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

from men by your hand, Yahweh, 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.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

I call on Yahweh, 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 Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his ordinances were before me. I didn't 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.

send you help from the sanctuary, grant you support from Zion,

Now I know that Yahweh 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.

Don't 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 Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

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

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

Yahweh, 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.

Yahweh 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 Yahweh, 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.

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

All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, 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, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don't fret, it leads only to evildoing.

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

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

Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

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

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.

Don't forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don't 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. Don't 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.

Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

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

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. BOOK II For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.

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, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

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.

Don't throw me from your presence, and don't 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.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"

Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication.

"I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm."

Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.

He will send from heaven, and save me, he rebukes the one who is pursuing me. Selah. God will send out his loving kindness and his truth.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity. Save me from the bloodthirsty men.

God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.

Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me. For the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.

The chariots of God are tens of thousands and thousands of thousands. The Lord is among them, from Sinai, into the sanctuary.

God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea;

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