Kiss the son before he becomes angry, and you die where you stand. Indeed, his wrath can flare up quickly. How blessed are those who take refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm, when he fled from his son Absalom.

Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

Boastful ones will not stand before you; you hate all those who practice wickedness.

LORD, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your path straight before me.

The Lord has given ear to my request; the Lord has let my prayer come before him.

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].

When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish before you.

Rise, O Jehovah, let not man be strong, Let nations be judged before Thy face.

Pain do his ways at all times, On high are Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them.

Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

I have set the LORD before me continuously; because he stands at my right hand, I will stand firm.

Thou wilt cause me to know, the path of life, - Fulness of joys before thee, Pleasures at thy right hand evermore.

From before thee my judgment doth go out; Thine eyes do see uprightly.

My steps have held closely to Your paths;
My feet have not staggered.

Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Thy sword,

Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

The brightness before him scattered the thick clouds, with hail stones and flashes of fire.

They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me.

The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

because all his judgments were always before me, and I did not cast off his statutes.

I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

Yahweh therefore repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the pureness of my hands, before his eyes.

It is God that girdeth me with strength of war, and maketh my way perfect. {TYNDALE: God is my strength in war, and riddeth the way clear before me.}

You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.

You have made my enemies retreat before me;
I annihilate those who hate me.

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

When they hear of my exploits, they submit to me. Foreigners are powerless before me;

So I will give you thanks before the nations, O Lord! I will sing praises to you!

Let the sayings of my mouth, And the meditation of my heart, Be for a pleasing thing before Thee, O Jehovah, my rock, and my redeemer!

You go before him with wonderful blessings, and put a crown of fine gold on his head.

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

My praise will be of You in the great assembly.
I will pay my vows [made in the time of trouble] before those who [reverently] fear Him.

All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the nations will bow down and worship before You,

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship;
All those who go down to the dust (the dead) will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
You have anointed and refreshed my head with oil;
My cup overflows.

By David. O Lord, I come before you in prayer.

For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes,
And I have walked [faithfully] in Your truth.

I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who [reverently] fear You,
Which You have prepared for those who take refuge in You,
Before the sons of man!

Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from Your eyes.”
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications (specific requests)
When I cried to You [for help].

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all the day long.

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

Let the whole earth tremble before the Lord;
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

LORD, may your gracious love be upon us, even as we hope in you. By David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away. So David left.

{A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.} I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

Let them be [blown away] like chaff before the wind [worthless, without substance],
With the angel of the Lord driving them on.

Then I will give you thanks in the great assembly; I will praise you before a large crowd of people!

Transgression speaks [like an oracle] to the wicked (godless) [deep] within his heart;
There is no fear (dread) of God before his eyes.

Be silent before the Lord and wait expectantly for Him;
do not be agitated by one who prospers in his way,
by the man who carries out evil plans.

Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not hidden from You.

O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee.

My lovers, and my friends, from before my stroke, stand aloof, - and, my near ones, far away, do stand:

My friends and my neighbors will stand from before my stroke, and my kindred stood from far off.

For I am ready to fall;
My sorrow is continually before me.

For I being prepared for halting, and my pain always before me.

I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will muzzle my mouth
While the wicked are in my presence.”

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.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

“O look away from me, that I may smile and again know joy
Before I depart and am no more.”

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

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

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;
How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

My dishonor is before me all day long,
And humiliation has covered my face,

before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.

and the king will greatly desire your beauty. Because he is your lord, you should bow in respect before him.

The daughters of Tyre shall be there with gifts, the rich among the people shall make their supplication before thee.

In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.

when its waves crash and foam, and the mountains shake before the surging sea. (Selah)

May our God come and not keep silent;
Fire devours before Him,
And around Him a mighty tempest rages.

He says: "Assemble my covenant people before me, those who ratified a covenant with me by sacrifice!"

“I do not reprove you for your sacrifices;
Your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

“These things you have done and I kept silent;
You thought that I was just like you.
Now I will reprimand and denounce you and state the case in order before your eyes.

For I am conscious of my transgressions and I acknowledge them;
My sin is always before me.

Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

God, I have taken vows before you; therefore I will offer thanksgiving sacrifices to you.

For You have rescued my soul from death,
Yes, and my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of life.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

I will give you thanks before the nations, O Master! I will sing praises to you before foreigners!

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.

God doth go before me, He causeth me to look on mine enemies.

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

You have given a signal flag to those who fear You,
so that they can flee before the archers.Selah

For you have been a refuge for me, a tower of strength before the enemy.

May he reign forever before God! Decree that your loyal love and faithfulness should protect him.

My soul, be quiet before God, for from him comes my hope.

Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)

For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song.
There will be silence before You, and praise in Zion, O God,
And to You the vow will be performed.

Say to God: "How awesome are your deeds! Because of your great power your enemies cower in fear before you.

Let God arise, and His enemies be scattered;
Let those who hate Him flee before Him.