Chapter 63 through 72 of Songs, American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Sam Stinson. Chapter 63 O God, Thou art my God, earnestly will I seek Thee. My soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee, In a dry and weary land where no water is. So have I looked upon Thee in the sanctuary, To see Thy power and Thy glory, Because Thy loving-kindness is better than life. My lips shall praise Thee, so will I bless Thee while I live. I will lift up my hands in Thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth shall praise Thee with joyful lips, When I remember Thee upon my bed, And meditate on Thee in the night watches, For Thou hast been my help, And in the shadow of Thy wings will I rejoice. My soul followeth hard after Thee, The right hand upholdeth me, But those that seek my soul to destroy it Shall go into the lower parts of the earth, They shall be given over to the power of the sword, They shall be a portion for foxes, But the king shall rejoice in God, Every one that sweareth by him shall glory, For the mouth of them that speak lies, Shall be stopped. End of chapter 63 Chapter 64 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint, Preserve my life from fear of the enemy, Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity, Who have wet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows even bitter words, That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect, Suddenly do they shoot at him in fear not. They encourage themselves in an evil purpose, They commune of laying snares privily, They say, Who will see them? They search out iniquities. We have accomplished, say they, A diligent search in the inward thought In the heart of everyone is deep. But God will shoot at them, With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded, So they shall be made to stumble, Their own tongue being against them. All that see them shall wag the head, And all men shall fear, And they shall declare the work of God, And shall wisely consider of his doing. The righteous shall be glad in Jehovah, And shall take refuge in him, And all the upright in heart shall glory. As for our transgressions, Thou wilt forgive them, Blessed is the man whom Thou choosest, And causes to approach unto thee, That he may dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, Thy holy temple, by terrible things, Thou wilt answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence Of all the ends of the earth, Them that are afar off upon the sea, Who by his strength sedeth fast the mountains, Being girded about with might, Who stilleth the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, And the tumult of the peoples. They also that dwell in the uttermost parts Are afraid at thy tokens, Thou makest the outgoings of the morning And evening to rejoice. Thou visitest the earth and waterest it, Greatly and richest it.  Thou provideest them grain When thou hast so prepared the earth. Thou waterest its furrows abundantly. Thou settlest the ridges thereof. Thou makest it soft with showers. Thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, And thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, And the hills are girded with joy. The pastures are clothed with flocks. The valleys also are covered over with grain. They shout for joy. They also sing. End of chapter 65. Chapter 66. Make a joyful noise unto God, All the earth. Sing forth the glory of his name. Make his praise glorious. Say unto God, How terrible are thy works. Through the greatness of thy power, Shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee. All the earth shall worship thee, And shall sing unto thee. They shall sing to thy name. So long. Come and see the works of God. He is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him. He ruleth by his might forever. His eyes observed the nations. Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Silla. O bless our God, ye peoples, And make the voice of his praise to be heard. Who holdeth our soul in life, And suffereth not our feet to be moved. For thou, O God, hast proved us. Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the net. Thou laest a sore burden upon our loins. Thou didest cause men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water. But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. I will come into thy house with burnt offerings. I will pay thee my vows, Which my lips uttered, And my mouth spake when I was in distress. I will offer unto thee Burnt offerings of fatlings With the incense of rams. I will offer bullocks with goats. Silla. Come in here, all ye that fear God, And I will declare what he hath done for my soul. I cried unto him with my mouth, And he was extolled with my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear. But verily God hath heard. He hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, who hath not turned away my prayer, Nor his loving kindness from me. End of chapter 66. Chapter 67.  That thy way may be known upon earth. Thy salvation among all nations. Let the peoples praise thee, O God. Let all the peoples praise thee. Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy. For thou wilt judge the peoples with equity And govern the nations upon earth, Silla. Let the peoples praise thee, O God. Let all the peoples praise thee. The earth hath yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us. God will bless us. And all the ends of the earth shall fear him. End of chapter 67. Chapter 68. Let God arise. Let his enemies be scattered. Let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melteth before the fire. So let the wicked perish at the presence of God. But let the righteous be glad. Let them exult before God. Yea, let them rejoice with gladness. Sing unto God. Sing praises to his name. Cast up a highway for him That rideth through the deserts. His name is Jehovah, An exult ye before him. A father of the fatherless And a judge of the widows Is God in his holy habitation. God saideth the solitary in families. He bringeth out the prisoners into prosperity. But the rebellious dwell in a parched land. Oh God, when thou wentest forth before thy people When thou didst march through the wilderness. So the earth trembled. The heavens also dropped rain At the presence of God. Yon, Sinai, Trembled at the presence of God, The God of Israel. Thou, oh God, didst send a plentiful rain. Thou didst confirm thine inheritance When it was weary. Thy congregation dwelt therein. Thou, oh God, didst prepare Of thy goodness for the poor. The Lord giveeth the word. The women that publish the tidings Are a great host. Kings of armies flee, they flee. And she that tarryeth at home Divided the spoil. When ye lie among the sheepfolds. It is as the wings of a dove Covered with silver. And her pinions with yellow gold. When the almighty scattered kings therein. It was as when it snowed in Zelman. A mountain of God is the mountain of Baishin. A high mountain is the mountain of Baishin. Why look ye ascents, ye high mountains? At the mountain which God Have desired for his abode. Yea, Jehovah will dwell in it forever. The chariots of God are twenty thousand. Even thousands upon thousands. The Lord is among them As in Sinai in the sanctuary. Thou hast descended on high. Thou hast led away captives. Thou hast received gifts among men. Yea, among the rebellious also. The Jehovah God might dwell with them. Blessed be the Lord who daily beareth our burden. Even the God who is our salvation. Silah. God is unto us a God of deliverances. And unto Jehovah the Lord Belongeth escape from death. But God will smite through the head of his enemies. The hairy scalp of such a one As Goeth on still in his guiltiness. The Lord said, I will bring again from Baishin. I will bring them again from the depths of the sea. That thou mayest crush them, Dipping thy foot in blood. That the tongue of thy dogs May have its portion from thine enemies. They have seen thy goings, O God. Even the goings of my God, my King, Into the sanctuary. The singers went before. The minstrels followed after. In the midst of the damsels Playing with timbrels. Bless ye, God, in the congregations. Even the Lord. Ye that are of the fountain of Israel. There is little Benjamin, their ruler. The princes of Judah and their council. The princes of Zebulun. The princes of Naphtali. Thy God hath commanded thy strength. Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us. Because of thy temple at Jerusalem. Kings shall bring presence unto thee. Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds. The multitude of the bulls With the calves of the peoples. Trampoling underfoot The pieces of silver. He hath scattered the peoples That delight in war. Prince shall come out of Egypt. Ethiopia shall haste To stretch out her hands unto God. Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth. O sing praises unto the Lord. Silah. To him that righteth upon The heaven of heavens, Which are of old, low. He uttereth his voice. A mighty voice. Ascribe ye strength unto God. His excellency is over Israel. And his strength is in the skies. O God, thou art terrible Out of thy holy places. The God of Israel, He giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God. End of chapter 68. Chapter 69. Save me, O God. For the waters are come In unto my soul. I sink in deep mire Where there is no standing. I am come into deep waters Where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying. My throat is dried. My eyes fail while I wait for my God. They that hate me without a cause Are more than the hairs of my head.  That which I took not away, I have to restore. O God, thou knowest my foolishness, And my sins are not hid from thee. Let not them that wait for thee Be put to shame through me, O Lord Jehovah of hosts. Let not those that seek thee Be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. Because for thy sake I have borne reproach.  I am become a stranger Into my brethren. I am alien unto my mother's children. For the zeal of thy house Hath eaten me up. And the reproaches of them That reproached thee are fallen upon me. When I wept And chastened my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach. When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them. They that sit in the gate Talk of me And I am the song Of the drunkards. But as for me, My prayer is unto thee, In an acceptable time. O God, In the abundance of thy loving kindness Answer me in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me Out of the mire And let me not sink. Let me be delivered from them That hate me and out of the deep waters. Let not the water flood Overwhelm me. Neither let the deep swallow me up.  Answer me, O Jehovah, For thy loving kindness is good. According to the multitude Of thy tender mercies, Turn thou unto me And hide not Thy face from my servant. For I am in distress. Answer me speedily. Draw nigh unto my soul In redeemant. Ransom me because of mine enemies. I knowest my reproach And my shame and my dishonor. Mine adversaries are all before thee. Reproach hath broken my heart. And I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take pity. But there was none. And for comforters, But I found none. They gave me also gall for my food. And in my thirst They gave me vinegar to drink. Let their table before them Become a snare. And in peace let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened So that they cannot see. And make their loins continually to shake. Pour out thine indignation upon them. And let the fierceness of thine anger Overtake them. Let their habitation be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents. For they persecute him Whom thou hast smitten. And they tell of the sorrow Of those whom thou hast wounded. An iniquity unto their iniquity. And let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out Of the book of life. And not be written with the righteous. But I am poor And sorrowful. Let thy salvation, O God, Set me up on high. I will praise the name of God With a song. And will magnify him With thanksgiving. And it will please Jehovah Better than an ox That hath horns and hooks. The meek have seen it And are glad. Ye that seek after God Let your heart live For Jehovah heareth the needy And despiseth not his prisoners. Let heaven and earth Praise him. The seas and everything that move If they're in. For God will save Zion And build the cities of Judah. And they shall abide there In possession. The seed also of his servants Shall inherit it. And they that love his name Shall dwell therein. End of chapter 69. Chapter 70. Make haste, O God, To deliver me. Make haste to help me, O Jehovah. Let them be put to shame And confounded that seek after my soul.  That say, ah ha, ah ha. Let all those that seek thee Rejoice and be glad in thee. And let such as love thy salvation Say continually, Let God be magnified. But I am poor And needy. Make haste unto me, O God. Thou art my help and my deliverer. O Jehovah, Make no tearing. End of chapter 70. Chapter 71. In thee, O Jehovah, Do I take refuge? Let me never be put to shame. Deliver me and thy righteousness And rescue me. Bow down thine ear unto me And save me. Be thou to me a rock of habitation Where until I may continually resort. Thou hast given commandment to save me. For thou art my rock And my fortress. Rescue me, O my God, Out of the hand of the wicked. Out of the hand of the unrighteous And cruel man. For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah. Thou art my trust from my youth. By thee have I been Holding up from the womb. Thou art he that took me Out of my mother's bowels. My praise shall be continually of thee. I am as a wonder unto many. But thou art my strong refuge.  Cast me not off In the time of old age. Forsake me not When my strength faileth. For mine enemies speak concerning me And they that watch for my soul Take counsel together, Saying, God hath forsaken him Pursue and take him For there is none to deliver. O God, be not far from me. O my God, make haste to help me. Let them be put to shame And consumed That are adversaries to my soul. Let them be covered With reproach and dishonor That seek my hurt. But I will hope continually And will praise thee yet more and more. My mouth shall tell Of thy righteousness And of thy salvation all the day. For I know not the numbers thereof. I will come with the mighty acts Of the Lord Jehovah. I will make mention of thy righteousness And even of thine only. O God, thou hast taught me From my youth And hitherto have I declared Thy wondrous works. Yea, even when I am old And gray-headed, O God, Forsake me not Until I have declared thy strength Into the next generation. Thy might to everyone That is to come. Thy righteousness also, O God, Is very high. Who is like unto thee? Thou who hast showed us Many and sore troubles Wilt quicken us again And will bring us up again From the depths of the earth. Increase thou my greatness And turn again and comfort me. I will also praise thee With the sultry, even thy truth, O my God. Unto thee will I sing praises With the harp. O thou holy one of Israel, When I sing praises unto thee And my soul, which thou hast redeemed, My tongue also Shall talk of thy righteousness All the day long, For they are put to shame, For they are confounded That seek my hurt. And of chapter 71, Chapter 72, Give the king thy judgments, O God, And thy righteousness unto the king's son. He will judge thy people With righteousness And thy poor with justice. The mountains shall bring peace To the people, and the hills In righteousness. He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor. They shall fear thee While the sun endureth, And so long as the moon Throughout all generations, He will come down like rain Upon the moon grass As showers that water the earth. In his days shall the righteous flourish An abundance of peace Till the moon be no more. He shall have dominion also From sea to sea And from the river unto the ends of the earth.  The kings of Tarshish And of the Isles Shall render tribute. The kings of Sheba Shall offer gifts. Yea, all kings Shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him. For he will deliver the needy When he cryeth, And the poor that hath no helper. He will have pity on the poor And needy, and the souls of the needy He will save. He will redeem their soul From oppression and violence. And precious will their blood be In his sight. He shall live, and to him shall be Given of the gold of Sheba. And men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all the day long. There shall be Abundance of grain And the earth upon the top of the mountains. The fruit thereof Shall shake like Lebanon. And they of the city Shall flourish like grass of the earth. His name shall endure forever. His name shall be Continued as long as the sun. And men shall be blessed in him. All nations Shall call him happy. Blessed be Jehovah God, The God of Israel, Who only do with wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name forever. And let the whole earth Be filled with his glory. Amen. And amen. The prayers of David, The son of Jesse are ended. Chapter 73-80 Of Psalms American Standard Version This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Sam Stinson. Chapter 73 Surely God is good to Israel Even to such as are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had well nice slipped for I was envious at the arrogant. When I saw the prosperity of the wicked, for there are no pangs in their death. But their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men. Neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck. Violence covers them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish. They scoff and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily. They have set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth. Therefore his people return hither and waters of a full cup are drained by them. And they say, How doth God know? God knowledge in the most high? Behold, these are the wicked and being all way at ease they increase in riches. Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocencey for all the day long have I been plagued and chastened every morning. If I had said I will speak thus, behold I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children. When I thought how I might know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God and considered their latter end. Surely, thou settest them in slippery places. Thou castest them down to destruction. How are they become a desolation in a moment? They are utterly consumed with terrors, as a dream when one awakeeth. So, O Lord, when thou awakeest, thou wilt despise their image, for my soul was grieved and I was pricked in my heart. So brutish was I and ignorant. I was as a beast before thee. Nevertheless I am continually with thee. Thou hast hold in my right hand. Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart faileth. But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. For lo, they that are far from thee shall perish. Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot departing from thee. But it is good for me to draw near unto God. I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge that I may tell of all thy works. End of Chapter 73 Chapter 74 Oh God, why hast thou cast us off forever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? Remember thy congregation which thou hast gotten of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance and Mount Zion wherein thou hast dwelt. Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins of all the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary. Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs. They seemed as men that lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees. And now all the carved work thereof they break down with hatchet and hammers. They have set thy sanctuary on fire. They have profaned the dwelling place of thy name by casting it out. They said in their heart, let us make havoc of them all together. They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. We see not our signs. There is no more any prophet. Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long, how long, oh God, shall the adversary reproach, shall the enemy blaspheme thy name forever. Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand, pluck it out of thy bosom and consume them? Yet God is my king of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength. Thou breakest the heads of Leviathan in pieces. Thou gaveest him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. Thou didst cleave fountain and flood. Thou driest up mighty rivers. The day is thine. The night thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth. Thou hast made summer and winter. Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, oh Jehovah, and that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name. O deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove unto the wild beast. Forget not the life of thy poor forever. Have respect unto the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence. O let not the oppressed return to shamed. Let the poor and needy praise thy name. Arise, O God, plead thine own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproached thee all the day. Forget not the voice of thine adversaries, the tumult of those that rise up against thee, ascendeth continually. End of Chapter 74 Chapter 75 We give thanks unto thee, O God. We give thanks for thy name is near. Men tell of thy wondrous works. When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved. I have set up the pillars of it. Salah. I set unto the arrogant, deal not arrogantly, and to the wicked lift not up the horn. Lift not up your horn on high. Speak not with a stiff neck. For neither from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up. But God is the judge. He puteth down one and lifted up another. For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine fometh. It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same. Surely the dregs thereof, all wicked of the earth shall drain them and drink them. But I will declare forever. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off. But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. End of chapter 75. Chapter 76. In Judah is God known. His name is great in Israel. In Salem also is his tabernacle. In his dwelling place in Zion. There he break the arrows of the bow. The shield and the sword and the battle. Glorious art thou and excellent. From the mountains of prey the stout-hearted are made a spoil. They have slept their sleep. And none of the men of might have found their hands. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. Thou art to be feared. And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven. The earth feared and was still when God arose to judgment to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee. The residue of wrath shall thou gird upon thee. Thou when pay unto Jehovah your God. Let all that are about him bring presence unto him that ought to be feared. He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is terrible to the kings of the earth. End of chapter 76. Chapter 77.  In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched in the night and slacked not. My soul refused to be comforted. I remember God and am disquieted. I complain and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with my own heart, and my spirit make a diligent search. Will the Lord cast off forever? And will he be favorable no more? Is his loving kindness clean gone forever? Doth his promise fail forevermore? Had God forgotten to be gracious?  And I said, this is my infirmity. But I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high. I will make mention of the deeds of Jehovah. For I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also upon all thy work and muse on thy doings. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary. Who is a great God like unto God? Thou art the God that doest wonders. Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples. Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. The waters saw thee, O God. The waters saw thee. They were afraid. The depths also trembled. The clouds poured out water. The sky sent out a sound. Thine arrows also went abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lightened the world. The earth trembled and shook. Thy way was in the sea, and thy words in the great waters and thy footsteps were not known. Thou leadest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron and of Chapter 77. Chapter 78. Give ear, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter the words of my father. I will say to my father that I am old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah and his strength and his wondrous works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law that some might know them, even the children that should be born, who should arise and tell them to their children that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments, and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart a right and whose spirit was not steadfast with God. The prophets turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law and they forget his doings, and his wondrous works that he had showed them. Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt in the field of Zohan, he claved the sea and caused them to pass through, and he made the waters to stand as a heap. In the daytime also and all the night with the light of fire, he claved rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. He brought streams also out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers, yet went they on still to sin against him, to rebel against the most high in the desert, and they tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. On the day they spake against God they said, can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, he smote the rock so that waters gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people? Therefore Jehovah heard and was wroth, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel because they believed not in God and in salvation. Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, and he rained down manna upon them to eat and gave them food from heaven. Man did eat the bread of the mighty. He sent them food to the full. He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he guided the south wind. He rained flesh also upon them as the dust and winged birds as the sand sees, and he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. So they did eat and were well filled, and he gave them their own desire. They were not estranged from that which they desired. Their food was yet in their mouths. When the anger of God went up against them and slew of the fattest of them and smote down the young men of Israel, for all this they sinned still and believed not in his wondrous works. Therefore their days did he consume invanity and their years in terror. When he slew them then they inquired after him and they returned and sought God earnestly, and they remembered that God was their rock and the most high God, their redeemer.  Neither were they faithful in his covenant, but he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not.  And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away and cometh not again.   They remembered not his hand nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary. How he set his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zohan and turned their rivers into blood and their streams so that they could not drink. He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them and dogs which destroyed them. He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar and their labor unto the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost. He gave over their cattle also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath and indignation and trouble, a band of angels of evil. He made a path of anger. He spared not their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence and smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. But he led forth his own people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. And he led them safely so that they feared not. But the sea overwhelmed their enemies and he brought them to the border of his sanctuary to this mountain which his right hand had gotten. He drove out the nations also before them and allotted them for an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. Yet they tempted and rebelled against the most high god and kept not his testimonies but turned back and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside and bowed for they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. When God heard this, he was wroth and greatly appored Israel so that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men and delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the adversary's hand. He gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance. Fire devoured their young men and their virgins had no marriage song. Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation. Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouted by reason of wine and he smote his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. Moreover, he refused the tent of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion, which he loved and he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath established forever. He chose David also his servant and took him from the sheepfolds from following the youths that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people and Israel, his inheritance. So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. End of chapter 78. Chapter 79. Oh God, the nations are coming to thine inheritance. Thy holy temple have they defiled. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the spirits of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to them that are round about us. How long, O Jehovah, will thou be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like fire? Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name. For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste his habitation. Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers. Let thy tender mercy speedily meet us, for we are brought very low. Help us, O God, of our salvation for the glory of thy name and deliver us and forgive our sins for thy namesake. Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed be known among the nations in our sight. Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death and render unto our neighbors seven fold into their bosom, their reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. So we, thy people, in sheep of thy pasture, will give thee thanks forever. We will show forth thy praise to all generations. End of Chapter 79 Chapter 80 Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, thou that lead us Joseph like a flock, thou that sitest above the chair of them shine forth before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy might and come to save us. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved. O Jehovah, God of hosts, how long will thou be angry against the prayer of thy people? Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in large measure. Thou makest us a strife into our neighbors and our enemies laugh among themselves. Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved. Thou broadest a vine out of Egypt. Thou didst drive out the nations and plantst it. Thou preparedst room before it and it took deep root and filled the land. The mountains were covered with the shadow of it and the bows thereof were like cedars of God. It sent out its branches unto the sea and it shoots unto the river. Why hast thou broken down its walls so that all they that pass by the way do pluck it? The boar out of the wood doth ravage it and the wild beasts of the field feed on it. Turn again we beseech thee, O God of hosts, look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine and the stock which thy right hand planted and the branch that thou made as strong for thyself. It is burned with fire. It is cut down. They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou made as strong for thyself. So shall we not go back from thee. Quicken thou us and we will call upon thy name. Turn us again, O Jehovah, God of hosts, cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved. End of chapter 80. Chapters 81 through 89 of Psalms American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit LibriVox.org recording by Sam Stinson. Chapter 81 Sing aloud unto God our strength. Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Raise a song and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the sultry. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon on our feast day. For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not. I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket. Thou call it in trouble, and I delivered thee. I answered thee in the secret place of thunder. I proved thee at the waters of Meribah, Silah. Here, O my people, and I will testify unto thee, O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me. There shall no strange God be in thee. Neither shall thou worship any foreign God. I am Jehovah, thy God, not thee up out of the land of Egypt. Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me. So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart that they might walk in their own councils. O that my people would hearken unto me, that Israel would walk in my ways. I would soon subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their heads. The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him, but their time should endure forever. He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat and with honey out of the rock would I satisfy thee. End of chapter 81 Chapter 82 God standeth in the congregation of God. He judges among the gods. How long will ye judge unjustly and respect the persons of the wicked? Judge the poor and fatherless. Do justice to the afflicted and destitute. Rescue the poor and needy. Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said, ye are gods, and all of you sons of the most high. Nevertheless, ye shall die like men and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth, for thou shall inherit all the nations. End of chapter 82 Chapter 83 O God, keep not thou silence.  They take crafty counsel against thy people and consult together against thy hidden ones. They have said come and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. For they have consulted together with one consent against thee, do they make a covenant. The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarines, Gibbal and Ammon and Zilek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre. Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot, Silah. Do thou unto them as unto Midian, as to Cicera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon, who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth, make their nobles like Oreb and Zeb, ye all their princes like Zeba and Zalmuna, who said let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God. Oh my God, make them like the whirling dust, a stubble before the wind, as the fire that burneth the forest and as the flame that set at the mountains on fire. So pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy storm. Fill their faces with confusion that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah. Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Ye, let them be confounded and perish, that they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth. End of chapter 83. Chapter 84. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Jehovah of hosts. My soul longeth, ye even feigneth for the courts of Jehovah. My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God. Ye, the sparrow hath found her a house and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young. Even thine alters, O Jehovah, of hosts. My king and my God, blessed are they that dwell in thy house, they will be still praising thee. Salam. Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion, passing through the valley of weeping, they make it a place of springs. Ye, the early reign covereth it with blessings. They go from strength to strength. Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.   I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For Jehovah, God, is a son and a shield. Jehovah will give grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold from them that walk up rightly. O Jehovah of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee. End of chapter 84. Chapter 85. Jehovah, thou hast been favourable unto thy land. Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people. Thou hast covered all their sin. Silah, thou hast taken away all thy wrath. Thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger. Turn us, O God, of our salvation and cause thine indignation toward us to cease. Will thou be angry with us forever?  Will thou not quicken us again that thy people may rejoicing thee? Show us thy loving kindness, O Jehovah, and grant us thy salvation. I will hear what God Jehovah will speak, for he will speak peace unto his people and to his saints. But let them not turn again too folly. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth springeth out of the earth and righteousness hath looked down from heaven. Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good and our land shall yield its increase. Righteousness shall go before him and shall make his footsteps a way to walk in. End of Chapter 85 Chapter 86 Bow down thine ear, O Jehovah, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve my soul, for I am godly. O thou my God, save thy servant that trusted in thee. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for unto thee do I cry all the day long. Rejoice the soul of thy servant, for unto thee, O Lord, lift up my soul, for thou, Lord, art good and ready to forgive and abundant in loving kindness unto all them that call upon thee. Give ear, O Jehovah, unto my prayer, and hearken unto the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me. There is none like unto thee among the gods, O Lord. All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord, and they shall glorify thy name. For thou art great and doest wondrous things. Thou art God alone. Teach me thy way, O Jehovah. I will walk in thy truth. Unite my heart to fear thy name. I will praise thee, O Lord, my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for great is thy loving kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest sheol. O God, the proud arisen up against me and a company of violent men have sought after my soul and have not set thee before them. But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and truth. O turn unto me and have mercy upon me. Give thy strength and thy servant and save the son of thy handmaid. Show me a token for good that they who hate me may see it and be put to shame because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me and comforted me. End of Chapter 86 Chapter 87 His foundation is in the holy mountains. Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion and dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of the O city of God, Silah. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me. Behold, Philistia, entire with Ethiopia, this one was born there. Ye of Zion it shall be said, this one and that one was born in her, and the most high himself will establish her. When he rideth up the peoples, this one was born there, Silah. They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, all my fountains are in thee. End of Chapter 87 Chapter 88 O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee.  I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit. I am as a man that hath no help, cast off among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave whom thou rememberest no more and they are cut off from thy hand. Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places in the deeps, thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves, Silah. Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, thou hast made me an abomination unto them.  Mine I wasted away by reason of affliction. I have called daily upon thee, O Jehovah. I have spread forth my hands unto thee. Will thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise thee, Silah? Shall thy loving kindness be declared in the grave or thy faithfulness in destruction? Shall thy wonders be known in the dark, in thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? But unto thee, O Jehovah, have I cried? And in the morning shall my prayer come before thee. Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hideest thou thy face from me?  While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted. Thy fierce wrath has gone over me.  They came round about me like water all the day long. They compassed me about together. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness. End of Chapter 88 Chapter 89 I will sing of the loving kindness of Jehovah forever.  For I have said mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness wilt thou establish in the very heavens. I have made a covenant with my chosen. I have sworn unto David my servant. Thy seed will I establish forever and build up thy throne to all generations. Silla. And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Jehovah. Thy faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones. For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah? A God very terrible in the counsel of the holy ones and to be feared above all them that are round about him. And the hosts, who is a mighty one like unto thee, O Jehovah? And thy faithfulness is found about thee. Thou rulest the pride of the sea. When the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces as one that is slain. Thou hast scattered thine enemies with the arm of thy strength. The heavens are thine. The earth also is thine. And the fullness thereof thou hast founded them. The north and the south thou hast created them. Tabor and hermit rejoice in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm. Strong is thy hand and high is thy right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne. Loving kindness and truth go before thy face. Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound. O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance. In thy name do they rejoice all the day. And in thy righteousness are they exalted. For thou art the glory of their strength. And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted. For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah and our king to the holy one of Israel. Then thou spakest envision to thy saints. I have laid help upon one who is mighty. I have exalted one chosen out of the people. I have found David, my servant with my holy oil have I anointed him with whom my hand shall be established. My arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact from him nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat down his adversaries before him and smite them that hate him. My faithfulness and my loving kindness shall be with him. And in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. He shall cry unto me thou art my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. I also will make him my first born. The highest of the kings of the earth. My kindness will I keep for him forevermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law and walk not in mine ordinances, if they break my statutes and keep not my commandments, then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes. But my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness. I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever as the moon and as the faithful witness in the sky. But thou hast cast off and rejected. Thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. Thou hast abhorred the covenant of thy servant. Thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. Thou hast broken down all his hedges. Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin. All that pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors. Thou hast exalted the right hand of his adversaries. Thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. Yea, thou turnest back the edge of his sword and hast not made him to stand in the battle. Thou hast made his brightness to cease and cast his throne down to the ground. The days of his youth hast thou shortened.  How long, O Jehovah, will thou hide thyself forever?  Oh, remember how short my time is for what vanity has thou created all the children of men. What man is he that shall live and not see death? That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol. Silah. Lord, where are thy former loving kindnesses which thou swarest unto David in thy faithfulness? Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants. How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. Blessed be Jehovah for evermore. Amen and amen. End of chapter 89. Chapters 90 through 99 of Psalms, the American Standard Version. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Sam Stinson. Chapter 90 Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth or ever, thou hast formed the earth and the world even from everlasting to everlasting. Thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction and sayest return ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past and as a watch in the night. Thou carryest them away as with a flood. They are as asleep. In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up. In the evening it is cut down and withereth. For we are consumed in thine anger and in thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. The days of our years are by reason of strength for score years. Yet is there pride but labor and sorrow. For it is soon gone and we fly away. Who knoweth the power of thine anger and thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee. So teach us to number our days that we may get us a heart of wisdom. Return, O Jehovah, how long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. Let us satisfy us in the morning with thy loving kindness that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil. Let thy work appear unto thy servants and thy glory upon their children and let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands upon us. Let thy work appear unto our hands and establish thou it. Under his wings shalt thou take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flyeth by day, for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteeth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee. With thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge. Thou hast made the most high thy habitation. There shall no evil befall thee. Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent, for he will give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder, the young lion and the serpent, shalt thou trample under foot, because he hath set his love upon me. Therefore will I deliver him. I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him. With long life will I satisfy and show him my salvation. CHAPTER 91 CHAPTER 92 It is a good thing to give thanks unto Jehovah and to sing praises unto thy name almost high, to show forth thy loving kindness in the morning and thy faithfulness every night. With an instrument of ten strings and with the sultry, with the solemn sound upon the harp, for thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work. I will triumph in the works of thy hands. How great are thy works, O Jehovah! Thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not. Neither doth a fool understand this. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. But thou, O Jehovah, art high for evermore. For lo, thine enemies, O Jehovah, for lo, thine enemies shall perish. All the workers of iniquity shall be scattered. But my horn hast thou exalted like the horn of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil. Mine I also hath seen my desire on mine enemies. Mine ears have heard my desire of the evildoers that rise up against me. The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of Jehovah. They shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age. They shall be full of sap and green to show that Jehovah is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. End of Chapter 92 Chapter 93 Jehovah reigneth. He is clothed with majesty. Jehovah is clothed with strength. He hath girded himself therewith. The world also is established that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old. Thou art from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. Above the voices of many waters the mighty breakers of the sea. Jehovah on high is mighty. Thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness be cometh thy house. O Jehovah, for evermore. End of Chapter 93 Chapter 94 O Jehovah, Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth. Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth. Lift up thyself, Thou judge of the earth. Render to the proud their desert. Jehovah, how long shall the wicked? How long shall the wicked triumph? They pray, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. They break in pieces, Thy people, O Jehovah, and afflict Thy heritage. They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless. And they say, Jehovah will not see. Neither will the God of Jacob consider. Consider ye brutish among the people, and ye fools. When will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see? He that chastiseth the nations shall not he correct? Even he that teaches man knowledge? Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of man that they are vanity. Blessed is the man whom Thou chastineth, O Jehovah, and teachest out of Thy law, that Thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. For Jehovah will not cast off his people. Neither will he forsake his inheritance. For judgment shall return unto righteousness, and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? Unless Jehovah had been my help, my soul had soon dwelt in silence. When I said, my foot slipeth, Thy loving kindness, O Jehovah, held me up. And the multitude of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul. Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee, which frameeth mischief by statute? They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. But Jehovah hath been my high tower, and my God the rock of my refuge.   End of Chapter 94 And he made it And his hands formed the dry land.  Today, O that ye would hear his voice, harden not your heart, as at Maraba, as in the day of Massa in the wilderness, when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said it is a people that do air in their heart, and they have not known my ways, wherefore I swear in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest. End of Chapter 95 Chapter 96 Oh, sing unto Jehovah a new song, sing unto Jehovah all the earth, sing unto Jehovah, bless his name, show forth his salvation from day to day, declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples, for great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised, he is to be feared above all gods, for all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Jehovah made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before him, strength and beauty are in his sanctuary, ascribe unto Jehovah, ye kindreds of the peoples, ascribe unto Jehovah, glory and strength, ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name, bring an offering and come into his courts. Oh, worship Jehovah in holy array, tremble before him all the earth, say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth. The world also is established that it cannot be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar and the fullness thereof. Let the field exalt, and all that is therein. Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy. Before Jehovah, for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth, he will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with truth. End of Chapter 96 Chapter 97 Jehovah reigneth. Let the earth rejoice. Let the multitude of isles be glad. Clouds and darkness are round about him.  A fire goeth before him and burneth up his adversaries round about. His lightnings lightened the world. The earth saw and trembled. The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Jehovah. At the presence of the Lord of the whole earth, the heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples have seen his glory. Let all them be put to shame that serve graven images that boast themselves of idols. Worship him, all ye gods. Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced. Because of thy judgments, O Jehovah, for thou Jehovah art most high above all the earth. Thou art exalted far above all gods.  He preserveth the souls of his saints. He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart. Be glad in Jehovah ye righteous, and give thanks to his holy memorial name. End of Chapter 97 Chapter 98 O sing unto Jehovah a new song, for he hath done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm hath wrought salvation for him. Jehovah hath made known his salvation. His righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the nations. He hath remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah all the earth. Break forth and sing for joy. Ye sing praises. Sing praises unto Jehovah with the harp. With the harp and the voice of melody. With trumpets and sound of cornet. Make a joyful noise before the king, Jehovah. Let the sea roar and the fullness thereof. The world and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands. Let the hills sing for joy together. Before Jehovah for he cometh to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity. End of Chapter 98 Chapter 99 Jehovah reigneth. Let the peoples tremble. He sitteth above the chair of him. Let the earth be moved. Jehovah is great in Zion. And he is high above all the peoples. Let them praise thy great and terrible name. Holy is he. The king's strength also loveth justice. Thou dost establish equity. Thou executeest justice and righteousness in Jacob. Exalt ye Jehovah, our God, in worship at his footstool. Holy is he. Moses and Aaron among his priests. And Samuel among them that call upon his name. They called upon Jehovah and he answered them. He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies and the statute that he gave them. Thou answerest them, O Jehovah, our God. Thou wast a God that forgavest them. Thou tookest vengeance of their doings. Exalt ye Jehovah, our God, in worship at his holy hill. For Jehovah, our God is holy. End of chapter 99 Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah all ye lands. Serve Jehovah with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. Know ye that Jehovah he is God. It is he that hath made us and we are his. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Give thanks unto him and bless his name. For Jehovah is good. His loving kindness endureth forever and his faithfulness unto all generations. End of chapter 100 A perverse heart shall depart from me. I will know no evil thing. Whoso privilege slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy. Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me. He that walketh in a perfect way he shall minister unto me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within mine. He that walketh in a perfect way he shall minister unto me. He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house. He that speaketh falsehood shall not be established before mine eyes. Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land to cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah. End of chapter 101 Chapter 102 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and let my cry come unto thee. In the day of my distress incline thine ear unto me. In the day when I call, answer me speedily. For my days consume away like smoke. And my bones are burned as a firebrand. My heart is smitten like grass and withered, for I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh. I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I am become as an owl of the waste places. I watch and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop. My enemies reproach me all the day. They that are mad against me do curse by me. For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping. Because of thine indignation and thy wrath, for thou hast taken me up and cast me away. My days are like a shadow that declineeth, and I am withered like grass. But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide forever in thy memorial name unto all generations. Thou wilt arise and have mercy upon Zion. For it is time to have pity upon her. Yea, the set time is come for thy servants take pleasure in her stones and have pity upon her dust, so the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah and all the kings of the world by glory. For Jehovah hath built up Zion, he hath appeared in his glory, he hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, and hath not despised their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come, and the people which shall be created shall praise Jehovah. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary, from heaven did Jehovah behold the earth, to hear the sighing of the prisoner, to that are appointed to death, that men may declare the name of Jehovah in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem, when the peoples are gathered together and the kingdoms to serve Jehovah. He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days. I said, oh my God, take me not away in the midst of my days.  They shall perish, but thou shalt endure, yea all of them shall wax old like a garment, as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed, but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee. CHAPTER 103 Bless Jehovah, oh my soul, and all that is within me. Bless his holy name.  Jehovah executed righteous acts, and judgments for all that are oppressed. He made known his ways unto Moses, his doings unto the children of Israel. Jehovah is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant and loving kindness. He will not always chide, neither will he keep his anger away. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us after our iniquities, for as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Like as a father pityeth his children, so Jehovah pityeth them that fear him. For he knoweth he remembereth that we are dust. As for man his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the loving kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children, to such as keep his covenant, and to bear his precepts, to do them. Jehovah hath established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all. Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, that are mighty in strength that fulfill his word, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless Jehovah, all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. Bless Jehovah, all ye his works, in all places of his dominion. Bless Jehovah, oh my soul. And if Chapter 103 Chapter 104 Bless Jehovah, oh my soul, oh Jehovah my God, thou art very great, thou art clothed with honor and majesty, who covers thyself with light as with a garment, who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, who make it the wind, who walketh upon the wings of the wind, who makeeth winds his messengers, flames of fire his ministers, who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved for ever, thou covers it with the deep as with a vesture, the waters stood above the mountains, at thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away, the mountains rose, the valleys fell down, unto the place which thou hast founded for them, thou hast set abound, that they may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth. He sendeth forth springs into the valleys, they run among the mountains, they give drink to every beast of the field, the wild asses quench their thirst, by them the birds of the heavens have their habitation, they sing songs. He watereth the mountains from his chambers, the earth is filled with the fruit of thy works, he causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth, and wine that makeeth glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face too shine, and bread that strengtheneth man's heart, the trees of Jehovah are filled with moisture, the Lebanon which he hath planted, where the birds make their nests, as for the stork the fir trees are her house, the high mountains are for the wild goats, the rocks are a refuge for the conies, he appointed the moon for seasons, the sun knoweth his going down, thou makest darkness and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest creep forth, the young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God, the sun arises, they get them away, and lay them down in their dens, man goeth forth unto his work, and to his labor until the evening.  I will sing unto Jehovah as long as I live, I will sing praise to my God while I have any being, let my meditation be sweet unto him, I will rejoice in Jehovah, let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more, bless Jehovah, oh my soul, praise ye, Jehovah. End of chapter 104 chapter 105 O give thanks unto Jehovah call upon his name, make known among the peoples his doings, sing unto him, sing praises unto him, talk ye of all his marvellous works, glory ye in his holy name, let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah, seek ye Jehovah and his strength, seek his face evermore, remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth, oh ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen ones, he is Jehovah our God, his judgments are in all the earth, he hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, the covenant which he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac, and confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant, saying unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance, when they were but a few men in number, ye very few and sojourners in it, and they went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people, he suffered no man to do them wrong, ye he reproved kings for their sake, saying touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm, and he called for a famine upon the land, he break the whole staff of bread, he sent a man before them, Joseph was sold for a servant, his feet they hurt with fetters, he was laid in chains of iron, until the time that his word came to pass, the word of Jehovah tried him, the king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free, he made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom, Israel also came into Egypt, and the king of Egypt, Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham, and he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries, he turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtly with his servants, he sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen, they set among them his signs, and wonders in the land of Ham, he sent darkness and made it dark, and they rebelled not against his words, he turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish, their land swarmed with frogs, and the chambers of their kings, he spake in their came swarms of flies, and lice in all their borders, he gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land, he smote their vines also, and their fig trees, and break the trees of their borders, he spake and the locusts came, and the grasshopper, and that without a word, and the grasshopper, and that without number, and did eat up every herb in their land, and did eat up the fruit of their ground, he smote also all the first born in their land, the chief of all their strength, and he brought them forth with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among his tribes, Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon them, he spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night, they asked and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven, he opened the rock and waters gushed out, they ran in the dry places like a river, for he remembered his holy word, and Abraham his servant, and he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with singing, and he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took the labor of the peoples in possession, that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws, praise ye Jehovah. End of chapter 105 Chapter 106 Praise ye Jehovah, O give thanks unto Jehovah for he is good, for his loving kindness endureth for ever, who can utter the mighty acts of Jehovah, or show forth all his praise? Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that doeth righteousness at all times, remember me, O Jehovah, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people, O visit me with thy salvation, that I may see the prosperity of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance. We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly, our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt, they remembered not the multitude of thy loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea. Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up. So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness, and he saved them from the hand of him, that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. And the waters covered their adversaries, there was not one of them left. Then believed they his words, they sang his praise, they soon forgot his works, they waited not for his counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert, and he gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of Jehovah. The earth opened, and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram, and a fire was kindled in their company, the flame burned up the wicked, they made a calf in whoreb, and worshiped a molten image, thus they changed their glory for the likeness of an ox that eateth grass. They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt, wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.  Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word, but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah. Therefore he swear unto them, that he would overthrow them in the wilderness, and that he would overthrow their seed among the nations. And scatter them in the lands. They joined themselves also unto Baal Pior, and ate the sacrifices of the dead, thus they provoked him to anger with their doings, and the plague break in upon them. Then stood up Phenaeus, and executed judgment, and so the plague was stayed, and that was reckoned unto him for righteousness, unto all generations, for evermore. Then angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes. Because they were rebellious against his spirit, and he spake unadvisedly with his lips. They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them, but mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works, and served their idols, which became a snare unto them.  Thus were they defiled with their works, and played the harlot in their doings. Therefore was the wrath of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance. And he gave them into the hand of the nations, that hated them, ruled over them. Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. Many times did he deliver them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity. Nevertheless, he regarded their distress when he heard their cry, and he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses. He made them also to be pitied, of all those that carried them captive. Save us, O Jehovah, our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting, and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye, Jehovah. End of chapter 106.


Dear students, in this module, we are going to discuss a very important question that are we prisoners of socialization? If this is the case, do we have a kind of free will or are we determined by the processes of socialization? So socialization can be seen as a form of control that restricts our behavior and limits our choices. When we are talking about socialization, processes of socialization, and we are talking about different stages and agents of socialization, then we feel that as a human being is nothing but a process of socialization that is made through it. So is it possible that in a human being, there is no such thing as a free will or creativity but all the things, all the abilities and capabilities are determined by the process of socialization? However, socialization also provides us with a sense of belonging and helps us to navigate the social interactions and relationships. So it's a kind of guideline, it's a kind of guidance, it is something that provides you a broader frame of action. It doesn't mean that it restricts your choices that how you should act. So your actions are guided through the process of socialization but it doesn't mean that your actions are determined, fixed or restricted. So while socialization may shape our behavior, we still have agency and the ability to make choices within the constraints of our social context. So our social context is very important, it determines what are the available choices and in a given situation, we have to use the unavailable choices in a way that our actions are not determined through 100% socialization but a broader framework is definitely provided through the socialization process. It is definitely told that what are the shared standards of desirable behavior for you and what are the guidelines that you can achieve by following them. But your individual free will is compromised without the socialization process, it trains you to become a unique and different personality. And sociologists debate the extent to which people are shaped by the socialization versus the extent to which they are shaped by their own social context. So on the one hand, it is free will and on the other hand, it is determinism. This doesn't mean that you are either a complete free will or totally determined by the socialization process. So you are amalgamation of both and these socialization processes act as the guiding principles for you and completes you through this process of socialization by converting you into a unique individual personality.