I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,

An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.

Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

When the foundations are destroyed, The righteous -- what hath he done?

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness is under His feet.

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God.

Teaching my hands for battle, And a bow of brass was brought down by my arms.

And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he who hath not revived his soul.

In pastures of tender grass He causeth me to lie down, By quiet waters He doth lead me.

By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

Jehovah, Thou hast brought up from Sheol my soul, Thou hast kept me alive, From going down to the pit.

What gain is in my blood? In my going down unto corruption? Doth dust thank Thee? doth it declare Thy truth?

Give ye thanks to Jehovah with a harp, With psaltery of ten strings sing praise to Him,

As if a friend, as if my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down.

When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.

For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.

I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done it.

Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again.

For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,

Come ye, see the works of Jehovah, Who hath done astonishing things in the earth,

For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging.

Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

I thank Thee to the age, because Thou hast done it, And I wait on Thy name for it is good before Thy saints!

To the Overseer. -- 'On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God.

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

Awake, mine honour, awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the morning dawn.

O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

In God we do mightily, And He treadeth down our adversaries!

Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

And Thy righteousness, O God, is unto the heights, Because Thou hast done great things, O God, who is like Thee?

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

And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,

Poured out waters have thick clouds, The skies have given forth a noise, Also -- Thine arrows go up and down.

We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.

Before their fathers He hath done wonders, In the land of Egypt -- the field of Zoan.

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

Why hast Thou broken down its hedges, And all passing by the way have plucked it?

Burnt with fire -- cut down, From the rebuke of Thy face they perish.

I have been reckoned with those going down to the pit, I have been as a man without strength.

And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,

Thou hast broken down all his hedges, Thou hast made his fenced places a ruin.

Hast caused him to cease from his brightness, And his throne to the earth hast cast down.

In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.

On ten strings and on psaltery, On higgaion, with harp.

A Psalm. Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, For wonders He hath done, Given salvation to Him hath His right hand and His holy arm.

And the strength of the king Hath loved judgment, Thou -- Thou hast established uprightness; Judgment and righteousness in Jacob, Thou -- Thou hast done.

From Thine indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast lifted me up, And dost cast me down.

Not according to our sins hath He done to us, Nor according to our iniquities Hath He conferred benefits upon us.

They go up hills -- they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.

And they go up and down, from nation unto nation, From a kingdom unto another people.

We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

Those going down to the sea in ships, Doing business in many waters,

They go up to the heavens, they go down to the depths, Their soul in evil is melted.

And they are diminished, and bow down, By restraint, evil, and sorrow.

Awake, psaltery and harp, I awake the dawn.

In God we do mightily, And He doth tread down our adversaries!

And they know that this is Thy hand, Thou, O Jehovah, Thou hast done it.

And our God is in the heavens, All that He hath pleased He hath done.

The dead praise not Jah, Nor any going down to silence.

Yea, they have not done iniquity, In His ways they have walked.

Thou hast trodden down All going astray from Thy statutes, For falsehood is their deceit.

Ain. I have done judgment and righteousness, Leave me not to mine oppressors.

Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!

I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.

I have waited for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy commands I have done.

As the good oil on the head, Coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, That cometh down on the skirt of his robes,

As dew of Hermon -- That cometh down on hills of Zion, For there Jehovah commanded the blessing -- Life unto the age!

All that Jehovah pleased He hath done, In the heavens and in earth, In the seas and all deep places,

O daughter of Babylon, O destroyed one, O the happiness of him who repayeth to thee thy deed, That thou hast done to us.

Thou -- Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.

Haste, answer me, O Jehovah, My spirit hath been consumed, Hide not Thou Thy face from me, Or I have been compared with those going down to the pit.

Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.

O God, a new song I sing to Thee, On a psaltery of ten strings I sing praise to Thee.

Our garners are full, bringing out from kind to kind, Our flocks are bringing forth thousands, Ten thousands in our out-places,

Jehovah is supporting all who are falling, And raising up all who are bowed down.

Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!