Let my lips speak praise [with thanksgiving],
For You teach me Your statutes.

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

Let Your hand be ready to help me,
For I have chosen Your precepts.

I long for Your salvation, O Lord,
And Your law is my delight.

Let my soul live that it may praise You,
And let Your ordinances help me.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep;
Seek Your servant, for I do not forget Your commandments.

What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

Like a sharp arrow from a warrior, along with fiery coals from juniper trees!

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

A song of ascents.I lift my eyes toward the mountains.
Where will my help come from?

He will not allow your foot to slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.

Indeed, the Protector of Israel
does not slumber or sleep.

The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade on your right hand.

The sun will not strike you by day
or the moon by night.

The Lord will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your life.

The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in [everything that you do]
From this time forth and forever.

I was glad, when they were saying unto me, Unto the house of Yahweh, let us go!

Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

where [the] tribes go up, the tribes of Yah [as] a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David.

Ask ye the peace of Jerusalem, At rest are those loving thee.

“May peace be within your walls
And prosperity within your palaces.”

Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good.

Unto you I lift up my eyes,
O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

{A Song of degrees of David.} If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

they had swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

They that trust in Jehovah Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

Do good, O LORD, unto those that be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts.

As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!

{A Song of degrees.} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

They who are sowing with tears, with shouting, shall reap:

Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

How blessed are all who fear the LORD as they follow in his ways.

For you shall eat the fruit of [the labor of] your hands,
You will be happy and blessed and it will be well with you.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
Within the innermost part of your house;
Your children will be like olive plants
Around your table.

May the Lord bless you from Zion [His holy mountain],
And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life;

Indeed, may you see your [family perpetuated in your] children’s children.
Peace be upon Israel!

They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper
or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.

Lord, hearken to my voice, Thine ears are attentive to the voice of my supplications.

If You, Lord, should keep an account of our sins and treat us accordingly,
O Lord, who could stand [before you in judgment and claim innocence]?

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

My soul waits for Jehovah more than morning-watchers who are watching for the morning.

Israel, put your hope in the Lord.
For there is faithful love with the Lord,
and with Him is redemption in abundance.

{A Song of degrees of David.} LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Israel, put your hope in the Lord,
both now and forever.

“I absolutely will not enter my house,
Nor get into my bed—

I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,

We will go into his tabernacle, and fall low on our knees before his footstool.

Arise, O Lord, to Your resting place,
You and the ark [the symbol] of Your strength.

Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness (right living),
And let Your godly ones shout for joy.

For the sake of Your servant David,
Do not turn away the face of Your anointed.

The Lord swore to David
A truth from which He will not turn back:
“One of your descendants I will set upon your throne.

“If your children will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their children also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

It is like the dew of Hermon, which flows down upon the hills of Zion. Indeed that is where the Lord has decreed a blessing will be available -- eternal life.

A Song of the Ascents. Lo, bless Jehovah, all servants of Jehovah, Who are standing in the house of Jehovah by night.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

Ye that stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of the house of our God,

For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants.

Your name, O Lord, endures forever,
Your fame and remembrance, O Lord, [endures] throughout all generations.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Mouths are attributed to them, but they cannot speak; sight is attributed to them, but they cannot see;

Ears they have, and they give not ear, Nose -- there is no breath in their mouth!

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy endureth for ever.

By the rivers of Babylon,
There we [captives] sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion [the city God imprinted on our hearts].

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

How are we to sing the song of the LORD on foreign soil?

If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.

How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones
Against the rock.

I give you thanks with my whole heart; before [the] gods I sing your praise.

I will bow down [in worship] toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word together with Your name.

When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.

All the kings of the land will give thanks and praise You, O Lord,
When they have heard of the promises of Your mouth [which were fulfilled].

Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me;
You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
And Your right hand will save me.

The Lord will accomplish that which concerns me;
Your [unwavering] lovingkindness, O Lord, endures forever—
Do not abandon the works of Your own hands.

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

You have enclosed me behind and before,
And [You have] placed Your hand upon me.

Such [infinite] knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high [above me], I cannot reach it.