You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,
But the Lord is his refuge.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord restores His captive people,
Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.”

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

Would not God find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.

“If I were hungry I would not tell you,
For the world is Mine, and all it contains.

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.

“Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his evil desire.”

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores His captive people,
Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

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

“Behold, I would wander far away,
I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.

“I would hasten to my place of refuge
From the stormy wind and tempest.”

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;
What I did not steal, I then have to restore.

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

“Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you;
O Israel, if you would listen to Me!

“Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!

“I would quickly subdue their enemies
And turn My hand against their adversaries.

“Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.

“But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside.
I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

If the Lord had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

For He is our God,
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you would hear His voice,

Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Therefore He swore to them
That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

And that He would cast their seed among the nations
And scatter them in the lands.

Many times He would deliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,
And so sank down in their iniquity.

If Your law had not been my delight,
Then I would have perished in my affliction.

Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their anger was kindled against us;

Then the waters would have engulfed us,
The stream would have swept over our soul;

Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”

If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand.
When I awake, I am still with You.

O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.