Psalm 3
Adapted from a Mizmor of David
When he bolted from before the face of Absalom, his son
YAHUAH mah-rabab tsar
O, Self-Existent One—
YAHUAH!
How my adversary has increased!
Like raindrops,
Accumulating,
Building,
Growing into a flood,
Multiplying into thousands, nay!
Ten thousands!
They pitch tents against me.
They rear up offenses.
They press me into a narrow place.
Affliction!
Anguish!
Tribulation!
I am shot through with arrows!
They crowd together,
Rank upon rank,
Plenteous in number—
Elders, captains, mighty ones—
They boast,
They publish reports,
They declare to my nephesh,
To my vitality,
To the living, breathing essence
Of my self:
There is no Yasha(Yeshua) in ALOHIM!
[Selah: A Dramatic Pause in the Music]
YAHUAH,
Shield of scaly crocodile hide,
The Defense and Splendor of Israel,
You exalted my head.
I proclaimed
The Self-Existent One,
The Eternal
YAHUAH
With my voice.
He heeded.
He answered.
He sang in response
From the Sacred Place,
His Set-Apart Mountain.
[Selah: A Dramatic Pause in the Music]
Like one ravished by a lover,
I cast myself down, exhausted;
I slept.
Startled, I woke
To keep watch.
YAHUAH supported me
When I wavered.
I will not dread,
Even if the thousands
Become ten thousands
And these multiply into millions,
Even if troops, nations, peoples,
Array themselves
To encircle my dwelling
Or encompass me about
Like an angry horde.
Arise, YAHUAH!
Confirm by decree,
Yasha!
Preserve,
Avenge,
Rescue.
ELOHAI,
Smite these murderers!
Wound my foes
Upon the jawbone,
Crush and destroy
The front teeth
Of the morally wrong,
The guilty and condemned.
YASHUAH!
Self-Existent One,
YAHUAH!
Upon the tribes of Israel
Your prosperity!
[Selah: A Dramatic Cessation of the Music]
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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