They have seen Your procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

Your God has commanded your strength;
Show Yourself strong, O God, who have acted on our behalf.

For the choir director; according to Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.
Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life.

I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;
What I did not steal, I then have to restore.

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Dishonor has covered my face.

I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me.

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

The humble have seen it and are glad;
You who seek God, let your heart revive.

In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge;
Let me never be ashamed.

Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come;
You have given commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

By You I have been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb;
My praise is continually of You.

I have become a marvel to many,
For You are my strong refuge.

For my enemies have spoken against me;
And those who watch for my life have consulted together,

O God, You have taught me from my youth,
And I still declare Your wondrous deeds.

For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You?

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You;
And my soul, which You have redeemed.

He will have compassion on the poor and needy,
And the lives of the needy he will save.

They have set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue parades through the earth.

Behold, these are the wicked;
And always at ease, they have increased in wealth.

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure
And washed my hands in innocence;

For I have been stricken all day long
And chastened every morning.

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You have taken hold of my right hand.

Whom have I in heaven but You?
And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.

A Maskil of Asaph.
O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their own standards for signs.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
You have prepared the light and the sun.

You have established all the boundaries of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.

“The earth and all who dwell in it melt;
It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah.

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I have considered the days of old,
The years of long ago.

You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.

You have by Your power 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 invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants for food to the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;
And there was no one to bury them.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those around us.

For they have devoured Jacob
And laid waste his habitation.

And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom
The reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

Why have You broken down its hedges,
So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?

Even the shoot which Your right hand has planted,
And on the son whom You have strengthened for Yourself.

For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves.

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant:

Assyria also has joined with them;
They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.

Lovingkindness 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 they shall glorify Your name.

For Your lovingkindness toward me is great,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,
And a band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.

Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director; according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.
O Lord, the God of my salvation,
I have cried out by day and in the night before You.

I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit;
I have become like a man without strength,

You have put me in the lowest pit,
In dark places, in the depths.

Your wrath has rested upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah.

You have removed my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them;
I am shut up and cannot go out.

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;
I have called upon You every day, O Lord;
I have spread out my hands to You.

But I, O Lord, have cried out to You for help,
And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

Your burning anger has passed over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.

They have surrounded me like water all day long;
They have encompassed me altogether.

You have removed lover and friend far from me;
My acquaintances are in darkness.

For I have said, “Lovingkindness will be built up forever;
In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness.”

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

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all it contains, You have founded them.

The north and the south, You have created them;
Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

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

Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

“I have found David My servant;
With My holy oil I have anointed him,

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

But You have cast off and rejected,
You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

You have spurned the covenant of Your servant;
You have profaned his crown in the dust.

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

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.

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

You have made his splendor to cease
And cast his throne to the ground.

You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame. Selah.

Remember what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

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 swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

You have placed our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.

Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have seen evil.

For you have made the Lord, my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place.

For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done,
I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands.

But You have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
I have been anointed with fresh oil.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice,
The floods lift up their pounding waves.

They have said, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.”

If the Lord had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples have seen His glory.