שׂוּם

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

If he set his heart on himself, if he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”

“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.”

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them.

Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

Righteousness goes before him, And prepares the way for his steps.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don’t hold regard for you before them.

I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.

I will also make his offspring endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, that they don’t turn again to cover the earth.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all of his possessions,

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.

Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.

The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.

Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

In that day he will cry out, saying, “I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing. You shall not make me ruler of the people.”

I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.