In you, LORD, I have taken refuge. Let me never be ashamed. Because you are righteous, deliver me!

Into your hands I commit my spirit; for you have redeemed me, LORD God of truth.

I despise those who trust vain idols; but I have trusted in the LORD.

You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy, but you have set my feet in a sturdy place.

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body.

My life is consumed by sorrow, my years with groaning. My strength has faltered because of my iniquity; my bones have been consumed.

I have become an object of reproach to all my enemies, especially to my neighbors. I have become an object of fear to my friends, and whoever sees me outside runs away from me.

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

Let me not be ashamed, LORD, for I have called upon you. Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in the next life.

How great is your goodness that you have reserved for those who fear you, that you have set in place for those who take refuge in you, in the presence of the children of men.

When I said in my panic, "I have been cut off in your sight," then you surely heard the voice of my prayer in my plea to you for help.

The wicked have many sorrows, but gracious love surrounds those who trust in the LORD.

Indeed, our heart will rejoice in him, because we have placed our trust in his holy name.

A righteous person will have many troubles, but the LORD will deliver him from them all.

Don't let them say in their hearts, "Yes! We got what we wanted." Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up."

There, those who do evil have fallen; They have been thrown down, and they cannot get up. Davidic

Better is the little that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked people.

They will not experience shame in times of trouble; in times of famine they will have plenty.

I once was young and now I am old, but I have not seen a righteous person forsaken or his descendants begging for bread.

The LORD helps and delivers them; he will deliver them from the wicked, and he will save them because they have sought refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm: As a Reminder.

because your arrows have sunk deep into me, and your hand has come down hard on me.

My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.

My wounds have putrefied and festered because of my foolishness.

Indeed, I have become like a man who hears nothing, and in whose mouth there is no rebuke.

Because I have placed my hope in you, LORD, you will answer, Lord, my God.

Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude

How long, LORD, will I wait expectantly? I have placed my hope in you.

Stop scourging me, since I have been crushed by your heavy hand.

LORD, my God, You have done great things: marvelous works and your thoughts toward us. There is no one who compares to you! I will try to recite your actions, even though there are too many to number.

You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings you have prepared my ears to listen you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.

Then I said, "Here I am! I have come! In the scroll of the book it is written about me.

In the great congregation I have proclaimed the righteous good news. Behold, I did not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.

I have not ignored your righteousness in my heart; instead, I have proclaimed your faithfulness and deliverance. I have not concealed your gracious love and truthfulness from the great congregation.

Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.

As for me, I said, "LORD, be gracious to me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you!"

My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?"

I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"

Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"

All this came upon us, yet we did not forsake you, and we have not dealt falsely with your covenant;

Our hearts have not turned away; our steps have not swerved from your path.

For we have collapsed in the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

My heart is overflowing with good news; I speak what I have composed to the king; my tongue is like the pen of an articulate scribe.

All your clothes are scented with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

The nobles among the nations have joined the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted. A song: Lyrics by the Sons of Korah.

Just as we have heard, so have we seen; in the city of the LORD of the heavenly armies even in the city of our God God will establish her forever. Interlude

God, we have meditated on your gracious love in the midst of your Temple.

Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

"Assemble before me, my saints, who have entered into my covenant by sacrifice."

Consider this, you who have forgotten God Otherwise, I will tear you in pieces and there will be no deliverer:

Have mercy, God, according to your gracious love, according to your unlimited compassion, erase my transgressions.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done what was evil in your sight. As a result, you are just in your pronouncement and clear in your judgment.

Let me know joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

All of them have fallen away; together they have become corrupt; no one does what is good, not even one.

For the arrogant have arisen against me; oppressors have sought to take my life. They do not keep God in mind! Interlude

for he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have seen the end of my enemies. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic instruction.

My heart is trembling within me, and the terrors of death have assaulted me.

Fear and trembling have overwhelmed me, and horror has covered me.

Confound them, Lord, and confuse their speech, because I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it is not an enemy who insults me I could have handled that nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me I could have hidden myself from him

Have mercy on me, God, because men have harassed me. Those who oppress me have fought against me all day long.

Those who watch me all day have harassed me, for there are many who fight against me out of conceit.

You have kept count of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle have not you recorded them in your book?

God, I have taken vows before you; therefore I will offer thanksgiving sacrifices to you.

For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living! To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy," when he fled from Saul into a cave.

Have mercy on me, God, have mercy, for in you I have placed my trust. Even in the shadow of your wings will I find my refuge until this calamity passes.

They have set a snare for my feet, which makes me depressed. They dug a pit in front of me, but they are the ones who fell into it! Interlude

But I will sing of your power and in the morning I will shout for joy about your gracious love. For you have been a fortress for me; and a refuge when I am distressed.

God, you have cast us off; you have breached our defenses and you have become enraged. Return to us!

But you have given a banner to those who fear you, so they may display it in honor of truth. Interlude

For you have been a refuge for me, a tower of strength before the enemy.

For you, God, have heard my promises; you have assigned to me the heritage of those who fear your name.

So I have looked for you in the sanctuary, to behold your power and glory.

For you have been my strength, and in the shadow of your wings I will shout for joy.

They devise wicked schemes, saying, "We have completed our plans, hiding them deep in our hearts."

You take care of the earth, you water it, and you enrich it greatly with the river of God that overflows with water. You provide grain for them, for you have ordained it this way.

You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.

You have led us into a trap and set burdens on our backs.

that your feet may wade through blood. The tongues of your dogs will have their portions from your enemies."

They have observed your processions, God, the processions of my God, my king, in the sanctuary.

Summon the power of your God, the power, God, that you have shown us.

I am sinking in deep mire, and there is no solid ground. I have come into deep water, and the flood overwhelms me.

For they persecute those whom you have struck, and they brag about the pain of those you have wounded.

I have become an example to many that you are my strong refuge.

Also, when I reach old age and have gray hair, God, do not forsake me, until I have declared your power to this generation and your might to the next one.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you, whose life you have redeemed.

He will have compassion on the poor and the needy, and he will save the lives of the needy.

Then they say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"

You have certainly set them in slippery places; you will make them fall to their ruin.

Whom do I have in heaven but you? I desire nothing on this earth.

As for me, how good for me it is that God is near! I have made the Lord GOD my refuge so I can tell about all your deeds. An instruction of Asaph

Why, God? Have you rejected us forever? Your anger is burning against the sheep of your pasture.

You have led your people like a flock by the hands of Moses and Aaron. An instruction of Asaph

things that we have heard and known and that our ancestors related to us.

They have forgotten what he has done, his awesome deeds that they witnessed.

God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

Don't charge us for previous iniquity, but let your compassion come quickly to us, for we have been brought very low.

You have set us at strife against our neighbors and our enemies deride us.

May you support the man at your right hand; the son of man whom you have raised for yourself.

You must neither have a foreign god over you or worship a strange god.