Many say about me,
“There is no help for him in God.”Selah

Rise up, Lord!
Save me, my God!
You strike all my enemies on the cheek;
You break the teeth of the wicked.

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic psalm.Answer me when I call,
God, who vindicates me.
You freed me from affliction;
be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

Many are saying, “Who can show us anything good?”
Look on us with favor, Lord.

Pay attention to the sound of my cry,
my King and my God,
for I pray to You.

For You are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil cannot dwell with You.

Punish them, God;
let them fall by their own schemes.
Drive them out because of their many crimes,
for they rebel against You.

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite.Yahweh my God, I seek refuge in You;
save me from all my pursuers and rescue me

Yahweh my God, if I have done this,
if there is injustice on my hands,

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous.
The One who examines the thoughts and emotions
is a righteous God.

My shield is with God,
who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge
and a God who shows His wrath every day.

If anyone does not repent,
God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung His bow and made it ready.

You made him little less than God
and crowned him with glory and honor.

The wicked will return to Sheol—
all the nations that forget God.

In all his scheming,
the wicked arrogantly thinks:
“There is no accountability,
since God does not exist.”

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He hides His face and will never see.”

Rise up, Lord God! Lift up Your hand.
Do not forget the afflicted.

Why has the wicked person despised God?
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips
and the tongue that speaks boastfully.

Consider me and answer, Lord my God.
Restore brightness to my eyes;
otherwise, I will sleep in death.

For the choir director. Davidic.The fool says in his heart, “God does not exist.”
They are corrupt; they do vile deeds.
There is no one who does good.

The Lord looks down from heaven on the human race
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.

All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

Then they will be filled with terror,
for God is with those who are righteous.

A Davidic Miktam.Protect me, God, for I take refuge in You.

I said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord;
I have nothing good besides You.”

The sorrows of those who take another god
for themselves will multiply;
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
and I will not speak their names with my lips.

I call on You, God,
because You will answer me;
listen closely to me; hear what I say.

The Lord is my rock,
my fortress, and my deliverer,
my God, my mountain where I seek refuge,
my shield and the horn of my salvation,
my stronghold.

I called to the Lord in my distress,
and I cried to my God for help.
From His temple He heard my voice,
and my cry to Him reached His ears.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord
and have not turned from my God to wickedness.

Lord, You light my lamp;
my God illuminates my darkness.

With You I can attack a barrier,
and with my God I can leap over a wall.

God—His way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is pure.
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

For who is God besides Yahweh?
And who is a rock? Only our God.

God—He clothes me with strength
and makes my way perfect.

I crush them, and they cannot get up;
they fall beneath my feet.

The Lord lives—may my rock be praised!
The God of my salvation is exalted.

God—He gives me vengeance
and subdues peoples under me.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky proclaims the work of His hands.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.May Yahweh answer you in a day of trouble;
may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.

Let us shout for joy at your victory
and lift the banner in the name of our God.
May Yahweh fulfill all your requests.

Some take pride in chariots, and others in horses,
but we take pride in the name of Yahweh our God.

For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A Davidic psalm.My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?

My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,
by night, yet I have no rest.

I was given over to You at birth;
You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

He lets me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.

He will receive blessing from the Lord,
and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Such is the generation of those who seek Him,
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.Selah

My God, I trust in You.
Do not let me be disgraced;
do not let my enemies gloat over me.

Guide me in Your truth and teach me,
for You are the God of my salvation;
I wait for You all day long.

The Lord is good and upright;
therefore He shows sinners the way.

He will live a good life,
and his descendants will inherit the land.

God, redeem Israel, from all its distresses.

Do not hide Your face from me;
do not turn Your servant away in anger.
You have been my helper;
do not leave me or abandon me,
God of my salvation.

The voice of the Lord is above the waters.
The God of glory thunders—
the Lord, above vast waters,

Lord my God,
I cried to You for help, and You healed me.

so that I can sing to You and not be silent.
Lord my God, I will praise You forever.

Into Your hand I entrust my spirit;
You redeem me, Lord, God of truth.

But I trust in You, Lord;
I say, “You are my God.”

In my alarm I had said,
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.

Happy is the nation whose God is Yahweh—
the people He has chosen to be His own possession!

Taste and see that the Lord is good.
How happy is the man who takes refuge in Him!

Young lions lack food and go hungry,
but those who seek the Lord
will not lack any good thing.

Who is the man who delights in life,
loving a long life to enjoy what is good?

Turn away from evil and do what is good;
seek peace and pursue it.

They repay me evil for good,
making me desolate.

Wake up and rise to my defense,
to my cause, my God and my Lord!

Vindicate me, Lord my God,
in keeping with Your righteousness,
and do not let them rejoice over me.

For the choir director. A psalm of David, the Lord’s servant.An oracle within my heart
concerning the transgression of the wicked person:
There is no dread of God before his eyes,

The words of his mouth are malicious and deceptive;
he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.
He sets himself on a path that is not good
and does not reject evil.

God, Your faithful love is so valuable
that people take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

Trust in the Lord and do what is good;
dwell in the land and live securely.

Turn away from evil and do what is good,
and dwell there forever.

The instruction of his God is in his heart;
his steps do not falter.

I put my hope in You, Lord;
You will answer, Lord my God.

Those who repay evil for good
attack me for pursuing good.

Lord, do not abandon me;
my God, do not be far from me.

I was speechless and quiet;
I kept silent, even from speaking good,
and my pain intensified.

“Certainly, man walks about like a mere shadow.
Indeed, they frantically rush around in vain,
gathering possessions
without knowing who will get them.

He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear
and put their trust in the Lord.

Lord my God, You have done many things—
Your wonderful works and Your plans for us;
none can compare with You.
If I were to report and speak of them,
they are more than can be told.

I delight to do Your will, my God;
Your instruction lives within me.”

I am afflicted and needy;
the Lord thinks of me.
You are my helper and my deliverer;
my God, do not delay.

May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised
from everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and amen.

BOOK II
(Psalms 42–72)For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As a deer longs for streams of water,
so I long for You, God.

I thirst for God, the living God.
When can I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”

I remember this as I pour out my heart:
how I walked with many,
leading the festive procession to the house of God,
with joyful and thankful shouts.

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.

The Lord will send His faithful love by day;
His song will be with me in the night—
a prayer to the God of my life.

I will say to God, my rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?”

My adversaries taunt me,
as if crushing my bones,
while all day long they say to me,
“Where is your God?”

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.

Vindicate me, God, and defend my cause
against an ungodly nation;
rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.

For You are the God of my refuge.
Why have You rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?

Then I will come to the altar of God,
to God, my greatest joy.
I will praise You with the lyre,
God, my God.

Why am I so depressed?
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.