Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”
Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

Their ways always seem prosperous. Your judgments are on high, far away from them. They scoff at all their enemies.

He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

for the wicked seem to be everywhere, when people promote evil.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

Let destruction come on them without their knowledge; let them be taken themselves in their secret nets, falling into the same destruction.

By David. Do not fret when wicked men seem to succeed! Do not envy evildoers!

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same. Selah.

God is well known in her palaces, that he is the defense of the same.

Like as we have heard, so see we in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God. God upholdeth the same forever. Selah.

There be some that put their trust in their goods, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.

{The Psalm of Asaph} The LORD, even the most mighty God, hath spoken, and called the world; from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same.

The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast: for they are minded to do me some mischief, so maliciously are they set against me.

His words are as smooth as butter, but he harbors animosity in his heart. His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords.

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.

God spoke once, and twice I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto God,

That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation {all day long}, though I do not know [the full] sum [of them].

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

that their posterity might know it, and the children which were yet unborn, to the intent that when they came up, they might show their children the same;

the anger of God rose against them, and he killed some of the stoutest of them, even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down [in death].

When He killed [some of] them, then those remaining sought Him,
And they returned [to Him] and searched diligently for God [for a time].

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],
Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

Show some token upon me for good, that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed; because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.

But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region;
And did not find a way to an inhabited city.

Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,
Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,

Fools, because of their rebellious way,
And because of their sins, were afflicted.

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

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised.

The same stone which the builders refused, is become the headstone in the corner.

From Yahweh, hath this come to pass, The same, is marvellous in our eyes.

The same is my comfort in my trouble, for thy word hath quickened me.

The sum of thy word is truth; And every one of thy righteous ordinances endureth for ever.

Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

Lo, we heard of the same at Ephrata, and found it in the wood.

Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

They who are lawless, shall fall into the nooses thereof, while, I, at the same time, pass on.