And he was as a tree planted by the streams of water which will give its fruit in its time; his leaf shall not fall away, and all which he shall do shall be prospered.

I was crying to the Lord with my voice,
And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Thou hast put joy in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their new wine was in abundance.

I am weary of my groaning; every night wash I my bed, and water my couch with my tears.

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].

What was weak man, that thou shouldst make mention of him? or the son of the earthborn, that thou shouldst set him in charge?

When he was making inquisition for blood, of them, had he remembrance, he forgat not the outcry of the oppressed.

The nations sank into the pit they made: in the net they hid, their foot was taken by it

And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.

His mouth was filled with cursing and deceit and violence: under his tongue, trouble and vanity.

The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because Jehovah was his refuge.

The cords fell to me in sweetnesses; also the inheritance was bountiful upon me.

Yahweh, was my mountain crag and my stronghold, and my deliverer: My GOD, was my rock, I sought refuge in him, My shield, and my horn of salvation, my high tower.

I called upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies.

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering [was] a darkness of waters, {thick clouds}.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

He brought me out into a broad place;
He rescued me because He was pleased with me and delighted in me.

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

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

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

Also withhold thy servant from arrogant things; they shall not rule over me: then shall I be blameless, and I was acquitted from much transgression.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.

My strength was dried up as the potsherd, and my tongue cleaving to my jaws; and thou wilt set me for the dust of death.

For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it upon floods.

Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

For sake of thy name, O Jehovah, and thou forgavest to mine iniquity; for it was much.

I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

To David. To thee, O Jehovah, will I call, my rock; thou wilt not be silent from me: lest thou wilt be silent from me and I was made like with them going down to the pit

Jehovah is my strength and my shield; my heart confided in him, and I was helped: therefore my heart exulteth, and with my song will I praise him.

The voice of the LORD was heard above the waters; the God of glory thundered; the LORD was heard over many waters.

Yahweh, at the Flood, was seated, And Yahweh hath taken his seat, as king, unto times age-abiding.

When I was secure, I said,
“I will never be shaken.”

LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

I will indeed exult and rejoice, in thy lovingkindness, - In that thou hast looked upon my humiliation, thou hast taken note that in distresses was my life;

For my life was finished in sorrow, and my years in sighing: my strength was weak in mine iniquity, and my bones fell away.

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

I was forgotten as the dead from the heart: I was a vessel perishing.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

But as for me, I trust [confidently] in You and Your greatness, O Lord;
I said, “You are my God.”

Blessed be the Lord,
For He has shown His marvelous favor and lovingkindness to me [when I was assailed] in a besieged city.

And I said in my hasty flight; I was cut off from before thine eyes: yet thou heardest the voice of my supplications in my crying to thee.

If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

He loved justice and judgment: the earth was filled with the mercy of Jehovah.

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

The king was not saved by much strength: the strong one will not be delivered by much power.

The horse was false to salvation, and he shall not deliver by the multitude of his strength.

I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.

He watched all his bones: one of them was not broken.

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

I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Yet a little, and no unjust one thou didst mark upon his place, and he was not

I was a youth, but I am [now] old; yet I have not seen [the] righteous forsaken or his children {begging for} bread.

For Jehovah love's judgment, and he will not forsake his godly ones; forever they were watched, and the seed of the unjust was cut off.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.

I was moved, I was even greatly bowed down: all the day I went darkened.

I was languid and crushed even greatly: I roared from the groaning of my heart

O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Remove from me thy stroke: I was finished from the contention of thy hand.

When, by rebukes for iniquity, thou hast corrected a man, Then hast thou consumed, as a moth, all that was delightful within him, Surely, a breath, are all men. Selah.

When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.

Then I said, Behold, I came: in the volume of the book it was written concerning me.

For evils even not being numbered encompassed about me: mine inquities overtook me, and I was not able to see; they were numerous above the hairs of my head, and my heart forsook me.

Even my own close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me [betraying me].

I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.

You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand;
Then you planted and established them (Israel);
[It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them.

For our soul was bowed down to the dust: our belly was glued to the earth.

Thou wert very beautiful above the sons of man: grace was poured forth by thy lips: for this God praised thee forever.

The nobles of the peoples were gathered together, the people of the God. of Abraham: for to God the shields of the earth: he was lifted up greatly.

Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and [people] will praise you when you do well for yourself--

When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;

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

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done what was evil in your sight. As a result, you are just in your pronouncement and clear in your judgment.

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul: "David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech." Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God's loyal love protects me all day long!

"Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others."

God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.