Do not kill them; otherwise, my people will forget.
By Your power, make them homeless wanderers
and bring them down,
Lord, our shield.

They scavenge for food;
they growl if they are not satisfied.

God, haven’t You rejected us?
God, You do not march out with our armies.

He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my stronghold; I will not be shaken.

When I think of You as I lie on my bed,
I meditate on You during the night watches

shooting from concealed places at the innocent.
They shoot at him suddenly and are not afraid.

He rules forever by His might;
He keeps His eye on the nations.
The rebellious should not exalt themselves.Selah

He keeps us alive
and does not allow our feet to slip.

If I had been aware of malice in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened.

May God be praised!
He has not turned away my prayer
or turned His faithful love from me.

Those who hate me without cause
are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me,
are powerful.
Though I did not steal, I must repay.

God, You know my foolishness,
and my guilty acts are not hidden from You.

Do not let those who put their hope in You
be disgraced because of me,
Lord God of Hosts;
do not let those who seek You
be humiliated because of me,
God of Israel.

Add guilt to their guilt;
do not let them share in Your righteousness.

Let them be erased from the book of life
and not be recorded with the righteous.

For the Lord listens to the needy
and does not despise
His own who are prisoners.

I am afflicted and needy;
hurry to me, God.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Lord, do not delay.

Don’t discard me in my old age;
as my strength fails, do not abandon me.

God, do not be far from me;
my God, hurry to help me.

Even when I am old and gray,
God, do not abandon me.
Then I will proclaim Your power
to another generation,
Your strength to all who are to come.

They are not in trouble like others;
they are not afflicted like most people.

The day is Yours, also the night;
You established the moon and the sun.

Do not give the life of Your dove to beasts;
do not forget the lives of Your poor people forever.

Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame;
let the poor and needy praise Your name.

Do not forget the clamor of Your adversaries,
the tumult of Your opponents that goes up constantly.

I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

Do not lift up your horn against heaven
or speak arrogantly.’”

Exaltation does not come
from the east, the west, or the desert,

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.

At night I remember my music;
I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.

We must not hide them from their children,
but must tell a future generation
the praises of the Lord,
His might, and the wonderful works
He has performed.

so that they might put their confidence in God
and not forget God’s works,
but keep His commands.

Then they would not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not loyal
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law.

He led them with a cloud by day
and with a fiery light throughout the night.

because they did not believe God
or rely on His salvation.

Despite all this, they kept sinning
and did not believe His wonderful works.

Yet He was compassionate;
He atoned for their guilt
and did not destroy them.
He often turned His anger aside
and did not unleash all His wrath.

He remembered that they were only flesh,
a wind that passes and does not return.

They did not remember His power shown
on the day He redeemed them from the foe,

He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.

He cleared a path for His anger.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.

He led them safely, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.

But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep His decrees.

His priests fell by the sword,
but the widows could not lament.

He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

Do not hold past sins against us;
let Your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become weak.

Then we will not turn away from You;
revive us, and we will call on Your name.

There must not be a strange god among you;
you must not bow down to a foreign god.

“But My people did not listen to Me;
Israel did not obey Me.

They do not know or understand;
they wander in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

A song. A psalm of Asaph.God, do not keep silent.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be idle.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
The Lord gives grace and glory;
He does not withhold the good
from those who live with integrity.

Will You not revive us again
so that Your people may rejoice in You?

I will listen to what God will say;
surely the Lord will declare peace
to His people, His godly ones,
and not let them go back to foolish ways.

A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choir director: according to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite.Lord, God of my salvation,
I cry out before You day and night.

The enemy will not afflict him;
no wicked man will oppress him.

If his sons forsake My instruction
and do not live by My ordinances,

if they dishonor My statutes
and do not keep My commands,

But I will not withdraw
My faithful love from him
or betray My faithfulness.

I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.

Once and for all
I have sworn an oath by My holiness;
I will not lie to David.

You have also turned back his sharp sword
and have not let him stand in battle.

For in Your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.

He Himself will deliver you from the hunter’s net,
from the destructive plague.

You will not fear the terror of the night,
the arrow that flies by day,

Though a thousand fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
the pestilence will not reach you.

They will support you with their hands
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

to declare Your faithful love in the morning
and Your faithfulness at night,

A stupid person does not know,
a fool does not understand this:

Can the One who shaped the ear not hear,
the One who formed the eye not see?

The One who instructs nations,
the One who teaches man knowledge—
does He not discipline?

The Lord will not forsake His people
or abandon His heritage,

If the Lord had not been my helper,
I would soon rest in the silence of death.

Do not harden your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the wilderness

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”

I will not set anything worthless before my eyes.
I hate the practice of transgression;
it will not cling to me.

A devious heart will be far from me;
I will not be involved with evil.

Do not hide Your face from me in my day of trouble.
Listen closely to me;
answer me quickly when I call.

He will pay attention to the prayer of the destitute
and will not despise their prayer.

I say: “My God, do not take me
in the middle of my life!
Your years continue through all generations.

My soul, praise the Lord,
and do not forget all His benefits.

He will not always accuse us
or be angry forever.

He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve
or repaid us according to our offenses.

You bring darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals stir.

“Do not touch My anointed ones,
or harm My prophets.”

He sent darkness, and it became dark—
for did they not defy His commands?

He spread a cloud as a covering
and gave a fire to light up the night.

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp
the significance of Your wonderful works
or remember Your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.

Water covered their foes;
not one of them remained.

They soon forgot His works
and would not wait for His counsel.

So He said He would have destroyed them—
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.

They despised the pleasant land
and did not believe His promise.

They grumbled in their tents
and did not listen to the Lord’s voice.

They did not destroy the peoples
as the Lord had commanded them

When He heard their cry,
He took note of their distress,

He blesses them, and they multiply greatly;
He does not let their livestock decrease.

God, haven’t You rejected us?
God, You do not march out with our armies.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.God of my praise, do not be silent.