The humble have seen it and are glad;
You who seek God [requiring Him as your greatest need], let your heart revive and live.

For, a Hearkener to the needy, is Yahweh, And, his prisoners, hath he not despised.

The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who cherish his name will live there. To the Music director. Davidic. As a memorial.

Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

As for me, I am poor and needy. God, come quickly to me. You are my helper and my deliverer. LORD, please do not delay.

By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually.

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

Filled is my mouth with Thy praise, All the day with Thy beauty.

Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;
Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.

Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

But as for me, I will hope continually, and will praise thee yet more and more.

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of Your [deeds of] salvation all day long,
For their number is more than I know.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!

Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you, whose life you have redeemed.

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

Before him, let the men of the desert kneel, But, as for his foes, the dust, let them lick;

Indeed he will deliver [the] needy [who is] crying for help, and [the] afflicted [who] has no helper.

He shall be favorable to the simple and poor; he shall preserve the souls of such as be in adversity.

From fraud and from violence he redeemeth their soul, And precious is their blood in his eyes.

There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.

His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

Blessed is Jehovah God, God of Israel, He alone is doing wonders,

And blessed is the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled with His honour. Amen, and amen!

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

For I envied those who are proud, as I observed the prosperity of the wicked.

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak [as though] from on high.

They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.

For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.

If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within [as with the fang of an adder],

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

You will guide me with your wise advice, and later you will receive me with honor.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

{Maschil of Asaph.} O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

Remember Your congregation,
which You purchased long ago
and redeemed as the tribe for Your own possession.
Remember Mount Zion where You dwell.

Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?
Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

You crushed the heads of Leviathan (Egypt);
You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

Thou, didst set up all the bounds of the earth, As for summer and winter, thou, didst form them!

May the crushed one not again be confounded, As for the oppressed and the needy, let them praise thy Name.

Forget not the voice of Thine adversaries, The noise of Thy withstanders is going up continually!

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.} Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

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

Melted is the earth and all its inhabitants, I -- I have pondered its pillars. Selah.

Don't use your strength to fight heaven or speak from stubborn arrogance."

For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness -- is elevation.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

But as for me, I will declare for ever; I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.} In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

You shine brightly and reveal your majesty, as you descend from the hills where you killed your prey.

[The] stouthearted are plundered; they sleep their sleep, and all [the] able men cannot {use} their hands.

You, even You, are to be feared [with the submissive wonder of reverence];
Who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

From heaven you declared judgment. The earth stands in awe and is quiet

When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)

Even human anger praises you; you will wear the survivors of your wrath as an ornament.

Vow and pay unto Jehovah your God: let all that are round about him bring presents unto him that is to be feared.

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

{To the chief Musician. On Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A Psalm.} My voice is unto God, and I will cry; my voice is unto God, and he will give ear unto me.

In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out [in prayer] without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah

The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

Will the Lord reject [us] forever, and will he never be pleased [with us] again?

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

As I meditate on all your works, I will consider your awesome deeds.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

The voice of Thy thunder is in the spheres, Lightnings have lightened the world, The earth hath trembled, yea, it shaketh.

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

Thou hast led as a flock Thy people, By the hand of Moses and Aaron!

I will declare wise sayings;
I will speak mysteries from the past—

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle: