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Friday, November 28, 2025

Jerusalem Bible Translation (1 June 1966) - Christ's College, Liverpool -- English adaptation of a 1956 French modern retranslation of entire Canon

 Psalm 99

God, Righteous and Holy King

Yahweh is King, the nations tremble;

he is enthroned on the cherubs,

earth quakes; Yahweh is great in Zion.


He is high over all nations;

may they praise your great and

terrible name, 'Holy is He' and mighty!


You are a King who loves justice,

insisting on honesty, justice, virtue,

as you have done for Jacob.


Let us extol Yahweh our God,

and worship at His footstool,

'Holy is He' !


Moses, Aaron one of his priests,

and Samuel his votary, all invoked

Yahweh: and He answered them.


He talked with them in the pillar of cloud;

they obeyed his decrees, the Law he gave them.


Yahweh our God You responded to them,

a God of forgiveness for them,

in spite of punishing their sins.


Extol Yahweh our God, 

worship at His holy mountain,

'Holy is Yahweh our God!'


[the general editor of The JERUSALEM
BIBLE (1966) -- published

by Doubleday & Company, Inc.


was Alexander Jones, L.S.S., S.T.L., I.C.B.

b. 1906, for many decades

a Lecturer at Christ's College

Liverpool, U.K.

passed  away to his heavenly 

reward in 1970]

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