W hy did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things?

I did call upon the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

He rode upon the Cherub, and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. {TYNDALE: And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.}

Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.}

Therefore shall the LORD reward me after my righteous dealing, and according unto the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. {TYNDALE: And the LORD did to me again, according to my righteousness, and after my pureness that I had in his sight.}

I am clean forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; I am become like a broken vessel.

Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, who did also eat my bread, hath lift up his heel against me.

The LORD hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him.

{To the Chanter, Michtam of David} If your minds be upon righteousness in deed, then judge the thing that is right, O ye sons of men.

He turned the sea into dry land, so that they went through the water on foot; there did we rejoice thereof.

Kings with their armies did flee, and were discomfited; and they of the household divided the spoil.

The LORD hath said, "I will bring my people again, as I did from Bashan; mine own will I bring again, as I did sometimes from the deep of the sea,

When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.

Marvelous things did he in the sight of our forefathers; in the land of Egypt, even in the field of Zoan.

Nevertheless, they did but flatter him with their mouths, and dissembled with him in their tongues.

O how oft did they grieve him in the wilderness? How many a time did they provoke him in the desert?

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the air, and the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the land.

free among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave, which be out of remembrance, and are cut away from thy hand.

Dost thou show wonders among the dead? Can the Physicians raise them up again, that they may praise thee? Selah.

Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness,

These did his tokens among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

and did eat up all the grass in their land, and devoured the fruits of their ground.

They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead.

Many a time did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their own inventions, and were brought down in their wickedness.

He shall be judge among the heathen; he shall fill them with dead bodies, and smite in sunder the heads over divers countries.

The dead praise not thee, O LORD, neither all they that go down into silence.

{Tet} O LORD, thou hast dealt graciously with thy servant, according unto thy word.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book were all my members written, which day by day were fashioned, when as yet there was not one of them.

For the enemy persecuteth my soul; he smiteth my life down to the ground; he layeth me in the darkness, as the dead men of the world.