You would frustrate the plans of the oppressed, but the LORD is their refuge.

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me attackers whom I did not know. They tore me apart and would not stop.

You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude

wouldn't God find out since he knows the secrets of the heart?

for it would cost too much to redeem his life, and the payments would go on forever

"If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine along with everything in it.

Indeed, you do not delight in sacrifices, or I would give them, nor do you desire burnt offerings.

Would that Israel's deliverance come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic instruction, when the Ziphites came and told Saul, "David is hiding among us, is he not?"

How long will you rage against someone? Would you attack him as if he were a leaning wall or a tottering fence?

Were I to cherish iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not listen to me.

If I say, "I will talk like this," I would betray a generation of your children.

He led them to safety so they would not fear. As for their enemies, the sea covered them.

Listen, My people and I will warn you. Israel, if only you would obey me!

If only my people would obey me, if only Israel would walk in my ways!

Then I would quickly subdue their enemies. I would turn against their foes.

for a day in your Temple courts is better than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather stand at the entrance of God's house than live in the tent of wickedness.

If the LORD had not been my helper, I would have quickly become silent.

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the flock in his care. If only you would listen to his voice today,

so they would declare the name of the LORD in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem,

He would have destroyed them but for Moses, his chosen one, who stood in the breach before him to avert his destructive wrath.

So he swore an oath concerning them that he would cause them to die in the wilderness,

It was for my good that I was humbled; so that I would learn your statutes.

Had your instruction not been my pleasure, I would have died in my affliction.

then they would have devoured us alive, when their anger burned against us.

Then the flood waters would have overwhelmed us, the torrent would have flooded over us;

the swollen waters would have swept us away.

Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you.

God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me,