0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
1: Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
2: Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4: Against 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.
5: Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6: Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
7: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8: Fill me with joy and gladness; let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice.
9: Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10: Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me.
11: Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me.
12: Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13: Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners will return to thee.
14: Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance.
15: O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
16: For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.
17: The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18: Do good to Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
19: then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on thy altar.
  0: To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech."
1: Why do you boast, O mighty man, of mischief done against the godly? All the day
2: you are plotting destruction. Your tongue is like a sharp razor, you worker of treachery.
3: You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking the truth. [Selah]
4: You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
5: But 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]
6: The 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!"
8: But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God for ever and ever.
9: I 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.
0: To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
1: The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none that does good.
2: God looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any that are wise, that seek after God.
3: They have all fallen away; they are all alike depraved; there is none that does good, no, not one.
4: Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?
5: There 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.
6: O that deliverance for Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel be glad.
0: To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, "David is in hiding among us."
1: Save me, O God, by thy name, and vindicate me by thy might.
2: Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
3: For insolent men have risen against me, ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before them. [Selah]
4: Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life.
5: He will requite my enemies with evil; in thy faithfulness put an end to them.
6: With a freewill offering I will sacrifice to thee; I will give thanks to thy name, O LORD, for it is good.
7: For thou hast delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.
0: To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
1: Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication!
2: Attend to me, and answer me; I am overcome by my trouble. I am distraught
3: by the noise of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring trouble upon me, and in anger they cherish enmity against me.
4: My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
5: Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me.
6: And I say, "O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest;
7: yea, I would wander afar, I would lodge in the wilderness, [Selah]
8: I would haste to find me a shelter from the raging wind and tempest."
9: Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.
10: Day and night they go around it on its walls; and mischief and trouble are within it,
11: ruin is in its midst; oppression and fraud do not depart from its market place.
12: It 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.
13: But it is you, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.
14: We used to hold sweet converse together; within God's house we walked in fellowship.
15: Let death come upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive; let them go away in terror into their graves.
16: But I call upon God; and the LORD will save me.
17: Evening and morning and at noon I utter my complaint and moan, and he will hear my voice.
18: He will deliver my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.
19: God will give ear, and humble them, he who is enthroned from of old; because they keep no law, and do not fear God. [Selah]
20: My companion stretched out his hand against his friends, he violated his covenant.
21: His speech was smoother than butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
22: Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
23: But 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

   0: To the choirmaster: according to The Dove on Far-off Terebinths. A Miktam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
1: Be gracious to me, O God, for men trample upon me; all day long foemen oppress me;
2: my enemies trample upon me all day long, for many fight against me proudly.
3: When I am afraid, I put my trust in thee.
4: In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust without a fear. What can flesh do to me?
5: All day long they seek to injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
6: They band themselves together, they lurk, they watch my steps. As they have waited for my life,
7: so recompense them for their crime; in wrath cast down the peoples, O God!
8: Thou hast kept count of my tossings; put thou my tears in thy bottle! Are they not in thy book?
9: Then my enemies will be turned back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.
10: In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,
11: in God I trust without a fear. What can man do to me?
12: My vows to thee I must perform, O God; I will render thank offerings to thee.
13: For thou hast delivered my soul from death, yea, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
   0: To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
1: Be merdiful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in thee my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.
2: I cry to God Most High, to God who fulfils his purpose for me.
3: He will send from heaven and save me, he will put to shame those who trample upon me. [Selah] God will send forth his steadfast love and his faithfulness!
4: I lie in the midst of lions that greedily devour the sons of men; their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongues sharp swords.
5: Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!
6: They 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]
7: My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody!
8: Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
9: I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to thee among the nations.
10: For thy steadfast love is great to the heavens, thy faithfulness to the clouds.
11: Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let thy glory be over all the earth!
0: To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David.
1: Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the sons of men uprightly?
2: Nay, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
3: The wicked go astray from the womb, they err from their birth, speaking lies.
4: They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
5: so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
6: O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O LORD!
7: Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.
8: Let them be like the snail which dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.
9: Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
10: The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11: Men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth."
0: To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David, when Saul sent men to watch his house in order to kill him.
1: Deliver me from my enemies, O my God, protect me from those who rise up against me,
2: deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men.
3: For, lo, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men band themselves against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,
4: for no fault of mine, they run and make ready. Rouse thyself, come to my help, and see!
5: Thou, LORD God of hosts, art God of Israel. Awake to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. [Selah]
6: Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
7: There they are, bellowing with their mouths, and snarling with their lips -- for "Who," they think, "will hear us?"
8: But thou, O LORD, dost laugh at them; thou dost hold all the nations in derision.
9: O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee; for thou, O God, art my fortress.
10: My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.
11: Slay them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!
12: For 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,
13: consume 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]
14: Each evening they come back, howling like dogs and prowling about the city.
15: They roam about for food, and growl if they do not get their fill.
16: But 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.
17: O my Strength, I will sing praises to thee, for thou, O God, art my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.
  0: To the choirmaster: according to Shushan Eduth. A Miktam of David; for instruction; when he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and when Joab on his return killed twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
1: O God, thou hast rejected us, broken our defenses; thou hast been angry; oh, restore us.
2: Thou hast made the land to quake, thou hast rent it open; repair its breaches, for it totters.
3: Thou hast made thy people suffer hard things; thou hast given us wine to drink that made us reel.
4: Thou hast set up a banner for those who fear thee, to rally to it from the bow. [Selah]
5: That thy beloved may be delivered, give victory by thy right hand and answer us!
6: God has spoken in his sanctuary: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
7: Gilead is mine; Manas'seh is mine; E'phraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.
8: Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph."
9: Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?
10: Hast thou not rejected us, O God? Thou dost not go forth, O God, with our armies.
11: O grant us help against the foe, for vain is the help of man!
12: With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.
0: To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
1: Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer;
2: from the end of the earth I call to thee, when my heart is faint. Lead thou me to the rock that is higher than I;
3: for thou art my refuge, a strong tower against the enemy.
4: Let me dwell in thy tent for ever! Oh to be safe under the shelter of thy wings! [Selah]
5: For thou, O God, hast heard my vows, thou hast given me the heritage of those who fear thy name.
6: Prolong the life of the king; may his years endure to all generations!
7: May he be enthroned for ever before God; bid steadfast love and faithfulness watch over him!
8: So will I ever sing praises to thy name, as I pay my vows day after day.
   0: To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
1: For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation.
2: He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly moved.
3: How long will you set upon a man to shatter him, all of you, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence?
4: They only plan to thrust him down from his eminence. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. [Selah]
5: For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him.
6: He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.
7: On God rests my deliverance and my honor; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
8: Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. [Selah]
9: Men 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.
10: Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
11: Once God has spoken; twice have I heard this: that power belongs to God;
12: and that to thee, O Lord, belongs steadfast love. For thou dost requite a man according to his work.
  0: A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
1: O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is.
2: So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary, beholding thy power and glory.
3: Because thy steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise thee.
4: So I will bless thee as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on thy name.
5: My soul is feasted as with marrow and fat, and my mouth praises thee with joyful lips,
6: when I think of thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the watches of the night;
7: for thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings I sing for joy.
8: My soul clings to thee; thy right hand upholds me.
9: But those who seek to destroy my life shall go down into the depths of the earth;
10: they shall be given over to the power of the sword, they shall be prey for jackals.
11: But the king shall rejoice in God; all who swear by him shall glory; for the mouths of liars will be stopped.
  0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
1: Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy,
2: hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers,
3: who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
4: shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.
5: They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, "Who can see us?
6: Who can search out our crimes? We have thought out a cunningly conceived plot." For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep!
7: But God will shoot his arrow at them; they will be wounded suddenly.
8: Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will wag their heads.
9: Then all men will fear; they will tell what God has wrought, and ponder what he has done.
10: Let the righteous rejoice in the LORD, and take refuge in him! Let all the upright in heart glory!
0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.
1: Praise is due to thee, O God, in Zion; and to thee shall vows be performed,
2: O thou who hearest prayer! To thee shall all flesh come
3: on account of sins. When our transgressions prevail over us, thou dost forgive them.
4: Blessed is he whom thou dost choose and bring near, to dwell in thy courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, thy holy temple!
5: By 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;
6: who by thy strength hast established the mountains, being girded with might;
7: who dost still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples;
8: so 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.
9: Thou 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.
10: Thou waterest its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth.
11: Thou crownest the year with thy bounty; the tracks of thy chariot drip with fatness.
12: The pastures of the wilderness drip, the hills gird themselves with joy,
13: the meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.
  0: To the choirmaster. A Song. A Psalm.
1: Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth;
2: sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise!
3: Say to God, "How terrible are thy deeds! So great is thy power that thy enemies cringe before thee.
4: All the earth worships thee; they sing praises to thee, sing praises to thy name." [Selah]
5: Come and see what God has done: he is terrible in his deeds among men.
6: He turned the sea into dry land; men passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him,
7: who rules by his might for ever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations -- let not the rebellious exalt themselves. [Selah]
8: Bless our God, O peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard,
9: who has kept us among the living, and has not let our feet slip.
10: For thou, O God, hast tested us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried.
11: Thou didst bring us into the net; thou didst lay affliction on our loins;
12: thou didst let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet thou hast brought us forth to a spacious place.
13: I will come into thy house with burnt offerings; I will pay thee my vows,
14: that which my lips uttered and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.
15: I 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]
16: Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me.
17: I cried aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue.
18: If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
19: But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer.
20: Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!
  0: To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
1: May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, [Selah]
2: that thy way may be known upon earth, thy saving power among all nations.
3: Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!
4: Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for thou dost judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. [Selah]
5: Let the peoples praise thee, O God; let all the peoples praise thee!
6: The earth has yielded its increase; God, our God, has blessed us.
7: God has blessed us; let all the ends of the earth fear him!
0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.
1: Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let those who hate him flee before him!
2: As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before fire, let the wicked perish before God!
3: But let the righteous be joyful; let them exult before God; let them be jubilant with joy!
4: Sing 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!
5: Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.
6: God gives the desolate a home to dwell in; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
7: O God, when thou didst go forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness, [Selah]
8: the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, at the presence of God; yon Sinai quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9: Rain in abundance, O God, thou didst shed abroad; thou didst restore thy heritage as it languished;
10: thy flock found a dwelling in it; in thy goodness, O God, thou didst provide for the needy.
11: The 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,
13: though they stay among the sheepfolds -- the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with green gold.
14: When the Almighty scattered kings there, snow fell on Zalmon.
15: O mighty mountain, mountain of Bashan; O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan!
16: Why 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?
17: With mighty chariotry, twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands, the Lord came from Sinai into the holy place.
18: Thou 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.
19: Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation. [Selah]
20: Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
21: But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
22: The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,
23: that you may bathe your feet in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe."
24: Thy solemn processions are seen, O God, the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary --
25: the 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!"
27: There 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.
28: Summon thy might, O God; show thy strength, O God, thou who hast wrought for us.
29: Because of thy temple at Jerusalem kings bear gifts to thee.
30: Rebuke 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.
31: Let bronze be brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out her hands to God.
32: Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth; sing praises to the Lord, [Selah]
33: to him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; lo, he sends forth his voice, his mighty voice.
34: Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and his power is in the skies.
35: Terrible is God in his sanctuary, the God of Israel, he gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God!
  0: To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Psalm of David.
1: Save me, O God! For the waters have come up to my neck.
2: I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
3: I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
4: More 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?
5: O God, thou knowest my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from thee.
6: Let 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.
7: For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.
8: I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.
9: For zeal for thy house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult thee have fallen on me.
10: When I humbled my soul with fasting, it became my reproach.
11: When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
12: I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
13: But 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
14: rescue me from sinking in the mire; let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters.
15: Let not the flood sweep over me, or the deep swallow me up, or the pit close its mouth over me.
16: Answer me, O LORD, for thy steadfast love is good; according to thy abundant mercy, turn to me.
17: Hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in distress, make haste to answer me.
18: Draw near to me, redeem me, set me free because of my enemies!
19: Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to thee.
20: Insults 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.
21: They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
22: Let their own table before them become a snare; let their sacrificial feasts be a trap.
23: Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and make their loins tremble continually.
24: Pour out thy indignation upon them, and let thy burning anger overtake them.
25: May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents.
26: For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.
27: Add to them punishment upon punishment; may they have no acquittal from thee.
28: Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
29: But I am afflicted and in pain; let thy salvation, O God, set me on high!
30: I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving.
31: This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.
32: Let the oppressed see it and be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.
33: For the LORD hears the needy, and does not despise his own that are in bonds.
34: Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves therein.
35: For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah; and his servants shall dwell there and possess it;
36: the children of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it.
0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering.
1: Be pleased, O God, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!
2: Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire my hurt!
3: Let them be appalled because of their shame who say, "Aha, Aha!"
4: May all who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee! May those who love thy salvation say evermore, "God is great!"
5: But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! Thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not tarry!
  1: In thee, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame!
2: In thy righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline thy ear to me, and save me!
3: Be thou to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to save me, for thou art my rock and my fortress.
4: Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
5: For thou, O Lord, art my hope, my trust, O LORD, from my youth.
6: Upon thee I have leaned from my birth; thou art he who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of thee.
7: I have been as a portent to many; but thou art my strong refuge.
8: My mouth is filled with thy praise, and with thy glory all the day.
9: Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
10: For my enemies speak concerning me, those who watch for my life consult together,
11: and say, "God has forsaken him; pursue and seize him, for there is none to deliver him."
12: O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!
13: May my accusers be put to shame and consumed; with scorn and disgrace may they be covered who seek my hurt.
14: But I will hope continually, and will praise thee yet more and more.
15: My mouth will tell of thy righteous acts, of thy deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.
16: With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come, I will praise thy righteousness, thine alone.
17: O God, from my youth thou hast taught me, and I still proclaim thy wondrous deeds.
18: So 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
19: and thy righteousness, O God, reach the high heavens. Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like thee?
20: Thou who hast made me see many sore troubles wilt revive me again; from the depths of the earth thou wilt bring me up again.
21: Thou wilt increase my honor, and comfort me again.
22: I 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.
23: My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to thee; my soul also, which thou hast rescued.
24: And 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.
  0: A Psalm of Solomon.
1: Give the king thy justice, O God, and thy righteousness to the royal son!
2: May he judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with justice!
3: Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness!
4: May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the needy, and crush the oppressor!
5: May he live while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!
6: May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth!
7: In his days may righteousness flourish, and peace abound, till the moon be no more!
8: May he have dominion from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth!
9: May his foes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!
10: May the kings of Tarshish and of the isles render him tribute, may the kings of Sheba and Seba bring gifts!
11: May all kings fall down before him, all nations serve him!
12: For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.
13: He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.
14: From oppression and violence he redeems their life; and precious is their blood in his sight.
15: Long 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!
16: May 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!
17: May his name endure for ever, his fame continue as long as the sun! May men bless themselves by him, all nations call him blessed!
18: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who alone does wondrous things.
19: Blessed be his glorious name for ever; may his glory fill the whole earth! Amen and Amen!
20: The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.
  0: A Psalm of Asaph.
1: Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.
2: But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had well nigh slipped.
3: For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4: For they have no pangs; their bodies are sound and sleek.
5: They are not in trouble as other men are; they are not stricken like other men.
6: Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
7: Their eyes swell out with fatness, their hearts overflow with follies.
8: They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
9: They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
10: Therefore the people turn and praise them; and find no fault in them.
11: And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
12: Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
13: All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
14: For all the day long I have been stricken, and chastened every morning.
15: If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.
16: But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
17: until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.
18: Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin.
19: How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
20: They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.
21: When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
22: I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.
23: Nevertheless I am continually with thee; thou dost hold my right hand.
24: Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory.
25: Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee.
26: My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
27: For lo, those who are far from thee shall perish; thou dost put an end to those who are false to thee.
28: But 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.
   0: A Maskil of Asaph.
1: O God, why dost thou cast us off for ever? Why does thy anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
2: Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thy heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where thou hast dwelt.
3: Direct thy steps to the perpetual ruins; the enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary!
4: Thy foes have roared in the midst of thy holy place; they set up their own signs for signs.
5: At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes.
6: And then all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
7: They set thy sanctuary on fire; to the ground they desecrated the dwelling place of thy name.
8: They said to themselves, "We will utterly subdue them"; they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.
9: We do not see our signs; there is no longer any prophet, and there is none among us who knows how long.
10: How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile thy name for ever?
11: Why dost thou hold back thy hand, why dost thou keep thy right hand in thy bosom?
12: Yet God my King is from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
13: Thou didst divide the sea by thy might; thou didst break the heads of the dragons on the waters.
14: Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan, thou didst give him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
15: Thou didst cleave open springs and brooks; thou didst dry up ever-flowing streams.
16: Thine is the day, thine also the night; thou hast established the luminaries and the sun.
17: Thou hast fixed all the bounds of the earth; thou hast made summer and winter.
18: Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and an impious people reviles thy name.
19: Do not deliver the soul of thy dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of thy poor for ever.
20: Have regard for thy covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.
21: Let not the downtrodden be put to shame; let the poor and needy praise thy name.
22: Arise, O God, plead thy cause; remember how the impious scoff at thee all the day!
23: Do not forget the clamor of thy foes, the uproar of thy adversaries which goes up continually!
  0: To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.
1: We give thanks to thee, O God; we give thanks; we call on thy name and recount thy wondrous deeds.
2: At the set time which I appoint I will judge with equity.
3: When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. [Selah]
4: I say to the boastful, "Do not boast," and to the wicked, "Do not lift up your horn;
5: do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with insolent neck."
6: For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;
7: but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
8: For 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.
9: But I will rejoice for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10: All the horns of the wicked he will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
   0: To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.
1: In Judah God is known, his name is great in Israel.
2: His abode has been established in Salem, his dwelling place in Zion.
3: There he broke the flashing arrows, the shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. [Selah]
4: Glorious art thou, more majestic than the everlasting mountains.
5: The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.
6: At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse lay stunned.
7: But thou, terrible art thou! Who can stand before thee when once thy anger is roused?
8: From the heavens thou didst utter judgment; the earth feared and was still,
9: when God arose to establish judgment to save all the oppressed of the earth. [Selah]
10: Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee; the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.
11: Make your vows to the LORD your God, and perform them; let all around him bring gifts to him who is to be feared,
12: who cuts off the spirit of princes, who is terrible to the kings of the earth.
  0: To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.
1: I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, that he may hear me.
2: In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted.
3: I think of God, and I moan; I meditate, and my spirit faints. [Selah]
4: Thou dost hold my eyelids from closing; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
5: I consider the days of old, I remember the years long ago.
6: I 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?
8: Has his steadfast love for ever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?
9: Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" [Selah]
10: And I say, "It is my grief that the right hand of the Most High has changed."
11: I will call to mind the deeds of the LORD; yea, I will remember thy wonders of old.
12: I will meditate on all thy work, and muse on thy mighty deeds.
13: Thy way, O God, is holy. What god is great like our God?
14: Thou art the God who workest wonders, who hast manifested thy might among the peoples.
15: Thou didst with thy arm redeem thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah]
16: When the waters saw thee, O God, when the waters saw thee, they were afraid, yea, the deep trembled.
17: The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; thy arrows flashed on every side.
18: The crash of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; thy lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
19: Thy way was through the sea, thy path through the great waters; yet thy footprints were unseen.
20: Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
    0: A Maskil of Asaph.
1: Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
2: I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
3: things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
4: We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders which he has wrought.
5: He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;
6: that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
7: so that they should set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
8: and 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.
9: The E'phraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
10: They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
11: They forgot what he had done, and the miracles that he had shown them.
12: In the sight of their fathers he wrought marvels in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zo'an.
13: He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
14: In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
15: He cleft rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16: He made streams come out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17: Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18: They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
19: They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
20: He smote the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?"
21: Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob, his anger mounted against Israel;
22: because they had no faith in God, and did not trust his saving power.
23: Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
24: and he rained down upon them manna to eat, and gave them the grain of heaven.
25: Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
26: He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
27: he rained flesh upon them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
28: he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.
29: And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
30: But before they had sated their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
31: the anger of God rose against them and he slew the strongest of them, and laid low the picked men of Israel.
32: In spite of all this they still sinned; despite his wonders they did not believe.
33: So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
34: When he slew them, they sought for him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
35: They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
36: But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
37: Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not true to his covenant.
38: Yet he, being compassionate, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often, and did not stir up all his wrath.
39: He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
40: How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
41: They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42: They did not keep in mind his power, or the day when he redeemed them from the foe;
43: when he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the fields of Zo'an.
44: He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
45: He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
46: He gave their crops to the caterpillar, and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47: He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
48: He gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49: He let loose on them his fierce anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
50: He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
51: He smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52: Then he led forth his people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53: He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54: And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
55: He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56: Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,
57: but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
58: For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59: When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
60: He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among men,
61: and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
62: He gave his people over to the sword, and vented his wrath on his heritage.
63: Fire devoured their young men, and their maidens had no marriage song.
64: Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
65: Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
66: And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
67: He rejected the tent of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of E'phraim;
68: but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
69: He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded for ever.
70: He chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
71: from tending the ewes that had young he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob his people, of Israel his inheritance.
72: With upright heart he tended them, and guided them with skilful hand.
   0: A Psalm of Asaph.
1: O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; they have defiled thy holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
2: They have given the bodies of thy servants to the birds of the air for food, the flesh of thy saints to the beasts of the earth.
3: They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
4: We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those round about us.
5: How long, O LORD? Wilt thou be angry for ever? Will thy jealous wrath burn like fire?
6: Pour out thy anger on the nations that do not know thee, and on the kingdoms that do not call on thy name!
7: For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
8: Do not remember against us the iniquities of our forefathers; let thy compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
9: Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for thy name's sake!
10: Why 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!
11: Let the groans of the prisoners come before thee; according to thy great power preserve those doomed to die!
12: Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted thee, O Lord!
13: Then we thy people, the flock of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever; from generation to generation we will recount thy praise.
  0: To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.
1: Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou who leadest Joseph like a flock! Thou who art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth
2: before E'phraim and Benjamin and Manas'seh! Stir up thy might, and come to save us!
3: Restore us, O God; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
4: O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with thy people's prayers?
5: Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.
6: Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7: Restore us, O God of hosts; let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
8: Thou didst bring a vine out of Egypt; thou didst drive out the nations and plant it.
9: Thou didst clear the ground for it; it took deep root and filled the land.
10: The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches;
11: it sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
12: Why then hast thou broken down its walls, so that all who pass along the way pluck its fruit?
13: The boar from the forest ravages it, and all that move in the field feed on it.
14: Turn again, O God of hosts! Look down from heaven, and see; have regard for this vine,
15: the stock which thy right hand planted.
16: They have burned it with fire, they have cut it down; may they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance!
17: But let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself!
18: Then we will never turn back from thee; give us life, and we will call on thy name!
19: Restore us, O LORD God of hosts! let thy face shine, that we may be saved!
0: To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.
1: Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob!
2: Raise a song, sound the timbrel, the sweet lyre with the harp.
3: Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
4: For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
5: He made it a decree in Joseph, when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a voice I had not known:
6: "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
7: In 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]
8: Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
9: There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
10: I 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.
12: So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
13: O that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
14: I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.
15: Those who hate the LORD would cringe toward him, and their fate would last for ever.
16: I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
  0: A Psalm of Asaph.
1: God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment:
2: "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah]
3: Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
4: Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."
5: They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6: I say, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
7: nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince."
8: Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to thee belong all the nations!
0: A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
1: O God, do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!
2: For lo, thy enemies are in tumult; those who hate thee have raised their heads.
3: They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.
4: They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
5: Yea, they conspire with one accord; against thee they make a covenant --
6: the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7: Gebal and Ammon and Am'alek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8: Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. [Selah]
9: Do to them as thou didst to Mid'ian, as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10: who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
11: Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,
12: who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."
13: O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
14: As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15: so do thou pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy hurricane!
16: Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17: Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; let them perish in disgrace.
18: Let them know that thou alone, whose name is the LORD, art the Most High over all the earth.
   0: To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
1: How lovely is thy dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!
2: My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
3: Even 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.
4: Blessed are those who dwell in thy house, ever singing thy praise! [Selah]
5: Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
6: As they go through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.
7: They go from strength to strength; the God of gods will be seen in Zion.
8: O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! [Selah]
9: Behold our shield, O God; look upon the face of thine anointed!
10: For 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.
11: For 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.
12: O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in thee!
0: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
1: LORD, thou wast favorable to thy land; thou didst restore the fortunes of Jacob.
2: Thou didst forgive the iniquity of thy people; thou didst pardon all their sin. [Selah]
3: Thou didst withdraw all thy wrath; thou didst turn from thy hot anger.
4: Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away thy indignation toward us!
5: Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou prolong thy anger to all generations?
6: Wilt thou not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7: Show us thy steadfast love, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
8: Let 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.
9: Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
10: Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.
11: Faithfulness will spring up from the ground, and righteousness will look down from the sky.
12: Yea, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its increase.
13: Righteousness will go before him, and make his footsteps a way.
  0: A Prayer of David.
1: Incline thy ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
2: Preserve my life, for I am godly; save thy servant who trusts in thee. Thou art my God;
3: be gracious to me, O Lord, for to thee do I cry all the day.
4: Gladden the soul of thy servant, for to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5: For thou, O Lord, art good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on thee.
6: Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; hearken to my cry of supplication.
7: In the day of my trouble I call on thee, for thou dost answer me.
8: There is none like thee among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like thine.
9: All the nations thou hast made shall come and bow down before thee, O Lord, and shall glorify thy name.
10: For thou art great and doest wondrous things, thou alone art God.
11: Teach me thy way, O LORD, that I may walk in thy truth; unite my heart to fear thy name.
12: I give thanks to thee, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever.
13: For great is thy steadfast love toward me; thou hast delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.
14: O God, insolent men have risen up against me; a band of ruthless men seek my life, and they do not set thee before them.
15: But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
16: Turn to me and take pity on me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.
17: Show 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.
0: A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song.
1: On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2: the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
3: Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. [Selah]
4: Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia -- "This one was born there," they say.
5: And of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; for the Most High himself will establish her.
6: The LORD records as he registers the peoples, "This one was born there." [Selah]
7: Singers and dancers alike say, "All my springs are in you."
   0: A Song. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
1: O LORD, my God, I call for help by day; I cry out in the night before thee.
2: Let my prayer come before thee, incline thy ear to my cry!
3: For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
4: I am reckoned among those who go down to the Pit; I am a man who has no strength,
5: like one forsaken among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom thou dost remember no more, for they are cut off from thy hand.
6: Thou hast put me in the depths of the Pit, in the regions dark and deep.
7: Thy wrath lies heavy upon me, and thou dost overwhelm me with all thy waves. [Selah]
8: Thou 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;
9: my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon thee, O LORD; I spread out my hands to thee.
10: Dost thou work wonders for the dead? Do the shades rise up to praise thee? [Selah]
11: Is thy steadfast love declared in the grave, or thy faithfulness in Abaddon?
12: Are thy wonders known in the darkness, or thy saving help in the land of forgetfulness?
13: But I, O LORD, cry to thee; in the morning my prayer comes before thee.
14: O LORD, why dost thou cast me off? Why dost thou hide thy face from me?
15: Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer thy terrors; I am helpless.
16: Thy wrath has swept over me; thy dread assaults destroy me.
17: They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in upon me together.
18: Thou hast caused lover and friend to shun me; my companions are in darkness.
    0: A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
1: I will sing of thy steadfast love, O LORD, for ever; with my mouth I will proclaim thy faithfulness to all generations.
2: For thy steadfast love was established for ever, thy faithfulness is firm as the heavens.
3: Thou hast said, "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant:
4: `I will establish your descendants for ever, and build your throne for all generations.'" [Selah]
5: Let the heavens praise thy wonders, O LORD, thy faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones!
6: For who in the skies can be compared to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD,
7: a God feared in the council of the holy ones, great and terrible above all that are round about him?
8: O LORD God of hosts, who is mighty as thou art, O LORD, with thy faithfulness round about thee?
9: Thou dost rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, thou stillest them.
10: Thou didst crush Rahab like a carcass, thou didst scatter thy enemies with thy mighty arm.
11: The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine; the world and all that is in it, thou hast founded them.
12: The north and the south, thou hast created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise thy name.
13: Thou hast a mighty arm; strong is thy hand, high thy right hand.
14: Righteousness and justice are the foundation of thy throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before thee.
15: Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance,
16: who exult in thy name all the day, and extol thy righteousness.
17: For thou art the glory of their strength; by thy favor our horn is exalted.
18: For our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
19: Of 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.
20: I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him;
21: so that my hand shall ever abide with him, my arm also shall strengthen him.
22: The enemy shall not outwit him, the wicked shall not humble him.
23: I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
24: My faithfulness and my steadfast love shall be with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted.
25: I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers.
26: He shall cry to me, `Thou art my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.'
27: And I will make him the first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.
28: My steadfast love I will keep for him for ever, and my covenant will stand firm for him.
29: I will establish his line for ever and his throne as the days of the heavens.
30: If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances,
31: if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
32: then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with scourges;
33: but I will not remove from him my steadfast love, or be false to my faithfulness.
34: I will not violate my covenant, or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
35: Once for all I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David.
36: His line shall endure for ever, his throne as long as the sun before me.
37: Like the moon it shall be established for ever; it shall stand firm while the skies endure." [Selah]
38: But now thou hast cast off and rejected, thou art full of wrath against thy anointed.
39: Thou hast renounced the covenant with thy servant; thou hast defiled his crown in the dust.
40: Thou hast breached all his walls; thou hast laid his strongholds in ruins.
41: All that pass by despoil him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.
42: Thou hast exalted the right hand of his foes; thou hast made all his enemies rejoice.
43: Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and thou hast not made him stand in battle.
44: Thou hast removed the scepter from his hand, and cast his throne to the ground.
45: Thou hast cut short the days of his youth; thou hast covered him with shame. [Selah]
46: How long, O LORD? Wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How long will thy wrath burn like fire?
47: Remember, O Lord, what the measure of life is, for what vanity thou hast created all the sons of men!
48: What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [Selah]
49: Lord, where is thy steadfast love of old, which by thy faithfulness thou didst swear to David?
50: Remember, O Lord, how thy servant is scorned; how I bear in my bosom the insults of the peoples,
51: with which thy enemies taunt, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of thy anointed.
52: Blessed be the LORD for ever! Amen and Amen.
   0: A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.
1: LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God.
3: Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!"
4: For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
5: Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning:
6: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
7: For we are consumed by thy anger; by thy wrath we are overwhelmed.
8: Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9: For all our days pass away under thy wrath, our years come to an end like a sigh.
10: The 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.
11: Who considers the power of thy anger, and thy wrath according to the fear of thee?
12: So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
13: Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on thy servants!
14: Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15: Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil.
16: Let thy work be manifest to thy servants, and thy glorious power to their children.
17: Let 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.
1: He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, who abides in the shadow of the Almighty,
2: will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust."
3: For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence;
4: he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
5: You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,
6: nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7: A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
8: You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.
9: Because you have made the LORD your refuge, the Most High your habitation,
10: no evil shall befall you, no scourge come near your tent.
11: For he will give his angels charge of you to guard you in all your ways.
12: On their hands they will bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13: You will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.
14: Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.
15: When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will rescue him and honor him.
16: With long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
0: A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.
1: It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to thy name, O Most High;
2: to declare thy steadfast love in the morning, and thy faithfulness by night,
3: to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre.
4: For thou, O LORD, hast made me glad by thy work; at the works of thy hands I sing for joy.
5: How great are thy works, O LORD! Thy thoughts are very deep!
6: The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this:
7: that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,
8: but thou, O LORD, art on high for ever.
9: For, lo, thy enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thy enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.
10: But thou hast exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; thou hast poured over me fresh oil.
11: My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies, my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.
12: The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13: They are planted in the house of the LORD, they flourish in the courts of our God.
14: They still bring forth fruit in old age, they are ever full of sap and green,
15: to show that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
   1: The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved;
2: thy throne is established from of old; thou art from everlasting.
3: The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift up their roaring.
4: Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the LORD on high is mighty!
5: Thy decrees are very sure; holiness befits thy house, O LORD, for evermore.
1: O LORD, thou God of vengeance, thou God of vengeance, shine forth!
2: Rise up, O judge of the earth; render to the proud their deserts!
3: O LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?
4: They pour out their arrogant words, they boast, all the evildoers.
5: They crush thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage.
6: They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless;
7: and they say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob does not perceive."
8: Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
9: He who planted the ear, does he not hear? He who formed the eye, does he not see?
10: He who chastens the nations, does he not chastise? He who teaches men knowledge,
11: the LORD, knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath.
12: Blessed is the man whom thou dost chasten, O LORD, and whom thou dost teach out of thy law
13: to give him respite from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.
14: For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
15: for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.
16: Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?
17: If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in the land of silence.
18: When I thought, "My foot slips," thy steadfast love, O LORD, held me up.
19: When the cares of my heart are many, thy consolations cheer my soul.
20: Can wicked rulers be allied with thee, who frame mischief by statute?
21: They band together against the life of the righteous, and condemn the innocent to death.
22: But the LORD has become my stronghold, and my God the rock of my refuge.
23: He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the LORD our God will wipe them out.
   1: O come, let us sing to the LORD; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2: Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
3: For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
4: In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also.
5: The sea is his, for he made it; for his hands formed the dry land.
6: O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker!
7: For 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!
8: Harden not your hearts, as at Mer'ibah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9: when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
10: For forty years I loathed that generation and said, "They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways."
11: Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest.
  1: O sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth!
2: Sing to the LORD, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day.
3: Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples!
4: For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
5: For all the gods of the peoples are idols; but the LORD made the heavens.
6: Honor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
7: Ascribe to the LORD, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength!
8: Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts!
9: Worship the LORD in holy array; tremble before him, all the earth!
10: Say among the nations, "The LORD reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity."
11: Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
12: let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy
13: before 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.
    1: The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!
2: Clouds and thick darkness are round about him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
3: Fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.
4: His lightnings lighten the world; the earth sees and trembles.
5: The mountains melt like wax before the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
6: The heavens proclaim his righteousness; and all the peoples behold his glory.
7: All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; all gods bow down before him.
8: Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice, because of thy judgments, O God.
9: For thou, O LORD, art most high over all the earth; thou art exalted far above all gods.
10: The LORD loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11: Light dawns for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.
12: Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name!
    0: A Psalm.
1: O sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have gotten him victory.
2: The LORD has made known his victory, he has revealed his vindication in the sight of the nations.
3: He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.
4: Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!
5: Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody!
6: With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD!
7: Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it!
8: Let the floods clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together
9: before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
    1: The LORD reigns; let the peoples tremble! He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!
2: The LORD is great in Zion; he is exalted over all the peoples.
3: Let them praise thy great and terrible name! Holy is he!
4: Mighty King, lover of justice, thou hast established equity; thou hast executed justice and righteousness in Jacob.
5: Extol the LORD our God; worship at his footstool! Holy is he!
6: Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They cried to the LORD, and he answered them.
7: He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the statutes that he gave them.
8: O LORD our God, thou didst answer them; thou wast a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
9: Extol the LORD our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the LORD our God is holy!
  0: A Psalm for the thank offering.
1: Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the lands!
2: Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!
3: Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4: Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name!
5: For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.