You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.

For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.

For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.

His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.

You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.

Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

I have been hard pushed by you, so that I might have a fall: but the Lord was my helper.

The hand of Jah has been hard on me; but he has not given me up to death.

Your hand has been against the men of pride, a curse is on those who go wandering out of your way.

I have been true to your unchanging word; O Lord, do not put me to shame.

So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

Keep in mind your word to your servant, for on it has my hope been fixed.

The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

I have kept the memory of your decisions from times past, O Lord; and they have been my comfort.

Your rules have been melodies to me, while I have been living in strange lands.

This has been true of me, that I have kept your orders in my heart.

It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.

Your worshippers will see me and be glad; because my hope has been in your word.

If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.

I am yours, O be my saviour; for my desire has been for your rules.

The sinners have been waiting for me to give me up to destruction; but I will give all my mind to your unchanging ward.

My heart has not been turned away from your decisions; for you have been my teacher.

Pain and trouble have overcome me: but your teachings are my delight.

Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.

Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart.

Lord, my hope has been in your salvation; and I have kept your teachings.

I have been ruled by your orders; for all my ways are before you.

All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side (let Israel now say);

Great have been my troubles from the time when I was young (let Israel now say);

O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.

When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.