They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Look at our shield, O God, and have regard for the face of your anointed one.

For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.

For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. The Lord bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.

O Lord, You have [at last] shown favor to Your land [of Canaan];
You have restored [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob (Israel).

You have forgiven the wickedness of Your people;
You have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have withdrawn all Your wrath,
You have turned away from Your burning anger.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

Have mercy on me Lord, for I call on you all day long.

All nations whom You have made shall come and kneel down in worship before You, O Lord,
And they shall glorify Your name.

For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me;
And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

Do a sign [that] benefits me, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame, because you, O Yahweh, have helped me and comforted me.

Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

{A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

I have been reckoned with those going down to the pit, I have been as a man without strength.

Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.

Your wrath has rested heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

I am afflicted, and expiring from youth, I have borne Thy terrors -- I pine away.

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.

Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

You have crushed Rahab (Egypt) like one who is slain;
You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all that is in it, You have founded and established them.

The north and the south, You have created them;
Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

You have a strong arm;
Mighty is Your hand, Your right hand is exalted.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

But [in apparent contradiction of all this] You [the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected;
You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

You have spurned and repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have profaned his crown [by casting it] in the dust.

You have broken down all his [city] walls;
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

Spoiled him have all passing by the way, He hath been a reproach to his neighbours,

You have exalted the right hand of his foes;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Also, You have turned back the edge of his sword
And have not made him [strong enough] to stand in battle.

You have put an end to his splendor
And have hurled his throne to the ground.

You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame. Selah.

Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Thy servants, I have borne in my bosom all the strivings of the peoples,

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Lord, You have been our dwelling place [our refuge, our sanctuary, our stability] in all generations.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

Return, O Yahweh. How long? And have compassion on your servants.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

Because you have made the Lord, [who is] my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your works;
At the works of Your hands I joyfully sing.

How great have been Thy works, O Jehovah, Very deep have been Thy thoughts.

When the lawless do thrive like grass, And all the workers of iniquity have blossomed, It is that they may be destroyed for ever.

And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil.

Mine eye also hath seen my desire on mine enemies, Mine ears have heard my desire of the evil-doers that rise up against me.

They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.

Your throne has been secure from ancient times; you have always been king.

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Thy testimonies have been very stedfast, To Thy house comely is holiness, O Jehovah, for length of days!

How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

LORD, they have crushed your people, afflicting your heritage.

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

Yet have they said - Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.

He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear? Or, that fashioneth the eye, shall he not have power to see?

If the Lord had not been my help,
I would soon have dwelt in [the land of] silence.

If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

In the multitude of my anxious thoughts within me thy comforts have delighted my soul.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;

The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

Lightened have His lightnings the world, The earth hath seen, and is pained.

The mountains, like wax, have melted, At the presence of Yahweh, At the presence, of the Lord of all the earth.

The heavens declare his righteousness, And all the peoples have seen his glory.