Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

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

For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried 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 thy wings,

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

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

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

Then did I beat them small 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 strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

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

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

They gaped upon 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 mine integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

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

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

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

He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.

Let thy mercy, O LORD, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth 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 mine own bosom.

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

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

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment 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 conversation.

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

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

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

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

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

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

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

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

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

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

{To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah.} As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

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

Yea, for thy 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 for ever. Selah.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine 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 hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

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

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

As a snail which melteth, 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 thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

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

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

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

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, thou shalt purge them away.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

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

Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye 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 Salmon.

The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an 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 an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

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

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

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

They shall fear thee 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 endureth.

His name shall endure for ever: 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 well nigh slipped.

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

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth 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 awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

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

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

Thy 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 stedfast with God.

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

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

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

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

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

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung 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 burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

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

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

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.