W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?

I did call upon the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

O Jehovah my God, if I did this, if there is iniquity in my hand;

If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

For the one who takes revenge against murderers took notice of the oppressed; he did not overlook their cry for help

And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.

For what did the unjust one despise God, saying in his heart, Thou wilt not search?

If the pillars shall be pulled down, what did the just one?

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

Did not the workers of vanity know? eating my people they ate bread; they called not Jehovah.

A Secret Treasure of David. Preserve me, O God, for I did trust in Thee.

I did place Jehovah before me continually, Because -- at my right hand I am not moved.

Then did the earth shake and quake, Even, the foundations of the mountains, were deeply moved, Yea they did shake, because he was angry.

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

Then did Yahweh thunder in the heavens, and the Highest uttered his voice, - hail, and live coals of fire.

Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.}

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

Therefore shall the LORD reward me after my righteous dealing, and according unto the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. {TYNDALE: And the LORD did to me again, according to my righteousness, and after my pureness that I had in his sight.}

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

They cried out but there was no rescuer, [even] to Yahweh, but he did not answer them.

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me;

Magnifying the salvation of his king; and he did mercy to his anointed, and to David and to his seed even to forever.

In Thee did our fathers trust -- they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them.

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

For He has not despised or detested
the torment of the afflicted.
He did not hide His face from him
but listened when he cried to Him for help.

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord's favor in the land of the living?

A psalm -- a song used at the dedication of the temple; by David. I will praise you, O Lord, for you lifted me up, and did not allow my enemies to gloat over me.

LORD, you brought me from death; you kept me alive so that I did not descend into the Pit.

LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

I called to thee, Jehovah, and unto the Lord did I make supplication:

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah

O the happiness of the nation whose God is Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.

I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me.

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

There did the workers of iniquity fall, - thrust down and not able to rise!

I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.

Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

In the great congregation I have proclaimed the righteous good news. Behold, I did not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.

I did not hide Your righteousness in my heart;
I spoke about Your faithfulness and salvation;
I did not conceal Your constant love and truth
from the great assembly.

I -- I said, 'O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,'

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

The LORD hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us
The work You did in their days,
In the days of old.

How you did drive out the nations with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

However, you cast us off and made us ashamed! You did not even march with our armies!

You have sold your people {cheaply}, and did not profit by their price.

All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.

Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."

Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

Therefore I will praise you forever because of what you did; I will proclaim that your name is good in the midst of your faithful ones. To the Director: Upon . A Davidic instruction.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Did not those transgressing know any thing? eating up my people, they ate bread: they called not upon God.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

A net, did they fix for my steps, My soul was bowed down, - They digged before me a pit, They fell into the midst thereof! Selah.

Aren't you the one, God, who has cast us off? Didn't you refuse, God, to accompany our armies?

He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

Come, hear, all ye who fear God, And I recount what he did for my soul.

Unto him - with my mouth, did I cry, And high praise was under my tongue.

Blessed be God, who did not turn away my prayers nor his gracious love from me. To the Director of music: Accompanied by stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.

O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:

You, O God, sent abroad plentiful rain;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched and weary.

Your flock found a dwelling place in it;
O God, in Your goodness You provided for the poor.

Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

The LORD hath said, "I will bring my people again, as I did from Bashan; mine own will I bring again, as I did sometimes from the deep of the sea,

Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being my enemies wrongfully;
I am forced to restore what I did not steal.

And they said, How did God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?

Did I purify my heart
and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?

Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.

I was stupid and didn’t understand;
I was an unthinking animal toward You.

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

They said in their hearts, 'Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.

We did not see our signs; there is no prophet any more; neither is there among us any who knows how long.

You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt);
You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

You broke open fountains and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

You did cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.

Did his mercy fail forever? his word come to an end to generation and generation?

Did God forget to compassionate? or in anger did he gather his compassion? Silence.

I will remember the works of the Lord. Yes, I will remember the amazing things you did long ago!

It was not hid from their sons, to a later generation recounting the praises of Jehovah and his strength, and his wonders which he did.

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out
And the streams overflowed;
Can He give bread also?
Or will He provide meat for His people?”

because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation.

Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

In spite of all this they sinned further and did not believe his wonders.