For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes,
And I have walked in Your truth.

One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.

Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not abandon me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation!

For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.

A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. A Psalm of David.
I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

O Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong;
You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness,

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge;
Let me never be ashamed;
In Your righteousness deliver me.

You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.

Into Your hand I commit my spirit;
You have ransomed me, O Lord, God of truth.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,
Because You have seen my affliction;
You have known the troubles of my soul,

And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a large place.

Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach,
Especially to my neighbors,
And an object of dread to my acquaintances;
Those who see me in the street flee from me.

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You,
Before the sons of men!

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

Let Your lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us,
According as we have hoped in You.

They opened their mouth wide against me;
They said, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”

You have seen it, O Lord, do not keep silent;
O Lord, do not be far from me.

Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, our desire!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

There the doers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been thrust down and cannot rise.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow
To cast down the afflicted and the needy,
To slay those who are upright in conduct.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.

I have seen a wicked, violent man
Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright;
For the man of peace will have a posterity.

For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,
And Your hand has pressed down on me.

Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,
And they devise treachery all day long.

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who have done it.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;
Behold, I will not restrain my lips,
O Lord, You know.

I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

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?

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
O God, we have heard with our ears,
Our fathers have told us
The work that You did in their days,
In the days of old.

But You have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have put to shame those who hate us.

In God we have boasted all day long,
And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.

You cause us to turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

You sell Your people cheaply,
And have not profited by their sale.

All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You,
And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back,
And our steps have not deviated from Your way,

Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals
And covered us with the shadow of death.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham,
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is highly exalted.

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 her forever. Selah.

We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God,
In the midst of Your temple.

Their inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

“Gather My godly ones to Me,
Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to tell of My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?

“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

My heart is in anguish within me,
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

My foes have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.

In God, whose word I praise,
In God I have put my trust;
I shall not be afraid.
What can mere man do to me?

They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book?

In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

For You have delivered my soul from death,
Indeed my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of the living.

They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;
Fierce men launch an attack against me,
Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,

But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength;
Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For You have been my stronghold
And a refuge in the day of my distress.

For the choir director; according to Shushan Eduth. A Mikhtam of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
O God, You have rejected us. You have broken us;
You have been angry; O, restore us.

You have made the land quake, You have split it open;
Heal its breaches, for it totters.

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

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

Have not You Yourself, O God, rejected us?
And will You not go forth with our armies, O God?

For You have been a refuge for me,
A tower of strength against the enemy.

For You have heard my vows, O God;
You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.

They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;
They delight in falsehood;
They bless with their mouth,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.

Once God has spoken;
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God;

Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

For You have been my help,
And in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

You have crowned the year with Your bounty,
And Your paths drip with fatness.

For You have tried us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

You have ascended on high, You have led captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even among the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.

That your foot may shatter them in blood,
The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”