Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

As for me, I will continually tell what you have done; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob!

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

From Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both rider and horse have been fast asleep.

In the day I [have] trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually}; my soul refuses to be comforted.

Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?
Have His promises ended for all time?

Has God forgotten to have compassion? Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah

And I have meditated on all Thy working, And I talk concerning Thy doings.

You are the God who does works of power: you have made your strength clear to the nations.

With your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.)

The waters have seen Thee, O God, The waters have seen Thee, They are afraid -- also depths are troubled.

Poured out waters have thick clouds, The skies have given forth a noise, Also -- Thine arrows go up and down.

The voice of Thy thunder is in the spheres, Lightnings have lightened the world, The earth hath trembled, yea, it shaketh.

In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

You have led your people like a flock by the hands of Moses and Aaron. An instruction of Asaph

I will open my mouth in similitudes, and will speak forth things which have been kept secret from the beginning of the world;

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

They have not kept the covenant of God, And in His law they have refused to walk,

They have forgotten what he has done, his awesome deeds that they witnessed.

Lo! he hath smitten a rock, And waters, have gushed out, Yea, torrents, have rushed along, - Food also, can he give? Or provide flesh for his people?

For they have not believed in God, Nor have they trusted in His salvation.

They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth,

With all this they have sinned again, And have not believed in His wonders.

And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

Yea, they turn back, and try God, And the Holy One of Israel have limited.

They have not remembered His hand The day He ransomed them from the adversary.

He let his wrath have its way; he did not keep back their soul from death, but gave their life to disease.

And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered.

And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.

And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

You have made us [an object of] strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves.

You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the nations, and planted it.

Covered have been hills with its shadow, And its boughs are cedars of God.

Why have You broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it.

Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

Even the shoot which Your right hand has planted,
And on the son whom You have strengthened for Yourself.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the rebuke of Your [angry] appearance.

Let Your hand be with the man at Your right hand,
with the son of man
You have made strong for Yourself.

A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.

You must neither have a foreign god over you or worship a strange god.

But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

See how Your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate You have acted arrogantly.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

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 have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance against You—

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Who have said, 'Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Look at our shield, O God, and have regard for the face of your anointed one.

For good is a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.

For the Lord God is our sovereign protector. The Lord bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Mercy and faith have come together; righteousness and peace have given one another a kiss.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I cry out to you all day long!

All the nations You have made
will come and bow down before You, Lord,
and will honor Your name.

because your loyal love [is] great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol below.

God, arrogant people have attacked me;
a gang of ruthless men seeks my life.
They have no regard for You.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

Show me a sign of Your goodness;
my enemies will see and be put to shame
because You, Lord, have helped and comforted me.

Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

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

Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.

Your wrath weighs heavily on me;
You have overwhelmed me with all Your waves.Selah

You have distanced my friends from me;
You have made me repulsive to them.
I am shut in and cannot go out.

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

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

From my youth,
I have been afflicted and near death.
I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.

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

They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;
darkness is my only friend.