For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me. For thou art the God of my salvation; in thee hath been my hope all the day long.

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.

Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me, for my hope hath been in thee.

O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

For, thy lovingkindness, hath been before mine eyes, and I have walked to and fro in thy faithfulness;

I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

Jehovah is my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face -- I have been troubled.

I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body.

For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without -- fled from me.

I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

But my hope hath been in thee, O LORD; I have said, "Thou art my God."

And I -- I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

For in Him our heart rejoices,
Because we trust [lean on, rely on, and are confident] in His holy name.

Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.

He is keeping all his bones, One of them hath not been broken.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

And -- in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

There have workers of iniquity fallen, They have been overthrown, And have not been able to arise!

But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.

From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

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

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.

For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.

I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

Lord, before Thee is all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid.

And mine enemies are lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred:

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done it.

Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

“Lethal poison has been poured into him,
and he won’t rise again from where he lies!”

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].

Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

Nobles of peoples have been gathered, With the people of the God of Abraham, For to God are the shields of earth, Greatly hath He been exalted!

They have seen -- so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away.

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;
For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

So that together have we been wont to find sweetness in counsel, In the house of God, used we to walk in the throng.

At evening and morning and high noon, have I been wont to lament and complain, And he hath heard my voice!

God will hear and humble them,
Even He who sits enthroned from old— Selah.
Because in them there has been no change [of heart],
And they do not fear God [at all].

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.

My enemies will retreat when I call on you. This has been my experience, because God is with me.

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

{To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

Iniquitous things, have been too strong for me, As for our transgressions, wilt, thou, by propitiation remove them.

Establishing mountains by His power, He hath been girded with might,

Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

If I had been aware of malice in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.

But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

A shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it.

Singers have been before, Behind are players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away -- I bring back.

O God, Thou -- Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid.

I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

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

O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!

The prayers of David son of Jesse have been ended.

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,