Thanksgiving for God’s Future Help

¹ For the music director, according to Do Not Destroy. A psalm of Asaph. A song.¹ We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, and your name is near. Your wonderful deeds are told.²

1. The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
2. Hebrew “They tell your wonderful deeds”

² “I will indeed set an appointed time; I will judge fairly.¹

1. Hebrew “I, I will judge” might be emphatic

³ The earth and all its inhabitants are shaking;¹ I steady² its columns. Selah

1. Or “melting away”
2. Hebrew “I, I steady” might be emphatic

⁴ I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast!’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn!

⁵ Do not lift up high your¹ horn. Do not speak with ⌞arrogant pride⌟.’ ”²

1. Plural
2. Hebrew “an unrestrained neck”

⁶ For it is not from the east or the west and not from the south¹ that lifting up comes,

1. Hebrew “wilderness”

⁷ rather God is the judge; one he brings low, and another he lifts up.

⁸ For there is a cup in the hand of Yahweh with¹ wine that foams, fully mixed, and he pours out from this. Surely all the wicked of the land ⌞will quaff it down to its dregs⌟.²

1. Hebrew “and”
2. Literally “they will drain, they will drink its dregs”

⁹ But as for me, I will proclaim forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰ “And all the horns of the wicked I will cut off. The horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”