He will lie in wait in secret as the lion in her den: he will lie in wait to catch the poor one: he will catch the poor one in drawing him into his net

Save and help and rescue, Lord, for godly people cease to be,
For the faithful vanish from among the sons of men.

And, he, is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, he rejoiceth as a hero to run a race:

O go not far from me then, for trouble is hard at hand, and here is none to help me.

A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

Not a king, can be saved by greatness of force, nor, hero, deliver himself by greatness of strength:

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

For they will wither quickly like the grass,
And fade like the green herb.

“Lord, let me know my [life’s] end
And [to appreciate] the extent of my days;
Let me know how frail I am [how transient is my stay here].

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

Let your wrath be turned away from me, so that I may be comforted, before I go away from here, and become nothing.

Then I said, "Here I am! I have come! In the scroll of the book it is written about me.

I am depressed, so I will pray to you while I am trapped here in the region of the upper Jordan, from Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

The king's daughters are among your honorable women; the queen, dressed in gold from Ophir, has taken her place at your right hand."

Glorious is the King’s daughter within [the palace];
Her robe is interwoven with gold.

In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.

God is in the midst of her [His city], she will not be moved;
God will help her when the morning dawns.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

Trembling, seized them, there, Pangs. like hers who is in travail.

As we have heard, so we have seen, In the city of Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God, God doth establish her -- to the age. Selah.

Walk about Zion, go all around her;
Count her towers,

Consider her ramparts,
Go through her palaces,
That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!

For the choir director. A Davidic Maskil. When Doeg the Edomite went and reported to Saul, telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”Why brag about evil, you hero!
God’s faithful love is constant.

"Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others."

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

Day and night they go around her upon her walls,
And iniquity and mischief are in her midst.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.

Thou waterest her furrows, thou breakest the hard clots thereof, thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.

Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

God, you poured out abundant rain on your inheritance. When Israel was weary, you sustained her.

Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

When Shaddai scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.

Rebuke the beasts [living] among the reeds [in Egypt],
The herd of bulls (the leaders) with the calves of the peoples;
Trampling underfoot the pieces of silver;
He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

Princes and envoys shall come from Egypt;
Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands [with the offerings of submission] to God.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

So shall it be more pleasing to Yahweh than a bullock of the herd, Showing horn and divided hoof.

There is a handful of corn in the earth, On the top of mountains, Shake like Lebanon doth its fruit, And they flourish out of the city as the herb of the earth.

This collection of the prayers of David son of Jesse ends here.

Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance [offered by the irreverent] are [blindly] drunk by them.

And now with axes and hammers they will beat her engravings.

The earth is weak, and all that is therein; but I bear up her pillars. Selah.

The clouds poured out water;
The skies gave forth a sound;
Your arrows flashed here and there.

Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.

When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath;
And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.

{A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah} Her foundations are upon the holy hills;

I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, "This one was born there."

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

Once You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty [giving him the power to be a champion for Israel];
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

For all our days pass away in Your wrath;
We have finished our years like a whispered sigh.

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

Arise, therefore, and have mercy upon Zion, for it is time to have mercy upon her; yea, the time is come.

And why? Thy servants think upon her stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.

The children of your servants will settle down here, and their descendants will live securely in your presence."

He established [the] earth on her foundations, [so that] it will not be moved forever and ever.

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

And it consumeth every herb in their land, And it consumeth the fruit of their ground.

They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord's proclamation to my lord: "Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!"

He makes the barren woman among her household a happy mother of joyful children. Hallelujah!

O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

They have almost destroyed me here on the earth, but I do not reject your precepts.

Here's how! With the sharp arrows of warriors, with arrowheads forged over the hot coals.

Long, hath my soul had her dwelling with him that hateth peace:

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May those who love her prosper!

Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hands of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he have mercy upon us.

Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, And Jehovah is round about His people, From henceforth even unto the age.

Look, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found her in the fields of Jaar.

For the LORD hath chosen Zion, to be a habitation for himself; he hath longed for her.

"This shall be my rest; here will I dwell, for I have a delight therein.

I will bless her victuals with increase, and will satisfy her poor with bread.

I will deck her priests with health, and her saints shall rejoice and sing.

On the poplars in her midst we hang our harps,

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my righthand forget her cunning.

Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom,
The day of [the fall of] Jerusalem,
Who said “Down, down [with her]
To her very foundation.”