For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

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

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn't take away.

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's children.

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

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

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

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

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

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished 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 held my right hand.

Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

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

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. A contemplation by Asaph.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

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

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

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

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 to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

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

For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

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

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

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

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

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, Yahweh of Armies, my King, and my God.

Blessed are those whose strength is in you; who have set their hearts on a pilgrimage.

Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land. You have restored the fortunes of Jacob.

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

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your handmaid.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me. A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song.

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

You have laid me in the lowest pit, in the darkest depths.

Your wrath lies heavily on me. You have afflicted me with all your waves. Selah.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

But to you, Yahweh, I have cried. In the morning, my prayer comes before you.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

"I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

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

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

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

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

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

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.

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

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

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

Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and haven't supported him in battle.

You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

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

Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

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

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!