Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.

To you, Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever. A Psalm by David.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.

Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake. For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.

God will likewise destroy you forever. He will take you up, and pluck you out of your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don't let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

Don't let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don't let the pit shut its mouth on me.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.

Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.

Don't lift up your horn on high. Don't speak with a stiff neck."

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

Bring joy to the soul of your servant, for to you, Lord, do I lift up my soul.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah.

Do you show wonders to the dead? Do the dead rise up and praise you? Selah.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

I will establish your seed forever, and build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.

You rule the pride of the sea. When its waves rise up, you calm them.

In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.