Know that the Lord has set apart
the faithful for Himself;
the Lord will hear when I call to Him.

Depart from me, all evildoers,
for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

The Lord has heard my plea for help;
the Lord accepts my prayer.

If anyone does not repent,
God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung His bow and made it ready.

He has prepared His deadly weapons;
He tips His arrows with fire.

The enemy has come to eternal ruin;
You have uprooted the cities,
and the very memory of them has perished.

But the Lord sits enthroned forever;
He has established His throne for judgment.

The Lord has revealed Himself;
He has executed justice,
striking down the wicked
by the work of their hands.Higgaion. Selah

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He hides His face and will never see.”

Why has the wicked person despised God?
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”

I will sing to the Lord
because He has treated me generously.

Their message has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.

In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

For dogs have surrounded me;
a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;
they pierced my hands and my feet.

For He has not despised or detested
the torment of the afflicted.
He did not hide His face from him
but listened when he cried to Him for help.

They will come and tell a people yet to be born
about His righteousness—
what He has done.

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who has not set his mind on what is false,
and who has not sworn deceitfully.

Because they do not consider
what the Lord has done
or the work of His hands,
He will tear them down and not rebuild them.

May the Lord be praised,
for He has heard the sound of my pleading.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief
and my years with groaning;
my strength has failed
because of my sinfulness,
and my bones waste away.

May the Lord be praised,
for He has wonderfully shown His faithful love to me
in a city under siege.

Happy is the nation whose God is Yahweh—
the people He has chosen to be His own possession!

The words of his mouth are malicious and deceptive;
he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

The little that the righteous man has is better
than the abundance of many wicked people.

For Your arrows have sunk into me,
and Your hand has pressed down on me.

My heart races, my strength leaves me,
and even the light of my eyes has faded.

I am like a man who does not hear
and has no arguments in his mouth.

How happy is the man
who has put his trust in the Lord
and has not turned to the proud
or to those who run after lies!

“Lethal poison has been poured into him,
and he won’t rise again from where he lies!”

Even my friend in whom I trusted,
one who ate my bread,
has raised his heel against me.

My disgrace is before me all day long,
and shame has covered my face,

All this has happened to us,
but we have not forgotten You
or betrayed Your covenant.

You are the most handsome of men;
grace flows from your lips.
Therefore God has blessed you forever.

You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of joy
more than your companions.

All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

Then they will be filled with terror—
terror like no other—
because God will scatter
the bones of those who besiege you.
You will put them to shame,
for God has rejected them.

For He has delivered me from every trouble,
and my eye has looked down on my enemies.

Fear and trembling grip me;
horror has overwhelmed me.

God has spoken in His sanctuary:
“I will triumph! I will divide up Shechem.
I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

God has spoken once;
I have heard this twice:
strength belongs to God,

Then everyone will fear
and will tell about God’s work,
for they will understand what He has done.

Come and listen, all who fear God,
and I will tell what He has done for me.

However, God has listened;
He has paid attention to the sound of my prayer.

May God be praised!
He has not turned away my prayer
or turned His faithful love from me.

The earth has produced its harvest;
God, our God, blesses us.

Your God has decreed your strength.
Show Your strength, God,
You who have acted on our behalf.

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” Davidic.Save me, God,
for the water has risen to my neck.

For I have endured insults because of You,
and shame has covered my face.

because zeal for Your house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult You
have fallen on me.

saying, “God has abandoned him;
chase him and catch him,
for there is no one to rescue him.”

Make Your way to the everlasting ruins,
to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.

Remember this: the enemy has mocked Yahweh,
and a foolish people has insulted Your name.

Has His faithful love ceased forever?
Is His promise at an end for all generations?

Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger withheld His compassion?”Selah

So I say, “I am grieved
that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

We must not hide them from their children,
but must tell a future generation
the praises of the Lord,
His might, and the wonderful works
He has performed.

the root Your right hand has planted,
the shoot that You made strong for Yourself.

A psalm of Asaph.God has taken His place in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods:

Even Assyria has joined them;
they lend support to the sons of Lot.Selah

All who pass by plunder him;
he has become an object of ridicule
to his neighbors.

Your throne has been established
from the beginning;
You are from eternity.

A psalm.Sing a new song to the Lord,
for He has performed wonders;
His right hand and holy arm
have won Him victory.

The Lord has made His victory known;
He has revealed His righteousness
in the sight of the nations.

He has remembered His love
and faithfulness to the house of Israel;
all the ends of the earth
have seen our God’s victory.

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to show favor to her—
the appointed time has come.

He has broken my strength in midcourse;
He has shortened my days.

He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve
or repaid us according to our offenses.

As far as the east is from the west,
so far has He removed
our transgressions from us.

As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

The Lord has established His throne in heaven,
and His kingdom rules over all.

Remember the wonderful works He has done,
His wonders, and the judgments He has pronounced,

Let the redeemed of the Lord proclaim
that He has redeemed them from the hand of the foe

and has gathered them from the lands—
from the east and the west,
from the north and the south.

For He has satisfied the thirsty
and filled the hungry with good things.

For He has broken down the bronze gates
and cut through the iron bars.

God has spoken in His sanctuary:
“I will triumph!
I will divide up Shechem.
I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.

Let a creditor seize all he has;
let strangers plunder what he has worked for.

The Lord has sworn an oath and will not take it back:
“Forever, You are a priest
like Melchizedek.”

He has caused His wonderful works to be remembered.
The Lord is gracious and compassionate.

He has provided food for those who fear Him;
He remembers His covenant forever.

He has shown His people the power of His works
by giving them the inheritance of the nations.

He has sent redemption to His people.
He has ordained His covenant forever.
His name is holy and awe-inspiring.

The heavens are the Lord’s,
but the earth He has given to the human race.

I love the Lord because He has heard
my appeal for mercy.

Because He has turned His ear to me,
I will call out to Him as long as I live.

Return to your rest, my soul,
for the Lord has been good to you.

How can I repay the Lord
for all the good He has done for me?

The Lord is my strength and my song;
He has become my salvation.

I will not die, but I will live
and proclaim what the Lord has done.

The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone.

This is the day the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.

The Lord is God and has given us light.
Bind the festival sacrifice with cords
to the horns of the altar.

This is my comfort in my affliction:
Your promise has given me life.

Praise the Lord,
who has not let us be ripped apart by their teeth.

Our mouths were filled with laughter then,
and our tongues with shouts of joy.
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them.
Such men will never be put to shame
when they speak with their enemies at the city gate.

The Lord is righteous;
He has cut the ropes of the wicked.

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His home:

It is like the dew of Hermon
falling on the mountains of Zion.
For there the Lord has appointed the blessing—
life forevermore.

For Yahweh has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel as His treasured possession.

For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing me to the ground,
making me live in darkness
like those long dead.