Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

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.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity at my heels shall surround me?

That he should still live forever, and not see corruption.

But unto the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? let him be known among the nations in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: and their fate should have endured forever.

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.

Unto whom I swore in my anger that they should not enter into my rest.

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?

Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.

If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.

Cause me to hear your lovingkindness in the morning; for in you do I trust: cause me to know the way in which I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto you.