Which my lips uttered
And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,
At the mountain which God has desired for His abode?
Surely the Lord will dwell there forever.

To Him who rides upon the highest heavens, which are from ancient times;
Behold, He speaks forth with His voice, a mighty voice.

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.

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

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.

Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You which ascends continually.

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

For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach them to their children,

He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.

So He brought them to His holy land,
To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent which He had pitched among men,

But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loved.

And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever.

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight,
Vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

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

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

Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord,
Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

With which Your enemies have reproached, O Lord,
With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.

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

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which devises mischief by decree?

The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.

And wine which makes man’s heart glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And food which sustains man’s heart.

The trees of the Lord drink their fill,
The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

You appoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.

There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Animals both small and great.

There the ships move along,
And Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.

Remember His wonders which He has done,
His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,

The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac.

And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.

For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,
Which lifted up the waves of the sea.

Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself,
And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.

This is the day which the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Establish Your word to Your servant,
As that which produces reverence for You.

Turn away my reproach which I dread,
For Your ordinances are good.

I shall delight in Your commandments,
Which I love.

And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments,
Which I love;
And I will meditate on Your statutes.

Zayin.
Remember the word to Your servant,
In which You have made me hope.

To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord—
An ordinance for Israel—
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

A Song of Ascents.
Those who trust in the Lord
Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;

With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;

The Lord has sworn to David
A truth from which He will not turn back:
“Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.

“If your sons will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one,
How blessed will be the one who repays you
With the recompense with which you have repaid us.

“May burning coals fall upon them;
May they be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the snares of those who do iniquity.

Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;
For I trust in You;
Teach me the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul.

He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young ravens which cry.

He has also established them forever and ever;
He has made a decree which will not pass away.

Which, having no chief,
Officer or ruler,

There are six things which the Lord hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him:

There is a way which seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.

There is a way which seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty
And brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

If you have nothing with which to pay,
Why should he take your bed from under you?

Do not move the ancient boundary
Which your fathers have set.

These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah, transcribed.

Like the legs which are useless to the lame,
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Like a thorn which falls into the hand of a drunkard,
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

A poor man who oppresses the lowly
Is like a driving rain which leaves no food.

There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Four which I do not understand:

There are three things which are stately in their march,
Even four which are stately when they walk:

The lion which is mighty among beasts
And does not retreat before any,

The words of King Lemuel, the oracle which his mother taught him:

Do not give your strength to women,
Or your ways to that which destroys kings.

What advantage does man have in all his work
Which he does under the sun?

That which has been is that which will be,
And that which has been done is that which will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there anything of which one might say,
“See this, it is new”?
Already it has existed for ages
Which were before us.

There is no remembrance of earlier things;
And also of the later things which will occur,
There will be for them no remembrance
Among those who will come later still.

And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind.

I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest of growing trees.

Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had exerted, and behold all was vanity and striving after wind and there was no profit under the sun.

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.

Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

For what does a man get in all his labor and in his striving with which he labors under the sun?

What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils?

I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

That which is has been already and that which will be has already been, for God seeks what has passed by.

Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men—

For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?

Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you.

which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.

There is futility which is done on the earth, that is, there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked. On the other hand, there are evil men to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I say that this too is futility.

So I commended pleasure, for there is nothing good for a man under the sun except to eat and to drink and to be merry, and this will stand by him in his toils throughout the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on the earth (even though one should never sleep day or night),

and I saw every work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work which has been done under the sun. Even though man should seek laboriously, he will not discover; and though the wise man should say, “I know,” he cannot discover.

Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like an error which goes forth from the ruler—