Psalm 46

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. ^[a]

 ² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
       and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

 ³ though its waters roar and foam
       and the mountains quake with their surging.
       Selah

 ⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
       the holy place where the Most High dwells.

 ⁵ God is within her, she will not fall;
       God will help her at break of day.

 ⁶ Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
       he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

 ⁷ The LORD Almighty is with us;
       the God of Jacob is our fortress.
       Selah

 ⁸ Come and see the works of the LORD,
       the desolations he has brought on the earth.

 ⁹ He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
       he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
       he burns the shields ^[b] with fire.

 ¹⁰ "Be still, and know that I am God;
       I will be exalted among the nations,
       I will be exalted in the earth."

 ¹¹ The LORD Almighty is with us;
       the God of Jacob is our fortress.
       Selah

Psalm 45

For the director of music. To the tune of "Lilies." Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. A wedding song. ^[a]

 ² You are the most excellent of men
       and your lips have been anointed with grace,
       since God has blessed you forever.

 ³ Gird your sword upon your side, O mighty one;
       clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.

 ⁴ In your majesty ride forth victoriously
       in behalf of truth, humility and righteousness;
       let your right hand display awesome deeds.

 ⁵ Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies;
       let the nations fall beneath your feet.

 ⁶ Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever;
       a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.

 ⁷ You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
       therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
       by anointing you with the oil of joy.

 ⁸ All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;
       from palaces adorned with ivory
       the music of the strings makes you glad.

 ⁹ Daughters of kings are among your honored women;
       at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.

 ¹⁰ Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear:
       Forget your people and your father's house.

 ¹¹ The king is enthralled by your beauty;
       honor him, for he is your lord.

 ¹² The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift, ^[b]
       men of wealth will seek your favor.

 ¹³ All glorious is the princess within her chamber ;
       her gown is interwoven with gold.

 ¹⁴ In embroidered garments she is led to the king;
       her virgin companions follow her
       and are brought to you.

 ¹⁵ They are led in with joy and gladness;
       they enter the palace of the king.

 ¹⁶ Your sons will take the place of your fathers;
       you will make them princes throughout the land.

 ¹⁷ I will perpetuate your memory through all generations;
       therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.

Psalm 44

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. ^[a]

 ² With your hand you drove out the nations
       and planted our fathers;
       you crushed the peoples
       and made our fathers flourish.

 ³ It was not by their sword that they won the land,
       nor did their arm bring them victory;
       it was your right hand, your arm,
       and the light of your face, for you loved them.

 ⁴ You are my King and my God,
       who decrees ^[b] victories for Jacob.

 ⁵ Through you we push back our enemies;
       through your name we trample our foes.

 ⁶ I do not trust in my bow,
       my sword does not bring me victory;

 ⁷ but you give us victory over our enemies,
       you put our adversaries to shame.

 ⁸ In God we make our boast all day long,
       and we will praise your name forever.
       Selah

 ⁹ But now you have rejected and humbled us;
       you no longer go out with our armies.

 ¹⁰ You made us retreat before the enemy,
       and our adversaries have plundered us.

 ¹¹ You gave us up to be devoured like sheep
       and have scattered us among the nations.

 ¹² You sold your people for a pittance,
       gaining nothing from their sale.

 ¹³ You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,
       the scorn and derision of those around us.

 ¹⁴ You have made us a byword among the nations;
       the peoples shake their heads at us.

 ¹⁵ My disgrace is before me all day long,
       and my face is covered with shame

 ¹⁶ at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me,
       because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.

 ¹⁷ All this happened to us,
       though we had not forgotten you
       or been false to your covenant.

 ¹⁸ Our hearts had not turned back;
       our feet had not strayed from your path.

 ¹⁹ But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals
       and covered us over with deep darkness.

 ²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God
       or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

 ²¹ would not God have discovered it,
       since he knows the secrets of the heart?

 ²² Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
       we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

 ²³ Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep?
       Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.

 ²⁴ Why do you hide your face
       and forget our misery and oppression?

 ²⁵ We are brought down to the dust;
       our bodies cling to the ground.

 ²⁶ Rise up and help us;
       redeem us because of your unfailing love.

Psalm 43

 ^1[a] Vindicate me, O God,
       and plead my cause against an ungodly nation;
       rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.

 ² You are God my stronghold.
       Why have you rejected me?
       Why must I go about mourning,
       oppressed by the enemy?

 ³ Send forth your light and your truth,
       let them guide me;
       let them bring me to your holy mountain,
       to the place where you dwell.

 ⁴ Then will I go to the altar of God,
       to God, my joy and my delight.
       I will praise you with the harp,
       O God, my God.

 ⁵ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
       Why so disturbed within me?
       Put your hope in God,
       for I will yet praise him,
       my Savior and my God.

Psalm 42

BOOK II : Psalms 42-72

For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah. ^[a]

 ² My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
       When can I go and meet with God?

 ³ My tears have been my food
       day and night,
       while men say to me all day long,
       "Where is your God?"

 ⁴ These things I remember
       as I pour out my soul:
       how I used to go with the multitude,
       leading the procession to the house of God,
       with shouts of joy and thanksgiving
       among the festive throng.

 ⁵ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
       Why so disturbed within me?
       Put your hope in God,
       for I will yet praise him,
       my Savior and ⁶ my God.
       My ^[c] soul is downcast within me;
       therefore I will remember you
       from the land of the Jordan,
       the heights of Hermon—from Mount Mizar.

 ⁷ Deep calls to deep
       in the roar of your waterfalls;
       all your waves and breakers
       have swept over me.

 ⁸ By day the LORD directs his love,
       at night his song is with me—
       a prayer to the God of my life.

 ⁹ I say to God my Rock,
       "Why have you forgotten me?
       Why must I go about mourning,
       oppressed by the enemy?"

 ¹⁰ My bones suffer mortal agony
       as my foes taunt me,
       saying to me all day long,
       "Where is your God?"

 ¹¹ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
       Why so disturbed within me?
       Put your hope in God,
       for I will yet praise him,
       my Savior and my God.