My sins have caught up with me so that I can no longer see.

They outnumber the hairs on my head.

I have lost heart.

13 O Yahweh, please rescue me!

Come quickly to help me, O Yahweh!a 14 Let all those who seek to end my life be confused and put to shame.

Let those who want my downfall be turned back and disgraced.

15 Let those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"

be stunned by their own shame.

16 Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad because of you.

Let those who love your salvation continually say, "Yahweh is great!"

17 But I am oppressed and needy.

May Adonay think of me.

You are my help and my savior.

O my Elohim , do not delay!

Psalm 41 For the choir director; a psalm by David.

1 Blessed is the one who has concern for helpless people.

Yahweh will rescue him in times of trouble.

2 Yahweh will protect him and keep him alive.

He will be blessed in the land.

Do not place him at the mercy of his enemies.

3 Yahweh will support him on his sickbed.

You will restore this person to health when he is ill.

4 I said, "O Yahweh, have pity on me!

Heal my soul because I have sinned against you."

5 My enemies say terrible things about me: "When will he die, and when will his family name disappear?"

6 When one of them comes to visit me, he speaks foolishly.

His heart collects gossip.

Then he leaves to tell others.

7 Everyone who hates me whispers about me.

They think evil things about me and say, 8 "A devilish disease has attached itself to him.

He will never leave his sickbed."

9 Even my closest friend whom I trusted, the one who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

10 Have pity on me, O Yahweh !

Raise me up so that I can pay them back 11 and my enemy cannot shout in triumph over me.

When you do this, I know that you are pleased with me.

12 You defend my integrity, and you set me in your presence forever.

13 Thank Yahweh Elohim of Israel through all eternity! Amen and amen!

BOOK TWO.

(Psalms 42-72) Psalm 42 For the choir director; a maskila by Korah's descendants.

1 As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O Elohim.

2 My soul thirsts for Elohim, for El Chay .

When may I come to see Elohim's face?

3 My tears are my food day and night.

People ask me all day long, "Where is your Elohim?"

4 I will remember these things as I pour out my soul: how I used to walk with the crowd and lead it in a procession to Elohim's house.

I sang songs of joy and thanksgiving while crowds of people celebrated a festival.

5 Why are you discouraged, my soul?

Why are you so restless?

Put your hope in Elohim, because I will still praise him.

He is my savior and my Elohim.

6 My soul is discouraged.

That is why I will remember you in the land of Jordan, on the peaks of Hermon, on Mount Mizar.

7 One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts.

All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.b 8 Yahweh commands his mercy during the day, and at night his song is with me- a prayer to the El of my life.

9 I will ask Elohim, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?

Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses me?"

10 With a shattering blow to my bones, my enemies taunt me.

They ask me all day long, "Where is your Elohim?"

11 Why are you discouraged, my soul?

Why are you so restless?

Put your hope in Elohim, because I will still praise him.

He is my savior and my Elohim .

Psalm 43 1 Judge me, O Elohim, and plead my case against an ungodly nation.

Rescue me from deceitful and unjust people.

2 You are my fortress, O Elohim!

Why have you rejected me?

Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses me?

3 Send your light and your truth.

Let them guide me.

Let them bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling place.

4 Then let me go to the altar of Elohim, to God my highest joy, and I will give thanks to you on the lyre, O Elohim, my Elohim.

5 Why are you discouraged, my soul?

Why are you so restless?

Put your hope in Elohim, because I will still praise him.

He is my savior and my Elohim .

Psalm 44 For the choir director; a maskil by Korah's descendants.

1 O Elohim, we have heard it with our own ears.

Our ancestors have told us about the miracle you performed in their day.

in days long ago.

2 By your power you forced nations out of the land, but you planted our ancestors there.

You shattered many groups of people, but you set our ancestors free.a 3 It was not with their swords that they took possession of the land.

They did not gain victory with their own strength.

It was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your presence that did it, because you were pleased with them.

4 You alone are my Melek , O Elohim.

You won those victories for Jacob.

5 With you we can walk over our enemies.

With your name we can trample those who attack us.

6 I do not rely on my bow, and my sword will never save me.

7 But you saved us from our enemies.

You put to shame those who hate us.

8 All day long we praise our Elohim.

We give thanks to you forever.

Selah 9 But now you have rejected and disgraced us.

You do not even go along with our armies.

10 You make us retreat from the enemy.

Those who hate us rob us at will.

11 You hand us over to be butchered like sheep and scatter us among the nations.

12 You sell your people for almost nothing, and at that price you have gained nothing.

13 You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

14 You made our defeat a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.