For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have relieved me in my distress;
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
The Lord hears when I call to Him.

You have put gladness in my heart,
More than when their grain and new wine abound.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;
He lurks to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

The wicked strut about on every side
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord restores His captive people,
Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness;
I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.

Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb;
You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.

For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice,
And be gracious to me and answer me.

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You,
“Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.”

Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help,
When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried to You.

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled my soul with fasting,
And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong,
Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand.

The Lord will not leave him in his hand
Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

Wait for 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.

For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.”

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

And when he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood;
His heart gathers wickedness to itself;
When he goes outside, he tells it.

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him,
That when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?

God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.

Why should I fear in days of adversity,
When the iniquity of my foes surrounds me,

Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;

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

Though while he lives he congratulates himself—
And though men praise you when you do well for yourself—

“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
And you associate with adulterers.

Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores His captive people,
Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

When I am afraid,
I will put my trust in You.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.

Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in the night watches,

Which my lips uttered
And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.

O God, when You went forth before Your people,
When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.

You shed abroad a plentiful rain, O God;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched.

When you lie down among the sheepfolds,
You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And its pinions with glistening gold.

When the Almighty scattered the kings there,
It was snowing in Zalmon.

When I wept in my soul with fasting,
It became my reproach.

When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.

May their table before them become a snare;
And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You;
And my soul, which You have redeemed.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

When I pondered to understand this,
It was troublesome in my sight

Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within,

“When I select an appointed time,
It is I who judge with equity.

You, even You, are to be feared;
And who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

When God arose to judgment,
To save all the humble of the earth. Selah.

When I remember God, then I am disturbed;
When I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah.

When He rained meat upon them like the dust,
Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

When He killed them, then they sought Him,
And returned and searched diligently for God;

They did not remember His power,
The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,

When He performed His signs in Egypt
And His marvels in the field of Zoan,

When God heard, He was filled with wrath
And greatly abhorred Israel;

He established it for a testimony in Joseph
When he went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard a language that I did not know:

The Lord will count when He registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.” Selah.

You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.

For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night.

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

Pay heed, you senseless among the people;
And when will you understand, stupid ones?

When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your consolations delight my soul.

“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, though they had seen My work.

I will give heed to the blameless way.
When will You come to me?
I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call answer me quickly.

When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

When the wind has passed over it, it is no more,
And its place acknowledges it no longer.

When the sun rises they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.

When they were only a few men in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.

Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the dread of them had fallen upon them.

When they became envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

Nevertheless He looked upon their distress
When He heard their cry;

When they are diminished and bowed down
Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty,
And let his prayer become sin.

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.

I also have become a reproach to them;
When they see me, they wag their head.

Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, they shall be ashamed,
But Your servant shall be glad.

When Israel went forth from Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

I believed when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted.”

Then I shall not be ashamed
When I look upon all Your commandments.

I shall give thanks to You with uprightness of heart,
When I learn Your righteous judgments.

My eyes fail with longing for Your word,
While I say, “When will You comfort me?”

How many are the days of Your servant?
When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?

I am for peace, but when I speak,
They are for war.

A Song of Ascents, of David.
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

“Had it not been the Lord who was on our side
When men rose up against us,

Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their anger was kindled against us;

A Song of Ascents.
When the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.

How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with their enemies in the gate.