I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

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.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

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

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

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

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me.

Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

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.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

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

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

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

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

{A Prayer of David.} Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

{A Psalm.} O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.

The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

They stand fast for ever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.