You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel.

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.

May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

Let his kingdom be from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.

He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.

He will keep their souls free from evil designs and violent attacks; and their blood will be of value in his eyes.

May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders.

Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.

The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.

Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

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

Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.

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

How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

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

My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.

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

Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

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.

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.

To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.

When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)

I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

But I will ever be full of joy, making songs of praise to the God of Jacob.

By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.

In Judah is the knowledge of God; his name is great in Israel,

There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.)

You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.

Gone is the wealth of the strong, their last sleep has overcome them; the men of war have become feeble.

At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.

You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

When God took his place as judge, for the salvation of the poor on the earth. (Selah.)

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He puts an end to the wrath of rulers; he is feared by the kings of the earth.

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not 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.

Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.

I will keep in mind the works of Jah: I will keep the memory of your wonders in the past.

I will give thought to all your work, while my mind goes over your acts of power.

You are the God who does works of power: you have made your strength clear to the nations.

With your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.)

The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

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.

He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

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

They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

He did great works before the eyes of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.

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

He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

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

And he sent down manna like rain for their food, and gave them the grain of heaven.

Man took part in the food of strong ones; he sent them meat in full measure.

He sent down meat on them like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the sea,

The wrath of God came on them, and put to death the fattest of them, and put an end to the young men of Israel.

But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

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 had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;

He sent different sorts of flies among them, poisoning their flesh; and frogs for their destruction.

He gave the increase of their fields to worms, the fruits of their industry to the locusts.

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

He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.

He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;

Driving out nations before them, marking out the line of their heritage, and giving the people of Israel their tents for a resting-place.

And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.

Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

And he put the tent of Joseph on one side, and took not the tribe of Ephraim;

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

He took David to be his servant, taking him from the place of the flocks;