You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry; thou wilt not be silent at my tears, for I a sojourner with thee, a dweller, as all my fathers.

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Thou, O Yahweh, wilt not restrain thy compassions from me, Thy lovingkindness and thy truthfulness, shall continually watch over me.

The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

And I, in mine integrity thou didst support me, and thou wilt set me before thy face forever.

These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude; I led them [in procession] to the house of God, with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a crowd celebrating a festival.

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him for the salvation of his face.

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? Hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face and my God.

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause, Against a nation, without lovingkindness, From the man of deceit and perversity, wilt thou deliver me?

Why wilt thou be bowed down, O my soul? and why wilt thou be disturbed upon me? hope upon God, for yet shall I praise him, the salvation of my face, and my God.

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Thou didst with thy hand drive out the nations and thou wilt plant them; thou wilt pluck in pieces the people, and thou wilt send them forth.

But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;

Thou wilt turn us back from the enemy: and those hating us spoiled for themselves.

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

Thou wilt sell thy people without riches, and thou didst not increase by their price.

Thou wilt set us a reproach to our neighbors, and a derision and scorn to them round about us.

Thou wilt set us a parable among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

Our heart drew not back, and thou wilt not incline our going from thy path;

That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.

Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face? Wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?

Thou lovedst justice, and thou wilt hate injustice: for this, God thy God anointed thee with the oil of joy above thy companions.

With an east wind, wilt thou shatter the ships of Tarshish.

Why should I fear in the days of evil,
When the wickedness of those who would betray me surrounds me [on every side],

for it would cost too much to redeem his life, and the payments would go on forever

For in his living he will praise his soul, (and he will praise thee for thou wilt do good to thyself,)

For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands;

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

And to the unjust one God said, What to thee to recount my law, and thou wilt lift up my covenant upon thy mouth?

And thou hatedst instruction, and thou wilt cast my words behind thee.

If thou sawest a thief, and thou wilt run with him, and thy portion with those committing adultery.

Thou wilt sit, and thou wilt speak against thy brother; against the son of thy, mother thou wilt give a stumbling-block.

Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

Wilt thou cleanse me from sin with hyssop, That I may be pure? Wilt thou wash me, That I may be whiter, than snow?

Wilt thou cause me to hear joy and gladness? The bones thou hast crushed would exult.

Thou wilt not cast me away from thy face, and thou wilt not take thy holy spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, And, with a willing spirit, wilt thou uphold me: -

I would teach transgressors thy ways, And, sinners, unto thee, should return.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

O My Lord! my lips, wilt thou open, And, my mouth, shall declare thy praise.

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Do good, in thy good-pleasure, unto Zion, Wilt thou build the walls of Jerusalem!

Then wilt thou delight in sacrifices of justice, in burnt-offering and whole burnt-offering: then they will bring up bullocks upon thine altar.

To the overseer instruction to David: In the coming of Doeg the Edomite to Saul, and he will say to him, David came to the house of Ahimelech. Why wilt thou boast in evil, thou strong one? the mercy of God is all the day.

"Look, the man [who] would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, or seek after God.

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores [the fortunes of] His people,
Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

O God! by thine own Name, save me, And, by thine own strength, wilt thou vindicate me?

To the overseer upon the stringed instrument, instruction to David. Give ear O God, to my prayer; thou wilt not hide thyself from my supplication.

Attend unto me, and answer me: I wander about in my plaint, and I moan aloud,

Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble on me,
And in anger they persecute me.

My heart, would writhe within me, And, the terrors of Death, have fallen upon me:

Fear and trembling, would enter me, And there would have overwhelmed me - a horror!

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah.

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

[We] who would take sweet counsel together; in the house of God we would walk with [the] throng.

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.

{To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.} Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

In God, I wilt praise his cause, - In God, have I trusted, I will not fear, What can flesh do unto me?

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy, to David a poem in his fleeing from the face of Saul in the cave. Compassionate me, O God, compassionate me: for in thee my soul put trust, and in the shadow of thy wings I will put my trust till calamity shall pass by.

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?

Rescue me from my foes, O my God, From them who lift themselves up against me, wilt thou set me on high:

And thou Jehovah God of armies, God of Israel, awake to review all the nations: thou wilt not compassionate all covering iniquity. Silence.

But thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; Thou wilt have all the nations in derision.

Thou wilt not kill them lest my people shall forget: cause them to wander to and fro by thy strength, and bring them down, O Jehovah, our shield.

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

O God, thou hast rejected us - hast scattered us, Thou hast been angry, Wilt thou restore us?

Moab is my wash-pot; upon Edom will I cast my sandal; Philistia, shout aloud because of me.

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my eart is overwhelmed: thou wilt lead me on to a rock which is too high for me.

I would be a guest in thy tent to the ages, I would seek refuge in the concealment of thy wings. Selah.

Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

And, thine, O My Lord, is lovingkindness, - For, thou, wilt pay back unto every man - according to his deed.

Because better is thy lovingkindness than life, My lips, aloud shall praise thee!

Should I call thee to mind upon my conch, In the watches of the night, would I breathe soft speech of thee.

When, they, to crush it, would seek my life, They shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

They [who] would {deliver him to the sword} will become a portion for jackals.

Hear, O God, my voice when I complain, From dread peril by the foe, wilt thou guard my life.

Wilt thou hide me, From the conclave of evil-doers, From the crowd of workers of iniquity.

And they [who] would cause him to stumble, their [own] tongue [will be] against them. All who gaze on them will shake.

Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Happy him thou wilt choose, and thou wilt draw near; he shall dwell in thy enclosures: we shall be satisfied in the good of thy house; holy is thy temple.

By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

And they shall be afraid, those dwelling in the ends, from thy signs: the goings forth of the morning and evening thou wilt cause to rejoice.