To the Preeminent Musician,
The Superintendent of Temple Services
A Mizmor of David
(Psalm 21)
YaHUWaH,
In Your splendor and strength
Melek, the King,
Will leap for joy!
In Your YESHUAH—
How You set at liberty,
How You enlarge the space
For the feet—
How, in this,
He will greatly dance
And make merry!
As a mark of Your covenant,
As a guarantee
Of the firmly fixed inheritance,
You bestowed upon Him
The object of His desire
And the ornament of His delight.
You have not kept back
Or withheld
His wages,
Nor the request of His lips.
Selah.
From ancient times,
You went in and out
Before Him.
You knelt and placed
A gift at His feet,
The favor of ALOHIM:
You have granted Him
All manner of prosperity and good.
You have prepared
A royal diadem
For His head,
Even a crown of purest gold.
He requested to exist,
And You gave it—
Part from the whole—
Of the inheritance
You bestowed
A length of days
To extend
As far as the eye
Can see or perceive,
To the edge of the horizon
And beyond,
Progressing in time and space
In perpetuity.
Great in magnitude,
Extensive in scope,
His splendor
And His honor
Exist in Your Yeshuah;
Behold, You have firmly fixed,
You have set in place,
The ornament of majesty
Over Him.
You have arranged in order,
You have stooped
To place a gift at His feet.
You have established Him
As a benediction of good,
As a treaty of peace,
In perpetuity,
From ancient times
Through the continuing future.
You set before Him
Joyful banquets
And loving pleasures.
You caused Him to rejoice
Before Your face.
For Melek, the King is secure.
He fears nothing for Himself,
Because He has placed
His confidence upon YaHUWaH,
The Self-Existent Eternal One
Doth bear the burden.
He abides
In the favor of ELYON.
He shall not totter
Or be shaken.
Indeed, the mountains
May move,
But He will not.
You will search out,
You will discover
All who oppose You—
The adversaries.
Your right shall reach out,
Shall lay hold
Upon Your haters.
You have appointed unto them
A fire-pot,
A furnace of Your fury.
Lightnings,
Burning destructions,
Shall overtake them
On the occasion
When anger rises hotly
In Your face—
O, YaHUWaH,
When He breathes heavily
In His wrath
Fire shall engulf them,
With burning flames
Shall they be consumed.
The result of their labors—
Their offspring—
Like a beast in the wilderness,
Shall wander,
Lost,
Upon ha’eretz, the earth;
The seed which they have sown
Shall You cause to perish
From among the children of A’dam.
For they pitched their tents
Against You;
They stretched out
Their encampment
Upon Your territory.
They computed corrupt plans;
Perverse are their designs—
Crafted and executed
With pernicious intent.
These shall not prevail.
When they array themselves
You shall grab them
By the neck
And turn them back.
You will ready Your bow,
You shall fix Your arrows
Upon the string.
You aim
Toward their faces.
Rise up,
O, YeHuWah!
Be exalted!
As we experience
Your firmly fixed pathway,
We shall rejoice!
We shall play
Upon musical instruments,
Yes, we shall stroll about singing
In praise
Of Your splendor
And Your strength.
We will loudly proclaim,
For Yours is the victory!
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 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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