Thou preparest a table before me against mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil, and fillest my cup full.

Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.

I hate the congregation of the wicked, and will not sit among the ungodly.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle; yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone.

And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me. Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness; I will sing and speak praises unto the LORD.

O hide not thou thy face from me, nor cast thy servant away in displeasure. Thou hast been my succor; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God my Saviour.

Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men; thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues.

I will acknowledge my sin unto thee; and mine unrighteousness have I not hid. I said, "I will confess my sins unto the LORD." And so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. Selah.

They had an eye unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed.

But misfortune shall slay the ungodly; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother; I went heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over me ungodly; neither let them wink with their eyes, that hate me without a cause.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear.

LORD, thou knowest all my desire, and my groaning is not hid from thee.

But mine enemies live, and are mighty: and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number.

{To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."

My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing, the fire kindled, and at the last I spoke with my tongue,

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation.

For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up. Yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.

But it is thou that savest us from our enemies, and puttest them to confusion that hate us.

Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil our goods.

Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.

{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David when the Ziphites came, and said unto Saul: David is hid among us} Save me, O God, for thy name's sake, and avenge me in thy strength.

{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David} Hear my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my petition.

Take heed unto me, and hear me, how piteously I mourn and complain.

And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.

If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him.

As a green thorn kindled with fire goeth out before your pots be made hot; even so, let a furious rage bring him to nought.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of my head, Judah is my lawgiver;

{To the Chanter, upon Neginoth, of David} Hear my crying, O God, give heed unto my prayer.

Hide me from the gathering together of the froward, and from the insurrection of wicked doers,

That they may privily hurt the innocent, and suddenly hit him without any fear.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm and song of David} Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; let them also that hate him flee before him.

God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickedness.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless, are mighty. I paid them the things that I never took.

God, thou knowest my simpleness, and my faults are not hid from thee.

Take me out of the mire, that I sink not; Oh let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble; O haste thee, and hear me.

Nevertheless, my feet were almost gone; my treadings had well nigh slipped.

Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.

{An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?

Forget not the voice of thine enemies; for the presumption of them that hate thee, increaseth ever more and more.

that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.

that they also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but to keep his commandments.

They forgot what he had done, and the wonderful works that he had showed for them.

He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.

how he had wrought his miracles in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

How he smote their cattle also with hail stones, and their flocks with hot thunderbolts;

so that he forsook the Tabernacle in Shiloh, even the tent that he had pitched among men.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.

For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring; and they that hate thee, lift up their head.

For one day in thy court is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of the ungodly.

Show some token upon me for good, that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed; because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.

My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

I shall smite down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

LORD, how long wilt thou hide thyself? Forever? And shall thy wrath burn like fire?

Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

If the LORD had not helped me, my soul had almost been put to silence.

In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart, thy comforts have refreshed my soul.

O ye that love the LORD, see that ye hate the thing which is evil. The LORD preserveth the souls of his saints; he shall deliver them from the hand of the ungodly.

I will take no wicked thing in hand. I hate the sin of unfaithfulness; it shall not cleave unto me.

Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble; incline thine ear unto me when I call. O hear me, and that right soon.

But he had sent a man before them, even Joseph which was sold to be a bond servant,

until the time that his word came, and until the word of the LORD had tried him.

Then sent the king and caused him to be delivered; the prince of the people had let him go.

Then sent he Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.

For why? He remembered his holy promise which he had made to Abraham his servant.

They forgot God their Savior, which had done so great things in Egypt,

So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.

Their enemies oppressed them, and had them in subjection.

yea, he made all those that had led them away captive, to pity them.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my lawgiver.

For the love that I had unto them, they take now my contrary part; but I give myself unto prayer.

Let the wickedness of his fathers be had in remembrance in the sight of LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be done away.

He shall drink of the brook in the way; therefore shall he lift up his head.

His work is worthy to be praised and had in honour, and his righteousness endureth forever.

The merciful and gracious LORD hath so done his marvelous works, that they ought to be had in remembrance.

For he shall never be moved, and the righteous shall be had in an everlasting remembrance.

Thy words have I hid within my heart, that I should not sin against thee.

I am a stranger upon earth; O hide not thy commandments from me.

The proud have had me exceedingly in derision; yet have I not shrinked from thy law.

Through thy commandments I get understanding; therefore I hate all false ways.

{Samekh} I hate them that imagine evil things; but thy law do I love.

As for lies, I hate and abhor them; but thy law do I love.

Even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

{A song of the stairs} If the LORD himself had not been on our side - now may Israel say -

If the LORD himself had not been on our side, when men rose up against us,

they had swallowed us up alive, when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

Yea, the waters had drowned us, the stream had gone over our soul.

The deep waters of the proud had gone even unto our soul.

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down unto the beard; even unto Aaron's beard, and went down to the skirts of his clothing.

My bones are not hid from thee, though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

Yea, I hate them right sore, even as though they were mine enemies.

O LORD. O LORD God, thou strength of my health; thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about.

Let hot burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, and into the pit, that they never rise up again.

Let the righteous rather smite me friendly, and reprove me: so will I take it as though he had poured oil on my head; it shall not hurt my head. Yea, I will pray yet for their wickedness.