Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

And as for me, you are my support in my righteousness, giving me a place before your face for ever.

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.

You are my King and my God; ordering salvation for Jacob.

Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

And go nobly on in your power, because you are good and true and without pride; and your right hand will be teaching you things of fear.

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's haters; because of them the peoples are falling under you.

Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.

So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;

Though its waters are sounding and troubled, and though the mountains are shaking with their violent motion. (Selah.)

The rulers of the peoples have come together, with the people of the God of Abraham; because the powers of the earth are God's: he is lifted up on high.

Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.

What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.

You are my glory; let the instruments of music be awake; I myself will be awake with the dawn.

Is there righteousness in your mouths, O you gods? are you upright judges, O you sons of men?

The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

Who will not be moved by the voice of the wonder-worker, however great are his powers.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;

The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:

Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.

Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.

The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.

He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)

Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.

Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.

My feet are deep in the soft earth, where there is no support; I have come into deep waters, the waves are flowing over me.

I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

Let not those who have hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord God of armies: let not those who are waiting for you be made low because of me, O God of Israel.

I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.

But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.

Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me.

You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

The poor will see it and be glad: you who are lovers of God, let your hearts have life.

For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.

Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.

But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.

Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

I am a wonder to all; but you are my strong tower.

For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel.

May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.

He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.

The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.

Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.