These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

我从前与众人同往，用欢呼称赞的声音领他们到神的殿里，大家守节。我追想这些事，我的心极其悲伤。

我从前与众人同往，领他们到上帝的殿里，大家用欢呼称颂的声音守节；我追想这些事，我的心极其悲伤。

我从前与众人同往，领他们到神的殿里，大家用欢呼称颂的声音守节；我追想这些事，我的心极其悲伤。

从前我带领众人浩浩荡荡去上帝的殿，在欢呼、感恩声中一起过节。我回想这些事，心中无限忧伤。

我从前常常和群众同去，与他们进到神的殿里，在欢呼和称谢声中，大家守节。每逢想起这些事，我的心就感到难过。

从前我与众人同行，在欢呼和感谢的声音中带领他们到神的殿，与守节的群众在一起。我记起这些事，我的灵魂就极其悲伤。

我從前與眾人同往，用歡呼稱讚的聲音領他們到神的殿裏，大家守節。我追想這些事，我的心極其悲傷。

我從前與眾人同往，領他們到上帝的殿裏，大家用歡呼稱頌的聲音守節；我追想這些事，我的心極其悲傷。

我從前與眾人同往，領他們到神的殿裏，大家用歡呼稱頌的聲音守節；我追想這些事，我的心極其悲傷。

從前我帶領眾人浩浩蕩蕩去上帝的殿，在歡呼、感恩聲中一起過節。我回想這些事，心中無限憂傷。

我從前常常和群眾同去，與他們進到神的殿裡，在歡呼和稱謝聲中，大家守節。每逢想起這些事，我的心就感到難過。

我往往在貴顯羣中，一團熙熙攘攘的參拜者，用歡呼稱讚的聲音，行進到上帝殿裏：這些事我每逢追想，便傾瀉傷感來。

從前我與眾人同行，在歡呼和感謝的聲音中帶領他們到神的殿，與守節的群眾在一起。我記起這些事，我的靈魂就極其悲傷。

我昔與眾偕行、以歡頌之聲、引詣上帝室、而守節期、今追憶之、我心傷悲兮、

惟我在昔、與眾和會、忻喜鼓舞、徐行詣殿、以守節禮兮、今也不然、困苦難堪兮。

我在昔日與眾聚會、發聲歡呼、謳歌頌揚、偕眾同赴天主聖殿、謹守節禮、追憶此事、心極憂傷、

人問爾主安在兮。朝暮涕淚漣漣。以涕淚為飲食兮。吾主盍亦垂憐。

These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.

When I remember what has happened, I tell God all my troubles. I remember how I used to walk to the house of God. The Mighty One guarded my steps. We shouted with joy and praised God as we went along with the joyful crowd.

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.

My heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be: I walked among the crowds of worshipers, leading a great procession to the house of God, singing for joy and giving thanks amid the sound of a great celebration!

I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

I remember these things and pour out my soul within me. For I used to go over with the multitude and walk them to the house of God, With a voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude celebrating a festival.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

I remember this as I pour out my heart: how I walked with many, leading the festive procession to the house of God, with joyful and thankful shouts.

When I remember these[ things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

I was glad when they said to me,“ Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

Hannah answered,“ No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in Yahweh’s name.He gave to everyone of Israel, both man and woman, to everyone a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed- Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;with Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.Then on that day David first ordained to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of Asaph and his brothers.Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make what he has done known among the peoples.Sing to him. Sing praises to him. Tell of all his marvelous works.Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,you offspring of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.He is Yahweh our God. His judgments are in all the earth.Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,saying,“ I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,”when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,“ Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day.Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples.For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised. He also is to be feared above all gods.For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and gladness are in his place.Ascribe to Yahweh, you relatives of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength!Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Bring an offering, and come before him. Worship Yahweh in holy array.Tremble before him, all the earth. The world also is established that it can’t be moved.Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let them say among the nations,“ Yahweh reigns!”Let the sea roar, and its fullness! Let the field exult, and all that is in it!Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth.Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever.Say,“ Save us, God of our salvation! Gather us together and deliver us from the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise.”Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said,“ Amen,” and praised Yahweh.So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;and Obed- Edom with their brothers, sixty- eight; Obed- Edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be doorkeepers;and Zadok the priest, and his brothers the priests, before Yahweh’s tabernacle in the high place that was at Gibeon,to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in Yahweh’s law, which he commanded to Israel;and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his loving kindness endures forever;and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.All the people departed, each man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.

You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your gates.You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

On the twenty- third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

“ Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.Then I said,‘ I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’“ Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.“ But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief;So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.“ Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.“ Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.“ However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.

How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to Yahweh’s word.David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed- Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed- Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight- stringed lyre, to lead.Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the singing. He taught the singers, because he was skillful.Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed- Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed- Edom with joy.When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him.Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name.

We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.

“ But Abraham said,‘ Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

The whole assembly took counsel to keep another seven days, and they kept another seven days with gladness.For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.