For my soul is full of evils, and my life has come near to the underworld.

I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)

May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?

God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.

O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.

Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.

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

For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.

It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)

All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours.

His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.

You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

It is a good thing to give praise to the Lord, and to make melody to your name, O Most High;

The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.

The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.

O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?

Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

But the Lord is my safe resting-place; my God is the Rock where I am safe.

O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.

Let us come before his face with praises; and make melody with holy songs.

For the Lord is a great God, and a great King over all gods.

The sea is his, and he made it; and the dry land was formed by his hands.

O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised; he is more to be feared than all other gods.

Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.

Say among the nations, The Lord is King; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved; he will be an upright judge of the peoples.

Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.

The Lord is King, let the earth have joy; let all the sea-lands be glad.

Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved.

The Lord is great in Zion; he is high over all the nations.

Let them give praise to your name, for it is great and to be feared; holy is he.

The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.

For as the heaven is high over the earth, so great is his mercy to his worshippers.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins from us.

As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens; his kingdom is ruling over all.

You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

O Lord, how great is the number of your works! in wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of the things you have made.

There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke.

He is the Lord our God: he is judge of all the earth.

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was given as a servant for a price:

He gave them ice for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

Let the Lord be praised. O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Who is able to give an account of the great acts of the Lord, or to make clear all his praise?

Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land.

And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.

They did not put an end to the peoples, as the Lord had said;

Be our saviour, O Lord our God, and let us come back together from among the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name, and have glory in your praise.

O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Let those whose cause the Lord has taken up say so, his people whom he has taken out of the hands of their haters;

He gives its desire to the unresting soul, so that it is full of good things.

They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.

He puts an end to the pride of kings, and sends them wandering in the waste lands where there is no way.

The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.