For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

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

{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.

Ye sons of men, till when is my glory to be put to shame? How long will ye love vanity, will ye seek after a lie? Selah.

But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

Be angry, yet do not sin. Think about this when upon your beds, and be silent. Interlude

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than they have when their grain and their new wine are increased.

And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when?

When, the assembly of peoples, gather round thee, then, above it - on high, do thou return!

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

when they prayed: "Have mercy on me, Lord! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Break the arm of the wicked and evil man; so that when you seek out his wickedness you will find it no more.

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

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Lest mine enemy shall say, I prevailed against him; mine adversaries shall exult when I shall be moved.

I will sing praises to the Lord when he vindicates me.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

When you probe my heart, and examine me at night; when you refine me, you will find nothing wrong, for I have determined that I will not transgress with my mouth.

When thou holdest my goings in thy paths, my footsteps slip not.

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

For the music director; by the Lord's servant David, who sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul. He said: "I love you, Lord, my source of strength!

In my distress [when I seemed surrounded] I called upon the Lord
And cried to my God for help;
He heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry for help came before Him, into His very ears.

They prevented me in the day of my trouble, but the LORD was my upholder. {TYNDALE: When they had compassed me in the day of my tribulation, the LORD stayed me up.}

From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

For the music director; a psalm of David. May the Lord answer you when you are in trouble; may the God of Jacob make you secure!

Save, LORD: let the king hear us when we call.

You will make them burn
like a fiery furnace when you appear;
the Lord will engulf them in His wrath,
and fire will devour them.

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

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 in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

Also -- when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff -- they comfort me.

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.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Even when an army is deployed against me, I do not fear. Even when war is imminent, I remain confident.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

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

Lord, when You showed Your favor,
You made me stand like a strong mountain;
when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

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.

Lord, do not let me be disgraced when I call on You.
Let the wicked be disgraced;
let them be silent in Sheol.

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

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

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

When the LORD looks down from heaven, he observes every human being.

Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you. By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

{A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.} I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

When the righteous cry [for help], the Lord hears
And rescues them from all their distress and troubles.

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.

But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
they gathered against me.
Assailants I did not know
tore at me and did not stop.

When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, even when his iniquity is found to be hateful.

By David. Do not fret when wicked men seem to succeed! Do not envy evildoers!

They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

The steps of a [good and righteous] man are directed and established by the Lord,
And He delights in his way [and blesses his path].

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

The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

But then he passed away; in fact, he simply was not there. When I looked for him, he could not be found.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

I told myself, "I will keep watch over my tongue to keep from sinning. I will muzzle my mouth when the wicked are around."

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

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

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

Blessed is the one who is considerate of the destitute; the LORD will deliver him when the times are evil.

The LORD shall refresh him, when he lieth sick upon his bed, yea thou makest his bed in all his sickness.

Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

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

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

no, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death

All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia, when thou comest out of thine ivory palaces in thy beautiful glory.

When the king shall desire thy beauty, Surely, he, is thy lord, then bow down to him.

Filled with joy and gladness, they are presented when they enter the king's palace.

Therefore we will not be frightened when the earth roars, when the mountains shake in the depths of the seas,

when its waters roar and rage, when the mountains tremble despite their pride. Interlude

God is within her; she will not be toppled.
God will help her when the morning dawns.

Nations rage, kingdoms topple;
the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

Behold, when the kings assembled together, when they traveled together,

as when an east wind destroyed the ships of Tarshish.

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.

But God shall deliver my soul from the power of hell, when he receiveth me. Selah.

Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;