For I said, Lest they rejoice over me! When my feet were tottering, against me, have they magnified themselves:

And, my foes, are alive - have become strong, - and multiplied are they who hate me for false cause:

Now, therefore, for what have I waited, O My Lord? My hope, is, in thee.

I have told the good-tidings of righteousness in a great convocation, Lo! my lips, do I not restrain, O Yahweh, thou, knowest:

Thy righteousness, have I not hid in the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and thy salvation, have I spoken, I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truthfulness from the great convocation.

For there have closed in upon me, misfortunes beyond number, Mine iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see, They have become more than the hairs of my head, And, my courage, hath forsaken me!

I, said - O Yahweh, show me favour, heal thou my soul, for I have sinned against thee:

And, if he have come to see me, Falsehood, doth he speak, His own heart, gathereth iniquity to itself, he goeth forth, abroad he telleth it.

My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.

With a crushing of my bones, have my adversaries reproached me, - While they keep saying unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us, - The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime:

In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name - unto times age-abiding, will we praise. Selah.

Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:

That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.

Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?

Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.

Myrrh and aloes, cassias, all thy garments, - Out of the palaces of ivory, the tones of strings, have rejoiced thee.

Nations have roared, Kingdoms have tottered, He hath uttered his voice, Earth melteth.

The willing-hearted of the peoples, have gathered themselves together, The people of the God of Abraham; For, to God, belong the shields of the earth, Greatly is he exalted.

Just as we have heard, So, have we see, In the city of Yahweh of hosts, In the city of our God, God himself, will establish her, unto times age-abiding. Selah.

We have thought, O God, upon thy lovingkindness, In the midst of thy temple:

Like sheep - into hades, are they driven, Death shall shepherd them, - And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, Even their form, is to decay, Hades, is all that remaineth of a habitation for him.

Gather yourselves unto me - ye my men of lovingkindness, Who have solemnised my covenant over sacrifice.

Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. Selah.

These things, hast thou done, and I have kept silence, Thou thoughtest that I should really be like thyself, I will convict thee, yea I will set thine offences in order before thine eyes.

Against thee - against thee alone, have I sinned, And, wickedness - in thine eyes, have I done, - That thou mayest, Be justified when thou speakest, - Be clear when thou judgest.

But, I, am like a flourishing olive-tree, in the house of God, I have put confidence in the lovingkindness of God, for times age-abiding and beyond.

The impious hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have acted corruptly, They have wrought abominable perversity, There is none that doeth good: -

They all, have turned back, together have they become tainted, - There is none that doeth good, Not so much as, one!

Are the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? Devouring my people, as they devour food? Upon God, have they not called.

There have they been in great dread where no dread was, Because, God, hath scattered the bones of thy besieger, - Thou hast put him to shame, Because, God, had, rejected, them.

For, aliens, have risen up against me, And, men of violence, have sought my life, They have not set God before them. Selah.

My heart, would writhe within me, And, the terrors of Death, have fallen upon me:

Fear and trembling, would enter me, And there would have overwhelmed me - a horror!

Confuse, O My Lord, divide their speech, For I have seen violence and contention in the city;

So that together have we been wont to find sweetness in counsel, In the house of God, used we to walk in the throng.

At evening and morning and high noon, have I been wont to lament and complain, And he hath heard my voice!

GOD will hear, Yea He will humble them who aforetime sat enthroned . Selah.With whom are no changings, Neither have they revered God.

Mine adversaries have panted all the day, For, many, are fighting with me, loftily.

In God, I wilt praise his cause, - In God, have I trusted, I will not fear, What can flesh do unto me?

They stir up strife - they lie hid, They, mark my steps, - Seeing they have waited for my life.

In God, have I trusted, I will not fear, What can a son of earth do unto me!

Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;

For lo! they have lain in wait for my life, Mighty ones stir up strife against me, Without transgression of mine, and without sin of mine, O Yahweh;

Surely, from his elevation, they have taken counsel to thrust him down, They accept falsehood, - With his mouth, they each of them bless, But, inwardly, they revile. Selah.

One thing, hath God spoken, Two things, there are which I have heard, That, power, belongeth unto God;

Who have sharpened, like a sword, their tongue, Have made ready their arrow - a bitter word;

They strengthen for them a wicked word, They talk of hiding snares, They have said, Who can see them?

They devise perverse things, They have completed the device well devised, Both the intent of each one, and the mind, are unsearchable.

Once let God have shot at them an arrow, Suddenly have appeared their own wounds!

When they were to have ruined another, their tongue smote themselves, All who observe them take flight.

Therefore have all men feared, - And have told the doing of God, And, his work, have considered.

Iniquitous things, have been too strong for me, As for our transgressions, wilt, thou, by propitiation remove them.

Yea the dwellers in the uttermost parts have feared at thy tokens, The goings forth of morning and evening, thou causest to shout for joy.

Earth, will have given her increase, God, our own God, will bless us:

God, is he that causeth the solitary to dwell in a home, That bringeth out prisoners into prosperity, But, the rebellious, have made their habitation in a sunburnt land.

Thy living host, have remained therein, Thou dost provide, in thy bounty, for the humbled ones - O God!

The GOD we have, is a GOD of saving deeds, And, due to Yahweh, My Lord, are escapes from death.

They have seen thy progress O God, The progress of my GOD, my king into the sanctuary:

Save me, O God, For waters have entered as far as the life;

I have sunk in deep swamp, Where there is no place to stand, I have come into abysses of waters, Where a flood hath overflowed me;

I am weary with mine outcry, Parched is my throat, - Mine eyes have become dim, through waiting for my God.

O God, thou, hast known my folly, And, my wrong-doings, from thee, have not been hid.

Let them not be ashamed, through me, Who have waited for thee, O My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, - Let them not be confounded, through me, Who are seeking thee, O God of Israel!

Because, for thy sake, have I borne reproach, Confusion hath covered my face;

One estranged, have I become, to my own brethren, Yea, an alien, to the sons of my own mother;

Because, zeal for thy house, hath eaten me up, And, the reproaches of them who have reproached thee, have fallen upon me.

When I have humbled my soul with fasting, Then hath it turned to my reproach;

When I have made my clothing of sackcloth, Then have I served them for a by-word;

The humbled have seen - they rejoice! Ye seekers of God, let your heart, then, revive;

In thee, O Yahweh, have I sought refuge, May I not be ashamed unto times age-abiding:

Upon thee, have I stayed myself from birth, Thou art he that severed me, from the body of my mother, Of thee, shall be my praise - continually.

A very wonder, have I been unto many, Seeing that, thou, hast been my strong refuge,

For mine enemies have spoken of me, And, they who watch for my life, have taken counsel together;

O God, thou hast taught me from my youthful days, And, hitherto, have I been wont to tell of thy wonders;

Even my tongue, all the day, shall softly utter thy righteousness, For they have turned pale - for they have blushed, Who were seeking my hurt.

So let him have dominion, From sea to sea, And from the River unto the ends of the earth;

For they have no pangs in their death, And vigorous is their body;

Of the toil of weak mortals, have they none, Nor, with the sons of earth, are they hard smitten.

Their iniquity, hath proceeded from fatness, They have surpassed the imaginations of the heart;

They have set, in the heavens, their mouth, And, their tongue, marcheth through the earth.

Lo! these, are the lawless, Who are secure for an age, They have attained unto wealth.

Altogether in vain, Have I cleansed my heart, And bathed in pureness, my hands;

How have they become desolate, as in a moment! They have ceased - come to an end, by reason of calamities.

Whom have I in the heavens? And, compared with thee, there is nothing I desire on earth.

Failed have my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart - and my portion, is God unto times age-abiding.

But, as for me, the drawing near of God, is my blessedness, - I have made, of My Lord Yahweh, my refuge, - That I may recount all thy works.

Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine appointed meeting, They have set their ensigns as tokens!

They have cast, into the fire, thy sanctuary, To the ground, have they profaned the habitation of thy Name.

They have said in their heart, Let us suppress them altogether, They have burned up all the meeting-places of GOD in the land.

Our own signs, have we not seen, - There is no longer a prophet, - Neither is there with us, one who knoweth - How long!

Remember this, An enemy, hath reproached Yahweh, Yea, an impious people, have reviled thy Name.

Have respect to thy covenant, For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

We have given thanks unto thee, O God, we have given thanks, And, in calling upon thy Name, men have recounted thy wonders.

Earth was melting away with all its inhabitants, I, have fixed the pillars thereof. Selah.

I have said to the boasters, Do not boast, And to the lawless, Do not lift up a horn;

The valiant of heart have become a spoil, They have slumbered their sleep, And none of the men of might have found their hands.

Which we have heard, and come to know, And, our fathers, have recounted to us;

Lo! he hath smitten a rock, And waters, have gushed out, Yea, torrents, have rushed along, - Food also, can he give? Or provide flesh for his people?