Lift up your heads, you gates!
Rise up, ancient doors!
Then the King of glory will come in.

Lift up your heads, you gates!
Rise up, ancient doors!
Then the King of glory will come in.

Make Your ways known to me, Lord;
teach me Your paths.

Guide me in Your truth and teach me,
for You are the God of my salvation;
I wait for You all day long.

Remember, Lord, Your compassion
and Your faithful love,
for they have existed from antiquity.

Do not remember the sins of my youth
or my acts of rebellion;
in keeping with Your faithful love, remember me
because of Your goodness, Lord.

Because of Your name, Yahweh,
forgive my sin, for it is great.

My eyes are always on the Lord,
for He will pull my feet out of the net.

Consider my enemies; they are numerous,
and they hate me violently.

For Your faithful love is before my eyes,
and I live by Your truth.

I do not sit with the worthless
or associate with hypocrites.

I wash my hands in innocence
and go around Your altar, Lord,

raising my voice in thanksgiving
and telling about Your wonderful works.

Lord, I love the house where You dwell,
the place where Your glory resides.

Do not destroy me along with sinners,
or my life along with men of bloodshed

in whose hands are evil schemes
and whose right hands are filled with bribes.

Though an army deploys against me,
my heart is not afraid;
though a war breaks out against me,
still I am confident.

My heart says this about You,
“You are to seek My face.”
Lord, I will seek Your face.

Do not hide Your face from me;
do not turn Your servant away in anger.
You have been my helper;
do not leave me or abandon me,
God of my salvation.

Because of my adversaries,
show me Your way, Lord,
and lead me on a level path.

Wait for the Lord;
be strong and courageous.
Wait for the Lord.

Listen to the sound of my pleading
when I cry to You for help,
when I lift up my hands
toward Your holy sanctuary.

Because they do not consider
what the Lord has done
or the work of His hands,
He will tear them down and not rebuild them.

Save Your people, bless Your possession,
shepherd them, and carry them forever.

Lord, when You showed Your favor,
You made me stand like a strong mountain;
when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

“What gain is there in my death,
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise You?
Will it proclaim Your truth?

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.Lord, I seek refuge in You;
let me never be disgraced.
Save me by Your righteousness.

For You are my rock and my fortress;
You lead and guide me
because of Your name.

You will free me from the net
that is secretly set for me,
for You are my refuge.

Into Your hand I entrust my spirit;
You redeem me, Lord, God of truth.

I hate those who are devoted to worthless idols,
but I trust in the Lord.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your faithful love
because You have seen my affliction.
You have known the troubles of my life

Be gracious to me, Lord,
because I am in distress;
my eyes are worn out from angry sorrow—
my whole being as well.

But I trust in You, Lord;
I say, “You are my God.”

The course of my life is in Your power;
deliver me from the power of my enemies
and from my persecutors.

Show Your favor to Your servant;
save me by Your faithful love.

How great is Your goodness
that You have stored up for those who fear You
and accomplished in the sight of everyone
for those who take refuge in You.

You hide them in the protection of Your presence;
You conceal them in a shelter
from the schemes of men,
from quarrelsome tongues.

In my alarm I had said,
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.

Be strong and courageous,
all you who put your hope in the Lord.

For day and night Your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.Selah

You are my hiding place;
You protect me from trouble.
You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance.Selah

Do not be like a horse or mule,
without understanding,
that must be controlled with bit and bridle
or else it will not come near you.

The heavens were made by the word of the Lord,
and all the stars, by the breath of His mouth.

We wait for Yahweh;
He is our help and shield.

For our hearts rejoice in Him
because we trust in His holy name.

May Your faithful love rest on us, Yahweh,
for we put our hope in You.

Those who look to Him are radiant with joy;
their faces will never be ashamed.

Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and His ears are open to their cry for help.

Take Your shields—large and small—
and come to my aid.

Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers,
and assure me: “I am your deliverance.”

My very bones will say,
“Lord, who is like You,
rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,
the poor or the needy from one who robs him?”

Yet when they were sick,
my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting,
and my prayer was genuine.

I went about grieving as if for my friend or brother;
I was bowed down with grief,
like one mourning a mother.

Vindicate me, Lord my God,
in keeping with Your righteousness,
and do not let them rejoice over me.

And my tongue will proclaim Your righteousness,
Your praise all day long.

The words of his mouth are malicious and deceptive;
he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

Lord, Your faithful love reaches to heaven,
Your faithfulness to the clouds.

Your righteousness is like the highest mountains;
Your judgments, like the deepest sea.
Lord, You preserve man and beast.

God, Your faithful love is so valuable
that people take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

They are filled from the abundance of Your house;
You let them drink from Your refreshing stream,

for with You is life’s fountain.
In Your light we will see light.

Spread Your faithful love over those who know You,
and Your righteousness over the upright in heart.

Do not let the foot of the arrogant man come near me
or the hand of the wicked one drive me away.

Take delight in the Lord,
and He will give you your heart’s desires.

Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in Him, and He will act,

making your righteousness shine like the dawn,
your justice like the noonday.

Refrain from anger and give up your rage;
do not be agitated—it can only bring harm.

Those who are blessed by Him will inherit the land,
but those cursed by Him will be destroyed.

A man’s steps are established by the Lord,
and He takes pleasure in his way.

I have been young and now I am old,
yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned
or his children begging for bread.

He is always generous, always lending,
and his children are a blessing.

For the Lord loves justice
and will not abandon His faithful ones.
They are kept safe forever,
but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.

the Lord will not leave him
in the power of the wicked one
or allow him to be condemned when he is judged.

Wait for the Lord and keep His way,
and He will exalt you to inherit the land.
You will watch when the wicked are destroyed.

A Davidic psalm for remembrance.Lord, do not punish me in Your anger
or discipline me in Your wrath.

For Your arrows have sunk into me,
and Your hand has pressed down on me.

There is no health in my body
because of Your indignation;
there is no strength in my bones
because of my sin.

For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.

My wounds are foul and festering
because of my foolishness.

For my loins are full of burning pain,
and there is no health in my body.

For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me—
those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”

But my enemies are vigorous and powerful;
many hate me for no reason.

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”

You, indeed, have made my days short in length,
and my life span as nothing in Your sight.
Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.Selah

Remove Your torment from me;
I fade away because of the force of Your hand.

Turn Your angry gaze from me
so that I may be cheered up
before I die and am gone.”

He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.

How happy is the man
who has put his trust in the Lord
and has not turned to the proud
or to those who run after lies!

Lord my God, You have done many things—
Your wonderful works and Your plans for us;
none can compare with You.
If I were to report and speak of them,
they are more than can be told.

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
You open my ears to listen.
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

I delight to do Your will, my God;
Your instruction lives within me.”

I did not hide Your righteousness in my heart;
I spoke about Your faithfulness and salvation;
I did not conceal Your constant love and truth
from the great assembly.

Lord, do not withhold Your compassion from me;
Your constant love and truth will always guard me.

For troubles without number have surrounded me;
my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see.
They are more than the hairs of my head,
and my courage leaves me.

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
let those who love Your salvation continually say,
“The Lord is great!”

I am afflicted and needy;
the Lord thinks of me.
You are my helper and my deliverer;
my God, do not delay.

The Lord will sustain him on his sickbed;
You will heal him on the bed where he lies.

“Lethal poison has been poured into him,
and he won’t rise again from where he lies!”