You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock."

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you, who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

LORD, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they do not hold regard for you before them.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me. Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.

LORD, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, LORD. I have spread out my hands to you.

But to you, LORD, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.

You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.

Then you spoke in vision to your holy ones, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

You have broken down all his hedges. You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all of his enemies rejoice.

You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

You have shortened the days of his youth. You have covered him with shame. Selah.

Remember how short my time is. For what vanity have you created all the children of men.

With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Relent, LORD. How long? Have compassion on your servants.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

Because you have made the LORD your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work. I will triumph in the works of your hands.

But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox. I am anointed with fresh oil.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

The floods have lifted up, LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon lived in silence.

Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which brings about mischief by statute?

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

The heavens declare his righteousness. All the peoples have seen his glory.

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

But you are the same. Your years will have no end.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they do not turn again to cover the earth.

The LORD, how many are your works. In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.

I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.

Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.

They have mouths, but they do not speak. They have eyes, but they do not see.

They have ears, but they do not hear. They have noses, but they do not smell.

They have hands, but they do not feel. They have feet, but they do not walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

LORD, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD. We have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Do not let me wander from your commandments.

In my heart I have hidden your word, that I might not sin against you.

With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

So I will have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in your word.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

I remember your ordinances of old, LORD, and have comforted myself.

Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.

I have remembered your name, LORD, in the night, and I obey your Law.