The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.

There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.

You will keep them, O Lord, you will keep them safe from this generation for ever.

Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

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

Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.

There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.

Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.

He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

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

For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet are kept from slipping.

You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;

Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.

Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.

Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.

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.

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

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.

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;

From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;

A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.

This poor man's cry came before the Lord, and he gave him salvation from all his troubles.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

Lord, how long will you be looking on? take my soul from their destruction, my life from the lions.

You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.

The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

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.

Take not away your gentle mercies from me, O Lord; let your mercy and your faith keep me safe for ever.

My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

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.

But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.

(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

But God will get back my soul; for he will take me from the power of death. (Selah.)

The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.

Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

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

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

I would quickly take cover from the driving storm and from the violent wind.

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;

He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

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.