The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for the LORD holds him up with his hand.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

LORD, do not rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

But I, as a deaf man, do not hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

For I said, "Do not let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

Do not forsake me, LORD. My God, do not be far from me.

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it.

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Do not withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Do not delay, my God.

The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and do not go out with our armies.

All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Wake up. Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise. Do not reject us forever.

God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

Do not be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.

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

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

Do not throw me from your presence, and do not take your holy Spirit from me.

For you do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

"Behold, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

Listen to my prayer, God. Do not hide yourself from my supplication.

Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies do not depart from her streets.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hid myself from him.

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who do not fear God.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD.

Do not kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

Haven't you, God, rejected us? You do not go out with our armies, God.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

Do not trust in oppression. Do not become vain in robbery. If riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Do not let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.

Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away.

Do not let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Hosts. Do not let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

Deliver me out of the mire, and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily.

Charge them with crime upon crime. Do not let them come into your righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. LORD, do not delay.

Do not reject me in my old age. Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

God, do not be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I do not know its full measure.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, do not forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Do not deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.

Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Do not forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

I said to the arrogant, "Do not boast." I said to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn.

Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with a stiff neck."

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

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

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in his salvation.

They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

He made a path for his anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies;

Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you; on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;

Do not hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.