I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; for thou, Jehovah, alone makest me to dwell in safety.

But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.

Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;

Let the enemy pursue after my soul, and take it, and let him tread down my life to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.

He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.

Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

They have now encompassed us in our steps; their eyes have they set, bowing down to the earth.

Arise, Jehovah, anticipate him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, thy sword;

And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.

They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright.

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside still waters.

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Jehovah, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol, thou hast quickened me from among those that go down to the pit.

What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms unto him with the ten-stringed lute.

For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

I behaved myself as though he had been a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth for a mother.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and are not able to rise.

for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for Jehovah upholdeth his hand.

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand cometh down upon me.

I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done it.

A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more.

Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, for the health of his countenance.

My God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember thee from the land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from mount Mizar.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.

{A Psalm. Of Asaph.} God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest.

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it; and I will wait on thy name, before thy godly ones, for it is good.

{To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Let death seize upon them, let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwellings, in their midst.

And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.

Awake, my glory; awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.

Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

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?

They only consult to thrust him down from his excellency; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but in their inward part they curse. Selah.

Come, hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

And thy righteousness, O God, reacheth on high, thou who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee?

He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

Yea, all kings shall bow down before him; all nations shall serve him.

Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.

And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another.

We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.

When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

Why hast thou broken down its fences, so that all who pass by the way do pluck it?

O God of hosts, return, we beseech thee; look down from the heavens, and behold, and visit this vine;

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from the heavens.

I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength:

But I will beat down his adversaries before his face, and will smite them that hate him.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

Thou hast made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground;

In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon the Higgaion with the harp.

Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

{A Psalm.} Sing ye unto Jehovah a new song: for he hath done wondrous things; his right hand and his holy arm hath wrought salvation for him.

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath; for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,

He made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth its going down.

The sun ariseth, they retreat, and lay them down in their dens.

Remember his wondrous works which he hath done, his miracles and the judgments of his mouth:

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

They forgot God their Saviour, who had done great things in Egypt,

And he bowed down their heart with labour; they stumbled, and there was none to help:

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters,

They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;

Awake, lute and harp: I will wake the dawn.

Through God we shall do valiantly; and he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Jehovah, hast done it.

Maintained for ever and ever, done in truth and uprightness.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, let Jehovah's name be praised.

But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he pleased.

The dead praise not Jah, neither any that go down into silence;

AIN. I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.

Mine eyes run down with streams of water, because they keep not thy law.