“Let us break apart their [divine] bands [of restraint]
And cast away their cords [of control] from us.”

Hold them guilty, O God;
Let them fall by their own designs and councils!
Cast them out because of the abundance of their transgressions,
For they are mutinous and have rebelled against You.

The Lord also will be a refuge and a stronghold for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble;

They track us down and have now surrounded us in our steps;
They set their eyes to force us to the ground,

Arise, O Lord, confront him, cast him down;
Save my soul from the wicked with Your sword,

I was cast upon You from birth;
From my mother’s womb You have been my God.

They divide my clothing among them
And cast lots for my garment.

Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not abandon me nor leave me,
O God of my salvation!

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow
To cast down the afflicted and the needy,
To slaughter those who are upright in conduct [those with personal integrity and godly character].

When he falls, he will not be hurled down,
Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand and sustains him.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become restless and disturbed within me?
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.

O my God, my soul is in despair within me [the burden more than I can bear];
Therefore I will [fervently] remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of [Mount] Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
Why have you become restless and disquieted within me?
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why are you restless and disturbed within me?
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall again praise Him,
The help of my [sad] countenance and my God.

But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].

Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awaken, do not reject us forever.

“For you hate instruction and discipline
And cast My words behind you [discarding them].

Do not cast me away from Your presence
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble on me,
And in anger they persecute me.

Cast your burden on the Lord [release it] and He will sustain and uphold you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken (slip, fall, fail).

O God, You have rejected us and cast us off. You have broken [down our defenses and scattered] us;
You have been angry; O restore us and turn again to us.

“Moab is My washbowl;
Over Edom I shall throw My shoe [in triumph];
Over Philistia I raise the shout [of victory].”

They consult only to throw him down from his high position [to dishonor him];
They delight in lies.
They bless with [the words of] their mouths,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.

Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
Lift up a song for Him who rides through the desert—
His name is the Lord—be in good spirits before Him.

Do not cast me off nor send me away in the time of old age;
Do not abandon me when my strength fails and I am weak.

Surely You set the wicked-minded and immoral on slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep [of death].

Will the Lord reject forever?
And will He never be favorable again?

Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave,
Whom You no longer remember,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

But [in apparent contradiction of all this] You [the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected;
You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He abandon His inheritance.

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have lifted me up and thrown me away.

And that He would cast out their descendants among the nations
And scatter them in the lands [of the earth].

“Moab is My washbowl;
Over Edom I will throw My shoe [to show Edom is Mine];
Over Philistia I will shout [in triumph].”

Have You not rejected us, O God?
And will You not go out, O God, with our armies?

“Let burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be thrown into the fire,
Into deep [water] pits from which they cannot rise.

Flash lightning and scatter my enemies;
Send out Your arrows and confuse and embarrass and frustrate them.