May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].

For You are my hope;
O Lord God, You are my trust and the source of my confidence from my youth.

Upon You have I relied and been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb and You have been my benefactor from that day.
My praise is continually of You.

O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, come quickly to help me!

O God, You have taught me from my youth,
And I still declare Your wondrous works and miraculous deeds.

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive and renew me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River [Euphrates] to the ends of the earth.

He will redeem their life from oppression and fraud and violence,
And their blood will be precious in His sight.

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak loftily [with malice].

They set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue swaggers through the earth.

For behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful and have abandoned You.

For not from the east, nor from the west,
Nor from the desert comes exaltation.

For a cup [of His wrath] is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed and fully spiced, and He pours out from it;
And all the wicked of the earth must drain it and drink down to its dregs.

You are glorious and resplendent,
More majestic than the mountains of prey.

You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
The earth feared and was quiet

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Your way, O God, is holy [far from sin and guilt].
What god is great like our God?

We will not hide them from their children,
But [we will] tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
And [tell of] His great might and power and the wonderful works that He has done.

They did not remember [the miracles worked by] His [powerful] hand,
Nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

And turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.

He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];
He did not spare their souls from death,
But turned over their lives to the plague.

His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.

Then the Lord awakened as from sleep,
Like a [mighty] warrior who awakens from the sleep of wine [fully conscious of his power].

He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;

From tending the ewes with nursing young He brought him
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.

So we Your people, the sheep of Your pasture,
Will give You thanks forever;
We will declare and publish Your praise from generation to generation.

Why have You broken down its walls and hedges,
So that all who pass by pick its fruit?

Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

Then we shall not turn back from You;
Revive us and we will call on Your name.

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

They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power];
Each of them appears before God in Zion.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord bestows grace and favor and honor;
No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

O Lord, You have [at last] shown favor to Your land [of Canaan];
You have restored [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob (Israel).

You have withdrawn all Your wrath,
You have turned away from Your burning anger.

Truth springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.

For great is Your lovingkindness and graciousness toward me;
And You have rescued my life from the depths of Sheol [from death].

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob (Israel).

Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave,
Whom You no longer remember,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.

O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

I was afflicted and close to death from my youth on;
I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome.

Lover and friend You have placed far from me;
My familiar friends are in darkness.

I will sing of the goodness and lovingkindness of the Lord forever;
With my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness from generation to generation.

Once You spoke in a vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty [giving him the power to be a champion for Israel];
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

“The enemy will not outwit him,
Nor will the wicked man afflict or humiliate him.

“Nevertheless, I will not break off My lovingkindness from him,
Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.

What man can live and not see death?
Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

Before the mountains were born
Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.

You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.

Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?
Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

For He will save you from the trap of the fowler,
And from the deadly pestilence.

Your throne is established from of old;
You are from everlasting.

Your precepts are fully confirmed and completely reliable;
Holiness adorns Your house,
O Lord, forever.

Sing to the Lord, bless His name;
Proclaim good news of His salvation from day to day.

Light is sown [like seed] for the righteous and illuminates their path,
And [irrepressible] joy [is spread] for the upright in heart [who delight in His favor and protection].

I will set no worthless or wicked thing before my eyes.
I hate the practice of those who fall away [from the right path];
It will not grasp hold of me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not tolerate evil.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will silence;
The one who has a haughty look and a proud (arrogant) heart I will not tolerate.

Morning after morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land,
That I may cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do evil.

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress!
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call, answer me quickly.

Because of the sound of my groaning [in suffering and trouble]
My bones cling to my flesh.

For He looked down from His holy height [of His sanctuary],
From heaven the Lord gazed on the earth,

Who redeems your life from the pit,
Who crowns you [lavishly] with lovingkindness and tender mercy;

As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who [reverently] fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children,

He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;
The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

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

Let sinners be consumed from the earth,
And let the wicked be no more.
Bless and affectionately praise the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

And they wandered from one nation to another,
From one kingdom to another people,

So He saved them from the hand of the one that hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy.

Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
That we may give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in praising You.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,

And gathered them from the lands,
From the east and from the west,
From the north and from the south.

He sent His word and healed them,
And rescued them from their destruction.

They staggered and trembled like a drunken man,
And were at their wits’ end [all their wisdom was useless].

Yet He sets the needy securely on high, away from affliction,
And makes their families like a flock.

Let his children wander and beg;
Let them seek their food and be driven far from their ruined homes.

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

He also loved cursing, and it came [back] to him;
He did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

Let this be the reward of my attackers from the Lord,
And of those who speak evil against my life.

My knees are unsteady from fasting;
And my flesh is gaunt and without fatness.

For He will stand at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who judge his soul.

The Lord will send the scepter of Your strength from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Blessed be the name of the Lord
From this time forth and forever.

From the rising of the sun to its setting
The name of the Lord is to be praised [with awe-inspired reverence].

He raises the poor out of the dust
And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

When Israel came out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

But as for us, we will bless and affectionately and gratefully praise the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

For You have rescued my life from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from stumbling and falling.

This is from the Lord and is His doing;
It is marvelous in our eyes.

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord;
We have blessed you from the house of the Lord [you who come into His sanctuary under His guardianship].

They do no unrighteousness;
They walk in His ways.

With all my heart I have sought You, [inquiring of You and longing for You];
Do not let me wander from Your commandments [neither through ignorance nor by willful disobedience].

I am a stranger on the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.

You rebuke the presumptuous and arrogant, the cursed ones,
Who wander from Your commandments.

Take reproach and contempt away from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.

Remove from me the way of falsehood and unfaithfulness,
And graciously grant me Your law.

Turn my eyes away from vanity [all those worldly, meaningless things that distract—let Your priorities be mine],
And restore me [with renewed energy] in Your ways.

The arrogant utterly ridicule me,
Yet I do not turn away from Your law.