In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

For He established a testimony (a specific precept) in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach to their children [the great facts of God’s transactions with Israel],

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

See, the rock was cut open by his power, so that the water came rushing out, and overflowing streams; is he able to give us bread? is he able to get meat for his people?

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

Man ate the bread of angels;
God sent them provision in abundance.

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

He sent among them, The gad-fly, and it devoured them, And the frog, and it despoiled them;

But God led His own people forward like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like [a good shepherd with] a flock.

And He bringeth them in unto the border of His sanctuary, This mountain His right hand had got,

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.

Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like cedars of God.

It is uprooted by the pigs from the woods, the beasts of the field get their food from it.

Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

{To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.} Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

The haters of Yahweh, should come cringing unto him, Then let their own good time be age-abiding!

“But I would feed Israel with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

{A Psalm of Asaph.} God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.

{A Song or Psalm of Asaph.} Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they counseled together with the heart: they will cut out a covenant against thee:

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Fill their faces with shame until they seek your name, God.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

O LORD God of Hosts, blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee.

Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Surely His salvation is near to those who [reverently] fear Him [and obey Him with submissive wonder],
That glory [the manifest presence of God] may dwell in our land.

Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

His foundation is on the holy mountain.

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

“I will mention Rahab (Egypt) and Babylon among those who know Me—
Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia (Cush)—
‘This one was born there.’”

The singers as well as the players of flutes will say,
“All my springs and sources of joy are in you [Jerusalem, city of God].”

{A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

I have cut a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant,

For who in the sky is equal to Yahweh? [Who is] like Yahweh among the sons of God,

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

But I will not cut off my gracious love from him, and I will not stop being faithful.

You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah

Blessed be Yahweh forevermore. Amen, and Amen. BOOK IV A Prayer by Moses, the man of God.

{A Prayer of Moses the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

{A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.} It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.