You visit the earth and make it overflow [with water];
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You provide their grain, when You have prepared the earth.

Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

You have crowned the year with Your bounty,
And Your paths drip with fatness.

Clothed have lambs the flock, And valleys are covered with corn, They shout -- yea, they sing!

The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.

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

For You have tested us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

You have led us into a trap and set burdens on our backs.

Thou hast caused man to ride at our head. We have entered into fire and into water, And Thou bringest us out to a watered place.

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Unto Him with my mouth I have called, And exaltation is under my tongue.

If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Earth, will have given her increase, God, our own God, will bless us:

But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

The earth hath shaken, Yea, the heavens have dropped before God, This Sinai -- before God, the God of Israel.

Thy company have dwelt in it, Thou preparest in Thy goodness for the poor, O God.

Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

You have ascended on high, You have led away captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even from the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.

The GOD we have, is a GOD of saving deeds, And, due to Yahweh, My Lord, are escapes from death.

That your foot may crush them in blood,
That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies.”

They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

Singers have been before, Behind are players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

Your God has commanded your strength [your power in His service and your resistance to temptation];
Show Yourself strong, O God, who acted on our behalf.

Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life [they have come up to my neck].

I have sunk in deep mire, where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, where a flood overwhelms me.

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away -- I bring back.

O God, Thou -- Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid.

Let them not be ashamed, through me, Who have waited for thee, O My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, - Let them not be confounded, through me, Who are seeking thee, O God of Israel!

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Confusion and dishonor have covered my face.

I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the [mocking] insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

When I have humbled my soul with fasting, Then hath it turned to my reproach;

When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word;

You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

For they have persecuted him whom You have struck,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.

The humble have seen -- they rejoice, Ye who seek God -- and your heart liveth.

For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah,
That His servants may remain there and possess it.

The seed of his servants will have their part in it, and there the lovers of his name will have rest.

Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.

In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated!

Be to me a rock of refuge and a sheltering stronghold to which I may continually come;
You have given the commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

For you give me confidence, O Lord; O Lord, I have trusted in you since I was young.

Upon You have I relied and been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb and You have been my benefactor from that day.
My praise is continually of You.

As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou art my strong refuge.

For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together,

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise.

My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers.

O God, you have taught me since I was young, and I am still declaring your amazing deeds.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; you have done great things. O God, who can compare to you?

Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You,
And my soul, which You have redeemed.

My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

For he will rescue the needy when they cry out for help, and the oppressed who have no defender.

He will have compassion on the poor and needy,
And he will save the lives of the needy.

May he have long life, and may gold from Sheba be given to him: may prayers be made for him at all times; may blessings be on him every day.

The prayers of David son of Jesse have been ended.

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.

And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

I concluded, "Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers.

You have certainly set them in slippery places; you will make them fall to their ruin.

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You have taken hold of my right hand.

Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire no one but you on earth.

Failed have my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart - and my portion, is God unto times age-abiding.

For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

But as for me, God's presence is all I need. I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter, as I declare all the things you have done.

A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
Remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];
They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].

And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

We do not see any signs of God's presence; there are no longer any prophets and we have no one to tell us how long this will last.

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.

You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations];
You have made summer and winter.

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not.' -- A Psalm of Asaph. -- A Song. We have given thanks to Thee, O God, We have given thanks, and near is Thy name, They have recounted Thy wonders.

Melted is the earth and all its inhabitants, I -- I have pondered its pillars. Selah.

I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.'