Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

I will say to God, my rock,
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?”

For You are the God of my refuge.
Why have You rejected me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.God, we have heard with our ears—
our ancestors have told us—
the work You accomplished in their days,
in days long ago:

But You have rejected and humiliated us;
You do not march out with our armies.

You make us retreat from the foe,
and those who hate us
have taken plunder for themselves.

All this has happened to us,
but we have not forgotten You
or betrayed Your covenant.

Our hearts have not turned back;
our steps have not strayed from Your path.

But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackals
and have covered us with deepest darkness.

wouldn’t God have found this out,
since He knows the secrets of the heart?

For we have sunk down to the dust;
our bodies cling to the ground.

The nobles of the peoples have assembled
with the people of the God of Abraham.
For the leaders of the earth belong to God;
He is greatly exalted.

Just as we heard, so we have seen
in the city of Yahweh of Hosts,
in the city of our God;
God will establish it forever.Selah

Their graves are their eternal homes,
their homes from generation to generation,
though they have named estates after themselves.

But God says to the wicked:
“What right do you have to recite My statutes
and to take My covenant on your lips?

You have done these things, and I kept silent;
you thought I was just like you.
But I will rebuke you
and lay out the case before you.

Against You—You alone—I have sinned
and done this evil in Your sight.
So You are right when You pass sentence;
You are blameless when You judge.

Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

I will praise You forever for what You have done.
In the presence of Your faithful people,
I will put my hope in Your name, for it is good.

All have turned away;
all alike have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good,
not even one.

For strangers rise up against me,
and violent men seek my life.
They have no regard for God.Selah

We used to have close fellowship;
we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

You Yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your records?

They have venom like the venom of a snake,
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

But I will sing of Your strength
and will joyfully proclaim
Your faithful love in the morning.
For You have been a stronghold for me,
a refuge in my day of trouble.

For the choir director: according to “The Lily of Testimony.” A Davidic Miktam for teaching. When he fought with Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, killing 12,000.God, You have rejected us;
You have broken out against us;
You have been angry. Restore us!

You have shaken the land and split it open.
Heal its fissures, for it shudders.

You have made Your people suffer hardship;
You have given us wine to drink
that made us stagger.

You have given a signal flag to those who fear You,
so that they can flee before the archers.Selah

God, haven’t You rejected us?
God, You do not march out with our armies.

for You have been a refuge for me,
a strong tower in the face of the enemy.

God, You have heard my vows;
You have given a heritage
to those who fear Your name.

God has spoken once;
I have heard this twice:
strength belongs to God,

They devise crimes and say,
“We have perfected a secret plan.”
The inner man and the heart are mysterious.

If I had been aware of malice in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.

so that your foot may wade in blood
and your dogs’ tongues may have their share
from the enemies.”

People have seen Your procession, God,
the procession of my God,
my King, in the sanctuary.

Your God has decreed your strength.
Show Your strength, God,
You who have acted on our behalf.

I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep waters,
and a flood sweeps over me.

For I have endured insults because of You,
and shame has covered my face.

I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

because zeal for Your house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult You
have fallen on me.

Insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.

I have leaned on You from birth;
You took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is always about You.

I have become an ominous sign to many,
but You are my strong refuge.

God, You have taught me from my youth,
and I still proclaim Your wonderful works.

Your righteousness reaches heaven, God,
You who have done great things;
God, who is like You?

My lips will shout for joy
when I sing praise to You
because You have redeemed me.

For he will rescue the poor who cry out
and the afflicted who have no helper.

He will have pity on the poor and helpless
and save the lives of the poor.

They have an easy time until they die,
and their bodies are well fed.

If I had decided to say these things aloud,
I would have betrayed Your people.

Who do I have in heaven but You?
And I desire nothing on earth but You.

But as for me, God’s presence is my good.
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
so I can tell about all You do.

A Maskil of Asaph.Why have You rejected us forever, God?
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?

The brave-hearted have been plundered;
they have slipped into their final sleep.
None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.

You have kept me from closing my eyes;
I am troubled and cannot speak.

I will reflect on all You have done
and meditate on Your actions.

things we have heard and known
and that our fathers have passed down to us.

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

We have become an object of reproach
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.

for they have devoured Jacob
and devastated his homeland.

Do not hold past sins against us;
let Your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become weak.

Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors
the reproach they have hurled at You, Lord.

Why have You broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Let Your hand be with the man at Your right hand,
with the son of man
You have made strong for Yourself.

See how Your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate You have acted arrogantly.

For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance against You—

All the nations You have made
will come and bow down before You, Lord,
and will honor Your name.

God, arrogant people have attacked me;
a gang of ruthless men seeks my life.
They have no regard for You.

Show me a sign of Your goodness;
my enemies will see and be put to shame
because You, Lord, have helped and comforted me.

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

You have put me in the lowest part of the Pit,
in the darkest places, in the depths.

Your wrath weighs heavily on me;
You have overwhelmed me with all Your waves.Selah

You have distanced my friends from me;
You have made me repulsive to them.
I am shut in and cannot go out.

From my youth,
I have been afflicted and near death.
I suffer Your horrors; I am desperate.

You have distanced loved one and neighbor from me;
darkness is my only friend.

The Lord said,
“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:

You have a mighty arm;
Your hand is powerful;
Your right hand is lifted high.

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

I have found David My servant;
I have anointed him with My sacred oil.

I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.

Once and for all
I have sworn an oath by My holiness;
I will not lie to David.

But You have spurned and rejected him;
You have become enraged with Your anointed.

You have repudiated the covenant with Your servant;
You have completely dishonored his crown.

You have broken down all his walls;
You have reduced his fortified cities to ruins.

You have lifted high the right hand of his foes;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.

You have also turned back his sharp sword
and have not let him stand in battle.

You have made his splendor cease
and have overturned his throne.

You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame.Selah

Remember how short my life is.
Have You created everyone for nothing?

how Your enemies have ridiculed, Lord,
how they have ridiculed every step of Your anointed.

BOOK IV
(Psalms 90–106)A prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, You have been our refuge
in every generation.

You have set our unjust ways before You,
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Lord—how long?
Turn and have compassion on Your servants.

Make us rejoice for as many days as You have humbled us,
for as many years as we have seen adversity.

Because you have made the Lord—my refuge,
the Most High—your dwelling place,

For You have made me rejoice, Lord,
by what You have done;
I will shout for joy
because of the works of Your hands.

You have lifted up my horn
like that of a wild ox;
I have been anointed with oil.

The floods have lifted up, Lord,
the floods have lifted up their voice;
the floods lift up their pounding waves.