Psalms
The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.
American Standard Version
Psalms 76
1For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song. In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel. 2In Salem also is his tabernacle, And his dwelling-place in Zion. 3There he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. [Selah 4Glorious art thou [and] excellent, From the mountains of prey. 5The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men of might have found their hands. 6At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. 7Thou, even thou, art to be feared; And who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry? 8Thou didst cause sentence to be heard from heaven; The earth feared, and was still, 9When God arose to judgment, To save all the meek of the earth. [Selah 10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee. 11Vow, and pay unto Jehovah your God: Let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. 12He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.
American Standard Version (1901). Copyright expired. Public domain.