“If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
For the world and all it contains are Mine.

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

When you see a thief, you join him; you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives.

Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

Against You, You only, have I sinned
And done that which is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak [Your sentence]
And faultless in Your judgment.

Indeed, you are pleased with truth in the inner person, and you will teach me wisdom in my innermost parts.

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.

The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit -- O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.

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

The [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt and evil, and have committed repulsive injustice;
There is no one who does good.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

Are the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? Devouring my people, as they devour food? Upon God, have they not called.

There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;
For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

Look, God is my helper; the Lord is with those who are guarding my life.

I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

Day and night they go around her walls;
Wickedness and mischief are in her midst.

Destruction is within her;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
For evil [of every kind] is in their dwelling and in their hearts, in their midst.

He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me,
For they are many who strive with me.

GOD will hear, Yea He will humble them who aforetime sat enthroned . Selah.With whom are no changings, Neither have they revered God.

He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.

His words are as smooth as butter, but he harbors animosity in his heart. His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords.

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

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.

My enemies have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.

All day long they twist my words and say hurtful things;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.

They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

Because they are bent on violence, do not let them escape! In your anger bring down the nations, O God!

You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not recorded in Your book?

Your vows are binding upon me, O God;
I will give thank offerings to You.

For thou deliveredst my soul from death: are not my feet from falling, to go about before God in the light of the living?

Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious and merciful to me,
For my soul finds shelter and safety in You,
And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge and be confidently secure
Until destruction passes by.

My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.

For Your faithfulness and lovingkindness are great, reaching to the heavens,
And Your truth to the clouds.

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

As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent!

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].

Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,

Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.

They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.

Then observers will say, "Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!"

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Though I have done nothing wrong, they are anxious to attack. Spring into action and help me! Take notice of me!

You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the nations;
Do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity. Selah.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

You are my source of strength! I will wait for you! For God is my refuge.

The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

Consume in fury, consume and they are not, And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah.

They wander around looking for something to eat; they refuse to sleep until they are full.

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.

You are my source of strength! I will sing praises to you! For God is my refuge, the God who loves me.

Aren't you the one, God, who has cast us off? Didn't you refuse, God, to accompany our armies?

Indeed, you are my shelter, a strong tower that protects me from the enemy.

How long will you threaten a man? All of you are murderers, as dangerous as a leaning wall or an unstable fence.

They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah

For God alone my soul waits in silence and quietly submits to Him,
For my hope is from Him.

Upon God, depend my salvation and mine honour, My rock of strength, my refuge, are in God.

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.

One thing, hath God spoken, Two things, there are which I have heard, That, power, belongeth unto God;

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.

For you are my deliverer; under your wings I rejoice.

They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are.

O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

The righteous man shall rejoice Yahweh, and seek refuge in him, Then shall glory - all who are upright in heart.

For the music director; a psalm of David, a song. Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion. Vows made to you are fulfilled.

Things of iniquity are mightier than I; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.

O the happiness of him whom Thou choosest, And drawest near, he inhabiteth Thy courts, We are satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, Thy holy temple.

By awesome and wondrous things You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation,
You who are the trust and hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;

The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:

So they who dwell at the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs [the evidence of Your presence].
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.

The meadows are clothed with flocks
And the valleys are covered with grain;
They shout for joy and they sing.

Say to God, “How awesome and fearfully glorious are Your works!
Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will pretend to be obedient to You.

Come and witness God's exploits! His acts on behalf of people are awesome!

He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)

Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God! I will declare what he has done for me.

Then those living on earth will know what you are like; all nations will know how you deliver your people.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God -- scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.

As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

But the godly are happy; they rejoice before God and are overcome with joy.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

O God, you cause abundant showers to fall on your chosen people. When they are tired, you sustain them,

The Lord gives the command [to take Canaan];
The women who proclaim the good news are a great host (army);

When you lie down [to rest] among the sheepfolds,
You [Israel] are like the wings of a dove [of victory] overlaid with silver,
Its feathers glistening with gold [trophies taken from the enemy].

The mountains of Bashan are majestic mountains. The mountains of Bashan are rugged.

Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands;
The Lord is among them as He was at Sinai, in holiness.