For great is Your mercy toward me; and You have delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.

O Jehovah, why do You cast off 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 pine away.

You have taken lover and friend far from me, and those who know me into darkness.

But I will not completely take My loving-kindness from him, and I will not be false in My faithfulness.

You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown to the ground.

What man lives and never sees death? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

Surely He will deliver you from the fowler's trap and from the destroying plague.

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

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

Sing to Jehovah, bless His name; show forth His salvation from day to day.

A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not know the wicked.

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land, so that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of Jehovah.

Hide not Your face from me in the day when I am in trouble; bow down Your ear to me; in the day I call, answer me quickly.

For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from Heaven Jehovah beheld the earth;

who redeems your life from ruin; 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 the mercy of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness is to sons of sons;

He waters the hills from His upper rooms; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.

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

Let the sinners perish from the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless Jehovah, O my soul. Praise Jehovah!

When they went from one nation to another, from a kingdom to another people,

And He saved them from the hand of the hater, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Save us, O Jehovah our God, and gather us from among the nations, to give thanks to Your holy name and to triumph in Your praise.

Blessed is Jehovah, the God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting; and let all the people say, Amen. Praise Jehovah!

Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

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

He sent His Word and heals them, and delivers them from their pitfalls.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their wisdom is swallowed up.

But He raises up the poor from affliction and sets families like a flock.

Give us help from trouble; for vain is the deliverance of man.

Let them be always before Jehovah, that He may cut off their memory from the earth,

Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come to him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.

This is the reward of my foes from Jehovah, and of them who speak evil against my soul.

My knees stumble from fasting; and my flesh is losing its fatness.

For He shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.

Your people shall be willing in the day of Your power, in holy adornment from the womb of the morning: You have the dew of Your youth.

Blessed is the name of Jehovah from this time forth and forevermore.

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

When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

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

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

This is from Jehovah; it is marvelous in our eyes.

With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me wander from Your Commandments.

I am a stranger in the earth; do not hide Your Commandments from me.

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who go astray from Your Commandments.

Remove cursing and scorn from me; for I have kept Your testimonies.

Remove from me the way of lying; and grant me Your Law graciously.

Turn away my eyes from seeing vanity; in Your way give me life.

The proud have utterly scorned me; yet I have not turned aside from Your Law.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, so that I might keep Your Word.

I have not departed from Your judgments; for You have taught me.

The wicked have laid a snare for me; yet I do not go astray from Your Commandments.

Depart from me, you evil-doers, for I will keep the Commandments of my God.

You have trampled all those who go astray from Your Precepts; for their deceit is falsehood.

Deliver me from the oppression of man; and I will keep Your Commandments.

They draw near, those who follow after wickedness; they are far from Your Law.

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your Precepts.

Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies.

Your Word is true from the beginning; and every one of Your righteous judgments endures forever.

Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

A Song of degrees. I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where shall my help come from?

My help comes from Jehovah, who made Heaven and earth.

Jehovah shall keep you from all evil; He shall keep your soul.

Jehovah shall keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.

As the mountains are all around Jerusalem, so Jehovah is all around His people from this time and forever.

A Song of degrees. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth, Israel may now say;

many times they have afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed over me.

And He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

Let Israel hope in Jehovah from this moment and forever.

Jehovah has sworn to David in truth; He will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body I will set on the throne for you.

He causes the vapors to rise from the end of the earth; He makes lightnings for the rain; He brings wind out of His storehouses.

and brought Israel out from among them, for His mercy endures forever;

and has redeemed us from our enemies; for His mercy endures forever.

For there our captors demanded a song from us; and our plunderers demanded gladness, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Where shall I go from Your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from Your presence?

Yea, the darkness does not hide from You; but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light to You.

My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

Surely You will slay the wicked, O God; and bloody men, depart from me.

To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; keep me from the violent man,

O Jehovah, keep me from the hands of the wicked; keep me from the violent man who purposed to trip up my steps.

Keep me from the traps which they have laid for me, and the snares of the workers of evil.

Hear my cry; for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pursuers; for they are stronger than I.

Hear me quickly, O Jehovah; my spirit fails; do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the Pit.

Deliver me, O Jehovah, from my enemies; I flee to You to hide me.

Send Your hand from above; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of a foreigner's sons;

It is You who gives salvation to kings; who delivers David His servant from the hurtful sword.

Rescue me, and deliver me from the hand of foreigners' sons, because their mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood;

Praise Jehovah! Praise Jehovah from the heavens; praise Him in the heights.

Let praise be to Jehovah from the earth, the sea-monsters, and all deeps;

My son, do not walk in the way with them! Keep back your foot from their path,

But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

to deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks wicked things;

They will deliver you from the strange woman, the stranger who flatters with her words,

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

For the profit from it is better than the gain from silver, and its produce more than fine gold;

My son, do not let them depart from your eyes; keep sound wisdom and judgment,