Your decrees are wonderful that's why I observe them.

Order my steps in thy word; and so shall no wickedness have dominion over me.

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

Let your servant see the shining of your face; give me knowledge of your rules.

The righteousness of your unchanging word is eternal; give me wisdom so that I may have life.

I have called out to you, "Save me, so I may keep your decrees."

In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.

RESH. See mine affliction, and deliver me; for I have not forgotten thy law.

I see [the] treacherous and I feel disgust, because they do not heed your word.

See how I have loved thy precepts: quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy loving-kindness.

Give life to my soul so that it may give you praise; and let your decisions be my support.

A warrior’s sharp arrows
with burning charcoal!

Look! Israel's protector does not sleep or slumber!

so that the sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night.

I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"

where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

For there [the] thrones sit for judgment, thrones of David's house.

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

Our soul is greatly filled
With the scoffing of those who are at ease,
And with the contempt of the proud [who disregard God’s law].

{A Song of degrees of David.} If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

they had swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

Then, had gone over our soul the waters so proud!

We have escaped like a bird from the hunter’s net;
the net is torn, and we have escaped.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land of the righteous,
So that the righteous will not reach out their hands to do wrong.

A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back to the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, 'Jehovah did great things with these.'

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Children are a gift from the LORD; a productive womb, the LORD's reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

How blessed [happy and fortunate] is the man whose quiver is filled with them;
They will not be ashamed
When they speak with their enemies [in gatherings] at the [city] gate.

A song of ascents. How blessed is every one of the Lord's loyal followers, each one who keeps his commands!

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

See how the man will be blessed who fears the LORD.

The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.

{A Song of degrees.} Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

not enough to fill one's hand or to bundle in one's arms.

Neither do they which go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

But with you [is] forgiveness, so that you may be feared."

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

O Lord, remember on David’s behalf
All his hardship and affliction;

Let's go to his dwelling place and worship at his footstool.

For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.

"This is my resting place forever. Here I will live, because I desire to do so.

There I will make David strong; I have determined that my chosen king's dynasty will continue.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

It is like the dew of Hermon falling on Zion's mountains. For there the LORD commanded his blessing life everlasting. A Song of Ascents

A song of ascents.Now praise the Lord,
all you servants of the Lord
who stand in the Lord’s house at night!

you who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of our God's house.

Whatsoever the LORD pleaseth that doeth he in heaven and in earth; in the sea, and in all deep places.

Thy name, O LORD, endureth forever; so doth thy memorial, O LORD, from one generation to another.

For the Lord will be judge of his people's cause; his feelings will be changed to his servants.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

O house of Israel, bless and praise the Lord [with gratitude];
O house of Aaron, bless the Lord;

To him spreading the earth upon the sea: for his mercy is forever.

To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever:

But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever.

How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?

Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom,
The day of [the fall of] Jerusalem,
Who said “Down, down [with her]
To her very foundation.”

I will worship toward Your holy temple, and praise Your name for Your loving-kindness and for Your truth's sake; for You have magnified Your Word above all Your name.

and they will sing of the ways of Yahweh, because Yahweh's glory [is] great.

If Jehovah is high, and he will see the humble one: and the lofty one he will know from far off.

You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as is darkness so is light.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

I will count them; they shall be multiplied above the sand of the sea: I awoke, and I am yet with thee.

If only you would kill the wicked, O God-- so get away from me, [you] {bloodthirsty men}--

For they will say to thee for mischief; thine enemies were lifted up for vanity.

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

I say to Yahweh, "You [are] my God." Listen, O Yahweh, to the voice of my supplications.

Never grant, LORD, the desires of the wicked; never condone their plans so they cannot exalt themselves. Interlude

Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

Let the righteous [thoughtfully] strike (correct) me—it is a kindness [done to encourage my spiritual maturity].
It is [the choicest anointing] oil on the head;
Let my head not refuse [to accept and acknowledge and learn from] it;
For still my prayer is against their wicked deeds.

Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

Look on my right hand, and see; For there is no man that knoweth me: Refuge hath failed me; No man careth for my soul.

I cry out to you, O Yahweh. I say, "You [are] my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

Free me from prison
so that I can praise Your name.
The righteous will gather around me
because You deal generously with me.

And [so] my spirit grows faint within me; my heart {within} me is desolate.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don't hide your face from me, so that I don't become like those who go down into the pit.

Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.

LORD, what is man, that thou hast such respect unto him? Or the son of man, that thou so regardest him?

O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.

Send Your hand from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of a foreigner's sons;

so that our sons may be like plants grown up in their youth; and our daughters may be like corner-stones, polished like a palace building;

How blessed are the people who are so situated;
How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

{David's Psalm of praise.} I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised,
And His greatness is [so vast and profound as to be] unsearchable [incomprehensible to man].

so that men shall speak of the might of thy marvelous acts, and tell of thy greatness.