Thou hast seen it ; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.

Hide not thy face from me; Put not thy servant away in anger: Thou hast been my help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

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

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

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

But I will sing of thy strength; Yea, I will sing aloud of thy lovingkindness in the morning: For thou hast been my high tower, And a refuge in the day of my distress.

O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.

For thou hast been a refuge for me, A strong tower from the enemy.

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

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.

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

Jehovah, thou hast been favorable unto thy land; Thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

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

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.

Unless Jehovah had been my help, My soul had soon dwelt in silence.

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

Jehovah hath been mindful of us; he will bless us : He will bless the house of Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.

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

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

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, Let Israel now say,

If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, When men rose up against us;

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