Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving kindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Turn thee to me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

For thy loving-kindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thy honor dwelleth.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my belly.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to thee.

For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

For without cause they have hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as are of upright deportment.

I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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

I am feeble and grievously broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

For innumerable evils have encompassed 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 faileth me.

I said, LORD, be merciful to me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves. My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made thee glad.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

We have thought of thy loving-kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

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.

Gather my saints together to me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving-kindness: according to the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread! they have not called upon God.

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

My heart is severely pained within me: and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

God will hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me.

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

But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth to God.

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.

For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee have fallen upon me.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

By thee have I been sustained from my birth: thou art he that brought me into life: my praise shall be continually of thee.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

For all the day long have I been afflicted, and chastened every morning.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Remember this, the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

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

The stout-hearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints, to the beasts of the earth.

Their blood have they shed like water around Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

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

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling-place.

And render to our neighbors seven-fold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord.

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves to him: and their time should have endured for ever.

He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock I should have satisfied thee.

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the Most High.

For lo, thy enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee,

Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

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

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

O turn to me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength to thy servant, and save the son of thy handmaid.