I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

For, lo, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.

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

For they have consulted together with one consent: they make a covenant against you:

Assyria also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm for the Sons of Korah.] LORD, you have been favorable unto your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have taken away all your anger: you have turned yourself from the fierceness of your anger.

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

All nations which 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 depths of sheol.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give your strength unto your servant, and save the son of your handmaid.

Show me a sign for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because you, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.

[A Song or Psalm for the Sons of Karah. To the Chief Musician upon mahanath leannoth. A maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.] O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you:

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

Your anger lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you.

But unto you have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer come before you.

Your fierce anger goes over me; your terrors have cut me off.

Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.

I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto 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: as for the world and the fullness thereof, you have founded them.

The north and the south, you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.

You have a mighty arm: strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.

Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.

But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been angry with your anointed.

You have made void the covenant of your servant: you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

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

You have lifted up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies to rejoice.

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

You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

The days of his youth have you shortened: you have covered him with shame. Selah.

Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain?

With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD; with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed.

[A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.] LORD, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

Return, O LORD, how long? and may you have compassion concerning your servants.

Make us glad according to the days in which you have afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.

Because you have made the LORD, who is my refuge, even the most High, your habitation;

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the works of your hands.

The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.

You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.

Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.

But you are the same, and your years shall have no end.

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which you have founded for them.

You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

O LORD, how manifold are your works! in wisdom have you made them all: the earth is full of your riches.

There go the ships: there is that leviathan, which you have made to play therein.

I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he brings them unto their desired haven.

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

That they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.

Your people shall be willing in the day of your power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: you have the dew of your youth.

The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure in them.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures forever.

They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:

They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:

They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:

O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds.

You have thrust hard at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

I will praise you: for you have heard me, and have become my salvation.

Blessed be he that comes in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently.

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all your commandments.

I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments.

With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.

Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth.

I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.

I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect unto your ways.

You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, who do err from your commandments.

Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept your testimonies.

I have declared my ways, and you heard me: teach me your statutes.

I have chosen the way of truth: your judgments have I laid before me.

I have clung unto your testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame.

Behold, I have longed after your precepts: revive me in your righteousness.

So shall I have an answer for him that reproaches me: for I trust in your word.

And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; for I have hoped in your judgments.

And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.

My hands also will I lift up unto your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.

[Zayin] Remember the word unto your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not turned from your law.

I remembered your judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.