With my voice I was crying to the Lord,
And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease.

His ways prosper at all times;
Your judgments [Lord] are on high, out of his sight [so he never thinks about them];
As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

The Lord is King forever and ever;
The nations will perish from His land.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord restores His captive people,
Then Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

In my distress [when I seemed surrounded] I called upon the Lord
And cried to my God for help;
He heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry for help came before Him, into His very ears.

Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And fire from His mouth devoured;
Coals were kindled by it.

Out of the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

He reached from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.

Foreigners lose heart,
And come trembling out of their strongholds.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;
It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

Yet You are He who pulled me out of the womb;
You made me trust when on my mother’s breasts.

I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
It is melted [by anguish] within me.

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He will bring my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are multiplied;
Bring me out of my distresses.

O God, redeem Israel,
Out of all his troubles.

You will draw me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength and my stronghold.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him from all his troubles.

When the righteous cry [for help], the Lord hears
And rescues them from all their distress and troubles.

Many hardships and perplexing circumstances confront the righteous,
But the Lord rescues him from them all.

He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.

Even my own close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me [betraying me].

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth.

“I will accept no young bull from your house
Nor male goat from your folds.

But God will break you down forever;
He will take you away and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

I will thank You forever, because You have done it, [You have rescued me and kept me safe].
I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores [the fortunes of] His people,
Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

For He has rescued me from every trouble,
And my eye has looked with satisfaction (triumph) on my enemies.

Cast your burden on the Lord [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail).

Wickedness and guilt prevail against me;
Yet as for our transgressions,
You forgive them [removing them from Your sight].

Because of Your temple at Jerusalem
[Pagan] kings will bring gifts to You [out of respect].

Princes and envoys shall come from Egypt;
Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands [with the offerings of submission] to God.

O God, You are awesome and profoundly majestic from Your sanctuary;
The God of Israel gives strength and power to His people.
Blessed be God!

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink;
Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters.

May they be blotted out of the book of life [and their lives come to an end]
And may they not be recorded with the righteous (those in right standing with God).

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked (godless),
From the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.

And now all the carved work [of the meeting place]
They smash with hatchets and hammers.

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand [from judging the enemy]?
Remove Your hand from Your chest, destroy them!

He split rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant [water to] drink like the ocean depths.

He brought streams also from the rock [at Rephidim and Kadesh]
And caused waters to run down like rivers.

His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.

You uprooted a vine (Israel) from Egypt;
You drove out the [Canaanite] nations and planted the vine [in Canaan].

A boar from the woods eats it away,
And the insects of the field feed on it.

“I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

“But I would feed Israel with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Rescue the weak and needy;
Rescue them from the hand of the wicked.

“My covenant I will not violate,
Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

Blessed [with wisdom and prosperity] is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord,
And whom You teach from Your law,

You who love the Lord, hate evil;
He protects the souls of His godly ones (believers),
He rescues them from the hand of the wicked.

He causes grass to grow for the cattle,
And all that the earth produces for cultivation by man,
So that he may bring food from the earth—

And gathered them from the lands,
From the east and from the west,
From the north and from the south.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He rescued them from their distresses.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them from their distresses.

He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darkness
And broke their bonds apart.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He saved them from their distresses.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble,
And He brought them out of their distresses.

Your people will offer themselves willingly [to participate in Your battle] in the day of Your power;
In the splendor of holiness, from the womb of the dawn,
Your young men are to You as the dew.

He has given food to those who fear Him [with awe-inspired reverence];
He will remember His covenant forever.

He raises the poor out of the dust
And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

When Israel came out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

Out of my distress I called on the Lord;
The Lord answered me and set me free.

Open my eyes [to spiritual truth] so that I may behold
Wonderful things from Your law.

And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,
For I wait for Your ordinances.

My eyes weep streams of water
Because people do not keep Your law.

May the Lord bless you from Zion [His holy mountain],
And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life;

Out of the depths [of distress] I have cried to You, O Lord.

May the Lord bless you from Zion,
He who made heaven and earth.

Who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth;
Who makes lightning for the rain,
Who brings the wind from His storehouses;

Blessed be the Lord from Zion,
Who dwells [with us] at Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Do not incline my heart to [consent to or tolerate] any evil thing,
Or to practice deeds of wickedness
With men who plan and do evil;
And let me not eat of their delicacies (be tempted by their gain).

“Bring my soul out of prison (adversity),
So that I may give thanks and praise Your name;
The righteous will surround me [in triumph],
For You will look after me.”

Save my life, O Lord, for Your name’s sake;
In Your righteousness bring my life out of trouble.

Stretch out Your hand from above;
Set me free and rescue me from great waters,
Out of the hands of [hostile] foreigners [who surround us]

Set me free and rescue me from the hand of [hostile] foreigners,
Whose mouth speaks deceit [without restraint],
And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.