My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Neither do they who go by say, The blessing of the LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

If you, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

[A song of ascents.] Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.

Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast.

Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants.

Who struck great nations, and slew mighty kings;

Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise you the LORD.

To him who alone does great wonders: for his mercy endures forever.

To him who divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endures forever:

To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures forever.

To him who struck great kings: for his mercy endures forever:

Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endures forever:

Who gives food to all flesh: for his mercy endures forever.

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewards you as you have served us.

Who imagine evil in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.

Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my paths.

[A Psalm of David.] Blessed be the LORD my strength, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdues my people under me.

It is he that gives salvation unto kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that is therein: who keeps truth forever:

Who executes justice for the oppressed: who gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:

Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.

He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked;

Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

To deliver you from the immoral woman, even from the seductress who flatters with her words;

Who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Who having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

That they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.

To call those who pass by who go right on their ways:

He becomes poor who has a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who is without discretion.

He who loves transgression loves strife: and he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger: and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.

He that goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets: therefore associate not with him who flatters with his lips.

Proud and haughty scoffer is his name, who deals in arrogant pride.

Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?

For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knows the ruin of them both?

Every man shall kiss his lips who gives a right answer.

For better it is that it be said unto you, Come up here; than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince whom your eyes have seen.

As a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

Take his garment who is surety for a stranger, and hold it as a pledge of him for an immoral woman.

Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Who has ascended up into heaven, or descended? who has gathered the wind in his fists? who has bound the waters in a garment? who has established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you can tell?

Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

A greyhound; a male goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all who are left desolate.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

For who can eat, or who else can have enjoyment, more than I?

Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his lot: for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?

Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Yea, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no longer be admonished.

I considered all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his place.

And this also is a great evil, that just as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.

For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, who knows to walk before the living?

For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

Wisdom strengthens the wise more than ten mighty men who are in the city.

That which is far off, and exceedingly deep, who can find it out?

Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What are you doing?

For he knows not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the holy place, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, who fear before him:

There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are just men, unto whom it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is one who neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes:)

Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all the days of your vanity: for that is your portion in this life, and in your labor which you perform under the sun.

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

As you know not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so you know not the works of God who makes all.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw you him whom my soul loves?

It was but a little after I passed by them, when I found him whom my soul loves: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Who is this that comes out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

Who is she that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?

I would lead you, and bring you into my mother's house, who had instructed me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bore you.

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.