Psalms

1 Blessed ^ais the man who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, ^bnor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

2 But ^chis delight is in the law of the LORD, ^dand on His law he meditates day and night.

3 And he will be like a tree ^eplanted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also will not wither. And whatever he does will ^fprosper.

4 The ungodly are not so. But they are ^glike the chaff that the wind drives away.

5 Therefore, the ungodly will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

6 For ^hthe LORD knows the way of the righteous. But the way of the ungodly will perish.

1 Why ^ado the nations rage and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the ^brulers take counsel together against the LORD and against His ^canointed.

3 They say, “Let ^dus break their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from us.”

4 He who sits in the heavens ^ewill laugh. The Lord will hold them in derision.

5 Then He will speak to them in His wrath and trouble them in His deep displeasure.

6 “Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.

7 “I will declare the decree. The LORD has said to me, ^f‘You are My Son. This day I have begotten You.

8 ‘Ask of Me and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance and the ends of the earth for Your possession.

9 ^g‘You will break them with a rod of iron. You will dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

10 ‘Be wise now therefore, O kings. Be instructed you judges of the earth.’”

11 Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling.

12 Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and you perish from the way when ^hHis wrath is kindled but a little. ⁱBlessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

1 LORD, how are they increased who trouble me! Many are those who rise up against me.

2 Many there are who say of my soul, “There is no help for him in God.”

3 But You, O LORD, are a ^ashield for me, my glory and the ^bOne who lifts up my head.

4 I cried out to the LORD with my voice, and ^cHe heard me out of His ^dholy hill.

5 ^eI laid myself down and slept. I awakened, for the LORD sustained me.

6 ^fI will not be afraid of ten thousand people who have set themselves against me all around.

7 Arise, O LORD, save me, O my God. For ^gYou have smitten all my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

8 ^hSalvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing is on Your people.

1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness. You have relieved me when I was in distress. Have mercy on me and hear my prayer.

2 O sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? How long will you love vanity and seek after worthlessness?

3 But know that the ^aLORD has set apart for Himself him who is godly. The LORD will hear when I call to Him.

4 ^bStand in awe and do not sin. ^cMeditate with your own heart on your bed and be still.

5 Offer the ^dsacrifices of righteousness and ^eput your trust in the LORD.

6 There are many who say, “Who will show us any good?” ^fLORD, lift up the light of Your countenance on us.

7 You have put ^ggladness in my heart, more than in the time when their grain and their wine increased.

8 ^hI will both lay down in peace and sleep. ⁱFor You only, LORD, make me dwell in safety.

1 Give ^aear to my words, O LORD. Consider my meditation.

2 Hearken to the voice of my cry, my King and my God, for to You I will pray.

3 My voice You will hear in the morning, O LORD. ^bIn the morning I will direct my prayer to You and will look up.

4 For You are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Neither will evil dwell with You.

5 The ^cfoolish will not ^dstand in Your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

6 You will destroy those who speak falsehood. The LORD will abhor the man of ^ebloodshed and deceit.

7 But as for me, I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy. And in Your fear I will worship toward Your holy temple.

8 ^fLead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies. Make Your way straight before my face.

9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their inward part is very wicked. ^gTheir throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

10 Destroy them, O God. Let them fall by their own counsels. Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

11 But let all those who put their trust in You rejoice. Let them always shout for joy because You defend them. Let them also who love Your name be joyful in You.

12 For You, LORD, will bless the righteous. With favor You will surround him as with a shield.

1 O LORD, ^ado not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your hot displeasure.

2 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am weak. O LORD, ^bheal me, for my bones are troubled.

3 My soul is also greatly ^ctroubled. But You, O LORD, how long?

4 Return, O LORD, deliver my soul. O save me for Your mercies’ sake.

5 ^dFor in death there is no remembrance of You. In the grave, who will give You thanks?

6 I am weary with my groaning. All the night I make my bed swim. I drench my couch with my tears.

7 ^eMy eye is consumed because of grief. It waxes old because of all my enemies.

8 ^fDepart from me all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has ^gheard the voice of my weeping.

9 The LORD has heard my supplication. The LORD will receive my prayer.

10 Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled. Let them turn back and be suddenly ashamed.

1 O LORD my God, in You do I put my trust. ^aSave me from all those who persecute me, and deliver me,

2 ^blest he tear my soul like a lion, ^ctearing it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

3 O LORD my God, ^dif I have done this, if there is ^einiquity in my hands,

4 if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me, or ^fhave plundered him who without cause was my enemy,

5 let the enemy persecute my soul and take it. Yes, let him tread down my life on the earth and lay my honor in the dust.

6 Arise, O LORD, in Your anger. ^gLift up Yourself because of the rage of my enemies, and ^hawake for me to the judgment that You have commanded.

7 So will the assembly of the people surround You. For their sakes, therefore, return on high.

8 The LORD will judge the people. ⁱJudge me, O LORD, ^jaccording to my righteousness and according to my integrity that is in me.

9 O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. ^kFor the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

10 My defense is with God who saves the ^lupright in heart.

11 God judges the righteous and God is angry with the wicked every day.

12 If a man does not turn, He will ^msharpen His sword. He has bent His bow and made it ready.

13 He has also prepared for Himself the instruments of death. He makes His arrows into fiery shafts.

14 ⁿBehold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief and brought forth falsehood.

15 He made a pit and dug it out. ^oAnd he has fallen into the ditch that he made.

16 ^pHis mischief will return on his own head, and his violent dealings will come down on his own crown.

17 I will praise the LORD according to His righteousness. And I will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

1 O LORD our Lord, how ^aexcellent is Your name in all the earth, who have ^bset Your glory above the heavens.

2 ^cOut of the mouth of babes and sucklings You have ordained strength because of Your enemies, so that You might quiet ^dthe enemy and the avenger.

3 When I ^econsider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, that You have ordained,

4 ^fwhat is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You ^gvisit him?

5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels. And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

6 ^hYou made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands. ⁱYou have put all things under his feet:

7 all sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field,

8 the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 ^jO LORD our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth!

1 I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart. I will show forth all Your marvellous works.

2 I will be glad and ^arejoice in You. I will sing praise to Your name, ^bO Most High.

3 When my enemies have turned back, they will fall and perish at Your presence.

4 For You have maintained my right and my cause. You sat on the throne judging right.

5 You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have ^cblotted their name forever and ever.

6 The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins. And You have destroyed cities. Their memorial has ^dperished with them.

7 ^eBut the LORD will endure forever. He has prepared His throne for judgment.

8 ^fAnd He will judge the world in righteousness. He will minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

9 The LORD also will be a ^grefuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

10 And they who ^hknow Your name will put their trust in You. For You, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.

11 Sing praises to the LORD who dwells in Zion. ⁱDeclare among the people His work.

12 ^jWhen He requires blood, He remembers them. He does not forget the cry of the humble.

13 Have mercy on me, O LORD. Consider my trouble that I suffer from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

14 so that I may show forth all Your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will ^krejoice in Your salvation.

15 ^lThe nations have sunk down in the pit that they made, in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.

16 The LORD is ^mknown by the judgment that He executes. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.

17 The wicked will be turned to Sheol and all the nations ⁿwho forget God.

18 ^oFor the needy will not always be forgotten. ^pThe expectation of the poor will not perish forever.

19 Arise, O LORD, and do not let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in Your sight.

20 Put them in fear, O LORD, so that the nations may know themselves to be but men.

1 Why do You stand afar off, O LORD? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

2 The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor. ^aLet them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

3 For the wicked ^bboasts of his heart’s desire, and ^cblesses the covetous whom the LORD abhors.

4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God. God is not in all his ^dthoughts.

5 His ways are always prospering. Your judgments are out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

6 ^eHe has said in his heart, “I will not be moved, ^ffor I will never be in adversity.”

7 ^gHis mouth is full of cursing and ^hdeceit and threats. Under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages. In the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.

9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor: he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

10 He crouches, and humbles himself so that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

11 He has said in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides His face. He will never see it.”

12 Arise, O LORD, O God. ⁱLift up Your hand. Do not forget the ^jhumble.

13 Why do the wicked renounce God? He has said in his heart, “You will not require it.”

14 You have ^kseen it, for You behold mischief and spite, to take it with Your hand. The poor ^lcommits himself to You. ^mYou are the helper of the fatherless.

15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil. Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

16 ⁿThe LORD is King forever and ever. The nations are perished out of His land.

17 LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause Your ear to hear,

18 to the justice of the fatherless and the oppressed so that the man of the earth may oppress no more.

1 In the ^aLORD I put my trust. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?

2 “For behold, ^bthe wicked bend their bow. They make ready their arrow on the string so that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

3 ^c“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

4 The LORD is in His holy temple. The LORD’S ^dthrone is in heaven. ^eHis eyes behold. His eyelids test the children of men.

5 The LORD ^ftests the righteous, but His soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

6 On the wicked He will rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest. ^gThis will be the portion of their cup.

7 For the righteous LORD ^hloves righteousness. Those who are upright will see His face.

1 Help, LORD, for the godly man ^aceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

2 ^bEvery one speaks vanity with his neighbor; with flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

3 The LORD will cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaks proud things;

4 who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

5 “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will arise now,” says the LORD. “I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”

6 The words of the LORD are ^cpure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

7 You will keep them, O LORD. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

8 The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted.

1 How long will You forget me, O LORD? Forever? ^aHow long will You hide Your face from me?

2 How long will I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God. ^bLighten my eyes ^clest I sleep the sleep of death,

4 lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him,” and those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

5 But I have trusted in Your mercy. My heart will rejoice in Your salvation.

6 I will sing to the LORD because He has dealt bountifully with me.

1 The ^afool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good.

2 ^bThe LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men to see if there were any who understood and sought God.

3 ^cThey have all gone aside. They have all together become filthy. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread, and ^ddo not call on the LORD.

5 There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

6 You have shamed the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his ^erefuge.

7 ^fO that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! ^gWhen the LORD brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad.

1 LORD, ^awho will abide in Your tabernacle? Who will dwell in Your holy hill?

2 He who walks uprightly and works righteousness and speaks the ^btruth in his heart.

3 He who ^cdoes not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, ^dnor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

4 ^eHe in whose eyes a vile person is despised, but he honors those who fear the LORD; he who ^fswears to his own hurt, and does not change.

5 He who does not put out his money for interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He who does these things ^gwill never be moved.

1 Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust.

2 O my soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my Lord. I have no ^agoodness beyond You.”

3 But for the saints who are on the earth, they are the excellent ones in ^bwhom is all My delight.

4 Their sorrows will be multiplied. I will not offer their drink offerings of ^cblood, ^dnor take up their names into my lips.

5 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup. You maintain my lot.

6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a goodly heritage.

7 I will bless the LORD who has given me counsel. My heart also instructs me in the night seasons.

8 ^eI have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

9 Therefore, my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. My flesh also will rest in hope.

10 ^fFor You will not leave my soul in Sheol, nor will You suffer Your Holy One to see corruption.

11 You will show me the ^gpath of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy. At Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

1 Hear the right, O LORD. Attend to my cry. Give ear to my prayer that does not go out of feigned lips.

2 Let my sentence come forth from Your presence. Let Your eyes behold the things that are equal.

3 You have tested my heart. You have visited me in the night. ^aYou have tried me and will find nothing. I have purposed that my mouth will not ^btransgress.

4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of Your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

5 ^cUphold my steps in Your paths so that my footsteps do not slip.

6 ^dI have called on You, for You will hear me, O God. Incline Your ear to me and hear my speech.

7 Show Your marvelous lovingkindness You who save by Your right hand those who put their trust in You, from those who rise up against them.

8 Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of Your wings

9 from the wicked who oppress me, from my deadly enemies who surround me.

10 They have closed up their ^efat hearts. With their mouth they ^fspeak proudly.

11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They have set their eyes bowing down to the earth,

12 like a lion that is greedy for his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

13 Arise, O LORD, confront him and cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword,

14 from men with Your hand, O LORD, from men of the world who have their portion in this life, and whose belly You fill with Your treasure. They are satisfied with children and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

15 As for me, ^gI will behold Your face in righteousness. ^hI will be satisfied when I ⁱawake with Your likeness.

1 And he said, ^a“I will love You, O LORD, my strength.”

2 The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my strength ^bin whom I will trust, my shield and the horn of my salvation and my high tower.

3 I will call on the LORD ^cwho is worthy to be praised. Thus I will be saved from my enemies.

4 ^dThe sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me. The snares of death confronted me.

6 In my distress I called on the LORD and cried out to my God. He heard my voice out of His temple and my cry came before Him, even into His ears.

7 ^eThen the earth shook and trembled, the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken because He was angry.

8 There went up a smoke out of His nostrils and fire out of His mouth devoured. Coals were kindled by it.

9 ^fHe bowed the heavens also and came down. And darkness was under His feet.

10 ^gAnd He rode on a cherub and flew. Yes, ^hHe flew on the wings of the wind.

11 He made darkness His secret place. ⁱHis canopy around Him was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

12 ^jAt the brightness that was before Him, His thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave ^kHis voice, hail stones and coals of fire.

14 ^lYes, He sent out His arrows and scattered them, and He shot out lightnings and vanquished them.

15 Then the channels of waters were seen and the foundations of the world were discovered at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

16 ^mHe sent from above. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

17 He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.

18 They confronted me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my stay.

19 ⁿHe brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me because He delighted in me.

20 ^oThe LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

22 For all His judgments were before me and I did not put away His statutes from me.

23 I was also upright before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

24 ^pTherefore, the LORD has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyesight.

25 ^qWith the merciful You will show Yourself merciful. With an upright man You will show Yourself upright.

26 With the pure You will show Yourself pure. And ^rwith the devious You will show Yourself shrewd.

27 For You will save the afflicted people, but will bring down ^shaughty eyes.

28 ^tFor You will light my candle. The LORD my God will illuminate my darkness.

29 For by You I have run against a troop, and by my God I have leaped over a wall.

30 As for God, ^uHis way is perfect. The ^vword of the LORD is tried. He is a shield ^wto all those who trust in Him.

31 ^xFor who is God but the LORD? Or who is a rock but our God?

32 It is God who ^yarms me with strength and makes my way perfect.

33 ^zHe makes my feet like the feet of deer and ^asets me on my high places.

34 ^bHe teaches my hands to make war so that a bow of bronze is broken by my arms.

35 You have also given me the shield of Your salvation. And Your right hand has held me up, and Your gentleness has made me great.

36 You have enlarged my steps under me ^cso that my feet have not slipped.

37 I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them. Neither did I turn again until they were consumed.

38 I have wounded them so that they were not able to rise. They have fallen under my feet.

39 For You have girded me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies so that I might destroy those who hate me.

41 They cried out, but there was no one to save them; ^deven to the LORD, but He did not answer.

42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I ^ecast them out as the dirt in the streets.

43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people, and ^fYou have made me the head of the nations. ^gA people whom I have not known will serve me.

44 As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me. The aliens will submit themselves to me.

45 ^hThe aliens will fade away and be frightened out of their fortified places.

46 The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock. And let the God of my salvation be exalted.

47 It is God who avenges me, and ⁱsubdues the people under me.

48 He delivers me from my enemies. Yes, ^jYou lift me up above those who rise up against me. You have delivered me from the violent man.

49 ^kTherefore, I will give thanks to You, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises to Your name.

50 ^lGreat deliverance He gives to His king, and shows mercy to His anointed, to David and to His seed forever.

1 The ^aheavens declare the glory of God and the ^bfirmament shows His handiwork.

2 Day to day utters speech and night to night shows knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

4 ^cTheir line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tent for the sun,

5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber. ^dIt rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven and his circuit to the ends of it. And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

7 ^eThe law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul. The testimony of the LORD is sure, making ^fwise the simple.

8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever. The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

10 More to be desired are they than ^ggold, yes, than much fine gold. Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

11 Moreover by them is Your servant warned, and in keeping of them there is great reward.

12 Who can understand his errors? ^hCleanse me from hidden faults.

13 Keep back Your servant also from ⁱpresumptuous sins. Do not let them have ^jdominion over me. Then I will be upright, and I will be innocent of great transgression.

14 ^kLet the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my ^lredeemer.

1 May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble, and the name of the God of Jacob defend you.

2 May He send help from the sanctuary and strengthen you from Zion.

3 May He remember all your offerings and accept your burnt sacrifice.

4 May He grant you according to your own heart and ^afulfill all your counsel.

5 We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. The LORD fulfill all your petitions.

6 Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed. He will hear him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand.

7 Some trust in chariots and some in ^bhorses, but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

8 They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright.

9 Save, LORD. Let the king hear us when we call.

1 The king will have joy in Your strength, O LORD; and in Your salvation, how greatly he will rejoice!

2 You have given him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the ^arequest of his lips.

3 For You meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of pure gold on his head.

4 ^bHe asked life from You and You gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

5 His glory is great in Your salvation. Honor and majesty You have laid on him.

6 For You have made him most blessed forever. ^cYou have made him exceedingly glad with Your presence.

7 For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the Most High he will not be moved.

8 Your hand will find out all your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

9 You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in His wrath, and the fire will devour them.

10 You will destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

11 For they intended evil against You. They imagined a mischievous plot which they are not ^dable to perform.

12 Therefore, You will make them turn their back when You make ready Your arrows on Your strings against their face.

13 Be exalted, LORD, in Your own strength. We will sing and praise Your power.

1 My ^aGod, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me and from the words of my groaning?

2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and I am not silent.

3 But You are holy, O You who inhabit the ^bpraises of Israel.

4 Our fathers trusted in You. They trusted and You delivered them.

5 They cried out to You and were delivered. ^cThey trusted in You and were not disappointed.

6 But I am a ^dworm and not a man, a ^ereproach of men and despised by the people.

7 ^fAll those who see me laugh me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They shake the head, saying,

8 “He ^gtrusted in the LORD that He would deliver him. ^hLet Him deliver him, seeing he delighted in Him.”

9 ⁱBut You are He who took me out of the womb. You made me hope when I was on my mother’s breasts.

10 I was cast on You from the womb. ^jYou are my God from my mother’s belly.

11 Do not be far from me, for trouble is near; for there is no one to help.

12 ^kMany bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of ^lBashan have encircled me.

13 ^mThey gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and roaring lion.

14 I am poured out like water, and ⁿall my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted within me.

15 ^oMy strength is dried up like a potsherd, and ^pmy tongue cleaves to my jaws; and You have brought me into the dust of death.

16 For dogs have surrounded me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. They ^qpierced my hands and my feet.

17 I may count all my bones. ^rThey look and stare at me.

18 ^sThey part my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

19 But You, O LORD, do not be far from me. O You my strength, hasten to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword, ^tmy precious life from the power of the dog.

21 ^uSave me from the lion’s mouth, for ^vYou have heard me from the horns of the oxen.

22 ^wI will declare Your name to ^xMy brethren. In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.

23 ^yYou who fear the LORD, praise Him. All you the seed of Jacob, glorify Him, and fear Him all you seed of Israel.

24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, nor has He hidden His face from him; but ^zwhen he cried out to Him, He heard.

25 ^aMy praise will be of You in the great assembly. ^bI will pay my vows before them who fear Him.

26 The meek will eat and be satisfied. They will praise the LORD who seek Him. Your heart will live forever.

27 All the ends of the world will remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations will worship before You.

28 ^cFor the kingdom is the LORD’S, and He is the governor among the nations.

29 ^dAll the prosperous on earth will eat and worship. ^eAll those who go down to the dust will bow before Him, and no one can keep alive his own soul.

30 A seed will serve Him. It will be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31 They will come and will declare His righteousness to a people who will be born that He has done this.

1 The LORD is ^amy shepherd, ^bI will lack nothing.

2 ^cHe makes me to lie down in green pastures. ^dHe leads me beside the still waters.

3 He restores my soul. ^eHe leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.

4 Yes, though I walk through the valley of the ^fshadow of death, ^gI will fear no evil, ^hfor You are with me. Your rod and Your staff they comfort me.

5 You ⁱprepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You ^janoint my head with oil. My cup overflows.

6 Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

1 The ^aearth is the LORD’S and its fullness, the world and those who dwell on it.

2 For He has ^bfounded it on the seas and established it on the floods.

3 ^cWho will ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who will stand in His holy place?

4 He who has ^dclean hands and a ^epure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to vanity or ^fsworn deceitfully.

5 He will receive the blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 This is the generation of those who ^gseek Him, who seek Your face like Jacob.

7 ^hLift up your heads, O you gates. And be lifted up you everlasting doors, and the ⁱKing of glory will come in.

8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in ^jbattle.

9 Lift up your heads, O you gates, even lift them up you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of armies, He is the King of glory.

1 To ^aYou, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

2 O my God, I ^btrust in You. Do not let me be ashamed. ^cDo not let my enemies triumph over me.

3 Yes, do not let anyone who waits on You be ashamed. Let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

4 ^dShow me Your ways, O LORD. Teach me Your paths.

5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me. For You are the God of my salvation and on You do I wait all day.

6 Remember, O LORD, ^eYour tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses, for they have been from old.

7 Do not remember the ^fsins of my youth, or my transgressions. ^gAccording to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness’ sake, O LORD.

8 Good and upright is the LORD. Therefore, He will teach sinners in the way.

9 The meek He will guide in judgment, and to the meek He will teach His way.

10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy, and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.

11 ^hFor Your name’s sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

12 What man is he who fears the LORD? ⁱHim He will teach in the way that He will choose.

13 ^jHis soul will dwell at ease, and ^khis seed will inherit the earth.

14 ^lThe secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.

15 ^mMy eyes are always toward the LORD, for He will pluck my feet out of the net.

16 ⁿTurn to me and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Bring me out of my distresses.

18 ^oLook on my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.

19 Consider my enemies, for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

20 O keep my soul and deliver me. Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You.

21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on You.

22 ^pRedeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

1 Vindicate ^ame, O LORD, for I have ^bwalked in my integrity. ^cI have trusted also in the LORD, therefore I will not waver.

2 ^dExamine me, O LORD, and test me. Try my mind and my heart.

3 For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes, and ^eI have walked in Your truth.

4 I have not ^fsat with vain persons, nor will I go in with pretenders.

5 I have ^ghated the assembly of evildoers, and will not sit with the wicked.

6 I will wash my hands in innocency, so I will surround Your altar, O LORD.

7 So that I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving and tell of all Your wondrous works.

8 LORD, ^hI have loved the habitation of Your house and the place where Your honor dwells.

9 ⁱDo not gather my soul with sinners, or my life with bloodthirsty men;

10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of ^jbribes.

11 But as for me I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be merciful to me.

12 ^kMy foot stands on an even place. In the assemblies I will bless the LORD.

1 The LORD is my ^alight and my salvation. Whom will I fear? The ^bLORD is the strength of my life. Of whom will I be afraid?

2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to ^ceat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

3 ^dThough an army should camp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident.

4 ^eOne thing I have desired from the LORD that I will seek after, that I may ^fdwell 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.

5 For ^gin the time of trouble He will hide me in His pavilion. In the secret places of His tabernacle He will hide me. He will ^hset me up on a rock.

6 And now will ⁱmy head be lifted up above my enemies around me. Therefore, I will offer in His tabernacle sacrifices of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

7 Hear, O LORD, when I cry out with my voice. Have mercy also on me and answer me.

8 When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”

9 ^jDo not hide Your face from me. Do not put Your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

10 ^kWhen my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

11 ^lTeach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me in a level path because of my enemies.

12 Do not deliver me over to the will of my enemies. For ^mfalse witnesses have risen up against me and those who breathe out cruelty.

13 I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD ⁿin the land of the living.

14 ^oWait on the LORD. Be of good courage and He will strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the LORD.

1 To You I will cry out, O LORD my rock. ^aDo not be silent to me. If ^bYou are silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry out to You, ^cwhen I lift up my hands ^dtoward Your holy sanctuary.

3 Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity ^ewho speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

4 ^fGive to them according to their deeds and according to the wickedness of their endeavors. Give to them after the work of their hands. Render to them their recompense.

5 Because ^gthey do not regard the works of the LORD or the operation of His hands, He will overthrow them and not build them up.

6 Blessed is the LORD because He has heard the voice of my supplications.

7 The LORD is ^hmy strength and my shield. My heart ⁱtrusted in Him and I am helped. Therefore, my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise Him.

8 The LORD is their strength, and He is the ^jsaving strength of His anointed.

9 Save Your people and bless ^kYour inheritance. Feed them also, and ^llift them up forever.

1 Give ^ato the LORD you mighty ones. Give to the LORD glory and strength.

2 Give to the LORD the glory due to His name. Worship the LORD in the ^bbeauty of holiness.

3 The voice of the LORD is on the waters. The ^cGod of glory thunders. The LORD is on many waters.

4 The voice of the LORD is powerful. The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.

5 The voice of the LORD breaks the ^dcedars. Yes, the LORD breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

6 ^eHe makes them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and ^fSirion like a young wild ox.

7 The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

8 The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness. The LORD shakes the wilderness of ^gKadesh.

9 The voice of the LORD makes the ^hdeer to give birth and lays bare the forests. And in His temple everyone speaks of His glory.

10 The ⁱLORD sits on the flood. Yes, the ^jLORD sits as King forever.

11 ^kThe LORD will give strength to His people. The LORD will bless His people with peace.

1 I will exalt You, O LORD, for You have ^alifted me up and have not made my foes ^brejoice over me.

2 O LORD my God, I cried out to You and You have ^chealed me.

3 O LORD, You have ^dbrought up my soul from the grave. You have kept me alive so that I should not go down to the pit.

4 ^eSing to the LORD you saints of His, and give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness.

5 For ^fHis anger endures but a moment. In ^gHis favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

6 And in my prosperity I said, “I will never be dispossessed.”

7 LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong. ^hYou hid Your face and I was troubled.

8 I cried out to You, O LORD. And to the LORD I made supplication.

9 What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? ⁱWill the dust praise You? Will it declare Your truth?

10 Hear, O LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper.

11 ^jYou have turned for me my mourning into dancing. You have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

12 To the end that my glory may sing praise to You, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

1 In ^aYou, O LORD, do I put my trust. Let me never be ashamed. Deliver me in Your righteousness.

2 ^bBow down Your ear to me. Deliver me quickly. Be my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.

3 ^cFor You are my rock and my fortress. Therefore, for ^dYour name’s sake lead me and guide me.

4 Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for You are my strength.

5 ^eInto Your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, O LORD God of ^ftruth.

6 I have hated those ^gwho regard lying vanities. But I trust in the LORD.

7 I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, for You have considered my trouble. You have ^hknown my soul in adversities,

8 and have not ⁱshut me up in the hand of the enemy. ^jYou have set my feet in a large room.

9 Have mercy on me, O LORD, for I am in trouble. ^kMy eye is consumed with grief, also my soul and my belly.

10 For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

11 ^lI was a reproach among all my enemies, especially among my neighbors. I am repulsive to my acquaintance. ⁿThose who see me outside flee from me.

12 ^oI am forgotten as a dead man out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

13 ^pFor I have heard the slander of many. ^qFear was on every side. While they ^rtook counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

14 But I trusted in You, O LORD. I said, “You are my God.”

15 My times are in Your ^shand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

16 ^tMake Your face shine on Your servant. Save me for Your mercies’ sake.

17 ^uLet me not be ashamed, O LORD, for I have called on You. Let the wicked be ashamed and ^vlet them be silent in the grave.

18 ^wLet the lying lips be put to silence that ^xspeak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

19 ^yO how great is Your goodness that You have laid up for those who fear You, that You have worked for those who trust in You before the sons of men!

20 ^zYou will hide them in the secret of Your presence from the pride of man. ^aYou will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed is the LORD, for ^bHe has showed me His marvelous kindness in a strong city.

22 For I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before Your eyes.” Nevertheless, You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried out to You.

23 O love the LORD, all you His saints. For the LORD preserves the faithful and fully repays the proud person.

24 ^cBe of good courage and He will strengthen your heart, all you who hope in the LORD.

1 Blessed is he whose ^atransgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

2 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD ^bdoes not impute iniquity, and ^cin whose spirit there is no guile.

3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my groaning all day long.

4 For day and night Your ^dhand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the drought of summer.

5 I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. ^eI said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD.” And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.

6 ^fFor this will everyone who is godly ^gpray to You in a time when You can be found. Surely in the floods of great waters they will not come near to Him.

7 ^hYou are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with ⁱsongs of deliverance.

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you will go. I will guide you with My eye.

9 Do not be as the ^jhorse, or as the mule, that have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle lest they come near you.

10 ^kMany sorrows will come to the wicked. But ^lhe who trusts in the LORD, mercy will surround him.

11 ^mBe glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous. And shout for joy all you who are upright in heart.

1 Rejoice ^ain the LORD, O you righteous, for praise is becoming of the upright.

2 Praise the LORD with harp. Sing to Him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

3 Sing to Him a new song. Play skillfully with a loud noise.

4 For the word of the LORD is right, and all His works are done in truth.

5 He loves righteousness and judgment. The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

6 ^bBy the word of the LORD were the heavens made, and all their ^chost ^dby the breath of His mouth.

7 ^eHe gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the depth in storehouses.

8 Let all the earth fear the LORD. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

9 ^fHe spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast.

10 ^gThe LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought. He makes the devices of the people of no effect.

11 ^hThe counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations.

12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, and the people whom He has ⁱchosen for His own inheritance.

13 ^jThe LORD looks from heaven. He beholds all the sons of men.

14 From the place of His habitation He looks on all the inhabitants of the earth.

15 He fashions their hearts alike. ^kHe considers all their works.

16 ^lThe king is not saved by a mighty army. A mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

17 ^mA horse is a vain thing for safety. Neither will he deliver any by his great strength.

18 ⁿBehold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy,

19 to deliver their soul from death and ^oto keep them alive in famine.

20 Our soul waits for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

21 For our heart will rejoice in Him because we have trusted in His holy name.

22 Let Your mercy, O LORD, be on us according as we hope in You.

1 I will ^abless the LORD at all times. His praise will continually be in my mouth.

2 My soul will make its boast in the LORD. The humble will hear of it and be glad.

3 O magnify the LORD with me and let us exalt His name together.

4 I ^bsought the LORD and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

5 They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed.

6 This poor man cried out and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

7 ^cThe angel of the LORD ^dcamps around those who fear Him, and delivers them.

8 O ^etaste and see that the LORD is good. ^fBlessed is the man who trusts in Him.

9 O fear the LORD you His saints, for there is no lack for those who fear Him.

10 The young lions do lack and suffer hunger. ^gBut those who seek the LORD will not lack any good thing.

11 Come you children and hearken to me. ^hI will teach you the fear of the LORD.

12 ⁱWhat man is he who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?

13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from ^jspeaking deceit.

14 ^kDepart from evil and do good. ^lSeek peace and pursue it.

15 ^mThe eyes of the LORD are on the righteous and His ears are open to their cry.

16 ⁿThe face of the LORD is against those who do evil, ^oto cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

17 The righteous cry out and the ^pLORD hears. And He delivers them out of all their troubles.

18 The LORD is near ^qto those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a contrite spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous. ^tBut the LORD delivers him out of them all.

20 He keeps all his bones. ^uNot one of them is broken.

21 ^vEvil will slay the wicked. And those who hate the righteous will be desolate.

22 The LORD ^wredeems the soul of His servants. And none of those who trust in Him will be desolate.

1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with those who strive with me. Fight against those who fight against me.

2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against those who persecute me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

4 ^aLet them be confounded and put to shame who seek after my soul. Let them be ^bturned back and brought to confusion who devise my hurt.

5 ^cLet them be as chaff before the wind. And let the angel of the LORD chase them.

6 Let their way be ^ddark and slippery. And let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

7 For without cause they have ^ehidden for me their net in a pit, that without cause they have digged for my soul.

8 Let ^fdestruction come on him unawares, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Into that very destruction let him fall.

9 And my soul will be joyful in the LORD. It will rejoice in His salvation.

10 ^gAll my bones will say, “LORD, ^hwho is like You, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?”

11 False ⁱwitnesses rose up. They laid to my charge things that I did not know.

12 ^jThey rewarded me evil for good to the sorrow of my soul.

13 But as for me, ^kwhen they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I humbled my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned to me unanswered.

14 I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother. I bowed down heavily as one who mourns for his mother.

15 But in my adversity they rejoiced and gathered themselves together. Yes, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore me, and did not stop.

16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed on me with their teeth.

17 Lord, how long will You ^llook on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my precious life from the lions.

18 I will give You thanks in the great assembly. I will praise You among many people.

19 ^mDo not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Do not let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.

20 For they do not speak peace, but devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me and said, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it.”

22 This You have seen, O LORD. Do not keep silence. O LORD, do not be far from me.

23 Stir up Yourself and awake to my judgment, even to my cause, my God and my Lord.

24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to Your righteousness, and do not let them rejoice over me.

25 Do not let them say in their hearts, “Ah, so we would have it.” Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up.”

26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together who rejoice at my hurt. Let those be ⁿclothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

27 ^oLet them shout for joy and be glad who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, “Let the LORD be magnified who has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”

28 And my tongue will speak of Your righteousness and of Your praise all day long.

1 An oracle within my heart says that ^athere is no fear of God before the eyes of the wicked.

2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. ^bHe has ceased to be wise and to do good.

4 ^cHe devises mischief on his bed. He sets himself ^din a way that is not good. He does not abhor ^eevil.

5 Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.

6 Your righteousness is like the great mountains. ^fYour judgments are a great deep. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

7 How excellent is Your lovingkindness, O God! Therefore, the children of men ^gput their trust under the shadow of Your wings.

8 ^hThey will be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Your house, and You will make them drink of the ⁱriver of Your pleasures.

9 ^jFor with You is the fountain of life. ^kIn Your light we will see light.

10 O continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.

11 Do not let the foot of pride come against me, and do not let the hand of the wicked remove me.

12 There the workers of iniquity have fallen. They are cast down and will not be able to rise.

1 ^aDo not fret yourself because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.

2 For they will soon be cut down ^blike the grass and wither as the green herb.

3 Trust in the LORD and do good. Dwell in the land and surely you will be fed.

4 ^cDelight yourself also in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your ^dheart.

5 ^eCommit your way to the LORD. Trust also in Him and He will bring it to pass.

6 ^fAnd He will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your judgment as the noonday.

7 Rest in the LORD, and ^gwait patiently for Him. Do not fret yourself because of him who ^hprospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.

8 ⁱCease from anger and forsake wrath. ^jDo not fret yourself, for it leads only to evildoing.

9 For evildoers will be cut off. But those who wait on the LORD will ^kinherit the earth.

10 For ^lyet a little while and the wicked will not exist. Yes, you will carefully consider his place and it will not exist.

11 ⁿBut the meek will inherit the earth, and will delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

12 The wicked plots against the just, and ^ognashes on him with his teeth.

13 ^pThe Lord will laugh at him, for He sees that ^qhis day is coming.

14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow in order to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright behavior.

15 Their sword will enter into their own heart, and their bows will be broken.

16 ^rA little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.

17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

18 The LORD knows the days of the upright, and their inheritance will be forever.

19 They will not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

20 But the wicked will perish, and the enemies of the LORD will be as the fat of lambs. They will consume, into smoke they will vanish away.

21 The wicked borrows and does not repay. But the ^srighteous shows mercy and gives.

22 ^tFor those blessed by Him will inherit the earth. And those who are cursed by Him will be cut off.

23 ^uThe steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, and He delights in his way.

24 ^vThough he fall, he will not be utterly cast down, for the LORD upholds him with His hand.

25 I have been young and now am old, and yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

26 ^wHe is always merciful and lends, and his seed is blessed.

27 Depart from evil and do good, and dwell forever.

28 For the LORD loves judgment and does not forsake His saints. They are preserved forever. But the seed of the wicked will be cut off.

29 ^xThe righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

30 ^yThe mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, and his tongue talks of justice.

31 The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps will slide.

32 The wicked ^zwatches the righteous and seeks to slay him.

33 The LORD ^awill not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

34 ^bWait on the LORD and keep His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

35 I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

36 Yet he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

37 Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.

38 ^cBut the transgressors will be destroyed together. The end of the wicked will be cut off.

39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD. He is their strength in the ^dtime of trouble.

40 And the ^eLORD will help them and deliver them. He will deliver them from the wicked and save them ^fbecause they trust in Him.

1 O LORD, do not ^arebuke me in Your wrath, nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

2 For Your arrows stick fast in me, and Your hand presses me down.

3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your anger. Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

4 For my iniquities are overwhelming me. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

6 I am troubled. I am bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

7 For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease. And there is no soundness in my flesh.

8 I am feeble and greatly broken. I have groaned because of the turmoil of my heart.

9 Lord, all my desire is before You, and my groaning is not hidden from You.

10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

11 My loved ones and my friends ^bstand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.

12 They also who seek after my life lay snares for me. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all day long.

13 But I, as a ^cdeaf man, did not hear, and I was as a mute man who did not open his mouth.

14 Thus I was as a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth is no response.

15 For in You, O LORD, do ^dI hope. You will hear, O Lord my God.

16 For I said, “Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.”

17 ^eFor I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

18 For I will ^fdeclare my iniquity. ^gI will be sorry for my sin.

19 But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong. And those who hate me have wrongfully multiplied.

20 Those also ^hwho render evil for good are my adversaries because I follow that which is good.

21 Do not forsake me, O LORD. O my God, ⁱdo not be far from me.

22 Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

1 I said, “I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my ^atongue. I will restrain my mouth with a muzzle while the wicked are before me.”

2 ^bI was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

3 My heart was hot within me. While I was musing the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue,

4 “LORD, ^cmake me know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is, so that I may know how frail I am.

5 Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You. Truly, every man in his best state is a mere ^dvapor.

6 Surely every man walks as a shadow. Surely they busy themselves for nothing. He builds up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

7 And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My ^ehope is in You.

8 Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the ^freproach of the foolish.

9 ^gI was mute. I did not open my mouth because ^hYou did it.

10 ⁱRemove Your plague away from me. I am consumed by the blow of Your hand.

11 When with rebukes You chastise man for iniquity, You make his comeliness ^jmelt away like a moth. Surely every man is no better than an empty breath.

12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not hold Your peace at my tears, for I am an alien with You and a sojourner, ^kas were all my fathers.

13 ^lO spare me so that I may recover strength before I go away and ^mbe no more.

1 I ^awaited patiently for the LORD, and He turned to me and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the ^bmiry clay, and ^cset my feet on a rock and established my goings.

3 ^dAnd He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many will see it and fear, and will trust in the LORD.

4 ^eBlessed is that man who makes the LORD his trust and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

5 ^fMany, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works that You have done, and ^gYour thoughts that are toward us. They cannot be recounted to You in order. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

6 ^hYou did not desire sacrifice and offering; my ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

7 ⁱThen I said, “Behold, I come. In the roll of the scroll it is written of me.

8 ^jI delight to do Your will, O my God. Yes, Your law is ^kwithin my heart.”

9 ^lI have preached righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, ^mI have not restrained my lips. O LORD, You Yourself know.

10 ⁿI have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.

11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O LORD. ^oLet Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.

12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me. ^pMy iniquities have taken hold on me so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart fails me.

13 ^qBe pleased, O LORD, to deliver me. O LORD, make haste to help me.

14 ^rLet those be ashamed and confused together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be driven backward and put to shame who wish me evil.

15 Let them be ^sdesolate for a reward of their shame who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

16 ^tLet all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. Let those who love Your salvation ^usay continually, “The LORD be magnified.”

17 ^vBut I am poor and needy, and yet the ^wLORD thinks about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Do not tarry, O my God.

1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

2 The LORD will preserve him and keep him alive. He will be blessed on the earth. ^aYou will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

3 The LORD will strengthen him on the bed of sickness. You will sustain him on his bed of sickness.

4 I said, “LORD, be merciful to me. ^bHeal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

5 My enemies speak evil of me, “When will he die and his name perish?”

6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes out, he tells it.

7 All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.

8 “An evil disease,” they say, “clings fast to him. And now that he lies he will rise up no more.”

9 ^cYes, my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, ^dwho ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

10 But You, O LORD, be merciful to me and raise me up so that I may repay them.

11 By this I know that You favor me because my enemy does not triumph over me.

12 And as for me, You uphold me in my integrity and ^eset me before Your face forever.

13 ^fBlessed is the LORD God of Israel from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

1 As the deer pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after You, O God.

2 ^aMy soul thirsts for God, for the ^bliving God. When will I come and appear before God?

3 ^cMy tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, ^d“Where is your God?”

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

5 ^gWhy are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? ^hHope in God, for I will still praise Him for the help of His countenance.

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me. Therefore, I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from Mount Mizar.

7 Deep calls to deep at the noise of Your waterfalls. ⁱAll Your waves and Your billows have gone over me.

8 Yet the LORD will ^jcommand His lovingkindness in the daytime, and ^kin the night His song will be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.

9 I will say to God my rock, ^l“Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me, ^mwhile they say daily to me, “Where is your God?”

11 ⁿWhy are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God. For I will still praise Him who is the health of my countenance and my God.

1 ^aVindicate me, O God, and ^bplead my cause against an ungodly nation. Deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

2 For You are the God of my strength. Why do You cast me off? ^cWhy do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

3 ^dO send out Your light and Your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to ^eYour holy hill and to Your tabernacle.

4 Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. Yes, on the harp I will praise You, O God my God.

5 ^fWhy are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God. For I will still praise Him who is the health of my countenance and my God.

1 We have heard with our ears, O God. ^aOur fathers have told us what work You did in their days, in the times of old.

2 ^bYou drove out the nations with Your hand and planted them. You afflicted the people and cast them out.

3 For ^cthey did not possess the land by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them. But it was Your right hand and Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, ^dbecause You favored them.

4 ^eYou are my King, O God. Command victories for Jacob.

5 Through You ^fwe will push down our enemies. Through Your name we will tread under those who rise up against us.

6 For ^gI will not trust in my bow, nor will my sword save me.

7 But You have saved us from our enemies and have put them to shame who hated us.

8 ^hIn God we boast all day long, and praise Your name forever.

9 But ⁱYou have cast off and put us to shame, and do not go forth with our armies.

10 You make us ^jturn back from the enemy, and those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

11 ^kYou have given us up like sheep appointed for food, and have ^lscattered us among the nations.

12 ^mYou sell Your people for nothing, and do not increase Your wealth by their price.

13 ⁿYou make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those who are around us.

14 ^oYou make us a byword among the nations, a ^pshaking of the head among the people.

15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

16 for the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes, ^qbecause of the enemy and avenger.

17 ^rAll this has come on us, and yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.

18 Our heart is not turned back, ^snor have our steps turned from Your way,

19 though You have greatly broken us in the ^tplace of jackals and covered us ^uwith the shadow of death.

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or ^vstretched out our hands to a foreign god,

21 ^wwill not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

22 ^xYes, for Your sake we are killed all day long. We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

23 ^yAwake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

24 ^zTherefore, why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and our oppression?

25 For ^aour soul is bowed down to the dust. Our belly cleaves to the earth.

26 Arise for our help and redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.

1 My heart overflows with a goodly matter. I speak of the things that I have composed concerning the King. My tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

2 You are fairer than the children of men. ^aGrace is poured into your lips. Therefore, God has blessed You forever.

3 Gird Your ^bsword on Your thigh, ^cO Most Mighty, with Your ^dglory and Your majesty.

4 ^eAnd in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness, and Your right hand will teach Your awesome things.

5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies. The people fall under You.

6 ^fYour throne, O God, is forever and ever. The ^gscepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore, God, Your God, has ^hanointed You with the oil of ⁱgladness above Your companions.

8 All Your garments are ^jscented of myrrh and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.

9 ^kKings’ daughters were among Your honorable women. ^lAt Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider and incline your ear. ^mForget also your own people and your father’s house,

11 so the King will greatly desire your beauty, ⁿbecause He is your Lord, worship him.

12 And the daughter of Tyre will be there with a gift, even the ^orich among the people will ask for your favor.

13 The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace. Her clothing is of woven gold.

14 ^pShe will be brought to the King in clothing of needlework. The virgins, her companions who follow her, will be brought to You.

15 With gladness and rejoicing they will be brought. They will enter into the King’s palace.

16 Instead of your fathers will be your sons ^qwhom you may make princes in all the earth.

17 ^rI will make Your name be remembered in all generations. Therefore, the people will praise You forever and ever.

1 God is our ^arefuge and strength, ^ba very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth is removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea,

3 ^cthough its waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with its swelling.

4 There is a ^driver whose streams will make glad the ^ecity of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

5 God is ^fin the midst of her. She will not be dispossessed. God will help her just at the break of morning.

6 ^gThe nations raged. The kingdoms were dispossessed. He uttered His voice and the earth melted.

7 The ^hLORD of armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations He has made on the earth.

9 ⁱHe makes wars to cease to the end of the earth. ^jHe breaks the bow, and cuts the spear asunder. ^kHe burns the chariot in the fire.

10 Be still and know that I am God. ^lI will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted on the earth.

11 The LORD of armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge.

1 O clap your hands, all you people. Shout to God with the voice of triumph.

2 For the LORD Most High is awesome. He is a great ^aKing over all the earth.

3 ^bHe will subdue the people under us and the nations under our feet.

4 He will choose our ^cinheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved.

5 ^dGod has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

6 Sing praises to God. Sing praises. Sing praises to our King. Sing praises.

7 ^eFor God is the King of all the earth. ^fSing praises with understanding.

8 ^gGod reigns over the nations. God ^hsits on the ⁱthrone of His holiness.

9 The princes of the people are gathered together, even ^jthe people of the God of Abraham. ^kFor the warriors of the earth belong to God. He is greatly exalted.

1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the ^acity of our God, in the mountain of His holiness.

2 ^bBeautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion, on the sides of the northern slope, the city of the great King.

3 God has made Himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

4 For behold, the ^ckings were assembled. They passed by together.

5 They saw it and so they marvelled. They were troubled and hurried away.

6 Fear and pain ^dtook hold on them there as a woman in labor.

7 You broke the ^etrading ships with an east wind.

8 As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of armies, in the city of our God. God will ^festablish it forever.

9 We have thought of ^gYour lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of Your temple.

10 According to ^hYour name, O God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

11 Let Mount Zion rejoice. Let the daughters of Judah be glad because of Your judgments.

12 Walk about Zion and go around her. Count her towers.

13 Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces so that you may ⁱtell it to the following generation.

14 For this God is our God forever and ever. ^jHe will be our guide even to death.

1 Hear this all you people. Give ear all you inhabitants of the world,

2 both low and high, rich and poor together.

3 My mouth will speak of wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will be understanding.

4 I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my dark saying on the harp.

5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of those who would supplant me surrounds me?

6 They who ^atrust in their wealth and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,

7 none of them can by any means redeem his brother or ^bgive to God a ransom for him—

8 for the ^credemption of their soul is costly and money can never suffice—

9 so that he should still live forever and ^dnot see corruption.

10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the senseless person perish and leave their wealth to others.

11 Their inner thought is that their houses will continue forever and their dwelling places to all generations. They ^ecall their lands after their own names.

12 Nevertheless man, being in honor, does not remain. He is like the beasts that perish.

13 This their way is their ^ffolly, and of those after them who approve their words.

14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave. Death will feed on them. And ^gthe upright will have dominion over them in the morning. And ^htheir beauty will be consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.

15 But God ⁱwill redeem my soul from the power of the grave, for He will ^jreceive me.

16 Do not be afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of His house is increased.

17 For when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory will not descend after him.

18 Though while he lives ^khe blesses his soul (for men will praise you when you do well for yourself),

19 he will go to the generation of his fathers. They will never see ^llight.

20 A man who is in honor, and yet does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.

1 The ^amighty God, even the LORD, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down.

2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, ^bGod has shone forth.

3 Our God will come and will not keep silent. ^cA fire will devour before Him and it will be very tempestuous around Him.

4 ^dHe will call to the heavens from above and to the earth so that He may judge His people.

5 “Gather ^eMy holy ones together to Me, ^fthose who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

6 And the ^gheavens will declare His justice, for ^hGod is judge Himself.

7 “Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. ⁱI am God, even your God.

8 ^jI will not rebuke you ^kfor your sacrifices or your burnt offerings that are continually before Me.

9 ^lI will take no bull out of your house, nor male goats out of your folds.

10 “For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

11 I know all the birds of the mountains. And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, ^mfor the world is Mine and its fullness.

13 ⁿWill I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

14 ^oOffer to God thanksgiving, and ^ppay your vows to the Most High.

15 ^qAnd call on Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will glorify Me.”

16 But to the wicked God says, “What right have you to declare My statutes, or that you should take My covenant in your mouth,

17 ^rseeing you hate instruction and cast My words behind you?

18 “When you saw a thief, then you ^sconsented with him, and have been ^tpartaker with adulterers.

19 “You give ^uyour mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

20 “You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.

21 These things you have done, and I kept silent. ^vYou thought that I was altogether like yourself. But I will rebuke you and ^wset them in order before your eyes.

22 “Now consider this, you who ^xforget God, lest I tear you in pieces and there is no one to deliver.

23 Whoever offers praise glorifies Me. And ^yto him who orders his behavior aright I will show the salvation of God.”

1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness. According to the greatness of Your compassion, ^ablot out my transgressions.

2 ^bWash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions. And my sin is always before me.

4 ^cAgainst You, You only, I have sinned, and done this evil ^din Your sight, ^eso that You might be just when You speak and be blameless when You judge.

5 ^fBehold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

6 Behold, You desire truth in the inner parts, and in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.

7 ^gPurge me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be ^hwhiter than snow.

8 Make me hear joy and gladness so that the bones that You have broken ⁱmay rejoice.

9 Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

10 ^jCreate in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your ^kHoly Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with Your ^lwilling Spirit.

13 I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will be converted to You.

14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of Your righteousness.

15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will show forth Your praise.

16 For ^mYou do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it. You do not delight in burnt offering.

17 ⁿThe sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

19 Then You will be pleased with the ^osacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering. Then they will offer bulls on Your altar.

1 Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

3 You love evil more than good and lying rather than speaking righteousness.

4 You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

5 God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you away and pluck you out of your dwelling place, and root you out of the land of the living.

6 The righteous also will see and fear, and will laugh at him.

7 Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

8 But I am a ^alike a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

9 I will praise You forever because You have done it. And I will wait on Your name, for it is good before Your saints.

1 The ^afool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt and have done abominable iniquity. ^bThere is no one who does good.

2 God looked down from heaven on the children of men to see if there were any who understood, who ^csought God.

3 Every one of them has turned back. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

4 Have the workers of iniquity ^dno knowledge, who eat up My people as they eat bread, who have not called on God?

5 ^eThere they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you. You have put them to shame because God has despised them.

6 ^fO that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad.

1 Save me, O God, by Your name, and judge me by Your strength.

2 Hear my prayer, O God. Give ear to the words of my mouth.

3 For foreigners have risen up against me and oppressors seek after my soul. They have not set God before them.

4 Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is with those who uphold my soul.

5 He will reward evil to my enemies and cut them off in Your truth.

6 I will freely sacrifice to You. I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.

7 For He has delivered me out of all trouble; ^aand my eye has seen His desire on my enemies.

1 Give ear to my prayer, O God, and do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

2 Attend to me and hear me. ^aI am restless in my complaint and moan,

3 because of the voice of the enemy and because of the oppression of the wicked, ^bfor they bring trouble upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

4 ^cMy heart is greatly pained within me. And the terrors of death are fallen on me.

5 Fearfulness and trembling have come on me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

6 And I said, “O that I had wings like a dove, for then I would fly away and be at rest.

7 Behold, then I would wander far off and remain in the wilderness.

8 I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.”

9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, for I have seen ^dviolence and strife in the city.

10 They go about on its walls day and night. ^eIniquity and sorrow are also in the midst of it.

11 Wickedness is in its midst. ^fOppression and guile do not depart from its streets.

12 ^gFor it is not an enemy who reproaches me, then I could bear it. Neither is it one who hates me who has ^hexalted himself against me, then I could hide myself from him.

13 But it was you, a man my equal, my guide and ⁱmy acquaintance.

14 We took sweet counsel together and ^jwalked to the house of God in company.

15 Let death seize on them, and let them ^kgo down quick into Sheol, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

16 As for me, I will call on God, and the LORD will save me.

17 ^lEvening and morning and at noon, I will pray and cry out aloud. And He will hear my voice.

18 He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, ^mfor there were many against me.

19 God will hear and afflict them, ⁿeven He who abides from of old times. Because they do not change, therefore they do not fear God.

20 He has ^oput forth his hands against those who ^pare at peace with him. He has broken his covenant.

21 ^qThe words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

22 ^rCast your burden on the LORD, and ^sHe will sustain you. He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.

23 But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. ^tBloodthirsty and deceitful men ^uwill not live out half their days, but I will trust in You.

1 Be ^amerciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up. His daily fighting oppresses me.

2 My enemies would daily ^bswallow me up, for they are many who fight against me, O Most High.

3 Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You.

4 In God I will praise His word. In God I have put my trust. ^cI will not fear what flesh can do to me.

5 Every day they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

6 They gather themselves together. They hide themselves. They mark my steps when they wait for my soul.

7 Will they escape with iniquity? In Your anger cast down the people, O God.

8 You have numbered and recorded my wanderings. Put my tears into Your bottle. ^dAre they not in Your scroll?

9 When I cry out to You, then my enemies will turn back. This I know, that ^eGod is for me.

10 In God I will praise His word. In the LORD I will praise His word.

11 In God I have put my trust. I will not be afraid of what man can do to me.

12 I am under vows to You, O God. I will render praises to You.

13 ^fFor You have delivered my soul from death. Will You not deliver my feet from falling so that I may walk before God in the ^glight of the living?

1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me for my soul trusts in You. Yes, in the ^ashadow of Your wings I will make my refuge ^buntil these calamities are past.

2 I will cry out to God Most High, to God ^cwho performs all things for me.

3 ^dHe will send from heaven and save me from the reproach of him who would swallow me up. God ^ewill send forth His mercy and His truth.

4 My soul is among lions. I lie even among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men ^fwhose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

5 ^gBe exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let Your glory be above all the earth.

6 ^hThey have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me, and into the midst of it they have fallen themselves.

7 ⁱMy heart is steadfast, O God. My heart is fixed. I will sing and give praise.

8 Awake up, ^jmy glory. Awake, harp and lyre. I myself will awake early.

9 ^kI will praise You, O Lord, among the people. I will sing to You among the nations.

10 ^lFor Your mercy reaches to the heavens, and Your truth to the clouds.

11 ^mBe exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let Your glory be above all the earth.

1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O assembly? Do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men?

2 No, in heart you work wickedness. You weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

3 ^aThe wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

4 ^bTheir poison is like the poison of a serpent. They are like the deaf adder that stops her ear,

5 which will ^cnot hearken to the voice of charmers, charming always so skillfully.

6 ^dBreak their teeth in their mouth, O God. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

7 ^eLet them melt away as waters that run continually. When he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as if cut in pieces.

8 Let them be as a snail that melts away as it goes along, ^flike the stillborn child of a woman, so that they may not see the sun.

9 Before your ^gpots can feel the burning thorns, He will take them away ^hwith a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

10 The righteous will rejoice when he sees the ⁱvengeance. ^jHe will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

11 ^kso that a man will say, “Verily there is a reward for the righteous. Surely He is God who ^ljudges on the earth.”

1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Defend me from those who rise up against me.

2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity and save me from bloodthirsty men.

3 For behold, they lie in wait for my soul. ^aThe mighty are gathered against me, not because of my transgression, nor because of my sin, O LORD.

4 They run and prepare themselves through no fault of mine. ^bAwake to help me, and behold.

5 You therefore, O LORD God of armies, the God of Israel, awake to punish all the nations. Do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors.

6 ^cThey return at evening. They make a noise like a dog and go around the city.

7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth. ^dSwords are in their lips, for they say, ^e“Who hears?”

8 But ^fYou, O LORD, will laugh at them. You will have all the nations in derision.

9 O my Strength, I will wait on You, ^gfor You, O God, are my defense.

10 The God of my mercy will ^hcome to meet me. God will let ⁱme see my desire on my enemies.

11 Do not slay them, lest my people forget. Scatter them by Your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

12 ^jFor the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying that they speak.

13 ^kConsume them in wrath. Consume them so that they may not be. And ^llet them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth.

14 And at evening let them return. Let them make a noise like a dog and go around the city.

15 Let them ⁿwander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

16 But I will sing of Your power, yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning. For You have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

17 To You, ^oO my strength, I will sing. For God is my defense and the God of my mercy.

1 O God, ^aYou have cast us off. You have scattered us. You have been displeased. O turn Yourself to us again.

2 You have made the land tremble. You have broken it. ^bHeal its breaches, for it shakes.

3 ^cYou have showed Your people hard things. ^dYou have made us drink the wine of confusion.

4 ^eYou have given a banner to those who fear You so that it may be displayed because of the truth.

5 ^fSo that Your beloved may be delivered, save with Your right hand and hear me.

6 God has ^gspoken in His holiness, “I will rejoice. I will ^hdivide ⁱShechem and measure out the ^jvalley of Succoth.

7 “Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine. ^kEphraim also is the strength of My head. ^lJudah is My lawgiver.

8 ^mMoab is My washpot. ⁿOver Edom I will cast out My shoe. Over ^oPhilistia I shout in triumph!”

9 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom?

10 Will not You, O God, ^pwho had cast us off? And You, O God, who did ^qnot go out with our armies?

11 Give us help from trouble, ^rfor useless is the help of man.

12 Through God ^swe will do valiantly, for He it is who will tread down our enemies.

1 Hear my cry, O God. Attend to my prayer.

2 From the end of the earth I will cry out to You when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is too high for me.

3 For You have been a shelter for me and a ^astrong tower from the enemy.

4 I will abide in Your tabernacle forever. ^bI will trust in the shelter of Your wings.

5 For You, O God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear Your name.

6 You will prolong the king’s life, and his years as many generations.

7 He will abide before God forever. O prepare mercy and ^ctruth that may preserve him.

8 So I will sing praise to Your name forever so that I may daily perform my vows.

1 Truly ^amy soul is silent before God. From Him comes my salvation.

2 He only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I will not be ^bmoved.

3 How long will you imagine mischief against a man? All of you will be slain, ^cas a leaning wall and as a tottering fence.

4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency. They ^ddelight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, for my expectation is from Him.

6 He only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I will not be moved.

7 ^eIn God is my salvation and my glory. The rock of my strength and my refuge is in God.

8 Trust in Him at all times you people, and ^fpour out your heart before Him. God is a refuge for us.

9 ^gSurely men of low degree are a breath, and men of high degree are a disappointment. In the balances they go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

10 Do not trust in oppression, and do not become vain in robbery. ^hIf riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

11 God has spoken once. Twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

12 Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy, for ⁱYou render to every man according to his work.

1 O God, You are my God. Early I will seek You. ^aMy soul thirsts for You. My flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.

2 Thus I have looked for You in the sanctuary in order to see ^bYour power and Your glory.

3 ^cBecause Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You.

4 Thus I will bless You while I live. I will ^dlift up my hands in Your name.

5 My soul will be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth will praise You with joyful lips.

6 when ^eI remember You on my bed and meditate on You in the night watches.

7 Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.

8 My soul follows hard after You. Your right hand upholds me.

9 But those who seek my soul in order to destroy it, will go into the lower parts of the earth.

10 They will fall by the sword. They will be a prey for jackals.

11 But the king will rejoice in God and ^feveryone who swears by Him will glory. But the mouth of those who speak lies will be stopped.

1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked, from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity,

3 who sharpen their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words,

4 so that they may shoot in secret at the blameless. Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

5 They encourage themselves in an evil matter. They scheme about secretly laying snares. ^bThey say, “Who will see them?”

6 They work out evil schemes. They are ready with a well-conceived scheme. Both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart are deep.

7 But God will shoot at them with an arrow. Suddenly they will be wounded.

8 So they will make their own tongue to fall on themselves. ^cAll who see them will flee away.

9 And all men will fear and will ^ddeclare the work of God, for they will wisely consider His work.

10 ^eThe righteous will be glad in the LORD and will trust in Him. And all the upright in heart will glory.

1 Praise waits for You, O God, in Zion. And to You will the vow be performed.

2 O You who hear prayer, ^ato You will all flesh come.

3 Iniquities prevail against me. As for our transgressions, You will ^bprovide atonement for them.

4 ^cBlessed is the man whom You ^dchoose, and cause to approach unto You, so that he may dwell in Your courts. ^eWe will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, even with Your holy temple.

5 By awesome things in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation, You who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of those who are afar off on the sea;

6 who by His strength establishes the mountains, ^fbeing clothed with power;

7 ^gwho calms the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves ^hand the clamor of the people.

8 Those also who dwell in the most distant parts are afraid of Your signs. You make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

9 You visit the earth and ⁱwater it. You greatly enrich it with the ^jriver of God that is full of water. You prepare for them grain when You have provided for it.

10 You water its ridges abundantly. You settle its furrows. You make it soft with showers. You bless its growth.

11 You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drop fatness.

12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, and the little hills rejoice on every side.

13 The pastures are clothed with flocks. ^kThe valleys also are covered over with grain. They shout for joy. They also sing.

1 Make a ^ajoyful noise to God all you lands.

2 Sing forth the honor of His name. Make His praise glorious.

3 Say to God, “How ^bawesome You are in Your works! ^cThrough the greatness of Your power Your enemies will submit themselves to You.

4 ^dAll the earth will worship You and will sing to You. They will sing to Your name.”

5 Come and see the works of God. He is awesome in His actions toward the children of men.

6 ^eHe turned the sea into dry land. ^fThey went through the flood on foot. There we rejoiced in Him.

7 He rules by His power forever. His eyes behold the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.

8 O bless our God you people. And make the voice of His praise be heard,

9 who keeps our soul alive and does not allow our feet to be moved.

10 For ^gYou, O God, have refined us. ^hYou have tried us as silver is refined.

11 ⁱYou brought us into the net. You laid affliction on our backs.

12 ^jYou have caused men to ride over our heads. ^kWe went through fire and through water, but You brought us out into a wealthy place.

13 ^lI will go into Your house with burnt offerings. ^mI will pay You my vows

14 that my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken when I was in trouble.

15 I will offer You burnt sacrifices of fatlings with the incense of rams. I will offer bulls with goats.

16 Come and hear all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul.

17 I cried out to Him with my mouth, and He was praised with my tongue.

18 ⁿIf I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

19 But surely God ^ohas heard me. He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

20 Blessed be God who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.

1 God be merciful to us and bless us, and ^alook upon us with His favor and approval,

2 so that ^bYour way may be known on the earth, ^cYour salvation among all nations.

3 Let the people praise You, O God. Let all the people praise You.

4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy. ^dFor You will judge the people righteously and govern the nations on the earth.

5 Let the people praise You, O God. Let all the people praise You.

6 ^eThen will the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God, will bless us.

7 God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear Him.

1 Let ^aGod arise and let His enemies be scattered. Let them also who hate Him flee before Him.

2 ^bAs smoke is driven away, so drive them away. ^cAs wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

3 But ^dlet the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice exceedingly.

4 Sing to God. Sing praises to His name. ^eLift up a song to Him who rides on the heavens ^fby His name, and rejoice before Him.

5 ^gA father of the fatherless and a judge of the widows is God in His holy habitation.

6 ^hGod gives the desolate a home in which to live. ⁱHe brings out those who are bound with chains, but the ^jrebellious dwell in a parched land.

7 O God, ^kwhen You went forth before Your people, when You marched through the wilderness,

8 the earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God. Even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

9 ^lYou, O God, sent plentiful rain, whereby You confirmed Your inheritance when it was weary.

10 Your assembly has dwelt in it. ^mYou, O God, have prepared for the poor from Your goodness.

11 The Lord gave the word. Great was the company of those who proclaimed it:

12 ⁿ“Kings of armies flee. They flee, and the women who stayed at home divided the spoil.

13 ^o“Though You lie among the sheepfolds, yet ^pYou will be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.”

14 ^qWhen the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was as snow on Zalmon.

15 The hill of God is the hill of Bashan, a high hill as the hill of Bashan.

16 Why do you look with envy you high hills? ^rThis is the hill on which God desires to dwell. Yes, the LORD will dwell on it forever.

17 ^sThe chariots of God are myriads, thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them as on Sinai, on the holy place.

18 ^tYou have ascended on high. ^uYou have led captivity captive. ^vYou have received gifts for men. Yes, for the ^wrebellious also so ^xthat the LORD God might dwell among them.

19 Blessed is the Lord who daily bears us up with benefits, even the God of our salvation.

20 He who is our God is the God of salvation, and ^yto GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.

21 But ^zGod will wound the head of His enemies, and ^athe hairy scalp of the one who continues in his trespasses.

22 The Lord said, “I will ^bbring again from Bashan. I will bring My people again ^cfrom the depths of the sea,

23 ^dso that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies and the ^etongue of your dogs in the same.”

24 They have seen Your goings, O God, even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

25 ^fThe singers went before and the players on instruments followed after. Among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

26 Bless God in the assemblies, even the Lord, from the ^gfountain of Israel.

27 ^hThere is little Benjamin with their leader, the princes of Judah and their council, the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali.

28 Your God has ⁱcommanded your strength. Strengthen, O God, that which You have worked for us.

29 Because of Your temple at Jerusalem ^jkings will bring presents to You.

30 Rebuke the beasts in the reeds and the ^kmultitude of the bulls with the calves of the people until every one ^lsubmits himself with pieces of silver. Scatter the people who delight in war.

31 ^mPrinces will come out of Egypt. ⁿEthiopia will soon ^ostretch out her hands to God.

32 Sing to God you ^pkingdoms of the earth. O sing praises to the Lord,

33 to Him ^qwho rides on the heavens of heavens that were of old. Behold, He sends out His voice, a ^rmighty voice.

34 ^sAscribe strength to God. His excellency is over Israel, and His strength is in the clouds.

35 O God, ^tYou are more awesome than Your holy places. The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God.

1 Save me, O God, for the ^awaters have come in to my soul.

2 ^bI sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I have come into deep waters where the floods overflow me.

3 ^cI am weary because of my outcry. My throat is dried. ^dMy eyes fail while I wait for my God.

4 Those who ^ehate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies. Though I have stolen nothing, I still must restore it.

5 O God, You know my foolishness, and my sins are not hidden from You.

6 Do not let those who wait on You, O Lord GOD of armies, be ashamed for my sake. Do not let those who seek You be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

7 Because for Your sake I have borne ^freproach. Shame has covered my face.

8 ^gI have become a foreigner to my brethren and an alien to my mother’s children.

9 ^hFor the zeal of Your house has eaten me up. And the ⁱreproaches of those who reproached You are fallen on me.

10 When I chastened my soul with fasting, men jeered at me.

11 I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them.

12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the ^jdrunkards.

13 But as for me, my prayer is to You, O LORD, in an acceptable time. O God, in the multitude of Your mercy, hear me in the truth of Your salvation.

14 Deliver me out of the mire, and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

15 Do not let the waterflood overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up. And do not let the pit shut her mouth on me.

16 Hear me, O LORD, for Your lovingkindness is good. Turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.

17 And do not hide Your face from Your servant, for I am in trouble. Hear me speedily.

18 Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Deliver me because of my enemies.

19 You have known ^kmy reproach and my shame and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before You.

20 Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And ^lI looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for ^mcomforters, but I found none.

21 They gave me also gall for my food, ⁿand in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

22 ^oLet their table become a snare before them, and their well-being a trap.

23 ^pLet their eyes be darkened so that they not see, and make their loins continually shake.

24 ^qPour out Your indignation on them, and let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.

25 ^rLet their habitation be desolate, and let no one dwell in their tents.

26 For they persecute the ones whom ^sYou have smitten, and they gossip about the pain of those whom You have wounded.

27 ^tAdd iniquity to their iniquity, ^uand do not let them come into Your righteousness.

28 Let them ^vbe blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

29 But I am poor and sorrowful. Let Your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

30 ^xI will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

31 ^yThis also will please the LORD better than an ox or bull that has horns and hoofs.

32 ^zThe humble will see this and be glad. And you who seek God, let ^ayour hearts revive.

33 For the LORD hears the poor, and does not despise ^bHis prisoners.

34 ^cLet the heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and ^deverything that moves in them.

35 ^eFor God will save Zion and will build the cities of Judah so that they may dwell there and possess it.

36 The ^fseed also of His servants will inherit it. And those who love His name will dwell in it.

1 Make haste, ^aO God, to deliver me. Make haste to help me, O LORD.

2 ^bLet them be ashamed and confounded who seek after my soul. Let them be turned backward and put to confusion who desire my hurt.

3 ^cLet them be turned back for a reward of their shame who say, “Aha, aha.”

4 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You. And let such as love Your salvation say continually, “Let God be magnified.”

5 ^dBut I am poor and needy. ^eMake haste to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer, O LORD. Do not tarry.

1 ^aIn You, O LORD, do I put my trust. Let me never be put to confusion.

2 ^bDeliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape. ^cIncline Your ear to me and save me.

3 ^dBe my strong habitation unto which I may continually resort. You have given ^ecommandment to save me, for You are my rock and my fortress.

4 ^fDeliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

5 For You are ^gmy hope, O Lord GOD. You are my trust from my youth.

6 ^hBy You I have been supported from the womb. You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise will be continually of You.

7 ⁱI am as a wonder to many, but You are my strong refuge.

8 Let ^jmy mouth be filled with Your praise and with Your honor all day long.

9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age. Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

10 For my enemies speak against me, and those who lay wait for my soul ^ktake counsel together,

11 saying, “God has forsaken him. Persecute and take him, for there is no one to deliver him.”

12 ^lO God, do not be far from me. O my God, ^mmake haste for my help.

13 Let them be confounded and consumed who are adversaries to my soul. Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor who seek my hurt.

14 But I will hope continually, and will still praise You more and more.

15 My mouth will show forth Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, for I do not know their limits.

16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD. I will make mention of Your righteousness, even of You only.

17 O God, You have taught me from my ⁿyouth. And to now I have declared Your wondrous works.

18 Now also ^owhen I am old and greyheaded, O God, do not forsake me until I have showed Your strength to this generation and Your power to everyone who is to come.

19 ^pYour righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things. ^qO God, who is like You!

20 ^rYou, who have showed me great and severe troubles, ^swill receive me again and will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

21 You will increase my honor and comfort me on every side.

22 ^tI will also praise You with the psaltery, even Your truth, O my God. To You I will sing with the harp, O ^uHoly One of Israel.

23 My lips will greatly rejoice when I sing to You, and ^vmy soul that You have redeemed.

24 My tongue also will talk of Your righteousness all the day long. For they are confounded, for they are brought to disgrace, those who seek my hurt.

1 Give the king Your judgments, O God, and Your righteousness to the king’s son.

2 ^aHe will judge Your people with righteousness, and Your poor with justice.

3 ^bThe mountains will bring peace to the people, and the little hills by righteousness.

4 ^cHe will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy and will break in pieces the oppressor.

5 They will fear You ^das long as the sun and moon endure throughout all generations.

6 ^eHe will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

7 In His days will the righteous flourish, and ^fabundance of peace so long as the moon endures.

8 ^gHe will have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.

9 ^hThose who dwell in the wilderness will bow before Him, and ⁱHis enemies will lick the dust.

10 ^jThe kings of Tarshish and the coastlands will bring presents. The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts.

11 ^kYes, all kings will fall down before Him. All nations will serve Him.

12 For He ^lwill deliver the needy when he cries out, the poor also and the one who has no helper.

13 He will spare the poor and needy, and will save the souls of the needy.

14 He will redeem their soul from deceit and violence. And ^mprecious will their blood be in His sight.

15 And He will live, and to Him will be given of the gold of ⁿSheba. Prayer also will be made for Him continually, and daily He will be praised.

16 There will be an abundance of grain on the earth on top of the mountains. Its fruit will shake like Lebanon. ^oAnd those of the city will flourish like grass of the earth.

17 ^pHis name will endure forever. His name will be continued as long as the sun. ^qAnd men will be blessed in Him. ^rAll nations will call Him blessed.

18 ^sBlessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, ^twho only does wondrous things.

19 And ^ublessed be His glorious name forever. ^vAnd let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen.

20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a pure heart.

2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly ^aslipped.

3 ^bFor I was envious at the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the ^cwicked.

4 For there are no pains in their death. Their body is well nourished.

5 ^dThey are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men.

6 Therefore, pride is their necklace. Violence covers them ^eas a garment.

7 ^fTheir eyes bulge out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.

8 ^gThey are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression. They ^hspeak loftily.

9 They set their mouth ⁱagainst the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

10 Therefore, his people return to this place. And ^jwaters of abundance are drunk by them.

11 And they say, ^k“How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”

12 Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world. They increase in riches.

13 Surely I have cleansed my heart in ^lvain and washed my hands in innocence.

14 For all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

15 If I say, “I will speak thus,” behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.

16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me,

17 until I went into the sanctuary of God, then I understood their mend.

18 Surely ⁿYou set them in slippery places. You cast them down into destruction.

19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

20 As a dream when one awakes, so, O Lord, when You awake You will despise their image.

21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my mind.

22 ^oSo foolish was I and ignorant. I was as a beast before You.

23 Nevertheless, I am continually with You. You have held me by my right hand.

24 ^pYou will guide me with Your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

25 ^qWhom have I in heaven but You? And there is no one on earth whom I desire except You.

26 ^rMy flesh and my heart fails. But God is the strength of my heart and my ^sportion forever.

27 For behold, ^tthose who are far from You will perish. You have destroyed all those who leave You for harlotry.

28 But it is good for me to ^udraw near to God. I have put my trust in the Lord GOD so that I may ^vdeclare all Your works.

1 O God, why have You cast us off forever? Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

2 Remember Your assembly that You have purchased of old, the rod of Your inheritance that You have redeemed, this Mount Zion wherein You have dwelt.

3 Turn Your steps toward the perpetual desolations, even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

4 ^aYour enemies roar in the midst of Your assemblies. ^bThey set up their banners for signs.

5 They seem as men who had lifted up axes in a forest of trees.

6 But now they break down its carved work at once with axes and hammers.

7 They have cast fire into Your sanctuary. They have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.

8 ^cThey said in their hearts, “Let us destroy them together.” They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

9 We do not see our signs. ^dThere is no more any prophet, nor is there among us any who knows how long.

10 O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

11 ^eWhy do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Take it from the folds of Your garment and destroy them!

12 For ^fGod my King is from old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

13 ^gYou divided the Sea by Your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

14 You broke the heads of leviathan in pieces and gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

15 ^hYou broke open the fountain and the flood. ⁱYou dried up mighty rivers.

16 The day is Yours. The night also is ^jYours. ^kYou have prepared the light and the sun.

17 You have ^lset all the borders of the earth. ^mYou have made summer and winter.

18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.

19 O do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the multitude of the wicked. Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.

20 ⁿHave respect for the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

21 O do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise Your name.

22 Arise, O God, plead Your own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproaches You daily.

23 Do not forget the voice of Your enemies. The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.

1 To You, O God, we give thanks. To You we give thanks. For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.

2 “When I select an appointed time, it is I who will judge uprightly.

3 “When the earth and all its inhabitants totter, I will firmly set up its pillars.

4 I said to the fools, ‘Do not deal foolishly,’ and to the wicked, ^a‘Do not lift up the horn. Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”

5 ‘Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with a stiff neck.’

6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

7 But ^bGod is the judge. ^cHe puts down one and sets up another.

8 For ^din the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red. It is fully mixed, and He pours it out. But surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

9 But I will declare forever. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 ^eAll the horns of the wicked also I will cut off, but the ^fhorns of the righteous will be ^gexalted.

1 In Judah is God known. His name is great in Israel.

2 In Salem also is His tabernacle, and His dwelling place in Zion.

3 There He broke the arrows of the bow, the shield and the sword and the battle.

4 You are more glorious and excellent ^bthan the mountains of prey.

5 ^cThe stouthearted are spoiled. ^dThey have slept their last. And none of the men of might could raise their hands.

6 ^eAt Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

7 You, even You, are to be feared. And ^fwho may stand in Your sight when once You are angry?

8 ^gYou caused judgment to be heard from heaven. ^hThe earth feared and was still.

9 When God ⁱarose to judgment to save all the meek of the earth.

10 ^jSurely the wrath of man will praise You. With the remainder of wrath You will gird Yourself.

11 ^kMake vows to the LORD your God and pay them. ^lLet all who are around Him bring presents to Him who ought to be feared.

12 He will cut off the spirit of princes. ^mHe is feared by the kings of the earth.

1 I cried out to God with my voice, even to God with my voice, and He gave ear to me.

2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. In the night my hand was stretched out without ceasing. My soul refused to be comforted.

3 When I was troubled, I thought of God. When my spirit was faint, I wondered.

4 You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

6 I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search.

7 Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more?

8 Is His mercy ceased forever? Does His ^apromise fail forever?

9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies?

10 And I said, “This is my grief, that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

11 I will remember the works of the LORD. Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.

12 I will meditate also on all Your work and talk of Your deeds.

13 Your way, O God, is ^bholy. Who is so great a god as our God?

14 You are the God who does wonders. You have declared Your strength among the people.

15 You have with Your arm redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph.

16 The waters saw You, O God, the waters saw You. They were ^cafraid. The depths also were troubled.

17 The clouds poured out water. The skies sent out a sound. Your arrows also went abroad.

18 The voice of Your thunder was in the heaven. The lightnings lightened the world. The earth trembled and shook.

19 Your way is in the sea and Your path in the great waters, and Your footsteps are not known.

20 You lead Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

1 Give ear, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth in a ^aparable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

3 which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4 ^bWe will not hide them from their children, ^ctelling the next generation the praises of the LORD and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done.

5 For ^dHe established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel that He commanded our fathers, ^ethat they should make them known to their children;

6 ^fthat the next generation might know them, even the children who should be born, who should arise and declare them to their children;

7 so that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;

8 and ^gmight not be as their fathers, a ^hstubborn and rebellious generation, a ⁱgeneration that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

10 ^jThey did not keep the covenant of God. And they refused to walk in His law.

11 And they ^kforgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them,

12 ^lmarvellous things He did in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt and in the ^mfield of Zoan.

13 ⁿHe divided the sea and caused them to pass through. And ^oHe made the waters to stand as a heap.

14 ^pIn the daytime also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

15 ^qHe split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

16 He brought ^rstreams also out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers.

17 And they still sinned more against Him by ^sprovoking the Most High in the wilderness.

18 And they ^ttempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust.

19 ^uYes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?”

20 ^vBehold, He smote the rock so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. “Can He give bread also? Can He provide flesh for His people?”

21 Therefore, the LORD heard and ^wwas angry. So a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,

22 because they did not believe in God and ^xdid not trust in His salvation.

23 Though He had commanded the clouds from above and ^yopened the doors of heaven,

24 ^zand had rained down manna on them to eat, and had given them of the food from ^aheaven.

25 Man ate the bread of the mighty. He sent them food to the full.

26 ^bHe caused an east wind to blow in the heaven, and by His power He brought in the south wind.

27 He rained flesh also on them as dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea.

28 And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, around their dwellings.

29 ^cSo they ate and were well filled, for He gave them their own desire.

30 They were not deprived from their lust. But ^dwhile their food was yet in their mouths,

the wrath of God came on them and slew the fattest of them. And He smote down the chosen men of Israel.

32 In spite of all this ^ethey still sinned and ^fdid not believe because of His wondrous works.

33 ^gTherefore, their days He consumed in futility and their years in terror.

34 ^hWhen He slew them, then they sought Him; and they returned and inquired earnestly after God.

35 And they remembered that ⁱGod was their rock, and the high God ^jtheir redeemer.

36 Nevertheless, they ^kflattered Him with their mouth, and they lied to Him with their tongues.

37 For their heart was not right with Him, nor were they steadfast in His covenant.

38 ^lBut He, being full of ^mcompassion, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Yes, many times ⁿHe turned His anger away and ^odid not stir up all His wrath.

39 For ^pHe remembered ^qthat they were but flesh, a ^rbreath that passes away and does not come again.

40 How often they ^sprovoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

41 Yes, ^tthey turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember His hand, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy,

43 when He had worked His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the field of Zoan,

44 and ^uhad turned their rivers into blood, and their streams so that they could not drink.

45 ^vHe sent different sorts of flies among them that devoured them, and ^wfrogs that destroyed them.

46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar and their labor to the ^xlocust.

47 ^yHe destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with frost.

48 He gave up their ^zcattle also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, wrath and indignation and trouble, by sending angels of destruction among them.

50 He made a path for His anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence.

51 And He smote all the ^afirstborn in Egypt, the first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52 But He ^bmade His own people go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53 And He ^cled them on safely so that they did not fear. But the Sea ^doverwhelmed their enemies.

54 And He brought them to the ^eborder of His sanctuary, even to this mountain which ^fHis right hand had purchased.

55 ^gHe cast out the nations also before them, and ^hdivided them an inheritance by lot. And He made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

56 ⁱYet they tempted and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep His testimonies.

57 But they ^jturned back and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers. They were turned aside ^klike a deceitful bow.

58 ^lFor they provoked Him to anger with their ^mhigh places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.

59 When God heard this, He was angry and greatly abhorred Israel,

60 ⁿso that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent that He placed among men.

61 ^oAnd He delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy’s hand.

62 ^pHe gave His people over also to the sword, and was angry with His inheritance.

63 The fire consumed their young men, and ^qtheir maidens were not given to marriage.

64 ^rTheir priests fell by the sword, and ^stheir widows made no lamentation.

65 Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, ^tlike a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

66 And ^uHe beat back His enemies. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67 Furthermore, He refused the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

68 But He chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion ^vwhich He loved.

69 And He built ^wHis sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth that He has established forever.

70 ^xHe chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds.

71 From following the ^yewes that had young He brought him ^zto shepherd Jacob His people and Israel His inheritance.

72 So he fed them according to the ^aintegrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

1 O God, the nations have come into ^aYour inheritance. ^bThey have defiled Your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

2 ^cThe dead bodies of Your servants they have given to be food to the birds of the heaven, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

3 They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

4 We have become a reproach to our ^dneighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are around us.

5 ^eHow long, LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your ^fjealousy burn like fire?

6 ^gPour out Your wrath on the nations ^hthat have not known You, and on the kingdoms ⁱthat have not called on Your name.

7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

8 ^jO do not remember against us former iniquities. Let Your tender mercies come quickly to meet us, for we are brought very low.

9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name. And deliver us, and purge away our sins for ^kYour name’s sake.

10 ^lWhy should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let Him be known among the nations in our sight by the revenging of the blood of Your servants that is shed.

11 Let the ^mgroaning of the prisoner come before You. According to the greatness of Your power, preserve those who are appointed to die.

12 And render to our neighbors ⁿsevenfold into their laps ^otheir reproach by which they have reproached You, O Lord.

13 So ^pwe, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever. ^qWe will show forth Your praise to all generations.

1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, ^aYou who lead Joseph ^blike a flock, You who dwell above the cherubim. ^cShine forth.

2 Before ^dEphraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your strength and come and save us.

3 ^eTurn us again, O God, and ^fcause Your face to shine, and we will be saved.

4 O LORD God of armies, ^ghow long will You be angry against Your people who pray?

5 ^hYou feed them with the bread of tears, and give them tears to drink in great measure.

6 You make us a strife to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

7 Turn us again, O God of armies, and cause Your face to shine, and we will be saved.

8 You have brought a ⁱvine out of Egypt. ^jYou have cast out the nations and planted it.

9 You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and its ^kboughs were like the goodly cedars.

11 She sent out her boughs to the Sea, and her branches to the River.

12 Why have You then ^lbroken down her hedges so that all those who pass by the way pluck her fruit?

13 The boar out of the forest uproots it, and the wild beast of the field devours it.

14 Return, we beseech You, O God of armies. ^mLook down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine

15 and the vineyard that Your right hand has planted, and the branch that You made strong ⁿfor Yourself.

16 It is burned with fire. It is cut down. ^oThey perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

17 ^pLet Your hand be on the man of Your right hand, on the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.

18 Then we will not return from You. Revive us and we will call on Your name.

19 Turn us again, O LORD God of armies. Cause Your face to shine and we will be saved.

1 Sing aloud to God our strength. Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.

2 Make a melody, and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the time appointed on our solemn feast day.

4 For ^athis was a statute for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob.

5 This He ordained in Joseph for a testimony when He went throughout the land of Egypt, ^bwhere I heard a language that I did not understand.

6 I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were delivered from the pots.

7 ^cYou called in trouble and I delivered you. ^dI answered you in the secret place of thunder. ^eI tested you at the waters of Meribah.

8 ^fHear, O My people, and I will testify against you. O Israel, if you will hearken to Me,

9 no ^gforeign god will be in you, nor will you worship any foreign god.

10 ^hI am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. ⁱOpen your mouth wide and I will fill it.

11 But My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would have ^jnone of Me.

12 ^kSo I gave them up to their own hearts’ lust, and they walked in their own counsels.

13 ^lO that My people had hearkened to Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

14 I would quickly have subdued their enemies, and turned My hand against their adversaries.

15 ^mThe haters of the LORD would pretend obedience to Him, and their time of punishment would be forever.

16 He should ⁿhave fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and with honey ^oout of the rock I should have satisfied you.

1 God ^astands in the assembly of the mighty. He judges among ^bthe gods.

2 How long will you judge unjustly, and ^caccept the persons of the wicked?

3 Defend the poor and fatherless. Do justice to the afflicted and ^dneedy.

4 Deliver the poor and needy. Rescue them out of the hand of the wicked.

5 They do not know, nor will they understand. They walk about in darkness. All the ^efoundations of the earth are shaken.

6 I have said, ^f“You are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High.

7 “But you will die like men, and fall like one of the princes.”

8 Arise, O God, judge the earth, for ^gYou will inherit all nations.

1 ^aDo not keep Your silence, O God. Do not hold Your peace, and do not be still, O God.

2 For behold, ^bYour enemies make a tumult. And those who hate You have lifted up the head.

3 They have taken crafty counsel against Your people and consulted ^cagainst Your treasured ones.

4 They have said, “Come, and ^dlet us cut them off from being a nation so that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.”

5 For they have consulted together with one consent. They have made an alliance against You:

6 ^eThe tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagarenes,

7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre.

8 Assur also has joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot.

9 Do to them as to the ^fMidianites, as to ^gSisera and as to Jabin, at the Brook Kison,

10 who perished at Endor. ^hThey became as dung for the earth.

11 Make their nobles like ⁱOreb and like Zeeb. Yes, make all their princes as ^jZebah and as Zalmunna

12 who said, “Let us take for ourselves the pastures of God for a possession.”

13 ^kO my God, make them like a whirling dust, ^las the stubble before the wind.

14 As the fire burns the forest, and as the flame ^msets the mountains on fire,

15 so persecute them with Your tempest and make them afraid with Your storm.

16 Fill their faces with shame so that they may seek Your name, O LORD.

17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever. Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,

18 ⁿso that men may know that You, whose ^oname alone is the LORD, are ^pthe Most High over all the earth.

1 How ^aamiable are Your tents, O LORD of armies!

2 ^bMy soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the LORD. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

3 Yes, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young at Your altars, O LORD of armies, my King and my God.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in Your ^chouse. They are always praising You.

5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, in whose heart is the way to Zion.

6 Passing through the valley of ^dBaca they make it a spring. The early rain also covers it with blessings.

7 They go ^efrom strength to strength, every one of them in Zion ^fappears before God.

8 O LORD God of armies, hear my prayer. Give ear, O God of Jacob.

9 ^gBehold, O God our shield, and look on the face of Your anointed.

10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

11 For the LORD God is a ^hsun and ⁱshield. The LORD will give grace and glory. ^jNo good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

12 O LORD of armies, ^kblessed is the man who trusts in You.

1 LORD, You have been favorable to Your land. You have ^abrought back the captivity of Jacob.

2 You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people. You have covered all their sin.

3 You have taken away all Your wrath. You have turned Yourself from the fierceness of Your anger.

4 ^bDeliver us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease.

5 ^cWill You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?

6 Will You not ^drevive us again so that Your people may rejoice in You?

7 Show us Your mercy, O LORD, and grant us Your salvation.

8 I will hear what God the LORD will speak, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints. But do not let them turn again to folly.

9 Surely ^eHis salvation is near those who fear Him, ^fso that glory may dwell in our land.

10 Mercy and truth are united. ^gRighteousness and peace have kissed each other.

11 Truth will spring out of the earth, and righteousness will look down from heaven.

12 ^hYes, the LORD will give that which is good, and our land will yield her increase.

13 Righteousness will go before Him and will set us in the way of His steps.

1 Bow down Your ear, O LORD. Hear me, for I am poor and needy.

2 Preserve my soul, for I am committed to You. You are my God. Save Your servant who trusts in You.

3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I cry out to You daily.

4 Make glad the soul of Your servant, ^afor to You, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

5 ^bFor You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call on You.

6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications.

7 In the day of my trouble I will call on You, for You will answer me.

8 ^cAmong the gods there is no one like You, O Lord, nor are there any works like Your works.

9 All nations whom You have made will come and worship before You, O Lord, and will glorify Your name.

10 For You are great and ^ddo wondrous things. ^eYou are God alone.

11 ^fTeach me Your way, O LORD and I will walk in Your truth. Unite my heart to fear Your name.

12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart. And I will glorify Your name forever.

13 For great is Your mercy toward me, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

14 O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul. And they have not set You before them.

15 ^gBut You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in mercy and truth.

16 O turn to me and have mercy on me. Give Your strength to Your servant and save the son of Your handmaid.

17 Show me a sign for good so that those who hate me may see it and be ashamed, because You, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.

1 His foundation is on the holy mountains.

2 ^aThe LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

3 ^bGlorious things are spoken of you, O city of God.

4 “I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me. Behold Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia, ‘This one was born there.’”

5 And of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her. And the Most High Himself will establish her.”

6 The LORD will count when He ^cregisters the people, “This one was born there.”

7 Then those who sing as well as those who play on instruments will be there. “All my springs are in you.”

1 O LORD ^aGod of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You.

2 Let my prayer come before You. Incline Your ear to my cry,

3 for my soul is full of troubles and my life ^bdraws near to the grave.

4 I am counted with those who ^cgo down into the pit. ^dI am as a man who has no strength,

5 forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave whom You remember no more; and they are cut off from Your hand.

6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness in the depths.

7 Your wrath lies heavily on me and You have afflicted me with all ^eYour waves.

8 ^fYou have put away my acquaintances far from me. You have made me an abomination to them. ^gI am shut up and I cannot come forth.

9 My eye mourns by reason of affliction. ^hLORD, I have called daily on You. I have stretched out my hands to You.

10 Will You show wonders to the dead? Will the dead arise and praise You?

11 Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave, or Your faithfulness in destruction?

12 Will Your wonders be known in the dark, and Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But to You I have cried out, O LORD, and in the morning my prayer comes before You.

14 LORD, why have You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

15 I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth. I suffer Your terrors. I am distraught.

16 Your fierce wrath goes over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

17 They came around me daily like water. They surrounded me altogether.

18 ⁱLover and friend have You put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

1 I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever. With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness to all generations.

2 For I have said, “Mercy will be built up forever. ^aYour faithfulness You will establish in the very heavens.”

3 ^b“I have made a covenant with My chosen. ^cI have sworn to David My servant:

4 ‘Your seed I will establish forever and build up your throne ^dto all generations.’”

5 And the ^eheavens will praise Your wonders, O LORD, Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the saints.

6 ^fFor who in the heaven can be compared to the LORD? Who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the LORD?

7 ^gGod is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be reverenced by all those who are around Him.

8 O LORD God of armies, who is a strong LORD like unto You? Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

9 ^hYou rule the raging of the sea when its waves arise. You calm them.

10 ⁱYou have broken Rahab in pieces, as one who is slain. You have scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm.

11 ^jThe heavens are You, the earth also is You. As for the world and its fullness, You have founded them.

12 The north and the south, You have created them. ^kTabor and ^lHermon will rejoice in Your name.

13 You have a mighty arm. Strong is Your hand and high is Your right hand.

14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of Your throne. Mercy and truth will go before Your face.

15 Blessed are the people who know the ^mtrumpet sound. They will walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance.

16 In Your name they will rejoice all day; and in Your righteousness they will be exalted.

17 For You are the glory of their strength, and in Your favor our horn will be ⁿexalted.

18 For the LORD is our defense, and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

19 Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one and said, “I have given help to one who is mighty. I have exalted one ^ochosen out of the people.

20 ^p“I have found David My servant. With My holy oil I have anointed him,

21 ^q“with whom My hand will be established. My arm also will strengthen him.

22 The enemy will not assail him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

23 And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him.

24 But My faithfulness and My mercy will be with him, and in My name his horn will be exalted.

25 “I will ^rset his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

26 He will cry out to Me, ‘You are ^smy Father, my God and the ^trock of my salvation.’

27 I will also make him ^uMy firstborn, ^vhigher than the kings of the earth.

28 ^wMy mercy I will keep for him forever, and My covenant will stand fast with him.

29 His seed also I will make to endure forever, and ^xhis throne ^yas the days of heaven.

30 If ^zhis children ^aforsake My law, and do not walk in My judgments,

31 if they break My statutes and do not keep My commandments,

32 then I will visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.

33 ^b“Nevertheless, My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, nor suffer My faithfulness to fail.

34 My covenant I will not break, nor ^calter the thing that is gone out of My lips.

35 Once I have sworn ^dby My holiness, I will not lie to David.

36 ^eHis seed will endure forever, and his throne ^fas the sun before Me.

37 It will be established forever as the moon, and as an enduring witness in the sky.”

38 But You have ^gcast off and ^habhorred. You have been angry with Your anointed.

39 You have made void the covenant of Your servant. ⁱYou have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

40 You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

41 All who pass by the way ^jplunder him. He is a reproach to his neighbors.

42 You have set up the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all his enemies to rejoice.

43 You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not made him stand in the battle.

44 You have made his glory cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

45 The days of his youth You have shortened. You have covered him with shame.

46 How long, LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire?

47 Remember how short my time ^kis. For what ^lfutility have You created all the sons of men?

48 What man is he who lives and will not see ^mdeath? Will he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?

49 Lord, where are Your former mercies that You ⁿswore to David ^oin Your truth?

50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of Your servants, ^phow I bear in my heart the reproach of all the mighty people,

51 ^qwith which Your enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.

52 ^rBlessed be the LORD forever. Amen and Amen.

1 LORD, ^aYou have been our dwelling place in all generations.

2 ^bBefore the mountains were brought forth, or You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

3 You turn man back to dust and say, ^c“Return, you children of men.”

4 ^dFor a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

5 You carry them away as a flood. ^eThey are as a sleep. In the morning ^fthey are like grass that grows up.

6 In the morning it flourishes and grows up. In the evening it is cut down and withers.

7 For we are consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are troubled.

8 ^gYou have set our iniquities before You, our ^hsecret sins in the light of Your countenance.

9 For all our days have passed away under Your wrath. We spend our years as a tale that is told.

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, and if by reason of strength they are fourscore years, yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away.

11 Who knows the power of Your anger? Even according to Your fear, so is Your wrath.

12 ⁱSo teach us to number our days so that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

13 Return, O LORD! How long? And ^jhave compassion for Your servants.

14 O satisfy us early with Your mercy ^kso that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad according to the days wherein You have afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

16 Let ^lYour work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their children.

17 ^mAnd let the graciousness of the LORD our God be on us. ⁿEstablish the work of our hands on us. Yes, prosper the work of our hands.

1 He ^awho dwells in the secret place of the Most High will abide ^bunder the shadow of the Almighty.

2 ^cI will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I will trust.”

3 Surely ^dHe will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence.

4 ^eHe will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will trust. His truth will be your shield and buckler.

5 ^fYou will not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

6 nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7 A thousand will fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand. But it will not come near you.

8 Only ^gwith your eyes you will behold and see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the LORD, who is ^hmy refuge, even the Most High, ⁱyour habitation,

10 ^jNo evil will befall you, nor will any plague come near your dwelling.

11 ^kFor He will give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.

12 They will bear you up in their hands, ^llest you dash your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread on the lion and cobra. The young lion and the serpent you will trample under feet.

14 “Because he has set his love on Me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high because he has ^mknown My name.

15 “He will ⁿcall on Me and I will answer him. I will be ^owith him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.

16 “With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation.”

1 It is a ^agood thing to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

2 to ^bshow forth Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness every night.

3 ^cOn an instrument of ten strings and on the psaltery, on the harp with a solemn sound.

4 For You, LORD, have made me glad through Your work. I will triumph in the works of Your hands.

5 ^dO LORD, how great are Your works! ^eYour thoughts are very deep.

6 ^fA senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

7 When the ^gwicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed forever.

8 ^hBut You, LORD, are Most High forever.

9 For behold, Your enemies, O LORD, for behold, Your enemies will perish. All the workers of iniquity will ⁱbe scattered.

10 But my ^jhorn You will exalt like the horn of a wild ox. I will be ^kanointed with fresh oil.

11 ^lMy eye also will see my desire on my enemies, and my ears will hear my desire on the wicked who rise up against me.

12 ^mThe righteous will flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13 Those who are planted in the house of the LORD will flourish in the courts of our God.

14 They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be fat and flourishing

15 in order to show that the LORD is upright. ⁿHe is my rock and ^othere is no unrighteousness in Him.

1 The ^aLORD reigns. He is clothed with majesty. The LORD is clothed with strength with which ^bHe has girded Himself. The world also is established so that it cannot be moved.

2 ^cYour throne is established from ancient times. You are from everlasting.

3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

4 ^dThe LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yes, than the mighty waves of the sea.

5 Your testimonies are very sure. Holiness adorns Your house forever, O LORD.

1 O Lord, God ^aof vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth!

2 Rise up O ^bJudge of the earth. Render a reward to the proud.

3 ^cHow long will the wicked, LORD, how long will the wicked triumph?

4 How long will they ^dutter and speak hard things, and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

5 They break in pieces Your people, O LORD, and afflict Your heritage.

6 They slay the widow and the resident alien, and murder the fatherless.

7 ^eYet they say, “The LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob regard it.”

8 Take heed you senseless among the people and you fools. When will you be wise?

9 ^fHe who planted the ear, will He not hear? He who formed the eye, will He not see?

10 He who chastises the nations, will He not correct? He who teaches man knowledge, will He not know?

11 The LORD ^gknows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

12 Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O LORD, and ^hteach out of Your law,

13 so that You may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

14 For the LORD will not cast off His people, nor will He forsake His inheritance.

15 But judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

17 Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence.

18 When I said, “My foot slips,” Your mercy, O LORD, held me up.

19 When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your comforts delight my soul.

20 Will the ⁱthrone of iniquity have fellowship with You, one that devises mischief by law?

21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn ^jinnocent blood.

22 But the LORD is my defense, and my God is the rock of my refuge.

23 And He will bring on them their own iniquity and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD our God will cut them off.

1 O come and let us sing to the LORD. Let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation.

2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving and make a joyful noise to Him with a psalms.

3 For the ^bLORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

4 In His hand are the deep places of the earth. The strength of the hills is His also.

5 ^cThe sea is His and He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

6 O come and let us worship and bow down. ^dLet us kneel before the LORD our Maker.

7 For He is our God and ^ewe are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. ^fToday, if You will hear His voice,

8 “do not harden your heart as in the rebellion, ^gas in the day of trial in the wilderness,

9 “when ^hyour fathers tempted Me, tested Me and ⁱsaw My work.

10 “For ^jforty years I was grieved with that generation. And I said, ‘It is a people who err in their heart, and they have not known My ways,’

11 “To whom ^kI swore in My wrath, ‘They would not enter into My rest.’”

1 O ^asing to the LORD a new song. Sing to the LORD, all the earth.

2 Sing to the LORD. Bless His name. Show forth His salvation from day to day.

3 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all people.

4 For the ^bLORD is great and ^cgreatly to be praised. ^dHe is to be feared above all gods.

5 For ^eall the gods of the nations are idols, ^fbut the LORD made the heavens.

6 Honor and majesty are before Him. Strength and ^gbeauty are in His sanctuary.

7 ^hGive to the LORD, O you families of the people, give to the LORD glory and strength.

8 Give to the LORD the glory due to His name. Bring an offering and come into His courts.

9 O worship the LORD ⁱin the beauty of holiness. Tremble before Him, all the earth.

10 Say among the nations that the ^jLORD reigns. The world also will be established so that it will not be moved. ^kHe will judge the people righteously.

11 ^lLet the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad. ^mLet the sea roar and its fullness.

12 Let the field be joyful and all that is in it. Then will all the trees of the forest rejoice

13 before the LORD, for He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth. ⁿHe will judge the world with righteousness and the people with His truth.

1 The LORD ^areigns. Let the earth rejoice. Let the multitude of isles be glad.

2 ^bClouds and darkness are around Him. ^cRighteousness and judgment are the habitation of His throne.

3 ^dA fire goes before Him and burns up His enemies around about.

4 ^eHis lightnings lightened the world. The earth saw and trembled.

5 ^fThe hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

6 ^gThe heavens declare His righteousness, and all the people see His glory.

7 ^hLet all those be ashamed who serve graven images and who boast of idols. ⁱWorship Him all you gods.

8 Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of Your judgments, O LORD.

9 For You, LORD, are ^jhigh above all the earth. ^kYou are exalted far above all gods.

10 You who love the LORD, ^lhate evil. ^mHe preserves the souls of His saints. ⁿHe delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

11 ^oLight dawns for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart.

12 ^pRejoice in the LORD you righteous, and ^qgive thanks to His holy name.

1 O ^asing to the LORD a new song, for He has ^bdone marvellous things. His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.

2 ^cThe LORD has made known His salvation. He has openly shown ^dHis righteousness in the sight of the nations.

3 He has remembered His mercy and His truth toward the house of Israel. ^eAll the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

4 Make a joyful noise to the LORD all the earth. Make a loud noise and rejoice and sing praise.

5 Sing to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of a psalm.

6 With trumpets and the sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

7 Let the sea roar and its fullness, the world and those who dwell in it.

8 ^fLet the floods clap their hands. Let the hills be joyful together before the LORD, for He comes to judge the earth. With righteousness He will judge the world and the people with equity.

1 The LORD reigns. Let the people tremble. ^aHe sits between the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.

2 The LORD is great in Zion, and He is high above all the people.

3 Let them praise Your great and awesome name, for it is holy.

4 You are a King and love justice. You establish equity. You execute judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

5 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at His footstool, for He is holy.

6 Moses and Aaron among His priests, and Samuel among those who ^bcall on His name, they called on the LORD and He answered them.

7 He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar. They kept His testimonies and the ordinance that He gave them.

8 You answered them, O LORD our God. You were a God who forgave them, though You took vengeance on their deeds.

9 Exalt the LORD our God and worship at His holy hill, for the LORD our God is holy.

1 Make a ^ajoyful noise to the LORD all you lands.

2 Serve the LORD with gladness. Come before His presence with singing.

3 Know that the LORD Himself is God. ^bIt is He who has made us and not we ourselves. ^cWe are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

4 ^dEnter into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him and bless His name.

5 For the LORD is good. ^eHis mercy is everlasting and His truth endures to all generations.

1 I will sing of mercy and justice. To You, O LORD, I will sing.

2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will You come to me? I will ^awalk within my house with a perfect heart.

3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. ^bI hate the work of those ^cwho turn aside. It will not gain a hold on me.

4 A perverse heart will depart from me. I will not ^dknow a wicked person.

5 Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will cut off. ^eThe one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart, I will not endure.

6 My eyes will be on the faithful of the land so that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, He will serve me.

7 He who works deceit will not dwell within my house. He who tells lies will not continue in my presence.

8 ^fEarly I will destroy all the wicked of the land so that I may cut off all evildoers ^gfrom the city of the LORD.

1 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come to You.

2 ^aDo not hide Your face from me in the day when I am in trouble. Incline Your ear to me. In the day when I call, speedily answer me.

3 For my days are ^bconsumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth.

4 My heart is smitten and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread.

5 Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my skin.

6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I am like an owl of the desert.

7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone on the house top.

8 My enemies curse me all day long. Those who deride me swear an oath against me.

9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping

10 because of Your indignation and Your wrath. For You have lifted me up and cast me down.

11 My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

12 But You, O LORD, will endure forever, and Your remembrance to all generations.

13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion. For the time to favor her, yes, the set time has come.

14 For Your servants take pleasure in her stones and favor her dust.

15 So the nations will ^cfear the name of the LORD and all the kings of the earth Your glory.

16 For the LORD will build up Zion. ^dHe will appear in His glory.

17 ^eHe will regard the prayer of the destitute and not despise their prayer.

18 This will be ^fwritten for future generations, that a ^gpeople who will be born will praise the LORD.

19 For He has ^hlooked down from the height of His sanctuary, from heaven the LORD beheld the earth,

20 ⁱto hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those who were doomed to death,

21 ^jto declare the name of the LORD in Zion and His praise in Jerusalem,

22 ^kwhen the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

23 He weakened my strength in the way. He ^lshortened my days.

24 ^mI said, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. ⁿYour years are throughout all generations.

25 ^o“Of old You have laid the foundation of the earth. And the heavens are the work of Your hands.

26 ^p“They will perish, but You will endure. Yes, all of them will wax old like a garment. As a vesture You will change them, and they will be changed.

27 “But ^qYou are the same, and Your years will have no end.

28 ^r“The children of Your servants will continue, and their seed will be established before You.”

1 Bless ^athe LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name.

2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His benefits:

3 ^bwho forgives all your iniquities, who ^cheals all your diseases,

4 who redeems your life from destruction, ^dwho crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies,

5 who satisfies your mouth with good things so that ^eyour youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

6 The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

7 ^fHe made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.

8 ^gThe LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in mercy.

9 ^hHe will not always reprimand, nor will He keep His anger forever.

10 ⁱHe has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

11 For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.

12 As far as the east is from the west, so far He has ^jremoved our transgressions from us.

13 ^kAs a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who fear Him.

14 For He knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust.

15 As for man, ^lhis days are as grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

16 ^mFor the wind passes over it and it is gone, and ⁿits place will acknowledge it no more.

17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children,

18 ^oto such as keep His covenant and to those who remember His commandments to do them.

19 The LORD has prepared His throne in the heavens, and ^pHis kingdom rules over all.

20 ^qBless the LORD, you His angels, mighty in strength, that ^rdo His commandments, taking heed to the voice of His word.

21 Bless the LORD, all you His armies, ^syou ministers of His who do His pleasure.

22 Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His dominion. Bless the LORD, O my soul.

1 Bless ^athe LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, You are very great. You are clothed with honor and majesty,

2 covering Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a curtain.

3 ^bHe lays the beams of His chambers in the waters and makes the clouds His chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

4 He makes His angels spirits, His ministers ^aflaming fire.

5 He laid the foundations of the earth so that it should not be removed forever.

6 You ^ccovered it with the deep as with a garment, the waters stood above the mountains.

7 At Your rebuke they fled. At the voice of Your thunder they hurried away.

8 They go up by the mountains. They go down by the valleys to the place that You have founded for them.

9 You have ^dset a bound so that they may not pass over, ^eso that they do not turn again to cover the earth.

10 He sends the springs into the valleys that run among the hills.

11 They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

12 By them will the birds of the heaven that have their habitation sing among the branches.

13 ^fHe waters the hills from His chambers. The earth is satisfied with the ^gfruit of Your works.

14 ^hHe causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and vegetation for the service of man in order that he may bring forth ⁱfood out of the earth,

15 and ^jwine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap, and the cedars of Lebanon that He has planted,

17 where the birds make their nests. As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and the cliffs for the ^krock badgers.

19 ^lHe appointed the moon for seasons, and the m sun knows its going down.

20 ⁿYou make darkness, and it is night in which all the beasts of the forest creep about.

21 ^oThe young lions roar after their prey and seek their food from God.

22 The sun rises and they gather themselves together and lie down in their dens.

23 Man goes forth to ^phis work and to his labor until the evening.

24 ^qO LORD, how numerous are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your ^rriches.

25 So is this great and wide sea in which are innumerable teeming things, both small and great beasts.

26 There the ships go. There is the ^sleviathan whom You have made to play in it.

27 ^tThese all wait on You so that You may give them their food in due season.

28 What You give them they gather in. You open Your hand and they are filled with good.

29 You hide Your face and they are troubled. ^uYou take away their breath and they die and return to their dust.

30 ^vYou send forth Your Spirit and they are created. And You renew the face of the earth.

31 The glory of the LORD will endure forever. The LORD will ^wrejoice in His works.

32 He looks on the earth and it ^xtrembles. ^yHe touches the hills and they smoke.

33 ^zI will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

34 May my ^ameditation be pleasing to Him. I will be glad in the LORD.

35 Let the ^bsinners be consumed from the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Praise the LORD.

1 O ^agive thanks to the LORD. Call on His name. ^bMake known His deeds among the people.

2 Sing to Him. Sing psalms to Him. ^cTalk of all His wondrous works.

3 Glory in His holy name. Let the heart of those who rejoice seek the LORD.

4 Seek the LORD and His strength. ^dSeek His face forever.

5 ^eRemember His marvellous works that He has done, His wonders and the judgments of His mouth,

6 O seed of Abraham His servant, You children of Jacob His chosen.

7 He is the LORD our God. ^fHis judgments are in all the earth.

8 He has ^gremembered His covenant forever, the word that He commanded to a thousand generations.

9 ^hThis is the covenant that He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac,

10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

11 saying, ⁱ“To you I will give the land of Canaan, the allotment of Your inheritance,”

12 ^jwhen they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and ^kaliens in it.

13 And they wandered from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people.

14 ^lHe did not allow any man to do them wrong. Yes, ^mHe rebuked kings for their sakes,

15 saying, “Do not touch My anointed and do not harm My prophets.”

16 Furthermore, ⁿHe called for a famine in the land. ^oHe broke the whole staff of bread.

17 ^pHe sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was ^qsold as a servant.

18 ^rThey afflicted his feet with fetters. He was laid in irons.

19 Until the time that his word came to pass, ^sthe word of the LORD tested him.

20 ^tThe king sent and loosed him, even the ruler of the people. And he let him go free.

21 ^uHe made him lord of his house and ruler of all his substance,

22 to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.

23 ^vIsrael also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the ^wland of Ham.

24 ^xAnd He increased His people greatly, and made them stronger than their enemies.

25 ^yHe turned their heart to hate His people, to deal subtly with His servants.

26 ^zHe sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen.

27 They ^ashowed His signs among them and wonders in the land of Ham.

28 He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against His words.

29 ^bHe turned their waters into blood and slew their fish.

30 ^cTheir land brought forth frogs in abundance, even in the rooms of their kings.

31 ^dHe spoke and there came different kinds of flies and lice in all their borders.

32 ^eHe gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

33 ^fHe smote their vines also and their fig trees, and broke the trees of their territory.

34 ^gAnd He spoke and locusts came, and young locusts without number,

35 and ate up all the vegetation in their land and devoured the fruit of their ground.

36 ^hHe smote also all the firstborn in their land, ⁱthe first of all their strength.

37 ^jHe brought them forth also with silver and gold, and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

38 ^kEgypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them fell on them.

39 ^lHe spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.

40 ^mThe people asked and He brought quail, and He ⁿsatisfied them with the bread of heaven.

41 ^oHe opened the rock and the waters gushed out and it ran in the dry places like a river.

42 For He remembered ^pHis holy promise and Abraham His servant.

43 And He brought forth His people with joy and His chosen with gladness.

44 ^qAnd He gave them the lands of the nations and they inherited the labor of the people,

45 ^rso that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws. Praise the LORD.

1 Praise the LORD. ^aGive thanks to the LORD, for He is good. For His mercy endures forever.

2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can show forth all His praise?

3 Blessed are those who observe justice and he who ^bdoes righteousness at ^call times.

4 ^dRemember me, O LORD, with the favor that You have toward Your people. O visit me with Your salvation

5 so that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your inheritance.

6 ^eWe have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

7 Our fathers did not understand Your wonders in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, ^fbut rebelled at the Sea, even at the Red Sea.

8 Nevertheless, He saved them for His name’s sake so ^gthat He might make His mighty power known.

9 ^hHe rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up. So ⁱHe led them through the depths as through the wilderness.

10 And ^jHe saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

11 ^kAnd the waters covered their enemies. There was not one of them left.

12 ^lThen they believed His words. They sang His praise.

13 ^mThey soon forgot His works. They did not wait for His counsel.

14 ⁿBut they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert.

15 And He gave them their request, but ^psent leanness into their soul.

16 ^qThey envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the holy one of the LORD.

17 ^rThe earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.

18 ^sAnd a fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

19 ^tThey made a calf in Horeb and worshiped the molten image.

20 Thus ^uthey changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.

21 They forgot God their savior who had done great things in Egypt, wondrous works in the land of Ham and awesome things by the Red Sea.

23 ^vTherefore, He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen ^wstood before Him in the breach to turn away His wrath, lest He should destroy them.

24 Yes, they despised the ^xpleasant land. They ^ydid not believe His word.

25 ^zBut they murmured in their tents and did not hearken to the voice of the LORD.

26 ^aTherefore, He lifted up His hand against them in order ^bto overthrow them in the wilderness,

27 ^cto overthrow their seed also among the nations and to scatter them in the lands.

28 ^dThey joined themselves also to Baal-peor and ate the sacrifices to the dead.

29 Thus they provoked Him to anger with their actions, and the plague broke out on them.

30 ^eThen Phinehas stood up and intervened, and so the plague was stopped.

31 And this action was accounted to him ^ffor righteousness to all generations thereafter.

32 ^gThey angered Him also at the waters of strife, ^hso that it went ill with Moses on their account,

33 ⁱbecause they provoked His spirit so that he spoke rashly with his lips.

34 ^jThey did not destroy the nations ^kconcerning whom the LORD commanded them.

35 ^lBut they were mingled among the nations and learned their works.

36 ^mAnd they served their idols, ⁿwhich were a snare to them.

37 ^oYes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to ^pdemons,

38 and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. And the ^qland was polluted with blood.

39 Thus they were ^rdefiled with their own works, and went ^swhoring with their own inventions.

40 Therefore, the ^twrath of the LORD was kindled against His people, so that He abhorred ^uHis own inheritance.

41 And ^vHe gave them into the hand of the nations, and they hated them who ruled over them.

43 ^wMany times He delivered them, but they provoked Him with their counsel and were brought low because of their iniquity.

44 Nevertheless, He regarded their affliction when ^xHe heard their cry.

45 And for their sake He remembered His covenant, and ^zrelented ^aaccording to the multitude of His mercies.

46 ^bHe made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

47 ^cSave us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the nations in order to give thanks to Your holy name and to triumph in Your praise.

48 ^dBlessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting. And let all the people say, “Amen.” Praise the LORD.

1 O ^agive thanks to the LORD for He is good, for His mercy endures forever.

2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

3 and ^bgathered them out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

4 They wandered in the ^cwilderness in a desert region. They found no city in which to dwell.

5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

6 ^dThen they cried out to the LORD in their trouble and He delivered them out of their distresses.

7 And He led them forth by the ^eright way so that they might go to a city of habitation.

8 ^fO that men would praise the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

9 For ^gHe satisfies the longing soul and fills the hungry soul with good things.

10 There were those who ^hdwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death, being ⁱbound in affliction and iron,

11 because they ^jrebelled against the words of God and spurned the ^kcounsel of the Most High.

12 Therefore, He brought down their heart with labor. They fell down and there was ^lno one to help.

13 Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them out of their distresses.

14 ^mHe brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds asunder.

15 O that men would praise the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

16 For He has ⁿbroken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron asunder.

17 Fools are afflicted ^obecause of their transgression and because of their iniquities.

18 ^pTheir soul abhors all manner of food, and they ^qdraw near to the gates of death.

19 Then they cry out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saves them out of their distresses.

20 ^rHe sent His word and ^shealed them, and ^tdelivered them from their destructions.

21 O that men would praise the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

22 ^uAnd let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and ^vdeclare His works with rejoicing.

23 Those who go down to the sea in ships, who do business on great waters,

24 these see the works of the LORD and His wonders in the deep.

25 For He commands and raises the stormy wind that ^wlifts up its waves.

26 They mount up to the heaven. They go down again to the depths. ^xTheir soul is melted because of trouble.

27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.

28 Then they cry out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brings them out of their distresses.

29 ^yHe makes the storm calm so that its waves are still.

30 Then they are glad because they are quiet, and so He brings them to their desired haven.

31 ^zO that men would praise the LORD for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men!

32 Let them exalt Him also ^ain the assembly of the people and praise Him in the assembly of the elders.

33 He ^bturns rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground,

34 ^cfruitful land into barrenness, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

35 ^dHe turns the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into watersprings.

36 And there He makes the hungry dwell so that they may prepare a city for habitation,

37 and sow the fields and plant vineyards that may yield fruits of increase.

38 ^eHe also blesses them so that they are multiplied greatly, and does not allow their cattle to ^fdecrease.

39 Again, they are ^gdiminished and brought low through oppression, affliction and sorrow.

40 ^hHe pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

41 ⁱYet He sets the poor on high from affliction and ^jmakes their families like a flock.

42 ^kThe righteous will see it and rejoice, and all ^liniquity will stop her mouth.

43 ^mWhoever is wise and will observe these things will understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

1 O ^aGod, my heart is fixed. I will sing and give praise, even with my glory.

2 ^bAwake, psaltery and harp. I myself will awake early.

3 I will praise You, O LORD, among the people, and I will sing praises to You among the nations.

4 For Your mercy is great above the heavens, and Your truth reaches to the clouds.

5 ^cBe exalted, O God, above the heavens, and Your glory above all the earth,

6 ^dso that Your beloved may be delivered. Save with Your right hand and answer me.

7 God has spoken in His holiness, “I will rejoice. I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

8 “Gilead is Mine. Manasseh is Mine. Ephraim also is the strength of My head. ^eJudah is My lawgiver.

9 Moab is My washpot. Over Edom I will cast out My shoe. Over Philistia I will triumph.”

10 ^fWho will bring me into the strong city? Who will lead me into Edom?

11 Will not You, O God, who cast us off? And will not You, O God, go forth with our armies?

12 Give us help from trouble, for useless is the help of man.

13 ^gThrough God we will do valiantly, for He it is who will tread down our enemies.

1 ^aDo not hold Your peace, O God of my praise,

2 for the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me. They have spoken against me with a ^blying tongue.

3 They surrounded me also with words of hatred, and fought against me ^cwithout a cause.

4 In return for my love they act as my accusers. But I give myself to prayer.

5 And ^dthey have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

6 Set a wicked man over him, and let a ^eperverse accuser stand at his right hand.

7 When he will be judged, let him be condemned, and ^flet his prayer become sin.

8 Let his days be ^gfew, and ^hlet another take his place of leadership.

9 ⁱLet his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg. Let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11 ^jLet the extortioner catch all that he has, and let the foreigners plunder his labor.

12 Let there be not one to extend mercy to him. Neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.

13 ^kLet his posterity be cut off, and in the next generation let their ^lname be blotted out.

14 ^mLet the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD, and do not let the sin of his mother ⁿbe blotted out.

15 Let them be before the LORD continually so that He may ^ocut off their memory from the earth.

16 Because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man in order that he might even slay the ^pbroken in heart.

17 ^qAs he loved cursing, so let it come to him. As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it ^rcome into his body like water, and like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be to him as the garment that covers him, and for a girdle by which he is girded continually.

20 Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and for those who speak evil against my soul.

21 But You, O GOD, the Lord, deal kindly with me for Your name’s sake. Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.

22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

23 I am gone ^slike the shadow when it declines. I am tossed up and down as the locust.

24 My ^tknees are weak through fasting, and my flesh fails of fatness.

25 I have become also a ^ureproach to them. When they look on me, ^vthey shake their heads.

26 Help me, O LORD my God. O save me according to Your mercy,

27 ^wso that they may know that this is Your hand, that You, LORD, have done it.

28 ^xLet them curse, but You bless. When they arise, let them be ashamed, but let ^yYour servant rejoice.

29 ^zLet my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

30 I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth. Yes, ^aI will praise Him among the multitude.

31 For ^bHe will stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn His soul.

1 The ^aLORD said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make Your enemies Your ^bfootstool.”

2 The LORD will send the rod of Your strength ^cout of Zion. ^dRule in the midst of Your enemies.

3 ^eYour people will be willing in the day of Your power, ^fin the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning. You have the dew of Your youth.

4 The LORD has sworn and ^gwill not relent. You are a ^hpriest forever after the order of ⁱMelchizedek.

5 The Lord at ^jYour right hand will strike through ^kkings in the day of His wrath.

6 He will judge among the nations. He will fill the places with the dead bodies. ^lHe will wound the heads over many countries.

7 He will drink of the brook in the way. Therefore, ^mHe will lift up the head.

1 Praise the LORD. ^aI will praise the LORD with my whole heart, in the assembly of the upright and in the assembly.

2 ^bThe works of the LORD are great, ^cstudied by all those who have pleasure in them.

3 His work is ^dhonorable and glorious, and His righteousness endures forever.

4 He has made His wonderful works to be remembered. ^eThe LORD is gracious and full of compassion.

5 He has given food to those who fear Him. He will always be mindful of His covenant.

6 He has shown His people the power of His works so that He might give them the heritage of the nations.

7 The works of His hands are ^ftruth and justice. All His commandments are trustworthy.

8 ^gThey stand fast forever and ever, and are ^hdone in truth and uprightness.

9 ⁱHe sent redemption to His people. He has commanded His covenant forever. ^jHoly and awesome is His name.

10 ^kThe fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever.

1 Praise the LORD. Blessed is the man who fears the LORD and ^adelights greatly in His commandments.

2 ^bHis seed will be mighty on earth. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

3 ^cWealth and riches will be in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

4 ^dTo the upright there arises light in the darkness. He is gracious and full of compassion and righteous.

5 ^eA good man shows favor and lends. He will guide his affairs ^fwith discretion.

6 Surely he will not be dispossessed forever. ^gThe righteous will be remembered forever.

7 ^hHe will not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

8 His ⁱheart is ^jfearless, certain that he will ^ksee his enemies fall.

9 He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

10 The wicked will see it and be grieved. He will gnash with his teeth and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

1 Praise the LORD. Praise, O servants of the LORD. ^aPraise the name of the LORD.

2 ^bBlessed is the name of the LORD from this time forth and forever.

3 ^cFrom the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, the Lord’s name is to be praised.

4 The LORD is ^dhigh above all nations, and ^eHis glory above the heavens.

5 ^fWho is like the LORD our God, who dwells on high,

6 ^gwho humbles Himself to behold the things that are in heaven and on the earth!

7 ^hHe raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the ⁱneedy out of the dunghill,

8 so that He may ^jset him with princes, even with the princes of His people.

9 ^kHe makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise the LORD.

1 When ^aIsrael went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob ^bfrom a people of a foreign language,

2 ^cJudah was His sanctuary and Israel His domain.

3 ^dThe Sea saw it and fled. ^eJordan was driven back.

4 ^fThe mountains skipped like rams and the little hills like lambs.

5 ^gWhat ails you, O Sea, that you fled? O Jordan, why were you driven back?

6 You mountains, why did you skip like rams, and you little hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,

8 ^hwho turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

1 Not ^aunto us, O LORD, not unto us, but to Your name give glory for Your mercy and for the sake of Your truth.

2 Why should the nations say, ^b“Where is now their God?”

3 ^cBut our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever He pleases.

4 ^dTheir idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.

5 They have mouths, but they do not speak. They have eyes, but they do not see.

6 They have ears, but they do not hear. They have noses, but they do not smell.

7 They have hands, but they do not handle. They have feet, but they do not walk. Neither do they speak through their throat.

8 ^eThose who make them are like unto them, as is everyone who trusts in them.

9 ^fO Israel, trust in the LORD. ^gHe is their help and their shield.

10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD. He is their help and their shield.

11 You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD. He is their help and their shield.

12 The LORD has been mindful of us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron.

13 ^hHe will bless those who fear the LORD, both small and great.

14 The LORD will increase you more and more, you and your children.

15 You are ⁱblessed by the LORD ^jwho made heaven and earth.

16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s. But the earth He has given to the children of men.

17 ^kThe dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence.

18 ^lBut we will bless the LORD from this time forth and forever. Praise the LORD.

1 I ^alove the LORD because He has heard my voice and my supplications.

2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore, I will call on Him as long as I live.

3 ^bThe sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of Sheol laid hold on me. I found trouble and sorrow.

4 Then I called on the name of the LORD: “O LORD, I beseech You. Deliver my soul.”

5 ^cGracious is the LORD and ^drighteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

6 The LORD preserves the innocent. I was brought low and He helped me.

7 Return to ^erest, O my soul, for the ^fLORD has dealt bountifully with you.

8 ^gFor You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears and my feet from falling.

9 I will walk before the LORD ^hin the land of the living.

10 ⁱI held to my faith even when I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”

11 ^jI said in my haste, ^k“All men are a lie.”

12 What will I render to the LORD for all His benefits toward me?

13 I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.

14 ^lI will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all His people.

15 ^mPrecious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.

16 O LORD, truly ⁿI am Your servant. I am Your servant and the ^oson of Your handmaid. You have loosed my bonds.

17 I will offer to You the ^psacrifice of thanksgiving and will call on the name of the LORD.

18 I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all His people,

19 in the ^qcourts of the Lord’s house in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the LORD.

1 O praise the ^aLORD, all you nations. Praise Him, all you people.

2 For His merciful kindness is great toward us. And ^bthe truth of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD.

1 O ^agive thanks to the LORD, for He is good. ^bFor His mercy endures forever.

2 ^cLet Israel now say that His mercy endures forever.

3 Let the house of Aaron now say that His mercy endures forever.

4 Let those who now fear the LORD say that His mercy endures forever.

5 ^dI called on the LORD in distress and the LORD answered me and ^eset me in a large place.

6 ^fThe LORD is on my side. I will not fear. What can man do to me?

7 ^gThe LORD takes my part with those who help me. Therefore, ^hI will see my desire on those who hate me.

8 ⁱIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

9 ^jIt is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.

10 All nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

11 They ^ksurrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. But in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

12 They surrounded me ^llike bees. They are quenched as the fire of thorns, for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

13 You pushed me violently so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

14 ⁿThe LORD is my strength and song, and has become my salvation.

15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

16 ^oThe right hand of the LORD is exalted. The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.

17 ^pI will not die, but live and ^qdeclare the works of the LORD.

18 The LORD has ^rchastened me greatly, but He has not given me over to death.

19 ^sOpen to me the gates of righteousness. I will go into them and I will praise the LORD,

20 ^tthis gate of the LORD ^uinto which the righteous will enter.

21 I will praise You, for You have ^vheard me and have become my salvation.

22 ^wThe stone that the builders refused has become the chief cornerstone.

23 This is the LORD’S doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.

24 This is the day that the LORD has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.

25 Save now, I beseech You, O LORD. O LORD, I beseech You, send now prosperity.

26 ^xBlessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. We have blessed you from the house of the LORD.

27 God is the LORD, and He has given us ^ylight. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.

28 You are my God and I will praise You. ^zYou are my God, I will exalt You.

29 O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good. For His mercy endures forever.

1 ¶ Blessed are the undefiled in the way, ^awho walk in the law of the LORD.

2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, and who seek Him with the ^bwhole heart.

3 ^cThey also do no iniquity. They walk in His ways.

4 You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently.

5 O that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes!

6 ^dThen I would not be ashamed when I have respect to all Your commandments.

7 I will praise You with uprightness of heart when I will have learned Your righteous judgments.

8 I will keep Your statutes. O do not utterly forsake me.

9 ¶ How will a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word.

10 With my whole heart I have ^esought You. O do not let me wander from Your commandments.

11 ^fYour word I have hidden in my heart so that I might not sin against You.

12 Blessed are You, O LORD. Teach me Your statutes.

13 With my lips I have ^gdeclared all the judgments of Your mouth.

14 I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches.

15 I will meditate on Your precepts and have respect to Your ways.

16 I will ^hdelight myself in Your statutes. I will not forget Your word.

17 ¶ ⁱDeal generously with Your servant so that I may live and keep Your word.

18 Open my eyes so that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law.

19 ^jI am a foreigner on the earth. Do not hide Your commandments from me.

20 My soul is crushed with longing after Your judgments at all times.

21 ^kYou have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who do err from Your commandments.

22 ^lRemove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies.

23 Princes also sat and spoke against me. But Your servant meditated on Your statutes.

24 Your testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

25 ¶ ^mMy soul cleaves to the dust. ⁿRevive me according to Your word.

26 I have declared my ways and You heard me. ^oTeach me Your statutes.

27 Make me to understand the way of Your precepts, so I will ^pmeditate on Your wondrous works.

28 ^qMy soul melts for heaviness. Strengthen me according to Your word.

29 Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me Your law graciously.

30 I have chosen the way of truth. Your judgments I have laid before me.

31 I cling to Your testimonies. O LORD, do not put me to shame.

32 I will run the way of Your commandments, for You have ^rset my heart free.

33 ¶ ^sTeach me, O LORD, the way of Your statutes, and I will keep it to the end.

34 ^tGive me understanding and I will keep Your law. Yes, I will observe it with my whole heart.

35 Make me go in the path of Your commandments, for therein I do delight.

36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies and not to ^ucovetousness.

37 ^vTurn away my eyes from beholding worthless things, and revive me in Your way.

38 ^xEstablish Your word to Your servant who is devoted to Your fear.

39 Turn away my reproach which I fear, for Your judgments are good.

40 Behold, I have longed after Your precepts. Revive me in Your righteousness.

41 ¶ Let Your mercies come also to me, O LORD, even Your salvation according to Your word.

42 Then I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in Your word.

43 And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for I have hoped in Your judgments.

44 So I will keep Your law continually forever and ever.

45 And I will walk in ^yfreedom, for I seek Your precepts.

46 ^zI will also speak of Your testimonies before kings and will not be ashamed.

47 And I will delight myself in Your commandments that I have loved.

48 My hands also I will lift up to Your commandments that I have loved, and I will meditate on Your statutes.

49 ¶ Remember Your word to Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope.

50 This is my ^acomfort in my affliction, for Your word has revived me.

51 The proud utterly deride me, yet I have not turned aside from Your law.

52 I remembered Your judgments of old, O LORD, and have comforted myself.

53 ^bBurning indignation has taken hold on me because of the wicked who forsake Your law.

54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

55 ^cI have remembered Your name, O LORD, in the night and have kept Your law.

56 This has become mine, that I kept Your precepts.

57 ¶ ^dYou are my portion, O LORD. I have said that I would keep Your words.

58 I entreated Your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to Your word.

59 ^eI thought on my ways and turned my feet to Your testimonies.

60 I made haste and did not delay to keep Your commandments.

61 The raiding parties of the wicked have robbed me. I have not forgotten Your law.

62 ^fAt midnight I will arise to give thanks to You because of Your righteous judgments.

63 I am a companion of all those who fear You and of those who keep Your precepts.

64 ^gThe earth, O LORD, is full of Your mercy. Teach me Your statutes.

65 ¶ You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word.

66 Teach me good judgment and ^hknowledge, for I have believed Your commandments.

67 Before I was ⁱafflicted I went astray, but now I have kept Your word.

68 You are good and do ^jgood. Teach me Your statutes.

69 The proud have ^kforged a lie against me. I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.

70 ^lTheir heart is as fat as grease. I delight in Your law.

71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, so that I might learn Your statutes.

72 ^mThe law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

73 ¶ ⁿYour hands have made me and fashioned me. Give me understanding so that I may learn Your commandments.

74 ^oThose who fear You will be glad when they see me, because I have hoped in Your word.

75 I know, O LORD, ^pthat Your judgments are right and that You in faithfulness have afflicted me.

76 Let, I beseech You, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort according to Your word to Your servant.

77 Let Your tender mercies come to me so that I may live, for Your law is my delight.

78 Let the proud ^qbe ashamed, for they dealt perversely with me without a cause. I will meditate on Your precepts.

79 Let those who fear You turn to me, and those who have known Your testimonies.

80 Let my heart be sound in Your statutes so that I be not ashamed.

81 ¶ ^rMy soul faints for Your salvation. I hope in Your word.

82 My eyes fail for Your word, saying, “When will You comfort me?”

83 For ^sI have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I do not forget Your statutes.

84 ^tHow many are the days of Your servant? ^uWhen will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?

85 ^vThe proud have dug pits for me that are not according to Your law.

86 All Your commandments are faithful. They persecute me ^wwrongfully. Help me.

87 They had almost consumed me on earth, but I did not forsake Your precepts.

88 Revive me after Your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth.

89 ¶ ^xForever, O LORD, Your word is firmly fixed in heaven.

90 Your faithfulness is to all generations. You have established the earth and it abides.

91 They continue this day according to ^yYour ordinances, for all are Your servants.

92 Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction.

93 I will never forget Your precepts, for with them You have revived me.

94 I am Yours. Save me, for I have sought Your precepts.

95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me, but I will consider Your testimonies.

96 ^zI have seen an end of all perfection, but Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

97 ¶ O how I love Your law! ^aIt is my meditation all day long.

98 You through Your commandments have made me ^bwiser than my enemies, for they are always with me.

99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, ^cfor Your testimonies are my meditation.

100 ^dI understand more than the elders, because I keep Your precepts.

101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way so that I might keep Your word.

102 I have not departed from Your judgments, for You have taught me.

103 ^eHow sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

104 Through Your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way.

105 ¶ ^fYour word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

106 ^gI have sworn and I will perform it so that I will keep Your righteous judgments.

107 I am afflicted very much. Revive me, O LORD, according to Your word.

108 Accept, I beseech You, the ^hfreewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me Your judgments.

109 ⁱMy soul is continually in my hand, yet I do not forget Your law.

110 ^jThe wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I have not erred from Your precepts.

111 ^kYour testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes always, even to the end.

113 ¶ I hate doubtful thoughts, but Your law I do love.

114 ^lYou are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in Your word.

115 ^mDepart from me, you evildoers, for I will keep the commandments of my God.

116 Uphold me according to Your word so that I may live. And do not let me ⁿbe ashamed of my hope.

117 Hold me up and I will be safe, and I will have respect for Your statutes continually.

118 You have trodden down all those who err from Your statutes, for their deceit is falsehood.

119 You put away all the wicked of the earth ^olike dross. Therefore, I love Your testimonies.

120 ^pMy flesh trembles for fear of You, and I am afraid of Your judgments.

121 ¶ I have done justice and righteousness. Do not leave me to my oppressors.

122 Give ^qassurance to Your servant for doing good. Do not let the proud oppress me.

123 My eyes fail from seeking Your salvation, and for the word of Your righteousness.

124 Deal with Your servant according to Your mercy and teach me Your statutes.

125 ^rI am Your servant. Give me understanding so that I may know Your testimonies.

126 It is time for You, LORD, to work, for they have made void Your law.

127 ^sTherefore, I love Your commandments above gold, yes, above fine gold.

128 Therefore, I esteem all Your precepts concerning all things to be right, and I hate every false way.

129 ¶ Your testimonies are wonderful. Therefore, my soul keeps them.

130 The opening of Your words gives light. ^tIt gives understanding to the ^usimple.

131 I opened my mouth and ^vpanted, for I longed for Your commandments.

132 ^wLook on me and be merciful to me, ^xas Your manner with those who love Your name.

133 ^yOrder my steps in Your word, and ^zdo not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

134 ^aDeliver me from the oppression of man, so I will keep Your precepts.

135 ^bMake Your face shine on Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.

136 ^cRivers of water run down my eyes because they do not keep Your law.

137 ¶ ^dRighteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.

138 ^eYour testimonies that You have commanded are righteous and very faithful.

139 ^fMy zeal has consumed me because my enemies have forgotten Your words.

140 ^gYour word is very pure, therefore, Your servant loves it.

141 I am small and despised, and yet I do not forget Your precepts.

142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and Your law is the ^htruth.

143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me, yet Your commandments are my delights.

144 The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting. Give me understanding and I will live.

145 ¶ I cried out with my whole heart. Hear me, O LORD. I will keep Your statutes.

146 I cried out to You. Save me and I will keep Your testimonies.

147 ⁱI rise before the dawning of the morning and cry out. I hope in Your word.

148 ^jMy eyes are awake in the night watches so that I might meditate on Your word.

149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness. O LORD, revive me according to Your judgment.

150 They draw near who follow after mischief. They are far from Your law.

151 You are ^knear, O LORD, and all Your commandments are truth.

152 Concerning Your testimonies, I have known from old that You have founded them ^lforever.

153 ¶ ^mConsider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget Your law.

154 ⁿPlead my case and deliver me. Revive me according to Your word.

155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your statutes.

156 Great are Your tender mercies, O LORD. Revive me according to Your judgments.

157 Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I ^odo not deviate from Your testimonies.

158 I beheld the transgressors and ^pwas grieved because they did not keep Your word.

159 Consider how I love Your precepts. Revive me, O LORD, according to Your lovingkindness.

160 Your word is true from the beginning. And every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.

161 ¶ ^qPrinces have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your word.

162 I rejoice at Your word, as one who finds great spoil.

163 I hate and abhor lying, but Your law do I love.

164 Seven times a day I praise You because of Your righteous judgments.

165 ^rGreat peace they have who love Your law, and nothing will offend them.

166 LORD, I have hoped for Your salvation and obeyed Your commandments.

167 My soul has kept Your testimonies and I love them exceedingly.

168 I have kept Your precepts and Your testimonies, ^tfor all my ways are before You.

169 ¶ Let my cry come near before You, O LORD. ^uGive me understanding according to Your word.

170 Let my supplication come before You. Deliver me according to Your word.

171 ^vMy lips will utter praise when You have taught me Your statutes.

172 My tongue will speak of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteousness.

173 Let Your hand help me, for ^wI have chosen Your precepts.

174 ^xI have longed for Your salvation, O LORD, and ^yYour law is my delight.

175 Let my soul live and it will praise You. And let Your judgments help me.

176 ^zI have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments.