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 did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

God shall 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 unto me.

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

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are 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 unto 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 lien 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.

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 holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: 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 grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto 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 unto 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 innocency.

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

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside 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, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

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

The stouthearted 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 are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

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

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

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 unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith 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 unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

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

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

For, lo, thine 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 holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

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

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

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

{A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.

Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,

Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.

But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.

I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

So shall I have wherewith to answer him that reproacheth me: for I trust in thy word.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in thy judgments.

And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.