"*** PSALMS 60 ***" 
"The royal wedding song   1You are the most excellent of men O king . Your lips have been anointed with grace , therefore God has blessed you for ever .   2Gird on your sword O mighty one . Clothe yourself with splendour and"
"majesty .   3Ride forth victoriously on behalf of truth , humility and righteousness .   4Let your right hand do awesome deeds and nations fall beneath your feet .   5Your throne is a throne of God and shall endure forever .   6The royal sceptre of your kingdom will be justice , for you love righteousness and hate wickedness .   7Therefore God has set you above your fellow men and anointed you with oil ofgladness .    Your robes are fragrant with myrrh , aloes and cassia .   9The music of strings will make you glad in your palace adorned with ivory .  10Daughters of kings are among your maids"
"of honour and at your right hand is the royal bride , her gown interwoven with gold of Ophir .  11Hear O bride , the king is enthralled by your beauty . Honour him for he is your lord .  12Tyre shall bring you gifts . Men of wealth will seek your favour .  12Your sons will become princes throughout the land."  
"*** PSALMS 61 ***" 
"Shout for joy all you nations   1Clap your hands all you nations Shout to the Lord with cries of joy How awesome is Jehovah the Most High God , the greatKing over all the earth .   2He subdued nations under our feet and chose our inheritance for us , the pride of Israel"
"whom he loved .   3Sing praises to the Lord Sing a psalm of praise to our King Sing praises For Godis the King of all the earth."  
"*** PSALMS 62 ***" 
"Sheol awaits all men   1Hear this , all you who live in the world , both rich and poor , I will speak to you words of wisdom :   2Why should you fear when evil days arrive and wicked men surround you , men who trust in their wealth and boast of their riches?   3No man can prolong his life forever and not see Sheol . All know that the wise man and the foolish man both perish alike , and leave their wealth to others .   4Their innermost thoughts will"
"be their dwelling place for endless generations , though they named lands their own .   5For men do not endure , despite their riches . Like sheep they perish and are appointed for Sheol .   6Death is their shepherd . Down to Sheol they descend while their bodies decay in the grave , far from their mansions .   7But God will ransom my soul from Sheol . He will surely take me to himself .   8Therefore be not overawed when a man grows rich , when the splendour of his house increases . For he will carry nothing with him when he dies .   9His splendour will not descend with him . He will join his"
"fathers who never see the sun."  
"*** PSALMS 63 ***" 
"Blessed is he who reveres the Lord   1Blessed are you who revere the Lord and walk in his ways . You will eat the fruit of your labour . Blessings and prosperity shall be yours .   2Your wife will be like a fruitful tree within your house and your sons like olive shoots around your table."  
"*** PSALMS 64 ***" 
"A song sung by the Levites on  pilgrimages to the Temple   1O Lord , how beloved is your Temple . How my soul yearns for the courts of your holyhouse . My heart cries out for the living God.    Even the sparrow has found a nest for herself"
"near your altar O Lord , a place where she may raise her young .   3Happy are they who dwell in your house , ever singing your praise .   4Happy are they who have set their hearts on pilgrimage . As they pass through the Valley of Baca among pools from theautumn rains .    They go from strength to strength until each appears before the Lord in Zion .   6Better one day in your courts O Lord than a thousand days elsewhere .   7I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live among the tents of the wicked .   8For"
"Jehovah is a sun and a shield . He bestows favour and honour , and withholds no good thing from those who walk uprightly before him."  
"*** PSALMS 65 ***" 
"Clean hands and a pure heart required  to stand in the Temple   1Who are worthy to ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?   2They who have clean hands and a pure heart , who set their minds to truth .   3These will receive a blessing from the Lord."  
"*** PSALMS 66 ***" 
"A psalm for those who minister in the Temple   1Praise the Lord all you servants of Jehovah who minister by night in the house of theLord.    Lift up your"
"hands in the Sanctuary and praise him. May the maker of the heavens and earth bless you."  
"*** PSALMS 67 ***" 
"Our eyes look up to our Lord   1We lift up our eyes to him whose throne is in heaven .   2The eyes of a slave look to his master . The eyes of a maid to her mistress . But our eyes look to Jehovah our God , until he shows us mercy .   3Have mercy on us O Lord for we have endured much contempt . We have suffered much ridicule from the proud."  
"*** PSALMS 68 ***" 
"The great day of the Lord   1God is our refuge and our strength, our help in time of trouble.   2We will fear not, even though the"
"earth fail, even though the mountains fall into the sea and its waters roar andfoam.    The Lord Almighty is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress.   4See the works of the Lord, and the desolation he will bring on the earth.   5He will make war to cease on the earth. He will break the bow and shatter thespear and burn the shields with fire.   6Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among all nations on earth."  
"*** PSALMS 69 ***" 
"The Lord requires thanksgiving  as an offering   1The Mighty One, Jehovah the Lord, speaks and summons the earth, from the rising of the sun in the"
"east to its setting in the west.   2He is coming and will not be silent. A fire burns before him and around him a raging storm. He calls to the heavensand the earth that he may judge his people.    Jehovah says, Gather to me my faithful ones who made a covenant with me by sacrifice.   4Now hear O Israel, for I am your God and testify against you. Not for your sacrifices which are ever before me; for every animal of the forest is mineand the cattle on a thousand hills, and I know every bird for all the earth is mine.  Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?   6Rather I"
"require an offering of thanks- giving as your sacrifice, and that youfulfil your vows to the Most High God. Then when you call upon me in your day of trouble I will deliver you.   8To the wicked Jehovah says, What right have you to take my laws upon your lips,you who despise my commandments?    When you see a thief you join with him. You mix with adulterers. You use yourtongue for evil and deceit and even slander your own brother.    These things you have done and I have remained silent, but now I rebuke you to your face.   11Now hear this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to"
"pieces with none to rescue you. He who offers thanksgiving honours me, and prepares the way forme to show him my salvation."
"*** PSALMS 70 ***" 
"A plea to the Lord from the Levites   1O God , our forebears have told us what you did in days long ago , how you drove out the nations and planted our fathers . It was not their sword that won the land it was your right arm , for you loved them .   2And you are still our King and God who decrees victories for Israel , for we have pushed back enemies and trampled foes .   3But now O God you have rejected and humbled us . You no longer go out with our"
"armies . You have made us retreat before the enemy and they have plundered us .  4The nations around us scorn and deride Israel . Our disgrace is before us all day long .   5Yet we have not forgotten you or been false to your covenant . We have not raised our hands to a foreign god."  
"*** PSALMS 71 ***" 
"A warning to the wicked   1Rise up O Judge of the earth . Give the proud what they deserve .   2How long will the wicked be jubilant O Lord? They pour out arrogant words and are fullof boasting .    They slay the widow and foreigner . They murder the fatherless and say Jehovah does not see"
"4O fools , when will you become wise? Does he who formed the ear not hear? Does hewho made the eye not see?    Does he who chastises nations not punish? Does he who teaches man wisdom lackknowledge?    Blessed are those whom you discipline O Lord, for you grant them relief from days of trouble."  
"*** PSALMS 72 ***" 
"A psalm of Asaph who envied the wicked   1God is good to those who are pure in heart . But as for me my feet almost slipped . For I envied the wicked when I saw themprosper .    They have no pain . Their bodies are healthy and strong . They are free from the burdens common to man ."
"3Pride is their necklace , and they clothe themselves with injustice .   4Their eyes bulge with fatness and their callous hearts conceive sin .   5They scoff and speak with malice . Their mouths utter words against heaven and they gain possessions by falsehood .   6The people turn to them and praise them and give to them in abundance .   7This is what the wicked are like . Carefree they increase in wealth .   8I thought to myself , Surely I have kept my heart pure in vain , for day after day I suffer afflictions .   9When I tried to understand all this it was difficult for me , until I"
"entered the Sanctuary of God . Then I understood the final destiny of the wicked .   10God casts them down to ruin . Suddenly they are destroyed , completely swept away by terrors .   11O Lord , when my spirit was embittered I was senseless and ignorant , like a beast before you .   12Now I am always with you , and you lead me 13You guide me with your counsel , and afterward you will take me into your glory .   14Earth has nothing I desire . I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge."  
"*** PSALMS 73 ***" 
"The vine of Israel"
"1Hear us O Shepherd of Israel . Awaken your might and save us . Restore us O God and let your face shine upon us again .   2O Lord how long will your anger smoulder and you not heed the prayers of yourpeople? You have fed us with the bread of sorrow . You have made us drink tears by the bowlful . Our enemies mock us .    You brought a vine out of Egypt and drove out the nations and planted it . The vine took root and filled the land . The mountains were covered with its shade . It sent out boughs to the sea and branches as far as the Euphrates .   4But now you have broken down your wall so"
"that all who pass by pick its grapes . Boars from the forest ravage it and thecreatures of the field feed upon it .    Return to us O God Almighty . Watch over your vine."  
"*** PSALMS 74 ***" 
"Asaphs history of the unfaithfulness of Israel   1O my people , hear the words of my mouth . I will speak of things from long ago , the wonders our fathers spoke about .   2Let us not hide from our children the powerful deeds of Jehovah .   3He established the Law in Israel and commanded our forefathers to teach it totheir children , that they in turn would teach it to their children .  So they would"
"remember his deeds and keep hiscommandments and not be like their forefathers , a stubborn and rebellious generation whose hearts were disloyal toGod.    For our forefathers forgot the wonders he showed them in Egypt , where he guided them with a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night . Where he divided the sea and led them through .   6He split rocks in the desert and made water flow like a river , but they continued to rebel against him . 7Yet he commanded the skies above and rained down manna for the people to eat , grain from heaven . Men ate the bread of angels , all they could eat ."
"8Then they put the Most High to the test by demanding food they craved . So he rained down meat upon them , quail like the sands on the seashore . 9They ate until they had more than enough , but Gods anger rose against them and he put to death the sturdiest among them , cutting down the young men of Israel .   10Despite this they kept on sinning , so he ended their days in futility .   11Whenever God slew them , they quickly turned back to him again , but their hearts were not loyal , they were unfaithful to his covenant .   12Yet he was merciful . Time after time he restrained his anger . He"
"remembered they were only flesh . 13But again and again they put God to the test , not remembering his power and how he displayed hismiraculous signs in Egypt .    How he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink from their streams . How he sent swarms of flies that tormented them , and frogs that devastated them . How he gave their crops to the locust , and destroyed their vines and cattle with hail and bolts of lightning .   16Nor did he spare the people from death but sent a plague to strike down the firstborn of Egypt , the first fruits of manhood of the descendants of Ham ."
"17But his own people he led out through the desert like sheep , and the sea engulfed their enemies .   18This way he brought them to his holy land and drove out the nations before them . He allotted the tribes of Israel lands for aninheritance .    But again they rebelled against the Most High. They kept not his commandments . Like their fathers they were as faithless and unreliable as a faulty bow . They aroused his jealousy with idols .   20So he rejected Israel completely . He abandoned the Tabernacle and sent the Ark into captivity and gave his peopleover to the sword . Then he relented"
"and beat back their enemies , putting them to shame .    But he rejected the tribes of Joseph and chose the tribe of Judah , whom he loved , and built his sanctuary on the height ofMount Zion in Jerusalem .    He took David from tending sheep to be the shepherd of Israel , and David shepherded them with integrity of heart and skilful hands."  
"*** PSALMS 75 ***" 
"Those who trust in the Lord cannot be shaken   1Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion which cannot be shaken .   2As the mountains surround Jerusalem , so the Lord surrounds his people , both now and forever."