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

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast 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 slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption.

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

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

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 which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy 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: but their time should have endured for ever.

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

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

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

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.

Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

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

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

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