[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.] Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have delivered me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.

Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)

Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babes and infants have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.

You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and ever.

O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is perished with them.

And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.

O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness reaches not to you;

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.

They have now surrounded us in our steps: they have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth;

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For by you I have advanced against a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation: and your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great.

You have enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip.

I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.

You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

His glory is great in your salvation: honor and majesty have you laid upon him.

For you have made him most blessed forever: you have made him exceedingly glad with your presence.

[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round about.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen.

Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Turn you unto 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 your lovingkindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.

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

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

LORD, I have loved the habitation of your house, and the place where your honor dwells.

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.

Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

[A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the house of David.] I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

O LORD my God, I cried unto you, and you have healed me.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

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

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

I have hated them that regard vain idols: but I trust in the LORD.

I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.

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

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 you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

I acknowledged my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.

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

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

This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.

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 be of upright behavior.

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

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

I am feeble and utterly broken: I have groaned by reason of the turmoil of my heart.

Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not restrained my lips, O LORD, you know.

I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation: I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth from the great congregation.

For innumerable evils have surrounded 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 fails me.

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

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

I will say unto God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

[To the Chief Musician for the Sons of Korah, a maschil.] We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.

But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.