⁴The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
⁶for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.

⁴He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the LORD has them in derision.
⁵Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
⁶"I have set my king on Zion,
my holy hill."

⁷I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me,
"You are my son, today I have begotten you.
⁸Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
⁹You shall break them with a rod of iron,
and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."

¹⁰Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
¹¹Serve the LORD with fear,
with trembling ¹²kiss his feet,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way;
for his wrath is quickly kindled.

Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

³But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.

⁴I cry aloud to the LORD,
and he answers me from his holy hill. [Selah]

⁵I lie down and sleep; I wake again,
for the LORD sustains me.
⁶I am not afraid of ten thousands of people
who have set themselves against me round about.

⁷Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God!
For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek,
thou dost break the teeth of the wicked.

⁸Deliverance belongs to the Lord;
thy blessing be upon thy people!

²O men, how long shall my honor suffer shame?
How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies? [Selah]
³But know that the LORD has set apart the godly for himself;
the LORD hears when I call to him.

⁴Be angry, but sin not;
commune with your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. [Selah]
⁵Offer right sacrifices,
and put your trust in the LORD.

⁶There are many who say,
"O that we might see some good!
Lift up O LORD,
the light of thy countenance upon us!"
⁷Thou hast put more joy in my heart
than they have when their grain and wine abound.

⁸In peace I will both lie down and sleep;
for thou alone, O Lord, makest me dwell in safety.

⁴For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil may not sojourn with thee.
⁵The boastful may not stand before thy eyes;
thou hatest all evildoers.
⁶Thou destroyest those who speak lies;
the LORD abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.

⁷But I through the abundance of thy steadfast love will enter thy house,
I will worship toward thy holy temple in the fear of thee.
⁸Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of my enemies;
make thy way straight before me.

⁹For there is no truth in their mouth;
their heart is destruction,
their throat is an open sepulchre,
they flatter with their tongue.
¹⁰Make them bear their guilt, O God;
let them fall by their own counsels;
because of their many transgressions cast them out,
for they have rebelled against thee.

¹¹But let all who take refuge in thee rejoice,
let them ever sing for joy;
and do thou defend them,
that those who love thy name may exult in thee.
¹²But thou dost bless the righteous, O Lord;
thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield.

⁴Turn, O LORD, save my life;
deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.
⁵For in death there is no remembrance of thee;
in Sheol who can give thee praise?

⁶I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷My eye wastes away because of grief,
it grows weak because of all my foes.

⁸Depart from me, all you workers of evil;
for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
⁹The LORD has heard my supplication;
the LORD accepts my prayer.
¹⁰All my enemies shall be ashamed and sorely troubled;
they shall turn back, and be put to shame in a moment.

³O LORD my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,
⁴if I have requited my friend with evil
or plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵let the enemy pursue me and overtake me,
and let him trample my life to the ground,
and lay my soul in the dust. [Selah]

⁶Arise, O LORD, in thy anger,
lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies;
awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.
⁷Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee;
and over it take thy seat on high.
⁸The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD,
according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish thou the righteous,
thou who triest the minds and hearts,
thou righteous God.

¹⁰My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹God is a righteous judge,
and a God who has indignation every day.

¹²If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
he has bent and strung his bow;
¹³he has prepared his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴Behold, the wicked man conceives evil,
and is pregnant with mischief, and brings forth lies.
¹⁵He makes a pit, digging it out,
and falls into the hole which he has made.
¹⁶His mischief returns upon his own head,
and on his own pate his violence descends.

¹⁷I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness,
and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord most High.

Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted
²by the mouth of babes and infants,
thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes,
to still the enemy and the avenger.

³When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
⁴what is man that thou art mindful of him,
and the son of man that thou dost care for him?
⁵Yet thou hast made him little less than God,
and dost crown him with glory and honor.
⁶Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands;
thou hast put all things under his feet,
⁷all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field,
⁸the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the sea.

⁹O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth.

³When my enemies turned back,
they stumbled and perished before thee.
⁴For thou hast maintained my just cause;
thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.
⁵Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked;
thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
⁶The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins;
their cities thou hast rooted out;
the very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the LORD sits enthroned for ever,
he has established his throne for judgment;
⁸and he judges the world with righteousness,
he judges the peoples with equity.

⁹The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a stronghold in times of trouble.
¹⁰And those who know thy name put their trust in thee,
for thou, O LORD, hast not forsaken those who seek thee.

¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion!
Tell among the peoples his deeds!
¹²For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³Be gracious to me, O LORD!
Behold what I suffer from those who hate me,
O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴that I may recount all thy praises,
that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in thy deliverance.

¹⁵The nations have sunk in the pit which they made;
in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught.
¹⁶The LORD has made himself known, he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. [Higgaion. Selah]

¹⁷The wicked shall depart to Sheol,
all the nations that forget God.
¹⁸For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

¹⁹Arise, O LORD! Let not man prevail;
let the nations be judged before thee!
²⁰Put them in fear, O Lord!
Let the nations know that they are but men!

³For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart,
and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.
⁴In the pride of his countenance the wicked does not seek him;
all his thoughts are, "There is no God."

⁵His ways prosper at all times;
thy judgments are on high, out of his sight;
as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
⁶He thinks in his heart, "I shall not be moved;
throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity."

⁷His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
⁸He sits in ambush in the villages;
in hiding places he murders the innocent.

His eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,
⁹he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert;
he lurks that he may seize the poor,
he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

¹⁰The hapless is crushed,
sinks down, and falls by his might.
¹¹He thinks in his heart, "God has forgotten,
he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

¹²Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thy hand;
forget not the afflicted.
¹³Why does the wicked renounce God,
and say in his heart, "Thou wilt not call to account"?

¹⁴Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation,
that thou mayest take it into thy hands;
the hapless commits himself to thee;
thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
¹⁶The LORD is king for ever and ever;
the nations shall perish from his land.

¹⁷O LORD, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek;
thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear
¹⁸to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

⁴The LORD is in his holy temple,
the LORD's throne is in heaven;
his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.
⁵The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked,
and his soul hates him that loves violence.
⁶On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and brimstone;
a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
⁷For the Lord is righteous, he loves righteous deeds;
the upright shall behold his face.

³May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes great boasts,
⁴those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail,
our lips are with us; who is our master?"

⁵"Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
I will now arise," says the LORD;
"I will place him in the safety for which he longs."
⁶The promises of the LORD are promises that are pure,
silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

⁷Do thou, O LORD, protect us,
guard us ever from this generation.
⁸On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

³Consider and answer me, O LORD my God;
lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
⁴lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him";
lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

⁵But I have trusted in thy steadfast love;
my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
⁶I will sing to the Lord,
Because he has dealt bountifully with me.

²The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
to see if there are any that act wisely, that seek after God.

³They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt;
there is none that does good, no, not one.

⁴Have they no knowledge,
all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and do not call upon the LORD?

⁵There they shall be in great terror,
for God is with the generation of the righteous.
⁶You would confound the plans of the poor,
but the LORD is his refuge.

⁷O that deliverance for Israel would come out of Zion!
When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people,
Jacob shall rejoice, Israel shall be glad.

²He who walks blamelessly,
and does what is right, and speaks truth from his heart;
³who does not slander with his tongue,
and does no evil to his friend,
nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
⁴in whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
but who honors those who fear the LORD;
who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
⁵who does not put out his money at interest,
and does not take a bribe against the innocent.

He who does these things shall never be moved.

³As for the saints in the land,
they are the noble, in whom is all my delight.

⁴Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows;
their libations of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.

⁵The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup;
thou holdest my lot.
⁶The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
yea, I have a goodly heritage.
⁷I bless the LORD who gives me counsel;
in the night also my heart instructs me.
⁸I keep the LORD always before me;
because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices;
my body also dwells secure.
¹⁰For thou dost not give me up to Sheol,
or let thy godly one see the Pit.

¹¹Thou dost show me the path of life;
in thy presence there is fulness of joy,
in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

³If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night,
if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me;
my mouth does not transgress.
⁴With regard to the works of men,
by the word of thy lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.
⁵My steps have held fast to thy paths,
my feet have not slipped.

⁶I call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me,
O God; incline thy ear to me, hear my words.
⁷Wondrously show thy steadfast love,
O saviour of those who seek refuge
from their adversaries at thy right hand.

⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye;
hide me in the shadow of thy wings,
⁹from the wicked who despoil me,
my deadly enemies who surround me.

¹⁰They close their hearts to pity;
with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
¹¹They track me down; now they surround me;
they set their eyes to cast me to the ground.
¹²They are like a lion eager to tear,
as a young lion lurking in ambush.

¹³Arise, O LORD! confront them, overthrow them!
Deliver my life from the wicked by thy sword,
¹⁴from men by thy hand, O LORD,
from men whose portion in life is of the world.
May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them;
may their children have more than enough;
may they leave something over to their babes.

¹⁵As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness;
when I awake, I shall be satisfied with beholding thy form.

⁴The cords of death encompassed me,
the torrents of perdition assailed me;
⁵the cords of Sheol entangled me,
the snares of death confronted me.

⁶In my distress I called upon the LORD;
to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
and my cry to him reached his ears.

⁷Then the earth reeled and rocked;
the foundations also of the mountains trembled
and quaked, because he was angry.
⁸Smoke went up from his nostrils,
and devouring fire from his mouth;
glowing coals flamed forth from him.
⁹He bowed the heavens, and came down;
thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰He rode on a cherub, and flew;
he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.
¹¹He made darkness his covering around him,
his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
¹²Out of the brightness before him there broke through his clouds
hailstones and coals of fire.
¹³The LORD also thundered in the heavens,
and the Most High uttered his voice,
hailstones and coals of fire.
¹⁴And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
¹⁵Then the channels of the sea were seen,
and the foundations of the world were laid bare,
at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

¹⁶He reached from on high, he took me,
he drew me out of many waters.
¹⁷He delivered me from my strong enemy,
and from those who hated me;
for they were too mighty for me.
¹⁸They came upon me in the day of my calamity;
but the LORD was my stay.
¹⁹He brought me forth into a broad place;
he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness;
according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
²¹For I have kept the ways of the LORD,
and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²²For all his ordinances were before me,
and his statutes I did not put away from me.
²³I was blameless before him,
and I kept myself from guilt.
²⁴Therefore the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

²⁵With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal;
with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;
²⁶with the pure thou dost show thyself pure;
and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
²⁷For thou dost deliver a humble people;
but the haughty eyes thou dost bring down.
²⁸Yea, thou dost light my lamp;
the LORD my God lightens my darkness.
²⁹Yea, by thee I can crush a troop;
and by my God I can leap over a wall.
³⁰This God - his way is perfect;
the promise of the LORD proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

³¹For who is God, but the LORD?
And who is a rock, except our God? -
³²the God who girded me with strength,
and made my way safe.
³³He made my feet like hinds' feet,
and set me secure on the heights.
³⁴He trains my hands for war,
so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
³⁵Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation,
and thy right hand supported me, and thy help made me great.
³⁶Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me,
and my feet did not slip.
³⁷I pursued my enemies and overtook them;
and did not turn back till they were consumed.
³⁸I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise;
they fell under my feet.
³⁹For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle;
thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
⁴⁰Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me,
and those who hated me I destroyed.
⁴¹They cried for help, but there was none to save,
they cried to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
⁴²I beat them fine as dust before the wind;
I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

⁴³Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples;
thou didst make me the head of the nations;
people whom I had not known served me.
⁴⁴As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;
foreigners came cringing to me.
⁴⁵Foreigners lost heart,
and came trembling out of their fastnesses.

⁴⁶The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock,
and exalted be the God of my salvation,
⁴⁷the God who gave me vengeance
and subdued peoples under me;
⁴⁸who delivered me from my enemies;
yea, thou didst exalt me above my adversaries;
thou didst deliver me from men of violence.

⁴⁹For this I will extol thee, O LORD, among the nations,
and sing praises to thy name.
⁵⁰Great triumphs he gives to his king,
and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
to David and his descendents for ever.

In them he has set a tent for the sun,
⁵which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
and like a strong man runs its course with joy.
⁶Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
and its circuit to the end of them;
and there is nothing hid from its heat.

⁷The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul;
the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
⁸the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes;
⁹the fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever;
the ordinances of the LORD are true, and righteous altogether.
¹⁰More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

¹¹Moreover by them is thy servant warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.
¹²But who can discern his errors?
Clear thou me from hidden faults.
¹³Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
let them not have dominion over me!
Then I shall be blameless,
and innocent of great transgression.

¹⁴Let the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD,
my rock and my redeemer.

⁴May he grant you your heart's desire,
and fulfil all your plans!
⁵May we shout for joy over your victory,
and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the LORD fulfil all your petitions!

⁶Now I know that the LORD will help his anointed;
he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand.
⁷Some boast of chariots, and some of horses;
but we boast of the name of the LORD our God.
⁸They will collapse and fall;
but we shall rise and stand upright.

⁹Give victory to the king, O Lord;
answer us when we call.

⁴He asked life of thee; thou gavest it to him,
length of days for ever and ever.
⁵His glory is great through thy help;
splendor and majesty thou dost bestow upon him.
⁶Yea, thou dost make him most blessed for ever;
thou dost make him glad with the joy of thy presence.
⁷For the king trusts in the LORD;
and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.

⁸Your hand will find out all your enemies;
your right hand will find out those who hate you.
⁹You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear.
The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath; and fire will consume them.
¹⁰You will destroy their offspring from the earth,
and their children from among the sons of men.
¹¹If they plan evil against you,
if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
¹²For you will put them to flight;
you will aim at their faces with your bows.

¹³Be exalted, O Lord, in thy strength!
We will sing and praise thy power.

³Yet thou art holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.

⁴In thee our fathers trusted;
they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
⁵To thee they cried, and were saved;
n thee they trusted, and were not disappointed.

⁶But I am a worm, and no man;
scorned by men, and despised by the people.
⁷All who see me mock at me,
they make mouths at me, they wag their heads;
⁸"He committed his cause to the LORD;
let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!"

⁹Yet thou art he who took me from the womb;
thou didst keep me safe upon my mother's breasts.
¹⁰Upon thee was I cast from my birth,
and since my mother bore me thou hast been my God.
¹¹Be not far from me,
for trouble is near and there is none to help.

¹²Many bulls encompass me,
strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
¹³they open wide their mouths at me,
like a ravening and roaring lion.
¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax, it is melted within my breast;
¹⁵my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶Yea, dogs are round about me;
a company of evildoers encircle me;
they have pierced my hands and feet -
¹⁷I can count all my bones -
they stare and gloat over me;
¹⁸they divide my garments among them,
and for my raiment they cast lots.
¹⁹But thou, O LORD, be not far off!
O thou my help, hasten to my aid!
²⁰Deliver my soul from the sword,
my life from the power of the dog!
²¹Save me from the mouth of the lion,
my afflicted soul from the horns of the wild oxen!

²²I will tell of thy name to my brethren;
in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee:
²³You who fear the LORD, praise him!
all you sons of Jacob, glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel!
²⁴For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
and he has not hid his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.

²⁵From thee comes my praise in the great congregation;
my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
²⁶The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the LORD!
May your hearts live for ever!

²⁷All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD;
and all the families of the nations shall worship before him.
²⁸For dominion belongs to the LORD,
and he rules over the nations.

²⁹Yea, to him shall all the proud of the earth bow down;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
and he who cannot keep himself alive.
³⁰Posterity shall serve him;
men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
³¹and proclaim his deliverance to a people unborn,
that he has wrought it.

⁴Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil;
for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

⁵Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows.
⁶Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;
and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

³Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD?
And who shall stand in his holy place?
⁴He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully.
⁵He will receive blessing from the LORD,
and vindication from the God of his salvation.
⁶Such is the generation of those who seek him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob. [Selah]

⁷Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
⁸Who is the King of glory?
The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle!
⁹Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
that the King of glory may come in.
¹⁰Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory.

⁴Make me to know thy ways, O LORD;
teach me thy paths.
⁵Lead me in thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation;
for thee I wait all the day long.

⁶Be mindful of thy mercy, O LORD,
and of thy steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
⁷Remember not the sins of my youth, or my transgressions;
according to thy steadfast love remember me, for thy goodness' sake, O LORD!

⁸Good and upright is the LORD;
therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
⁹He leads the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble his way.
¹⁰All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness,
for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹For thy name's sake, O LORD,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
¹²Who is the man that fears the LORD?
Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.

¹³He himself shall abide in prosperity,
and his children shall possess the land.
¹⁴The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him,
and he makes known to them his covenant.
¹⁵My eyes are ever toward the LORD,
for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

¹⁶Turn thou to me, and be gracious to me;
for I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷Relieve the troubles of my heart,
and bring me out of my distresses.
¹⁸Consider my affliction and my trouble,
and forgive all my sins.

¹⁹Consider how many are my foes,
and with what violent hatred they hate me.
²⁰Oh guard my life, and deliver me;
let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
²¹May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
for I wait for thee.

²²Redeem Israel, O God,
out of all his troubles.

⁴I do not sit with false men,
nor do I consort with dissemblers;
⁵I hate the company of evildoers,
and I will not sit with the wicked.

⁶I wash my hands in innocence,
and go about thy altar, O LORD,
⁷singing aloud a song of thanksgiving,
and telling all thy wondrous deeds.

⁸O LORD, I love the habitation of thy house,
and the place where thy glory dwells.
⁹Sweep me not away with sinners,
nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
¹⁰men in whose hands are evil devices,
and whose right hands are full of bribes.

¹¹But as for me, I walk in my integrity;
redeem me, and be gracious to me.
¹²My foot stands on level ground;
in the great congregation I will bless the Lord.

²When evildoers assail me, uttering slanders against me,
my adversaries and foes, they shall stumble and fall.

³Though a host encamp against me, my heart shall not fear;
though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

⁴One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after;
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

⁵For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent, he will set me high upon a rock.

⁶And now my head shall be lifted up
above my enemies round about me;
and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the LORD.

⁷Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud,
be gracious to me and answer me!
⁸Thou hast said, "Seek ye my face."
My heart says to thee, "Thy face, LORD, do I seek."
⁹Hide not thy face from me.

Turn not thy servant away in anger,
thou who hast been my help.
Cast me not off, forsake me not, O God of my salvation!
¹⁰For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
but the LORD will take me up.

¹¹Teach me thy way, O LORD;
and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.
¹²Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence.

¹³I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!
¹⁴Wait for the Lord;
Be strong, and let your heart take courage;
yea, wait for the Lord!

³Take me not off with the wicked, with those who are workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors, while mischief is in their hearts.
⁴Requite them according to their work, and according to the evil of their deeds;
requite them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.
⁵Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, or the work of his hands,
he will break them down and build them up no more.

⁶Blessed be the LORD!
for he has heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts;
so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

⁸The LORD is the strength of his people,
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
⁹O save thy people, and bless thy heritage;
be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever.

³The voice of the LORD is upon the waters;
the God of glory thunders, the LORD, upon many waters.
⁴The voice of the LORD is powerful,
the voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

⁵The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars,
the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,
and Si'rion like a young wild ox.

⁷The voice of the LORD
flashes forth flames of fire.
⁸The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness,
the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹The voice of the LORD makes the oaks to whirl,
and strips the forests bare; and in his temple all cry, "Glory!"

¹⁰The LORD sits enthroned over the flood;
the LORD sits enthroned as king for ever.
¹¹May the Lord give strength to his people!
May the Lord bless his people with peace!

⁴Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints,
and give thanks to his holy name.
⁵For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
⁶As for me, I said in my prosperity,
"I shall never be moved."
⁷By thy favor, O LORD, thou hadst established me as a strong mountain;
thou didst hide thy face, I was dismayed.

⁸To thee, O LORD, I cried;
and to the LORD I made supplication:
⁹"What profit is there in my death,
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise thee?
Will it tell of thy faithfulness?
¹⁰Hear, O LORD, and be gracious to me!
O LORD, be thou my helper!"

¹¹Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing;
thou hast loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,
¹²that my soul may praise thee and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.

³Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress;
for thy name's sake lead me and guide me,
⁴take me out of the net which is hidden for me,
for thou art my refuge.
⁵Into thy hand I commit my spirit;
thou hast redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

⁶Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols;
but I trust in the LORD.
⁷I will rejoice and be glad for thy steadfast love,
because thou hast seen my affliction,
thou hast taken heed of my adversities,
⁸and hast not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
thou hast set my feet in a broad place.

⁹Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye is wasted from grief, my soul and my body also.
¹⁰For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.

¹¹I am the scorn of all my adversaries,
a horror to my neighbors,
an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street flee from me.
¹²I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
I have become like a broken vessel.
¹³Yea, I hear the whispering of many - terror on every side!
- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

¹⁴But I trust in thee, O LORD,
I say, "Thou art my God."
¹⁵My times are in thy hand;
deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!
¹⁶Let thy face shine on thy servant;
save me in thy steadfast love!
¹⁷Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call on thee;
let the wicked be put to shame, let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
¹⁸Let the lying lips be dumb,
which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

¹⁹O how abundant is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee,
and wrought for those who take refuge in thee, in the sight of the sons of men!
²⁰In the covert of thy presence thou hidest them from the plots of men;
thou holdest them safe under thy shelter from the strife of tongues.

²¹Blessed be the LORD,
for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
when I was beset as in a besieged city.
²²I had said in my alarm, "I am driven far from thy sight."
But thou didst hear my supplications, when I cried to thee for help.

²³Love the LORD, all you his saints!
The LORD preserves the faithful,
but abundantly requites him who acts haughtily.
²⁴Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the Lord!

³When I declared not my sin,
my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.
⁴For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. [Selah]

⁵I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity;
I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD";
then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. [Selah]

⁶Therefore let every one who is godly offer prayer to thee;
at a time of distress, in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
⁷Thou art a hiding place for me, thou preservest me from trouble;
thou dost encompass me with deliverance. [Selah]

⁸I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
⁹Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle, else it will not keep with you.

¹⁰Many are the pangs of the wicked;
but steadfast love surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
¹¹Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

⁴For the word of the LORD is upright;
and all his work is done in faithfulness.
⁵He loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD.

⁶By the word of the LORD the heavens were made,
and all their host by the breath of his mouth.
⁷He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
he put the deeps in storehouses.

⁸Let all the earth fear the LORD,
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
⁹For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood forth.

¹⁰The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought;
he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
¹¹The counsel of the LORD stands for ever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

¹³The LORD looks down from heaven,
he sees all the sons of men;
¹⁴from where he sits enthroned he looks forth on all the inhabitants of the earth,
¹⁵he who fashions the hearts of them all, and observes all their deeds.
¹⁶A king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
¹⁷The war horse is a vain hope for victory,
and by its great might it cannot save.

¹⁸Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his steadfast love,
¹⁹that he may deliver their soul from death,
and keep them alive in famine.

²⁰Our soul waits for the LORD;
he is our help and shield.
²¹Yea, our heart is glad in him,
because we trust in his holy name.
²²Let thy steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
even as we hope in thee.

⁴I sought the LORD, and he answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
⁵Look to him, and be radiant;
so your faces shall never be ashamed.
⁶This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
and delivers them.
⁸O taste and see that the LORD is good!
Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
⁹O fear the LORD, you his saints,
for those who fear him have no want!
¹⁰The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

¹¹Come, O sons, listen to me,
I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
¹²What man is there who desires life,
and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?
¹³Keep your tongue from evil,
and your lips from speaking deceit.
¹⁴Depart from evil, and do good;
seek peace, and pursue it.

¹⁵The eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous,
and his ears toward their cry.
¹⁶The face of the LORD is against evildoers,
to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
¹⁷When the righteous cry for help, the LORD hears,
and delivers them out of all their troubles.
¹⁸The LORD is near to the brokenhearted,
and saves the crushed in spirit.

¹⁹Many are the afflictions of the righteous;
but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
²⁰He keeps all his bones;
not one of them is broken.
²¹Evil shall slay the wicked;
and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
²²The Lord redeems the life of his servants;
none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

⁴Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life!
Let them be turned back and confounded who devise evil against me!
⁵Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the LORD driving them on!
⁶Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!

⁷For without cause they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug a pit for my life.
⁸Let ruin come upon them unawares!
And let the net which they hid ensnare them;
let them fall therein to ruin!

⁹Then my soul shall rejoice in the LORD,
exulting in his deliverance.
¹⁰All my bones shall say, "O LORD, who is like thee,
thou who deliverest the weak from him who is too strong for him,
the weak and needy from him who despoils him?"

¹¹Malicious witnesses rise up;
they ask me of things that I know not.
¹²They requite me evil for good;
my soul is forlorn.
¹³But I, when they were sick -I wore sackcloth, I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed on my bosom,
¹⁴as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
I went about as one who laments his mother, bowed down and in mourning.

¹⁵But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me;
cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing;
¹⁶they impiously mocked more and more,
gnashing at me with their teeth.

¹⁷How long, O LORD, wilt thou look on?
Rescue me from their ravages, my life from the lions!
¹⁸Then I will thank thee in the great congregation;
in the mighty throng I will praise thee.

¹⁹Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes,
and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
²⁰For they do not speak peace,
but against those who are quiet in the land they conceive words of deceit.
²¹They open wide their mouths against me;
they say, "Aha, Aha! our eyes have seen it!"

²²Thou hast seen, O LORD; be not silent!
O Lord, be not far from me!
²³Bestir thyself, and awake for my right,
for my cause, my God and my Lord!
²⁴Vindicate me, O LORD, my God, according to thy righteousness;
and let them not rejoice over me!
²⁵Let them not say to themselves, "Aha, we have our heart's desire!"
Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."

²⁶Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me!

²⁷Let those who desire my vindication shout for joy and be glad,
and say evermore, "Great is the LORD, who delights in the welfare of his servant!"
²⁸Then my tongue shall tell of thy righteousness
and of thy praise all the day long.

⁵Thy steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens,
thy faithfulness to the clouds.
⁶Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God,
thy judgments are like the great deep;
man and beast thou savest, O LORD.

⁷How precious is thy steadfast love, O God!
The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings.
⁸They feast on the abundance of thy house,
and thou givest them drink from the river of thy delights.
⁹For with thee is the fountain of life;
in thy light do we see light.

¹⁰O continue thy steadfast love to those who know thee,
and thy salvation to the upright of heart!
¹¹Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me,
nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
¹²There the evil doers lie prostrate,
they are thrust down, unable to rise.

³Trust in the LORD, and do good;
so you will dwell in the land, and enjoy security.
⁴Take delight in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

⁵Commit your way to the LORD;
trust in him, and he will act.
⁶He will bring forth your vindication as the light,
and your right as the noonday.

⁷Be still before the LORD, and wait patiently for him;
fret not yourself over him who prospers in his way,
over the man who carries out evil devices!

⁸Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
⁹For the wicked shall be cut off;
but those who wait for the LORD shall possess the land.

¹⁰Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more;
though you look well at his place, he will not be there.
¹¹But the meek shall possess the land,
and delight themselves in abundant prosperity.

¹²The wicked plots against the righteous,
and gnashes his teeth at him;
¹³but the LORD laughs at the wicked,
for he sees that his day is coming.

¹⁴The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows,
to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those who walk uprightly;
¹⁵their sword shall enter their own heart,
and their bows shall be broken.

¹⁶Better is a little that the righteous has
than the abundance of many wicked.
¹⁷For the arms of the wicked shall be broken;
but the LORD upholds the righteous.

¹⁸The LORD knows the days of the blameless,
and their heritage will abide for ever;
¹⁹they are not put to shame in evil times,
in the days of famine they have abundance.

²⁰But the wicked perish;
the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures,
they vanish - like smoke they vanish away.

²¹The wicked borrows, and cannot pay back,
but the righteous is generous and gives;
²²for those blessed by the LORD shall possess the land,
but those cursed by him shall be cut off.

²³The steps of a man are from the LORD,
and he establishes him in whose way he delights;
²⁴though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong,
for the LORD is the stay of his hand.

²⁵I have been young, and now am old;
yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.
²⁶He is ever giving liberally and lending,
and his children become a blessing.

²⁷Depart from evil, and do good;
so shall you abide for ever.
²⁸For the LORD loves justice;
he will not forsake his saints.

The righteous shall be preserved for ever,
but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
²⁹The righteous shall possess the land,
and dwell upon it for ever.

³⁰The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,
and his tongue speaks justice.
³¹The law of his God is in his heart;
his steps do not slip.

³²The wicked watches the righteous,
and seeks to slay him.
³³The LORD will not abandon him to his power,
or let him be condemned when he is brought to trial.

³⁴Wait for the LORD, and keep to his way,
and he will exalt you to possess the land;
you will look on the destruction of the wicked.

³⁵I have seen a wicked man overbearing,
and towering like a cedar of Lebanon.
³⁶Again I passed by, and, lo, he was no more;
though I sought him, he could not be found.

³⁷Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright,
for there is posterity for the man of peace.
³⁸But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed;
the posterity of the wicked shall be cut off.

³⁹The salvation of the righteous is from the LORD;
he is their refuge in the time of trouble.
⁴⁰The LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked, and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.

³There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy indignation;
there is no health in my bones because of my sin.
⁴For my iniquities have gone over my head;
they weigh like a burden too heavy for me.

⁵My wounds grow foul and fester
because of my foolishness,
⁶I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.
⁷For my loins are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
⁸I am utterly spent and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

⁹Lord, all my longing is known to thee,
my sighing is not hidden from thee.
¹⁰My heart throbs, my strength fails me;
and the light of my eyes - it also has gone from me.
¹¹My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
and my kinsmen stand afar off.
¹²Those who seek my life lay their snares,
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin,
and meditate treachery all the day long.

¹³But I am like a deaf man, I do not hear,
like a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
¹⁴Yea, I am like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

¹⁵But for thee, O LORD, do I wait;
it is thou, O LORD my God, who wilt answer.
¹⁶For I pray, "Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast against me when my foot slips!"

¹⁷For I am ready to fall,
and my pain is ever with me.
¹⁸I confess my iniquity,
I am sorry for my sin.
¹⁹Those who are my foes without cause are mighty,
and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
²⁰Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries
because I follow after good.

²¹Do not forsake me, O LORD!
O my God, be not far from me!
²²Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!

⁴"LORD, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting my life is!
⁵Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight.
Surely every man stands as a mere breath! [Selah]
⁶Surely man goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nought are they in turmoil;
man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!

⁷"And now, Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is in thee.
⁸Deliver me from all my transgressions.
Make me not the scorn of the fool!
⁹I am dumb, I do not open my mouth;
for it is thou who hast done it.
¹⁰Remove thy stroke from me;
I am spent by the blows of thy hand.
¹¹When thou dost chasten man with rebukes for sin,
thou dost consume like a moth what is dear to him;
surely every man is a mere breath! [Selah]

¹²"Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry;
hold not thy peace at my tears!
For I am thy passing guest,
a sojourner, like all my fathers.
¹³Look away from me, that I may know gladness,
before I depart and be no more!"

⁴Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust,
who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!
⁵Thou hast multiplied, O LORD my God,
thy wondrous deeds and thy thoughts toward us;
none can compare with thee!
Were I to proclaim and tell of them,
they would be more than can be numbered.

⁶Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire;
but thou hast given me an open ear.
Burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.
⁷Then I said, "Lo, I come;
in the roll of the book it is written of me;
⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God;
thy law is within my heart."

⁹I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation;
lo, I have not restrained my lips, as thou knowest, O LORD.
¹⁰I have not hid thy saving help within my heart,
I have spoken of thy faithfulness and thy salvation;
I have not concealed thy steadfast love
and thy faithfulness from the great congregation.

¹¹Do not thou, O LORD, withhold thy mercy from me,
let thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness ever preserve me!
¹²For evils have encompassed me without number;
my iniquities have overtaken me, till I cannot see;
they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

¹³Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD,
make haste to help me!
¹⁴Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether who seek to snatch away my life;
let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!
¹⁵Let them be appalled because of their shame
who say to me, "Aha, Aha!"

¹⁶But may all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee;
may those who love thy salvation say continually, "Great is the LORD!"
¹⁷As for me, I am poor and needy;
but the Lord takes thought for me.
Thou art my help and my deliverer;
do not tarry, O my God!

[To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.]

⁴As for me, I said, "O LORD, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against thee!"
⁵My enemies say of me in malice:
"When will he die, and his name perish?"
⁶And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words,
while his heart gathers mischief;
when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
⁷All who hate me whisper together about me;
they imagine the worst for me.

⁸They say, "A deadly thing has fastened upon him;
he will not rise again from where he lies."
⁹Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted,
who ate of my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
¹⁰But do thou, O LORD, be gracious to me,
and raise me up, that I may requite them!

¹¹By this I know that thou art pleased with me,
in that my enemy has not triumphed over me.
¹²But thou hast upheld me because of my integrity,
and set me in thy presence for ever.

¹³Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting!
Amen and Amen.

⁴These things I remember, as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
⁵Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

⁶My soul is cast down within me,
therefore I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
⁷Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts;
all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
⁸By day the LORD commands his steadfast love;
and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹I say to God, my rock: "Why hast thou forgotten me?
Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
¹⁰As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?"

¹¹Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

⁵Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.

⁴Thou art my King and my God,
who ordainest victories for Jacob.
⁵Through thee we push down our foes;
through thy name we tread down our assailants.
⁶For not in my bow do I trust,
nor can my sword save me.
⁷But thou hast saved us from our foes,
and hast put to confusion those who hate us.
⁸In God we have boasted continually,
and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. [Selah]

⁹Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us,
and hast not gone out with our armies.
¹⁰Thou hast made us turn back from the foe;
and our enemies have gotten spoil.
¹¹Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter,
and hast scattered us among the nations.
¹²Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.

¹³Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors,
the derision and scorn of those about us.
¹⁴Thou hast made us a byword among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me,
and shame has covered my face,
¹⁶at the words of the taunters and revilers,
at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten thee,
or been false to thy covenant.
¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,
nor have our steps departed from thy way,
¹⁹that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals,
and covered us with deep darkness.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God,
or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
²¹would not God discover this?
For he knows the secrets of the heart.
²²Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long,
and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord?
Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!
²⁴Why dost thou hide thy face?
Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?
²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
our body cleaves to the ground.
²⁶Rise up, come to our help!
Deliver us for the sake of thy steadfast love!

²You are the fairest of the sons of men;
grace is poured upon your lips;
therefore God has blessed you for ever.
³Gird your sword upon your thigh,
O mighty one, in your glory and majesty!

⁴In your majesty ride forth victoriously for the cause of truth and to defend the right;
let your right hand teach you dread deeds!
⁵Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies;
the peoples fall under you.

⁶Your divine throne endures for ever and ever.
Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;
⁷you love righteousness and hate wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows;
⁸your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.
From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;
⁹daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor;
at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰Hear, O daughter, consider, and incline your ear;
forget your people and your father's house;
¹¹and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your lord, bow to him;
¹²the people of Tyre will sue your favor with gifts,
the richest of the people with all kinds of wealth.

¹³The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;
¹⁴in many-colored robes she is led to the king,
with her virgin companions, her escort, in her train.
¹⁵With joy and gladness they are led along
as they enter the palace of the king.

¹⁶Instead of your fathers shall be your sons;
you will make them princes in all the earth.
¹⁷I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations;
therefore the peoples will praise you for ever and ever.

⁴There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy habitation of the Most High.
⁵God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved;
God will help her right early.
⁶The nations rage, the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice, the earth melts.
⁷The LORD of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge. [Selah]

⁸Come, behold the works of the LORD,
how he has wrought desolations in the earth.
⁹He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear, he burns the chariots with fire!
¹⁰"Be still, and know that I am God.
I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth!"
¹¹The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.

⁵God has gone up with a shout,
the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
⁶Sing praises to God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
⁷For God is the king of all the earth;
sing praises with a psalm!

⁸God reigns over the nations;
God sits on his holy throne.
⁹The princes of the peoples gather as the people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
he is highly exalted!

⁴For lo, the kings assembled,
they came on together.
⁵As soon as they saw it, they were astounded,
they were in panic, they took to flight;
⁶trembling took hold of them there,
anguish as of a woman in travail.
⁷By the east wind thou didst shatter the ships of Tarshish.
⁸As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts,
in the city of our God, which God establishes for ever. [Selah]

⁹We have thought on thy steadfast love, O God,
in the midst of thy temple.
¹⁰As thy name, O God, so thy praise reaches to the ends of the earth.
Thy right hand is filled with victory;
¹¹let Mount Zion be glad!
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of thy judgments!

¹²Walk about Zion, go round about her, number her towers,
¹³consider well her ramparts, go through her citadels;
that you may tell the next generation ¹⁴that this is God,
our God for ever and ever.
He will be our guide for ever.

⁵Why should I fear in times of trouble,
when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,
⁶men who trust in their wealth
and boast of the abundance of their riches?
⁷Truly no man can ransom himself,
or give to God the price of his life,
⁸for the ransom of his life is costly,
and can never suffice,
⁹that he should continue to live on for ever,
and never see the Pit.

¹⁰Yea, he shall see that even the wise die,
the fool and the stupid alike must perish and leave their wealth to others.
¹¹Their graves are their homes for ever,
their dwelling places to all generations, though they named lands their own.
¹²Man cannot abide in his pomp,
he is like the beasts that perish.

¹³This is the fate of those who have foolish confidence,
the end of those who are pleased with their portion. [Selah]
¹⁴Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
straight to the grave they descend,
and their form shall waste away;
Sheol shall be their home.
¹⁵But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,
for he will receive me. [Selah]

¹⁶Be not afraid when one becomes rich,
when the glory of his house increases.
¹⁷For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
his glory will not go down after him.
¹⁸Though, while he lives, he counts himself happy,
and though a man gets praise when he does well for himself,
¹⁹he will go to the generation of his fathers,
who will never more see the light.
²⁰Man cannot abide in his pomp,
he is like the beasts that perish.

³Our God comes, he does not keep silence,
before him is a devouring fire, round about him a mighty tempest.
⁴He calls to the heavens above and to the earth,
that he may judge his people:
⁵"Gather to me my faithful ones,
who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!"
⁶The heavens declare his righteousness,
for God himself is judge! [Selah]

⁷"Hear, O my people, and I will speak,
O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

⁸I do not reprove you for your sacrifices;
your burnt offerings are continually before me.
⁹I will accept no bull from your house,
nor he-goat from your folds.
¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine,
the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹I know all the birds of the air,
and all that moves in the field is mine.

¹²"If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
for the world and all that is in it is mine.
¹³Do I eat the flesh of bulls,
or drink the blood of goats?
¹⁴Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and pay your vows to the Most High;
¹⁵and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

¹⁶But to the wicked God says:
"What right have you to recite my statutes,
or take my covenant on your lips?
¹⁷For you hate discipline,
and you cast my words behind you.
¹⁸If you see a thief, you are a friend of his;
and you keep company with adulterers.

¹⁹"You give your mouth free rein for evil,
and your tongue frames deceit.
²⁰You sit and speak against your brother;
you slander your own mother's son.
²¹These things you have done and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one like yourself.
But now I rebuke you, and lay the charge before you.

²²"Mark this, then, you who forget God,
lest I rend, and there be none to deliver!
²³He who brings thanksgiving as his sacrifice honors me;
to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God!"

³For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
⁴Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight,
so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment.
⁵Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.

⁶Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being;
therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
⁷Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
⁸Fill me with joy and gladness;
let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.
⁹Hide thy face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.

¹⁰Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.
¹¹Cast me not away from thy presence,
and take not thy holy Spirit from me.
¹²Restore to me the joy of thy salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
¹³Then I will teach transgressors thy ways,
and sinners will return to thee.
¹⁴Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.

¹⁵O Lord, open thou my lips,
and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
¹⁶For thou hast no delight in sacrifice;
were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.
¹⁷The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

¹⁸Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure;
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
¹⁹then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on thy alter.

⁵But God will break you down for ever;
he will snatch and tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. [Selah]
⁶The righteous shall see, and fear,
and shall laugh at him, saying,
⁷"See the man who would not make God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and sought refuge in his wealth!"

⁸But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God.
I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever.
⁹I will thank thee for ever, because thou hast done it.
I will proclaim thy name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly.

²God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men
to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God.

³They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved;
there is none that does good, no, not one.

⁴Have those who work evil no understanding,
who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

⁵There they are, in great terror, in terror such as has not been!
For God will scatter the bones of the ungodly;
they will be put to shame, for God has rejected them.

⁶O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion!
When God restores the fortunes of his people,
Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad.

³For insolent men have risen against me, ruthless men seek my life;
they do not set God before them. [Selah]

⁴Behold, God is my helper;
the Lord is the upholder of my life.
⁵He will requite my enemies with evil;
in thy faithfulness put an end to them.

⁶With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to thee;
I will give thanks to thy name, O LORD, for it is good.
⁷For thou hast delivered me from every trouble,
and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.

⁴My heart is in anguish within me,
the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
⁵Fear and trembling come upon me,
and horror overwhelms me.
⁶And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest;
⁷yea, I would wander afar,
I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah]
⁸I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest."

⁹Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues;
for I see violence and strife in the city.
¹⁰Day and night they go around it on its walls;
and mischief and trouble are within it,
¹¹ruin is in its midst;
oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.

¹²It is not an enemy who taunts me - then I could bear it;
it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me -
then I could hide from him.
¹³But it is you,
my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
¹⁴We used to hold sweet converse together;
within God's house we walked in fellowship.
¹⁵Let death come upon them;
let them go down to Sheol alive;
let them go away in terror into their graves.

¹⁶But I call upon God;
and the LORD will save me.
¹⁷Evening and morning and at noon
I utter my complaint and moan,
and he will hear my voice.
¹⁸He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage,
for many are arrayed against me.
¹⁹God will give ear, and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old;
because they keep no law, and do not fear God. [Selah]

²⁰My companion stretched out his hand against his friends,
he violated his covenant.
²¹His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart;
his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
²²Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you;
he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

²³But thou, O God, wilt cast them down into the lowest pit;
men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days.
But I will trust in thee.

⁵All day long they seek to injure my cause;
all their thoughts are against me for evil.
⁶They band themselves together,
they lurk, they watch my steps.
As they have waited for my life,
⁷so recompense them for their crime;
in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!

⁸Thou hast kept count of my tossings;
put thou my tears in thy bottle!
Are they not in thy book?
⁹Then my enemies will be turned back in the day when I call.
This I know, that God is for me.
¹⁰In God, whose word I praise,
in the LORD, whose word I praise,
¹¹in God I trust without a fear.
What can man do to me?

¹²My vows to thee I must perform, O God;
I will render thank offerings to thee.
¹³For thou hast delivered my soul from death,
yea, my feet from falling,
that I may walk before God in the light of life.

⁴I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men;
their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.

⁵Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let thy glory be over all the earth!

⁶They set a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down.
They dug a pit in my way,
but they have fallen into it themselves. [Selah]

⁷My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast!
I will sing and make melody!
⁸Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awake the dawn!
⁹I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to thee among the nations.
¹⁰For thy steadfast love is great to the heavens,
thy faithfulness to the clouds.

¹¹Be exalted, O God, above the heavens!
Let thy glory be over all the earth!

³The wicked go astray from the womb,
they err from their birth, speaking lies.
⁴They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
⁵so that it does not hear the voice of charmers
or of the cunning enchanter.

⁶O God, break the teeth in their mouths;
tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
⁷Let them vanish like water that runs away;
like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
⁸Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime,
like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
⁹Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
¹⁰The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
¹¹Men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who judges on earth."

³For, lo, they lie in wait for my life;
fierce men band themselves against me.
For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,
⁴for no fault of mine, they run and make ready.

Rouse thyself, come to my help, and see!
⁵Thou, LORD God of hosts, art God of Israel.
Awake to punish all the nations;
spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. [Selah]

⁶Each evening they come back,
howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
⁷There they are, bellowing with their mouths,
and snarling with their lips -
for "Who," they think, "will hear us?"

⁸But thou, O LORD, dost laugh at them;
thou dost hold all the nations in derision.
⁹O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee;
for thou, O God, art my fortress.
¹⁰My God in his steadfast love will meet me;
my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

¹¹Slay them not, lest my people forget;
make them totter by thy power,
and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
¹²For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips,
let them be trapped in their pride.
For the cursing and lies which they utter,
¹³consume them in wrath, consume them till they are no more,
that men may know that God rules over Jacob to the ends of the earth. [Selah]

¹⁴Each evening they come back,
howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
¹⁵They roam about for food,
and growl if they do not get their fill.

¹⁶But I will sing of thy might;
I will sing aloud of thy steadfast love in the morning.
For thou hast been to me a fortress
and a refuge in the day of my distress.
¹⁷O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee,
for thou, O God, art my fortress,
the God who shows me steadfast love.

⁴Thou hast set up a banner for those who fear thee,
to rally to it from the bow. [Selah]
⁵That thy beloved may be delivered,
give victory by thy right hand and answer us!

⁶God has spoken in his sanctuary:
"With exultation I will divide up Shechem
and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
⁷Gilead is mine; Manas'seh is mine;
E'phraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.
⁸Moab is my washbasin;
upon Edom I cast my shoe;
over Philistia I shout in triumph."

⁹Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
¹⁰Hast thou not rejected us, O God?
Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.
¹¹O grant us help against the foe,
for vain is the help of man!
¹²With God we shall do valiantly;
it is he who will tread down our foes.

Lead thou me to the rock that is higher than I;
³for thou art my refuge,
a strong tower against the enemy.

⁴Let me dwell in thy tent for ever!
Oh to be safe under the shelter of thy wings! [Selah]
⁵For thou, O God, hast heard my vows,
thou hast given me the heritage of those who fear thy name.

⁶Prolong the life of the king;
may his years endure to all generations!
⁷May he be enthroned for ever before God;
bid steadfast love and faithfulness watch over him!

⁸So will I ever sing praises to thy name,
as I pay my vows day after day.

³How long will you set upon a man to shatter him, all of you, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? ⁴They only plan to thrust him down from his eminence.
They take pleasure in falsehood.
They bless with their mouths,
but inwardly they curse. [Selah]

⁵For God alone my soul waits in silence,
for my hope is from him.
⁶He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress;
I shall not be shaken.
⁷On God rests my deliverance and my honor;
my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

⁸Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us. [Selah]
⁹Men of low estate are but a breath,
men of high estate are a delusion;
in the balances they go up;
they are together lighter than a breath.
¹⁰Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery;
if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

¹¹Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this:
that power belongs to God;
¹²and that to thee, O Lord, belongs steadfast love.
For thou dost requite a man
according to his work.

⁵My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat,
and my mouth praises thee with joyful lips,
⁶when I think of thee upon my bed,
and meditate on thee in the watches of the night;
⁷for thou hast been my help,
and in the shadow of thy wings I sing for joy.
⁸My soul clings to thee;
thy right hand upholds me.

⁹But those who seek to destroy my life
shall go down into the depths of the earth;
¹⁰they shall be given over to the power of the sword,
they shall be prey for jackals.
¹¹But the king shall rejoice in God;
all who swear by him shall glory;
for the mouths of liars will be stopped.

¹⁰Let the righteous rejoice in the Lord,
and take refuge in him!
Let all the upright in heart glory!

⁵By dread deeds thou dost answer us with deliverance,
O God of our salvation,
who art the hope of all the ends of the earth,
and of the farthest seas;
⁶who by thy strength hast established the mountains, being girded with might;
⁷who dost still the roaring of the seas,
the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples;
⁸so that those who dwell at earth's farthest bounds are afraid at thy signs;
thou makest the outgoings of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

⁹Thou visitest the earth and waterest it, thou greatly enrichest it;
the river of God is full of water;
thou providest their grain, for so thou hast prepared it.
¹⁰Thou waterest its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges,
softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.
¹¹Thou crownest the year with thy bounty;
the tracks of thy chariot drip with fatness.
¹²The pastures of the wilderness drip, the hills gird themselves with joy, ¹³the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
the valleys deck themselves with grain,
they shout and sing for joy.

⁵Come and see what God has done:
he is terrible in his deeds among men.
⁶He turned the sea into dry land;
men passed through the river on foot.
There did we rejoice in him,
⁷who rules by his might for ever,
whose eyes keep watch on the nations -
let not the rebellious exalt themselves. [Selah]

⁸Bless our God, O peoples,
let the sound of his praise be heard,
⁹who has kept us among the living,
and has not let our feet slip.
¹⁰For thou, O God, hast tested us;
thou hast tried us as silver is tried.
¹¹Thou didst bring us into the net;
thou didst lay affliction on our loins;
¹²thou didst let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and through water;
yet thou hast brought us forth to a spacious place.

¹³I will come into thy house with burnt offerings;
I will pay thee my vows,
¹⁴that which my lips uttered
and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
¹⁵I will offer to thee burnt offerings of fatlings,
with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;
I will make an offering of bulls and goats. [Selah]

¹⁶Come and hear, all you who fear God,
and I will tell what he has done for me.
¹⁷I cried aloud to him,
and he was extolled with my tongue.
¹⁸If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.
¹⁹But truly God has listened;
he has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

²⁰Blessed be God,
because he has not rejected my prayer
or removed his steadfast love from me!

⁴Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for thou dost judge the peoples with equity
and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]
⁵Let the peoples praise thee, O God;
let all the peoples praise thee!

⁶The earth has yielded its increase;
God, our God, has blessed us.
⁷God has blessed us;
let all the ends of the earth fear him!

⁴Sing to God, sing praises to his name;
lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds;
his name is the LORD, exult before him!

⁵Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
⁶God gives the desolate a home to dwell in;
he leads out the prisoners to prosperity;
but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

⁷O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people,
when thou didst march through the wilderness, [Selah]
⁸the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, at the presence of God;
yon Sinai quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
⁹Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad;
thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;
¹⁰thy flock found a dwelling in it;
in thy goodness, O God, thou didst provide for the needy.

¹¹The Lord gives the command;
great is the host of those who bore the tidings:
¹²"The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee!"
The women at home divide the spoil,
¹³though they stay among the sheepfolds -
the wings of a dove covered with silver,
its pinions with green gold.
¹⁴When the Almighty scattered kings there, snow fell on Zalmon.

¹⁵O mighty mountain, mountain of Bashan;
O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!
¹⁶Why look you with envy, O many-peaked mountain,
at the mount which God desired for his abode,
yea, where the LORD will dwell for ever?

¹⁷With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands,
the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.
¹⁸Thou didst ascend the high mount, leading captives in thy train, and receiving gifts among men,
even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.

¹⁹Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up;
God is our salvation. [Selah]
²⁰Our God is a God of salvation;
and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

²¹But God will shatter the heads of his enemies,
the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
²²The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan,
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
²³that you may bathe your feet in blood,
that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe."

²⁴Thy solemn processions are seen, O God,
the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary -
²⁵the singers in front, the minstrels last,
between them maidens playing timbrels:
²⁶"Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD,
O you who are of Israel's fountain!"
²⁷There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead,
the princes of Judah in their throng,
the princes of Zeb'ulun, the princes of Naph'tali.

²⁸Summon thy might, O God;
show thy strength, O God, thou who hast wrought for us.
²⁹Because of thy temple at Jerusalem kings bear gifts to thee.
³⁰Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds,
the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples.
Trample under foot those who lust after tribute;
scatter the peoples who delight in war.
³¹Let bronze be brought from Egypt;
let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God.

³²Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth;
sing praises to the Lord, [Selah]
³³to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens;
lo, he sends forth his voice, his mighty voice.
³⁴Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel,
and his power is in the skies.
³⁵Terrible is God in his sanctuary,
the God of Israel,
he gives power and strength to his people.

Blessed be God!

⁴More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause;
mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies.
What I did not steal must I now restore?
⁵O God, thou knowest my folly;
the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.

⁶Let not those who hope in thee be put to shame through me, O Lord GOD of hosts;
let not those who seek thee be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
⁷For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach,
that shame has covered my face.
⁸I have become a stranger to my brethren,
an alien to my mother's sons.

⁹For zeal for thy house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
¹⁰When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
¹¹When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.
¹²I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.

¹³But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O LORD.
At an acceptable time, O God,
in the abundance of thy steadfast love answer me.
With thy faithful help ¹⁴rescue me from sinking in the mire;
let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
¹⁵Let not the flood sweep over me,
or the deep swallow me up,
or the pit close its mouth over me.

¹⁶Answer me, O LORD, for thy steadfast love is good;
according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.
¹⁷Hide not thy face from thy servant;
for I am in distress,
make haste to answer me.
¹⁸Draw near to me, redeem me,
set me free because of my enemies!

¹⁹Thou knowest my reproach,
and my shame and my dishonor;
my foes are all known to thee.
²⁰Insults have broken my heart, so that I am in despair.
I looked for pity, but there was none;
and for comforters, but I found none.
²¹They gave me poison for food,
and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

²²Let their own table before them become a snare;
let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
²³Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see;
and make their loins tremble continually.
²⁴Pour out thy indignation upon them,
and let thy burning anger overtake them.
²⁵May their camp be a desolation,
let no one dwell in their tents.
²⁶For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten,
and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.
²⁷Add to them punishment upon punishment;
may they have no acquittal from thee.
²⁸Let them be blotted out of the book of the living;
let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

²⁹But I am afflicted and in pain;
let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!

³⁰I will praise the name of God with a song;
I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
³¹This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
³²Let the oppressed see it and be glad;
you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
³³For the LORD hears the needy,
and does not despise his own that are in bonds.

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves therein.
³⁵For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah;
and his servants shall dwell there and possess it;
³⁶the children of his servants shall inherit it,
and those who love his name shall dwell in it.

⁴May all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee!
May those who love thy salvation say evermore, "God is great!"
⁵But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God!
Thou art my help and my deliverer;
O LORD, do not tarry!

⁴Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
⁵For thou, O Lord, art my hope,
my trust, O LORD, from my youth.
⁶Upon thee I have leaned from my birth;
thou art he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of thee.

⁷I have been as a portent to many;
but thou art my strong refuge.
⁸My mouth is filled with thy praise,
and with thy glory all the day.
⁹Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.
¹⁰For my enemies speak concerning me,
those who watch for my life consult together,
¹¹and say, "God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him."

¹²O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
¹³May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.
¹⁴But I will hope continually,
and will praise thee yet more and more.
¹⁵My mouth will tell of thy righteous acts,
of thy deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.
¹⁶With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come,
I will praise thy righteousness, thine alone.

¹⁷O God, from my youth thou hast taught me,
and I still proclaim thy wondrous deeds.
¹⁸So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, till I proclaim thy might to all the generations to come. Thy power ¹⁹and thy righteousness, O God,
reach the high heavens.

Thou who hast done great things,
O God, who is like thee? ²⁰Thou who hast made me see many sore troubles wilt revive me again;
from the depths of the earth thou wilt bring me up again.
²¹Thou wilt increase my honor,
and comfort me again.

²²I will also praise thee with the harp for thy faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to thee with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
²³My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to thee;
my soul also, which thou hast rescued.
²⁴And my tongue will talk of thy righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disgraced who sought to do me hurt.

⁵May he live while the sun endures,
and as long as the moon,
throughout all generations!
⁶May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass,
like showers that water the earth!
⁷In his days may righteousness flourish, and peace abound,
till the moon be no more!

⁸May he have dominion from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth!
⁹May his foes bow down before him,
and his enemies lick the dust!
¹⁰May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute,
may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
¹¹May all kings fall down before him,
all nations serve him!

¹²For he delivers the needy when he calls,
the poor and him who has no helper.
¹³He has pity on the weak and the needy,
and saves the lives of the needy.
¹⁴From oppression and violence he redeems their life;
and precious is their blood in his sight.

¹⁵Long may he live, may gold of Sheba be given to him!
May prayer be made for him continually,
and blessings invoked for him all the day!
¹⁶May there be abundance of grain in the land;
on the tops of the mountains may it wave;
may its fruit be like Lebanon;
and may men blossom forth from the cities like the grass of the field!
¹⁷May his name endure for ever,
his fame continue as long as the sun!
May men bless themselves by him,
all nations call him blessed!

¹⁸Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
who alone does wondrous things.
¹⁹Blessed be his glorious name for ever;
may his glory fill the whole earth!
Amen and Amen!

⁴For they have no pangs;
their bodies are sound and sleek.
⁵They are not in trouble as other men are;
they are not stricken like other men.
⁶Therefore pride is their necklace;
violence covers them as a garment.
⁷Their eyes swell out with fatness,
their hearts overflow with follies.
⁸They scoff and speak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
⁹They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.

¹⁰Therefore the people turn and praise them;
and find no fault in them.
¹¹And they say, "How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
¹²Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they increase in riches.
¹³All in vain have I kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence.
¹⁴For all the day long I have been stricken,
and chastened every morning.

¹⁵If I had said, "I will speak thus,"
I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.
¹⁶But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me a wearisome task,
¹⁷until I went into the sanctuary of God;
then I perceived their end.
¹⁸Truly thou dost set them in slippery places;
thou dost make them fall to ruin.
¹⁹How they are destroyed in a moment,
swept away utterly by terrors!
²⁰They are like a dream when one awakes,
on awaking you despise their phantoms.

²¹When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart,
²²I was stupid and ignorant,
I was like a beast toward thee.
²³Nevertheless I am continually with thee;
thou dost hold my right hand.
²⁴Thou dost guide me with thy counsel,
and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.
²⁵Whom have I in heaven but thee?
And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.
²⁶My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

²⁷For lo, those who are far from thee shall perish;
thou dost put an end to those who are false to thee.
²⁸But for me it is good to be near God;
I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.

⁴Thy foes have roared in the midst of thy holy place;
they set up their own signs for signs.
⁵At the upper entrance
they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
⁶And then all its carved wood
they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
⁷They set thy sanctuary on fire;
to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of thy name.
⁸They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them";
they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

⁹We do not see our signs;
there is no longer any prophet,
and there is none among us who knows how long.
¹⁰How long, O God, is the foe to scoff?
Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?
¹¹Why dost thou hold back thy hand,
why dost thou keep thy right hand in thy bosom?

¹²Yet God my King is from of old,
working salvation in the midst of the earth.
¹³Thou didst divide the sea by thy might;
thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters.
¹⁴Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan,
thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
¹⁵Thou didst cleave open springs and brooks;
thou didst dry up ever-flowing streams.
¹⁶Thine is the day, thine also the night;
thou hast established the luminaries and the sun.
¹⁷Thou hast fixed all the bounds of the earth;
thou hast made summer and winter.

¹⁸Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs,
and an impious people reviles thy name.
¹⁹Do not deliver the soul of thy dove to the wild beasts;
do not forget the life of thy poor for ever.

²⁰Have regard for thy covenant;
for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
²¹Let not the downtrodden be put to shame;
let the poor and needy praise thy name.

²²Arise, O God, plead thy cause;
remember how the impious scoff at thee all the day!
²³Do not forget the clamour of thy foes,
the uproar of thy adversaries which goes up continually!

²At the set time which I appoint
I will judge with equity.
³When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants,
it is I who keep steady its pillars. [Selah]

⁴I say to the boastful, "Do not boast,"
and to the wicked, "Do not lift up your horn;

⁵do not lift up your horn on high,
or speak with insolent neck."

⁶For not from the east or from the west
and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;
⁷but it is God who executes judgment,
putting down one and lifting up another.
⁸For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup,
with foaming wine, well mixed;
and he will pour a draught from it,
and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.

⁹But I will rejoice for ever,
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰All the horns of the wicked he will cut off,
but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

⁴Glorious art thou,
more majestic than the everlasting mountains.
⁵The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep;
all the men of war were unable to use their hands.
⁶At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both rider and horse lay stunned.

⁷But thou, terrible art thou!
Who can stand before thee when once thy anger is roused?
⁸From the heavens thou didst utter judgment;
the earth feared and was still,
⁹when God arose to establish judgment
to save all the oppressed of the earth. [Selah]

¹⁰Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee;
the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.
¹¹Make your vows to the LORD your God, and perform them;
let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared,
¹²who cuts off the spirit of princes,
who is terrible to the kings of the earth.

⁴Thou dost hold my eyelids from closing;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵I consider the days of old,
I remember the years long ago.
⁶I commune with my heart in the night;
I meditate and search my spirit:
⁷"Will the Lord spurn for ever,
and never again be favorable?
⁸Has his steadfast love for ever ceased?
Are his promises at an end for all time?
⁹Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" [Selah]
¹⁰And I say, "It is my grief
that the right hand of the Most High has changed."

¹¹I will call to mind the deeds of the LORD;
yea, I will remember thy wonders of old.
¹²I will meditate on all thy work,
and muse on thy mighty deeds.
¹³Thy way, O God, is holy.
What god is great like our God?
¹⁴Thou art the God who workest wonders,
who hast manifested thy might among the peoples.
¹⁵Thou didst with thy arm redeem thy people,
the sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah]

¹⁶When the waters saw thee, O God, when the waters saw thee,
they were afraid, yea, the deep trembled.
¹⁷The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder;
thy arrows flashed on every side.
¹⁸The crash of thy thunder was in the whirlwind;
thy lightnings lighted up the world;
the earth trembled and shook.
¹⁹Thy way was through the sea,
thy path through the great waters;
yet thy footprints were unseen.
²⁰Thou didst lead thy people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁵He established a testimony in Jacob,
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;
⁶that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
⁷so that they should set their hope in God,
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;
⁸and that they should not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹The E'phraimites, armed with the bow,
turned back on the day of battle.
¹⁰They did not keep God's covenant,
but refused to walk according to his law.
¹¹They forgot what he had done,
and the miracles that he had shown them.
¹²In the sight of their fathers he wrought marvels
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zo'an.
¹³He divided the sea and let them pass through it,
and made the waters stand like a heap.
¹⁴In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
and all the night with a fiery light.
¹⁵He cleft rocks in the wilderness,
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
¹⁶He made streams come out of the rock,
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

¹⁷Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.
¹⁹They spoke against God,
saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
²⁰He smote the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?"

²¹Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath;
a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel;
²²because they had no faith in God,
and did not trust his saving power.
²³Yet he commanded the skies above,
and opened the doors of heaven;
²⁴and he rained down upon them manna to eat,
and gave them the grain of heaven.
²⁵Man ate of the bread of the angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
²⁶He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;
²⁷he rained flesh upon them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;
²⁸he let them fall in the midst of their camp,
all around their habitations.
²⁹And they ate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they craved.
³⁰But before they had sated their craving,
while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹the anger of God rose against them and he slew the strongest of them,
and laid low the picked men of Israel.

³²In spite of all this they still sinned;
despite his wonders they did not believe.
³³So he made their days vanish like a breath,
and their years in terror.
³⁴When he slew them, they sought for him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.
³⁵They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God their redeemer.
³⁶But they flattered him with their mouths;
they lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷Their heart was not steadfast toward him;
they were not true to his covenant.
³⁸Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and comes not again.
⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert!
⁴¹They tested him again and again,
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
⁴²They did not keep in mind his power,
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
⁴³when he wrought his signs in Egypt,
and his miracles in the fields of Zo'an.
⁴⁴He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them,
and frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶He gave their crops to the caterpillar,
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail,
and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸He gave over their cattle to the hail,
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
⁴⁹He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of destroying angels.
⁵⁰He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death,
but gave their lives over to the plague.
⁵¹He smote all the first-born in Egypt,
the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
⁵²Then he led forth his people like sheep,
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
⁵³He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid;
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴And he brought them to his holy land,
to the mountain which his right hand had won.
⁵⁵He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God,
and did not observe his testimonies,
⁵⁷but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
they twisted like a deceitful bow.
⁵⁸For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
⁵⁹When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
⁶⁰He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among men,
⁶¹and delivered his power to captivity,
his glory to the hand of the foe.
⁶²He gave his people over to the sword,
and vented his wrath on his heritage.
⁶³Fire devoured their young men,
and their maidens had no marriage song.
⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a strong man shouting because of wine.
⁶⁶And he put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷He rejected the tent of Joseph,
he did not choose the tribe of E'phraim;
⁶⁸but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.
⁶⁹He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded for ever.
⁷⁰He chose David his servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹from tending the ewes that had young
he brought him to be the shepherd
of Jacob his people,
of Israel his inheritance.
⁷²With upright heart he tended them,
and guided them with skilful hand.

⁵How long, O LORD?
Wilt thou be angry for ever?
Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?
⁶Pour out thy anger on the nations that do not know thee,
and on the kingdoms that do not call on thy name!
⁷For they have devoured Jacob,
and laid waste his habitation.

⁸Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers;
let thy compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
⁹Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name;
deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake!
¹⁰Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?"
Let the avenging of the outpoured blood of thy servants be known among the nations before our eyes!

¹¹Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee;
according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die!
¹²Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors
the taunts with which they have taunted thee, O Lord!
¹³Then we thy people, the flock of thy pasture,
will give thanks to thee for ever;
from generation to generation we will recount thy praise.

³Restore us, O God;
let thy face shine,
that we may be saved!

⁴O LORD God of hosts,
how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears,
and given them tears to drink in full measure.
⁶Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors;
and our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Restore us, O God of hosts;
let thy face shine,
that we may be saved!

⁸Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt;
thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
⁹Thou didst clear the ground for it;
it took deep root and filled the land.
¹⁰The mountains were covered with its shade,
the mighty cedars with its branches;
¹¹it sent out its branches to the sea,
and its shoots to the River.
¹²Why then hast thou broken down its walls,
so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
¹³The boar from the forest ravages it,
and all that move in the field feed on it.

¹⁴Turn again, O God of hosts!
Look down from heaven, and see;
have regard for this vine,
¹⁵the stock which thy right hand planted.
¹⁶They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down;
may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
¹⁷But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand,
the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
¹⁸Then we will never turn back from thee;
give us life, and we will call on thy name!

¹⁹Restore us, O Lord God of hosts!
let thy face shine,
that we may be saved!

I hear a voice I had not known:
⁶"I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
⁷In distress you called, and I delivered you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]
⁸Hear, O my people, while I admonish you!
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
⁹There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
¹⁰I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹"But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would have none of me.
¹²So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
¹³O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
¹⁴I would soon subdue their enemies,
and turn my hand against their foes.
¹⁵Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him,
and their fate would last for ever.
¹⁶I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."

⁵They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

⁶I say, "You are gods,
sons of the Most High, all of you;
⁷nevertheless, you shall die like men,
and fall like any prince."

⁸Arise O God, judge the earth;
for to thee belong all the nations!

⁹Do to them as thou didst to Mid'ian,
as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,
¹⁰who were destroyed at En-dor,
who became dung for the ground.
¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,
¹²who said, "Let us take possession
for ourselves of the pastures of God."

¹³O my God, make them like whirling dust,
like chaff before the wind.
¹⁴As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
¹⁵so do thou pursue them with thy tempest
and terrify them with thy hurricane!
¹⁶Fill their faces with shame,
that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
¹⁷Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever;
let them perish in disgrace.
¹⁸Let them know that thou alone,
whose name is the Lord,
art the most high over all the earth.

³Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
⁴Blessed are those who dwell in thy house,
ever singing thy praise! [Selah]

⁵Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
⁶As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
⁷They go from strength to strength;
the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

⁸O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! [Selah]
⁹Behold our shield, O God;
look upon the face of thine anointed!

¹⁰For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
¹¹For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the LORD withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
¹²O Lord of hosts,
blessed is the man who trusts in thee!

⁴Restore us again, O God of our salvation,
and put away thy indignation toward us!
⁵Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?
Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?
⁶Wilt thou not revive us again,
that thy people may rejoice in thee?
⁷Show us thy steadfast love, O LORD,
and grant us thy salvation.

⁸Let me hear what God the LORD will speak,
for he will speak peace to his people,
to his saints, to those who turn to him in their hearts.
⁹Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him,
that glory may dwell in our land.
¹⁰Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet;
righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
¹¹Faithfulness will spring up from the ground,
and righteousness will look down from the sky.
¹²Yea, the LORD will give what is good,
and our land will yield its increase.
¹³Righteousness will go before him,
and make his footsteps a way.

⁸There is none like thee among the gods,
O Lord, nor are there any works like thine.
⁹All the nations thou hast made shall come and bow down before thee, O Lord,
and shall glorify thy name.
¹⁰For thou art great and doest wondrous things,
thou alone art God.
¹¹Teach me thy way, O LORD, that I may walk in thy truth;
unite my heart to fear thy name.
¹²I give thanks to thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
and I will glorify thy name for ever.
¹³For great is thy steadfast love toward me;
thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
¹⁴O God, insolent men have risen up against me;
a band of ruthless men seek my life,
and they do not set thee before them.
¹⁵But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
¹⁶Turn to me and take pity on me;
give thy strength to thy servant,
and save the son of thy handmaid.
¹⁷Show me a sign of thy favor,
that those who hate me may see and be put to shame
because thou, LORD, hast helped me and comforted me.

⁴Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia -
"This one was born there," they say.
⁵And of Zion it shall be said,
"This one and that one were born in her";
for the Most High himself will establish her.
⁶The LORD records as he registers the peoples,
"This one was born there." [Selah]

⁷Singers and dancers alike say,
"All my springs are in you."

⁸Thou hast caused my companions to shun me;
thou hast made me a thing of horror to them.
I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
⁹my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon thee, O LORD;
I spread out my hands to thee.
¹⁰Dost thou work wonders for the dead?
Do the shades rise up to praise thee? [Selah]
¹¹Is thy steadfast love declared in the grave,
or thy faithfulness in Abaddon?
¹²Are thy wonders known in the darkness,
or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³But I, O LORD, cry to thee;
in the morning my prayer comes before thee.
¹⁴O LORD, why dost thou cast me off?
Why dost thou hide thy face from me?
¹⁵Afflicted and close to death
from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors;
I am helpless.
¹⁶Thy wrath has swept over me;
thy dread assaults destroy me.
¹⁷They surround me like a flood all day long;
they close in upon me together.
¹⁸Thou hast caused lover and friend to shun me;
my companions are in darkness.

⁵Let the heavens praise thy wonders, O LORD,
thy faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
⁶For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD?
Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
⁷a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
great and terrible above all that are round about him?
⁸O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as thou art, O LORD,
with thy faithfulness round about thee?
⁹Thou dost rule the raging of the sea;
when its waves rise, thou stillest them.
¹⁰Thou didst crush Rahab like a carcass,
thou didst scatter thy enemies with thy mighty arm.
¹¹The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine;
the world and all that is in it, thou hast founded them.
¹²The north and the south, thou hast created them;
Tabor and Hermon joyously praise thy name.
¹³Thou hast a mighty arm;
strong is thy hand, high thy right hand.
¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne;
steadfast love and faithfulness go before thee.
¹⁵Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD,
in the light of thy countenance,
¹⁶who exult in thy name all the day,
and extol thy righteousness.
¹⁷For thou art the glory of their strength;
by thy favor our horn is exalted.
¹⁸For our shield belongs to the LORD,
our king to the Holy One of Israel.
¹⁹Of old thou didst speak in a vision to thy faithful one,
and say: "I have set the crown upon one who is mighty,
I have exalted one chosen from the people.
²⁰I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him;
²¹so that my hand shall ever abide with him,
my arm also shall strengthen him.
²²The enemy shall not outwit him,
the wicked shall not humble him.
²³I will crush his foes before him
and strike down those who hate him.
²⁴My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him,
and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
²⁵I will set his hand on the sea
and his right hand on the rivers.
²⁶He shall cry to me, 'Thou art my Father, my God,
and the Rock of my salvation.'
²⁷And I will make him the first-born,
the highest of the kings of the earth.
²⁸My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever,
and my covenant will stand firm for him.
²⁹I will establish his line for ever
and his throne as the days of the heavens.
³⁰If his children forsake my law
and do not walk according to my ordinances,
³¹if they violate my statutes
and do not keep my commandments,
³²then I will punish their transgression with the rod
and their iniquity with scourges;
³³but I will not remove from him my steadfast love,
or be false to my faithfulness.
³⁴I will not violate my covenant,
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
³⁵Once for all I have sworn by my holiness;
I will not lie to David.
³⁶His line shall endure for ever,
his throne as long as the sun before me.
³⁷Like the moon it shall be established for ever;
it shall stand firm while the skies endure." [Selah]

³⁸But now thou hast cast off and rejected,
thou art full of wrath against thy anointed.
³⁹Thou hast renounced the covenant with thy servant;
thou hast defiled his crown in the dust.
⁴⁰Thou hast breached all his walls;
thou hast laid his strongholds in ruins.
⁴¹All that pass by despoil him;
he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
⁴²Thou hast exalted the right hand of his foes;
thou hast made all his enemies rejoice.
⁴³Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword,
and thou hast not made him stand in battle.
⁴⁴Thou hast removed the scepter from his hand,
and cast his throne to the ground.
⁴⁵Thou hast cut short the days of his youth;
thou hast covered him with shame. [Selah]

⁴⁶How long, O LORD? Wilt thou hide thyself for ever?
How long will thy wrath burn like fire?
⁴⁷Remember, O Lord, what the measure of life is,
for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!
⁴⁸What man can live and never see death?
Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah]

⁴⁹Lord, where is thy steadfast love of old,
which by thy faithfulness thou didst swear to David?
⁵⁰Remember, O Lord, how thy servant is scorned;
how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,
⁵¹with which thy enemies taunt, O LORD,
with which they mock the footsteps of thy anointed.

⁵²Blessed be the Lord for ever!
Amen & Amen.

³Thou turnest man back to the dust,
and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!"
⁴For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.

⁵Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream,
like grass which is renewed in the morning:
⁶in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.

⁷For we are consumed by thy anger;
by thy wrath we are overwhelmed.
⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee,
our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days pass away under thy wrath,
our years come to an end like a sigh.
¹⁰The years of our life are threescore and ten,
or even by reason of strength fourscore; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away. ¹¹Who considers the power of thy anger,
and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
¹²So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.

¹³Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on thy servants!
¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
¹⁵Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us,
and as many years as we have seen evil.
¹⁶Let thy work be manifest to thy servants,
and thy glorious power to their children.
¹⁷Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish thou the work of our hands upon us,
yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

⁶nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

⁷A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand;
but it will not come near you.
⁸You will only look with your eyes
and see the recompense of the wicked.
⁹Because you have made the LORD your refuge,
the Most High your habitation,
¹⁰no evil shall befall you,
no scourge come near your tent.

¹¹For he will give his angels charge of you
to guard you in all your ways.
¹²On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you dash your foot against a stone.
¹³You will tread on the lion and the adder,
the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.

¹⁴Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him;
I will protect him, because he knows my name.
¹⁵When he calls to me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble, I will rescue him and honor him. ¹⁶With long life I will satisfy him,
and show him my salvation.

⁵How great are thy works, O LORD!
Thy thoughts are very deep!
⁶The dull man cannot know,
the stupid cannot understand this:
⁷that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction for ever,
⁸but thou, O LORD, art on high for ever. ⁹For, lo, thy enemies, O LORD,
for, lo, thy enemies shall perish;
all evildoers shall be scattered.

¹⁰But thou hast exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
thou hast poured over me fresh oil.
¹¹My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies,
my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

¹²The righteous flourish like the palm tree,
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹³They are planted in the house of the LORD,
they flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴They still bring forth fruit in old age,
they are ever full of sap and green,
¹⁵to show that the Lord is upright;
he is my rock, there is no unrighteousness in him.

³The floods have lifted up, O LORD,
the floods have lifted up their voice,
the floods lift up their roaring.
⁴Mightier than the thunders of many waters,
mightier than the waves of the sea,
the LORD on high is mighty!

⁵Thy decrees are sure;
holiness befits thy house,
O Lord, for evermore.

⁴They pour out their arrogant words,
they boast, all the evildoers.
⁵They crush thy people, O LORD,
and afflict thy heritage.
⁶They slay the widow and the sojourner,
and murder the fatherless;
⁷and they say, "The LORD does not see;
the God of Jacob does not perceive."

⁸Understand, O dullest of the people!
Fools, when will you be wise?
⁹He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see? ¹⁰He who chastens the nations, does he not chastise?
He who teaches men knowledge, ¹¹the LORD, knows the thoughts of man,
that they are but a breath.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O LORD,
and whom thou dost teach out of thy law
¹³to give him respite from days of trouble,
until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴For the LORD will not forsake his people;
he will not abandon his heritage;
¹⁵for justice will return to the righteous,
and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶Who rises up for me against the wicked?
Who stands up for me against evildoers?
¹⁷If the LORD had not been my help,
my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.
¹⁸When I thought, "My foot slips,"
thy steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
¹⁹When the cares of my heart are many,
thy consolations cheer my soul.
²⁰Can wicked rulers be allied with thee,
who frame mischief by statute?
²¹They band together against the life of the righteous,
and condemn the innocent to death.
²²But the LORD has become my stronghold,
and my God the rock of my refuge.
²³He will bring back on them their iniquity
and wipe them out for their wickedness;
the LORD our God will wipe them out.

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down,
let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
⁷For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand.

O that today you would hearken to his voice!
⁸Harden not your hearts, as at Mer'ibah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
⁹when your fathers tested me,
and put me to the proof,
though they had seen my work.
¹⁰For forty years I loathed that generation and said,
"They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways."
¹¹Therefore I swore in my anger
that they should not enter my rest.

⁷Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples,
ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!
⁸Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
bring an offering, and come into his courts!
⁹Worship the LORD in holy array;
tremble before him, all the earth!

¹⁰Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns!
Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved;
he will judge the peoples with equity."
¹¹Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
¹²let the field exult, and everything in it!
Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy
¹³before the LORD, for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness,
and the peoples with his truth.

⁶The heavens proclaim his righteousness;
and all the peoples behold his glory.
⁷All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols;
all gods bow down before him.
⁸Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice,
because of thy judgments, O God.
⁹For thou, O LORD, art most high over all the earth;
thou art exalted far above all gods.

¹⁰The LORD loves those who hate evil;
he preserves the lives of his saints;
he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
¹¹Light dawns for the righteous,
and joy for the upright in heart.
¹²Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,
and give thanks to his holy name!