Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

[To the Chief Musician upon sheminith. A Psalm of David.] Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation forever.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

Let my vindication come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are right.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, by your sword:

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

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.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

Its going forth is from the end of the heaven, and its circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Who can understand his errors? cleanse me from secret faults.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.

Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;

Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

Their offspring shall you destroy from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men.

[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I was cast upon you from birth: you are my God from my mother's womb.

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

But be not far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me.

Deliver my soul from the sword; my life from the power of the dog.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

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.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

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.

You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

The LORD looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.

From the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that plunders him?

Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my precious life from the lions.

This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not yourself in any way to do evil.

Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell forevermore.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

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

My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Remove your scourge away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.

Withhold not your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.

Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us take spoil for themselves.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Cast me not away from your presence; and take not your holy Spirit from me.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth, a maschil. A Song of David.] Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not yourself from my supplication.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many against me.

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?

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave.] Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities have passed.

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.] Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloodthirsty men.

They run and prepare themselves apart from my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

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

[To the Chief Musician, to jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] Truly my soul waits upon God: from him comes my salvation.

They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.