As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

But God [has been] my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

His den has been in Salem, his lair in Zion.

The brave-hearted have been plundered;
they have slipped into their final sleep.
None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.

From Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both rider and horse have been fast asleep.

Thou, fearful art Thou, And who doth stand before Thee, Since Thou hast been angry!

From heaven Thou hast sounded judgment, Earth hath feared, and hath been still,

In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.

In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world;

He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.

Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel,

They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth,

And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered.

And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

Then the Lord awoke like [one who had been] asleep, [awoke] like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.

Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].

We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

Wherefore should the nations say - Where is their God? Let him be known among the nations before our eyes! Yea! By the avenging of the blood of thy servants which hath been shed!

O Yahweh, God of hosts! How long hast thou been wroth with the prayer of thy people?

Covered have been hills with its shadow, And its boughs are cedars of God.

The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.

Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.

My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

For my soul hath been full of evils, And my life hath come to 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.

From my youth,
I have been afflicted and near death.
I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.

Age-abidingly, will I keep for him my lovingkindness, And, my covenant, hath been made steadfast for him;

Like the moon, shall it be established unto times age-abiding, And, a witness, in the skies, hath been made sure. Selah.

But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

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

His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.

You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.

{A Prayer of Moses the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

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

Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

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

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

Your throne has been established
from the beginning;
You are from eternity.

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

keeping him calm when times are troubled until a pit has been dug for the wicked.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.

For Thou, Jehovah, art Most High over all the earth, Greatly Thou hast been exalted over all gods.

O Jehovah, our God, Thou hast afflicted them, A God forgiving Thou hast been to them, And taking vengeance on their actions.

For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

I have been like to a pelican of the wilderness, I have been as an owl of the dry places.

For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.

For Jehovah hath builded Zion, He hath been seen in His honour,

For, as the height of the heavens is above the earth, His kindness hath been mighty over those fearing Him.

Bless, O my soul, Jehovah! Jehovah, my God, Thou hast been very great, Honour and majesty Thou hast put on.

How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.

Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

He hath sent before them a man, For a servant hath Joseph been sold.

And waters cover their adversaries, One of them hath not been left.

Let those who have been redeemed by the LORD declare it those whom he redeemed from the power of the enemy,

And He humbleth with labour their heart, They have been feeble, and there is no helper.

So have they become few and been brought low, By oppression, misfortune, and sorrow;

For my love, they have been accusing me, while, I, was at prayer:

For I am poor and needy, And my heart hath been pierced in my midst.

As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.

And I -- I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.

The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!

The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

Return to your rest, my soul,
for the Lord has been good to you.

I have believed, for I speak, I -- I have been afflicted greatly.

O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

For mighty to us hath been His kindness, And the truth of Jehovah is to the age. Praise ye Jah!

They compassed me about as bees, They have been extinguished as a fire of thorns, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off.

I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

From Jehovah hath this been, It is wonderful in our eyes,

Your hand has been against the men of pride, a curse is on those who go wandering out of your way.

I have been true to your unchanging word; O Lord, do not put me to shame.

So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

Keep in mind your word to your servant, for on it has my hope been fixed.

The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord; and they have been my comfort.

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

This hath been to me, That Thy precepts I have kept!

Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I -- in Thy law I have delighted.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.