Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it would be only to do evil.

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.

Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;

Behold, I would flee afar off, I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah;

I would hasten my escape from the stormy wind, from the tempest.

For it is not an enemy that hath reproached me then could I have borne it; neither is it he that hateth me that hath magnified himself against me then would I have hidden myself from him;

{To the chief Musician. On Jonathelem-rechokim. Of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath.} Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up: all the day long fighting he oppresseth me.

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily.

He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth.

Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.

I would soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

The haters of Jehovah would have come cringing unto him; but their time would have been for ever.

And he would have fed them with the finest of wheat; yea, with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied thee.

And he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood before him in the breach, to turn away his fury, lest he should destroy them.

And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;

And that he would make their seed fall among the nations, and disperse them through the countries.

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

Grant not, O Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah.