God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

Deliver me out of the mire, and don't let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Don't hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily!

Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.

God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

"I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

You have taken away all your wrath. You have turned from the fierceness of your anger.

Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness. A contemplation by Ethan, the Ezrahite.

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

Before the mountains were brought forth, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Your throne is established from long ago. You are from everlasting.

that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day!

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

Morning by morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land; to cut off all the workers of iniquity from Yahweh's city. A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before Yahweh.

Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, Yahweh saw the earth;

who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children's children;

He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

He saved them from the hand of him who hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Save us, Yahweh, our God, gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to your holy name, to triumph in your praise!

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting even to everlasting! Let all the people say, "Amen." Praise Yah! BOOK V

Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south.

He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their graves.

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

Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.

Blessed be the name of Yahweh, from this time forth and forevermore.

From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Yahweh's name is to be praised.

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign language;

But we will bless Yah, from this time forth and forevermore. Praise Yah!

For you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

I am a stranger on the earth. Don't hide your commandments from me.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Take reproach and contempt away from me, for I have kept your statutes.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.

They had almost wiped me from the earth, but I didn't forsake your precepts.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.

I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven't gone astray from your precepts.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

Redeem me from the oppression of man, so I will observe your precepts.

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever. RESH

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don't seek your statutes.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore. A Song of Ascents. By David.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

He will redeem Israel from all their sins. A Song of Ascents. By David.