Prayer Before Reciting Sefer Tehillim - Tehillim translated into english
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.
Psalm 73 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are of a clean heart. 2. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well near slipped. 3. For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4. For there are no pangs in their death; their body is firm. 5. They are not in trouble like other men; nor are they plagued like other men. 6. Therefore arrogance is their necklace; violence covers them like a garment. 7. Their eyes stand out with fatness; they have more than heart could wish. 8. They scoff, and speak wickedly; concerning oppression they speak loftily. 9. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth. 10. (K) Therefore his people return here; and abundant waters are drained out by them. 11. And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the most High?. 12. Behold, these are the wicked, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. 13. Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. 14. For all the day long have I been stricken, and chastened every morning. 15. If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children. 16. When I pondered how I might understand this, it was too wearisome for me;. 17. Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end. 18. Surely you set them in slippery places; you cast them down into ruin. 19. How are they brought into desolation in a moment, utterly consumed with terrors!. 20. As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image. 21. When my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my insides. 22. I was foolish and ignorant; I was like a beast before you. 23. Nevertheless I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. 24. You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterwards receive me to glory. 25. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is none on earth that I desire beside you. 26. My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 27. For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you have destroyed all those who go astray from you. 28. But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may declare all your works.
Psalm 74 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why have you cast us off for ever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? 2. Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the tribe of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this Mount Zion, where you have dwelt. 3. Lift up your feet to the perpetual desolations; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary. 4. Your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their own signs for signs. 5. They are known as swingers of axes in the thick forest. 6. But now they break down its carved work altogether with axes and hammers. 7. They have burned with fire your sanctuary, they have defiled the dwelling place of your name. 8. They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together; they have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land. 9. We do not see our signs; there is no prophet any longer; nor is there among us any who knows how long. 10. O God, how long shall the adversary taunt? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever? 11. Why do you withdraw your hand, your right hand? Take it out of your bosom! 12. For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. 13. You parted the sea by your strength; you broke the heads of the crocodiles in the waters. 14. You crushed the heads of Leviathan, and gave him for food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. 15. You cleaved open springs and brooks; you dried up ever flowing streams. 16. The day is yours, the night also is yours; you have prepared the light and the sun. 17. You have set all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and winter. 18. Remember this, how the enemy has insulted, O Lord, and how a base people have blasphemed your name. 19. O do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the congregation of your poor for ever. 20. Look upon the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. 21. O let not the oppressed return ashamed; let the poor and needy praise your name. 22. Arise, O God, plead your own cause; remember how the villain insults you daily. 23. Do not forget the voice of your enemies; the tumult of those who rise up against you increases continually.
Psalm 75 - Tehillim translated into english
1. To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm Song of Asaph. 2. To you, O God, we give thanks, to you we give thanks; men declare your wondrous works. 3. Surely at the set time which I appoint I will judge with equity. 4. When the earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved, I bear up its pillars. Selah. 5. I said to the boastful, Do not boast; and to the wicked, Do not lift up your horn;. 6. Lift not up your horn on high; speak not with an insolent neck. 7. For judgment comes not from the east, nor from the west, nor from the mountains of the desert. 8. But God is the judge; he puts down one, and sets up another. 9. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, with foaming wine; it is well mixed; and he pours from it; but the wicked of the earth shall drink and drain it to the dregs. 10. But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 11. And all the horns of the wicked will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
Psalm 76 - Tehillim translated into english
1. To the chief Musician for stringed instruments, A Psalm Song of Asaph. 2. In Judah is God known; his name is great in Israel. 3. And in Salem is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place is in Zion. 4. There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah. 5. You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. 6. The stouthearted are bereft of reason, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands. 7. At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, he is put to sleep, together with chariot and horse. 8. You, awesome are you! And who can stand in your sight when once your anger is aroused?. 9. You caused judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,. 10. When God arose to judgment, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah. 11. Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; you will gird yourself with the remainder of wrath. 12. Make a vow, and pay to the Lord your God; let all who are around him bring presents to him who is to be feared. 13. He shall cut off the spirit of princes; he is awesome to the kings of the earth.
Psalm 77 - Tehillim translated into english
1. To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. 2. I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me. 3. In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; my hand is stretched out in the night, and does not rest; my soul refuses to be comforted. 4. I remember God, and I moan; I meditate and my spirit faints. Selah. 5. You hold my eyelids from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 6. I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times. 7. I remember my melody in the night; I talk with my heart; and my spirit searches. 8. Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?. 9. Has his loving kindness ceased for ever? Does his promise fail for evermore?. 10. Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. 11. And I said, It is my sickness that the right hand of the Most High has changed. 12. I will remember the works of the Lord; surely I will remember your wonders of old. 13. And I will meditate on all your work, and muse on your deeds. 14. Your way, O God, is holy. Who is so great a God as our God?. 15. You are the God that does wonders; you have declared your strength among the people. 16. With your arm you have redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 17. The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you; they were afraid; the depths also trembled. 18. The clouds poured out water; the skies sent out a sound; your arrows flashed on every side. 19. The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind; the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook. 20. Your way was through the sea, and your path through the great waters; and your footsteps were not known. 21. You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my Torah; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2. I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles concerning ancient times. 3. Of that which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the latter generation the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done. 5. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a Torah in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;. 6. That the generation to come might know them, the children who should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children. 7. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;. 8. And that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation whose heart was not constant, and whose spirit was not faithful to God. 9. The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. 10. They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk according to his Torah. 11. And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them. 12. He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 13. He parted the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters stand like a heap. 14. And in the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. 15. He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as from the deep. 16. He made streams come from the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 17. And they sinned yet more against him, rebelling against the most High in the wilderness. 18. And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their craving. 19. And they spoke against God; they said, Can God spread a table in the wilderness?. 20. Behold, he struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? Can he provide meat for his people?. 21. Therefore the Lord heard this, and was angry; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;. 22. Because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation. 23. Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,. 24. And rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the grain of heaven. 25. Man ate the bread of angels; he sent them food in abundance. 26. He caused an east wind to blow in the sky; and by his power he brought on the south wind. 27. And he rained meat upon them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea;. 28. And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations. 29. So they ate, and were well filled; for he gave them their own desire;. 30. They were not yet sated with their lust. But while their food was still in their mouths,. 31. The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel. 32. For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works. 33. Therefore he ended their days with emptiness, and their years with trouble. 34. When he slew them, then they sought him; and they returned and earnestly sought God. 35. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. 36. Nevertheless they flattered him with their mouth, and they lied to him with their tongues. 37. For their heart was not constant with him, nor were they faithful in his covenant. 38. But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; often he turned away his anger, and did not stir up all his wrath. 39. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passes away, and does not come again. 40. How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!. 41. And they turned back and tempted God, and pained the Holy One of Israel. 42. They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he saved them from the enemy. 43. How he had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;. 44. And had turned their rivers into blood; so that they could not drink of their streams. 45. He sent swarms of gnats among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. 46. He gave also their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust. 47. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. 48. He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 49. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 50. He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;. 51. And struck all the firstborn in Egypt; the first of their strength in the tents of Ham;. 52. But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53. And he led them on safely, so that they did not fear; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54. And he brought them to his holy border, to the mountain which his right hand had won. 55. He cast out nations before them, and apportioned to them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents. 56. Yet they tempted and rebelled against the most high God, and did not keep his testimonies;. 57. But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 58. For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their carved idols. 59. When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly loathed Israel;. 60. So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent where he made his dwelling among men;. 61. And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand. 62. He gave his people over also to the sword; and was angry with his inheritance. 63. The fire consumed their young men; and their virgins had no marriage songs. 64. Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. 65. Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, and like a mighty man who shouts because of wine. 66. And he struck his enemies backward; he put upon them an everlasting reproach. 67. And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;. 68. But chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which he loved. 69. And he built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth which he has established for ever. 70. And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;. 71. From following the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 72. So he tended them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them with skilful hand.
Psalm 79 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 2. The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be food to the birds of the sky, the flesh of your pious ones to the beasts of the earth. 3. Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 4. We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are around us. 5. How long, Lord? Will you be angry for ever? Shall your jealousy burn like fire?. 6. Pour out your wrath on the nations that have not known you, and on the kingdoms that have not called upon your name. 7. For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. 8. O do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your tender mercies speedily come to meet us; for we are brought very low. 9. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; and save us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake. 10. Why should the nations say, Where is their God? let the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed be made manifest among the nations, and before our eyes. 11. Let the groans of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve those who are appointed to die;. 12. And render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their insult, with which they have insulted you, O Lord. 13. So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give you thanks for ever; we will tell your praise to all generations.
Psalm 80 - Tehillim translated into english
1. To the chief Musician, according to Shoshannim, a Testimony, A Psalm of Asaph. 2. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock; you who are enthroned upon the kerubim, shine forth,. 3. Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh. Stir up your strength, and come and save us. 4. Restore, O God, and let your face shine; and we shall be saved. 5. O Lord God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?. 6. You feed them with the bread of tears; and gives them tears to drink in great measure. 7. You make us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves. 8. Restore us, O God of hosts, and let your face shine; and we shall be saved. 9. You have brought a vine from Egypt; you have cast out the nations, and planted it. 10. You cleared a space for it, and you caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 11. The mountains were covered with its shade, and the mighty cedars with its boughs. 12. She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river. 13. Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck her fruit?. 14. The boar from the wood destroys it, and the wild beast of the field devours it. 15. Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and behold, and have regard for this vine;. 16. And the vineyard which your right hand has planted, and the branch that you made strong for yourself. 17. It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of your countenance. 18. Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of a man whom you made strong for yourself. 19. Then we will never turn back from you; revive us, and we will call upon your name. 20. Restore us, O Lord God of hosts, let your face shine; and we shall be saved.
Psalm 81 - Tehillim translated into english
1. To the chief Musician, according to Gittit, A Psalm of Asaph. 2. Sing aloud to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. 3. Raise a song, and beat the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. 4. Blow a shofar at the new moon, at the full moon on our feast day. 5. For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. 6. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt. I heard the language of one whom I had not known,. 7. Saying, I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands are freed from the basket. 8. You called in trouble, and I saved you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah. 9. Hear, O my people, and I will warn you, O Israel, if you will listen to me:. 10. There shall be no strange god among you; nor shall you worship any foreign god. 11. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt; open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 12. But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would have none of me. 13. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, and they walked in their own counsels. 14. Oh that my people would listen to me, and that Israel would walk in my ways!. 15. I should soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries. 16. Let the haters of the Lord cringe before him, and their punishment should last for ever. 17. And he would feed him with the finest of the wheat; and I would satisfy you with honey from the rock.
Psalm 82 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the congregation of God; he judges among the judges. 2. How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 3. Do justice to the poor and the orphan; vindicate the afflicted and needy. 4. Save the poor and needy; rescue them from the hand of the wicked. 5. They do not know, nor will they understand; they walk in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6. I have said, You are angels; and all of you are sons of the most High. 7. Nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince. 8. Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to you shall all nations belong.
Psalm 83 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Song Psalm of Asaph. 2. Do not keep silent, O God; do not hold your peace and be still, O God. 3. For, behold, your enemies make a tumult; and those who hate you have lifted up the head. 4. They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones. 5. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may no longer be remembered. 6. For they conspire together with one accord; they make an alliance against you:. 7. The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarites;. 8. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;. 9. Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah. 10. Do to them as you did to the Midianites; as you did to Sisera, as you did to Jabin at the brook of Kishon;. 11. Who perished at Ein-Dor; they became like dung on the earth. 12. Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb; and all their princes like Zebah, and Zalmunna;. 13. Who said, Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God. 14. O my God, make them like whirling tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. 15. As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;. 16. So pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. 17. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O Lord. 18. Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; and let them be put to shame, and perish,. 19. That men may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the most high over all the earth.
Psalm 84 - Tehillim translated into english
1. To the chief Musician, according to Gittit, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. 2. How lovely are your dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! 3. My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. 4. Even the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. 5. Happy are those who dwell in your house, ever praising you. Selah. 6. Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways, 7. Which, passing through the valley of Baca, make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with blessings. 8. They go from strength to strength, every one of them appears before God in Zion. 9. O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 10. Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed. 11. For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be at the threshold in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of the wicked. 12. For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give loving kindness and glory; no good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly. 13. O Lord of hosts, happy is the man who trusts in you.
Psalm 85 - Tehillim translated into english
1. To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. 2. Lord, you have been favorable to your land; you have brought back the captivity of Jacob. 3. You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have pardoned all their sin. Selah. 4. You have withdrawn all your wrath; you have turned from the fierceness of your anger. 5. Restore us, O God of our salvation, and cease your anger toward us. 6. Will you be angry with us for ever? Will you draw out your anger to all generations? 7. Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you? 8. Show us your loving kindness, O Lord, and grant us your salvation. 9. I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace to his people, and to his pious ones; but let them not turn back to folly. 10. Surely his salvation is near to those who fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 11. Loving kindness and truth meet together; righteousness and peace kiss each other. 12. Truth shall spring from the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 13. Also, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her produce. 14. Righteousness shall go before him; and walk in the way of his steps.
Psalm 86 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Prayer of David. Incline your ear, O Lord, answer me; for I am poor and needy. 2. Preserve my soul; for I am pious; O my God, save your servant who trusts in you. 3. Be merciful to me, O Lord; for I cry to you daily. 4. Rejoice the soul of your servant; for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul. 5. For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and of bountiful love toward all those who call upon you. 6. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. 7. On the day of my trouble I will call on you; for you will answer me. 8. Among the gods there is none like you, O Lord; nor are there any works like yours. 9. All nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name. 10. For you are great, and you do wondrous things; you alone are God. 11. Teach me your way, O Lord; I will walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name. 12. I will thank you, O Lord my God, with all my heart; and I will glorify your name for evermore. 13. For great is your loving kindness toward me; and you have saved my soul from the depths of Sheol. 14. O God, the arrogant have risen against me, and the assembly of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them. 15. But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and bountiful in loving kindness and truth. 16. O turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your maidservant. 17. Show me a sign for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed; because you, Lord, have helped me, and comforted me.
Psalm 87 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Psalm Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2. The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. 3. Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah. 4. I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know me; behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Kush, saying, This man was born there. 5. And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her; and the highest himself shall establish her. 6. The Lord shall record, when he registers up the peoples, that this man was born there. Selah. 7. And singers and dancers alike shall say; All my springs are in you.
Psalm 88 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Song Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician, according to Mahalath Leannoth, A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. 2. O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you; 3. Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry; 4. For my soul is full of troubles; and my life draws near to Sheol. 5. I am counted with those who go down into the pit; I am like a man who has no strength, 6. Free among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you do not remember any more; and they are cut off from your hand. 7. You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 8. Your wrath lies hard on me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah. 9. You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them; I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. 10. My eye grows dim through affliction; Lord, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you. 11. Will you work wonders to the dead? Shall the shades arise and praise you? Selah. 12. Shall your loving kindness be declared in the grave? Your faithfulness in Avaddon? 13. Shall your wonders be known in the dark? And your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? 14. But to you I have cried, O Lord; and in the morning shall my prayer attend you. 15. Lord, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me? 16. I am afflicted and close to death from my youth up; while I suffer your terrors I am distracted. 17. Your fierce wrath goes over me; your terrors have cut me off. 18. They surround me daily like water; they close in upon me together. 19. Loving friend and companion have you put far from me, and my acquaintances are in darkness.
Psalm 89 - Tehillim translated into english
1. A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. 2. I will sing of the constant love of the Lord for ever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. 3. For I have said, The world is built by love; your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens. 4. I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant, 5. Your seed I will establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah. 6. And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O Lord; your faithfulness also in the congregation of the holy ones. 7. For who in the skies can be compared to the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the Lord? 8. God is greatly feared in the assembly of the holy ones, and held in reverence by all those who are around him. 9. O Lord God of hosts, who is strong like you, O Lord? Or to your faithfulness around you? 10. You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves arise, you still them. 11. You have trampled down Rahab like carrion; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm. 12. The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours; you have founded the world and all that is in it. 13. The north and the south you have created them; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name. 14. You have a mighty arm; strong is your hand, and high is your right hand. 15. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and truth shall go before you. 16. Happy is the people who know the joyful sound; they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. 17. In your name shall they rejoice all the day; and in your righteousness shall they be exalted. 18. For you are the glory of their strength; and in your favor our horn shall be exalted. 19. For our shield belongs to the Lord; and the Holy One of Israel is our king. 20. Then you spoke in a vision to your pious one, and said, I have laid help upon one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people. 21. I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him, 22. With whom my hand shall be established; my arm also shall strengthen him. 23. The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. 24. And I will beat down his enemies before his face, and strike down those who hate him. 25. But my faithfulness and my loving kindness shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted. 26. I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers. 27. He shall cry to me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation. 28. Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. 29. I will keep my truth with him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. 30. His seed also I will make to endure for ever, and his throne like the days of heaven. 31. If his children forsake my Torah, and do not walk in my judgments; 32. If they break my statutes, and do not keep my commandments; 33. Then I will punish their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with strokes. 34. Nevertheless my loving kindness I will not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. 35. My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word which was issued from my lips. 36. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie to David. 37. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne like the sun before me. 38. It shall be established for ever like the moon, and like a faithful witness in heaven. Selah. 39. But you have cast off and rejected, you have been angry with your anointed. 40. You have renounced the covenant of your servant; you have profaned his crown to the ground. 41. You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his fortresses to ruin. 42. All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a taunt to his neighbors. 43. You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies rejoice. 44. You have turned back the edge of his sword, and have not made him stand in the battle. 45. You have made his brightness cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. 46. The days of his youth you have shortened; you have covered him with shame. Selah. 47. How long, Lord, will you hide yourself for ever? Shall your wrath burn like fire? 48. Remember how short my time is; for what nothingness you have created all the sons of men! 49. Who is the man who lives, and shall not see death? Shall he save his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah. 50. Lord, where are your former oaths of loving kindness, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? 51. Remember, Lord, the disgrace of your servants; how I carry in my bosom the insults of all the many peoples; 52. With which your enemies have insulted, O Lord; with which they have insulted the footsteps of your anointed. 53. Blessed be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
Prayer After Reciting Sefer Tehillim - Tehillim translated into english
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.