They will not be put to shame in distressing times, and in [the] days of famine they will be satisfied.

[The] wicked borrows and does not repay, but [the] righteous [is] gracious and gives.

Though he fall, he will not be cast headlong, for Yahweh supports [him with] his hand.

I was a youth, but I am [now] old; yet I have not seen [the] righteous forsaken or his children {begging for} bread.

For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful ones. They are protected forever. But [the] children of [the] wicked will be cut off.

The law of his God [is] in his heart. His steps will not slip.

Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand, and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged.

Then he passed on and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.

O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath.

O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you.

My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me.

And [so] I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts.

Do not forsake me, O Yahweh. O my God, do not be far from me.

I said, "I will guard my ways {that I may not sin} with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as [the] wicked [are] before me."

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me [the] taunt of [the] fool.

I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done [it].

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen [to] my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I [am] an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors.

Blessed [is] the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not turn to [the] proud and [to those who] fall away [to] a lie.

A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. {My ears you have opened}. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.

I have brought good tidings [of] righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, {you surely know that}.

Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart. I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness from [the] great congregation.

As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me. Let your loyal love and your faithfulness continually preserve me.

For evils without number have encompassed me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

But I [am] poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.

Yahweh protects him and keeps him alive; he is blessed in the land, and you do not give him into the will of his enemies.

"A ruinous thing is poured out on him, and [now] that he lies down, he will not rise up again."

By this I know that you delight in me: because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.

My tears have been my food day and night, while [they] say to me all day [long], "Where [is] your God?"

By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song [is] with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

For not with their sword did they possess [the] land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather [it was] your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.

For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory.

Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies.

You have sold your people {cheaply}, and did not profit by their price.

All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have [not] turned aside from your way.

would not God discover this, for he knows [the] secrets of [the] heart?

Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever.

Therefore we will not fear though [the] earth change, and though the mountains totter into [the] {midst} of [the] sea,

God [is] in the midst of her; she will not be made to totter. God will help her {at daybreak}.

so that he may stay alive forever [and] not see the pit.

Do not fear when a man becomes rich, when the wealth of his house increases,

because when he dies he will not take [away] any [of it]. His wealth will not follow down after him.

Humankind in [its] pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts [that] perish.

Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous.

It is not concerning [a lack of] your sacrifices [that] I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings [are] before me continually.

I will not take from your house a bull [or] from your stalls a he-goat,

If I were hungry I would not tell you, because [the] world and its fullness [are] mine.

Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased.

The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

"Look, the man [who] would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."

{All of them} have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one.

Do not evildoers know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on God.

For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless [men] seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah

Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea.

Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble [are] in its midst.

Destruction [is] within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square.

For [it is] not an enemy [that] taunts me, or I could bear [it]. [It is not] one who hates me [that] magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him.

{Morning, noon and night} I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice.

God will hear and answer them, [he] who [is] enthroned from of old, Selah Because they do not change, and they do not fear God.

But you, O God, you will bring them down to [the] pit of corruption. [The] men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.

God, whose word I praise, God I trust; I do not fear. What can [mere] flesh do to me?

You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; [are they] not in your book?

God I trust; I do not fear. What can [mere] humankind do to me?

because you have delivered my soul from death. [Have you] not [kept] my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah

so that it does not hear [the] voice of charmers [or the] skilled caster of spells.

[Let them be] like a snail [that] melts away [as] it goes; [like the] stillborn of woman [that] do not see [the] sun.

For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not [because of] my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.

And you, Yahweh, God [of] hosts, [are] the God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations. Do not be gracious to any [who] treacherously plot evil. Selah

Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them [to] wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.

Have not you yourself rejected us, O God, and not gone out with our armies, O God?

Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be shaken.

Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain [confidence] in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set [your] heart [on it].

When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in [the] night watches.

to shoot from their hiding places [at the] blameless. Suddenly they shoot [at] him and do not fear.

[He] rules by his might forever; his eyes keep watch on the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

the one who has kept our soul among the living, and has not allowed our foot to slip.

You brought us into the net; you placed a {heavy burden} on our backs.

If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Blessed be God, who has not turned aside my prayer, or his loyal love from me.

More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.

O God, {you yourself know} my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you.

Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh [of] hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.

Deliver me from [the] mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from [those who] hate me and from [the] watery depths.

Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or [the] deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.

and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.

{Add guilt on top of their guilt}, and do not let them {be acquitted}.

Let them be blotted out of [the] book of [the] living, and let them not be recorded with [the] righteous.

because Yahweh hears [the] needy and does not despise his [own who are] prisoners.

But I [am] poor and needy; O God hasten to me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O Yahweh, do not delay.

Do not cast me away in the time of old age; when my strength fails do not abandon me.

O God, do not be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation {all day long}, though I do not know [the full] sum [of them].

And even when [I am] old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your {strength} to [this] generation, your power to every [one that] comes [after].

They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long.