For the LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds are foul and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under you.

The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

My heart is greatly pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they are many that fight against me, O most High.

Every day they twist my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

You number my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?

Your vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto you.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops its ear;

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Behold, they bellow out with their mouths: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, does hear?

Let them wander up and down for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, are deep.

By awesome deeds in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who is the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your signs: you make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with grain; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Say unto God, How awesome are you in your works! through the greatness of your power shall your enemies submit themselves unto you.

God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

O God, you are awesome out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: they that would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

O God, you know my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from you.

For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen upon me.

You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.

But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Be my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.

For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth.

By you have I been upheld from birth: you are he that took me out of my mother's womb: my praise shall be continually of you.

I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.

My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

For there are no pains in their death: but their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Therefore his people return here: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

For, lo, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go after idols, departing from you.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

The earth and all inhabitants are dissolved: I hold up the pillars of it. Selah.

You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

The stouthearted are plundered, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might can lift their hands.

At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?

You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people.

Your way is in the sea, and your path in the great waters, and your footsteps are not known.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily precede us: for we are brought very low.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you; according to the greatness of your power preserve you those that are appointed to die;

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

That men may know that you, whose name alone is the LORD, are the most high over all the earth.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.] How lovely are your tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising you. Selah.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the ways to them.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and abundant in mercy unto all them that call upon you.

Among the gods there is none like unto you, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto your works.

For you are great, and do wondrous things: you are God alone.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.

But you, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy and truth.

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in you.

Adrift among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom you remember no more: and they are cut off from your hand.