He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net

Save and help and rescue, Lord, for godly people cease to be,
For the faithful vanish from among the sons of men.

And, he, is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, he rejoiceth as a hero to run a race:

O go not far from me then, for trouble is hard at hand, and here is none to help me.

A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

Not a king, can be saved by greatness of force, nor, hero, deliver himself by greatness of strength:

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

“Lord, let me know my [life’s] end
And [to appreciate] the extent of my days;
Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

Then I said, "Here I am! I have come! In the scroll of the book it is written about me.

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

The king's daughters are among your honorable women; the queen, dressed in gold from Ophir, has taken her place at your right hand."

The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

God is known in her palaces for a refuge.

Trembling, seized them, there, Pangs. like hers who is in travail.

As we have heard, so we have seen, In the city of Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God, God doth establish her -- to the age. Selah.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!

For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”Why brag about evil, you hero!
God’s faithful love is constant.

“Here is the man
who would not make God his refuge,
but trusted in the abundance of his riches,
taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.

Thou waterest her furrows, thou breakest the hard clots thereof, thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.

Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

God, you poured out abundant rain on your inheritance. When Israel was weary, you sustained her.

Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.

Rebuke the beasts [living] among the reeds [in Egypt],
The herd of bulls (the leaders) with the calves of the peoples;
Trampling underfoot the pieces of silver;
He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

So shall it be more pleasing to Yahweh than a bullock of the herd, Showing horn and divided hoof.

There shall be abundance of corn in the earth, upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and they of the city shall bloom like the herb of the earth.

This collection of the prayers of David son of Jesse ends here.

Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance [offered by the irreverent] are [blindly] drunk by them.

And now with axes and hammers they will beat her engravings.

The earth is weak, and all that is therein; but I bear up her pillars. Selah.

The clouds poured out water;
The skies gave forth a sound;
Your arrows flashed here and there.

Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.

When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath;
And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

{A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah} Her foundations are upon the holy hills;

I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, "This one was born there."

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

Once You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty [giving him the power to be a champion for Israel];
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

The children of your servants will settle down here, and their descendants will live securely in your presence."

He established [the] earth on her foundations, [so that] it will not be moved forever and ever.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

Here is the sea, vast and wide,
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.

The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

And did eat up every herb in their land, And did eat up the fruit of their ground.

They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord's proclamation to my lord: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"

He gives the childless woman a household,
making her the joyful mother of children.
Hallelujah!

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.

They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.

The arrows of the hero sharpened, with burning coals of broom.

My soul hath long had her dwelling With him that hateth peace.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper!

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.

Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, and Jehovah is round about his people, from henceforth and for evermore.

Look, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found her in the fields of Jaar.

For the LORD hath chosen Zion, to be a habitation for himself; he hath longed for her.

This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

On [the] willows in her midst, we hung up our lyres.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom,
The day of [the fall of] Jerusalem,
Who said “Down, down [with her]
To her very foundation.”