You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye.

[A Psalm of David when he pretended madness before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.] I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul shall make its boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Come, you children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

[A Psalm of David.] Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am your salvation.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.

And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that plunders him?

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

They rewarded me evil for good to the sorrow of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my precious life from the lions.

Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.

Stir up yourself, and awake to my defense, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to your righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

And my tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.] The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

[A Psalm of David. To bring to remembrance.] O LORD, rebuke me not in your wrath: neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me down.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds are foul and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

I am feeble and utterly broken: I have groaned by reason of the turmoil of my heart.

Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.

My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.

For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

My heart was hot within me, while I was meditating the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,

LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

And now, Lord, what do I wait for? my hope is in you.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because you did it.

Remove your scourge away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not restrained my lips, O LORD, you know.

I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.

Withhold not your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Let them be desolate as a reward for their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.

My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

And if he comes to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity to itself; when he goes abroad, he tells it.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

But you, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.

[To the Chief Musician. A maschil, for the Sons of Korah.] As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

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

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

O send out your light and your truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto your holy hill, and to your tabernacles.

Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God.