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.

LORD you have favored your land and restored the fortunes of Jacob.

Have mercy on me Lord, for I call on you all day long.

All the nations that you have established will come and worship you, my Lord. They will honor your name.

God, arrogant men rise up against me, while a company of ruthless individuals want to kill me. They do not have regard for you.

Return to me and have mercy on me; clothe your servant with your strength and deliver the son of your maid servant.

You have assigned me to the lowest part of the Pit, to the darkest depths.

Why, LORD, have you rejected me? Why have you hidden your face from me?

Since my youth I have been oppressed and in danger of death. I bear your dread and am overwhelmed.

I will declare that your gracious love was established forever; in the heavens itself, you have established your faithfulness.

I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have made a promise to David, my servant.

I have found my servant David; I have anointed him with my sacred oil,

I will not dishonor my covenant, because I will not change what I have spoken.

I have sworn by my holiness once for all: I will not lie to David.

But you have spurned, rejected, and became angry with your anointed one.

You have dishonored the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown on the ground.

You have broken through all his walls; you have laid his fortresses in ruin.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; you have caused all of his enemies to rejoice.

Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword and did not support him in battle.

You have caused his splendor to cease and cast down his throne to the ground.

You have caused the days of his youth to be cut short; you have covered him with shame Interlude

Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

You have set our iniquities before you, what we have concealed in the light of your presence.

Cause us to rejoice throughout the time when you have afflicted us, the years when we have known trouble.

The rivers have flooded, LORD; the rivers have spoken aloud, the rivers have lifted up their crushing waves.

LORD, they have crushed your people, afflicting your heritage.

If the LORD had not been my helper, I would have quickly become silent.

For forty years I loathed that generation, so I said, "They are a people whose hearts continuously err, and they have not understood my ways."

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done awesome deeds! His right hand and powerful arm have brought him victory.

A mighty king who loves justice, you have established fairness. You have exercised justice and righteousness over Jacob.

I will not even think about doing anything lawless; I hate to do evil deeds; I will have none of it.

Withered like grass, my heart is overwhelmed, and I have even forgotten to eat my food.

I have eaten ashes as food and mixed my drink with tears

Mountains rise up and valleys sink to the place you have ordained for them.

You have set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

How numerous are your works, LORD! You have made them all wisely; the earth is filled with your creations.

We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.

He would have destroyed them but for Moses, his chosen one, who stood in the breach before him to avert his destructive wrath.

Therefore, they became unclean because of what they did; they have acted like whores by their evil deeds.

Let those who have been redeemed by the LORD declare it those whom he redeemed from the power of the enemy,

So they rejoiced that the waves became quiet, and he led them to their desired haven.

God, you have rejected us, have you not, since you did not march out with our army, God?

May what they have done be continually in the LORD's presence; and may their memory be excised from the earth.

I have become an object of derision to them they shake their heads whenever they see me.

Then they will realize that your hand is in this that you, LORD, have accomplished it.

They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see.

They have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell.

They have hands, but cannot touch; feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even groan with their throats.

LORD, I am indeed your servant. I am your servant. I am the son of your handmaid. You have released my bonds.

I will praise you because you have answered me and have become my deliverer.

You have commanded concerning your precepts, that they be guarded with diligence.

I have sought you with all of my heart; do not let me drift away from your commands.