All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship;
All those who go down to the dust (the dead) will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

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

I will wash my hands in innocence,
And I will go about Your altar, O Lord,

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).

“What profit is there in my blood (death), if I go down to the pit (grave)?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness [to man]?

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you [who are willing to learn] with My eye upon you.

Turn away from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.

He will make your righteousness [your pursuit of right standing with God] like the light,
And your judgment like [the shining of] the noonday [sun].

I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go about mourning all day long.

“O look away from me, that I may smile and again know joy
Before I depart and am no more.”

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God, my exceeding joy;
With the lyre I will praise You, O God, my God!

But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].

Walk about Zion, go all around her;
Count her towers,

Consider her ramparts,
Go through her palaces,
That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They shall never again see the light.

Day and night they go around her walls;
Wickedness and mischief are in her midst.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
For evil [of every kind] is in their dwelling and in their hearts, in their midst.

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].

They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.

They return at evening, they howl and snarl like dogs,
And go [prowling] around the city.

Have You not rejected us, O God?
And will You not go out with our armies?

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.

But those who seek my life to destroy it
Will [be destroyed and] go into the depths of the earth [into the underworld].

The singers go in front, the players of instruments last;
Between them the maidens playing on tambourines.

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

They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power];
Each of them appears before God in Zion.

Righteousness will go before Him
And will make His footsteps into a way [in which to walk].

For You, O Lord, are good, and ready to forgive [our sins, sending them away, completely letting them go forever and ever];
And abundant in lovingkindness and overflowing in mercy to all those who call upon You.

I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);
I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Lovingkindness and truth go before You.

There the ships [of the sea] sail,
And Leviathan [the sea monster], which You have formed to play there.

The king sent and released him,
The ruler of the peoples [of Egypt], and set him free.

He led them by the straight way,
To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes].

Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;

They went up toward the heavens [on the crest of the wave], they went down again to the depths [of the watery trough];
Their courage melted away in their misery.

Have You not rejected us, O God?
And will You not go out, O God, with our armies?

The dead do not praise the Lord,
Nor do any who go down into silence;

Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,
For I delight in it.

I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

Nor do those who pass by say,
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

Let us go into His tabernacle;
Let us worship at His footstool.

Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?

Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down into the pit (grave).