They search out injustice, saying, We have finished hiding a hidden plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

You visit the earth and water it; You greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it.

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

You have brought us into the net; You have laid affliction on our loins.

You have allowed men to ride at our head; we have gone through fire and through water, but You have brought us out to plenty.

those which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken in my trouble.

Your flock has dwelt in it; You, O God, have prepared in Your goodness for the poor.

You have gone up on high; You have led captivity captive; You have received gifts for men, yes, for the rebellious also, that You might dwell among them, O Jehovah God.

They have seen Your goings, O God; the goings of my God, my King, in the holy place.

Your God has commanded your strength; O God, be strong in that which You have worked out for us.

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of David. Save me, O God! for the waters have come in on my soul.

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

because I have borne reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face.

I have become a stranger to My brothers, and a foreigner to My mother's children.

For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me.

You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor; my enemies are all before You.

For they persecute him whom You have stricken, and they talk to the grief of those You pierced.

Be a rock of refuge for me, to which I may always go; You have commanded to save me; for You are my Rock and my Fortress.

On You I have rested from the womb; You are He who took me out of my mother's bowels; my praise always shall be of You.

O God, You have taught me from my youth; and before now I have declared Your wonderful works.

And now when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not leave me; until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.

And Your righteousness, O God, is very high, who have done great things. O God, who is like You,

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to You, and my soul, which You have redeemed.

My tongue also shall muse on Your righteousness all the day long; for those who seek my evil have turned pale, they are brought to shame.

He shall also have the rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

He shall have pity on the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy.

Their eyes stand out with fatness; they have more than the heart could imagine.

Surely I have made my heart pure in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

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

How have they been brought into grief, as in a moment! They are fully eaten up with terrors,

But I am always with You; You have held me by my right hand.

Whom have I in Heaven? And besides You I desire none on earth.

For lo, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all who go lusting away from You.

And I, it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in Jehovah God, to declare all Your works.

An Instruction of Asaph. O God, have You cast us off forever? Will Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old, the rod of Your inheritance which You have redeemed; this mount Zion in which You have dwelt.

They have cast fire into Your sanctuary; they have defiled the dwelling-place of Your name to the ground.

They said in their hearts, Together let us rage against them; they have burned up all God's meeting-places 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, the enemy has cursed, O Jehovah, and the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.

To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. To You, O God, we have given thanks, to You we have given thanks; for Your name is near, Your wonderful works declared.

The stouthearted have been stripped; they slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.

By Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the horse and the chariot have sunk into a sleep.

I have thought on the days of old, the years of ages past.

You are the God who 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; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury.

We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us.

Pour out Your wrath on the nations who have not known You, and on the kingdoms who have not called on Your name.

For they have eaten up Jacob, and wasted his dwelling-place.

and give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom, the curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord.

You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations and planted it.

Why have You broken down its hedges, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

Let Your hand be on the Man of Your right hand, on the Son of man whom You have made strong for Yourself.

But My people would not listen to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

I would soon have humbled their enemies, and would have turned My hand against their foes.

The haters of Jehovah would have been found liars to Him, and their time would have lasted forever.

And He would have fed them also with the finest of the wheat; and with honey out of the rock I would have satisfied you.

I have said, You are gods; and all of you sons of the Most High.

For lo, Your enemies roar; and those who hate You have lifted up their head.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, so that the name Israel may be remembered no more.

For with one heart they have plotted together; they have made a covenant against You--

and Assyria has joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. Selah.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. O Jehovah, You have been gracious to Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sins. Selah.

You have taken away all Your wrath; You have turned from the heat of Your anger.

Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and shall glorify Your name.

For great is Your mercy toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

O God, the proud have risen against me, and the company of violent men have sought after my life, and have not set You before them.

Oh turn to me, and have mercy on me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your handmaid.

Show me a token for good, so that they who hate me may see and be ashamed; because You, Jehovah, have helped me and comforted me.

A Song. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. On Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You.

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.

Your wrath lies hard on me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.

My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called daily on You; I have stretched out my hands to You.

But to You I have cried, O Jehovah; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You.

Your fierce wrath goes over me; Your terrors have cut me off.

They surrounded me like waters all the day long; they have come together around me.

You have taken lover and friend far from me, and those who know me into darkness.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever; You shall establish Your faithfulness in the heavens.

I have cut a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant,

You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; You have scattered Your enemies with Your strong arm.

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours; You have founded the world and its fullness.

The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in Your name.

You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong, and Your right hand is high.

Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and You said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have lifted up a chosen one out of the people.

I have found David, My servant; with My holy oil I have anointed him.

Also I have set his seed forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens.

Once I have sworn by My holiness that I will not lie to David.

But You have cast off and rejected us; You have been angry with Your anointed.

You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown to the ground.

You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

You have set up the right hand of his enemies; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

You also have turned back the edge of his sword and have not made him stand in the battle.