Let me dwell in Your tent forever;
Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah.

For You have heard my vows, O God;
You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.

How long will you assail a man,
That you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

On God my salvation and my glory rest;
The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God.

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

Do not trust in oppression
And do not vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

For You have been my help,
And in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy.

But those who seek my life to destroy it,
Will go into the depths of the earth.

They will be delivered over to the power of the sword;
They will be a prey for foxes.

But the king will rejoice in God;
Everyone who swears by Him will glory,
For the mouths of those who speak lies will be stopped.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”

They devise injustices, saying,
“We are ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.

Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.

How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You
To dwell in Your courts.
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Your holy temple.

By awesome deeds You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation,
You who are the trust of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;

Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.

They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs;
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow;
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You prepare their grain, for thus You prepare the earth.

The pastures of the wilderness drip,
And the hills gird themselves with rejoicing.

Sing the glory of His name;
Make His praise glorious.

Say to God, “How awesome are Your works!
Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will give feigned obedience to You.

Come and see the works of God,
Who is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of men.

You made men ride over our heads;
We went through fire and through water,
Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.

I shall offer to You burnt offerings of fat beasts,
With the smoke of rams;
I shall make an offering of bulls with male goats. Selah.

Come and hear, all who fear God,
And I will tell of what He has done for my soul.

If I regard wickedness in my heart,
The Lord will not hear;

But certainly God has heard;
He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

God blesses us,
That all the ends of the earth may fear Him.

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows,
Is God in His holy habitation.

The earth quaked;
The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

“Kings of armies flee, they flee,
And she who remains at home will divide the spoil!”

When you lie down among the sheepfolds,
You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And its pinions with glistening gold.

A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan;
A mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands;
The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.

God is to us a God of deliverances;
And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.

Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,
The hairy crown of him who goes on in his guilty deeds.

The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan.
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea;

That your foot may shatter them in blood,
The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

They have seen Your procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

The singers went on, the musicians after them,
In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.

Bless God in the congregations,
Even the Lord, you who are of the fountain of Israel.

There is Benjamin, the youngest, ruling them,
The princes of Judah in their throng,
The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.

Because of Your temple at Jerusalem
Kings will bring gifts to You.

Rebuke the beasts in the reeds,
The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver;
He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

Envoys will come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth,
Sing praises to the Lord, Selah.

O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary.
The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people.
Blessed be God!

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;
What I did not steal, I then have to restore.

May those who wait for You not be ashamed through me, O Lord God of hosts;
May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

Those who sit in the gate talk about me,
And I am the song of the drunkards.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time;
O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness,
Answer me with Your saving truth.

May the flood of water not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me,

Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it;
Ransom me because of my enemies!

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

May they be blotted out of the book of life
And may they not be recorded with the righteous.

I will praise the name of God with song
And magnify Him with thanksgiving.

For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.

The descendants of His servants will inherit it,
And those who love His name will dwell in it.

Let those be turned back because of their shame
Who say, “Aha, aha!”

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

Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the grasp of the wrongdoer and ruthless man,

By You I have been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb;
My praise is continually of You.

Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

Let those who are adversaries of my soul be ashamed and consumed;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of Your salvation all day long;
For I do not know the sum of them.

I will come with the mighty deeds of the Lord God;
I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

I will also praise You with a harp,
Even Your truth, O my God;
To You I will sing praises with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.

May he vindicate the afflicted of the people,
Save the children of the needy
And crush the oppressor.

In his days may the righteous flourish,
And abundance of peace till the moon is no more.

May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River to the ends of the earth.

Let the nomads of the desert bow before him,
And his enemies lick the dust.

Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands bring presents;
The kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

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

So may he live, and may the gold of Sheba be given to him;
And let them pray for him continually;
Let them bless him all day long.

May there be abundance of grain in the earth on top of the mountains;
Its fruit will wave like the cedars of Lebanon;
And may those from the city flourish like vegetation of the earth.

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,
Who alone works wonders.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Therefore pride is their necklace;
The garment of violence covers them.

Their eye bulges from fatness;
The imaginations of their heart run riot.

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak from on high.

Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance are drunk by them.

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I perceived their end.

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

My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.

A Maskil of Asaph.
O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke 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;
And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their own standards for signs.

It seems as if one had lifted up
His axe in a forest of trees.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Yet God is my king from of old,
Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.

You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.