To the Preeminent Musician
To be played upon the Eight-Stringed Lyre
A Mizmor of David
Yasha! Come!
YAHAUAH,
Deliver me!
Behold the work of the destroyer:
For the set-apart
Are no more.
The kind and the merciful
Have failed.
Ended
Are the faithful
From among
The sons of A’dam.
Emptiness.
Falsehood.
Vanity.
They declare lies.
They threaten their neighbor.
With smooth, flattering lips,
Every man
Speaks deceit
To his companion.
In his heart resides evil inclination.
YAHUAH,
The Self-Existent One,
Shall hew into pieces
All lips that magnify themselves
With smoothness;
The mouth the promises
Haughty things
Shall be utterly consumed.
Who boast:
With speech,
We shall become mighty.
With language,
We shall prevail.
Against us,
Who shall be our master?
For violence and destruction,
Havoc and ruin
Against the poor and needy,
On account of the crying,
Groaning
And lamentation
Of the humble and wretched:
Now, will I arise.
Now, will I come on the scene.
The Self-Existent, Eternal One—
YAHUAH declares,
I will appoint Yeshua
To kindle the flames.
Words of the covenant,
The Torah,
Word of YAHUAH,
Pure,
Morally clean,
Refined as silver
In a furnace of earth,
Strained and purified
Seven times as much.
Thou, O, YAHUAH,
Self-Existent, Eternal One,
Guard
Preserve
Keep watch above
Those who live
During this period,
For as far as one
Can see or perceive,
To the edge of the horizon
And beyond.
On every side,
Lead away
The criminals,
The guilty and condemned,
Those rebels,
When worthlessness be exalted
By the sons of men.
Pamela Glasgow
The Psalm Project represents my desire for a deeper understanding of the Word of YAHUAH. It is not a mechanical translation, a one-word-for-word exchange from Hebrew to English. We have those. This is is a lyrical adaptation of the many possibilities hidden in the Hebrew, arranged with consideration for the poetic and musical intent of the original writer. I pray you are as enriched in the reading as I was in the transcribing.
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