For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst of your temple.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

"Gather my holy ones together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

For you do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your holy ones.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hid myself from him.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me.

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan." Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that the LORD, God, might dwell there.

That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away.

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother's children.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, do not forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

My lips shall shout for joy. My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

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

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

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones to the animals of the earth.

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.