4Q85
Psalmsc
Language:
Hebrew
Date:
30-68 A.D.
Location:
Qumran Cave 4
Contents:
Psalms 16:6-10; 17:1; 18:1-13, 15-17, 31-35, 38-40 (Hebrew 18:1-14, 16-18, 32-36,
39-41); 27:12-14; 35:27-28; 37:18-19; 42:4 (Hebrew 42:5); 44:5, 7-8 (Hebrew 44:6,
8-9); 45:7-10 (Hebrew 45:8-11); 48:14 (Hebrew 48:15); 49:1-16 (Hebrew 49:1-17);
50:13-23; 51:1-3 (Hebrew 51:1-5); 52:3-9 (Hebrew 52:5-11); 53:1
Psalms
16
6 The lines have fallen
to me in pleasant places.
Yes,
I
have a good inheritance.
7 I will
bless
Yahweh, who has given me counsel.
Yes,
my heart instructs me in the night seasons.
8 I have
set
Yahweh always before me.
Because
he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad,
and my tongue rejoices.
My body
shall also dwell in safety.
10 For you will not
leave my soul in Sheol
neither
will you allow your holy one to see corruption.
[..]
Psalms
17
A
Prayer by David.
1 Hear,
Yahweh, my righteous plea;
Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
[..]
Psalms
18
For
the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the
words of this song and in the day
that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand
of Saul. He said,
1 I love you, Yahweh,
my strength.
2 Yahweh is my rock, my
fortress,
and my deliverer;
my
God, my rock, in whom I take refuge;
my
shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3 I call on Yahweh, who
is worthy to be praised;
and
I am saved from my enemies.
4 The cords of death
surrounded me.
The
floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
5 The cords of Sheol
were around me.
The
snares of death came on me.
6 In my distress I
called on Yahweh,
and
cried to my God.
He
heard my voice out of his temple.
My
cry before him came
into his ears.
7 Then the earth shook
and trembled.
The
foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken,
because
he was angry.
8 Smoke went out of
his nostrils.
Consuming
fire came out of his mouth.
Coals
were kindled by it.
9 He bowed the heavens
also, and came down.
Thick
darkness was under his feet.
10 He rode on a cherub,
and flew.
Yes,
he soared on the
wings of the wind.
11 He made darkness his
hiding place, his
pavilion around him,
darkness
of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
12 At the brightness
before him his
thick clouds passed,
hailstones
and coals of fire.
13 Yahweh also
thundered in the sky.
The
Most High uttered his voice:
hailstones
and coals of fire.
[..]
15 Then the channels of
waters appeared.
The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke,
Yahweh,
at
the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 He sent from on high.
He
took me.
He
drew me out of many waters.
17 He delivered me from
my strong enemy,
from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
[..]
31 For
who is God, except Yahweh?
Who is
a rock, besides our God,
32 the
God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
33 He
makes my feet like deer’s feet,
and
sets me on my high places.
34 He
teaches my hands to war,
so that
my arms bend
a bow of bronze.
35 You
have also given me the shield of your salvation.
Your right hand sustains me.
Your
gentleness has made me great.
[..]
38 I will
strike them
through, so that they will not be able to rise.
They
shall fall under my feet.
39 For you
have armed me
with strength to the battle.
You
have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 You
have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
that
I might cut off those who hate me.
Psalms
27
12 Don’t
deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
for
false
witnesses have risen up against me,
such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I
am still confident of this:
I
will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of
the living.
14 Wait
for Yahweh.
Be
strong, and let
your heart take courage.
Yes,
wait for Yahweh.
Psalms
28
By
David.
1 To
you, Yahweh, I call.
My
rock, don’t be deaf to me;
lest,
if you are silent to me,
I
would become like those who go down into
the pit.
2 Hear
the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you,
when
I lift up my hands toward
your Most Holy Place.
3 Don’t
draw me away with the wicked,
with
the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their
neighbors,
but
mischief is in their hearts.
4 Give them according to
their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings.
Give
them according to the operation of their hands.
Bring
back on them what they deserve.
5 Because
they don’t
respect the works of Yahweh,
nor
the operation of his hands,
he
will break them down and not build them up.
[..]
Psalms
35
27 Let
them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause.
Yes,
let them say continually, “Yahweh be magnified,
who
has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!”
28 My
tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
Psalms
37
18 Yahweh knows the
days of the perfect.
Their
inheritance shall be forever.
19 They shall not be
disappointed in the time of evil.
In
the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
[..]
Psalms
42
4 These
things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
how
I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house,
with
the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping
a holy day.
[..]
Psalms
44
5 Through
you, will we push down our adversaries.
Through
your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
[..]
7 But
you have saved us from our adversaries,
and
have shamed those who hate us.
8 In
God we have made our boast all day long,
we
will give thanks to your name forever. Selah
[..]
Psalms
45
7 You
have loved
righteousness, and hated wickedness.
Therefore
God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness
above your fellows.
8 All
your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia.
Out
of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you
glad.
9 Kings’
daughters are among your honorable women.
At
your right hand the queen stands in gold of
Ophir.
10 Listen,
daughter, consider, and
turn your ear.
Forget
your own people, and also your
father’s house.
[..]
Psalms
48
14 For
this God is our God forever and ever.
He
will be our guide even
to death.
Psalms
49
For
the Chief Musician.
A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
1 Hear this, all you
peoples.
Listen,
all you inhabitants of the world,
2 both low and high,
rich
and poor together.
3 My mouth will speak words of wisdom.
My
heart shall utter understanding.
4 I will incline my ear to a
proverb.
I
will open my riddle on the harp.
5 Why should I fear in
the days of evil,
when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
6 Those who trust in
their wealth,
and boast in the multitude of their riches—
7 none of them can by
any means redeem his brother,
nor
give God a ransom for him.
8 For the redemption of
their life is costly,
no
payment is ever enough,
9 that he should live
on forever,
that
he should not see corruption.
10 For he sees that wise
men die;
likewise the fool and the senseless perish,
and
leave their wealth to others.
11 Their inward thought
is that their houses will endure forever,
and their dwelling places to all generations.
They
name
their lands after themselves.
12 But man, despite his
riches, doesn’t endure understand.
He
is like the animals that perish.
13 This is the destiny
of those who are foolish,
and
of those who approve their sayings.
Selah.
14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol.
Death
shall be their shepherd.
The
upright shall have dominion over them in the morning.
Their
beauty shall decay in Sheol,
far from their mansion.
15 But God will redeem
my soul from the power of Sheol,
for
he will receive me.
Selah.
16 Don’t be afraid when
a man is made rich,
when
the
glory of his house is increased;
[..]
Psalms
50
13 Will
I eat the meat of bulls,
or
drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer
to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving.
Pay your vows to the Most High.
15 Call
on me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
16 But
to the wicked God says,
“What
right do you have to declare my statutes,
that
you have taken my covenant on your lips,
17 since you hate instruction,
and
throw my words behind you?
18 When you saw a thief,
you consented with him,
and
have participated with adulterers.
19 “You give your mouth
to evil.
Your
tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak
against your brother.
You
slander your own mother’s son.
21 You have done these
things, and I kept silent.
You
thought that I was just like you.
I will rebuke you, and accuse you
in front of your eyes.
22 “Now consider this, you who forget God,
lest
I tear you into pieces, and there be no one
to deliver.
23 Whoever offers the
sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me,
and
prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Psalms
51
For
the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him,
after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1 Have mercy on me,
God, according to your loving kindness.
According
to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out
my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly
from my iniquity.
Cleanse me
from my sin.
3 For I know my
transgressions.
My
sin is constantly before me.
[..]
Psalms
52
3 You
love evil more than good,
lying
rather than speaking the truth.
Selah.
4 You
love all devouring words,
you
deceitful tongue.
5 God will likewise
destroy you forever.
He
will take you up,
and pluck you out of your tent,
and
root you out of the land of the living.
Selah.
6 The righteous also will see it, and fear,
and
laugh at him, saying,
7 “Behold, this is the
man who didn’t make God his strength,
but
trusted in the abundance of his riches,
and
strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
8 But as for me, I am
like a green olive tree in God’s house.
I
trust in God’s loving kindness forever and
ever.
9 And I will give you
thanks forever, because you have done it.
I will hope in your name, for it is good,
in
the presence of your saints saint.
Psalms
53
For
the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Mahalath.” A contemplation by David.