Deliver the poor and needy: deliver them from 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, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.

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

A song, or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy 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 Hagarenes;

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

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

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

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 amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

My soul longeth, and even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

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

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth 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 thy anointed.

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

O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favorable to thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

Thou hast taken away all thy wrath; thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thy anger.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thy anger towards 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 thy ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.

Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for to thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

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

In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

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

But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious; long-suffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

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

A Psalm or Song for the sons of Korah. His foundation is in the holy mountains.

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

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

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Cush; 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 Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

My eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands to thee.

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

LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

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

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

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence by all them that are about him.

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

Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when its waves arise, thou stillest them.

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world, and the fullness of it, thou hast founded them.

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

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

For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favor our horn shall be exalted.

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

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

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

He shall cry to me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.

Also I will make him my first-born, higher than the kings of the earth.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, 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 hath gone out of my lips.

But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thy anointed.

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

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

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

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

A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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

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

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Only with thy eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

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:

For lo, thy enemies, O LORD, for lo, thy enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

My eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

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

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

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

Yet they say, The LORD will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard it.

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

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

That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?