Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.

My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.

Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?

Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have put in their places;

The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in; by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.

His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.

Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Come, see the works of the Lord, the destruction which he has made in the earth.

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.

How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.

O God, send out your strength; the strength, O God, with which you have done great things for us,

To him who goes or the clouds of heaven, the heaven which was from earliest times; he sends out his voice of power.

I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;

Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

So that he went away from the holy place in Shiloh, the tent which he had put among men;

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

And he made his holy place like the high heaven, like the earth which is fixed by him for ever.

From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.

The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.

You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

There go the ships; there is that great beast, which you have made as a plaything.

They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;

He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:

Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!

Let men give praise to the Lord for his mercy, and for the wonders which he does for the children of men!