I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within 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.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had favor unto them.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

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

Will not you, O God, who had cast us off? and you, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had shown them.

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the grain of heaven.

How he had worked his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they could not drink.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.

They forgot God their savior, who had done great things in Egypt;

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

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not turned from your law.

This I had, because I kept your precepts.

They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not your precepts.

Unless your law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: