Book 2.2: Jehovah is our Righteous Judge and Deliverer

Complement    Part 1: Jehovah is our Righteous Judge

Unique   Chapter 1.1: Jehovah will judge the world in righteousness (Psalm 9)

§Complement   Introduction: You have rebuked the heathen

¹I will praise you, O Jehovah, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works. ²I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your Name, O you most High.

³When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence: ⁴for you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging in righteousness. ⁵You have rebuked the heathen; you have destroyed the wicked; you have put out their name forever and ever.

⁶O you enemy, destructions have come to a perpetual end, and you have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

§Complement   Body: Jehovah remembers his people; consider my trouble from them that hate me

⁷But Jehovah shall endure forever; he has prepared his throne for Judgment. ⁸And he shall judge the world in righteousness; he shall administer judgment to the people in uprightness.

⁹Jehovah also will be a refuge for the oppressed; a refuge in times of trouble. ¹⁰And they that know your Name will put their trust in you: for you, Jehovah, have not forsaken them that seek you.

¹¹Sing praises to Jehovah, who dwells in Zion; declare among the people his doings. ¹²When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them; he does not forget the cry of the humble.

¹³Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me (you that lift me up from the gates of death), ¹⁴so that I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion; I will rejoice in your salvation.

¹⁵The heathen have sunk down in the pit which they made; in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. ¹⁶Jehovah is known by the Judgment which he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

§Unique   Conclusion: The wicked shall be turned into Hell, for the needy and the poor shall not always be forgotten

¹⁷The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God:

¹⁸for the needy shall not always be forgotten; the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹Arise, O Jehovah; let no man prevail; let the heathen be judged in your sight. ²⁰Put them in fear, O Jehovah, that the nations may know themselves to be only men. Selah.

Complement    Chapter 1.2: Jehovah shall judge the people (Psalm 7)

§Unique   Introduction: O Jehovah, if I have done evil, let the enemy persecute me and tread down my life

¹O Jehovah my God, in you do I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me, ²lest he tears my soul like a lion tearing me in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

³O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands; ⁴if I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me (indeed, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy), ⁵let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it.

Yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

§Complement   Body: Jehovah shall judge the people; judge me according to my righteousness and my integrity

⁶Arise in your anger, O Jehovah; lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies, and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded. ⁷So shall the congregation of the people surround you: for their sakes therefore return on high.

⁸Jehovah shall judge the people;

judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

⁹Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tests the hearts and reins. ¹⁰My defense is of God, who delivers the upright in heart.

¹¹God judges the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. ¹²If he does not turn, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready. ¹³He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordains his arrows against the persecutors.

§Complement   Conclusion: The wicked travails with iniquity; his mischief shall return upon his own head

¹⁴Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and birthed falsehood. ¹⁵He made a pit, and dug it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.

¹⁶His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.

¹⁷I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the Name of Jehovah most high.

Complement    Chapter 1.3: God shall judge the people (Psalm 50)

§Unique   Introduction: Jehovah shall gather his saints together and the heavens shall declare his righteousness

¹The mighty God, even Jehovah, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down. ²Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

³Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence; a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. ⁴He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people, saying, ⁵“Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a Covenant with me by sacrifice.”

⁶And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God himself is the Judge. Selah.

§Complement   Body: God does not desire animals for sacrifice, but thanksgiving and obedience

⁷“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.

⁸I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. ⁹I will take no bull out of your house, nor male goats out of your folds: ¹⁰for every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. ¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. ¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world is mine, and everything in it.

¹³Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴Offer to God thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the most High; ¹⁵and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

¹⁶But to the wicked God says, “What have you to do to declare my Statutes, or that you should take my Covenant in your mouth; ¹⁷seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you? ¹⁸When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers. ¹⁹You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit. ²⁰You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

²¹You have done these things, and I kept silence. You thought that I was altogether one like yourself; but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

§Complement   Conclusion: Consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces and there is no one to save you

²²Now consider this, you that forget God:

lest I tear you in pieces, and there is no one to save you.

²³Whoso offers praise glorifies me; and to him that orders his conduct rightly will I show the salvation of God.”

 

 

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Opposite   Chapter 1.4: God is the Judge (Psalm 75)

¹To you, O God, do we give thanks; to you do we give thanks. For that your Name is near, your wondrous works declare.

²“When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

³The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I bear up its pillars. Selah.”

⁴I said to the fools, “Deal not foolishly”; and to the wicked, “Lift not up the horn; ⁵lift not up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck.” ⁶For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ⁷But God is the Judge: he puts down one, and sets up another. ⁸For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he pours out of the same; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

⁹But I will declare forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. ¹⁰All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Opposite   Chapter 1.5: God judges the judges (Psalm 82)

¹God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the judges, saying, ²“How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

³Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. ⁴Deliver the poor and needy; free them out of the hand of the wicked.

⁵They do not know; neither will they understand. They walk on in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are unstable.

⁶I have said, ‘You are mighty; and all of you are children of the most High’; ⁷but you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.”

⁸Arise, O God; judge the earth: for you shall inherit all nations.

 

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Complement   Part 2: Jehovah is our Deliverer

Unique   Chapter 2.1: Deliverance belongs to Jehovah (Psalm 3)

§Complement   Introduction: Many are those who rise up against me and deride me

¹Jehovah, how are they increased that trouble me!

²Many are they who rise up against me.

Many are they who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah.

§Complement   Body: I slept in peace and awake with the blessing of Jehovah

³But you, O Jehovah, are a shield for me; my glory, and the One who lifts up my head.

⁴I cried to Jehovah with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

⁵I laid down and slept;

I awoke: for Jehovah sustained me.

⁶I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

§Unique   Conclusion: Arise, O Jehovah; you have smitten all my enemies and broken their teeth

⁷Arise, O Jehovah; deliver me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone;

you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

⁸Deliverance belongs to Jehovah; your blessing is upon your people. Selah.

Complement    Chapter 2.2: God shall tread down our enemies (Psalm 60)

§Unique   Introduction: O God, you have made the earth to tremble and shake

¹O God, you have cast us off; you have scattered us; you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.

²You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it.

Heal the breaches thereof: for it shakes.

§Complement   Body: You have given a banner to those who fear you; save me and hear me

³You have shown your people hard things; you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

⁴You have given a banner to them that fear you, that it may be displayed because of the Truth. Selah.

⁵That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and hear me.

⁶God has spoken in his holiness, “I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. ⁷Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my Lawgiver.

⁸Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; Philistia, triumph because of me.”

§Complement   Conclusion: God will lead me into the strong city, and into Edom

⁹Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom?

¹⁰Will not you, O God, who had cast us off? And you, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

¹¹Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he shall tread down our enemies.

Complement    Chapter 2.3: God shall tread down our enemies (Psalm 108)

§Unique   Introduction: I will sing and give praise to God early with my psaltery and harp

¹O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

²Awake, psaltery and harp;

I myself will awake early.

§Complement   Body: Be exalted above the heavens, and save me with your right hand

³I will praise you, O Jehovah, among the people; and I will sing praises to you among the nations: ⁴for your mercy is great above the heavens, and your truth reaches to the clouds.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; and your glory above all the earth.

⁶That your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer me.

⁷God has spoken in his holiness, “I will rejoice; I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth. ⁸Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head; Judah is my Lawgiver;

⁹Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe; over Philistia will I triumph.”

§Complement   Conclusion: God will lead me into the strong city, and into Edom

¹⁰Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom?

¹¹Will not you, O God, who has cast us off? And will not you, O God, go forth with our armies?

¹²Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. Through God we shall do valiantly: for he shall tread down our enemies.

 

 

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Opposite   Chapter 2.4: God delivers the meek (Psalm 76)

¹In Judah is God known; his Name is great in Israel. ²His Tabernacle is also in Salem, and his dwelling place in Zion. ³There he broke the arrows of the bow, the shield, the sword, and the battle. Selah.

⁴You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. ⁵The stouthearted have been plundered; they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands. ⁶At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. ⁷You, even you, are to be feared; and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?

⁸You caused Judgment to be heard from Heaven; the earth feared, and was still, ⁹when God arose to Judgment, to deliver all the meek of the earth. Selah.

¹⁰Surely the wrath of man shall praise you; the remainder of wrath shall you restrain.

¹¹Vow, and pay to Jehovah your God. Let all that are round about him bring presents to him that should be feared. ¹²He shall cut off the spirit of princes; he is dreadful to the kings of the earth.

Opposite   Chapter 2.5: Jehovah delivers his anointed (Psalm 20)

¹Jehovah hear you in the day of trouble; the Name of the God of Jacob defend you, ²send you help from the Sanctuary, strengthen you out of Zion, ³remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice (Selah), ⁴grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your counsel.

⁵We will rejoice in your deliverance, and in the Name of our God will we set up our banners. Jehovah fulfill all your petitions.

⁶Now I know that Jehovah delivers his anointed; he will hear him from his holy Heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

⁷Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the Name of Jehovah our God. ⁸They are brought down and fallen; but we are risen, and stand upright.

⁹Save, Jehovah; let the king hear us when we call.

 

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