O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

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

The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

If the bases are broken down, what is the upright man to do?

On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

The Lord is my Rock, my walled town, and my saviour; my God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

They are bent down and made low; but we have been lifted up.

But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.

That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.

For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

The Lord is looking down from heaven; he sees all the sons of men;

The Lord is near the broken-hearted; he is the saviour of those whose spirits are crushed down.

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

My soul is crushed down in me, so I will keep you in mind; from the land of Jordan and of the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

Uprooting the nations with your hand, and planting our fathers in their place; cutting down the nations, but increasing the growth of your people.

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain.

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

And in the evening let them come back, and make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.

O God, send out your strength; the strength, O God, with which you have done great things for us,

Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.

I will give praise to the name of God with a song; I will give glory to him for what he has done.

Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.

Yes, let all kings go down before him; let all nations be his servants.

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

And he let it come down into their resting-place, round about their tents.

How he had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;

Ice was rained down on their cattle; thunderstorms sent destruction among the flocks.

Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)

I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome.

The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;

He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.

Egypt was glad when they went; for the fear of them had come down on them.