Daily Tehillim: Day 19

Prayer before Tehillim on a Weekday

May it be the will before You, Hashem, our G-d, and the G-d of our forefathers, Who chose David His servant and his offspring after him, and Who chose songs and praises - that you attend with mercy to the recitation of psalms that I shall merit and consider it as if they were recited by King David, of blessed memory, himself, may his merit be a shield over us. And stand in our favor may the merit of the verses of the psalms together with the merit of their words and their letters and their vowels and their cantilations, and together with the Holy Names that are formed from them, from the initial (letters) of the words and from the final (letters) of the words - may their merit serve to bring atonement for our transgressions, iniquities, and sins, and to cut down ruthless men, and slash away all the thorns and briars which surround the Rose, Celestial; and to unite the Bride of Youth with her Beloved in love, brotherhood, and companionship. And from that (unification) may be drawn to us an abundant blessing to our spirit, breath and soul, to purify us of our iniquities, to forgive our sins and to atone for our transgressions, just as You forgave David who recited these very same psalms before You - as it is said: Hashem also has forgiven your sin, you shall not die. May you not take us from This World before our time, until the completion of our years, (among them are seventy years,) in a manner that we be able to rectify anything that we have ruined. May the merit of King David, of blessed memory, shield over us and for us; that You may be patient (with us), (and wait) until we return to You in repentance that is complete before You. From your treasury of grace that is undeserved, be gracious to us - as it is written: I am Compassionate to those whom I favor, and I am Merciful to those upon whom I have mercy. And just as we recite before You a song in This World, so let us merit to recite before You - O Hashem, our G-d - songs and praises in the World to Come. And through the recitation of the psalms arouse the Rose of Sharon to sing with a voice that is pleasant, with ecstasy and joy. May the glory of the Levanon be given to her, majesty and splendor in the House of our G-d, speedily in our days. Amein. Selah!

Before Saying Tehillim it is customary to say these Three Verses

Come! Let us sing joyfully to Hashem, let us call out to the Rock of our Salvation,
Let us greet Him with thanksgiving, with praiseful songs let us call out to Him.
For a great G-d is Hashem, and a great King above all heavenly powers.

1. A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
2. Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
3. You turn man back to dust; and say, Turn back, O children of men!
4. For a thousand years in your sight are but like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.
5. You sweep them away; they are like sleepers; they are like short lived grass in the morning.
6. In the morning it flourishes, and fades; by evening it is withered and dry.
7. For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we terrified.
8. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
9. For all our days pass away in your wrath; we spend our years like a tale that is told.
10. The days of our years are seventy; or if, because of strength, they are eighty years, yet their pride is but trouble and wretchedness; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11. Who knows the power of your anger? According to your fear, so is your wrath.
12. So teach us to number our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
13. Return, O Lord! How long? And relent concerning your servants.
14. O satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15. Make us glad as many days as you have afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.
16. Let your work be visible to your servants, and your glory to their children.
17. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us; and establish the work of our hands upon us; O prosper it, the work of our hands.

1. He who dwells in the secret place of the most High, who abides under the shadow of the Almighty,
2. Will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust, 3. For he shall save you from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4. He shall cover you with his feathers, and under his wings shall you find refuge; his truth shall be your shield and buckler.
5. You shall not be afraid of the terror by night; nor of the arrow that flies by day;
6. Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7. A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.
8. Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9. Because you, O Lord, are my refuge. You have made the most High your habitation;
10. No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.
11. For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
12. They shall carry you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13. You shall tread on the lion and on the adder; the young lion and the crocodile shall you trample under foot.
14. Because he has set his love upon me, therefore I will save him; I will set him on high, because he knows my name.
15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will save him, and honor him.
16. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation.

1. A Psalm Song for the sabbath day.
2. It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O most high!
3. To declare your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night, 4. Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the harp, to the melody of the lyre.
5. For you, Lord, have made me glad through your work; I will triumph in the works of your hands.
6. O Lord, how great are your works! And your thoughts are very deep!
7. A stupid man does not know; nor can a fool understand this.
8. When the wicked spring like grass, and when all the evil doers flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever; 9. But you, O Lord, are most high for evermore.
10. For, behold, your enemies, O Lord, for, behold, your enemies shall perish; all the evil doers shall be scattered.
11. But you shall exalt my horn like the horn of a wild ox; I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
12. My eye has seen the downfall of my enemies, and my ears have heard the doom of the wicked who rise up against me.
13. The righteous flourish like the palm tree; he grows like a cedar in Lebanon.
14. Those that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
15. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; 16. To declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

1. The Lord reigns, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, with which he has girded himself; the world also is established, that it cannot be moved.
2. Your throne is established of old; you are from everlasting.
3. The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their roaring.
4. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, than the mighty waves of the sea.
5. Your testimonies are very sure; holiness becomes your house, O Lord, for length of days.

1. O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongs; O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
2. Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth; render to the arrogant their reward.
3. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4. How long shall they utter and speak hard things? And all the evil doers boast themselves? 5. They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.
6. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the orphan.
7. Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, nor shall the God of Jacob regard it.
8. Understand, you stupid among the people; and you fools, when will you be wise? 9. He who planted the ear, shall he not hear? He who formed the eye, shall he not see? 10. He who chastises the nations, shall he not chastise? He who teaches man knowledge, 11. The Lord, knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
12. Happy is the man whom you chasten, O Lord, and whom you teach from your Torah; 13. That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
14. For the Lord will not cast off his people, nor will he forsake his inheritance.
15. But judgment shall return to righteousness; and all the upright in heart shall follow it.
16. Who will rise up for me against the evil doers? Who will stand up for me against the evil doers? 17. Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul would soon had dwelt in silence.
18. When I said, My foot slips; your loving kindness, O Lord, held me up.
19. When the cares of my heart are many your comforts delight my soul.
20. Shall the seat of iniquity, which frames mischief by law, have fellowship with you? 21. They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
22. But the Lord has become my fortress; and my God, the rock of my refuge.
23. And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; the Lord our God shall cut them off.

1. O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.
3. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4. In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are also his.
5. The sea is his, and he made it; and his hands formed the dry land.
6. O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
7. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Even today, if you will only listen to his voice!
8. Do not harden your hearts, like you did at Meribah, and like you did in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
9. When your fathers tempted me, and tested me, even though they had seen my deeds.
10. For forty years I loathed that generation, and said, They are a people who err in their heart, and they do not know my ways.
11. Therefore I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

1. O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.
2. Sing to the Lord, bless his name; announce his salvation from day to day.
3. Declare his glory among the nations, his wonders among all the peoples.
4. For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
5. For all the gods of the nations are idols; but the Lord made the heavens.
6. Honor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
7. Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the people, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
8. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due to his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts.
9. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth.
10. Say among the nations that the Lord reigns; the world also is established so that it shall not be moved; he shall judge the people with equity.
11. Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and all that is in it.
12. Let the field be joyful, and everything in it; then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy.
13. Before the Lord; for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth; he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his faithfulness.

May it be the will before You, Hashem, our G-d, and the G-d of our forefathers, Who chose David His servant and his offspring after him, and Who chose songs and praises - that you attend with mercy to the recitation of psalms that I shall merit and consider it as if they were recited by King David, of blessed memory, himself, may his merit be a shield over us. And stand in our favor may the merit of the verses of the psalms together with the merit of their words and their letters and their vowels and their cantilations, and together with the Holy Names that are formed from them, from the initial (letters) of the words and from the final (letters) of the words - may their merit serve to bring atonement for our transgressions, iniquities, and sins, and to cut down ruthless men, and slash away all the thorns and briars which surround the Rose, Celestial; and to unite the Bride of Youth with her Beloved in love, brotherhood, and companionship. And from that (unification) may be drawn to us an abundant blessing to our spirit, breath and soul, to purify us of our iniquities, to forgive our sins and to atone for our transgressions, just as You forgave David who recited these very same psalms before You - as it is said: Hashem also has forgiven your sin, you shall not die. May you not take us from This World before our time, until the completion of our years, (among them are seventy years,) in a manner that we be able to rectify anything that we have ruined. May the merit of King David, of blessed memory, shield over us and for us; that You may be patient (with us), (and wait) until we return to You in repentance that is complete before You. From your treasury of grace that is undeserved, be gracious to us - as it is written: I am Compassionate to those whom I favor, and I am Merciful to those upon whom I have mercy. And just as we recite before You a song in This World, so let us merit to recite before You - O Hashem, our G-d - songs and praises in the World to Come. And through the recitation of the psalms arouse the Rose of Sharon to sing with a voice that is pleasant, with ecstasy and joy. May the glory of the Levanon be given to her, majesty and splendor in the House of our G-d, speedily in our days. Amein. Selah! Come! Let us sing joyfully to Hashem, let us call out to the Rock of our Salvation, Let us greet Him with thanksgiving, with praiseful songs let us call out to Him. For a great G-d is Hashem, and a great King above all heavenly powers.