Save and help and rescue, Lord, for godly people cease to be,
For the faithful vanish from among the sons of men.

O go not far from me then, for trouble is hard at hand, and here is none to help me.

“Lord, let me know my [life’s] end
And [to appreciate] the extent of my days;
Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

Then I said, "Here I am! I have come! In the scroll of the book it is written about me.

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

“Here is the man
who would not make God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.

This collection of the prayers of David son of Jesse ends here.

Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance [offered by the irreverent] are [blindly] drunk by them.

The clouds poured out water;
The skies gave forth a sound;
Your arrows flashed here and there.

Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, "This one was born there."

For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

The children of your servants will settle down here, and their descendants will live securely in your presence."

Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.

The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord's proclamation to my lord: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"

They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.

Here's how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.