תָּמִיד

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can’t see. Let their backs be continually bent.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth;

Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

So I will obey your law continually, forever and ever.

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.

Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Blessed is the man who always fears; but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.

You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.

It is a continual burnt offering which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

and Yahweh will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night, that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness. Violence and destruction is heard in her. Sickness and wounds are continually before me.

and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life.

For his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

You shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.

After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.

“ ‘ “They will set apart men of continual employment, who will pass through the land. Those who pass through will go with those who bury those who remain on the surface of the land, to cleanse it. After the end of seven months they will search.

Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.”

Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

The army was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through disobedience. It cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.