Thou, LORD, of thy favor had made my mountain to stand strong. Thou hid thy face; I was troubled.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as he who bewails his mother.

And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had well nigh slipped.

If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.

And they forgot his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shown them.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.

Fire devoured their young men, and their virgins had no marriage-song.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or thou had ever formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou are God.

Unless LORD had been my help, my soul would have soon dwelt in silence.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which thou had founded for them.

He sent Moses his servant, [and] Aaron whom he had chosen.

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon them.

They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy.

for he shall never be moved. A righteous man shall be had in everlasting remembrance.

The proud have had me greatly in derision, [yet] I have not swerved from thy law.

This I have had because I have kept thy precepts.

They had almost consumed me upon earth, but I did not forsake thy precepts.

Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.

My soul has long had her dwelling with him who hates peace.

If it had not been LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,

if it had not been LORD who was on our side when men rose up against us,