Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my heart and my mind.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Beautiful for elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your judgments.

Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the tribe of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, where you have dwelt.

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.

[A song of ascents.] They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides forever.