The Lord will be a high tower for those who are crushed down, a high tower in times of trouble;

The impious hath said in his heart - There is no God! They have acted corruptly, they have done an abominable deed, there is none that doeth good.

He parted the heavens and came down,
a dark cloud beneath His feet.

For by thee I will break down a troop, and in my God I will leap upon the wall.

Rise up, LORD, because you are strong; we will sing and praise your power. To the Director: To the tune of "Doe of the Dawn".A Davidic Psalm.

To the Chief Musician, on the deer of the dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me, and are far from my deliverance, and from the words of my groaning?

With corrections for iniquity thou didst correct man, and thou wilt melt down as a moth his beauty: surely every man is vanity. Silence.

How long will ye assail a man; will ye seek, all of you, to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?

He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers -- sprinkling the earth.

And bringeth out streams from a rock, And causeth waters to come down as rivers.

To be burned with fire, it is cut down, - At the rebuke of thy countenance, they will perish.

Exalt Yahweh our God, And bow down at his footstool, Holy, is he!

He called down a famine upon the earth; he cut off all the food supply.

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord's proclamation to my lord: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"

We would enter his habitations, we would bow down at his footstool.

Do not let a slanderer stay in the land.
Let evil relentlessly hunt down a violent man.