For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
His glory will not descend after him.

Though while he lives he counts himself happy and prosperous—
And though people praise you when you do well for yourself—

But when he followeth his fathers' generation, he shall never see light any more.

When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts - and becometh like unto them.

Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him and condone his behavior,
And you associate with adulterers.

When you did these things, I was silent, so you thought I was exactly like you. But now I will condemn you and state my case against you!

Whoever offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and I will reveal the salvation of God to whomever continues in my way." To the Director: A Davidic Psalm. When the prophet Nathan came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David's affair with Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, because of your loyal love! Because of your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!

Against you -- you above all -- I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.

Indeed, I was guilty when I was born;
I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Then you will be pleased with right sacrifices, with burnt offerings, and with whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. To the Director: A Davidic instruction about Doeg, the Edomite, when he went to Saul and told him, "David went to the house of Abimelech."

For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul: "David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech." Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God's loyal love protects me all day long!

When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying:

I will continually thank you when you execute judgment; I will rely on you, for your loyal followers know you are good.

There the Israelis were seized with terror, when there was nothing to fear. For God scattered the bones of those who laid siege against you you put them to shame, for God rejected them.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores [the fortunes of] His people,
Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a well-written song by David. It was written when the Ziphites came and informed Saul: "David is hiding with us." O God, deliver me by your name! Vindicate me by your power!

When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

But you, God, bring them down to the Pit of corruption; bloodthirsty and deceitful people will not live out half their days. But I put my full confidence in you. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "A Silent Dove Far Away," when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

For the music director; according to the yonath-elem-rechovim style; a prayer of David, written when the Philistines captured him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, for men are attacking me! All day long hostile enemies are tormenting me.

When I am afraid, I trust in you.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.

when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. In the shadow of your wings I take shelter until trouble passes.

He will send from heaven, and save me, When he that would swallow me up reproacheth; Selah God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.

Are ye, indeed, silent when righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?

Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

The [unyieldingly] righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance [of God];
He will 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.

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; a prayer of David, written when Saul sent men to surround his house and murder him. Deliver me from my enemies, my God! Protect me from those who attack me!

Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.

As for me, I will sing about your strength; I will praise your loyal love in the morning. For you are my refuge and my place of shelter when I face trouble.

My Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, God of Gracious Love, are my fortress. To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Lily of The Covenant," for teaching about his battle with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, when Joab returned and attacked 12,000 Edomites in the Salt Valley.

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a prayer of David written to instruct others. It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. O God, you have rejected us. You suddenly turned on us in your anger. Please restore us!

From the end of the earth I call to You, when my heart is overwhelmed and weak;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I [a rock that is too high to reach without Your help].

So do I praise Thy name for ever, When I pay my vows day by day!

My soul rests quietly only when it looks to God; from him comes my deliverance.

Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work. A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah.

A psalm of David, written when he was in the Judean wilderness. O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

My soul is satisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatness, when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips.

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate and thoughtfully focus on You in the night watches,

When, they, to crush it, would seek my life, They shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

Hear, O God, my voice when I complain, From dread peril by the foe, wilt thou guard my life.

When they were to have ruined another, their tongue smote themselves, All who observe them take flight.

Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.

You visit the earth and make it overflow [with water];
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You provide their grain, when You have prepared the earth.

You made men (charioteers) ride over our heads [in defeat];
We went through fire and through water,
Yet You brought us out into a [broad] place of abundance [to be refreshed].

Which my lips uttered
And my mouth spoke as a promise when I was in distress.

O God, when You went out before Your people,
When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.

You, O God, sent abroad plentiful rain;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched and weary.

When you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver and with glittering gold.

When the Almighty scattered [the Canaanite] kings in the land of Canaan,
It was snowing on Zalmon.

When I wept and humbled myself with fasting,
It became my reproach.

When I made sackcloth my clothing [as one in mourning],
I became a byword [a mere object of scorn] to them.

But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.

They gave me gall to eat, and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.

May their table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare [to them];
And when they are in peace [secure at their sacrificial feasts], may it become a trap.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

I depended on you since birth, when you brought me from my mother's womb; I praise you continuously.

Many are appalled when they see me, but you are my secure shelter.

Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;
Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.

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.

Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.

My lips will shout for joy! Yes, I will sing your praises! I will praise you when you rescue me!

For he will rescue the needy when they cry out for help, and the oppressed who have no defender.

May his fame endure! May his dynasty last as long as the sun remains in the sky! May they use his name when they formulate their blessings! May all nations consider him to be favored by God!

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

When I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling to me.

They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.

When I chose to be bitter I was emotionally pained.

Remember your congregation [that] you bought long ago, [when] you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. [Remember] {Mount Zion} where you have dwelt.

Till when, O God, doth an adversary reproach? Doth an enemy despise thy name for ever?

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

“The earth and all the inhabitants of it melt [in tumultuous times].
It is I who will steady its pillars. Selah.

Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

When thou lettest thy judgment be heard from heaven, the earth trembleth and is still;

When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; my hands were raised at night and they did not grow weary. I refused to be comforted.

When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.

The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.

When he set up a testimony in Jacob, And, a law, appointed in Israel, - Which he commanded our fathers, That they might make them known to their children;

that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same;

To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.

Therefore, when the Lord heard, He was full of wrath;
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
And His anger mounted up against Israel,

When He rained meat upon them like the dust,
Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

So they did eat and were abundantly filled, When, what they longed for, he had brought them: -

when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt, and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.

When he turned, into blood, their Nile-streams, And, their own rivers, could they not drink;

When he gave to the corn-locust their produce, And their toil, to the swarming locust;

When he gave up, to hail-storms, their beasts, And their cattle, to pestilent fevers;

When he made a way to his fearful indignation, and spared not their souls from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

When he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the most principal and mightiest in the dwellings of Ham.