But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
The Lord hears when I call to Him.

My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.

Depart from me, all you who do iniquity,
For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

The Lord has heard my supplication,
The Lord receives my prayer.

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

If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;
He has bent His bow and made it ready.

He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;
He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the hole which he made.

The enemy has come to an end in perpetual ruins,
And You have uprooted the cities;
The very memory of them has perished.

But the Lord abides forever;
He has established His throne for judgment,

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

The Lord has made Himself known;
He has executed judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.

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

Why has the wicked spurned God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”

I will sing to the Lord,
Because He has dealt bountifully with me. Cross references: Psalm 13:1 : Ps 44:24 Psalm 13:1 : Job 13:24; Ps 89:46 Psalm 13:2 : Ps 42:4 Psalm 13:2 : Ps 42:9 Psalm 13:3 : Ps 5:1 Psalm 13:3 : 1 Sam 14:29; Ezra 9:8; Job 33:30; Ps 18:28 Psalm 13:3 : Jer 51:39 Psalm 13:4 : Ps 12:4 Psalm 13:4 : Ps 25:2; 38:16 Psalm 13:5 : Ps 52:8 Psalm 13:5 : Ps 9:14 Psalm 13:6 : Ps 96:1, 2 Psalm 13:6 : Ps 116:7; 119:17; 142:7 end of crossrefs

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.

The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there are any who understand,
Who seek after God.

I will bless the Lord who has counseled me;
Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night.

The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.

Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their utterances to the end of the world.
In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

For dogs have surrounded me;
A band of evildoers has encompassed me;
They pierced my hands and my feet.

For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

They will come and will declare His righteousness
To a people who will be born, that He has performed it.

For He has founded it upon the seas
And established it upon the rivers.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood
And has not sworn deceitfully.

Blessed be the Lord,
Because He has heard the voice of my supplication.

For my life is spent with sorrow
And my years with sighing;
My strength has failed because of my iniquity,
And my body has wasted away.

Blessed be the Lord,
For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.

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

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

My heart throbs, my strength fails me;
And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me.

How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.

All day long my dishonor is before me
And my humiliation has overwhelmed me,

All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You,
And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back,
And our steps have not deviated from Your way,

For our soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.

You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has wrought desolations in the earth.

God has ascended with a shout,
The Lord, with the sound of a trumpet.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

A Psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, the Lord, has spoken,
And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God.

Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

For He has delivered me from all trouble,
And my eye has looked with satisfaction upon my enemies.

Fear and trembling come upon me,
And horror has overwhelmed me.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
Then I could hide myself from him.

He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him;
He has violated his covenant.

For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;
Fighting all day long he oppresses me.

God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will exult, I will portion out Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Once God has spoken;
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God;

Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.

Come and hear, all who fear God,
And I will tell of what He has done for my soul.

But certainly God has heard;
He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

Blessed be God,
Who has not turned away my prayer
Nor His lovingkindness from me.

The earth has yielded its produce;
God, our God, blesses us.

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,
At the mountain which God has desired for His abode?
Surely the Lord will dwell there forever.

Your God has commanded your strength;
Show Yourself strong, O God, who have acted on our behalf.

Rebuke the beasts in the reeds,
The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver;
He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Dishonor has covered my face.

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick.
And I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.

Saying, “God has forsaken him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to deliver.”

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

Turn Your footsteps toward the perpetual ruins;
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

Remember this, O Lord, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name.

Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?
Has His promise come to an end forever?

Has God forgotten to be gracious,
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

Then I said, “It is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight,
Vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

Even the shoot which Your right hand has planted,
And on the son whom You have strengthened for Yourself.

Assyria also has joined with them;
They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.

The bird also has found a house,
And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,
Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts,
My King and my God.

For my soul has had enough troubles,
And my life has drawn near to Sheol.

Your wrath has rested upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;
I have called upon You every day, O Lord;
I have spread out my hands to You.

Your burning anger has passed over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.

All who pass along the way plunder him;
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.

A senseless man has no knowledge,
Nor does a stupid man understand this:

And my eye has looked exultantly upon my foes,
My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;
The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength;
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

If I should say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

But the Lord has been my stronghold,
And my God the rock of my refuge.

He has brought back their wickedness upon them
And will destroy them in their evil;
The Lord our God will destroy them.

A Psalm.
O sing to the Lord a new song,
For He has done wonderful things,
His right hand and His holy arm have gained the victory for Him.

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

He has remembered His lovingkindness and His faithfulness to the house of Israel;
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Know that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

My heart has been smitten like grass and has withered away,
Indeed, I forget to eat my bread.

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.