But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

Listen to my words, O Lord,
Consider my groaning and sighing.

Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God,
For to You I pray.

The boastful do not stand before your eyes. You hate all evildoers.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.} O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

He dug a pit and hollowed it out
but fell into the hole he had made.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

And Jehovah will be a height for the oppressed one, a height for times in straits.

When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' are all his devices.

Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

He will rain upon the, unjust, snares, fire and brimstone, and a wind of violent heat: the portion of their cup.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

But I have had faith in your mercy; my heart will be glad in your salvation.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Keep and protect me, O God, for in You I have placed my trust and found refuge.

O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer [I make] without deceitful lips.

Thou hast tested my heart, hast made inspection by night, hast refined me until thou couldst find nothing, Had I devised evil, my mouth should not have transgressed:

As for the workings of men, By the word of thy lips, have, I, taken heed of the paths of the violent one.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, I will put my trust in him; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my height.

The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,

He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hate me, for they were too strong for me.

They prevented me in the day of my trouble, but the LORD was my upholder. {TYNDALE: When they had compassed me in the day of my tribulation, the LORD stayed me up.}

He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;

For I have an eye unto all his laws, and will not cast out his commandments from me. {TYNDALE: But I had all his laws in my sight, and I turned my face from none of his ordinances.}

Therefore shall the LORD reward me after my righteous dealing, and according unto the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. {TYNDALE: And the LORD did to me again, according to my righteousness, and after my pureness that I had in his sight.}

I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them; neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them. {TYNDALE: I followed mine enemies and destroyed them, and turned not again until I had consumed them.}

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

Unto thee, made they outcry, and escaped, In thee, they trusted, and had not turned pale.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

All the great ones of the earth, shall eat and bow down, Before him shall kneel, all that go down to the dust, Even he who had not kept alive, his own soul!

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.

I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Because they heed not The Deeds of Yahweh, or the Work of his hands, he will pull them down, and not build them.

The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, "I shall not be moved ever."

LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou art my strength.

I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in Jehovah.

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

In my alarm I had said,
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat of summer. Selah

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

They had an eye unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth (mourning garment);
I humbled my soul with fasting,
And I prayed with my head bowed on my chest.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

for in his own eyes he flatters himself too much
to discover and hate his sin.

He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

Wait for and expect the Lord and keep His way,
And He will exalt you to inherit the land;
[In the end] when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

Then I passed by, and lo! he had vanished! Yea I sought him, but he could not be found.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

{A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee.

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

{To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

I was mute and silent [before my enemies],
I refrained even from good,
And my distress grew worse.

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.