I am looking in hope for your deliverance, LORD, as I carry out your commands.

Let my prayer come before you; take me out of trouble, as you have said.

I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

Woe to me, for I sojourn in Meshech,
and I live among the tents of Kedar [among hostile people]!

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

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

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.

Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

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

{A Song of degrees.} They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, 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 Yahweh, unto such as are good, even unto such as are upright in their hearts.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back to the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

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

Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag of seed, will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.

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

How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be ashamed as they confront their enemies at the city gate. A Song of Ascents

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

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

So that they which go by, say not so much as, "the LORD prosper you, we wish you good luck in the name of the LORD."

Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears pay attention to what I ask of you!

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

For Yahweh hath chosen Zion, - He hath desired it as a dwelling for himself:

As for his enemies, I shall clothe them with shame; but upon himself shall his crown flourish."

Lo! how good and how delightful, for brethren, to dwell together even as one.

As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his special possession.

And He gave their land as a heritage,
A heritage to Israel His people.

As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

[Those who] make them become like them, [as does] everyone who trusts in them.

But as for Pharaoh and his host, he overthrew them in the reed sea! For his mercy endureth forever.

And gave their land as a heritage,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;

to Israel his servant as a possession, for his gracious love is everlasting

There we sat down and cried by the rivers of Babylon as we remembered Zion.

for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: "Sing for us a song about Zion!"

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

For though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly; as for the proud, he beholdeth them afar off.

If I ascend the heavens, there, thou art! If I spread out hades as my couch, behold thee!

And if I should say, "Surely darkness will cover me, and [the] light around me [will be as] night,"

Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was being formed in secret,
And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder is under their lips. Selah.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;
They have spread a net by the wayside;
They have set traps for me. Selah.

So I say to the LORD, "You are my God; listen to my voice as I plead for mercy, LORD.

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Do not let a {slanderer} be established in the land; as for [the] man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing, to be minded as the ungodly or wicked men; lest I eat of such things as please them.

Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Nevertheless, my eyes are on you, Lord GOD, as I seek protection in you. Don't leave me defenseless!

I cry with my voice to Yahweh. With my voice, I ask Yahweh for mercy.

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

As a result, my spirit is desolate within me, and my mind within me is appalled.

I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

As a demonstration of your loyal love, destroy my enemies! Annihilate all who threaten my life, for I am your servant.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is [so vast and profound as to be] unsearchable [incomprehensible to man].

I will speak about the glorious splendor of your majesty as well as your awesome actions.

And, the might of thy terrible acts, shall men speak, and, as for thy greatness, I will recount it.

in order to make known your mighty acts to mankind as well as the majestic splendor of your kingdom.

The LORD upholdeth all such as should fall, and lifteth up all those that be down.

Everyone's eyes are on you, as you give them their food in due time.

The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, yea, all such as call upon him faithfully.

As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.

Blessed [is the one] whose help [is] the God of Jacob, whose hope [is] on Yahweh [as] his God,

The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.

Who is giving snow like wool, Hoar-frost as ashes He scattereth.

He casts forth His ice as fragments;
Who can stand before His cold?

He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.

young men and young women as well, [the] old [together] with [the] young--

Let the men of lovingkindness exult as they glory, Let them shout aloud upon their beds:

as they bring retribution to nations and punishment to nations,

that they may be avenged of them, as it is written. Such honour have all his saints. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

And you treated all my counsel as nothing
And would not accept my reprimand,

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

From such as leave the high street, and walk in the ways of darkness;

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Withhold not good from them who ask it, when it is in power of thy hand to do it:

Strive not lightly with any man, wher as he hath done thee no harm.

Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.

As for the scornful, he shall laugh them to scorn, but he shall give grace unto the lowly.

Honour, shall the wise inherit, - but, as for dullards, shame shall carry them away.

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.