I cry out with my voice to God; with my voice to God, that he may hear me.

I remember God; then I am disquieted and I groan;
I sigh [in prayer], and my spirit grows faint. Selah.

Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Then remembered I the times of old, and the years that were past.

Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

You have with Your [great] arm redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

I will open my mouth in a parable [to instruct using examples];
I will utter dark and puzzling sayings of old [that contain important truth]—

That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

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.

And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

He brought waters out of the stony rock, so that it gushed out like the rivers.

Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?

so that manna rained down on them for food and he sent them the grain of heaven.

And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

He sent among them flies that devoured them and frogs that destroyed them.

And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved,

And he built his sanctuary like [the] heights, like [the] earth that he established forever.

From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

O remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon; for we are come to great misery.

Wherefore should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood of thy servants that is shed be known among the nations in our sight.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

So we, that be the people and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks forever, and will always be showing forth thy praise, from generation to generation.

{To the chief Musician upon ShoshannimEduth, A Psalm of Asaph.} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

O God, restore us, and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.

O God [of] hosts, restore us and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.

You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.

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

And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

O Yahweh God [of] hosts, restore us; cause your face to shine that we may be saved.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

“You called in [the time of] trouble and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

I am Jehovah thy God, that brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

How long will you judge unjustly
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah.

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines with them that dwell at Tyre.

Assyria also has joined with them;
They have helped the children of Lot [the Ammonites and the Moabites] and have been an arm [of strength] to them. Selah.

As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

How blessed are those who find their strength in you, and long to travel the roads that lead to your temple!

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Listen, O God of Jacob! Selah.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

You have forgiven the wickedness of Your people;
You have covered all their sin. Selah.

Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

I will hearken what the LORD God will say concerning me; for he shall speak peace unto his people, and to his saints, that they turn not themselves unto foolishness.

Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

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

Righteousness, before him, shall march long, - That he may make, into a way, the steps of its feet.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O LORD, there is not one that can do as thou doest.

All nations that Thou hast made Come and bow themselves before Thee, O Lord, And give honour to Thy name.

Teach me Your way, O Lord,
I will walk and live in Your truth;
Direct my heart to fear Your name [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God [Jerusalem]. Selah.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man 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.

The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.

They that sing as well as they that dance'shall say , All my fountains are in thee.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Your wrath has rested heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth.

Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah

I am in misery, and like unto him that is at the point to die; even from my youth up, thy terrors have I suffered with a troubled mind.

I will declare that your gracious love was established forever; in the heavens itself, you have established your faithfulness.

I will establish your seed forever
And I will build up your throne for all generations.” Selah.

For who is he among the clouds, that may be compared unto the LORD? Yea what is he among the gods, that shall be like unto the LORD?

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all that is in it, You have founded and established them.

Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.