But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.

You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the nations.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;

Though you have severely broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

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

[To the Chief Musician upon shoshannim, for the Sons of Korah, a maschil, a song of loves.] My heart is overflowing with a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready scribe.

All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made you glad.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah.

We have thought of your lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of your temple.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

But unto the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?

When you saw a thief, then you consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.] Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge.

Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

I will praise you forever, because you have done it: and I will wait on your name; for it is good before your saints.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

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

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

In God, I will praise his word, in God, I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

For you have delivered my soul from death: will not you deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave.] Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities have passed.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have dug a pit before me, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.

But you, O LORD, shall laugh at them; you shall have all the nations in derision.

But I will sing of your power; yea, I will sing aloud of your mercy in the morning: for you have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.

[To the Chief Musician upon shushaneduth. A michtam of David to teach; when he fought with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.] O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.

You have made the earth to tremble; you have broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shakes.

You have shown your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

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

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

For you, O God, have heard my vows: you have given me the heritage of those that fear your name.

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

To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.

You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them grain, when you have so provided for it.

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth has spoken, when I was in trouble.

Your congregation has dwelt therein: you, O God, have provided of your goodness for the poor.

Though you have slept among the sheepfolds, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.

They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have done for us.

[To the Chief Musician upon shoshannim. A Psalm of David.] Save me, O God; for the waters have come in unto my soul.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Because for your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

I have become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: my adversaries are all before you.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

For they persecute him whom you have smitten; and they talk of the grief of those whom you have wounded.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

Be my strong habitation, to which I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.

By you have I been upheld from birth: you are he that took me out of my mother's womb: my praise shall be continually of you.

O God, you have taught me from my youth: and to this day have I declared your wondrous works.

Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.

You, who have showed me great and severe troubles, shall revive me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Their eyes stand out with abundance: they have more than heart could wish.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of your children.

Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand.

Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides you.

For, lo, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go after idols, departing from you.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all your works.

[A maschil of Asaph.] O God, why have you cast us off forever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the tribe of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, where you have dwelt.

They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.

You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.

Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

The stouthearted are plundered, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might can lift their hands.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

You are the God that does wonders: you have declared your strength among the people.

You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be food unto the fowls of heaven, the flesh of your saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Pour out your wrath upon the nations that have not known you, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached you, O Lord.

You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the nations, and planted it.

Why have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit?

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would have none of me.

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: and their fate should have endured forever.

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.