{A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.} Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!

For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Bring guilt upon them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels: drive them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee.

And all that trust in thee shall rejoice: for ever shall they shout joyously, and thou wilt protect them; and they that love thy name shall exult in thee.

All mine enemies shall be ashamed and tremble exceedingly; they will turn, they will be ashamed suddenly.

When mine enemies turned back, they stumbled and perished at thy presence:

And they that know thy name will confide in thee; for thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

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

The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

{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.

They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.

There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

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

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me; for they were mightier than I.

They encountered me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay.

I pursued mine enemies, and overtook them; and I turned not again till they were consumed.

I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet.

They cried, and there was none to save; unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.

At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me.

Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether:

They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.

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

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.

They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying:

They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

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.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

{Of David. A Psalm.} The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting.

Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.

Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength.

More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.

For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.

Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.

They looked unto him, and were enlightened, and their faces were not confounded.

The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.

Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.

For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit; without cause they have digged it for my soul.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.

They reward me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I chastened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned into mine own bosom:

But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.

And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen it.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

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.

For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.

they shall not be ashamed in the time of evil, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.

for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: They are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

And Jehovah will help them and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them; for they trust in him.

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.

And they that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.

For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified themselves against me.

But mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied:

And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.

Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.

All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Send out thy light and thy truth: they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.

For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.

Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;

With joy and gladness shall they be brought; they shall enter into the king's palace.

For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;

They saw, so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation:

They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. ...

For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.

Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever,their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.

Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.

Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

{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.

Every one of them is gone back, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God.