Daily Tehillim - Psalms - Daily Torah Study

1For the Conductor, on the yedutun,1 by Asaph, a psalm.

2[I raise] my voice to God and cry out; [I raise] my voice to God and He will listen to me.

3On the day of my distress I sought my Lord. My wound oozes at night and does not abate; my soul refuses to be consoled.

4I remember God and I moan; I speak and my spirit faints, Selah.

5You grasped my eyelids; I am broken, I cannot speak.

6I think of olden days, of ancient years.

7During the night I recall my music, I meditate with my heart, and my spirit searches:

8Is it for eternity that my Lord forsakes [me], nevermore to be appeased?

9Has His kindness ceased forever? Has He sealed the decree for all generations?

10Has God forgotten mercy? Has He in anger restrained His compassion forever?

11I said, "It is to terrify me that the right hand of the Most High changes.”

12I remember the deeds of Yah, when I remember Your wonders of long ago.

13I meditate on all Your works, and speak of Your deeds.

14O God, Your way is in sanctity; what god is as great as God?

15You are the God Who works wonders; You make Your might known among the nations.

16You redeemed Your people with a mighty arm, the children of Jacob and Joseph, Selah.

17The waters2 saw You, O God, the waters saw You and trembled; even the deep shuddered.

18The clouds streamed water, the heavens sounded forth, even Your arrows flew about.

19The sound of Your thunder was in the rolling wind; lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.

20Your way was through the sea, Your path through the mighty waters; and Your footsteps were not known.3

21You led Your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron

1A maskil1 by Asaph. Listen, my people, to my teaching; incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

2I will open my mouth with a parable, I will utter riddles of long ago;

3that which we have heard and know [to be true], and that our fathers have told us.

4We will not withhold from their children, telling the final generation the praises of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders He has performed.

5He established a testimony in Jacob, and set down the Torah in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to make known to their children,

6so that the last generation shall know; children yet to be born will rise and tell their children,

7and they shall put their hope in God, and not forget the works of the Almighty; and they shall guard His commandments.

8And they shall not be like their fathers, a wayward and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart straight, and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

9The children of Ephraim, armed archers, retreated on the day of battle.2

10They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to follow His Torah.

11They forgot His deeds and His wonders that He had shown them.

12He performed wonders before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.3

13He split the sea and brought them across; He erected the waters like a wall.

14He led them with a cloud by day, and all night long with the light of fire.

15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them to drink as if from the abundant depths.

16And He brought forth flowing waters from the rock, and caused waters to descend like rivers.

17Yet they again continued to sin against Him, to provoke the Most High in the parched land.

18And they tested God in their hearts, by requesting food for their craving.

19They spoke against God; they said, "Can God set a table in the wilderness?

20True, He hit the rock and waters flowed, streams gushed forth; but can He also give bread? Will He prepare meat for His people?”

21And so the Lord heard and was enraged; a fire was kindled against Jacob; wrath, too, flared against Israel.

22For they did not believe in God and did not trust in His salvation,

23[though] He had commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

24He had rained upon them manna to eat, and given them grain of heaven.

25Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them [enough] provisions to satiate.

26He drove the east wind through the heaven, and led the south wind with His might.

27He rained meat upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of seas;

28and He dropped them inside His camp, around His dwellings.

29And they ate and were very satiated, for He brought them their desire.

30They were not yet estranged from their craving, their food was still in their mouths,

31when the wrath of God rose against them and slew their mighty ones, and brought down the chosen of Israel.

32Despite this, they sinned again, and did not believe in His wonders;

33so He ended their days in futility, and their years in terror.

34When He slew them they would seek Him, they would return and pray to God.

35They remembered that God is their rock, God the Most High, their redeemer.

36But they beguiled Him with their mouth, and deceived Him with their tongue.

37Their heart was not steadfast with Him; they were not faithful to His covenant.

38Yet He is compassionate, pardons iniquity, and does not destroy; time and again He turns away His anger, and does not arouse all His wrath.

39He remembered that they were but flesh, a spirit that leaves and does not return.

40How often they provoked Him in the desert, and grieved Him in the wasteland!

41Again and again they tested God, and sought a sign from the Holy One of Israel.

42They did not remember His hand, the day He redeemed them from the oppressor;

43that He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan.

44He turned their rivers to blood, and made their flowing waters undrinkable.

45He sent against them a mixture of beasts which devoured them, and frogs that destroyed them.

46He gave their produce to the grasshopper, and their toil to the locust.

47He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with biting frost.

48He delivered their animals to the hail, and their livestock to fiery bolts.

49He sent against them His fierce anger, fury, rage, and affliction; a delegation of messengers of evil.

50He leveled a path for His anger, and did not spare their soul from death; He delivered their animals to pestilence.

51He struck every firstborn in Egypt, the first fruit of their strength in the tents of Ham.4

52He drove His nation like sheep, and guided them like a flock in the desert.

53He led them in security and they did not fear, for the sea covered their enemies.

54And He brought them to the boundary of His holy place, this mountain which His right hand acquired.

55He drove out nations before them, and allotted them an inheritance [measured] by the cord; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

56Yet they tested and defied God, the Most High, and did not keep His testimonies.

57They regressed and rebelled like their fathers; they turned around like a deceptive bow.

58They angered Him with their high altars, and provoked Him with their idols.

59God heard and was enraged, and He was utterly disgusted with Israel;

60And He abandoned the Tabernacle of Shilo, the Tent where He had dwelled among men.

61He put His might into captivity, and His glory into the hand of the oppressor.

62He delivered His nation to the sword, and was enraged with His inheritance.

63Fire consumed His young men, and His maidens had no marriage song.

64His priests fell by the sword, and their widows did not weep.5

65And the Lord awoke like one who had been asleep, like a warrior shouting [to sober himself] from wine.

66He beat His enemies into retreat, and dealt them eternal disgrace.

67He was disgusted with the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

68He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loves.

69And He built His Sanctuary [permanent as] the heavens; like the earth, He established it forever.

70And He chose David His servant, and took him from the sheep corrals.

71From following the nursing ewes, He brought him to shepherd His nation Jacob, Israel His inheritance.

72And he tended them with the integrity of his heart, and led them with the skill of his hands.