because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

I will get my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

He doesn't withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed, neither does he turn back from the sword.

From there he spies out the prey. His eyes see it afar off.

His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

"Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

LORD, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,

From the lips of babes and infants you have ordained praise, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

His ways are prosperous at all times. Your judgments are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

You will keep them, LORD. You will preserve them from this generation forever.

How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

My soul, you have said to the LORD, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

Let my sentence come forth from your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.

As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.

Arise, LORD, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his ordinances were before me. I did not put away his statutes from me.

I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.

His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

He will send you help from the sanctuary, and give you support from Zion.

Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

Do not be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help.

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

Save me from the lion's mouth. Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

LORD, remember your tender mercies and your loving kindness, for they are from old times.

Redeem Israel, God, from all of his troubles.

Do not hide your face from me. Do not put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery.

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

The LORD looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

to deliver their soul from death, to keep them alive in famine.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

The LORD's face is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

All my bones shall say, "LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

You have seen it, LORD. Do not keep silent. Lord, do not be far from me.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Do not fret, it leads only to evildoing.

Depart from evil, and do good. Live securely forever.

But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.

The LORD helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

Do not forsake me, LORD. My God, do not be far from me.

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Do not withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen and amen.

My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.

The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.

Do not throw me from your presence, and do not take your holy Spirit from me.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.