But You, O Jehovah, are a shield for me; my glory, the One who lifts up my head.

The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all doers of iniquity.

To the Chief Musician, for eight-stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in Your anger, nor chasten me in the heat of Your fury.

His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violence shall come on his own crown.

Have mercy on me, O Jehovah; see my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their foot is caught in the net which they hid.

Why do You stand afar off, O Jehovah? Will You hide in times of trouble?

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. How long will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

Keep me as the pupil, the daughter of the eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings,

You have also given me the neck of my enemies; so that I might destroy those who hate me.

You have delivered Me from the strivings of the people; You have made Me the head of the nations; a people whom I have not known shall serve Me.

going forth from the end of the heavens, and its course is to their ends. And there is nothing hid from its heat.

For You go before him with the blessings of goodness; You set a crown of pure gold on his head.

Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You.

All who see Me mock me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

You prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.

Look on my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His shelter, in the secrecy of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me up on a rock.

And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies, my encirclers; and I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle. I will sing; yea, I will sing praises to Jehovah.

Hide not Your face from me. Turn not Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

I would have fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

O Jehovah, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.

I have hated those who take heed to lying vanities; but I trust in Jehovah.

You shall hide them in the secrecy of Your presence from the pride of man; You shall hide them in a shelter away from the strife of tongues.

Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous shall be held guilty.

Let not those who are my lying enemies rejoice over me, those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes in order to find his iniquity, to hate it.

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

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before me.

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

For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul on me; for I had gone with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping the feast.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and distress?

You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.

Yea, you hate to be taught, and you toss My Words behind you.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself among us? Save me, O God, by Your name, and judge me by Your strength.

To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Yourself from my cry.

from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked, for they shake trouble over me, and in wrath they hate me.

For it is not an enemy who reviled me; then I could have borne it; it is not one who hates me who magnified himself against me; or I would hide myself from him;

They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul.

Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; and Ephraim is the strength of My head, Judah is My lawgiver;

Surely they have plotted to cast him down from his great height; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse in their heart. Selah.

Hide me from the council of those who injure, from the rebelling of the workers of iniquity,

You have allowed men to ride at our head; we have gone through fire and through water, but You have brought us out to plenty.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song. Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; also let those who hate Him flee before Him.

Yea, God shall wound the head of His enemies, and the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt.

They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored what I did not take away.

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

And hide not Your face from Your servant; for I am in trouble; hear me quickly.

And I, my foot had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped.

We will not hide them from their sons, showing to the generations to come the praises of Jehovah, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done.

And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them.

though He had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens;

and had rained down manna on them to eat, and He gave them of the grain of the heavens.

how He had set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

He sent on them the heat of His anger, wrath and fury and trouble, by sending evil angels.

And He brought them within His own holy border, this mountain, which His right hand had bought.

Oh that My people had listened to Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

For lo, Your enemies roar; and those who hate You have lifted up their head.

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

You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the heat of Your anger.

Show me a token for good, so that they who hate me may see and be ashamed; because You, Jehovah, have helped me and comforted me.

O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him.

How long, Jehovah? Will You hide Yourself forever? Shall Your wrath burn like fire?

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

Unless Jehovah had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

You who love Jehovah, hate evil; He keeps the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; bow down Your ear to me; in the day I call, answer me quickly.

For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from Heaven Jehovah beheld the earth;

You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.

He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen.

Egypt was glad when they departed; for the fear of them had fallen on them.

so that they might take heed to His Precepts and keep His Laws. Praise Jehovah!

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

And He said that He would destroy them, if Moses His chosen had not stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, so that He should not destroy them.

Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine and Ephraim is the strength of My head; Judah is My lawgiver;

He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore He shall lift up the head.

Jehovah is for me among those who help me; and I will see my desire on those who hate me.

The Stone which the builders refused has become the Head of the corner.

BETH: With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your Word.

I am a stranger in the earth; do not hide Your Commandments from me.

They had almost finished me on earth; but I did not forsake Your Commandments.

Unless Your Law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my affliction.

Through Your Commandments I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

SAMECH: I hate half-hearted thoughts; but Your Law do I love.

Therefore I count all Your Commandments concerning all things to be right; I hate every false way.

I hate and despise lying; but I love Your Law.

Let them all be ashamed and turned back, those who hate Zion.

It is like the precious ointment on the head that ran down on the beard, Aaron's beard, that went down to the mouth of his garments;

Yea, the darkness does not hide from You; but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light to You.

O Jehovah, do I not hate those who hate You? And am I not grieved with those who rise up against You?

I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.

O Lord Jehovah, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.