Let the creditor take aim at all that he hath, and let strangers prey on the fruit of his toil;

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

I am so starved my knees shake; I have turned into skin and bones.

I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.

I am well pleased, that the LORD hath heard the voice of my prayer,

I believed [and clung to my God] when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted.”

O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

The Lord is on my side, I am not afraid! What can people do to me?

Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.

I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart, because I am learned in the judgments of thy righteousness.

I am delighted with your statutes; I will not forget your word. Gimmel

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

I am continually overcome
with longing for Your judgments.

I am weary from grief;
strengthen me through Your word.

I choose the path of faithfulness; I am committed to your regulations.

Turn away my reproach whereof I am afraid; For thine ordinances are good.

And I speak of Thy testimonies before kings, And I am not ashamed.

For I remember thine everlasting judgments, O LORD, and am comforted.

I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

Before I am afflicted, I -- I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.

For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

All of your commands are reliable. I am persecuted without cause help me!

I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.

Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for I am always aware of them.

I am more insightful than my teachers, because your decrees are my meditations.

I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.

Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

I have sworn, and am steadfastly purposed, to keep thy righteous judgments.

I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

I am resolved to obey Your statutes
to the very end.

I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.

Support Thou me, and I am saved, And I look on Thy statutes continually.

My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts.

I am up before dawn crying for help. I find hope in your word.

My eyes anticipate the night watches and I awake before the call of the watchman,
That I may meditate on Your word.

I see the treacherous and loathe them,
Because they do not respect Your law.

/ (Sin/Shin) Rulers pursue me for no reason, yet I am more afraid of disobeying your instructions.

I [am] rejoicing over your word, like one who finds great spoil.

I am full of hate and disgust for false words; but I am a lover of your law.

I hope and wait [with complete confidence] for Your salvation, O Lord,
And I do Your commandments.

I am longing for your deliverance, LORD, and your instruction is my joy.

{A song of the stairs} When I am in trouble, I call upon the LORD, and he answereth me.

How terrible for me, that I am an alien in Meshech, that I reside among the tents of Kedar!

I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

It is vain for you to rise early, come home late, and work so hard for your food. Yes, he can provide for those whom he loves even when they sleep.

My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
More than the watchmen for the morning.

{A song of the stairs} LORD, I am not high-minded; I have no proud looks. I do not exercise myself in great matters which are too high for me.

Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself
like a little weaned child with its mother;
I am like a little child.

It is Jacob whom the LORD chose for himself Israel as his personal possession.

To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

The Lord avenges me. O Lord, your loyal love endures. Do not abandon those whom you have made!

You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.

Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

I am certain that the Lord will take care of the cause of the poor, and of the rights of those who are troubled.

Surely I am looking to you, O sovereign Lord. In you I take shelter. Do not expose me to danger!

So I cry to you, Lord, declaring, "You are my refuge, my only possession while I am on this earth."

Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.

My strength leaves me; I am absolutely shocked.

I spread out my hands to You;
I am like parched land before You.Selah

Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered.

And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

Whom their mouth spake vanity, and their right hand a right hand of falsehood.

Snatch me away and deliver me from the hand of the sons of the stranger, whom their mouth spake vanity, and their right hand a right hand of falsehood:

Happy are the people to whom these things come; happy are the people whose God is the LORD. A Davidic Psalm

I will praise Yahweh while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I [am] still [alive].

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

for I am giving you good instruction.
Don’t abandon my teaching.

I am teaching you the way of wisdom;
I am guiding you on straight paths.

Now, children, listen to me. Don't turn away from what I am saying.

Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation."

For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain.

I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.

I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

I am loving unto those that love me, and they that seek me early, shall find me.

In His preparing the heavens I am there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

Then I am near Him, a workman, And I am a delight -- day by day. Rejoicing before Him at all times,

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for [the hands of] the righteous.

Go from the presence of a foolish man, in whom thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.

Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life; happy shall his children be whom he leaveth behind him.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.

So that your confidence may be in the Lord, I am making them known to you today -- even you.

To whom [is] woe? To whom [is] sorrow? To whom [are] quarrels? To whom [is] complaint? To whom [are] wounds without cause? To whom [is] redness of [the] eyes?