But understand this: the LORD has set apart the godly for himself! The LORD will hear me when I cry out to him!

My eyesight has faded because of grief, it has dimmed because of all my enemies.

Get away from me, all of you who practice evil, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.

The LORD has heard my plea; the LORD receives my prayer.

The enemy has perished, reduced to ruins forever. You uprooted their cities, the very memory of them vanished.

As an avenger of blood, he remembers them; he has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude

The wicked say to themselves, "God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it."

I will sing to the LORD, for he has dealt bountifully with me. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

I will bless the LORD who has counseled me; indeed, my conscience instructs me during the night.

yet their message goes out into all the world, and their words to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent for the sun in the heavens,

Now I know that the LORD has delivered his anointed; he has answered him from his sanctuary with the strength of his right hand of deliverance.

For dogs have surrounded me; a gang of those who practice of evil has encircled me. They gouged my hands and my feet.

They will come and declare his righteousness to a people yet to be born; indeed, he has accomplished it! A Davidic Psalm.

The one who has innocent hands and a pure heart; the person who does not delight in what is false and does not swear an oath deceitfully.

Blessed be the LORD! For he has heard the sound of my supplications.

My life is consumed by sorrow, my years with groaning. My strength has faltered because of my iniquity; my bones have been consumed.

How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.

The words from his mouth are vain and deceptive. He has abandoned behaving wisely and doing good.

because your arrows have sunk deep into me, and your hand has come down hard on me.

How blessed is that strong person who places his trust in the LORD, and who has not acknowledged the proud nor resorted to lies.

Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.

As for my best friend, the one in whom I trusted, the one who ate my bread, even he has insulted me!

You are the most handsome of Adam's descendants; grace has anointed your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

You love justice and hate wickedness. That is why God, even your God, has anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.

The king's daughters are among your honorable women; the queen, dressed in gold from Ophir, has taken her place at your right hand."

God has ascended on high with a shout, the LORD has ascended with the blast of a trumpet.

God, the LORD, has spoken. He has summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting place.

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.

Our God has appeared and he has not been silent; a devouring fire blazed before him, and a mighty storm swirled around him.

for he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have seen the end of my enemies. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic instruction.

Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and horror has covered me.

My enemies will retreat when I call on you. This has been my experience, because God is with me.

You made the earth quake; you broke it open. Repair its fractures, because it has shifted.

Aren't you the one, God, who has cast us off? Didn't you refuse, God, to accompany our armies?

Surely God has heard, and he paid attention to my prayers.

You mountains of many peaks, why do you watch with envy the mountain in which God has chosen to dwell? Indeed, the LORD will live there forever.

and say, "God has abandoned him. Run after him and seize him, because there's no deliverer."

Has his gracious love ceased forever? Will his promise be unfulfilled in future generations?

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger withheld his compassion? Interlude

So I say: "It causes me pain that the right hand of the Most High has changed."

We will not withhold them from their descendants; we'll declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD his might and awesome deeds that he has performed.

They have forgotten what he has done, his awesome deeds that they witnessed.

All who pass by on their way plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Because he has focused his love on me, I will deliver him. I will protect him because he knows my name.

Your throne has been established since time immemorial; you are king from eternity.

keeping him calm when times are troubled until a pit has been dug for the wicked.

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done awesome deeds! His right hand and powerful arm have brought him victory.

The LORD has made his deliverance known; he has disclosed his justice before the nations.

He has remembered his gracious love; his faithfulness toward the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth saw our God's deliverance.

You will arise to extend compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor the appointed time has come.

He has weakened my strength along the way. He has cut short my days.

As distant as the east is from the west, that is how far he has removed our sins from us.

As a father has compassion for his children, so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him.

The LORD has established his throne in heaven and his kingdom rules over all.

Remember his awesome deeds that he has done, his wonders and the judgments he declared.

He has satisfied the one who thirsts, filling the hungry with what is good.

May creditors seize all his possessions, and may foreigners loot the property he has acquired.

I love the LORD because he has heard my prayer for mercy;

The LORD is my strength and protector, for he has become my deliverer.

The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

This is the day that the LORD has made; let's rejoice and be glad in it.

I find joy at what you have said like one who has discovered a great treasure.

Consider this: as the eyes of a servant focus on what his master provides, and as the eyes of a female servant focus on what her mistress provides, so our eyes focus on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us.

We have escaped like a bird from the hunter's trap. The trap has been broken, and we have escaped.

For evil's scepter will not rest on the land that has been allotted to the righteous, and so the righteous will not direct themselves to do wrong.

Then our mouths were filled with laughter, and our tongues formed joyful shouts. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

The great things that the LORD has done for us gladden us.

The LORD is righteous he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.

For the LORD has chosen Zion, desiring it as his dwelling place.

Our Lord is great, and rich in power; his understanding has no limitation.

For he has strengthened the bars of your gates, blessing your children within you.

He has not dealt with any other nation like this; they never knew his decrees. Hallelujah!

He has raised up a source of strength for his people, an object of praise for all of his holy ones, that is, for the people of Israel who are near him. Hallelujah!