The next circle

True to my prior post on the second great circle, I will attempt a patterned translation of Psalms 3-5 then to follow, Psalms 6, 42, 86, and 143. These represent personal psalms, the personal encircled by the promise in the first great circle (1,2,149). In the following psalms, I use יְהוָה for the Name. 'The Name' does not work as vocative. Read aloud substituting Hashem or Adonai or O Lord / Lord / the Lord or whatever is your own practice.

Again there is deliberate play on the many and the one, who now takes on additional properties - beloved, righteous, reserved.

There are many verbal connections in the Psalms 3-5 with Psalms 1,2 and 149. I hope you can hear them in the English. They are in the Hebrew but not explicit with respect to sound in any translation I have yet seen. So in translation philosophies, I advocate a pattern matching approach.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from the face of Absalom his son.

יְהוָה, how many my straits!

Many rising against me

Many saying of my life

'There is no victory for him in God'

Selah

But you, יְהוָה, a shield about me

my glory, and raising my head

My voice, to יְהוָה I call

and he answers me

from the hill of his holiness

Selah

I lie down, and I sleep

I awake, for יְהוָה sustains me

I am not afraid of the many many people

surrounding, set against me

Arise, יְהוָה

save me, my God

for you strike all my enemies on the cheek

teeth of the many wicked broken

To יְהוָה is victory

To your people your blessing

Selah

For the leader with strings A Psalm of David

When I call answer me

my God my upright

In straits you have made room for me

Be compassionate and hear my prayer

My human child, how long will you insult my glory?

your loving on empty? your seeking a lie?

Selah

Now set down this: יְהוָה reserved

the beloved as his own

יְהוָה will hear when I call to him
Tremble and do not be missing the goal

speak with your heart

on your bed and be still

Selah

Offer offerings of righteousness

and trust in יְהוָה

Many say who will show us good?

Prove to us the light of your face יְהוָה!

You have put joy in my heart

more than when their grain

and their new wine increased

In peace as one I will lie down and sleep

for you יְהוָה in solitude in safety make me live

For the leader On the flutes A Psalm of David

To my words give ear יְהוָה

Discern my meditation

Listen to the voice of my cry
my king and my God

for to you I pray

יְהוָה, morning will hear my voice

Morning I will set forth to you

and I will be observant

For you are not a God of pleasure in wickedness

You do not entertain evil

Boasters have no station before your eyes

You hate all workers of trouble

You will destroy speakers of a lie

A man of blood and deceit you will abhor, יְהוָה

But I, in the greatness of your loving kindness
will enter your house

I will adore in your holy temple
in your fear
יְהוָה lead me in your righteousness

on account of my watchers
straight in my face be your way

For there is no stability in their mouth

their belly is a chasm

an open sepulcher their neck

their tongue deceives

Declare them guilty O God

let them lie by their devices

in their many faults banish them

for they rebelled against you

And they will rejoice

All those under your protection through the age

They will cry aloud and you will be cover to them

and they will exult in you

loving your name

For you will bless a righteous one יְהוָה

with a thorn of approval you will crown him