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(1) To the leader, Yedutun. Psalm of Asaph. (2) My voice is to G-d, and I will cry out, my voice is to G-d, and (You) give ear to me. (3) In the day of my affliction I seek the L-rd, my hand oozes out in the night, and my soul does not cease, it refuses comfort. (4) I remember, O G-d, and I groan, I meditate, and my spirit faints. Sal! (5) You hold the eyelids of my eyes, and I am stunned and cannot speak. (6) I meditate on the days of old, on the years of old. (7) I remember my singing at night, I converse with my heart, and my spirit seeks an answer. (8) Will the LORD depart forever and no longer be well pleased? (9) Has his mercy dried up forever, he has ordained (the calamity) for ever? (10) Has G-d forgotten to have mercy, and has He shut up His mercy in anger? Sal! (11) And I said, "My pain is a change in the right hand of the Most High." (12) I remember the deeds of the L-rd, I remember Thy ancient miracle. (13) And I meditate on all your deeds and speak of your deeds. (14) G-d, your way is holy. Who is G-d, great as G-d? (15) You, G-d, the worker of miracles, have manifested your power among the nations. (16) You have delivered your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Sal! (17) The waters have seen you, O G-d, and the waters have seen you, and they are terrified, and the depths tremble. (18) The clouds poured out streams of water, the heavens gave a voice, and your arrows parted. (19) The voice of your thunder in the heavens, the lightning illuminated the universe, and the earth shook and shook. (20) In the sea is your way, and your path is in great waters, and your footprints are unknown. (21) You led your people like sheep through the hand of Moshe and Aaron.

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(1) Maskil Asaph. Hearken, my people, to my teaching, incline your ear to the words of my mouth. (2) I will open my mouth with parables, I will pronounce riddles from ancient times, (3) Which we have heard, and we know, and our fathers have told us. (4) Let us not hide from their sons, telling the generation to come of the glory of the LORD, and of his might, and of his miracles which he has wrought. (5) And he established the law in Jacob and set up the Torah in Yisrael, which he commanded our fathers to declare to their sons, (6) so that they, the generation to come, would know the sons who would be born, (so that) they might rise up and tell their sons, (7) and put their hope in G-d, and would not forget the deeds of G-d, but keep his commandments. (8) And so that they may not be like their fathers, a generation that is turbulent and stubborn, a generation that has not strengthened its heart, whose spirit is not faithful to G-d. (9) The sons of Ephraim, armed, archers, who turned (back) on the day of the battle. (10) They did not keep G-d's covenant and did not follow His Torah. (11) And they forgot his works and the miracles he had shown them. (12) In the presence of their fathers he performed a miracle in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tzran. (13) He cut the sea, and led them, and set up the waters as a wall. (14) And he led them in a cloud by day, and all night in the light of fire. (15) He cut the rocks in the wilderness and gave them to drink as from a great abyss. (16) He poured streams out of the rock and brought down the waters like rivers. (17) And they sinned against him even more, disobeying the Most High in the wilderness. (18) And they tried G-d in their hearts, asking for the food they desired. (19) And they murmured against G-d, saying, "Can G-d prepare a table in the wilderness? (20) Verily, he struck the rock, and the waters flowed and streams flowed. Can He also give bread? Will he prepare meat for his people?" (21) When the LORD heard this, he became angry, and a fire was kindled in Jacob, and anger rose up against Yisrael, (22) Because they did not believe in G-d and did not trust in His help. (23) And he commanded the clouds above, and opened the doors of the heavens. (24) And he rained down May for them to eat, and he gave them the bread of heaven. (25) Man ate the bread of heaven, and he sent them plenty of food. (26) He moved the east wind in the heavens, and with his power he brought the south wind. (27) And he rained down on them flesh like dust, and like the sand of the sea, winged birds. (28) And he cast them down in the midst of his camp, around his dwellings. (29) And they ate and were satisfied, and He gave them what they desired. (30) They did not turn away from their lust, but there was still food in their mouths, (31) But the wrath of G-d rose up against them and killed the fat among them, and overthrew the young men of Yisrael. (32) And yet they sinned again and did not believe in his miracles. (33) And he ended their days in vanity, and their years in terror. (34) If He killed them, they asked Him, and they returned and sought G-d. (35) And they remembered that G-d is their fortress, and G-d the Most High is their deliverer. (36) And they persuaded him with their mouths, and with their tongues they lied to him. (37) But their hearts were not true to him, and they were not faithful to his covenant. (38) But he, the merciful, forgives sin and does not destroy, and many times he turned away his wrath and did not arouse all his wrath. (39) And He remembered that they were flesh, and the spirit did not return. (40) How many times have they disobeyed him in the wilderness and grieved him in the uninhabited land! (41) Again they tried G-d, and asked Saint Yisrael for signs. (42) They did not remember his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor, (43) when he gave his signs and wonders in Egypt, in the field of Zoan. (44) And he turned their streams into blood, and their water was not drinkable. (45) He sent aras (a mass of wild beasts or insects) against them, and they devoured them, and frogs, and they destroyed them. (46) And he gave the caterpillars their harvest and their labor to the locusts. (47) He smote their vines with hail, and their fig trees with hail of stone. (48) And he gave up their cattle to the city, and their flocks to the flames. (49) He sent upon them the fervor of his wrath, wrath, indignation, and calamity, the invasion of evil messengers. (50) He has paved the way for His wrath, He has not preserved their souls from death, and He has given up their lives to pestilence. (51) And he struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the power he had begun in the tents of Ham. (52) And he moved his people like sheep and led them like a flock through the wilderness, (53) and led them in safety, and they were not afraid, and the sea covered their enemies. (54) And he led them to his holy border, to this mountain, which his right hand had gained. (55) And he drove the nations out before them, and gave them their inheritance, and settled the tribes of Yisraelite in their tents. (56) But they tried and did not obey G-d, the Most High, and did not keep His laws. (57) And they turned away and changed like their fathers, and turned into a deceitful bow, (58) And they provoked Him with their high places and their idols, (and) angered Him. (59) G-d heard and became angry and hated Israel very much. (60) And he left the tabernacle in Shiloh, the tent in which he dwelt among men, (61) and gave his power and glory into the hand of the oppressor, (62) and put his people to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance. (63) His young men were consumed by fire, and no song was sung to his maidens, (64) His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep. (65) And the L-rd awoke as from a dream, like a hero, with rejoicing (sobered up) from wine. (66) And he smote his enemies from behind, and gave them over to everlasting shame. (67) And he hated the tent of Joseif, and he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, (68) but he chose the tribe of Yehudah, Mount Tzion, which he loved. (69) And he built his sanctuary like the heavens, like the earth, and founded it forever. (70) And he chose David his servant and took him out of the sheepfolds, (71) From the milling places he brought his people Jacob and Yisrael, his inheritance, to feed him. (72) And he shepherded them in the purity of his heart, and led them with the wisdom of his hands.

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(1) The Psalm of Asaph. G-d, the nations have come to Thy inheritance, they have defiled Thy holy temple, they have turned Yerushalayim into ruins; (2) You have given the carcasses of your servants to be devoured by the birds of the air, the flesh of your godly servants to the beasts of the earth; (3) They shed their blood like water around Yerushalayim, and there is no one to bury them. (4) We were disgraced (in the eyes of) our neighbors, mocked and shamed by those around us. (5) How long, O L-rd, will you be angry, forever? How long shall Thy wrath burn like fire? (6) Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name, (7) For he (the enemy) devoured Jacob and they laid waste his dwelling. (8) Do not remind us of the sins of our ancestors, but let your mercy hasten to meet us, for we are greatly humbled. (9) Help us, G-d of our salvation, for the glory of your name, and deliver us and forgive our sins for your name's sake. (10) Why should the nations say, "Where is their G-d?" Let the vengeance for the shed blood of your servants be known among the nations before our eyes! (11) Let the lamentation of the prisoner reach you, and by the majesty of your power set free those who are doomed to death! (12) And seven times return to our neighbors, into their bosom, the insults with which they have insulted you, O LORD! (13) But we, your people and your flock, will always thank you, we will tell you forever of your glory.

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(1) To the leader: to the shoshanim-eidut. Psalm of Asaph. (2) Shepherd of Yisrael! Hearken, O leader of Yoseif, like sheep! (3) Thou who sits on keruvs, appear! In the presence of Ephraim, and Binyamin, and Menasheh, awaken Thy power and come to our aid! (4) G-d, bring us back and shine with Your face, and we will be saved! G-rd G-d Ts-vaot! (5) How long will you be indignant at the prayer of your people? (6) You fed them with the bread of tears, and you gave them tears to drink, a great measure. (7) You have made us a strife for our neighbors, and our enemies mock (us) to themselves. G-d Ts-vaot! (8) Bring us back and shine with your face, and we will be saved! (9) You brought the vine out of Egypt, drove out the nations, and planted it. (10) You have made (a place) for it and strengthened its roots, and it has filled the country. (11) The mountains are covered with its shadow, and its branches are (like) the cedars of G-d. (12) She stretched out her branches to the sea, and to the river (Perat) her shoots. (13) Why did you break down her fences? And it is robbed by all who pass along the way. (14) The boar of the forest gnaws at it, and the beast of the field devours it. G-d Ts-vaot! (15) Come back, I beg you, look down from heaven and see, and remember this vine, (16) And the sprout of it that your right hand has planted, and the shoots that you have strengthened! (17) Burned with fire, circumcised, they will perish at your cry! (18) May your hand be over the man of your right hand, over the son of man whom you have strengthened. (19) And we will not depart from you; revive us, and let us call upon Thy name! G-rd G-d Ts-vaot! (20) Bring us back (and) shine with your face, and we will be saved!

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(1) To the leader: on gittit. (Psalm) Asaph. (2) Sing praises to G-d, our strength, shout out to the G-d of Jacob! (3) Lift up the singing, give the tympanum, the kinnor, (sounding) pleasant, and the harp. (4) Blow the shofar on the new moon, at the appointed time, for our feast day, (5) For this is the law for Yisrael, a decree from G-d Jacob. (6) He made him a testimony to Joseph when he went out into the land of Egypt. A tongue which I did not understand, I heard. (7) I took the load from his shoulder, and his hands were freed from the cauldron. (8) In distress you have cried, and I have saved you, I have answered you from the hiding place of thunder, I have tested you by the waters of Mei-Meribah. Sal! (9) Listen, my people, and I will warn you, Yisrael! (Oh), if only you would obey Me! (10) You will not have a strange G-d, and you will not worship a foreign G-d! (11) I am the L-rd your G-d, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. (12) And my people did not listen to my voice, and Yisrael did not want to obey me. (13) And I drove them away because of the stubbornness of their hearts, so let them follow their thoughts; (14) If my people had obeyed me, if Israel had walked in my ways, (15) I would have subdued their enemies in an instant, and I would have turned my hand against their oppressors. (16) Those who hate the LORD would fawn before Him (Yisrael), and their time would be eternal. (17) And he (Yisrael) would feed him with the fat of wheat, and I would feed you with honey from the rock.

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(1) The Psalm of Asaph. G-d stands (is present) in the community of G-d, He judges among the judges. How long will you judge unrighteously, and give preference to the wicked? Sal! (3) Judge the poor and the fatherless, judge the oppressed and the needy righteously. (4) Rescue the poor and needy, save them from the hand of the wicked. (5) They do not know or understand, but all the foundations of the earth walk in darkness, they are shaken. (6) I said, "You are angels, and you are all sons of the Most High. 7 However, as a man, you will die, and like any dignitary, you will fall. (8) Arise, O G-d, judge the earth, for you will inherit all nations.

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(1) Song. Psalm of Asaph. (2) G-d, let you have no rest, do not be silent, and do not be calm, (3) G-d, for behold, your enemies are making a noise, and those who hate you have lifted up their heads. (4) They plot evil against your people in secret, and take counsel about those whom you preserve. (5) They said, "Let us go and destroy them, so that they may cease to be a people; and let the name of Yisrael be mentioned no more! (6) For they are of one accord in counsel, and they make an alliance against you. (7) The tents of Edom and the Yishmeeiltes, Moab and Agrim, (8) Ebal and Ammon and Amaleik, Pelesheth with the people of Zorah, (9) And Ashur joined them, and they helped the sons of Lot. Sal! (10) Do unto them as to Midian, as to Sisra, as to Jabin in the brook of Kishon, (11) To those who were destroyed in Ain Dor, who became dung to the earth. (12) Do to them, to their rulers, as to Oreib, and as to Zeebeh, and as to Zebach, and as to Zalmunna, to all their princes, (13) Who said, "Let us take possession of the dwellings of G-d." (14) My God! Make them like tumbleweeds, like straw before the wind. (15) As fire burns up the forest, and as flames scorch the mountains, (16) So pursue them with your storm and bring fear upon them with your whirlwind. (17) Fill their faces with shame until they seek your name, O L-rd. (18) May they be ashamed and terrified forever, and be put to shame, and perish! (19) And let them know that You are one, Your name is the L-rd, (You) are the Most High, over all the earth!