Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.

His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Like as a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.

Then did I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

The LORD sits upon the flood; yea, the LORD sits as King forever.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.

Let your mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in you.

The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright behavior.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall vanish; into smoke shall they vanish away.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.

Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Let them be desolate as a reward for their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.

[To the Chief Musician. A maschil, for the Sons of Korah.] As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah.

These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.

He has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: he has broken his covenant.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

As a snail who melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

You will prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

How long will you imagine evil against a man? you shall be slain all of you: as a leaning wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence.

To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Though you have slept among the sheepfolds, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Zalmon.

The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; a high hill as the hill of Bashan.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses.

But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.

They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endures.

His name shall endure forever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

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

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 steadfast with God.

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand up as a heap.

He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

He rained meat also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls as the sand of the sea:

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouts by reason of wine.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kishon:

Who perished at Endor: they became as refuse for the earth.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

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

As the fire burns wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in you.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that has no strength:

You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; you have scattered your enemies with your strong arm.

The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.

His descendants also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.