Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

For Thou blessest the righteous, O Jehovah, As a buckler with favour dost compass him!

Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

Thou hast seen! For, thou, mischief and misery, dost discern, to requite with thine own hand, Unto thee, doth, the unfortunate one, give himself up, To the fatherless, thou thyself, hast become a helper.

Thou, O Jehovah, dost preserve them, Thou keepest us from this generation to the age.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

Jehovah is the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

I -- I called Thee, for Thou dost answer me, O God, incline Thine ear to me, hear my speech.

Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.

With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;

With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

My deliverer from mine enemies, Above my withstanders Thou raisest me, From a man of violence dost deliver me.

His glory is great in thy salvation: Honor and majesty dost thou lay upon him.

For Thou makest him blessings for ever, Thou dost cause him to rejoice with joy, By Thy countenance.

My God! I keep crying - By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.

In Thee did our fathers trust -- they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them.

Jehovah my God, I have cried to Thee, And Thou dost heal me.

Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Lord, how long dost thou behold? Keep back my soul from their desolations, From young lions my only one.

They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.

Because for Thee, O Jehovah, I have waited, Thou dost answer, O Lord my God.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Thou, with Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;

Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

Instead of thy fathers are thy sons, Thou dost appoint them for princes in all the earth.

For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

But unto the ungodly sayeth God, "Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth,

Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.

Why dost thou boast thyself of wickedness, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of GOD, lasteth all the day.

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

And Thou, O Jehovah dost laugh at them, Thou dost mock at all the nations.

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!

From the end of the land unto Thee I call, In the feebleness of my heart, Into a rock higher than I Thou dost lead me.

And with Thee, O Lord, is kindness, For Thou dost recompense to each, According to his work!

Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,

Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

A bounteous rain, dost thou shed abroad, O God, upon thine inheritance, When exhausted, thou thyself, hast supported it:

Thy living host, have remained therein, Thou dost provide, in thy bounty, for the humbled ones - O God!

In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually.

Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest -- Thou comfortest me,

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it.

Thou dost make us an object of contention to our neighbours, And, our foes, find mockery for themselves.

A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.

Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,

And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:

So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

Show us, O Jehovah, thy kindness, And Thy salvation Thou dost give to us.

In a day of my distress I call Thee, For Thou dost answer me.

To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,

Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou art God.

With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler is His truth.

The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

From Thine indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast lifted me up, And dost cast me down.

Thou dost give to them -- they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand -- they are satisfied with good.

They revile, and Thou dost bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Thy servant doth rejoice.

The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

How many are the days of Thy servant? When dost Thou execute Against my pursuers judgment?

My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

In the day I called, when Thou dost answer me, Thou dost strengthen me in my soul with strength.

Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.

For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.

Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!

For Thy name's sake O Jehovah, Thou dost quicken me, In Thy righteousness, Thou bringest out from distress my soul,