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The Psalms of Solomon
I. 1 I cried unto the Lord when I was in distress [ ], Unto God when sinners
assailed. 2 Suddenly the alarm of war was heard before me; (I said), He will
hearken to me, for I am full of righteousness. 3 I thought in my heart that I
was full of righteousness, Because I was well off and had become rich in
children. 4 Their wealth spread to the whole earth, And their glory unto the end
of the earth. 5 They were exalted unto the stars; They said they would never
fall. 6 But they became insolent in their prosperity, And they were without
understanding, 7 Their sins were in secret, And even I had no knowledge (of
them). 8 Their transgressions (went) beyond those of the heathen before them;
They utterly polluted the holy things of the Lord.
II. A Psalm Of Solomon. Concerning Jerusalem.
2 1 When the sinner waxed proud, with a battering-ram he cast down fortified
walls, And Thou didst not restrain (him). 2 Alien nations ascended Thine altar,
They trampled (it) proudly with their sandals; 3 Because the sons of Jerusalem
had defiled the holy things of the Lord, Had profaned with iniquities the
offerings of God. 4 Therefore He said: Cast them far from Me; 5 It was set at
naught before God, It was utterly dishonoured; 6 The sons and the daughters were
in grievous captivity, Sealed (?) (was) their neck, branded (?) (was it) among
the nations. 7 According to their sins hath He done unto them, For He hath left
them in the hands of them that prevailed. 8 He hath turned away His face from
pitying them, Young and old and their children together; 9 For they had done
evil one and all, in not hearkening. 10 (9) And the heavens were angry, And the
earth abhorred them; 11 For no man upon it had done what they did, 12 (10) And
the earth recognized all Thy righteous judgements, O God. 13 (11) They set the
sons of Jerusalem to be mocked at in return for (the) harlots in her; Every
wayfarer entered in in the full light of day. 14 (12) They made mock with their
transgressions, as they themselves were wont to do; In the full light of day
they revealed their iniquities. (13) And the daughters of Jerusalem were defiled
in accordance with Thy judgement, 15 Because they had defiled themselves with
unnatural intercourse. (14) I am pained in my bowels and my inward parts for
these things. (15) (And yet) I will justify Thee, O God, in uprightness of
heart, For in Thy judgements is Thy righteousness (displayed), O God. 17 (16)
For Thou hast rendered to the sinners according to their deeds, Yea according to
their sins, which were very wicked. 18 (17) Thou hast uncovered their sins, that
Thy judgement might be manifest; 19 Thou hast wiped out their memorial from the
earth. (18) God is a righteous judge, And He is no respecter of persons. 20 (19)
For the nations reproached Jerusalem, trampling it down; Her beauty was dragged
down from the throne of glory. 21 (20) She girded on sackcloth instead of comely
raiment, A rope (was) about her head instead of a crown. 22 (21) She put off the
glorious diadem which God had set upon her, 23 In dishonour was her beauty cast
upon the ground. 24 (22) And I saw and entreated the Lord and said, Long enough,
O Lord, has Thine hand been heavy on Israel, in bringing the nations upon
(them). 25 (23) For they have made sport unsparingly in wrath and fierce anger;
26 And they will make an utter end, unless Thou, O Lord, rebuke them in Thy
wrath. 27 (24) For they have done it not in zeal, but in lust of soul, 28
Pouring out their wrath upon us with a view to rapine. 29 (25) Delay not, O God,
to recompense them on (their) heads, To turn the pride of the dragon into
dishonour. 30(26) And I had not long to wait before God showed me the insolent
one Slain on the mountains of Egypt, Esteemed of less account than the least on
land and sea; 31 (27) His body, ( too,) borne hither and thither on the billows
with much insolence, With none to bury (him), because He had rejected him with
dishonour. (28) He reflected not that he was man. 32 And reflected not on the
latter end; 33 (29) He said: I will be lord of land and sea; And he recognized
not that it is God who is great, Mighty in His great strength. 34 (30) He is
king over the heavens, And judgeth kings and kingdoms. 35 (31) (It is He) who
setteth me up in glory, And bringeth down the proud to eternal destruction in
dishonour, Because they knew Him not. 36 (32) And now behold, ye princes of the
earth, the judgement of the Lord, For a great king and righteous (is He),
judging (all) that is under heaven. 37 (33) Bless God, ye that fear the Lord
with wisdom, For the mercy of the Lord will be upon them that fear Him, in the
Judgement; 38 (34) So that He will distinguish between the righteous and the
sinner, (And) recompense the sinners for ever according to their deeds; 39 (35)
And have mercy on the righteous, (delivering him) from the affliction of the
sinner, And recompensing the sinner for what he hath done to the righteous. 40
(36) For the Lord is good to them that call upon Him in patience, Doing
according to His mercy to His pious ones, Establishing (them) at all times
before Him in strength. 41 (37) Blessed be the Lord for ever before His
servants.
III. A Psalm Of Solomon. Concerning the righteous.
3 1 Why sleepest thou, O my soul, And blessest not the Lord? 2 Sing a new song,
Unto God who is worthy to be praised. Sing and be wakeful against His awaking,
For good is a psalm (sung) to God from a glad heart. 3 The righteous remember
the Lord at all times, With thanksgiving and declaration of the righteousness of
the Lord's judgements 4 The righteous despiseth not the chastening of the Lord;
His will is always before the Lord. 5 The righteous stumbleth and holdeth the
Lord righteous: He falleth and looketh out for what God will do to him; 6 He
seeketh out whence his deliverance will come. 7 (6) The steadfastness of the
righteous is from God their deliverer; There lodgeth not in the house of the
righteous sin upon sin. 8 (7) The righteous continually searcheth his house, To
remove utterly (all) iniquity (done) by him in error. 9 (8) He maketh atonement
for (sins of) ignorance by fasting and afflicting his soul, 10 And the Lord
counteth guiltless every pious man and his house. 11 (9) The sinner stumbleth
and curseth his life, The day when he was begotten, and his mother's travail. 12
(10) He addeth sins to sins, while he liveth (?); 13 He falleth -verily grievous
is his fall- and riseth no more. (11) The destruction of the sinner is for ever,
14 And he shall not be remembered, when the righteous is visited. (12) 15 This
is the portion of sinners for ever. 16 But they that fear the Lord shall rise to
life eternal, And their life (shall be) in the light of the Lord, and shall come
to an end no more.
IV. A Conversation of Solomon with the Men-pleasers.
4 1 Wherefore sittest thou, O profane (man), in the council of the pious, Seeing
that thy heart is far removed from the Lord, Provoking with transgressions the
God of Israel? 2 Extravagant in speech, extravagant in outward seeming beyond
all (men), Is he that is severe of speech in condemning sinners in judgement. 3
And his hand is first upon him as (though he acted) in zeal, And (yet) he is
himself guilty in respect of manifold sins and of wantonness. 4 His eyes are
upon every woman without distinction; His tongue lieth when he maketh contract
with an oath. 5 By night and in secret he sinneth as though unseen, With his
eyes he talketh to every woman of evil compacts. 6 He is swift to enter every
house with cheerfulness as though guileless. 7 (6) Let God remove those that
live in hypocrisy in the company of the pious, (Even) the life of such an one
with corruption of his flesh and penury. 8 (7) Let God reveal the deeds of the
men-pleasers, The deeds of such an one with laughter and derision; 9 (8) That
the pious may count righteous the judgement of their God, When sinners are
removed from before the righteous, 10 (Even the) man- pleaser who uttereth law
guilefully. 11 (9) And their eyes (are fixed) upon any man's house that is
(still) secure, That they may, like (the) Serpent, destroy the wisdom of... with
words of transgressors, 12 (10) His words are deceitful that (he) may accomplish
(his) wicked desire. 13 He never ceaseth from scattering (families) as though
(they were) orphans, (11) Yea, he layeth waste a house on account of (his)
lawless desire. 14 He deceiveth with words, (saying,) There is none that seeth,
or judgeth. 15 (12) He fills one (house) with lawlessness, And (then) his eyes
(are fixed) upon the next house, To destroy it with words that give wing to
(desire). (13) (Yet) with all these his soul, like Sheol, is not sated. 16 Let
his portion, O Lord, be dishonoured before thee; Let him go forth groaning and
come home cursed. 17 (15) Let his life be (spent) in anguish, and penury, and
want, O Lord; Let his sleep be (beset) with pains and his awaking with
perplexities. 18 (16) Let sleep be withdrawn from his eyelids at night; Let him
fail dishonorably in every work of his hands. 19 (17) Let him come home
empty-handed to his house, And his house be void of everything wherewith he
could sate his appetite. 20 (18) (Let) his old age (be spent) in childless
loneliness until his removal (by death). 21 (19) Let the flesh of the
men-pleasers be rent by wild beasts, And (let) the bones of the lawless (lie)
dishonoured in the sight of the sun. 22 (20) Let ravens peck out the eyes of the
hypocrites. 23 For they have laid waste many houses of men, in dishonour, And
scattered (them) in (their) lust; 24 (21) And they have not remembered God, Nor
feared God in all these things; 25 But they have provoked God's anger and vexed
Him. (22) May He remove them from off the earth, Because with deceit they
beguiled the souls of the flawess. 26 (23) Blessed are they that fear the Lord
in their flawlessness; 27 The Lord shall deliver them from guileful men and
sinners, And deliver us from every stumbling-block of the lawless (men). 28 (24)
Let God destroy them that insolently work all unrighteousness, For a great and
mighty judge is the Lord our God in righteousness. 29 (28) Let Thy mercy, O
Lord, be upon all them that love Thee.
V. A Psalm Of Solomon
5 1 O Lord God, I will praise Thy name with joy, In the midst of them that know
Thy righteous judgements. 2 For Thou art good and merciful, the refuge of the
poor; 3 When I cry to Thee, do not silently disregard me. 4 (3) For no man
taketh spoil from a mighty man; 5 Who, then, can take aught of all that Thou
hast made, except Thou Thyself givest? 6 (4) For man and his portion (lie)
before Thee in the balance; He cannot add to, so as to enlarge, what has been
prescribed by Thee. O God, 7 (5) when we are in distress we call upon Thee for
help, And Thou dost not turn back our petition, for Thou art our God. 8 (6)
Cause not Thy hand to be heavy upon us, Lest through necessity we sin. 9 (7)
Even though Thou restore us not, we will not keep away; But unto Thee will we
come. 10 (8) For if I hunger, unto Thee will I cry, O God; And Thou wilt give to
me. 11 (9) Birds and fish dost Thou nourish, In that Thou givest rain to the
steppes that green grass may spring up, (10) (So) to prepare fodder in the
steppe for every living thing; 12 And if they hunger, unto Thee do they lift up
their face. 13 (11) Kings and rulers and peoples Thou dost nourish, O God; And
who is the help of the poor and needy, if not Thou, O Lord? 14 (12) And Thou
wilt hearken -for who is good and gentle but Thou?- Making glad the soul of the
humble by opening Thine hand in mercy. 15 (13) Man's goodness is (bestowed)
grudgingly and ..., And if he repeat (it) without murmuring, even that is
marvellous. 16 (14) But Thy gift is great in goodness and wealth, And he whose
hope is (set) on Thee shall have no lack of gifts. 17 (15) Upon the whole earth
is Thy mercy, O Lord, in goodness. 18 (16) Happy is he whom God remembereth in
(granting to him) a due sufficiency; 19 If a man abound over much, he sinneth.
20 (17) Sufficient are moderate means with righteousness, And hereby the
blessing of the Lord (becomes) abundance with righteousness. 21 (18) They that
fear the Lord rejoice in good (gifts), And Thy goodness is upon Israel in Thy
kingdom. Blessed is the glory of the Lord for He is our king.
VI. In Hope. Of Solomon.
6 1 Happy is the man whose heart is fixed to call upon the name of the Lord; 2
When he remembereth the name of the Lord, he will be saved. 3 (2) His ways are
made even by the Lord, And the works of his hands are preserved by the Lord his
God. 4 (3) At what he sees in his bad dreams, his soul shall not be troubled; 5
When he passes through rivers and the tossing of the seas, he shall not be
dismayed. 6 (4) He ariseth from his sleep, and blesseth the name of the Lord: 7
When his heart is at peace, he singeth to the name of his God, (5) And he
entreateth the Lord for all his house. 8 And the Lord heareth the prayer of
every one that feareth God, (6) And every request of the soul that hopes for Him
doth the Lord accomplish. 9 Blessed is the Lord, who showeth mercy to those who
love Him in sincerity.
VII. Of Solomon. Of turning.
7 1 Make not Thy dwelling afar from us, O God; Lest they assail us that hate us
without cause. 2 For Thou hast rejected them, O God; Let not their foot trample
upon Thy holy inheritance. 3 Chasten us Thyself in Thy good pleasure; But give
(us) not up to the nations; 4 For, if Thou sendest pestilence, Thou Thyself
givest it charge concerning us; (5) For Thou art merciful, And wilt not be angry
to the point of consuming us. 5 (6) While Thy name dwelleth in our midst, we
shall find mercy; 6 And the nations shall not prevail against us. (7) For Thou
art our shield, 7 And when we call upon Thee, Thou hearkenest to us; 8 For Thou
wilt pity the seed of Israel for ever And Thou wilt not reject (them): (9) But
we (shall be) under Thy yoke for ever, And (under) the rod of Thy chastening. 9
(10) Thou wilt establish us in the time that Thou helpest us, Showing mercy to
the house of Jacob on the day wherein Thou didst promise (to help them).
VIII. Of Solomon. Of the chief Musician.
8 1 Distress and the sound of war hath my ear heard; The sound of a trumpet
announcing slaughter and calamity, 2 The sound of much people as of an exceeding
high wind, As a tempest with mighty fire sweeping through the Negeb. 3 And I
said in my heart; Surely (?) God judgeth us; 4 A sound I hear (moving) towards
Jerusalem, the holy city. 5 My loins were broken at what I heard, (5) my knees
tottered: 6 My heart was afraid, my bones were dismayed like flax. 7 (6) I said:
They establish their ways in righteousness. (7) I thought upon the judgements of
God since the creation of heaven and earth; I held God righteous in His
judgements which have been from of old. 8 God laid bare their sins in the full
light of day; All the earth came to know the righteous judgements of God. 9 In
secret places underground their iniquities (were committed) to provoke (Him) to
anger; 10 They wrought confusion, son with mother and father with daughter; 11
(10) They committed adultery, every man with his neighbour's wife. They
concluded covenants with one another with an oath touching these things; 12 (11)
They plundered the sanctuary of God, as though there was no avenger. 13 (12)
They trode the altar of the Lord, (coming straight) from all manner of
uncleanness; And with menstrual blood they defiled the sacrifices, as (though
these were) common flesh. 14 (13) They left no sin undone, wherein they
surpassed not the heathen. 15 (14) Therefore God mingled for them a spirit of
wandering; And gave them to drink a cup of undiluted wine, that they might
become drunken. 16 (15) He brought him that is from the end of the earth, that
smiteth mightily; 17 He decreed (?) war against Jerusalem, and against her land.
18 (16) The princes of the land went to meet him with joy: they said unto him:
Blessed be thy way! Come ye, enter ye in with peace. 19 (17) They made the rough
ways even, before his entering in; They opened the gates to Jerusalem, they
crowned its walls. 20 (18) As a father (entereth) the house of his sons, (so) he
entered (JerusaIem) in peace; He established his feet (there) in great safety.
21 (19) He captured her fortresses and the wall of Jerusalem; 22 For God Himself
led him in safety, while they wandered. 23 (20) He destroyed their princes and
every one wise in counsel; He poured out the blood of the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, like the water of uncleanness. 24 (21) He led away their sons and
daughters, whom they had begotten in defilement. 25 (22) They did according to
their uncleanness, even as their fathers (had done): 26 They defiled Jerusalem
and the things that had been hallowed to the name of God. 27 (23) (But) God hath
shown Himself righteous in His judgements upon the nations of the earth; 28 And
the pious (servants) of God are like innocent lambs in their midst. 29 (24)
Worthy to be praised is the Lord that judgeth the whole earth in His
righteousness. 30 (25) Behold, now, O God, Thou hast shown us Thy judgement in
Thy righteousness; 31 Our eyes have seen Thy judgements, O God. (26) We have
justified Thy name that is honoured for ever; 32 For Thou art the God of
righteousness, judging Israel with chastening. 33 (27) Turn, O God, Thy mercy
upon us, and have pity upon us; 34 (28) Gather together the dispersed of Israel,
with mercy and goodness; 35 For Thy faithfulness is with us. (29) And (though)
we have stiffened our neck, yet Thou art our chastener; 36 (30) Overlook us not,
O our God, lest the nations swallow us up, as though there were none to deliver.
37 (31) But Thou art our God from the beginning, And upon Thee is our hope
(set), O Lord; 38 (32) And we will not depart from Thee, For good are Thy
judgements upon us. 39 (33) Ours and our children's be Thy good pleasure for
ever O Lord our Saviour, we shall never more be moved. 40 (34) The Lord is
worthy to be praised for His judgements with the mouth of His pious ones; And
blessed be Israel of the Lord for ever
IX. Of Solomon. For rebuke.
9 1 When Israel was led away captive into a strange land, When they fell away
from the Lord who redeemed them, 2 They were cast away from the inheritance,
which Lord had given them. (2) A mong every nation (were) the dispersed of
Israel according to the word of God, 3 That Thou mightest be justified, O God,
in Thy righteousness by reason of our transgressions: 4 For Thou art a just
judge over all the peoples of the earth. 5 (3) For from Thy knowledge none that
doeth unjustly is hidden, 6 And the righteous deeds of Thy pious ones (are)
before Thee, O Lord, Where, then, can a man hide himself from Thy knowledge, O
God? 7 (4) Our works are subject to our own choice and power To do right or
wrong in the works of our hands 8 And in Thy righteousness Thou visitest the
sons of men. 9 (5) He that doeth righteousness layeth up life for himself with
the Lord; And he that doeth wrongly forfeits his life to destruction; 10 For the
judgements of the Lord are (given) in righteousness to (every) man and (his)
house. (6) Unto whom art Thou good, O God, except to them that call upon the
Lord? 12 He cleanseth from sins a soul when it maketh confession, when it maketh
acknowledgement; 13 For shame is upon us and upon our faces on account of all
these things. 14 (7) And to whom doth He forgive sins, except to them that have
sinned? 15 Thou blessest the righteous, and dost not reprove them for the sins
that they have committed; And Thy goodness is upon them that sin, when they
repent. 16 (8) And, now, Thou art our God, and we the people whom Thou hast
loved: Behold and show pity, O God of Israel, for we are Thine; And remove not
Thy mercy from us, lest they assail us. 17 (9) For Thou didst choose the seed of
Abraham before all the nations, And didst set Thy name upon us, O Lord, 18 And
Thou wilt not reject (us) for ever. Thou madest a covenant with our fathers
concerning us; 19 (10) And we hope in Thee, when our soul turneth (unto Thee).
The mercy of the Lord be upon the house of Israel for ever and ever.
X. A Hymn Of Solomon.
10 1 Happy is the man whom the Lord remembereth with reproving, And whom He
restraineth from the way of evil with strokes, That he may be cleansed from sin,
that it may not be multiplied. 2 He that maketh ready his back for strokes shall
be cleansed, For the Lord is good to them that endure chastening. 3 For He
maketh straight the ways of the righteous, And doth not pervert (them) by His
chastening. 4 And the mercy of the Lord (is) upon them that love Him in truth,
(4) And the Lord remembereth His servants in mercy. 5 For the testimony (is) in
the law of the eternal covenant, The testimony of the Lord (is) on the ways of
men in (His) visitation. 6 (5) Just and kind is our Lord in His judgements for
ever, And Israel shall praise the name of the Lord in gladness. 7 (6) And the
pious shall give thanks in the assembly of the people; And on the poor shall God
have mercy in the gladness (?) of Israel; 8 (7) For good and merciful is God for
ever, And the assemblies of Israel shall glorify the name of the Lord. The
salvation of the Lord be upon the house of Israel unto everlasting gladness!
XI. Of Solomon. Unto expectation.
11 1 Blow ye in Zion on the trumpet to summon (the) saints, 2 Cause ye to be
heard in Jerusalem the voice of him that bringeth good tidings; For God hath had
pity on Israel in visiting them. 3 (2) Stand on the height, O Jerusalem, and
behold thy children, From the East and the West, gathered together by the Lord;
4 (3) From the North they come in the gladness of their God, From the isles afar
off God hath gathered them. 5 (4) High mountains hath He abased into a plain for
them; 6 The hills fled at their entrance. (5) The woods gave them shelter as
they passed by; 7 Every sweet-smelling tree God caused to spring up for them,
(6) That Israel might pass by in the visitation of the glory of their God. 8 (7)
Put on, O Jerusalem, thy glorious garments; Make ready thy holy robe; For God
hath spoken good concerning Israel, for ever and ever. 9 (8) Let the Lord do
what He hath spoken concerning Israel and Jerusalem; Let the Lord raise up
Israel by His glorious name. (9) The mercy of the Lord be upon Israel for ever
and ever.
XII. Of Solomon. Against the tongue of transgressors.
12 1 O Lord, deliver my soul from (the) lawless and wicked man, From the tongue
that is lawless and slanderous, and speaketh lies and deceit. 2 Manifoldly
twisted (?) are the words of the tongue of the wicked man, Even as among a
people a fire that burneth up their beauty. 3 So he delights to fill houses with
a lying tongue, To cut down the trees of gladness which setteth on fire
transgressors, 4 To involve households in warfare by means of slanderous lips.
(4) May God remove far from the innocent the lips of transgressors by (bringing
them to) want And may the bones of slanderers be scattered (far) away from them
that fear the Lord! 5 In flaming fire perish the slanderous tongue (far) away
from the pious! 6 (5) May the Lord preserve the quiet soul that hateth the
unrighteous; And may the Lord establish the man that followeth peace at home. 7
(6) The salvation of the Lord be upon Israel His servant for ever; And let the
sinners perish together at the presence of the Lord; But let the Lord's pious
ones inherit the promises of the Lord.
XIII. Of Solomon. A Psalm. Comfort for the righteous.
13 1 The right hand of the Lord hath covered me; The right hand of the Lord hath
spared us. 2 The arm of the Lord hath saved us from the sword that passed
through, From famine and the death of sinners. 3 Noisome beasts ran upon them:
With their teeth they tore their flesh, And with their molars crushed their
bones. (4) But from all these things the Lord delivered us, 4 (5) The righteous
was troubled on account of his errors, Lest he should be taken away along with
the sinners; 5 (6) For terrible is the overthrow of the sinner; But not one of
all these things toucheth the righteous. (7) For not alike are the chastening of
the righteous (for sins done) in ignorance, And the overthrow of the sinners 7
(8) Secretly (?) is the righteous chastened, Lest the sinner rejoice over the
righteous. 8 (9) For He correcteth the righteous as a beloved son, And his
chastisement is as that of a firstborn. 9 10) For the Lord spareth His pious
ones, And blotteth out their errors by His chastening. (11) For the life of the
righteous shall be for ever; 10 But sinners shall be taken away into
destruction, And their memorial shall be found no more. 11 (12) But upon the
pious is the mercy of the Lord, And upon them that fear Him His mercy.
XIV. A Hymn. Of Solomon.
14 1 Faithful is the Lord to them that love Him in truth, To them that endure
His chastening, (2) To them that walk in the righteousness of His commandments,
In the law which He commanded us that we might live. 2 (5) The pious of the Lord
shall live by it for ever; The Paradise of the Lord, the trees of life, are His
pious ones. 3 (4) Their planting is rooted for ever; They shall not be plucked
up all the days of heaven: (5) For the portion and the inheritance of God is
Israel. 4 (6) But not so are the sinners and transgressors, Who love (the brief)
day (spent) in companionship with their sin; (7) Their delight is in fleeting
corruption, 5 And they remember not God. (8) For the ways of men are known
before Him at all times, And He knoweth the secrets of the heart before they
come to pass. 6 (9) Therefore their inheritance is Sheol and darkness and
destruction, And they shall not be found in the day when the righteous obtain
mercy; 7 (10) But the pious of the Lord shall inherit life in gladness.
XV. A Psalm. Of Solomon. With a Song.
15 1 When I was in distress I called upon the name of the Lord, I hoped for the
help of the God of Jacob and was saved; 2 For the hope and refuge of the poor
art Thou, O God. 3 (a) For who, O God, is strong except to give thanks unto Thee
in truth? 4 And wherein is a man powerful except in giving thanks to Thy name? 5
(3) A new psalm with song in gladness of heart, The fruit of the lips with the
well-tuned instrument of the tongue, The firstfruits of the lips from a pious
and righteous heart-- 6 (4) He that offereth these things shall never be shaken
by evil; The flame of fire and the wrath against the unrighteous shall not touch
him, 7 (5) When it goeth forth from the face of the Lord against sinners, To
destroy all the substance of sinners, 8 (6) For the mark of God is upon the
righteous that they .may be saved. (7) Famine and sword and pestilence (shall
be) far from the righteous, 9 For they shall flee away from the pious as men
pursued in war; (8) But they shall pursue sinners and overtake (them), And they
that do lawlessness shall not escape the judgement of God; (9) As by enemies
experienced (in war) shall they be overtaken, 10 For the mark of destruction is
upon their forehead. 11 (10) And the inheritance of sinners is destruction and
darkness, And their iniquities shall pursue them unto Sheol beneath. 12 (11)
Their inheritance shall not be found of their children, 13 For sins shall lay
waste the houses of sinners. (12) And sinners shall perish for ever in the day
of the Lord's judgement, 14 When God visiteth the earth with His judgement. 15
(13) But they that fear the Lord shall find mercy therein, And shall live by the
compassion of their God; But sinners shall perish for ever.
XVI. A Hymn. Of Solomon. For Help to the Pious.
16 1 When my soul slumbered (being afar) from the Lord, I had all but slipped
down to the pit, When (I was) far from God, 2 my soul had been well nigh poured
out unto death, (I had been) nigh unto the gates of Sheol with thesinner, 3 when
my soul departed from the Lord God of Israel-- Had not the Lord helped me with
His ever lasting mercy. 4 He pricked me, as a horse is pricked, that I might
serve Him, My saviour and helper at all times saved me. 5 I will give thanks
unto Thee, O God, for Thou hast helped me to (my) salvation; And hast not
counted me with sinners to (my) destruction. 6 Remove not Thy mercy from me, O
God, Nor Thy memorial from my heart until I die. 7 Rule me, O God, (keeping me
back) from wicked sin, And from every wicked woman that causeth the simple to
stumble. 8 And let not the beauty of a lawless woman beguile me, Nor any one
that is subject to (?) unprofitable sin. 9 Establish the works of my hands
before Thee, And preserve my goings in the remembrance of Thee. 10 Protect my
tongue and my lips with words of truth; Anger and unreasoning wrath put far from
me. 11 Murmuring, and impatience in affliction, remove far from me, When, if I
sin, Thou chastenest me that I may return (unto Thee). 12 But with goodwill and
cheerfulness support my soul; When Thou strengthenest my soul, what is given (to
me) will be sufficient for me. 13 For if Thou givest not strength, Who can
endure chastisement with poverty? 14 When a man is rebuked by means of his
corruption, Thy testing (of him) is in his flesh and in the affliction of
poverty. 15 If the righteous endureth in all these (trials), he shall receive
mercy from the Lord.
XVII. A Psalm. Of Solomon. With Song. Of the King.
17 1 O Lord, Thou art our King for ever and ever, For in Thee, O God, doth our
soul glory. 2 How long are the days of man's life upon the earth? As are his
days, so is the hope (set) upon him. 3 But we hope in God, our deliverer; For
the might of our God is for ever with mercy, 4 And the kingdom of our God is for
ever over the nations in judgement. 5 (4) Thou, O Lord, didst choose David (to
be) king over Israel, And swaredst to him touching his seed that never should
his kingdom fail before Thee. 6 (5) But, for our sins, sinners rose up against
us; They assailed us and thrust us out; What Thou hadst not promised to them,
they took away (from us) with violence. 7 They in no wise glorified Thy
honourable name; (6) They set a (worldly) monarchy in place of (that which was)
their excellency; 8 They laid waste the throne of David in tumultuous arrogance.
(7) But Thou, O God, didst cast them down and remove their seed from the earth,
9 In that there rose up against them a man that was alien to our race. 10 (8)
According to their sins didst Thou recompense them, O God; So that it befell
them according to their deeds. 11 (9) God showed them no pity; He sought out
their seed and let not one of them go free. 12 (10) Faithful is the Lord in all
His judgements Which He doeth upon the earth. 13 (11) The lawless one laid waste
our land so that none inhabited it, They destroyed young and old and their
children together. 14 (12) In the heat of His anger He sent them away even unto
the west, And (He exposed) the rulers of the land unsparingly to derision. 15
(13) Being an alien the enemy acted proudly, And his heart was alien from our
God. 16 (14) And all things whatsoever he did in Jerusalem, As also the nations
in the cities to their gods. 17 (15) And the children of the covenant in the
midst of the mingled peoples surpassed them in evil. There was not among them
one that wrought in the midst of Jerusalem mercy and truth. 18 (16) They that
loved the synagogues of the pious fled from them, As sparrows that fly from
their nest. 19 (17) They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved
from harm, And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that
escaped alive from them. 20 (18) Over the whole earth were they scattered by
lawless (men). 21 (19) For the heavens withheld the rain from dropping upon the
earth, Springs were stopped (that sprang) perennial(ly) out of the deeps, (that
ran down) from lofty mountains. For there was none among them that wrought
righteousness and justice; (20) From the chief of them to the least (of them)
all were sinful; 22 The king was a transgressor, and the judge disobedient, and
the people sinful. 23 (21) Behold, O Lord, and raise up unto them their king,
the son of David, At the time in the which Thou seest, O God, that he may reign
over Israel Thy servant 24 (22) And gird him with strength, that he may shatter
unrighteous rulers, 25 And that he may purge Jerusalem from nations that trample
(her) down to destruction. (23) Wisely, righteously 26 he shall thrust out
sinners from (the) inheritance, He shall destroy the pride of the sinner as a
potter's vessel. (24) With a rod of iron he shall break in pieces all their
substance, 21 He shall destroy the godless nations with the word of his mouth;
(25) At his rebuke nations shall flee before him, And he shall reprove sinners
for the thoughts of their heart. 28 (26) And he shall gather together a holy
people, whom he shall lead in righteousness, And he shall judge the tribes of
the people that has been sanctified by the Lord his God. 29 (21) And he shall
not suffer unrighteousness to lodge any more in their midst, Nor shall there
dwell with them any man that knoweth wickedness, 30 For he shall know them, that
they are all sons of their God. (28) And he shaIl divide them according to their
tribes upon the land, 31 And neither sojourner nor alien shall sojourn with them
any more. (29) He shall judge peoples and nations in the wisdom of his
righteousness. Selah. 32 (30) And he shall have the heathen nations to serve him
under his yoke; And he shall glorify the Lord in a place to be seen of (?) all
the earth; 33 And he shall purge Jerusalem, making it holy as of old: 34 (31) So
that nations shall come from the ends of the earth to see his glory, Bringing as
gifts her sons who had fainted, 35 And to see the glory of the Lord, wherewith
God hath glorified her. (32) And he (shall be) a righteous king, taught of God,
over them, 36 And there shall be no unrighteousness in his days in their midst,
For all shall be holy and their king the anointed of the Lord. 37 (33) For he
shall not put his trust in horse and rider and bow, Nor shall he multiply for
himself gold and silver for war, Nor shall he gather confidence from (?) a
multitude (?) for the day of battle. 38 (34) The Lord Himself is his king, the
hope of him that is mighty through (his) hope in God. All nations (shall be) in
fear before him, 39 (35) For he will smite the earth with the word of his mouth
for ever. 40 He will bless the people of the Lord with wisdom and gladness, 41
(36) And he himself (will be) pure from sin, so that he may rule a great people.
He will rebuke rulers, and remove sinners by the might of his word; 42 (37) And
(relying) upon his God, throughout his days he will not stumble; For God will
make him mighty by means of (His) holy spirit, And wise by means of the spirit
of understanding, with strength and righteousness. 43 (38) And the blessing of
the Lord (will be) with him: he will be strong and stumble not; 44 (39) His hope
(will be) in the Lord: who then can prevail against him? (40) (He will be)
mighty in his works, and strong in the fear of God, 45 (He will be) shepherding
the flock of the Lord faithfully and righteously, And will suffer none among
them to stumble in their pasture. 46 (41) He will lead them all aright, And
there will be no pride among them that any among them should be oppressed. 47
(42) This (will be) the majesty of the king of Israel whom God knoweth; He will
raise him up over the house of Israel to correct him. 48 (43) His words (shall
be) more refined than costly gold, the choicest; In the assemblies he will judge
the peoples, the tribes of the sanctified. 49 His words (shall be) like the
words of the holy ones in the midst of sanctified peoples. 50 Blessed be they
that shall be in those days, In that they shall see the good fortune of Israel
which God shall bring to pass in the gathering together of the tribes. 51 May
the Lord hasten His mercy upon Israel! May He deliver us from the uncleanness of
unholy enemies! The Lord Himself is our king for ever and ever.
XVIII. A Psalm. Of Solomon. Again of the Anointed of the Lord.
18 1 Lord, Thy mercy is over the works of Thy hands for ever; Thy goodness is
over Israel with a rich gift. 2 Thine eyes look upon them, so that none of them
suffers want; 3 Thine ears listen to the hopeful prayer of the poor. (3) Thy
judgements (are executed) upon the whole earth in mercy; 4 And Thy love (is)
toward the seed of Abraham, the children of Israel. (4) Thy chastisement is upon
us as (upon) a first-born, only-begotten son, 5 To turn back the obedient soul
from folly (that is wrought) in ignorance. 6 (5) May God cleanse Israel against
the day of mercy and blessing, Against the day of choice when He bringeth back
His anointed. 7 (6) Blessed shall they be that shall be in those days, In that
they shall see the goodness of the Lord which He shall perform for the
generation that is to come, 8 (7) Under the rod of chastening of the Lord's
anointed in the fear of his God, In the spirit of wisdom and righteousness and
strength; 9 (8) That he may direct (every} man in the works of righteousness by
the fear of God, That he may establish them all before the Lord, 10 (9) A good
generation (living) in the fear of God in the days of mercy. Selah. 11 (10)
Great is our God and glorious, dwelling in the highest. 12 (It is He) who hath
established in (their) courses the lights (of heaven) for determining seasons
from year to year, And they have not turned aside from the way which He
appointed them 13 (11) In the fear of God (they pursue) their path every day,
From the day God created them and for evermore. 14 (12) And they have erred not
since the day He created them. Since the generations of old they have not
withdrawn from their path, Unless God commanded them (so to do) by the command
of His servants.
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