How long, O Lord?
Will You hide Yourself forever?
Will Your wrath burn like fire?

Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And be sorry for Your servants.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,
My God, in whom I trust!”

He will cover you with His pinions,
And under His wings you may seek refuge;
His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark.

You will not be afraid of the terror by night,
Or of the arrow that flies by day;

You will only look on with your eyes
And see the recompense of the wicked.

No evil will befall you,
Nor will any plague come near your tent.

For He will give His angels charge concerning you,
To guard you in all your ways.

They will bear you up in their hands,
That you do not strike your foot against a stone.

You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.

“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.

“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will rescue him and honor him.

“With a long life I will satisfy him
And let him see My salvation.”

For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done,
I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

For, behold, Your enemies, O Lord,
For, behold, Your enemies will perish;
All who do iniquity will be scattered.

But You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
I have been anointed with fresh oil.

The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree,
He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Planted in the house of the Lord,
They will flourish in the courts of our God.

They will still yield fruit in old age;
They shall be full of sap and very green,

The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;
The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength;
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

Pay heed, you senseless among the people;
And when will you understand, stupid ones?

He who chastens the nations, will He not rebuke,
Even He who teaches man knowledge?

For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.

For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.

Who will stand up for me against evildoers?
Who will take his stand for me against those who do wickedness?

If I should say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

He has brought back their wickedness upon them
And will destroy them in their evil;
The Lord our God will destroy them.

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns;
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved;
He will judge the peoples with equity.”

Let the field exult, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

Before the Lord, for He is coming,
For He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
And the peoples in His faithfulness.

Before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth;
He will judge the world with righteousness
And the peoples with equity.

A Psalm of David.
I will sing of lovingkindness and justice,
To You, O Lord, I will sing praises.

I will give heed to the blameless way.
When will You come to me?
I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will know no evil.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me.

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.

So the nations will fear the name of the Lord
And all the kings of the earth Your glory.

This will be written for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.

“Even they will perish, but You endure;
And all of them will wear out like a garment;
Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed.

“But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.

“The children of Your servants will continue,
And their descendants will be established before You.”

He will not always strive with us,
Nor will He keep His anger forever.

Bless the Lord, all you His hosts,
You who serve Him, doing His will.

He established the earth upon its foundations,
So that it will not totter forever and ever.

You set a boundary that they may not pass over,
So that they will not return to cover the earth.

They give drink to every beast of the field;
The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The high mountains are for the wild goats;
The cliffs are a refuge for the shephanim.

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the portion of your inheritance,”

To imprison his princes at will,
That he might teach his elders wisdom.

A Song, a Psalm of David.
My heart is steadfast, O God;
I will sing, I will sing praises, even with my soul.

Awake, harp and lyre;
I will awaken the dawn!

I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples,
And I will sing praises to You among the nations.

God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will exult, I will portion out Shechem
And measure out the valley of Succoth.

“Moab is My washbowl;
Over Edom I shall throw My shoe;
Over Philistia I will shout aloud.”

Who will bring me into the besieged city?
Who will lead me to Edom?

Have not You Yourself, O God, rejected us?
And will You not go forth with our armies, O God?

Through God we will do valiantly,
And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries.

With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the Lord;
And in the midst of many I will praise Him.

The Lord will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power;
In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,
Your youth are to You as the dew.

The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind,
“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”

The Lord is at Your right hand;
He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath.

He will judge among the nations,
He will fill them with corpses,
He will shatter the chief men over a broad country.

He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head.

Praise the Lord!
I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart,
In the company of the upright and in the assembly.

He has given food to those who fear Him;
He will remember His covenant forever.

His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.

It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;
He will maintain his cause in judgment.

For he will never be shaken;
The righteous will be remembered forever.

He will not fear evil tidings;
His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.

His heart is upheld, he will not fear,
Until he looks with satisfaction on his adversaries.

He has given freely to the poor,
His righteousness endures forever;
His horn will be exalted in honor.

The wicked will see it and be vexed,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away;
The desire of the wicked will perish.

Those who make them will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.

The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless us;
He will bless the house of Israel;
He will bless the house of Aaron.

He will bless those who fear the Lord,
The small together with the great.

But as for us, we will bless the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
Praise the Lord!

The Lord is for me; I will not fear;
What can man do to me?

The Lord is for me among those who help me;
Therefore I will look with satisfaction on those who hate me.

All nations surrounded me;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

They surrounded me like bees;
They were extinguished as a fire of thorns;
In the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

I will not die, but live,
And tell of the works of the Lord.

This is the gate of the Lord;
The righteous will enter through it.

I will meditate on Your precepts
And regard Your ways.

Make me understand the way of Your precepts,
So I will meditate on Your wonders.

I shall run the way of Your commandments,
For You will enlarge my heart.

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

So I will keep Your law continually,
Forever and ever.

And I will walk at liberty,
For I seek Your precepts.

I will also speak of Your testimonies before kings
And shall not be ashamed.

And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments,
Which I love;
And I will meditate on Your statutes.

The arrogant have forged a lie against me;
With all my heart I will observe Your precepts.

May my heart be blameless in Your statutes,
So that I will not be ashamed.

My eyes fail with longing for Your word,
While I say, “When will You comfort me?”