Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice; in the morning I will pray to you, and I will watch for your answer.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

For he that maketh inquisition for blood remembereth them; He forgetteth not the cry of the poor.

For the needy shall not alway be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious; search out the wickedness which he hath done, that he may perish.

Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:

to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's seat is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor, and his eyelids try the children of men.

They say, “Through our tongues we have power;
our lips are our own—who can be our master?”

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

Multiplied are their griefs, Who have hastened backward; I pour not out their libations of blood, Nor do I take up their names on my lips.

Show forth your gracious love, save those who take refuge in you from those who rebel against your sovereign power.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

From men with Your hand, O Lord,
From men of the world [these moths of the night] whose portion [of enjoyment] is in this life—idle and vain,
And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And they leave what they have left [of wealth] to their children.

For the music director; by the Lord's servant David, who sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul. He said: "I love you, Lord, my source of strength!

Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

I was also uncorrupt before him, and eschewed my own wickedness. {TYNDALE: But was pure unto him ward, and kept myself from wickedness.}

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

With You I can attack a barrier,
and with my God I can leap over a wall.

God—His way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is pure.
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

And I will beat them in pieces as dust upon the face of the wind: I will pour them out as the mire of the streets.

{Every day} [they] pour forth speech, and {every night} [they] tell knowledge.

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

The fear of Yahweh [is] pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of Yahweh [are] true; they are righteous altogether,

They are more desirable than gold—
than an abundance of pure gold;
and sweeter than honey,
which comes from the honeycomb.

Who can understand his errors? Oh make me pure from secret faults;

Now I know that Yahweh will help his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the victorious power of his right hand.

For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

You prevail over all your enemies; your power is too great for those who hate you.

Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor: he hath not hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard him.

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;
Those who [diligently] seek Him and require Him [as their greatest need] will praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Shall bear away a blessing from Yahweh, and righteousness, from his delivering God.

Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob's descendants, who pray to him. (Selah)

He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.

See mine affliction and my misery, And bear with all my sins.

Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.

I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,

One thing I have desired from Jehovah, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to pray in His temple.

My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O Lord.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them up for ever.

A psalm of David. Acknowledge the Lord, you heavenly beings, acknowledge the Lord's majesty and power!

The voice of Jehovah is with power, The voice of Jehovah is with majesty,

The voice of Jehovah maketh the hinds to calve, And strippeth the forests bare: And in his temple everything saith, Glory.

You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.

The course of my life is in Your power;
deliver me from the power of my enemies
and from my persecutors.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.

A horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither doth he deliver any by his great power.

My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.

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

Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.

Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; and none of them that trust in him shall bear guilt.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

for evil men will lose their power, but the Lord sustains the godly.

The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and kind and gives.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.

My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.

For I pray, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would boast against me.”

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

To the overseer instructing for the sons of Borah. As the stag will long for the channels of waters, thus will my soul long for thee, O God.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

I will pray to God, my high ridge: "Why do you ignore me? Why must I walk around mourning because my enemies oppress me?"

You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand;
Then you planted and established them (Israel);
[It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

It was not with their sword that they inherited the land, nor did their own arm deliver them. But it was by your power, your strength, and by the light of your face; because you were pleased with them.

By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes!

Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.

And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.

Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.

Daughters of kings are among thy precious ones, A queen hath stood at thy right hand, In pure gold of Ophir.

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework; the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee.

Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

Whoever presents a thank-offering honors me. To whoever obeys my commands, I will reveal my power to deliver."

Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness and guilt
And cleanse me from my sin.

Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

Wilt thou cleanse me from sin with hyssop, That I may be pure? Wilt thou wash me, That I may be whiter, than snow?