^88:0Prayer for Help in Despondency.
A Song. A Psalm of the Korahites. To the leader: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.

^88:1O Lord , God of my salvation, when, at night, I cry out in your presence,

^88:2let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry.

^88:3For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.

^88:4I am counted among those who go down to the Pit; I am like those who have no help,

^88:5like those forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.

^88:6You have put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.

^88:7Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah

^88:8You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

^88:9my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call on you, O Lord ; I spread out my hands to you.

^88:10Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise you? Selah

^88:11Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon?

^88:12Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

^88:13But I, O Lord , cry out to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.

^88:14O Lord , why do you cast me off? Why do you hide your face from me?

^88:15Wretched and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am desperate.

^88:16Your wrath has swept over me; your dread assaults destroy me.

^88:17They surround me like a flood all day long; from all sides they close in on me.

^88:18You have caused friend and neighbor to shun me; my companions are in darkness.

^89:0God's Covenant with David.
A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

^89:1I will sing of your steadfast love, O Lord , forever; with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations.

^89:2I declare that your steadfast love is established forever; your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens.

^89:3You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to my servant David:

^89:4‘I will establish your descendants forever, and build your throne for all generations.’ ” Selah

^89:5Let the heavens praise your wonders, O Lord , your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones.

^89:6For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord ? Who among the heavenly beings is like the Lord ,

^89:7a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and awesome above all that are around him?

^89:8O Lord God of hosts, who is as mighty as you, O Lord ? Your faithfulness surrounds you.

^89:9You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, you still them.

^89:10You crushed Rahab like a carcass; you scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

^89:11The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; the world and all that is in it—you have founded them.

^89:12The north and the south —you created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.

^89:13You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, high your right hand.

^89:14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

^89:15Happy are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Lord , in the light of your countenance;

^89:16they exult in your name all day long, and extol your righteousness.

^89:17For you are the glory of their strength; by your favor our horn is exalted.

^89:18For our shield belongs to the Lord , our king to the Holy One of Israel.

^89:19Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful one, and said: “I have set the crown on one who is mighty, I have exalted one chosen from the people.

^89:20I have found my servant David; with my holy oil I have anointed him;

^89:21my hand shall always remain with him; my arm also shall strengthen him.

^89:22The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him.

^89:23I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.

^89:24My faithfulness and steadfast love shall be with him; and in my name his horn shall be exalted.

^89:25I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.

^89:26He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!’

^89:27I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

^89:28Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant with him will stand firm.

^89:29I will establish his line forever, and his throne as long as the heavens endure.

^89:30If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,

^89:31if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

^89:32then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges;

^89:33but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness.

^89:34I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.

^89:35Once and for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.

^89:36His line shall continue forever, and his throne endure before me like the sun.

^89:37It shall be established forever like the moon, an enduring witness in the skies.” Selah

^89:38But now you have spurned and rejected him; you are full of wrath against your anointed.

^89:39You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust.

^89:40You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins.

^89:41All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

^89:42You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.

^89:43Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword, and you have not supported him in battle.

^89:44You have removed the scepter from his hand, and hurled his throne to the ground.

^89:45You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah

^89:46How long, O Lord ? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

^89:47Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!

^89:48Who can live and never see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah

^89:49Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?

^89:50Remember, O Lord, how your servant is taunted; how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,

^89:51with which your enemies taunt, O Lord , with which they taunted the footsteps of your anointed.

^89:52Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen and Amen.

^90:0God's Eternity and Human Frailty.
A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.

^90:1Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

^90:2Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

^90:3You turn us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”

^90:4For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night.

^90:5You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;

^90:6in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.

^90:7For we are consumed by your anger; by your wrath we are overwhelmed.

^90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

^90:9For all our days pass away under your wrath; our years come to an end like a sigh.

^90:10The days of our life are seventy years, or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

^90:11Who considers the power of your anger? Your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.

^90:12So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

^90:13Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

^90:14Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

^90:15Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.

^90:16Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power to their children.

^90:17Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and prosper for us the work of our hands— O prosper the work of our hands!

^91:0Assurance of God's Protection

^91:1You who live in the shelter of the Most High, who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,

^91:2will say to the Lord , “My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”

^91:3For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence;

^91:4he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

^91:5You will not fear the terror of the night, or the arrow that flies by day,

^91:6or the pestilence that stalks in darkness, or the destruction that wastes at noonday.

^91:7A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

^91:8You will only look with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

^91:9Because you have made the Lord your refuge,, are my refuge; you have made the Most High your dwelling place,

^91:10no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent.

^91:11For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

^91:12On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.

^91:13You will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.

^91:14Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect those who know my name.

^91:15When they call to me, I will answer them; I will be with them in trouble, I will rescue them and honor them.

^91:16With long life I will satisfy them, and show them my salvation.