Lord, why have you sent away my soul? why is your face covered from me?

I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.

Thy fierce wrath is gone over me; Thy terrors have cut me off.

They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,

Thou hast put far from me lover and friend, Mine acquaintance is the place of darkness!

For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

and the heavens confess Thy wonders, O Jehovah, Thy faithfulness also is in an assembly of holy ones.

For who in the skies can be compared unto Jehovah? Who among the sons of the mighty is like unto Jehovah,

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.

O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.

Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I have discovered David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him as king.

With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.

The enemy shall not use force on him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.

And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

But You have cast off and rejected us; You have been angry with Your anointed.

All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight.

You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)

Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

Blessed is Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation,

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Turn back toward us, O Lord! How long must this suffering last? Have pity on your servants!

O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

May your awesome deeds be revealed to your servants, as well as your splendor to their children.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually,

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper
And from the deadly pestilence.

He will cover thee with his pinions, And under his wings shalt thou take refuge: His truth is a shield and a buckler.

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

You will only [be a spectator as you] look on with your eyes
And witness the [divine] repayment of the wicked [as you watch safely from the shelter of the Most High].

Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

Because he is lovingly devoted to Me,
I will deliver him;
I will protect him because he knows My name.

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.

{A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.} It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

It is fitting to proclaim your loyal love in the morning, and your faithfulness during the night,

A man that is brutish, cannot know, And, dullard, cannot discern this: -

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil.

The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.

Such as be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

They shall yet sprout in old as; they shall be fat and green.

To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Thy testimonies have been very stedfast, To Thy house comely is holiness, O Jehovah, for length of days!

O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

Rise up, O Judge of the earth. Repay upon the proud what is [their] rightful due.

How long will sinners, O Lord, how long will sinners have joy over us?

Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

He who is instructing nations, Doth He not reprove? He who is teaching man knowledge is Jehovah.

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

If the Lord had not been my help,
I would soon have dwelt in [the land of] silence.

If I say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Sing to Yahweh, a song that is new, Sing to Yahweh, all the earth;

For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

As for all the gods of the Heathen, they are but Idols, but it is the LORD that made the heavens. {TYNDALE: For all the gods of the heathen are Idols; But the LORD made the heavens.}

Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.