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.

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

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

I wish the deliverance of Israel would come from Zion! When God restores the well-being of his people, may Jacob rejoice, may Israel be happy!

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

I say, "I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

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.

Those who watch me all day have harassed me, for there are many who fight against me out of conceit.

They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

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.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

A person will say, "Certainly, the righteous are rewarded; certainly there is a God who judges the earth." To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy," when Saul sent men to watch the house in order to kill him.

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not,' by David. -- A secret treasure, in Saul's sending, and they watch the house to put him to death. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God, From my withstanders set me on high.

O [God] my strength, I will watch for You;
For God is my stronghold [my refuge, my protector, my high tower].

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.

Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; Philistia, shout aloud because of me.

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my eart is overwhelmed: thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is too high for me.

He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.

How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

One thing, hath God spoken, Two things, there are which I have heard, That, power, belongeth unto God;

To You belongs silence [the submissive wonder of reverence], and [it bursts into] praise in Zion, O God;
And to You the vow shall be performed.

Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:

Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

O come hither and behold the works of God; which is so wonderful in his doings among the children of men.

Ruling by His might to the age, His eyes among the nations do watch, The refractory exalt not themselves. Selah.

Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, by which thou didst confirm thy inheritance, when it was weary.

Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

Praised be the LORD daily, even the God which helpeth us, and poureth his benefits upon us. Selah.

Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

I weep and refrain from eating food, which causes others to insult me.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

The afflicted will watch and rejoice. May you who seek God take courage.

Let those who seek my life
be disgraced and confounded;
let those who wish me harm
be driven back and humiliated.

Be to me a rock of refuge and a sheltering stronghold to which I may continually come;
You have given the commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

His name shall endure forever; his name shall remain under the sun among the posterities, which shall be blessed in him. And all the heathen shall praise him.

Blessed be the LORD God, even the God of Israel, which only doeth wondrous things.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,
O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually [to Your ears].

For, a cup, is in the hand of Yahweh, Whose wine is foaming, It is full of spiced wine, Which he hath caused to flow from one to another, - Surely, the dregs thereof, they shall drain out - they shall drink, Even all the lawless ones of the earth.

Which taketh away the breath of princes, and is wonderful among the kings of the earth.

My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world;

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

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

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

And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands.

Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle:

And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

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

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

They remembered not his hand the day which he redeemed them from the enemy;

He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

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

Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

So David shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart;
And guided them with his skillful hands.

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?