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

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.

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

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

Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

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,

God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

That he should live on forever, that he should not see corruption.

For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.

Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.

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

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

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

Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

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.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

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.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth." For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me. For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.

Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.

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

Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

Don't hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day;

A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,

They say, "Yah will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us for our iniquities.

He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

He brought them forth with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.

He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.

The waters covered their adversaries. There was not one of them left.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

His heart is established. He will not be afraid in the end when he sees his adversaries.

Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth's sake.

Yahweh is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

I will not die, but live, and declare Yah's works.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word. GIMEL

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.

I have remembered your name, Yahweh, in the night, and I obey your law.

I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments.

Let my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be disappointed. KAF

I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

Uphold me according to your word, that I may live. Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

"Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;

I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids;

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Look! Praise Yahweh, all you servants of Yahweh, who stand by night in Yahweh's house!

The moon and stars to rule by night; for his loving kindness endures forever:

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"