Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

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

Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have 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 mourns for his mother.

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

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

[To the Chief Musician upon shoshannim, for the Sons of Korah, a maschil, a song of loves.] My heart is overflowing with a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready scribe.

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

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

When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

But I will sing of your power; yea, I will sing aloud of your mercy in the morning: for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

[To the Chief Musician upon shushaneduth. A michtam of David to teach; when he fought with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.] O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.

For you have been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your 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 you have I been upheld from birth: you are he that took me out of my mother's womb: my praise shall be continually of you.

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

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of your children.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.] LORD, you have been favorable unto your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been angry with your anointed.

[A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.] LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

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

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

Your 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 your statutes.

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

[A song of ascents. 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 has persecuted my soul; he has smitten my life down to the ground; he has made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.