Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Save me from the lion's mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don't let me be shamed. Don't let my enemies triumph over me.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Hear, Yahweh, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Don't hide your face from me. Don't put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Don't abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper."

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Let me not be disappointed, Yahweh, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

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

Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh, since we have hoped in you. By David; when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.

Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them 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, to kill those who are upright in the way.

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

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

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

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of Yahweh of Armies, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst of your temple.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

"Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Mahalath." A contemplation by David.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

But I will sing of your strength. Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning. For you have been my high tower, a refuge in the day of my distress.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

You have made the land tremble. You have torn it. Mend its fractures, for it quakes.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

You have given a banner to those who fear you, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with our armies, God.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

For you, God, have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.