[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto you, and will look up.

Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.

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

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips.

Hold up my steps in your paths, that my feet slip not.

Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.

For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death.

He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Lift up your heads, O you gates; and be you lifted up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

Lift up your heads, O you gates; even lift them up, you everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

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

And now shall my head be lifted up above my 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.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance: feed them also, and lift them up forever.

[A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the house of David.] I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: he lays up the depth in storehouses.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

Stir up yourself, and awake to my defense, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.

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

An evil disease, say they, clings close unto him: and now that he lies down he shall rise up no more.

Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

But you, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

God has gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

[To the Chief Musician upon jonathelemrechokim. A michtam of David, when the Philistines took him to Gath.] Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresses me.

My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they are many that fight against me, O most High.

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.] Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.

For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.

Let not the floodwater overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

You, who have showed me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their banners for signs.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

You did break open the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.

Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.

The earth and all inhabitants are dissolved: I hold up the pillars of it. Selah.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

The voice of your thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lighted up the world: the earth trembled and shook.

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand up as a heap.

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was angry: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery thunderbolts.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

For, lo, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

Rejoice the soul of your servant: for unto you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer your terrors I am distracted.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.

Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

You have lifted up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.

You carry them away as with a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up.

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up; in the evening it is cut down, and withers.

They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

My eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.

A fire goes before him, and burns up his enemies round about.

His lightnings light up the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.

When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them.

And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.