And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

I am numb and greatly bruised [deadly cold and completely worn out];
I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart.

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,
and my relatives stand at a distance.

Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh. You will answer, O Lord my God.

And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.

For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David. I decided, "I will watch what I say and make sure I do not sin with my tongue. I will put a muzzle over my mouth while in the presence of an evil man."

I held my tongue; I was dumb. I kept silence, yea even from good words, but it was pain and grief to me.

My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out:

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

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

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

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

“With rebukes You discipline man for sin;
You consume like a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]. Selah.

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

Look away from me that I may brighten up, Ere yet I depart and am no more.

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

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

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

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

I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

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.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Yahweh, will preserve him and keep him alive, And he shall be pronounced happy in the land, Do not then give him up at the desire of his enemies!

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again.

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

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting to everlasting [from this age to the next, and forever].
Amen and Amen (so be it).

My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in 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 art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy 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.

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

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

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

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

For our fathers did not possess the land [of Canaan] by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them,
But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,
Because You favored and delighted in them.

By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;

For I will not trust in my bow; it is not my sword that shall help me.

But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.)

But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].

Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:

You sold out your people for nothing, and made no profit at that price.

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

You made us an object lesson among the nations; people shake their heads at us.

Because of the voice of the taunter and reviler,
Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You are [the most] handsome of [the] sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Mighty warrior, strap your sword at your side.
In your majesty and splendor—

Appear in your majesty and be victorious! Ride forth for the sake of what is right, on behalf of justice! Then your right hand will accomplish mighty acts!

Your arrows are sharp and penetrate the hearts of the king's enemies. Nations fall at your feet.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Kings daughters are among thy honorable women: At thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

The princess looks absolutely magnificent, decked out in pearls and clothed in a brocade trimmed with gold.

Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains tremble at its roaring. Selah.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.

The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.

For the music director; by the Korahites; a psalm. All you nations, clap your hands! Shout out to God in celebration!

He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. (Selah)

It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.

They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

We wait for thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers.

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of the children of Korah} O Hear this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world,

My mouth will speak wisely, and I will understand what I think about.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?

A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

That he should, yet, live on, continually, Should not see corruption.

For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.

And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.

But humanity cannot last, despite its conceit; it will pass away just like the animals.

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

But, God, will redeem my soul, out of the hand of hades, For he will take me. Selah.

For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.

Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals. A song of Asaph.

The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

Gather ye my godly ones to me, they cutting out my covenant upon sacrifice