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The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.
Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let everything in me give praise to his holy name.
Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.
The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
The earth is the Lord's, with all its wealth; the world and all the people living in it.
The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.
Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;
I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.
Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.
I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.
You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.
The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;
O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.
Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.
This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.
By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.
I will give worship before your holy Temple, praising your name for your mercy and for your unchanging faith: for you have made your word greater than all your name.
But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.
See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!
For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.
Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.
The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.
Put your cares on the Lord, and he will be your support; he will not let the upright man be moved.
In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed.
O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;
The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.
The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.
When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.
The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.
Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,
Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul; let not all his blessings go from your memory.
I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.
I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.
He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
You who have fear of the Lord, give him praise; all you seed of Jacob, give him glory; go in fear of him, all you seed of Israel.
You will send destruction on those whose words are false; the cruel man and the man of deceit are hated by the Lord.
Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.
My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.
The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.
He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.
But as for me, I will come into your house, in the full measure of your mercy; and in your fear I will give worship, turning my eyes to your holy Temple.
Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.
There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.
Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:
Be my guide, O Lord, in the ways of your righteousness, because of those who are against me; make your way straight before my face.
The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.
O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
Put them in fear, O Lord, so that the nations may see that they are only men. (Selah.)
You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)
The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.
The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.
If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.
Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.
To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.
Lord, you have put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and their wine are increased.
My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.
They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.
The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.
He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.
A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.
Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;
He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
But let all those who put their faith in you be glad with cries of joy at all times, and let all the lovers of your name be glad in you.
For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.
So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.
Give praise to the Lord, all his works, in all places under his rule: give praise to the Lord, O my soul.
Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.
Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.
Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.
For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.
Lord, how greatly are they increased who make attacks on me! in great numbers they come against me.
Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.
My praise will be of you in the great meeting: I will make my offerings before his worshippers.
The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;
The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.
In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?
Let all those who are against me be shamed and deeply troubled; let them be turned back and suddenly put to shame.
Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)
The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.
The Lord is in his holy Temple, the Lord's seat is in heaven; his eyes are watching and testing the children of men.
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.
I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.
For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.
For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.
For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.
The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.
Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.
On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.
O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;
For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.
For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.
Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.
You will keep them, O Lord, you will keep them safe from this generation for ever.
You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.
You have given their towns to destruction; the memory of them has gone; they have become waste for ever.
O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.
For in death there is no memory of you; in the underworld who will give you praise?
The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.
He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made
All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field;
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
And he will be the judge of the world in righteousness, giving true decisions for the peoples.
For you gave approval to my right and my cause; you were seated in your high place judging in righteousness.
See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.
O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)
See how the Lord has made great his mercy for me; the Lord will give ear to my cry.
They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.
Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?
For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.
Let the voice of my cry come to you, my King and my God; for to you will I make my prayer.
He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.
His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.
All the ends of the earth will keep it in mind and be turned to the Lord: all the families of the nations will give him worship.
I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am wasted away: make me well, for even my bones are troubled.
His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.
If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;
Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
I have given my love to the Lord, because he has given ear to the voice of my cry and my prayer.
Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.
O Lord, our Lord, whose glory is higher than the heavens, how noble is your name in all the earth!
The meeting of the nations will be round you; take your seat, then, over them, on high.
So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.
And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.
Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Let my hater go after my soul and take it; let my life be crushed to the earth, and my honour into the dust. (Selah.)
The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he takes delight in his way.
O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.
Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.
Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.
When his cry comes up to me, I will give him an answer: I will be with him in trouble; I will make him free from danger and give him honour.
Your word is true from the first; and your upright decision is unchanging for ever.
For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.
The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.
A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.
They make a division of my robes among them, by the decision of chance they take my clothing.
O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.
For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!
Be glad in the Lord, O doers of righteousness; for praise is beautiful for the upright.
Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; the rod of your kingdom is a rod of honour.
It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;
Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name let glory be given, because of your mercy and your unchanging faith.
Let the Lord be praised. Give praise to God in his holy place: give him praise in the heaven of his power.
Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.
You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.
May God give us mercy and blessing, and let the light of his face be shining on us; (Selah.)
I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.
The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.
He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.
Make your request to me, and I will give you the nations for your heritage, and the farthest limits of the earth will be under your hand.
O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy.
The Lord is my heritage and the wine of my cup; you are the supporter of my right.
Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.
Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and your strong purpose is as high as the clouds.
The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.
Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.
You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.
But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.
Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.
The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens; his kingdom is ruling over all.
For fear that he may be angry, causing destruction to come on you, because he is quickly moved to wrath. Happy are all those who put their faith in him.
Let the Lord be praised. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
O give praise to the Lord with me; let us be witnesses together of his great name.
I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.
In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.
Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.
You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.
The orders of the Lord are right, making glad the heart: the rule of the Lord is holy, giving light to the eyes.
Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.
Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:
As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.
You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;
The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
I will give you praise with all my heart: I will make melody to you before the gods.
I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)
I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,
Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
Then he whose seat is in the heavens will be laughing: the Lord will make sport of them.
You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
And those who have knowledge of your name will put their faith in you; because you, Lord, have ever given your help to those who were waiting for you.
Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.
I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart; I will make clear all the wonder of your works.
I will give praise to the name of God with a song; I will give glory to him for what he has done.
The Lord will make all things complete for me: O Lord, your mercy is eternal; do not give up the works of your hands.
Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.
Praise be to the Lord, who is our support day by day, even the God of our salvation. (Selah.)
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.
Let them give praise to his name in the dance: let them make melody to him with instruments of brass and corded instruments of music.
O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome.
The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.
Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever.
Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.
I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.
The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.
For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.
The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.
Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.
My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
Give praise to the Lord. Let the Lord be praised from the heavens: give him praise in the skies.
Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.
Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)
The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,
Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?
You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.
In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain.
My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.
Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.
For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.
Let my prayer come to you, O Lord; give ear to my requests for your grace; keep faith with me, and give me an answer in your righteousness;
While I have breath I will give praise to the Lord: I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.
Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.
You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.
You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?
I was crying to God with my voice; even to God with my voice, and he gave ear to me.
My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.
O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.
Give praise to the Lord; for it is good to make melody to our God; praise is pleasing and beautiful.
Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.
Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith in the Lord.
In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed; keep me safe in your righteousness.
Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.
When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.
O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.
Let the Lord be praised. Make a new song to the Lord, let his praise be in the meeting of his saints.
Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.
I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.
For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.
A blessing be on him who comes in the name of the Lord; we give you blessing from the house of the Lord.
Because of this my heart is glad, and my glory is full of joy: while my flesh takes its rest in hope.
Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.
Those whose hope is in the Lord are like the mountain of Zion, which may not be moved, but keeps its place for ever.
I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.
How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!
I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.
Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.
But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;
He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;
O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.
The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.
More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey.
You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)
Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.
We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.
I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;
He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;
How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.
When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments.
Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.
It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Let the Lord be praised. I will give praise to the Lord with all my heart, among the upright, and in the meeting of the people.
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,
He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.
Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;
The Lord's purpose is eternal, the designs of his heart go on through all the generations of man.
For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.
Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.
May the Lord give ear to you in the day of trouble; may you be placed on high by the name of the God of Jacob;
Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.
My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.
Let those who are on my side give cries of joy; let them ever say, The Lord be praised, for he has pleasure in the peace of his servant.
O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.
O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
I will give ear to the voice of the Lord; for he will say words of peace to his people and to his saints; but let them not go back to their foolish ways.
Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord.
And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!
I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.
He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.
Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God:
I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.
Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved.
Your hands have made me, and given me form: give me wisdom, so that I may have knowledge of your teaching.
This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.
O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us.
Life and not death will be my part, and I will give out the story of the works of the Lord.
I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.
When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.
Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way, because of my haters.
My soul is dry for need of God, the living God; when may I come and see the face of God?
Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.
The king will be glad in your strength, O Lord; how great will be his delight in your salvation!
If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.
Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.
Let your ears be open to my voice, O Lord, and give me an answer; for I am poor and in need.
Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.
He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
Say among the nations, The Lord is King; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved; he will be an upright judge of the peoples.
The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.
I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.
See, the eye of the Lord is on those in whose hearts is the fear of him, on those whose hope is in his mercy;
You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,
You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.
They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.
Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.
O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.
Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Let the doors of righteousness be open to me; I will go in and give praise to the Lord.
But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.
I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.
Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
Give praise to the Lord on the corded instrument; make melody to him with instruments of music.
Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.
Then trouble and shock came on the earth; and the bases of the mountains were moved and shaking, because he was angry.
May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.
I made my prayer to the Lord in my trouble: and the Lord gave me an answer, and put me in a wide place.
To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.
It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.
For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.
Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:
Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.
The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.
My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.
Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!
Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.
From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.
Make songs to the Lord, blessing his name; give the good news of his salvation day by day.
If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.
Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.
Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.
But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.
For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.
The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.
Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
Even when trouble is round me, you will give me life; your hand will be stretched out against the wrath of my haters, and your right hand will be my salvation.
Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.
But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)
You are my secret place and my breastplate against danger; my hope is in your word.
Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?
He has sent salvation to his people; he has given his word for ever: holy is his name and greatly to be feared.
The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.
But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.
Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.
O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.
Let my tongue make songs in praise of your word; for all your teachings are righteousness.
The works of the Lord are great, searched out by all those who have delight in them.
Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.
Give him praise with the sound of the horn: give him praise with corded instruments of music.
Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.
Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.
Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.
Let the Lord be praised. O you servants of the Lord, give praise to the name of the Lord.
Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands;
I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.
O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.
From the coming up of the sun to its going down, the Lord's name is to be praised.
Then your voice came to your holy one in a vision, saying, I have put the crown on a strong one, lifting up one taken from among the people.
Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.
Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.
My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.
You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.
So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.
Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.
The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.
Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.
Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.
His delight is in righteousness and wisdom; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.
For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south;
The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.
But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.
He will have no fear of evil news; his heart is fixed, for his hope is in the Lord.
Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.
He puts an end to wars over all the earth; by him the bow is broken, and the spear cut in two, and the carriage burned in the fire.
There is a river whose streams make glad the resting-place of God, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;
And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.
You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.
The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.
I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.
Let the earth be full of the fear of the Lord; let all the people of the world be in holy fear of him.
God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.
Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.
Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.
You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:
Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.
Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me.
When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.
For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.
Be glad in the Lord with joy, you upright men; give cries of joy, all you whose hearts are true.
Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.
Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.
This house is resting on the holy mountain.
Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
O Lord, take me out of the power of the evil man; keep me safe from the violent man:
The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.
You took a vine out of Egypt: driving out the nations, and planting it in their land.
Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.
What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?
Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.
Who gives their rights to those who are crushed down; and gives food to those who are in need of it: the Lord makes the prisoners free;
The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
I will make songs to the Lord all my life; I will make melody to my God while I have my being.
I will keep in mind the works of Jah: I will keep the memory of your wonders in the past.
Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God.
O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;
The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.
For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.
Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?
My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.
Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.
Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.
The sound of my cry went up to the Lord; with my voice I made my prayer for grace to the Lord.
Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart.
For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;
There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.
For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.
Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.
For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?
O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.
He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.
Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.
Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.
I have made my prayer with all my heart; give answer to me, O Lord: I will keep your rules.
Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.
He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.
For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.
For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.
Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.
O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.
Lord, I have made my cry to you; come to me quickly; give ear to my voice, when it goes up to you.
He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.
He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.
In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.
The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.
The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.
Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.
As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.
By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.
But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.
For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;
We will be glad in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will put up our flags: may the Lord give you all your requests.
How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!
Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.
Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.
The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:
I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.
I have done what is good and right: you will not give me into the hands of those who are working against me.
Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.
Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.
O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base.
And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.
The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.
The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.
I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.
Though the Lord is high, he sees those who are low; and he has knowledge from far off of those who are lifted up.
May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.
You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.
You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.
Give him praise for his acts of power: give him praise in the measure of his great strength.
O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.
He has given with open hands to the poor; his righteousness is for ever; his horn will be lifted up with honour.
Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.
For great is his mercy to us, and his faith is unchanging for ever. Praise be to the Lord.
I have given news of righteousness in the great meeting; O Lord, you have knowledge that I have not kept back my words.
The days of the upright are numbered by the Lord, and their heritage will be for ever.
My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.
I still had faith, though I said, I am in great trouble;
Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.
Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.
And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is more to be feared than all other gods.
The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.
But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.
In heaven let them give praise for your wonders, O Lord; and your unchanging faith among the saints.
Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise.
I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.
Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.
Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.
All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.
I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)
Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
Give praise to the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who take your places in the house of the Lord by night.
If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.
How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?
I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.
O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.
Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.
False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.
Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;
I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.
Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.
But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.
Put an evil man over him; and let one be placed at his right hand to say evil of him.
You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.
The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.
Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;
All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.
You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.
Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.
Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.
He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.
I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
The nets of death were round me, and the pains of the underworld had me in their grip; I was full of trouble and sorrow.
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
My eyes are wasted with desire for your salvation, and for the word of your righteousness.
There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.
Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.
Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
He took his people out with silver and gold: there was not one feeble person among them.
The Lord takes care of those who are in a strange land; he gives help to the widow and to the child who has no father; but he sends destruction on the way of sinners.
Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.
Make songs of praise to the Lord; make melody to our God with instruments of music.
Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)
And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.
And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.
God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.
Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.
So that men may see your way on the earth, and your salvation among all nations.
Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.
For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.
Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.
Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.
So that your loved ones may be made safe, let your right hand be my salvation, and give me an answer.
Then they send up their cry to the Lord in their sorrow, and he gives them salvation out of all their troubles.
You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;
Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.
Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.
Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.
Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.
In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.
Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;
Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens.
So he gave them food with an upright heart, guiding them by the wisdom of his hands.
For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.
When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.
The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.
Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.
The Lord makes open the eyes of the blind; the Lord is the lifter up of those who are bent down; the Lord is a lover of the upright;
I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.
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.
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.
Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);
In the great house the king's daughter is all shining: her clothing is worked with gold.
When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them;
He only is my Rock and my salvation; he is my high tower; I will not be greatly moved.
Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.
My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.
The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.
Take us back again, O God; let us see the shining of your face, and let us be safe.
The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.
Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;
When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;
May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.
The Lord will keep him safe, and give him life; the Lord will let him be a blessing on the earth, and will not give him into the hand of his haters.
The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured.
Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May the Lord be great.
Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.
I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;
You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.
Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.
Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.
I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.
O God, be lifted up higher than the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.
The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)
Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.
Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.
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.
The makers of songs go before, the players of music come after, among the young girls playing on brass instruments.
O let there be no end to your loving mercy to those who have knowledge of you, or of your righteousness to the upright in heart.
He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.
My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.
You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.
O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.)
Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.
He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.
Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.
You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.
But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.
The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.
Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.
There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.
Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come into his house.
Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?
Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.
Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.
Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.
I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.
I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.