Many there are who say of my soul, "There is no help for him in God." Selah.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don't forget the helpless.

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me. For the Chief Musician. By David.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

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

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of Yahweh is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high,

We will triumph in your salvation. In the name of our God, we will set up our banners. May Yahweh grant all your requests.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph over me.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Good and upright is Yahweh, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.

Redeem Israel, God, out all of his troubles. By David.

Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Yahweh's voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even Yahweh on many waters.

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever! For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

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

Yahweh's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

They reward me evil for good, to the bereaving of my soul.

For they don't speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don't let them gloat over me.

An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh shall inherit the land.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn't forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

For in you, Yahweh, do I hope. You will answer, Lord my God.

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't be far from me.

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. BOOK II For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.