Surely the sons of men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God; I will seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

when I remember You on my bed and think of You in the night watches.

Because You have been my help, therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.

But those who seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the depths of the earth.

But the king shall rejoice in God; everyone who swears by Him shall glory; but the mouth of those who speak lies shall be stopped.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; guard my life from fear of the enemy.

Hide me from the council of those who injure, from the rebelling of the workers of iniquity,

They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

They search out injustice, saying, We have finished hiding a hidden plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall in wisdom think of His doing.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm and Song of David. To You silence is praise, O God, in Zion; and to You is a vow paid.

Things of iniquity are mightier than I; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.

Blessed is the one whom You choose, and cause to come near You. He shall dwell in Your courts; we shall be satisfied with the goodness of Your house, of Your holy temple.

By awesome things in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation; who are the hope of all the ends of the earth and the sea, of those far away.

who stills the noise of the sea, the roar of their waves, and the uproar of the peoples.

And the inhabitants of the furthermost places are afraid of Your signs; You make the beginning of the morning and the evening rejoice.

You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it.

You fill its terraces with water; You deepen its furrows; You make it soft with showers; You bless the sprouting of it.

They drop on the pastures of the wilderness; and the little hills gird themselves with joy.

Sing forth the honor of His name; make His praise glorious.

Say to God, How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power, Your enemies pretend obedience to You.

Come and see the works of God; He is awesome in His deeds toward the sons of men.

O bless our God, O peoples, and make the voice of His praise to be heard;

I will offer to You burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear;

Surely God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear Him.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. A Song. Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; also let those who hate Him flee before Him.

As smoke is driven away, You drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish in the presence of God.

In His holy dwelling God is the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows.

The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God; Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

The Lord gave the Word; the bearers of it were a great army.

Kings of armies fled away; and she who stayed at home divided the plunder.

When you lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of a dove are covered with silver, and its pinions with the shimmer of gold.

The mountain of Bashan is God's mountain; the Bashan range is a mountain of peaks.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands of thousands; the Lord is among them, in Sinai, in the holy place.

Blessed is Jehovah; He daily bears burdens for us, the God of our salvation. Selah.

Our God is the God of salvation; and to Jehovah are the issues of death.

Yea, God shall wound the head of His enemies, and the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt.

The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan; I will bring back My people from the depths of the sea;

so that your foot may be dipped in the blood of your enemies, and the tongue of your dogs in it.

They have seen Your goings, O God; the goings of my God, my King, in the holy place.

O bless God in the congregations, the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

There is little Benjamin with their ruler, the leaders of Judah and their multitude, the leaders of Zebulun, and the leaders of Naphtali.

Because of Your temple in Jerusalem, kings shall bring a present to You.

Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the herd of bulls, with the calves of the peoples, trampling down with the pieces of silver. He scatters the people who delight in war.

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall stretch out her hands to God.

Sing to God, you kingdoms of the earth; O sing praises to the Lord. Selah.

To Him who rides on the heavens of heavens of old; lo, He sends out His voice, a mighty voice.

O God, You are overwhelming out of Your holy places; the God of Israel is He who gives strength and powers to the people. Blessed is God.

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! for the waters have come in on my soul.

They who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they who would destroy me are mighty, my lying enemies. Then I restored what I did not take away.

Do not let those who wait on You, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, be ashamed for my sake; let not the ones who seek You be ashamed for my sake, O God of Israel,

For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me.

They who sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Jehovah, in a pleasing time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercy hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink; let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth on me.

Hear me, O Jehovah, for Your loving-kindness is good; turn to me according to the multitude of Your tender mercies.

Draw near my soul, and redeem it; deliver me because of my enemies.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to mourn with me, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Pour out Your wrath on them, and let the glow of Your anger take hold of them.

For they persecute him whom You have stricken, and they talk to the grief of those You pierced.

Let them be blotted out of the Book of Life, and not be written with the righteous.

I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; so that they may dwell there, and possess it.

And the seed of His servants shall inherit it, and they who love His name shall dwell in it.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Jehovah.

Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame, those who say, Aha, aha!

Be a rock of refuge for me, to which I may always go; You have commanded to save me; for You are my Rock and my Fortress.

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

On You I have rested from the womb; You are He who took me out of my mother's bowels; my praise always shall be of You.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.

Let them be ashamed; let those who are enemies of my soul be consumed; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, those who seek my hurt.

I will go in the strength of the Lord Jehovah; I will speak of Your righteousness, of Yours alone.

who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up.

I will also praise You with a harp. O my God, I will sing Your truth; to You I will sing with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.

A Psalm of Solomon. Give the King Your judgments, O God, and Your righteousness to the King's son.

He shall judge the poor of the people; He shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush in pieces the cruel one.

In His days the righteous shall flourish; and abundance of peace, until the moon is not.

He shall also have the rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

He shall have pity on the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy.

And He shall live, and to Him shall be given the gold of Sheba; and prayer shall always be made for Him; He shall bless Him all the day long.

There shall be a fullness of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains; its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

Blessed is Jehovah God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to the pure of heart.

For I was jealous of the proud, when I saw the peace of the wicked.

They scoff and speak in malice of cruelty; from on high they speak.

Therefore His people return here, and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would deceive a generation of Your sons.

until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end.

My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my heart, and my part forever.

An Instruction of Asaph. O God, have You cast us off forever? Will Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed; this mount Zion in which You have dwelt.

Your enemies roar in the midst of Your congregation; they set up their own banners for signs.

They have cast fire into Your sanctuary; they have defiled the dwelling-place of Your name to the ground.