O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.

Why dost thou boast thyself of wickedness, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of GOD, lasteth all the day.

Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

All day long they twist my words and say hurtful things;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

And Thou, O Jehovah dost laugh at them, Thou dost mock at all the nations.

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!

From the end of the land unto Thee I call, In the feebleness of my heart, Into a rock higher than I Thou dost lead me.

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

And with Thee, O Lord, is kindness, For Thou dost recompense to each, According to his work!

Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,

Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

A bounteous rain, dost thou shed abroad, O God, upon thine inheritance, When exhausted, thou thyself, hast supported it:

Thy living host, have remained therein, Thou dost provide, in thy bounty, for the humbled ones - O God!

In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually.

Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest -- Thou comfortest me,

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

{An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?

Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it.

Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

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

And they will draw back, and they will transgress as their fathers: they were turned as a bow of deceit

Thou dost make us an object of contention to our neighbours, And, our foes, find mockery for themselves.

A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.

Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,

And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)

Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:

O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.

So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

Show us, O Jehovah, thy kindness, And Thy salvation Thou dost give to us.

In a day of my distress I call Thee, For Thou dost answer me.

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O LORD, there is not one that can do as thou doest.

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou art God.

Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler is His truth.

when your ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, [even] though they had seen my work.

The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.

From Thine indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast lifted me up, And dost cast me down.

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Thou dost give to them -- they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand -- they are satisfied with good.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

They gave way to their evil desires in the waste land, and put God to the test in the dry places.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.

They revile, and Thou dost bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Thy servant doth rejoice.

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill;

DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Keep me from the way of deceit
and graciously give me Your instruction.

The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

May the arrogant become ashamed, because they have subverted me with deceit; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

How many are the days of Thy servant? When dost Thou execute Against my pursuers judgment?

Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit is falsehood.

Streams of tears run down my eyes, because they don't observe your law. TZADI

TZADDI. Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.

I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.

My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.

O Jehovah, deliver my soul from lips of falsehood, from a tongue of deceit.

What shall be given to thee? and what shall be added to thee, thou tongue of deceit?

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

In the day I called, when Thou dost answer me, Thou dost strengthen me in my soul with strength.

Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.

For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.

Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

For Thy name's sake O Jehovah, Thou dost quicken me, In Thy righteousness, Thou bringest out from distress my soul,

Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.

Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'