The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be food unto the fowls of heaven, the flesh of your saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for your name's sake.

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? let him be known among the nations in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;

So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give you thanks forever: we will show forth your praise to all generations.

[To the Chief Musician upon shoshannim- Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph.] Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you that lead Joseph like a flock; you that dwell between the cherubim, shine forth.

O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Restore us, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the nations, and planted it.

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

The boar out of the wood does waste it, and the wild beast of the field does devour it.

Return, we beseech you, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.

Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

Restore us, O LORD God of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm of Asaph.] Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder: I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto you: O Israel, if you will hearken unto me;

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: and their fate should have endured forever.

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.

How long will you judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

[A Psalm or Song of Asaph.] Keep not silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagrites;

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Assyria also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kishon:

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.] How lovely are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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

Who passing through the valley of Baca makes it a well; the rain also fills the pools.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.

O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed.

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.] LORD, you have been favorable unto your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have taken away all your anger: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger.

Restore us, O God of our salvation, and cause your anger toward us to cease.

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

[A Prayer of David.] Bow down your ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Rejoice the soul of your servant: for unto you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon you: for you will answer me.

For great is your mercy toward me: and you have delivered my soul from the depths of sheol.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.

But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give your strength unto your servant, and save the son of your handmaid.

[A Psalm or Song for the Sons of Korah.] His foundation is in the holy mountains.

The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man 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.

[A Song or Psalm for the Sons of Karah. To the Chief Musician upon mahanath leannoth. A maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draws near unto the grave.

Adrift among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.

My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you.

Shall your wonders be known in the dark? and your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

LORD, why cast you off my soul? why hide you your face from me?

Your fierce anger goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.

[A maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.] I will sing of the mercies of the LORD forever: with my mouth will I make known your faithfulness to all generations.

And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O LORD: your faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

For who in the heaven can be compared unto the LORD? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the LORD?

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 you? or to your faithfulness round about you?

You rule the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, you still them.

Righteousness and justice are the habitation of your throne: mercy and truth shall go before your face.

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

For you are the glory of their strength: and in your favor our horn shall be exalted.

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

Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

The enemy shall not outwit him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

He shall cry unto me, You are my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

His descendants also will I make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

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

But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been angry with your anointed.

You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

You have lifted up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.

You have also turned back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.

The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.

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

Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.

[A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.] LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.