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

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

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 have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

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

And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

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;

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.

High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.

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?

So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;

Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

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.

Make me full of joy and rapture; so that the bones which have been broken may be glad.

You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.

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.

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

They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

6 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.

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.)

Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

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.

Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.

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

In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.

Because you have taken my soul from the power of death; and kept my feet from falling, so that I may be walking before God in the light of life.

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.

They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

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.)

Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.

You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.

Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

The upright will be glad in the Lord and have hope in him; and all the lovers of righteousness will give him glory.

It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.

Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

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.

You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.

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

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

But let the upright be glad; let them have delight before God; let them be full of joy.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.

O God, send out your strength; the strength, O God, with which you have done great things for us,

Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

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.

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 have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

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

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

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

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

The seed of his servants will have their part in it, and there the lovers of his name will have rest.

Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

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.

In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed.

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

You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

Your righteousness, O God, is very high; you have done great things; O God, who is like you?

You, who have sent great and bitter troubles on me, will give me life again, lifting me up from the deep waters of the underworld.

Joy will be on my lips when I make melody to you; and in my soul, to which you have given salvation.

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

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

May he have long life, and may gold from Sheba be given to him: may prayers be made for him at all times; may blessings be on him every day.

For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

But still I am ever with you; you have taken me by my right hand.

Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

But it is good for me to come near to God: I have put my faith in the Lord God, so that I may make clear all his works.

Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

Go up and see the unending destruction; all the evil which your haters have done in the holy place;