And he is as a tree planted by brooks of water, which giveth its fruit in its season, and whose leaf fadeth not; and all that he doeth prospereth.

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

Lord, lead me in your righteousness because of those who wait to ambush me, remove the obstacles in the way in which you are guiding me!

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly. A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite.

{Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjamite.} O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

Arise, O Jehovah, in Your anger; lift up Yourself because of the rage of my enemies, and awake for me to the judgment which You have commanded.

Jehovah shall minister judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Jehovah, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity which is in me.

My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.

Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

so I may declare everything for which you should be praised in the gates of the daughter of Zion, so I will rejoice in your deliverance.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

In pride and arrogance the wicked hotly pursue and persecute the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations}, [during] which [I will have] no trouble."

Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.

For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart.

Which have said, "With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak; Who is lord over us?"

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life, and doeth the thing which is right, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

Yahweh [is] the portion [which is] my share and my cup. You hold my lot.

{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, which is not out of feigned lips.

Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.

Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

{To the Chanter, of David, servant of the Lord, which said unto the Lord the words of this song, on the day in which the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and said} I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

3 I will call upon the LORD, which is worthy to be praised; so shall I be safe from mine enemies. {TYNDALE: I will praise and call on the LORD, and so shall be saved from mine enemies.}

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people, and thou shalt make me the head of the Heathen. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. {TYNDALE: And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.}

There is no speech nor language {in which (LXX)} their voice is not heard.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.

Call to remembrance, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses, which have been ever of old.

Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.

Which in their hands mischief, and their right hand filled with sifts.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

{Of David, when he changed his speech before Abimelech; which drove him away, and he departed} I will always give thanks unto the LORD; his praise shall ever be in my mouth.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.

LORD, how long wilt thou look upon this? O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my darling from the lions.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Do not worry because of evildoers,
Nor be envious toward wrongdoers;

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

"LORD, let me know how my life ends, and the standard by which you will measure my days, whatever it is! Then I will know how transient my life is.

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and meal offering You do not desire, nor do You delight in them;
You have opened my ears and given me the capacity to hear [and obey Your word];
Burnt offerings and sin offerings You do not require.

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

Why art thou so vexed, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God; for I will yet thank him, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

Why art thou so heavy, O my soul, and why art thou so disquieted within me? O put thy trust in God, for I will yet give him thanks, which is the help of my countenance, and my God.

It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

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].

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Thy arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under thee.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made thee glad.

There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.

He chooseth for us our inheritance, The excellence of Jacob, which he hath loved. Selah.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or for your burnt offerings,
which are continually before Me.

He that sacrificeth a thankoffering, will glorify me, - And will prepare a way by which I may show him the salvation of God.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah.

He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

{To the chanter, upon the domme stock dove, which flyeth far off: Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath} Be merciful unto me, O God, for men will tread me down: they are daily fighting and troubling me.

I will call unto the Most High God, even unto the God that shall perform the cause which I have in hand.

They have set a snare for my feet, which makes me depressed. They dug a pit in front of me, but they are the ones who fell into it! Interlude

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

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Consume them in thy wrath; consume them that they may perish, and know that it is God which ruleth in Jacob and in all the world. Selah.

You have set up a banner for those who fear You [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder—a banner to shield them from attack],
A banner that may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.