In God have I put my trust and confident reliance; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

For You have rescued my soul from death,
Yes, and my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of life.

They set a net for my steps;
My very life was bowed down.
They dug a pit before me;
Into the midst of it they themselves have fallen. Selah.

But as for me, I will sing of Your mighty strength and power;
Yes, I will sing joyfully of Your lovingkindness in the morning;
For You have been my stronghold
And a refuge in the day of my distress.

O God, You have rejected us and cast us off. You have broken [down our defenses and scattered] us;
You have been angry; O restore us and turn again to us.

You have made the land quake, You have split it open;
Heal its rifts, for it shakes and totters.

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.

You have set up a banner for those who fear You [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder—a banner to shield them from attack],
A banner that may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Have You not rejected us, O God?
And will You not go out with our armies?

For You have been a shelter and a refuge for me,
A strong tower against the enemy.

For You have heard my vows, O God;
You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name [with reverence].

Trust [confidently] in Him at all times, O people;
Pour out your heart before Him.
God is a refuge for us. Selah.

God has spoken once,
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God.

So I have gazed upon You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

For You have been my help,
And in the shadow of Your wings [where I am always protected] I sing for joy.

They devise acts of injustice, saying,
“We are ready with a well-conceived plan.”
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep (mysterious, unsearchable).

Who creates the mountains by His strength,
Being clothed with power,

So they who dwell at the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs [the evidence of Your presence].
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

You visit the earth and make it overflow [with water];
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You provide their grain, when You have prepared the earth.

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

You have ascended on high, You have led away captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even from the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.

That your foot may crush them in blood,
That the tongue of your dogs may have its share from your enemies.”

Your God has commanded your strength [your power in His service and your resistance to temptation];
Show Yourself strong, O God, who acted on our behalf.

Save me, O God,
For the waters have threatened my life [they have come up to my neck].

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

Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Confusion and dishonor have 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 [mocking] insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

Reproach and insults have broken my heart and I am so sick.
I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.

For they have persecuted him whom You have struck,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.

For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah,
That His servants may remain there and possess it.

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

Upon You have I relied and been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb and You have been my benefactor from that day.
My praise is continually of You.

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

And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,
Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive and renew 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.

May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River [Euphrates] to the ends of the earth.

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

Their eye bulges from fatness [they have more than the heart desires];
The imaginations of their mind run riot [with foolishness].

Surely then in vain I have cleansed my heart
And washed my hands in innocence.

For all the day long have I been stricken,
And punished every morning.

If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

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

But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have made the Lord God my refuge and placed my trust in Him,
That I may tell of all Your works.

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

In the midst of Your meeting place Your enemies have roared [with their battle cry];
They have set up their own emblems for signs [of victory].

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have profaned 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.

The day is Yours, the night also is Yours;
You have established and prepared the [heavenly] light and the sun.

You have defined and established all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations];
You have made summer and winter.

Consider the covenant [You made with Abraham],
For the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

The stouthearted have been stripped of their spoil,
They have slept the sleep [of death];
And none of the warriors could use his hands.

Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?
Have His promises ended for all time?

You are the [awesome] God who works [powerful] wonders;
You have demonstrated Your power among the people.

You have with Your [great] arm redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

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

O God, the nations have invaded [the land of Your people] Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your sacred temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as 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 all around Jerusalem,
And there was no one to bury them.

We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.

For they have devoured Jacob
And made his pasture desolate.

And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold
The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.

You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.

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

Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

Even the stock which Your right hand has planted,
And [look down on] the son that You have reared and strengthened for Yourself.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the rebuke of Your [angry] appearance.

Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom You have made strong for Yourself.

“But My people would not listen to My voice,
And Israel did not [consent to] obey Me.

Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.

For behold, Your enemies are in tumult,
And those who hate You have raised their heads [in hatred of You].

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;
Let 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 helped the children of Lot [the Ammonites and the Moabites] and have been an arm [of strength] to them. Selah.

O Lord, You have [at last] shown favor to Your land [of Canaan];
You have restored [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob (Israel).

You have forgiven the wickedness of Your people;
You have covered all their sin. Selah.

You have withdrawn all Your wrath,
You have turned away from Your burning anger.

Steadfast love and truth and faithfulness meet together;
Righteousness and peace kiss each other.

All nations whom You have made shall come and kneel down in worship before You, O Lord,
And they shall glorify Your name.

For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me;
And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

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

Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Grant Your strength [Your might and the power to resist temptation] to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.

O Lord, the God of my salvation,
I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.

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

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

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

My eye grows dim with sorrow.
O Lord, I have called on You every day;
I have spread out my hands to You [in prayer].

Your fierce wrath has swept over me;
Your terrors have destroyed me.

They have surrounded me like flood waters all day long;
They have completely encompassed me.

Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.

For I have said, “Goodness and lovingkindness will be built up forever;
In the heavens [unchangeable and majestic] You will establish Your faithfulness.”

[God has said] “I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn to David My servant,

You have crushed Rahab (Egypt) like one who is slain;
You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

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

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

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

Once You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty [giving him the power to be a champion for Israel];
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

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