Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

For my heart will be embittered, and my loins were hard.

So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

You will guide me with Your counsel,
And afterward receive me to honor and glory.

Whom have I in heaven [but You]?
And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have made the Lord God my refuge and placed my trust in Him,
That I may tell of all Your works.

O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
Remember Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;
The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];
They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].

They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees.

Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have profaned the dwelling place of Your name.

They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned down every place throughout the land
where God met with us.

We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?
Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand [from judging the enemy]?
Remove Your hand from Your chest, destroy them!

You divided the [Red] Sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

Remember this, O Lord, the enemy has scoffed,
And a foolish and impious people has spurned Your name.

Oh, do not hand over the soul of your turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Let not the oppressed return dishonored;
Let the afflicted and needy praise Your name.

Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man scoffs at You all day long.

Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually [to Your ears].

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.} Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

I say to the boastful, 'Do not boast!' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up [your] horn!

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness -- is elevation.

since God is the judge. This one he will debase or that one he will exalt.

And all horns of the wicked I cut off, Exalted are the horns of the righteous!

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.} In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

There He broke the flaming arrows,
The shield, the sword, and the weapons of war. Selah.

You are glorious and resplendent,
More majestic than the mountains of prey.

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

You, even You, are to be feared [with the submissive wonder of reverence];
Who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

From heaven you gave your decision; the earth, in its fear, gave no sound,

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

{To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.} I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.

I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

I will [solemnly] remember the deeds of the Lord;
Yes, I will [wholeheartedly] remember Your wonders of old.

I will meditate on all Your works
And thoughtfully consider all Your [great and wondrous] deeds.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

You are the [awesome] God who works [powerful] wonders;
You have demonstrated Your power among the people.

You have with Your [great] arm redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

The clouds poured down water;
The skies sent out a sound [of rumbling thunder];
Your arrows (lightning) flashed here and there.

The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;
The lightnings illumined the world;
The earth trembled and shook.

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

You led Your people like a flock
By the hand of Moses and Aaron [to the promised goal].

{Maschil of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

The sons of Ephraim were armed as archers and carrying bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided].

The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

because they did not believe God
or rely on His salvation.

And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open;

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;

How He worked His miracles in Egypt
And His wonders in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided],

So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones,
And their flocks and herds to thunderbolts.

And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever.

From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.