</note> we hope in you.</verse>


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<verse num="1">I will bless Yahweh at all times; his praise <transChange type="added">shall be</transChange> in my mouth continually.</verse>


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<verse num="5">They looked to him and were radiant, and their faces shall not be ashamed.<note>Or "and let not their faces be ashamed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">This poor <transChange type="added">man</transChange> called and Yahweh heard, and saved him from all his troubles.</verse>


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<verse num="7">The angel of Yahweh encamps around <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> fear him, and he rescues them.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Taste and see that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good; blessed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man <transChange type="added">who</transChange> takes refuge in him.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Fear Yahweh, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> his saints,<note>Or "holy ones"</note> for there is no lack for <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> fear him.</verse>


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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> young lions are in want and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh will not lack for any good thing.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Come, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man who desires life, who loves <transChange type="added">many</transChange> days in order to see good?</verse>


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<verse num="15">The eyes of Yahweh <transChange type="added">are</transChange> toward <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous, and his ears toward their cry for help.</verse>


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<verse num="16">The face of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


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<verse num="17">They<note>That is, the righteous</note> cry out and Yahweh hears and delivers them from all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> their troubles.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near to <transChange type="added">those who are</transChange> heartbroken and saves <transChange type="added">those who are</transChange> crushed in spirit.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Many <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> distresses of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.</verse>


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<verse num="20"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> protects all his bones; not one of them is broken.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Evil will slay <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked, and <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> hate <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous will incur guilt.</verse>


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<verse num="22">Yahweh redeems the life of his servants, and none who take refuge in him will incur guilt.</verse>


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<verse num="1">Contend, O Yahweh, with my contenders; fight <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> fight me.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And draw <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spear and javelin to meet <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> pursue me. Say to my soul, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> your salvation."</verse>


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<verse num="4">Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed.</verse>


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<verse num="5">Let them be like chaff before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wind, with the angel of Yahweh {driving them}.<note>Literally "pushing"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for my life.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Let {unforeseen ruin}<note>Literally "ruin he does not know"</note> come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin.</verse>


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<verse num="10">All of my bones shall say, "O Yahweh, who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like you, who delivers <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor from <transChange type="added">one</transChange> stronger than he and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor and needy from <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> robs him?"</verse>


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<verse num="11">Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> what I do not know.</verse>


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<verse num="12">They repay me evil in place of good. <transChange type="added">It is</transChange> bereavement to my soul.</verse>


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<verse num="13">But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer {returned to me unanswered}.<note>Literally "upon my lap it will return"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">I {behaved}<note>Literally "walked about"</note> as <transChange type="added">though he were</transChange> a friend <transChange type="added">or</transChange> as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down <transChange type="added">in</transChange> mourning.</verse>


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<verse num="15">But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.</verse>


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<verse num="16">Among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ungodly of the mockers at feasts,<note>With a slight change the Hebrew might read, "The ungodly boldly mocked"</note> <transChange type="added">they</transChange> gnashed at me with their teeth.</verse>


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<verse num="17">My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages,<note>Or "roaring"</note> my only <transChange type="added">life</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young lions.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="18">I will give thanks <transChange type="added">to</transChange> you in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great assembly; among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty people I will praise you.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Let not those who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> wrongfully my enemies<note>Or "those who oppose me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> falsehood"</note> rejoice over me. <transChange type="added">Nor let</transChange> those who hate me without cause wink <transChange type="added">the</transChange> eye.</verse>


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<verse num="20">For they do not speak peace, but against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> quiet <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land they plan deceitful words.</verse>


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<verse num="21">They also made wide their mouths<note>Hebrew "mouth"</note> against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen <transChange type="added">it</transChange>."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="23">Wake up and rouse yourself for my right, for my cause, O my God and my Lord.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="24">Vindicate me according to your righteousness, O Yahweh my God, and do not let them rejoice over me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="25">Do not let them say in their hearts,<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> "Aha, our desire." Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="26">Let them be shamed and abashed altogether, who rejoice at my misfortune. Let them put on shame and insult, who magnify themselves against me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="27">Let them shout for joy and be glad, who delight in my vindication; and let them say continually, "Yahweh is great, who delights in the welfare of his servant."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="28">Then my tongue will proclaim your righteousness, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> your praise all day.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his<note>Reading with a few Hebrew manuscripts and some versions; MT reads "my"</note> heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.</verse>


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<verse num="2">For he flatters himself in his eyes, hating to detect his iniquity.<note>Or "when finding his iniquity and when hating"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">The words of his mouth <transChange type="added">are</transChange> wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to do good.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> not good. He does not reject evil.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">O Yahweh, your loyal love <transChange type="added">extends</transChange> into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens, your faithfulness unto <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clouds.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">Your righteousness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {like the mighty mountains},<note>Literally "like the mountains of God"</note> your judgments <transChange type="added">like the</transChange> great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">How precious <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">They are refreshed with the {fullness}<note>Literally "fatness"</note> of your house,<note>Or "temple"</note> and you give them drink <transChange type="added">from</transChange> the river of your delights.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">For with you is <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fountain of life; in your light we see light.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="10">Prolong your loyal love to those who know you, and your righteousness to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> upright of heart.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">Do not let a foot of pride come against me, nor let a wicked hand make me to wander homeless.</verse>


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<verse num="2">For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Trust Yahweh and do good. Abide <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> land and feed on faithfulness.<note>That is, God's faithfulness</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and he will give to you the requests of your heart.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">{Commit to}<note>Literally "Roll upon"</note> Yahweh your way; Trust also on him and he will act.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds <transChange type="added">in</transChange> his way, about a man making plots.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret; <transChange type="added">it</transChange> only brings evil.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">For evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh-- they will possess <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="10">And<note>Or "But"</note> yet a little <transChange type="added">while</transChange> and the wicked will not be, and you will look carefully upon his place, but he will not be.</verse>


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<verse num="11">But <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted will possess <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land, and they will take pleasure in an abundance of peace.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> wicked plans <transChange type="added">evil</transChange> against the righteous, and gnashes at him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his teeth.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> Lord laughs at him, for he sees that his day is coming.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> wicked have drawn <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword and have bent their bow to throw down <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy, to kill <transChange type="added">those</transChange> upright in <transChange type="added">their</transChange> way.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Their sword will enter into their <transChange type="added">own</transChange> heart, and their bows shall be broken.</verse>


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<verse num="16"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> little belonging to the righteous <transChange type="added">is</transChange> better than <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wealth of many wicked.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> arms of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh supports <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Yahweh knows <transChange type="added">the</transChange> days of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blameless, and their inheritance will be forever.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="19">They will not be put to shame in distressing times,<note>Hebrew "time"</note> and in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> days of famine they will be satisfied.</verse>


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<verse num="20">But <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> splendor of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="21"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> wicked borrows and does not repay, but <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous <transChange type="added">is</transChange> gracious and gives.</verse>


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<verse num="22">For those blessed <transChange type="added">by</transChange> him shall possess <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land, but those cursed <transChange type="added">by</transChange> him shall be cut off.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="23"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way.</verse>


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<verse num="24">Though he fall, he will not be cast headlong, for Yahweh supports <transChange type="added">him with</transChange> his hand.</verse>


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<verse num="25">I was a youth, but I am <transChange type="added">now</transChange> old; yet I have not seen <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous forsaken or his children {begging for}<note>Literally "searching"</note> bread.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="26">All the day he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> gracious and lends, and his children <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a blessing.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Turn aside from evil and do good and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> abide forever.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="28">For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful ones. They are protected forever. But <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked will be cut off.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="29"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> righteous will possess <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land and abide in it forever.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="30"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="31">The law of his God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in his heart. His steps will not slip.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="32"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to kill him.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="33">Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand, and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="34">Wait for Yahweh and keep his way, and he will exalt you to possess <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land. When <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked are cut off, you will see <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="35">I have seen <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="36">Then he passed on<note>Dead Sea Scrolls and the versions read "I passed by"</note> and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.</verse>


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<verse num="37">Observe <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blameless and look at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> upright, for <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a future for a man of peace.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="38">But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> future of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked shall be cut off.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="39">And<note>Some manuscripts omit "and," preserving the acrostic</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> salvation of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from Yahweh, their refuge in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> time of trouble.</verse>


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<verse num="40">And Yahweh helps them and he rescues them. He rescues them from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.</verse>


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<verse num="3">There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin.</verse>


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<verse num="4">For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">For my loins are full <transChange type="added">of</transChange> burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="10">My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.</verse>


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<verse num="11">My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13">But as for me, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deaf I cannot hear, and <transChange type="added">I am</transChange> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mute <transChange type="added">who</transChange> cannot open his mouth.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="14">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="16">For I said, "<transChange type="added">Help,</transChange> lest they rejoice over me, <transChange type="added">lest</transChange> they boast against me when my foot slips."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">For I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> ready to stumble, and my pain <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before me continually.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="19">And my enemies without cause<note>Or "vigorous"</note> are numerous, and those who hate me wrongfully<note>Or "those who hate me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> falsehood"</note> are many.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">I said, "I will guard my ways {that I may not sin}<note>Literally "from sinning"</note> with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked <transChange type="added">are</transChange> before me."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">I was mute <transChange type="added">with</transChange> silence. I was silent <transChange type="added">even</transChange> from <transChange type="added">saying</transChange> good <transChange type="added">things</transChange>, and my pain was stirred up.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. <transChange type="added">Then</transChange> I spoke with my tongue,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">"Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">Look, you have made my days <transChange type="added">mere</transChange> handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm <transChange type="added">is</transChange> complete vanity. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">Surely a man walks about as a <transChange type="added">mere</transChange> {shadow};<note>Literally "image"</note> surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up <transChange type="added">possessions</transChange> but does not know who <transChange type="added">will</transChange> gather them <transChange type="added">in</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me <transChange type="added">the</transChange> taunt of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fool.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11"><transChange type="added">When</transChange> with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you<note>Hebrew "and/then you"</note> {consume}<note>Literally "cause to melt"</note> like a moth his delightful <transChange type="added">things</transChange>. Surely everyone <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a <transChange type="added">mere</transChange> vapor.<note>The word translated "vanity" in vv. 6, 7</note> Selah</verse>


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<verse num="12">Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> an alien<note>Or "stranger"</note> with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">Look <transChange type="added">away</transChange> from me that I may be cheerful, before I depart and I am no more.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">I waited patiently for Yahweh, And he inclined to me and heard my cry for help.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">so</transChange> he brought me up from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roaring pit,<note>Some read "pit of destruction"</note> from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Then he put a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and will trust Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">Blessed <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not turn to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> proud and <transChange type="added">to those who</transChange> fall away <transChange type="added">to</transChange> a lie.<note>Or "false god"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done-- your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with you. If I <transChange type="added">tried to</transChange> proclaim and tell <transChange type="added">of them</transChange>, they would be too numerous to count.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. {My ears you have opened}.<note>Literally "Ears you have dug for me."</note> Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">Then I said, "Look, I come. In <transChange type="added">the</transChange> scroll of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> book it is written concerning me:</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">'I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {deep within me}.'"<note>Literally "in the midst of my intestines"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">I have brought good tidings <transChange type="added">of</transChange> righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, {you surely know that}.<note>Literally "you, you know"</note></verse>


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<verse num="10">Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart. I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great congregation.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me. Let your loyal love and your faithfulness continually preserve me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">For evils without number have encompassed me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="14">Let them be shamed and abashed altogether who seek to take away my life.<note>Or "soul"</note> Let them be repulsed and humiliated <transChange type="added">who</transChange> desire my harm.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="15">Let them be appalled because of their shame, those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="16">Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, "Yahweh is great!" --those who love your salvation.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">But I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">Blessed <transChange type="added">is the one who</transChange> has regard for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor; in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">Yahweh protects him and keeps him alive; he is blessed in the land, and you do not give him into the will<note>Hebrew "soul"</note> of his enemies.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Yahweh sustains him on <transChange type="added">his</transChange> sick bed. In his illness, you {restore to health}.<note>Literally "his every bed you change"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">As for me, I said, "O Yahweh, be gracious <transChange type="added">to</transChange> me. Heal me,<note>Or "my soul"</note> for I have sinned against you."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">And when one comes to see <transChange type="added">me</transChange>, he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">All who hate me speak together against me. Against me they assume the {worst}<note>Literally "evil"</note> for me:</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">"A ruinous thing is poured out on him, and <transChange type="added">now</transChange> that he lies down, he will not rise up again."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">Even {my close friend},<note>Literally "the man of my peace"</note> whom I trusted, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> ate my bread, has lifted <transChange type="added">his</transChange> heel against me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">By this I know that you delight in me: because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">As for me, you have upheld me in my integrity, and you have set me in your presence forever.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13">Blessed <transChange type="added">be</transChange> Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">My soul thirsts for God, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living God. When shall I come and appear before God?<note>Some Hebrew manuscripts and versions read "and see the face of God?"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">My tears have been my food day and night, while <transChange type="added">they</transChange> say to me all day <transChange type="added">long</transChange>, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your God?"</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude; I led them <transChange type="added">in procession</transChange> to the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of God, with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a crowd celebrating a festival.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">Why are you {in despair},<note>Literally "bowed down"</note> O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the salvation of his presence.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">O my God, within me my soul is {in despair};<note>Literally "bowed down"</note> therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Deep <transChange type="added">is</transChange> calling to deep at<note>Or "to"</note> the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with me, a prayer to the God of my life.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppression of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy?"</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">As</transChange> with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me {all day},<note>Literally "all the day"</note> "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your God?"</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">Why are you {in despair},<note>Literally "bowed down"</note> O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, {my salvation}<note>Literally "the salvation of my face"</note> and my God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">Judge me, O God, and plead my case against<note>Or "because of"</note> an unfaithful<note>Or "disloyal"</note> nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppression of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy?</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Send your light and your truth; they shall lead<note>Or "let them lead"</note> me. They shall bring me to {your holy mountain}<note>Literally "the mountain of your holiness"</note> and to your dwelling places.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">Then<note>Or "And"</note> I will go to the altar of God, to God, {my surpassing joy},<note>Literally "the joy of my gladness"</note> and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">Why are you {in despair},<note>Literally "bowed down"</note> O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, {my salvation}<note>Hebrew "the salvation of my face"</note> and my God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">You <transChange type="added">with</transChange> your hand drove out the nations, but them<note>That is, Israel</note> you planted. You harmed <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples, but them<note>That is, Israel</note> you let spread out.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">For not with their sword did they possess <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">You are my king, O God. Command<note>Or "who commands," see LXX</note> victories for Jacob.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">By you we push down our enemies; by your name we tread down those who rise up against us.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Rather you have saved us from our enemies,<note>Or "made us victorious over our enemies"</note> and have humiliated those who hate us.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">In God we boast all the day, and we will give thanks <transChange type="added">to</transChange> your name forever. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">You have caused us to pull back from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy, and <transChange type="added">so</transChange> those who hate us have plundered for themselves.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">You have given us as sheep <transChange type="added">for</transChange> food, and among the nations you have scattered us.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">You have sold your people {cheaply},<note>Literally "for <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> not wealth"</note> and did not profit by their price.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> head among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">{All day long}<note>Literally "All of the day"</note> my disgrace <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before me, and the shame of my face covers me,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> taunter and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> reviler, because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> avenger.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17">All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have <transChange type="added">not</transChange> turned aside from your way.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="20">If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands <transChange type="added">in prayer</transChange> to a foreign god,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="21">would not God discover this, for he knows <transChange type="added">the</transChange> secrets of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heart?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="22">Rather, on account of you we are killed {all day long};<note>Literally "all of the day"</note> we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="24">Why do you hide your face? <transChange type="added">Have</transChange> you forgotten our misery and our oppression?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="25">For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our {body}<note>Literally "belly"</note> clings to the ground.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="26">Rise up! <transChange type="added">Be a</transChange> help for us, and redeem us for the sake of your loyal love.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">My heart is moved <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a good word; I recite my {compositions}<note>Literally "works," that is, the song he has composed</note> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king. My tongue <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> pen <transChange type="added">of</transChange> a skilled scribe.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">You are <transChange type="added">the most</transChange> handsome of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">Gird your sword on <transChange type="added">your</transChange> thigh, O mighty one, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> your splendor and your majesty.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">And <transChange type="added">in</transChange> your majesty {ride victoriously},<note>Literally "Succeed! Ride!"</note> because of truth and humility <transChange type="added">and</transChange> righteousness. And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Your arrows <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sharp; peoples fall under you in the midst of the king's enemies.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">Your throne, O God, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> forever and ever. A scepter of uprightness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the scepter of your kingdom.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you from among your companions <transChange type="added">with</transChange> festive oil.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">All your robes <transChange type="added">are scented with</transChange> myrrh and aloes <transChange type="added">and</transChange> cassia. From palaces of ivory stringed instruments gladden you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Kings' daughters <transChange type="added">are</transChange> among your noble ladies. The queen stands at your right hand in gold of Ophir.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Hear, O daughter, and {discern}<note>Literally "see"</note> and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Let the king desire your beauty.<note>Or "Should the king desire ... then bow down ..."</note> Because he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your lord, therefore<note>Hebrew "and"</note> bow down to him.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">Even the daughter of Tyre <transChange type="added">will come</transChange> with a gift. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> rich from among people will seek your {favor}.<note>Literally "face"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13">The king's daughter is all glorious within;<note>That is, within her bridal chamber</note> her garment <transChange type="added">is</transChange> of gold embroidered cloth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">She is brought to the king <transChange type="added">in</transChange> colorful garments. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> young women behind her, her attendants, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> being brought to you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">They are led with joy and gladness. They enter <transChange type="added">the</transChange> palace of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">In place of your<note>The pronouns and verbal forms are masculine in this verse</note> fathers will be your sons. You will make them princes in all the land.<note>Or "earth"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17">I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore peoples will praise you forever and ever.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Therefore we will not fear though <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth change, and though the mountains totter into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {midst}<note>Literally "heart"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">though its waters roar <transChange type="added">and</transChange> foam, though mountains shake with its surging <transChange type="added">water</transChange>. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4"><transChange type="added">There is</transChange> a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the midst of her; she will not be made to totter. God will help her {at daybreak}.<note>Literally "at the turning of the morning"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">Nations roar, kingdoms shake; he utters his voice, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth melts.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Yahweh of hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with us; our <transChange type="added">high</transChange> stronghold <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the God of Jacob. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow and cuts off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spear. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> wagons <transChange type="added">of war</transChange> he burns with fire.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Be still, and know that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Yahweh of Hosts <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with us; the God of Jacob <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our <transChange type="added">high</transChange> stronghold.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">All <transChange type="added">you</transChange> peoples, clap <transChange type="added">your</transChange> hands.<note>Hebrew "hand"</note> Shout to God with a voice of rejoicing.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">For Yahweh Most High <transChange type="added">is</transChange> awesome,<note>Or "to be feared"</note> a great king over all the earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sound of a trumpet.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">Sing praises <transChange type="added">to</transChange> God, sing praises. Sing praises to our king, sing praises.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">For God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.<note>Or "sing a maskil"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> princes of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples are gathered together <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the people of Abraham's God. For <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shields of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth belong to God. He is very exalted.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great and very worthy of praise in the city of our God, in his {holy mountain}.<note>Literally "mountain of holiness"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {Mount Zion},<note>Literally "the mountain of Zion"</note> {in the far north},<note>Literally "far of north"; the word translated "north" could refer to Mount Zaphon</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> great king.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in her citadels; he is known as a <transChange type="added">high</transChange> stronghold.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">For see, the kings assembled;<note>That is, preparing for battle</note> they advanced together.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">{They themselves saw}<note>Literally "They, they saw"</note> <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, so they were astonished. They were terrified; they ran off.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">With an east wind you shatter<note>A few Hebrew manuscripts read "like an east wind <transChange type="added">that</transChange> shatters"</note> the ships of Tarshish.<note>That is, ships <transChange type="added">that can sail to</transChange> Tarshish, i.e. well built, able to traverse great distances</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish her forever. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">As <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your name, O God, so <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your praise to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Let {Mount Zion}<note>Literally "the mountain of Zion"</note> rejoice; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">{Consider well}<note>Literally "Set your heart to"</note> her ramparts. Go through her citadels so that you can tell <transChange type="added">the</transChange> next generation</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">that this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God, our God forever and ever. {He himself}<note>Literally "he, he will ..."</note> will guide us until death.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Hear this, all <transChange type="added">you</transChange> peoples; give ear, all <transChange type="added">you</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> understanding.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will {propound}<note>Literally "open"</note> my riddle on a lyre.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Why should I fear in {times of calamity},<note>Literally "the days of evil"</note> <transChange type="added">when</transChange> iniquity surrounds me at my heels,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">(since<note>Hebrew "and"</note> the redemption price for their life is costly and it always fails),</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">so that he may stay alive forever <transChange type="added">and</transChange> not see the pit.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">For he sees <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the wise die, together <transChange type="added">with the</transChange> fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next <transChange type="added">generation</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Within them <transChange type="added">they think</transChange> their houses <transChange type="added">are</transChange> forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They {name}<note>Literally "call"</note> <transChange type="added">their</transChange> lands by their <transChange type="added">own</transChange> names.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">But man cannot continue in <transChange type="added">his</transChange> pomp. He is like the beasts <transChange type="added">that</transChange> perish.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the journey<note>Hebrew "way"</note> <transChange type="added">of those who</transChange> have foolish <transChange type="added">confidence</transChange>, and those after them <transChange type="added">who</transChange> accept their sayings. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms <transChange type="added">will be for</transChange> Sheol to consume, <transChange type="added">far from</transChange> his lofty abode.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">Surely God will ransom my life from the {power}<note>Literally "hand"</note> of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">Do not fear when a man becomes rich, when the wealth<note>Or "honor"</note> of his house increases,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17">because when he dies he will not take <transChange type="added">away</transChange> any <transChange type="added">of it</transChange>. His wealth will not follow down after him.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and <transChange type="added">people</transChange> will praise you when you do well for yourself--</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">it<note>That is, his soul</note> will go to the generation of his fathers. Never will they see light.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="20">Humankind in <transChange type="added">its</transChange> pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts <transChange type="added">that</transChange> perish.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken and summoned <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rising of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun to its setting.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">From Zion, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> perfection of beauty, God shines forth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">"Gather to me my loyal ones, <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens declare his righteousness, because God himself is judge. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">It is not concerning <transChange type="added">a lack of</transChange> your sacrifices <transChange type="added">that</transChange> I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings <transChange type="added">are</transChange> before me continually.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">I will not take from your house a bull <transChange type="added">or</transChange> from your stalls a he-goat,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">because every animal of the forest is mine, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> cattle on a thousand hills.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">I know every bird of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains, and <transChange type="added">every</transChange> moving creature in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">If I were hungry I would not tell you, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world and its fullness <transChange type="added">are</transChange> mine.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">Do I eat <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flesh of bulls or drink <transChange type="added">the</transChange> blood of goats?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">Offer to God a thank offering and pay your vows to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Most High.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">And call me in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">But to the wicked God says, "What <transChange type="added">right</transChange> have you to recite my statutes and {mention my covenant with your mouth},<note>Literally "take my covenant on your mouth"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with adulterers.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="21">These <transChange type="added">things</transChange> you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present <transChange type="added">an argument</transChange> before your eyes.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="22">Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear <transChange type="added">you</transChange> apart, and there <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> none to deliver.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="23">He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> orders <transChange type="added">his</transChange> way; I will show him the salvation of God."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">For {I myself know}<note>Literally "I, I know"</note> my transgressions,<note>Or "rebellions"</note> and my sin <transChange type="added">is</transChange> ever before me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evil<note>Hebrew "the evil"</note> in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">Behold, you delight <transChange type="added">in</transChange> truth in the inward parts, and in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hidden <transChange type="added">parts</transChange> you make me to know wisdom.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Make me hear joy and gladness; let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bones you have crushed rejoice.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit {within me}.<note>Literally "in my inner parts"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">Then</transChange> I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; <transChange type="added">then</transChange> my tongue will sing aloud <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your righteousness.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">For you do not delight <transChange type="added">in</transChange> sacrifice or I would give <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. <transChange type="added">With</transChange> a burnt offering you are not pleased.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17">The sacrifices of God <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">Then you will delight <transChange type="added">in</transChange> righteous sacrifices, burnt offering and whole burnt offering. Then bulls will be offered on your altar.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God <transChange type="added">endures</transChange> {continually}.<note>Literally "all the day"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}.<note>Literally "righteousness"</note> Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from <transChange type="added">your</transChange> tent, and <transChange type="added">he</transChange> will uproot you from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous will see and fear, and will laugh at him, <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">"Look, the man <transChange type="added">who</transChange> would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">But I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> like an olive tree flourishing in the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of God. I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">I will give thanks to you forever, because <transChange type="added">of what</transChange> you have done, and I will wait on your name, because <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> good, in the presence of your faithful ones.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">{All of them}<note>Literally "The whole of it," i.e. all of humankind</note> have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Do not evildoers know, <transChange type="added">they</transChange> who eat my people <transChange type="added">as though</transChange> they were eating bread? They do not call on God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">There {they are very fearful}<note>Literally "they feared a fear"</note> <transChange type="added">where</transChange> no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps <transChange type="added">against</transChange> you. You have put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to shame, because God has rejected them.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">{Oh, that from Zion}<note>Literally "Who will give <transChange type="added">that</transChange> from Zion"</note> would come salvation <transChange type="added">for</transChange> Israel! When God returns the fortunes<note>Or "captivity"</note> of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless <transChange type="added">men</transChange> seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">See, God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my helper; The Lord <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with those who sustain my life.<note>Or "The Lord <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sustainer of my life."</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">He will repay<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> my enemies for their<note>Hebrew "the"</note> evil; in your faithfulness destroy them.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">I will freely sacrifice to you; I will give thanks <transChange type="added">to</transChange> your name, O Yahweh, because <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> good.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked <transChange type="added">with satisfaction</transChange> on my enemies.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Give ear, O God, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">because of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice <transChange type="added">of</transChange> an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge <transChange type="added">against</transChange> me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">So I say, "{Oh, that}<note>Literally "Who will give that"</note> I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">I would hurry to my refuge from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> raging wind <transChange type="added">and</transChange> storm."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in its midst.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Destruction <transChange type="added">is</transChange> within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">For <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not an enemy <transChange type="added">that</transChange> taunts me, or I could bear <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. <transChange type="added">It is not</transChange> one who hates me <transChange type="added">that</transChange> magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">But <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14"><transChange type="added">We</transChange> who would take sweet counsel together; in the house<note>Or "temple"</note> of God we would walk with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> throng.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in their home <transChange type="added">and</transChange> {heart}.<note>Literally "inward part"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17">{Morning, noon and night}<note>Literally "evening and morning and noon"</note> I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">He safely redeems my life from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> battle against me,<note>Or "my battle"</note> because <transChange type="added">those standing</transChange> against me are among many.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="19">God will hear and answer them,<note>Or "and humble them"</note> <transChange type="added">he</transChange> who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> enthroned from of old, Selah Because they do not change, and they do not fear God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="20">He has put forth his hands against {his friends};<note>Literally "those at peace with him"</note> he has defiled his covenant.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="21">The {buttery words}<note>Literally "butter"</note> of his mouth were smooth, but <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> drawn swords.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="22">Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.<note>Or "shaken"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="23">But you, O God, you will bring them down to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pit of corruption. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">My enemies<note>Or "lurking foes"</note> trample all day, because many <transChange type="added">are</transChange> attacking me proudly.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">{When}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">The</transChange> day"</note> I fear, I trust you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">God, whose word I praise, God I trust; I do not fear. What can <transChange type="added">mere</transChange> flesh do to me?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">All day they twist my words; all their thoughts <transChange type="added">are</transChange> against me for evil.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">They attack,<note>Or "they stir up strife"</note> they hide, they watch my {steps},<note>Literally "heels"</note> as they <transChange type="added">lie in</transChange> wait for my life.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Because of iniquity will they escape? In anger cast down <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples, O God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; <transChange type="added">are they</transChange> not in your book?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Then my enemies will turn back {when}<note>Literally "in the day"</note> I call.<note>i.e., call on God</note> This I know because<note>Or "that"</note> God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">God, <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> word I praise, Yahweh, <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> word I praise,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">God I trust; I do not fear. What can <transChange type="added">mere</transChange> humankind do to me?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">My</transChange> vows <transChange type="added">to you</transChange>, O God, <transChange type="added">are binding</transChange> upon me. I will pay thank offerings to you,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13">because you have delivered my soul from death. <transChange type="added">Have you</transChange> not <transChange type="added">kept</transChange> my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, because in you my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">I will call to God Most High, to God who accomplishes <transChange type="added">things</transChange> concerning me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">He will send from heaven and save me; he will reproach <transChange type="added">the</transChange> one who tramples me. Selah God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">My soul <transChange type="added">is</transChange> among lions. I lie down <transChange type="added">among those who</transChange> devour-- the children<note>Or "sons"</note> of humankind whose teeth <transChange type="added">are</transChange> spears and arrows and whose tongues <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sharp swords.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Be exalted above the heavens, O God. <transChange type="added">Let</transChange> your glory <transChange type="added">be</transChange> above all the earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">My heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> steadfast, O God; My heart <transChange type="added">is</transChange> steadfast. I will sing and give praise.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Awake, my glory; Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dawn.<note>Or "<transChange type="added">at</transChange> dawn"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Lord; I will give you praise among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Because your loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> high to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens, and your faithfulness to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> clouds.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Be exalted above <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens, O God. <transChange type="added">Let</transChange> your glory <transChange type="added">be</transChange> above all the earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Do you really speak <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> right <transChange type="added">when</transChange> silent?<note>A slight emendation of the Hebrew text yields "what is right, O gods," or "O mighty ones"</note> <transChange type="added">Do</transChange> you judge fairly the children of humankind?<note>Or "Do you judge fairly, O sons of humankind?"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">No, in <transChange type="added">your</transChange> heart you plan injustices; in the land<note>Or "on the earth"</note> you weigh out the violence of your hands.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">The wicked are estranged from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> womb. They go astray from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> belly, speaking lies.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Their venom <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like snake venom; <transChange type="added">They are</transChange> like a deaf viper that closes its ear</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">so that it does not hear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> voice of charmers <transChange type="added">or the</transChange> skilled caster of spells.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">O God, break their teeth in their mouth. Break off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fangs of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> young lions, O Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Let them run <transChange type="added">away</transChange> like water <transChange type="added">that</transChange> runs off. <transChange type="added">When</transChange> he bends <transChange type="added">the bow</transChange>, let his arrows <transChange type="added">be</transChange> as though they were cut off.<note>Or "as though they were withered <transChange type="added">stalks</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">Let them be</transChange> like a snail <transChange type="added">that</transChange> melts away <transChange type="added">as</transChange> it goes; <transChange type="added">like the</transChange> stillborn of woman <transChange type="added">that</transChange> do not see <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Before your pots can feel <transChange type="added">the heat of</transChange> a thornbush, whether green <transChange type="added">or</transChange> {dry},<note>Literally "burning"</note> he will sweep it away.<note>The Hebrew of this verse is difficult to interpret</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> righteous will rejoice when he sees <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">And people<note>Hebrew "a person"</note> will say, "Surely <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a {reward}<note>Literally "fruit"</note> for the righteous. Surely there is a God <transChange type="added">who</transChange> judges in the land."<note>Or "on the earth"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Protect<note>The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress</note> me from those who rise up against me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">For look, they lie in wait for my life.<note>Hebrew "soul"</note> The mighty attack<note>Or "stir up strife"</note> against me, not <transChange type="added">because of</transChange> my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves. Awake to meet me and see.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">And you, Yahweh, God <transChange type="added">of</transChange> hosts, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations. Do not be gracious to any <transChange type="added">who</transChange> treacherously plot evil. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">They return at evening; they howl like dogs<note>Hebrew "dog"</note> while they prowl <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Look, they pour out <transChange type="added">talk</transChange> with their mouth. Swords <transChange type="added">are</transChange> on their lips, for <transChange type="added">they say</transChange>, "Who hears?"</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">But you, O Yahweh, will laugh at them; you will mock all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">O my strength,<note>Reading with a few Hebrew manuscripts and the LXX, Targum and v. 17</note> I will watch for you, because <transChange type="added">you</transChange>, O God, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my (high) stronghold.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">My<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere), some Hebrew manuscripts and the LXX</note> God of loyal love will meet me; God will cause me to look <transChange type="added">in triumph</transChange> on my enemies.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them <transChange type="added">to</transChange> wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12"><transChange type="added">By</transChange> the sin of their mouth <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> curses<note>Hebrew "curse"</note> and lies<note>Hebrew "lie"</note> they proclaim.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">Destroy in anger; destroy so they are no more, so that they may know that God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> ruling in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">They return at evening; they howl like dogs<note>Hebrew "dog"</note> while they prowl <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.<note>Or "then they growl"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">But as for me, I will sing <transChange type="added">of</transChange> your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my <transChange type="added">high</transChange> stronghold and a refuge in my {time}<note>Literally "day"</note> of trouble.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">O my strength, to you I will give praise, because God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my <transChange type="added">high</transChange> stronghold, my God of loyal love.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us. You have been angry. Restore us!</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">You have made <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land quake. You have split it open. Heal its fissures, because it totters.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">You have shown your people hard <transChange type="added">things</transChange>; You have given us wine that staggers.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">You have rallied those who fear you round a banner {out of bowshot},<note>Literally "from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> presence of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow"</note> Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">so that your beloved ones may be rescued. Save by your right hand and answer us.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">God has spoken in his holiness, "I will rejoice; I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the valley of Succoth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Gilead <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine, and Manasseh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> mine, and Ephraim <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the {helmet for}<note>Literally "protection of"</note> my head; Judah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my scepter.<note>Or "commander's rod"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Moab <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my washing pot; over Edom, I will cast my sandal. On account of me, O Philistia, raise a shout."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Who will bring me to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Have not you yourself rejected us, O God, and not gone out with our armies, O God?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Give us help against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> adversary, for the help of humankind <transChange type="added">is</transChange> futile.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">Through God we will do {valiantly},<note>Literally "might"</note> and <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> will tread down our enemies.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">From the end of the earth<note>Or "the far reaches of the land"</note> I call to you when my heart grows faint. You will lead me to a rock <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> higher than I.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Let me reside in your tent forever. Let me take refuge under the covering of your wings. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">For you, O God, you have heard my vows. You have given <transChange type="added">me</transChange> the heritage of those who fear your name.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">You will add days to the days of the king, his years like <transChange type="added">those of</transChange> {many generations}.<note>Literally "a generation and a generation"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">May he live<note>Or "be enthroned"</note> forever in the presence of God. Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">So I will sing the praise of your name forever, that I may fulfill<note>Or "pay"</note> my vows {daily}.<note>Literally "day, day"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Only for God my soul <transChange type="added">waits in</transChange> silence. From him <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my salvation.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Only he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my rock and my salvation, my <transChange type="added">high</transChange> stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">How long will you attack a man? All of you will be shattered<note>Or "All of you shatter <transChange type="added">him</transChange>"</note> like a leaning wall, a tottering fence.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">They only<note>This word appears first in the Hebrew verse.</note> plan to thrust <transChange type="added">him</transChange> down from his high position; they are pleased <transChange type="added">with</transChange> deception. With their mouths<note>Hebrew "his mouth"</note> they bless, but {inwardly}<note>Literally "in the midst of them"</note> they curse. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope <transChange type="added">is</transChange> from him.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">Only he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my rock and my salvation, my <transChange type="added">high</transChange> stronghold; I shall not be shaken.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">On God <transChange type="added">rests</transChange> my salvation and my glory; God<note>Or "In God"</note> is my strong rock, my refuge.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Trust him at all times, O people; pour out before him your heart. God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a refuge for us. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Only a vapor<note>Or "breath"</note> <transChange type="added">are</transChange> men of low degree, a deception <transChange type="added">are</transChange> men of high degree. {Weighed}<note>Literally "To go up"</note> in a balance, together they <transChange type="added">are lighter</transChange> than a vapor.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain <transChange type="added">confidence</transChange> in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set <transChange type="added">your</transChange> heart <transChange type="added">on it</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> to God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">And to you <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> loyal love, O Lord, because you will render to each according to his work.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">O God, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my God; I will seek you diligently. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you <transChange type="added">as</transChange> in a dry and weary land without water.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">Because your loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> better than life, my lips will praise you.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my {hands}<note>Hebrew "palms"</note> in your name.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">My soul will be satisfied <transChange type="added">as with the</transChange> best and richest <transChange type="added">food</transChange>, and <transChange type="added">with</transChange> joyful lips my mouth will praise.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> night watches.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Because you have been my help, therefore<note>Hebrew "and"</note> in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">My soul clings to<note>Or "follows hard after"</note> you; your right hand upholds me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">But as for them <transChange type="added">who</transChange> seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">They <transChange type="added">who</transChange> would {deliver him to the sword}<note>Literally "pour him out to the hands of the sword"</note> will become a portion for jackals.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">However, the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> liars will be stopped.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Hear my voice, O God, in my lamenting. Preserve my life from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fear of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Hide me from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> secret plots<note>Hebrew "plot"</note> of evildoers, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> unrest of <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> do iniquity,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend <transChange type="added">their bow to shoot</transChange> their arrows--bitter words,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">to shoot from<note>Hebrew "in"</note> their<note>Hebrew "the"</note> hiding places <transChange type="added">at the</transChange> blameless. Suddenly they shoot <transChange type="added">at</transChange> him and do not fear.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">They encourage themselves <transChange type="added">in the</transChange> evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">{They carefully plot}<note>Literally "They search out"</note> injustices <transChange type="added">saying</transChange>, "We have perfected {the perfect plot}!"<note>Literally "a plotted plot"</note> Both <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {inner thought}<note>Literally "inward part"</note> and heart of <transChange type="added">a</transChange> man <transChange type="added">are</transChange> deep.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8"><note>The Hebrew of this verse is very difficult</note> And they <transChange type="added">who</transChange> would cause him<note>That is, the psalmist</note> to stumble, their <transChange type="added">own</transChange> tongue <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> against them. All who gaze on them will shake.<note>Perhaps a shaking of the head; a similar Hebrew form could be translated "will flee"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">And then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> all men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> will fear, and will declare the working of God, and will understand his doing.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> righteous will rejoice in Yahweh and take refuge in him, and all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> upright in heart will boast.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion, and to you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> vow shall be fulfilled.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">O <transChange type="added">you who</transChange> hear prayer, to you all flesh will come.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Iniquities<note>Hebrew "matters of iniquities"</note> prevail over me. As for our transgressions, you will {forgive}<note>Literally "provide atonement for"</note> them.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">Blessed <transChange type="added">is one whom</transChange> you choose and bring near, <transChange type="added">that</transChange> he may abide in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">By awesome deeds in righteousness you will answer us, O God of our salvation, <transChange type="added">you who are the</transChange> confidence <transChange type="added">of</transChange> all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth and <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the far-off seas,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">who</transChange> established the mountains by his strength, <transChange type="added">the one who</transChange> is girded with might,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">who</transChange> stills <transChange type="added">the</transChange> roar of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seas, the roar of their waves, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> commotion of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples,</verse>


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<verse num="8">so that<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> inhabitants of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> farthest reaches are in awe of your signs. You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">You care for<note>Or "visit"</note> the land<note>Or "earth"</note> and water it; you greatly enrich it. The stream of God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> filled with waters. You provide their grain, for so you have established it.</verse>


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<verse num="10">You drench its furrows, penetrating its ridges. With rains you soften it; its growth you bless.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">You crown the year with your {bounty},<note>Literally "goodness"</note> and your wagon paths drip with {richness}.<note>Literally "fatness"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">They drop <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> pastures of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wilderness, and the hills gird themselves with joy.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> pasturelands put on flocks, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> valleys clothe themselves with grain. They shout in triumph; they even sing.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">Sing the glory of his name. {Set forth his glorious praise}.<note>Literally "set for glory--his praise"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">Say to God, "How awesome are your works! Because of the greatness of your strength, your enemies will cringe before you.</verse>


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<verse num="4">All the earth will bow in worship to you, and sing <transChange type="added">praise</transChange> to you. They will sing <transChange type="added">the praise of</transChange> your name." Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">Come and {consider}<note>Literally "see"</note> the works of God; <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> awesome <transChange type="added">in his</transChange> dealings<note>Hebrew "dealing"</note> with the children of humankind.</verse>


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<verse num="6">He turned <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea into dry ground; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him.</verse>


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<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">He</transChange> rules by his might forever; his eyes keep watch on the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> Selah</verse>


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<verse num="9">the one who has kept our soul among the living, and has not allowed our foot to slip.</verse>


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<verse num="11">You brought us into the net; you placed a {heavy burden}<note>Literally "oppression"</note> on our backs.</verse>


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<verse num="12">You let men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you have brought us out to the place of abundance.<note>A slightly different Hebrew word yields "a broad place"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">I will come into your house<note>Or "temple"</note> with burnt offerings. I will pay to you my vows</verse>


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<verse num="15">Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you, with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> smoke of rams. I will do<note>That is, "offer"</note> cattle with rams. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="16">Come <transChange type="added">and</transChange> hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell what he has done for me.<note>Hebrew "my soul"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">I called to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.<note>A slightly different Hebrew word yields "his exaltation was under my tongue"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">Blessed be God, who has not turned aside my prayer, or his loyal love from me.</verse>


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<verse num="1">May God be gracious to us and bless us. May he cause his face to shine toward us, Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, because you judge <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples with equity and guide the nations on the earth. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples praise you, O God; let all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples praise you.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> earth has yielded its produce. God, our God, will bless us.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">God will bless us, and all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ends of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth will fear him.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">God will arise; his enemies will be scattered, and those who hate him will flee from before him.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">As smoke is driven off, you will drive <transChange type="added">them</transChange> off. As wax melts before fire, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked will perish before God.</verse>


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<verse num="3">But <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Lift up <transChange type="added">a song</transChange> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rider on the clouds--his name is Yah--<note>A shortened form of "Yahweh"</note> and rejoice before him.</verse>


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<verse num="5">A father to orphans and a judge for widows <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God in his holy habitation.</verse>


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<verse num="6">God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert, Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8"><transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth shook; <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heavens also dripped <transChange type="added">rain</transChange> at the presence of God who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="9">You caused abundant rain to fall, O God. When your inheritance was weary you revived it.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Your community dwelled in it. You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">The Lord gives <transChange type="added">the</transChange> word. Great is the company of women who announce:</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">"<transChange type="added">The</transChange> kings of armies flee, they flee, and she <transChange type="added">who</transChange> remains at home divides <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spoil.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Though you <transChange type="added">men</transChange> lie down between the sheepfolds, <transChange type="added">you will be like the</transChange> wings of a dove covered in silver and its pinions in yellow gold."</verse>


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<verse num="14">When Shaddai scattered kings on it, on Zalmon it snowed.<note>Or "you caused it to snow on"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">A mountain of God<note>Or "A mighty mountain"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of <transChange type="added">many</transChange> peaks <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the mountain of Bashan.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="16">Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains? This<note>Hebrew "The"</note> mountain God desires for his dwelling. Yes, Yahweh will abide <transChange type="added">in it</transChange> forever.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">The chariots of God <transChange type="added">are</transChange> twice ten thousand, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> thousands doubled. The Lord <transChange type="added">is</transChange> among them <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Sinai, distinctive <transChange type="added">in victory</transChange>.<note>Or "<transChange type="added">as at</transChange> Sinai, in the sanctuary"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">You have ascended on high; you have led away captives. You have received gifts <transChange type="added">from</transChange> among humankind, and even <transChange type="added">from the</transChange> rebellious, so that Yah<note>A shortened form of "Yahweh"</note> God may dwell <transChange type="added">there</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="19">Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us <transChange type="added">with benefits</transChange>,<note>Or "daily carries our burden"</note> the God <transChange type="added">of</transChange> our salvation.<note>Or "victory"</note> Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="20">Our God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a God of deliverances, and to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="21">But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp <transChange type="added">of the one who</transChange> {continues on}<note>Literally "is walking about"</note> in his guilt.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="22">The Lord said, "I will bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> back from Bashan; I will bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> back from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> depths of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="23">so that your foot may shatter <transChange type="added">them</transChange> bloody <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the tongues of your dogs <transChange type="added">to have</transChange> their share from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemies."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="24">They have seen your processions, O God, the processions of my God, my king, distinctive <transChange type="added">in victory</transChange>.<note>Or "into the sanctuary"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="25">Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last, between <transChange type="added">them</transChange> young women <transChange type="added">playing</transChange> tambourines.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="26">Bless God in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> assemblies, Yahweh from the fountain of Israel.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="27">There <transChange type="added">is</transChange> little Benjamin ruling them, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the princes of Judah <transChange type="added">in</transChange> their throng, the princes of Zebulun <transChange type="added">and</transChange> the princes of Naphtali.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="28">Your God has commanded your strength. Show yourself strong, O God, <transChange type="added">by</transChange> what you perform<note>Or "you who have worked"</note> for us.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="29">Because your temple <transChange type="added">is</transChange> above Jerusalem, kings will bring tribute to you.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="30">Rebuke <transChange type="added">the</transChange> beasts in<note>Hebrew "of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> reeds, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> herd of bulls with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> calves of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> peoples, trampling the pieces of silver.<note>Or "<transChange type="added">until each</transChange> humbles himself <transChange type="added">by offering</transChange> pieces of silver"</note> Scatter <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations <transChange type="added">who</transChange> delight in battles.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="31">Ambassadors<note>Reading with the LXX; meaning uncertain</note> will come from Egypt; Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="32">O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praise to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Lord, Selah</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="33">to the one who rides in the highest heavens of old. See, he gives forth his voice, a mighty voice.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="34">Ascribe strength to God. His majesty <transChange type="added">is</transChange> over Israel, and his strength <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the clouds.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="35">Awesome <transChange type="added">are you</transChange>, O God, from your sanctuary.<note>Hebrew "sanctuaries"</note> The God of Israel, <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> he who gives strength and might to the people. Blessed be God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">Save me, O God, because waters have come up to <transChange type="added">my</transChange> neck.<note>Hebrew "soul" or "life"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">I sink in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> torrent floods over me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">I am weary with my calling <transChange type="added">out</transChange>; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted <transChange type="added">in my</transChange> waiting for my God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">More numerous than the hairs of my head are <transChange type="added">those</transChange> hating me without a cause. <transChange type="added">Those who are</transChange> destroying me--my enemies wrongfully<note>Or, "those who oppose me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> falsehood"</note>-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">O God, {you yourself know}<note>Literally "you, you know"</note> my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh <transChange type="added">of</transChange> hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">because the zeal for your house<note>Or "temple"</note> has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">Those sitting at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gate talk about me <transChange type="added">as</transChange> also<note>Hebrew "and"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> songs of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> drunkards.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13">But as for me, my prayer <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="14">Deliver me from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> hate me and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> watery depths.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="15">Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="16">Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="19">You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. {Fully known}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">right</transChange> in front of"</note> to you are all my adversaries.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="20">Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="21">They also gave me gall for food,<note>Or "they put poison in my food"</note> and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="22">Let their table before them be a trap, and their <transChange type="added">times of</transChange> peace a snare.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="23">Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="24">Pour out your indignation on them, and let your burning anger overtake them.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="26">because they persecute <transChange type="added">those</transChange> whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of <transChange type="added">those</transChange> you have wounded.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="27">{Add guilt on top of their guilt},<note>Literally "Give guilt on their guilt"</note> and do not let them {be acquitted}.<note>Literally "come into your righteousness"</note></verse>


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<verse num="28">Let them be blotted out of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> book of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> living, and let them not be recorded with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="29">But as for me, <transChange type="added">though</transChange> I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect<note>The sense is that of making something inaccessibly high, like a fortress</note> me, O God.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="31">For Yahweh it will be better than an ox <transChange type="added">or</transChange> bull, horned <transChange type="added">and</transChange> hoofed.<note>That is, mature and ritually clean</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="32"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> afflicted will see <transChange type="added">and</transChange> rejoice. O God seekers, let your heart revive,<note>Or "live"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="33">because Yahweh hears <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy and does not despise his <transChange type="added">own who are</transChange> prisoners.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="34">Let heavens and earth praise him, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seas and all that moves in them,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="35">because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.</verse>


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<verse num="36">And the offspring of his servants will inherit it, and <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> love his name will abide in it.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="1">O God, <transChange type="added">make haste</transChange> to deliver me. O Yahweh, make haste to help me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">Let them be ashamed and abashed who seek my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated <transChange type="added">who</transChange> desire my harm.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, "God is great!" <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who love your salvation.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">But I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> poor and needy; O God hasten to me. You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my help and my deliverer. O Yahweh, do not delay.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always; you have ordained<note>Or "commanded"</note> to save me, because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my rock and my fortress.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">My God, rescue me from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {grasp}<note>Literally "palm"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> evildoer and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressor,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">Upon you I have leaned {from birth}.<note>Literally "from the belly"</note> <transChange type="added">It was</transChange> you who {took}<note>Literally "cut," that is, the umbilical cord</note> me from the womb of my mother. My praise <transChange type="added">is</transChange> of you continually.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">I have become a wonder to many, but you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> my strong refuge.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">Do not cast me away in the time of old age; when my strength fails do not abandon me.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="10">For my enemies talk concerning me, and those who watch for my life conspire together,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">saying, "His God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer."</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13">Let them be ashamed; let them perish who are {my adversaries}.<note>Literally "adversaries of my soul"</note> Let <transChange type="added">them</transChange> wrap themselves with scorn and disgrace who seek my harm.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="15">My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation {all day long},<note>Literally "all the day"</note> though I do not know <transChange type="added">the full</transChange> sum <transChange type="added">of them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="16">I will come in <transChange type="added">to tell</transChange> the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh. I will {make known}<note>Literally "bring to remembrance"</note> your righteousness, yours only.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">O God, you have taught me from my youth, and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="18">And even when <transChange type="added">I am</transChange> old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your {strength}<note>Literally "arm"</note> to <transChange type="added">this</transChange> generation, your power to every <transChange type="added">one that</transChange> comes <transChange type="added">after</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="19">And your righteousness, O God, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> height <transChange type="added">of heaven</transChange>. You who have done great things, O God, who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> like you?</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="20">You who have caused me<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me.<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="21">You will increase my greatness, and you will comfort me all around.<note>A slightly different vocalization yields, "... comfort me again"; compare the LXX.</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="22">On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> your faithfulness, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="23">My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you, and my soul, which you have redeemed.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="24">My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">O God, give your judgments to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king, and your righteousness to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> king's son.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">Let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains yield prosperity<note>Or "peace"</note> for the people, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hills in righteousness.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">May he provide justice <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> poor of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> people, save <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy, and crush <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressor.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">May he live long<note>This presupposes the reading, suggested by the LXX, that might indicate that two of the Hebrew root letters have been inverted. The Hebrew reads "They will/Let them fear"</note> {while the sun endures}<note>Literally "with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun"</note> {as long as the moon}<note>Literally "in the presence of the moon"</note> {for all generations}.<note>Literally "generation of generations"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">May he descend like rain on mown grass, like showers watering <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


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<verse num="7">May <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> right blossom in his days and an abundance of peace, until <transChange type="added">the</transChange> moon is no more.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">And may he rule from sea up to sea, and from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> River<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> edges of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">Let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert dwellers bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Let the kings of Tarshish and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> islands bring tribute. Let the kings of Sheba and Seba present gifts,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">Indeed he will deliver <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> crying for help, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted <transChange type="added">who</transChange> has no helper.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="13">He will take pity on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> helpless and needy, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> lives of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy he will save.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">From oppression and from violence he will redeem their lives, and their blood will be precious in his eyes.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="15">So may he live, and may gold from Sheba be given to him, and may prayers be offered for him continually. May blessings be invoked for him {all day long}.<note>Literally "all the day"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="16">May there be an abundance of grain in the land <transChange type="added">even</transChange> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> top of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains. May his crop<note>Or "May his descendants"</note> sway like the <transChange type="added">trees of</transChange> Lebanon, and may <transChange type="added">those</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> city blossom like the grass of the earth.</verse>


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<verse num="17">May his name endure forever. May his name increase {as long as the sun shines},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">in the</transChange> presence of the sun"</note> and let them be blessed in him. Let all nations call him blessed.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="18">Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> alone does wonderful things.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="19">And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">because I envied the boastful <transChange type="added">when</transChange> I saw <transChange type="added">the</transChange> well-being<note>Or "peace" or "prosperity"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {healthy}.<note>Literally "fat"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">They do not have {ordinary trouble},<note>Literally "the trouble of man"</note> and they are not plagued as <transChange type="added">other</transChange> people.<note>Hebrew "humankind"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">Their eye bulges from fat.<note>A slightly different Hebrew reading might be reflected in the LXX's "their iniquity comes out of fatness"</note> Imaginings overflow <transChange type="added">their</transChange> heart.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak <transChange type="added">as though</transChange> from on high.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">Therefore his people turn there,<note>That is, toward the wicked</note> and abundant waters are slurped up by them.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="11">And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">See, these <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="14">And I have been plagued all day and rebuked {every morning}.<note>Literally "to the mornings"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="15">If I had said, "I will speak thus," behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children's generation.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">When I thought about <transChange type="added">how</transChange> to understand this, it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> troubling in my eyes</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="17">until I went into the sanctuary of God. <transChange type="added">Then</transChange> I understood their fate.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="18">Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.<note>Or "fall for deceptions"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="19">How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="20">Like a dream upon awakening, when <transChange type="added">you</transChange> wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.<note>Or "image"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="22">then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was <transChange type="added">like</transChange> the beasts.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="23">But I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> continually with you; you have hold of my right hand.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="24">You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me <transChange type="added">into</transChange> honor.<note>Or "<transChange type="added">to</transChange> glory"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">Whom do I have in the heavens <transChange type="added">except you</transChange>? And with you I have no <transChange type="added">other</transChange> desire on earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="26">My flesh and heart failed, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the {strength}<note>Literally "rock"</note> of my heart and my reward forever.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="27">For indeed, <transChange type="added">those</transChange> distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="28">But as for me, the approach to God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh <transChange type="added">as</transChange> my refuge, in order to tell all your works.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Why, O God, have you rejected <transChange type="added">us</transChange> forever? <transChange type="added">Why</transChange> does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">Remember your congregation <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you bought long ago, <transChange type="added">when</transChange> you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. <transChange type="added">Remember</transChange> {Mount Zion}<note>Literally "the mountain of Zion"</note> where you have dwelt.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="3">Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> all <transChange type="added">that the</transChange> enemy has ruined in the sanctuary.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="4">Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs <transChange type="added">for</transChange> signs.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="5">They are<note>Hebrew "He is"</note> known <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> like <transChange type="added">those who</transChange> {wield}<note>Literally "lift up"</note> axes in a thicket of trees.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="6">And now<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> its<note>That is, the temple's</note> carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="8">They have said in their heart, "We will completely<note>Hebrew "altogether"</note> oppress them." They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="9">We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">How long, O God, will <transChange type="added">the</transChange> adversary taunt? Will <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy treat your name with contempt forever?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? <transChange type="added">Take it</transChange> from your bosom;<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> destroy <transChange type="added">them</transChange>!</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">But God <transChange type="added">has been</transChange> my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">You split open <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea by your strength; You broke <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heads of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea monsters in the waters.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him <transChange type="added">as</transChange> food to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> desert dwelling creatures.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="15">You split open spring and wadi.<note>A seasonal stream that is often dry</note> You dried up ever-flowing rivers.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">Yours <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> day, yours <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> night also. You established light and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sun.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17">You defined<note>Or "set"</note> all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> boundaries of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth; Summer and winter--you formed them.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">O Yahweh, remember this: <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy taunts, and foolish people treat your name with contempt.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">Do not give to beasts the life of your dove; do not ever forget the life of your afflicted ones.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="20">Have regard for the covenant, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dark places of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land are full of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> haunts of violence.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="21">Do not let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oppressed turn back humiliated; let <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor and needy praise your name.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="22">Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foolish {all day long}.<note>Literally "all the day"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="23">Do not forget the sound of your adversaries, the roar of those rising up against you ascending continually.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, and your name is near. Your wonderful deeds are told.<note>Hebrew "They tell your wonderful deeds"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">"I will indeed set an appointed time; I will judge fairly.<note>Hebrew "I, I will judge" might be emphatic</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> earth and all its inhabitants <transChange type="added">are</transChange> shaking;<note>Or "melting away"</note> I steady<note>Hebrew "I, I steady" might be emphatic</note> its columns. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">I say to the boastful, 'Do not boast!' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up <transChange type="added">your</transChange> horn!</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">Do not lift up high your<note>Plural</note> horn. Do <transChange type="added">not</transChange> speak with {arrogant pride}.'"<note>Hebrew "an unrestrained neck"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">For <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> not from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east or <transChange type="added">the</transChange> west and not from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south<note>Hebrew "wilderness"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> lifting up <transChange type="added">comes</transChange>,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">rather God <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> judge; one he brings low, and another he lifts up.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">For <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> a cup in the hand of Yahweh with<note>Hebrew "and"</note> wine <transChange type="added">that</transChange> foams, fully mixed, and he pours out from this. Surely all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land {will quaff it down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> its dregs}. <note>Literally "they will drain, they will drink its dregs"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">But as for me, I will proclaim forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">"And all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> horns of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked I will cut off. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> horns of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> righteous will be lifted up."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> known in Judah. His name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great in Israel.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">His den<note>Or "shelter"; but the image of the lion appears in view</note> has been in Salem, his lair<note>Or "refuge"</note> in Zion.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">There he broke <transChange type="added">the</transChange> flames of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bow, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shield and sword and battle. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">Radiant<note>A possible change in the Hebrew text yields, "You are feared, majestic ..." a form found in vv. 8(7), 13(12). This is possibly reflected in the reading of Theodotian</note> you <transChange type="added">are</transChange>, majestic, from<note>Or "more than"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mountains of prey.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> stouthearted are plundered; they sleep their sleep, and all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> able men cannot {use}<note>Literally "find"</note> their hands.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider<note>Hebrew "chariot," that is, charioteer</note> and horse slumber.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">{You, indeed, are to be feared},<note>Literally "You, feared you <transChange type="added">are</transChange>"</note> and who can stand before you when you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> angry? <note>A slight change in the vocalization of the MT yields, "from the strength of your anger"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">From heaven you proclaimed judgment. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> earth feared and was still</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">when God rose for justice, to save all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> afflicted of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">For the anger of humankind will praise you. You will put on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> remnant of anger.<note>Hebrew "angers"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">Make vows and fulfill them to Yahweh, your God; let all surrounding him bring tribute to the <transChange type="added">one to be</transChange> feared.<note>Hebrew "to the fear"</note></verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="12">He cuts off <transChange type="added">the</transChange> spirit of leaders. <transChange type="added">He is to be</transChange> feared by <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kings of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="2">In the day I <transChange type="added">have</transChange> trouble, I seek<note>Or "make supplication to"</note> the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually};<note>Literally "it does not grow weary"</note> my soul refuses to be comforted.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">You hold <transChange type="added">open</transChange> my eyelids. I am troubled and cannot speak.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">I think about <transChange type="added">the</transChange> days from long ago, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> years of ancient times.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">I remember my song in the night. With my heart I meditate, and my spirit searches <transChange type="added">to understand</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="7">Will the Lord reject <transChange type="added">us</transChange> forever, and will he never be pleased <transChange type="added">with us</transChange> again?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">Has his loyal love ceased forever? Is <transChange type="added">his</transChange> promise<note>Hebrew "word"</note> ended throughout generations?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">Has God forgotten to have compassion? Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">So I said, "This pierces me--<note>Or "this is my sickness"</note> the right <transChange type="added">hand</transChange> of the Most High <transChange type="added">has</transChange> changed."</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="11">I will remember the deeds of Yah.<note>A shortened form of "Yahweh"</note> Surely I will remember your wonders<note>Hebrew "wonder"</note> from long ago.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">O God, your way <transChange type="added">is</transChange> distinctive.<note>Or "holy" or "set apart"</note> Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a great god like <transChange type="added">our</transChange> God?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="14">You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the God who works wonders;<note>Hebrew "wonder"</note> you have made known your might among the peoples.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">With <transChange type="added">your</transChange> arm you redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">Waters saw you, O God; waters saw you <transChange type="added">and</transChange> they trembled. Surely <transChange type="added">the</transChange> deeps shook.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> clouds poured out water. <transChange type="added">The</transChange> skies {thundered}.<note>Literally "gave voice"</note> Your arrows also {flew about}.<note>Literally "walked back and forth"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">The sound of your thunder <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the whirlwind;<note>Or "in <transChange type="added">your chariot</transChange> wheel"</note> lightnings lit <transChange type="added">the</transChange> world; the earth shook and quaked.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">Your way <transChange type="added">was</transChange> through the sea, and your path<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> through many waters. Yet your footprints were not discerned.<note>Hebrew "were not known"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="1">Listen, O my people, to my teaching. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="2">I will offer<note>Hebrew "open"</note> a parable <transChange type="added">with</transChange> my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="3">that we have heard and known, and our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> have told us.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="4">We will not hide <transChange type="added">them</transChange> from their children,<note>Or "descendants"</note> telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="5">For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law<note>Hebrew torah</note> in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> to teach to their children,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="6">so that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> next generation might know-- children <transChange type="added">yet to</transChange> be born-- <transChange type="added">that</transChange> they might rise up and tell their children,</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="7">that they might set their confidence in God, and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="8">and not be like their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation <transChange type="added">that</transChange> did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful <transChange type="added">to</transChange> God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="9">The sons of Ephraim, {armed with archers},<note>Literally "armed with shooters of the bow"</note> turned back on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of battle.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="10">They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.<note>Hebrew torah</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="12">In front of their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> he did a wonder, in the land of Egypt, <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the region of Zoan.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="13">He split the sea and caused them to go over, and he caused waters to stand like a heap.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="15">He caused rocks to split in the wilderness and provided drink abundantly as <transChange type="added">from the</transChange> depths.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="16">And he brought streams out of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock and caused water to flow down like rivers.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="17">But they sinned still further against him by rebelling <transChange type="added">against the</transChange> Most High in the desert.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="18">And they tested God in their heart <transChange type="added">by</transChange> asking food {for their craving}.<note>Literally "for their soul"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="19">And they spoke against God. They said, "Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="20">Yes, he struck <transChange type="added">the</transChange> rock and water flowed and streams gushed out, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> can he also give food or provide meat for his people?"</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="21">Therefore Yahweh heard and he was very angry, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and <transChange type="added">his</transChange> anger also rose up against Israel,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="23">Nevertheless, he commanded <transChange type="added">the</transChange> skies above and opened <transChange type="added">the</transChange> doors of heaven,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="25">Humankind ate <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bread of {angels}.<note>Literally "mighty ones"</note> He sent them food <transChange type="added">enough</transChange> to be satisfied.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="26">He caused <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east wind to blow in the heavens and drove along <transChange type="added">the</transChange> south wind by his strength.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="27">Then he rained meat on them like dust, even winged birds<note>Hebrew "bird"</note> like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> seas.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="28">He caused <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to fall in the midst of his camp, all around his dwellings.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="29">So they ate and were well filled, and he brought about <transChange type="added">what</transChange> they craved.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="30">They had not yet turned aside from their craving, <transChange type="added">while</transChange> their food <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still in their mouth,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="31">the anger of God rose against them, and he killed some of the stoutest of them, even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down <transChange type="added">in death</transChange>.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="33">And he consumed their days with futility <note>Or "he ended their days like a breath"</note> their years with terror.<note>Or "and their years suddenly"</note></verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="34">When he killed <transChange type="added">some of</transChange> them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="35">And they remembered that God <transChange type="added">was</transChange> their rock, and God Most High their redeemer.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="37">For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="38">But he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> compassionate; he pardoned<note>Or "covered," or "atoned for"</note> <transChange type="added">their</transChange> guilt and did not destroy <transChange type="added">them</transChange>. And many <transChange type="added">times</transChange> he turned back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath,</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="39">for he remembered that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> flesh, a passing wind that does not return.</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="40">How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wasteland!</verse>


book: Ps
content:
<verse num="41">So they again tested God and distressed<note>Or perhaps, "pressed to the limit"</note> the Holy One of Israel.</verse>


book: Ps
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<verse num="42">And they did not remember his {power}<note>Literally "hand"</note> {when}<note>Literally "the day that"</note> he redeemed them from the enemy,</verse>


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<verse num="43">how he performed<note>Hebrew "set"</note> his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan,</verse>


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<verse num="44">when he turned their rivers<note>Normally the word for the Nile, with the plural here suggesting perhaps it and its canals</note> to blood so they could not drink <transChange type="added">from</transChange> their streams.</verse>


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<verse num="46">And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust.<note>Two different words translated "locusts"</note></verse>


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<verse num="47">He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with sleet.<note>The word for "sleet" is only used here, and the translation is a guess based on context</note></verse>


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<verse num="48">He also handed their cattle over to the hail and their livestock to the lightning bolts.</verse>


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<verse num="49">He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of {destroying}<note>Literally "evil"</note> angels.</verse>


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<verse num="50">He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them<note>Hebrew "their soul"</note> from death but handed their life over to the plague.</verse>


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<verse num="51">And he struck down all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> firstborn in Egypt, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> first of <transChange type="added">their</transChange> virility in the tents of Ham.</verse>


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<verse num="52">Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.</verse>


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<verse num="53">And he led them safely and they were not afraid, but the sea covered their enemies.</verse>


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<verse num="54">So he brought them to his holy territory,<note>Hebrew "border"</note> this mountain his right hand acquired.<note>Or "had created"</note></verse>


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<verse num="55">And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by <transChange type="added">boundary</transChange> line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.</verse>


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<verse num="56">But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.</verse>


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<verse num="57">And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> They twisted like a crooked<note>Or "deceitful"</note> bow.</verse>


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<verse num="58">For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.</verse>


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<verse num="60">So he abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tent he had placed among humankind.</verse>


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<verse num="61">And he gave his strength into captivity and his splendor into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> enemy.</verse>


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<verse num="62">He also handed his people over to the sword, and he was very angry with his inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="63">Fire devoured his young men, and his young women<note>Or "virgins"</note> were not praised.</verse>


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<verse num="65">Then the Lord awoke like <transChange type="added">one who had been</transChange> asleep, <transChange type="added">awoke</transChange> like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.<note>Or "like a warrior shouting because of wine"</note></verse>


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<verse num="68">but chose the tribe of Judah, {Mount Zion}<note>Literally "the mountain of Zion"</note> that he loved.</verse>


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<verse num="69">And he built his sanctuary like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> heights, like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth that he established forever.</verse>


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<verse num="70">And he chose David his servant and took him from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sheepfolds.</verse>


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<verse num="71">He brought him from following nursing ewes to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.</verse>


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<verse num="72">And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skillfulness of his hands.</verse>


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<verse num="1">O God, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.</verse>


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<verse num="2">They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> beasts of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth.</verse>


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<verse num="3">They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="4">We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.</verse>


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<verse num="5">How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?</verse>


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<verse num="6">Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> kingdoms that do not call on your name,</verse>


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<verse num="7">because they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> have devoured Jacob and have laid waste his habitation.</verse>


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<verse num="8">Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low.</verse>


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<verse num="9">Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; and deliver us and forgive<note>Hebrew "make atonement for"</note> our sins for the sake of your name.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Why should the nations say, "Where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their God?" Let it<note>That is, God's name</note> be known among the nations before our eyes, <transChange type="added">by</transChange> the avenging of the blood of your servants that was poured out.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your {power},<note>Literally "arm"</note> spare<note>Or "leave a remnant of"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> children <transChange type="added">appointed to</transChange> death.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And return to our neighbors sevenfold {upon them}<note>Hebrew "into their bosom"</note> their taunts <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which they taunted you, O Lord.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then we, your people and the flock of your pasture, we will give thanks to you forever. {Generation after generation}<note>Literally "to a generation and a generation"</note> we will tell of your praise.</verse>


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<verse num="1">Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, <transChange type="added">who</transChange> leads Joseph like a flock. Shine forth, <transChange type="added">you who</transChange> sits <transChange type="added">enthroned above</transChange> the cherubim.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your power and come for our salvation.</verse>


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<verse num="4">O Yahweh God <transChange type="added">of</transChange> hosts, {how long will you be angry}<note>Literally "until when <transChange type="added">your anger</transChange> smoke"</note> against the prayer of your people?</verse>


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<verse num="5">You have fed them <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.<note>The Hebrew "threefold" or "a third of a measure" is difficult</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">You have made us <transChange type="added">an object of</transChange> strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves.</verse>


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<verse num="7">O God <transChange type="added">of</transChange> hosts, restore us and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.</verse>


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<verse num="8">You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nations and planted it.</verse>


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<verse num="9">You prepared <transChange type="added">a place</transChange> before it, and {it took deep root}<note>Literally "its root rooted"</note> and filled <transChange type="added">the</transChange> land.</verse>


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<verse num="10"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> mountains were covered with its shade, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty cedars <transChange type="added">with</transChange> its boughs.</verse>


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<verse num="11">It spread its branches to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sea and its shoots to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> river.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Why have you broken down its walls, so that all <transChange type="added">who</transChange> pass on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> road pluck <transChange type="added">fruit from</transChange> it?</verse>


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<verse num="13">Swine from the forests devour<note>Hebrew "devours"</note> it and creatures of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field feed on it.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Please return, O God <transChange type="added">of</transChange> hosts. Observe from heaven and see, and pay attention to this vine,</verse>


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<verse num="15">even<transChange type="added">the</transChange> stalk that your right hand planted, and concerning <transChange type="added">the</transChange> shoot<note>Hebrew "son"</note> you strengthened for yourself.</verse>


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<verse num="16"><transChange type="added">It is</transChange> burned with fire, cut down. They perish at the rebuke of your face.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> son of humankind <transChange type="added">whom</transChange> you made strong for yourself.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then we will not turn back from you. Restore us to life, and we will proclaim your name.</verse>


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<verse num="19">O Yahweh God <transChange type="added">of</transChange> hosts, restore us; cause your face to shine that we may be saved.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Lift up a song and strike<note>Hebrew "give"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tambourine, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pleasant lyre, together with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> harp.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Blow <transChange type="added">the</transChange> horn at new moon, at full moon, for our feast day,</verse>


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<verse num="4">because it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.</verse>


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<verse num="5">He made it a statute<note>Hebrew "testimony" or "witness"</note> in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, <transChange type="added">where</transChange> I heard a language I did not know.<note>The meaning of this line is uncertain. The above is based on perhaps a similar thought in Psa 114:1</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">"I removed his shoulder from a burden. His hands were freed from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> basket.</verse>


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<verse num="7">In this<note>Hebrew "the"</note> trouble you called, and I rescued you. Within <transChange type="added">the</transChange> secret place of thunder I answered you; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah</verse>


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<verse num="8">Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would <transChange type="added">but</transChange> listen to me.</verse>


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<verse num="9">There shall be no strange god among you, and you shall not bow down to a foreign god.</verse>


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<verse num="10">I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.</verse>


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<verse num="12">So I let them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Oh that my people would listen to me; <transChange type="added">that</transChange> Israel would walk in my ways.</verse>


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<verse num="14">I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Those who hate Yahweh would cringe before him, and their fate<note>Hebrew "time"</note> would be forever.</verse>


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<verse num="16">But he would feed him<note>That is, Israel</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> choicest wheat,<note>Hebrew "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> fat of wheat"</note> and I would satisfy you with honey from a rock."</verse>


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<verse num="1">God stands in the divine assembly;<note>Or "assembly of El "</note> he administers judgment in the midst of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> gods.<note>Hebrew elohim</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">"How long will you judge unjustly and {show favoritism to the wicked}?<note>Literally "lift up the faces of the wicked"</note> Selah</verse>


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<verse num="3">Judge <transChange type="added">on behalf of the</transChange> helpless and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> orphan; provide justice <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> afflicted and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> poor.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Rescue <transChange type="added">the</transChange> helpless and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> needy; deliver <transChange type="added">them</transChange> from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> wicked."</verse>


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<verse num="5">They do not know or consider.<note>Or "understand"</note> They go about in the darkness, <transChange type="added">so that</transChange> all <transChange type="added">the</transChange> foundations of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> earth are shaken.</verse>


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<verse num="6">I have said,<note>Hebrew "I, I have said"</note> "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you.</verse>


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<verse num="7">However, you will die like men,<note>Singular</note> and you will fall like one of the princes."</verse>


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<verse num="8">Rise up, O God, judge the earth, because you shall inherit<note>Or "receive an inheritance"</note> all the nations.</verse>


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<verse num="1">O God, do not rest <transChange type="added">silently</transChange>. Do not keep silent or be still, O God.</verse>


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<verse num="2">For look, your enemies roar, and those who hate you have lifted <transChange type="added">their</transChange> head.</verse>


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<verse num="3">They devise cunning schemes<note>Hebrew "scheme"</note> against your people, and consult together against your protected ones.<note>Or "your treasured ones"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from <transChange type="added">being</transChange> a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more."</verse>


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<verse num="5">For they have consulted together {with a unified purpose}.<note>Literally "with a heart together"</note> They have made a covenant against you:</verse>


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<verse num="6">the tents of Edom and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Ishmaelites, Moab and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Hagrites,</verse>


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<verse num="8">Assyria also has joined with them. They {provide help}<note>Literally "they have become an arm for"</note> to the children of Lot. Selah</verse>


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<verse num="9">Do to them as <transChange type="added">you did with</transChange> Midian, as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> Sisera, as <transChange type="added">with</transChange> Jabin at the wadi of Kishon.</verse>


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<verse num="11">Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna,</verse>


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<verse num="12">who said, "Let us take <transChange type="added">as</transChange> our possession the pastures of God."</verse>


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<verse num="17">Let them be ashamed and terrified forever, and let them be humiliated and perish</verse>


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<verse num="18">that they may know that you, <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> name <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh, you alone, <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> Most High over the whole earth.</verse>


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<verse num="1">How lovely <transChange type="added">are</transChange> your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts!</verse>


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<verse num="2">My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.</verse>


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<verse num="3">Even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, near your altars, O Yahweh <transChange type="added">of</transChange> hosts, my king and my God.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Blessed <transChange type="added">are</transChange> those who dwell in your house;<note>Or "temple"</note> they can ever praise you. Selah</verse>


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<verse num="5">Blessed <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> man whose strength <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in you; in their heart <transChange type="added">are the</transChange> highways <transChange type="added">to Zion</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Passing through the Valley of Baca,<note>Or "Valley of Weeping"</note> they make it a spring. The early rain covers <transChange type="added">it with</transChange> blessings<note>A change in vocalization of the Hebrew yields "<transChange type="added">it with</transChange> pools"</note> as well.</verse>


