O Lord, how my enemies have increased!
Many are rising up against me.

Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
Lift up Yourself against the rage of my enemies;
Rise up for me; You have commanded judgment and vindication.

The enemy has been cut off and has vanished in everlasting ruins,
You have uprooted their cities;
The very memory of them has perished.

Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord;
See how I am afflicted by those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,

Arise, O Lord! O God, lift up Your hand [in judgment];
Do not forget the suffering.

How long must I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart day after day?
How long will my enemy exalt himself and triumph over me?

Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

He does not slander with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

Wondrously show Your [marvelous and amazing] lovingkindness,
O Savior of those who take refuge at Your right hand
From those who rise up against them.

They have closed their unfeeling heart [to kindness and compassion];
With their mouths they speak proudly and make presumptuous claims.

From men with Your hand, O Lord,
From men of the world [these moths of the night] whose portion [of enjoyment] is in this life—idle and vain,
And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And they leave what they have left [of wealth] to their children.

Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And fire from His mouth devoured;
Coals were kindled by it.

You have also given me the shield of Your salvation,
And Your right hand upholds and sustains me;
Your gentleness [Your gracious response when I pray] makes me great.

For You have encircled me with strength for the battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

He rescues me from my enemies;
Yes, You lift me up above those who rise up against me;
You deliver me from the man of violence.

May the Lord answer you (David) in the day of trouble!
May the name of the God of Jacob set you securely on high [and defend you in battle]!

We will sing joyously over your victory,
And in the name of our God we will set up our banners.
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

You will make them as [if in] a blazing oven in the time of your anger;
The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,
And the fire will devour them.

My strength is dried up like a fragment of clay pottery;
And my [dry] tongue clings to my jaws;
And You have laid me in the dust of death.

Who may ascend onto the mountain of the Lord?
And who may stand in His holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to what is false,
Nor has sworn [oaths] deceitfully.

Lift up your heads, O gates,
And be lifted up, ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in.

Lift up your heads, O gates,
And lift them up, ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in.

When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me,
In His tent I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].

Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have come against me;
They breathe out violence.

Hear the voice of my supplication (specific requests, humble entreaties) as I cry to You for help,
As I lift up my hands and heart toward Your innermost sanctuary (Holy of Holies).

I will extol and praise You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

O Lord, You have brought my life up from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);
You have kept me alive, so that I would not go down to the pit (grave).

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who [reverently] fear You,
Which You have prepared for those who take refuge in You,
Before the sons of man!

Take hold of shield and buckler (small shield),
And stand up for my help.

Draw also the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me.
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, that is what we wanted!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up and destroyed him.”

“Surely every man walks around like a shadow [in a charade];
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
Each one builds up riches, not knowing who will receive them.

He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.

Sacrifice and meal offering You do not desire, nor do You delight in them;
You have opened my ears and given me the capacity to hear [and obey Your word];
Burnt offerings and sin offerings You do not require.

For innumerable evils have encompassed me;
My sins 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.

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him;
And when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

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

But You, O Lord, be gracious to me and restore me [to health],
So that I may repay them.

Through You we will gore our enemies [like a bull];
Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

Rise up! Come be our help,
And ransom us for the sake of Your steadfast love.

Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?
They eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

My enemies have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.

He will send from heaven and save me;
He calls to account him who tramples me down. Selah.
God will send out His lovingkindness and His truth.

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Set me securely on an inaccessibly high place away from those who rise up against me.

They wander around for food [to devour]
And growl all night if they are not satisfied.

You have set up a banner for those who fear You [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder—a banner to shield them from attack],
A banner that may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Men of low degree are only a breath (emptiness), and men of [high] rank are a lie (delusion).
In the balances they go up [because they have no measurable weight or value];
They are together lighter than a breath.

So will I bless You as long as I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.

Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
Lift up a song for Him who rides through the desert—
His name is the Lord—be in good spirits before Him.

Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life [they have come up to my neck].

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the [mocking] insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,
Nor the deep waters swallow me up,
Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.

Pour out Your indignation on them,
And let [the fierceness of] Your burning anger overtake them.

But I am sorrowful and in pain;
May Your salvation, O God, set me [securely] on high.

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive and renew me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];
They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].

It seems as if one had lifted up
An axe in a forest of trees [to set a record of destruction].

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

You broke open fountains and streams;
You dried up ever-flowing rivers.

Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually [to Your ears].

“I said to the arrogant, ‘Do not boast;’
And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn [of self-glorification].

‘Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high,
Do not speak with a stiff neck.’”

For not from the east, nor from the west,
Nor from the desert comes exaltation.

But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and lifts up another.

In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out [in prayer] without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

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

Therefore, when the Lord heard, He was full of wrath;
A fire was kindled against Jacob,
And His anger mounted up against Israel,

But He, the source of compassion and lovingkindness, forgave their wickedness and did not destroy them;
Many times He restrained His anger
And did not stir up all His wrath.

He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones,
And their flocks and herds to thunderbolts.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your power
And come to save us!

“I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;
Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Truth springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.

Make Your servant rejoice,
For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul [all that I am—in prayer].

You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.

I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

For I have said, “Goodness and lovingkindness will be built up forever;
In the heavens [unchangeable and majestic] You will establish Your faithfulness.”

I will establish your seed forever
And I will build up your throne for all generations.” Selah.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

In the morning it flourishes and springs up;
In the evening it wilts and withers away.

They will lift you up in their hands,
So that you do not [even] strike your foot against a stone.

That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.

My eye has looked on my foes;
My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their pounding waves.

Rise up, O Judge of the earth;
Give to the proud a fitting compensation.

Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Who will take a stand for me against those who do wickedness?

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

He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.

Fire goes before Him
And burns up His adversaries on all sides.

Morning after morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land,
That I may cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do evil.

Because of Your indignation and Your wrath,
For You have lifted me up and thrown me away.

For the Lord has built up Zion;
He has appeared in His glory and brilliance;

You give it to them, they gather it up;
You open Your hand, they are filled and satisfied with good [things].