For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.

Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to possess the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

For in thee, Jehovah, do I hope: thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done it.

When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded;

I have published righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, thou knowest.

Withhold not thou, Jehovah, thy tender mercies from me; let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay.

Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness.

But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

But as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, for the health of his countenance.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:

Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.

For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.

Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.

For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;

Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;

Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;

Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;

Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons; princes shalt thou make them in all the earth.

With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.

Though he blessed his soul in his lifetime, and men will praise thee when thou doest well to thyself, --

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,

Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;

Thou lettest thy mouth loose to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit;

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother, thou revilest thine own mother's son:

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

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

Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

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

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God abideth continually.

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

Thou hast loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongue!

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it; and I will wait on thy name, before thy godly ones, for it is good.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put them to shame, for God hath despised them.

But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. ...

And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.

Thou countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

For thou hast delivered my soul from death; wilt thou not keep my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Yea, do thou, Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations: be not gracious to any plotters of iniquity. Selah.

But thou, Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; thou wilt have all the nations in derision.

But as for me, I will sing of thy strength; yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving-kindness in the morning; for thou hast been to me a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of my trouble.

{To the chief Musician. On Shushan. Testimony. Michtam of David; to teach: when he strove with the Syrians of Mesopotamia, and the Syrians of Zobah, and Joab returned, and smote the Edomites in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased: restore us again.

Thou hast made the earth to tremble, thou hast rent it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Thou hast shewn thy people hard things; thou hast made us to drink the wine of bewilderment.

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth, (Selah,)

Wilt not thou, O God, who didst cast us off? and didst not go forth, O God, 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.

For thou hast been a refuge for me, a strong tower from before the enemy.

For thou, O God, hast heard my vows; thou hast given me the inheritance of those that fear thy name.

Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years shall be as many generations.

And unto thee, O Lord, belongeth loving-kindness; for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

{A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:

For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I sing for joy.

O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come.

Iniquities have prevailed against me: our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Blessed is he whom thou choosest and causest to approach: he shall dwell in thy courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, of thy holy temple.

By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation, thou confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of the distant regions of the sea. ...

And they that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

Thou hast visited the earth, thou hast watered it; thou greatly enrichest it: the river of God is full of water; thou providest their corn, when thou hast so prepared it:

Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, and thy paths drop fatness:

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Thou broughtest us into a net, thou didst lay a heavy burden upon our loins;

Thou didst cause men to ride over our head; we went through fire and through water: but thou hast brought us out into abundance.

Let the nations rejoice and sing for joy: for thou wilt judge the peoples equitably; and the nations upon earth, thou wilt guide them. Selah.

As smoke is driven, thou wilt drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, the wicked shall perish at the presence of God.

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness (Selah) --

Thou, O God, didst pour a plentiful rain upon thine inheritance, and when it was weary thou strengthenedst it.

Thy flock hath dwelt therein: thou hast prepared in thy goodness, for the afflicted, O God!

Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts in Man, and even for the rebellious, for the dwelling there of Jah Elohim.

That thou mayest dip thy foot in blood: the tongue of thy dogs has its portion from enemies.

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

Terrible art thou, O God, out of thy sanctuaries, the God of Israel! He it is that giveth strength and might unto the people. Blessed be God!

Thou, O God, knowest my foolishness, and my trespasses are not hidden from thee.