In peace [and with a tranquil heart] I will both lie down and sleep,
For You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety and confident trust.

O Lord, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies;
Make Your way straight (direct, right) before me.

For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say;
Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies].
Their throat is an open grave;
They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue.

But let all who take refuge and put their trust in You rejoice,
Let them ever sing for joy;
Because You cover and shelter them,
Let those who love Your name be joyful and exult in You.

He has also prepared [other] deadly weapons for Himself;
He makes His arrows fiery shafts [aimed at the unrepentant].

Put them in [reverent] fear of You, O Lord,
So that the nations may know they are but [frail and mortal] men. Selah.

For look, the wicked are bending the bow;
They take aim with their arrow on the string
To shoot [by stealth] in darkness at the upright in heart.

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

The God who encircles me with strength
And makes my way blameless?

He makes my feet like hinds’ feet [able to stand firmly and tread safely on paths of testing and trouble];
He sets me [securely] upon my high places.

For You make him most blessed [and a blessing] forever;
You make him joyful with the joy of Your presence.

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.

For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];
You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.

He lets me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still and quiet waters.

That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving
And declare all Your wonders.

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
And Sirion (Mount Hermon) like a young, wild ox.

The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
The Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

The voice of the Lord makes the doe labor and give birth
And strips the forests bare;
And in His temple all are saying, “Glory!”

The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He makes the thoughts and plans of the people ineffective.

My soul makes its boast in the Lord;
The humble and downtrodden will hear it and rejoice.

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].

Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my Salvation.

“Lord, let me know my [life’s] end
And [to appreciate] the extent of my days;
Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].

“Save me from all my transgressions;
Do not make me the scorn and reproach of the [self-righteous, arrogant] fool.

Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who makes the Lord his trust,
And does not regard the proud nor those who lapse into lies.

Be pleased, O Lord, to save me;
O Lord, make haste to help me.

You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

You make us a byword among the nations,
A laughingstock among the people.

All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes and cassia;
From ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

In place of your fathers will be your sons;
You shall make princes in all the land.

I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the peoples will praise and give You thanks forever and ever.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow into pieces and snaps the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.

Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness and guilt
And cleanse me from my sin.

Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part [of my heart] You will make me know wisdom.

Make me hear joy and gladness and be satisfied;
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast and confident!
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises [to You]!

Do not kill them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them and make them wander [endlessly] back and forth by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord our shield!

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.

Wickedness and guilt prevail against me;
Yet as for our transgressions,
You forgive them [removing them from Your sight].

By awesome and wondrous things You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation,
You who are the trust and hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;

So they who dwell at the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs [the evidence of Your presence].
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

You water its furrows abundantly,
You smooth its ridges;
You soften it with showers,
You bless its growth.

Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;

Sing of the honor and glory and magnificence of His name;
Make His praise glorious.

Bless our God, O peoples,
And make the sound of His praise be heard abroad,

May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].

O God, come quickly to save me;
O Lord, come quickly to help me!

O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, come quickly to help me!

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.

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand [from judging the enemy]?
Remove Your hand from Your chest, destroy them!

For He established a testimony (a specific precept) in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach to their children [the great facts of God’s transactions with Israel],

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.

For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant—

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb
And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

O my God, make them like whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].

Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.

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

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

“I will mention Rahab (Egypt) and Babylon among those who know Me—
Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia (Cush)—
‘This one was born there.’”

I will sing of the goodness and lovingkindness of the Lord forever;
With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.

“I will also make him My firstborn (preeminent),
The highest of the kings of the earth.

“His descendants I will establish forever,
And his throne [will endure] as the days of heaven.

Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have suffered evil.

O come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord;
Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

Let us come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.

O come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].

Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth;
Shout [in jubilation] and sing for joy and sing praises.

With trumpets and the sound of the horn
Shout with joy before the King, the Lord.

Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth.

Who lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters [above the firmament],
Who makes the clouds His chariot,
Who walks on the wings of the wind,

Who makes winds His messengers,
Flames of fire His ministers.

And wine which makes the heart of man glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And bread to sustain and strengthen man’s heart.

Where the birds make their nests;
As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night,
In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

O give thanks to the Lord, call upon His name;
Make known His deeds among the people.

Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
That He might make His [supreme] power known.

And there He has the hungry dwell,
So that they may establish an inhabited city,

Yet He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction,
And makes their families like a flock.

The Lord (Father) says to my Lord (the Messiah, His Son),
“Sit at My right hand
Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet [subjugating them into complete submission].”

He makes the barren woman live in the house
As a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

They have hands, but they cannot feel;
They have feet, but they cannot walk;
Nor can they make a sound with their throats.

Those who make them will become like them,
Everyone who trusts in them.

Make me understand the way of Your precepts,
So that I will meditate (focus my thoughts) on Your wonderful works.

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

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies,
For Your words are always with me.

Make Your face shine [with pleasure] upon Your servant,
And teach me Your statutes.

Those who love Your law have great peace;
Nothing makes them stumble.

“There I will make the horn (strength) of David grow;
I have prepared a lamp for My anointed [fulfilling the promises].

Who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth;
Who makes lightning for the rain,
Who brings the wind from His storehouses;

Those who make idols are like them [absolutely worthless—spiritually blind, deaf, and powerless];
So is everyone who trusts in and relies on them.

If I ascend to heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead), behold, You are there.

I cry aloud with my voice to the Lord;
I make supplication with my voice to the Lord.

To make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts
And the glorious majesty of Your kingdom.

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.

Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain for the earth,
Who makes grass grow on the mountains.

He makes peace in your borders;
He satisfies you with the finest of the wheat.

Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;
Let Zion’s children rejoice in their King.