A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

In mine adversity I call Jehovah, And unto my God I cry. He heareth from His temple my voice, And My cry before Him cometh into His ears.

Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,

Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place?

Into Thy hand I commit my spirit, Thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah God of truth.

And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.

When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

Their sword doth enter into their own heart, And their bows are shivered.

Jehovah doth preserve him and revive him, He is happy in the land, And Thou givest him not into the will of his enemies.

These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!

Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

They are brought with joy and gladness, They come into the palace of the king.

Therefore we fear not in the changing of earth, And in the slipping of mountains Into the heart of the seas.

When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure of David, in his fleeing from the face of Saul into a cave. Favour me, O God, favour me, For in Thee is my soul trusting, And in the shadow of Thy wings I trust, Until the calamities pass over.

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

From the end of the land unto Thee I call, In the feebleness of my heart, Into a rock higher than I Thou dost lead me.

Thou hast brought us into a net, Thou hast placed pressure on our loins.

Thou hast caused man to ride at our head. We have entered into fire and into water, And Thou bringest us out to a watered place.

God -- causing the lonely to dwell at home, Bringing out bound ones into prosperity, Only -- the refractory have inhabited a dry place.

I have sunk in deep mire, And there is no standing, I have come into the depths of the waters, And a flood hath overflown me.

Give punishment for their iniquity, And they enter not into Thy righteousness.

They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name,

And He giveth His strength to captivity, And His beauty into the hand of an adversary,

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,

He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.

And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

And giveth them into the hand of nations, And those hating them rule over them,

And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

Open ye to me gates of righteousness, I enter into them -- I thank Jah.

This is the gate to Jehovah, The righteous enter into it.

'If I enter into the tent of my house, If I go up on the couch of my bed,

He sent tokens and wonders into thy midst, O Egypt, On Pharaoh and on all his servants.

To Him cutting the sea of Suph into parts, For to the age is His kindness,

They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God -- Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.