Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, with hailstones and coals of fire.

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

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

My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before you.

All the prosperous of earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.

For your lovingkindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.

[A Psalm of David when he pretended madness 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.

Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.] The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Lord, all my desire is before you; and my groaning is not hid from you.

For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.

And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.

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

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

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

These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

I will praise you forever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

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

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

He shall abide before God forever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm or Song of David.] Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

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

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rides upon the heavens by his name, the LORD, and rejoice before him.

O God, when you went forth before your people, when you did march through the wilderness; Selah:

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.

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

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

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

He cast out the nations also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.

You prepared room before it, and did cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

All nations which you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; and shall glorify your name.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.

[A Song or Psalm for the Sons of Karah. To the Chief Musician upon mahanath leannoth. A maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:

Let my prayer come before you: incline your ear unto my cry;

But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before you.

Righteousness and justice are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

Honor and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

Before the LORD: for he comes, for he comes to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about.

With trumpets and the sound of a horn make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

Before the LORD; for he comes to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

[A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the LORD.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto you.

The children of your servants shall continue, and their descendants shall be established before you.

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me.

I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word.

I rose before the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your word.

My eyes awake before the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.

I have kept your precepts and your testimonies: for all my ways are before you.

[Tau] Let my cry come near before you, O LORD: give me understanding according to your word.

Let my supplication come before you: deliver me according to your word.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up:

[A Psalm of David.] I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto you.

You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.

Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble.

He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?