I lay down and slept;
I awoke, for the Lord sustains me.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
Who have set themselves against me round about.

In peace I will both lie down and sleep,
For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.

O Lord my God, if I have done this,
If there is injustice in my hands,

Let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it;
And let him trample my life down to the ground
And lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

He crouches, he bows down,
And the unfortunate fall by his mighty ones.

The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there are any who understand,
Who seek after God.

They have now surrounded us in our steps;
They set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down
With thick darkness under His feet.

They have bowed down and fallen,
But we have risen and stood upright.

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside quiet waters.

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Because they do not regard the works of the Lord
Nor the deeds of His hands,
He will tear them down and not build them up.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;
Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings.

For the word of the Lord is upright,
And all His work is done in faithfulness.

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

I went about as though it were my friend or brother;
I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

There the doers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been thrust down and cannot rise.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow
To cast down the afflicted and the needy,
To slay those who are upright in conduct.

For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,
And Your hand has pressed down on me.

I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go mourning all day long.

“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who have done it.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him,
That when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

Through You we will push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

For our soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.

Then the King will desire your beauty.
Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.

“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God.

Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble upon me
And in anger they bear a grudge against me.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

Because of wickedness, cast them forth,
In anger put down the peoples, O God!

They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

Awake, my glory!
Awake, harp and lyre!
I will awaken the dawn.

Do not slay them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.

Through God we shall do valiantly,
And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;
They delight in falsehood;
They bless with their mouth,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.

Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.

They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs;
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

Come and hear, all who fear God,
And I will tell of what He has done for my soul.

When you lie down among the sheepfolds,
You are like the wings of a dove covered with silver,
And its pinions with glistening gold.

For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You?

May he come down like rain upon the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

And let all kings bow down before him,
All nations serve him.

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and exalts another.

For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed, and He pours out of this;
Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

He brought forth streams also from the rock
And caused waters to run down like rivers.

He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them food from heaven.

Why have You broken down its hedges,
So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?

O God of hosts, turn again now, we beseech You;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

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

Truth springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

You have broken down all his walls;
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

A thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand,
But it shall not approach you.

You will tread upon the lion and cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.

With the ten-stringed lute and with the harp,
With resounding music upon the lyre.

For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done,
I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

Come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

A Psalm.
O sing to the Lord a new song,
For He has done wonderful things,
His right hand and His holy arm have gained the victory for Him.

For He looked down from His holy height;
From heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth,

The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.

When the sun rises they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.

Remember His wonders which He has done,
His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

He struck down their vines also and their fig trees,
And shattered the trees of their territory.

He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits of all their vigor.

They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,

Therefore He swore to them
That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

Many times He would deliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,
And so sank down in their iniquity.

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

They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;
Their soul melted away in their misery.

When they are diminished and bowed down
Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

Awake, harp and lyre;
I will awaken the dawn!

Through God we will do valiantly,
And it is He who shall tread down our adversaries.

And let them know that this is Your hand;
You, Lord, have done it.

Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power;
In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,
Your youth are to You as the dew.

The dead do not praise the Lord,
Nor do any who go down into silence;

Ayin.
I have done justice and righteousness;
Do not leave me to my oppressors.

I rise before dawn and cry for help;
I wait for Your words.

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you,
You deceitful tongue?

Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

The Lord has done great things for us;
We are glad.

It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Coming down upon the beard,
Even Aaron’s beard,
Coming down upon the edge of his robes.

It is like the dew of Hermon
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the Lord commanded the blessing—life forever. Cross references: Psalm 133:1 : Gen 13:8; Heb 13:1 Psalm 133:2 : Ex 29:7; 30:25, 30; Lev 8:12 Psalm 133:2 : Ex 28:33; 39:24 Psalm 133:3 : Prov 19:12; Hos 14:5; Mic 5:7 Psalm 133:3 : Deut 3:9; 4:48 Psalm 133:3 : Ps 48:2; 74:2; 78:68 Psalm 133:3 : Lev 25:21; Deut 28:8; Ps 42:8 Psalm 133:3 : Ps 21:4 end of crossrefs

By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down and wept,
When we remembered Zion.

I will bow down toward Your holy temple
And give thanks to Your name for Your lovingkindness and Your truth;
For You have magnified Your word according to all Your name.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock,
And they hear my words, for they are pleasant.