Hear my plea for mercy when I cry out to you for help, when I lift my hands toward your holy temple!

The Lord deserves praise, for he has heard my plea for mercy!

I jumped to conclusions and said, "I am cut off from your presence!" But you heard my plea for mercy when I cried out to you for help.

Sing to him a new song! Play skillfully as you shout out your praises to him!

But God will rescue my life from the power of Sheol; certainly he will pull me to safety. (Selah)

I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.

That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.

Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!

O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!

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

They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

As for his people, he turned a desert into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

He raises the poor from the dirt, and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile,

who turned a rock into a pool of water, a hard rock into springs of water!

I love the Lord because he heard my plea for mercy,

May they be like the grass on the rooftops which withers before one can even pull it up,

O Lord, listen to me! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!

I say to the Lord, "You are my God." O Lord, pay attention to my plea for mercy!

A psalm of David. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for help! Because of your faithfulness and justice, answer me!