Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

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

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

{To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

{A Prayer of Moses the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.

{A Song of degrees of David.} If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.