Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.

Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Who said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do to us?

Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents.

There the righteous might reason with him; so should I be delivered forever from my judge.

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered the darkness from my face.

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.

They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry;

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God charges not folly to them.

To whom have you uttered words? and whose spirit came from you?

Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

God forbid that I should justify you: till I die I will not remove my integrity from me.

He breaks open a shaft away from the inhabitants; even in places forgotten of the foot: they are gone away from men, they swing to and fro.

He binds the streams from overflowing; and the thing that is hid brings he forth to light.

From where then comes wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?

Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the fowls of the air.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

From want and famine they are gaunt; fleeing of late into the wilderness, desolate and waste.

They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and hesitate not to spit in my face.

For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided him from my mother's womb;)

Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from its socket.

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I could not endure.

That he may turn man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

Then he is gracious unto him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of life.

Therefore hearken unto me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings they are on the throne; yea, he does establish them forever, and they are exalted.

He opens also their ear to discipline, and commands that they return from iniquity.

And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the uplifted arm shall be broken.

Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven, who has given it birth?

He mocks at fear, and is not frightened; neither turns he back from the sword.

From there she seeks the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.

Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

[To the Chief Musician upon sheminith. A Psalm of David.] Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

You shall keep them, O LORD, you shall preserve them from this generation forever.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

Let my vindication come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are right.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, by your sword:

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

Its going forth is from the end of the heaven, and its circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Who can understand his errors? cleanse me from secret faults.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.

Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;

Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

Their offspring shall you destroy from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men.

[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I was cast upon you from birth: you are my God from my mother's womb.

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

But be not far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me.

Deliver my soul from the sword; my life from the power of the dog.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.

You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

The LORD looks from heaven; he beholds all the sons of men.

From the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth.

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.