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:

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

But to thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before 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 wilt thou establish in the very heavens.

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

Then thou didst speak in vision to thy holy one, and say, 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 to David.

With which thy enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of thy anointed

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

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift 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 towards 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 favor her, yes, the set time, is come.

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

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

I will sing to 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 are quiet; so he bringeth them to 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 by all them that have pleasure in them.

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 to 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 my 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 to 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 adhered to thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

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

So shall I have with which 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 to thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet I have 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.

CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.

They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.

Let those that fear thee turn to me, and those that have known thy testimonies.

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not according to thy law.

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.

I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.

I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes always, even to the end.

Support me, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect to thy statutes continually.

AIN. I have done judgment and justice; leave me not to my oppressors.

It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

My zeal hath consumed me; because my enemies have forgotten thy words.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.

Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Great peace have they who love thy law: and nothing shall cause them to stumble.

LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and performed thy commandments.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

Let thy hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he shall have mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul hath escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried to thee, O LORD.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned by his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

There will I make the horn of David to bud, I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

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

They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah.

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

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the way side: they have set gins for me. Selah.