I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy mountain. Interlude

Sheep and cattle all of them, wild creatures of the field,

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

Then the LORD thundered in the heavens, and the Most High sounded aloud, calling for hail stones and flashes of fire.

Foreigners will wilt away; they will come trembling out of their stronghold.

Deliver me from the mouth of the lion, from the horns of the wild oxen. You have answered me.

He makes them stagger like a calf, even Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.

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.

I once was young and now I am old, but I have not seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread.

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

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?

I called aloud to him and praised him with my tongue.

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

May the earth yield its produce. May God, our God, bless us.

Don't throw me away when I am old; do not abandon me when my strength fails.

Also, when I reach old age and have gray hair, God, do not forsake me, until I have declared your power to this generation and your might to the next one.

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

Then, I was too stupid and didn't realize I was acting like a wild animal with you.

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

Wild boars of the forest gnaw at it, and creatures of the field feed on it.

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.

The LORD will also provide what is good, and our land will yield its produce.

Where is your gracious love of old, Lord, that in your faithfulness you promised to David?

You've grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.

They will still bear fruit even in old age; they will be luxuriant and green.

The rivers have flooded, LORD; the rivers have spoken aloud, the rivers have lifted up their crushing waves.

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,

A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,

They give water for animals of the field to drink; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The high mountains are for wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badger.

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,

He gives wild animals their food, including the young ravens when they cry.

Let high praises to God be heard in their throats, while they wield two-edged swords in their hands