'Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me.

My voice is unto Jehovah: I call: And He answereth me from his holy hill, Selah.

Thou hast given joy in my heart, From the time their corn and their wine Have been multiplied.

Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall from their own counsels, In the abundance of their transgressions Drive them away, Because they have rebelled against Thee.

Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,

Turn from me all ye workers of iniquity, For Jehovah heard the voice of my weeping,

'The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.

From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.

In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.

Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,

To the Overseer, on the octave. -- A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the saintly hath failed, For the stedfast have ceased From the sons of men:

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 from the heavens Hath looked on the sons of men, To see if there is a wise one -- seeking God.

Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When Jehovah doth turn back To a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!

From before thee my judgment doth go out; Thine eyes do see uprightly.

Separate wonderfully Thy kindness, O Saviour of the confiding, By Thy right hand, from withstanders.

From the face of the wicked who spoiled me. Mine enemies in soul go round against me.

Arise, O Jehovah, go before his face, Cause him to bend. Deliver my soul from the wicked, Thy sword,

From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion is in life, And with Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied with sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith: -- I love Thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

The 'Praised One' I call Jehovah, And from my enemies I am saved.

In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.

Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.

From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.

And seen are the streams of waters, And revealed are foundations of the earth. From Thy rebuke, O Jehovah, From the breath of the spirit of Thine anger.

He sendeth from above -- He taketh me, He draweth me out of many waters.

He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.

For all His judgments are before me, And His statutes I turn not from me.

And I am perfect with him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

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.

And he, as a bridegroom, goeth out from his covering, He rejoiceth as a mighty one To run the path.

From the end of the heavens is his going out, And his revolution is unto their ends, And nothing is hid from his heat.

Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

Also -- from presumptuous ones keep back Thy servant, Let them not rule over me, Then am I perfect, And declared innocent of much transgression,

He doth send thy help from the sanctuary, And from Zion doth support thee,

Now I have known That Jehovah hath saved His anointed, He answereth him from His holy heavens, With the saving might of His right hand.

Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him -- length of days, Age-during -- and for ever.

Their fruit from earth Thou destroyest, And their seed from the sons of men.

To the Overseer, on 'The Hind of the Morning.' -- A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring?

For thou art He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother.

On Thee I have been cast from the womb, From the belly of my mother Thou art my God.

Be not far from me, For adversity is near, for there is no helper.

Deliver from the sword my soul, From the paw of a dog mine only one.

Save me from the mouth of a lion: -- And -- from the horns of the high places Thou hast answered me!

For He hath not despised, nor abominated, The affliction of the afflicted, Nor hath He hidden His face from him, And in his crying unto Him He heareth.

He beareth away a blessing from Jehovah, Righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age are they.

Mine eyes are continually unto Jehovah, For He bringeth out from a net my feet.

The distresses of my heart have enlarged themselves, From my distresses bring me out.

Redeem Israel, O God, from all his distresses!

Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.

Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou art my strength.

Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without -- fled from me.

In Thy hand are my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

And I -- I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

Thou art a hiding-place for me, From distress Thou dost keep me, With songs of deliverance dost compass me. Selah.

From the heavens hath Jehovah looked, He hath seen all the sons of men.

From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;

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

I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me.

This poor one called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

(The face of Jehovah is on doers of evil, To cut off from earth their memorial.)

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them.

All my bones say, 'Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'

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

Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, Be not silent, O Lord -- be not far from me,

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

Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil.

From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell to the age.

And the salvation of the righteous is from Jehovah, Their strong place in a time of adversity.

And Jehovah doth help them and deliver them, He delivereth them from the wicked, And saveth them, Because they trusted in Him!

I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

Lord, before Thee is all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid.

Do not forsake me, O Jehovah, My God, be not far from me,

I was dumb with silence, I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

Look from me, and I brighten up before I go and am not!

And He doth cause me to come up From a pit of desolation -- from mire of mud, And He raiseth up on a rock my feet, He is establishing my steps.

Thou, O Jehovah, restrainest not Thy mercies from me, Thy kindness and Thy truth do continually keep me.

Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age -- and unto the age. Amen and Amen.

In me doth my soul bow itself, Therefore I remember Thee from the land of Jordan, And of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

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 hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.

Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.

We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods -- Jehovah -- hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

He doth call unto the heavens from above, And unto the earth, to judge His people.

I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.

Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,