I am counted among those who go down to the pit (grave);
I am like a man who has no strength [a mere shadow],

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.

Your wrath has rested heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

My eyes are worn out from crying.
Lord, I cry out to You all day long;
I spread out my hands to You.

Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

Your fierce wrath has swept over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.

They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

Lover and associate hast thou put far from me: my familiar friends are darkness.

I will sing of the goodness and lovingkindness of the Lord forever;
With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.

For I have said, “Goodness and lovingkindness will be built up forever;
In the heavens [unchangeable and majestic] You will establish Your faithfulness.”

I will establish your seed forever
And I will build up your throne for all generations.” Selah.

The heavens (angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord,
Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

For whom, in the skies, can one compare unto Yahweh? Or can one liken unto Yahweh, among the sons of the mighty?

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?

You are ruling the surging of the sea. When its waves rise, {you yourself still} them.

You have crushed Rahab (Egypt) like one who is slain;
You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

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

The north and the south, You have created them;
Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

You have a strong arm;
Mighty is Your hand, Your right hand is exalted.

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

Blessed and happy are the people who know the joyful sound [of the trumpet’s blast]!
They walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!

In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted.

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

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

Once You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty [giving him the power to be a champion for Israel];
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

“The enemy will not outwit him,
Nor will the wicked man afflict or humiliate him.

I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

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

“He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

If they break My statutes
And do not keep My commandments,

But I will not withdraw
My faithful love from him
or betray My faithfulness.

“My covenant I will not violate,
Nor will I alter the utterance of My lips.

But [in apparent contradiction of all this] You [the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected;
You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

You have spurned and repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have profaned his crown [by casting it] in the dust.

All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.

Also thou wilt turn hack the edge of his sword, and thou caused him not to rise up in war.

How long, O Lord?
Will You hide Yourself forever?
Will Your wrath burn like fire?

What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants [scorned, insulted, and disgraced];
How I bear in my heart the reproach of all the many peoples,

With which Your enemies have taunted, O Lord,
With which they have mocked the footsteps of Your anointed.

{A Prayer of Moses the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

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.

For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

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

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 understands the power of Your anger? [Who connects this brevity of life among us with Your judgment of sin?]
And Your wrath, [who connects it] with the [reverent] fear that is due You?

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

Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?
Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

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

Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil.

Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants
And Your [glorious] majesty 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.

I will say to Yahweh, "[You are] my refuge and my fortress, my God [in whom] I trust."

He will cover you and completely protect you with His pinions,
And under His wings you will find refuge;
His faithfulness is a shield and a wall.

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

[or the] plague [that] spreads in the darkness, [or the] destruction [that] devastates at noon.

A thousand may fall at your side
And ten thousand at your right hand,
But danger will not come near you.

You will only look with your eyes, and see [the] punishment of [the] wicked.

Because you have made the Lord, [who is] my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

No evil will befall you,
Nor will any plague come near your tent.

For He will command His angels in regard to you,
To protect and defend and guard you in all your ways [of obedience and service].

They will lift you up in their hands,
So that you do not [even] strike your foot against a stone.

You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

{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:

To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning
And Your faithfulness by night,

For You, O Lord, have made me glad by Your works;
At the works of Your hands I joyfully sing.

O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.

But You, Lord, are on high forever.

For behold, Your enemies, O Lord,
For behold, Your enemies will perish;
All who do evil will be scattered.

So hath mine eye descried them who were lying in wait for me, - Of my wicked assailants, mine ears, shall hear.

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

They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;

[They are living memorials] to declare that the Lord is upright and faithful [to His promises];
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

Your throne is established from of old;
You are from everlasting.

The floods are risen, O LORD. The floods have lift up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

With the sounds of many waters, Majestic are the breakers of the sea, Majestic on high, is Yahweh.

Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

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

They crush Your people, O Lord,
And afflict and abuse Your heritage.

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

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

Blessed [with wisdom and prosperity] is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord,
And whom You teach from Your law,

keeping him calm when times are troubled until a pit has been dug for the wicked.

The Lord will not forsake His people
or abandon His heritage,

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

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Unless Jehovah were a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.