Hebrew Names Version HNV
The Message Bible MSG
1 <<For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaf. A song.>> In Yehudah, God is known. His name is great in Yisra'el.
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God is well-known in Judah; in Israel, he's a household name.
2 His tent is also in Shalem; His dwelling-place in Tziyon.
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He keeps a house in Salem, his own suite of rooms in Zion.
3 There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, The shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.
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That's where, using arrows for kindling, he made a bonfire of weapons of war.
4 Glorious are you, and excellent, More than mountains of game.
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Oh, how bright you shine! Outshining their huge piles of loot!
5 Valiant men lie plundered, They have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
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The warriors were plundered and left there impotent. And now there's nothing to them, nothing to show for their swagger and threats.
6 At your rebuke, God of Ya`akov, Both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
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Your sudden roar, God of Jacob, knocked the wind out of horse and rider.
7 You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
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Fierce you are, and fearsome! Who can stand up to your rising anger?
8 You pronounced judgment from heaven. The eretz feared, and was silent,
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From heaven you thunder judgment; earth falls to her knees and holds her breath.
9 When God arose to judgment, To save all the afflicted ones of the eretz. Selah.
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God stands tall and makes things right, he saves all the wretched on earth.
10 Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
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Instead of smoldering rage - God-praise! All that sputtering rage - now a garland for God!
11 Make vows to the LORD your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
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Do for God what you said you'd do - he is, after all, your God. Let everyone in town bring offerings to the One Who Watches our every move.
12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the eretz.
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Nobody gets by with anything, no one plays fast and loose with him.
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