For I will consider thy heavens, even the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And what is the son of man that thou visitest him?

While mine enemies are driven back, they fall and perish at thy presence.

Arise, LORD, and let no man have the upper hand; let the Heathen be judged in thy sight.

O LORD, put a schoolmaster over them, that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

to help the fatherless and the poor unto their right, that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's seat is in heaven. His eyes consider the poor, and his eyelids try the children of men.

{To the Chanter upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David} Help me, LORD, for there is not one godly man left: for the faithful are diminished from among the children of men.

The ungodly walk on every side; when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

How long shall I seek counsel in my soul, and be so vexed in my heart? How long shall mine enemies triumph over me?

Consider, and hear me, O LORD my God. Lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death,

lest mine enemy say, "I have prevailed against him." For if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

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

He that hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.

The LORD himself is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup; thou shalt maintain my lot.

Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me, for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.

Because of men's works that are done against the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer.

from the ungodly that trouble me. Mine enemies compass me round about, to take away my soul.

From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

The LORD is my stony rock, and my defense, my Saviour, my God, and my might, in whom I will trust, my buckler, the horn also of my salvation, and my refuge. {TYNDALE: The LORD is my rock, my castle and my deliverer. God is my strength, and in him will I trust: my shield and the horn that defendeth me: mine high hold and refuge.}

3 I will call upon the LORD, which is worthy to be praised; so shall I be safe from mine enemies. {TYNDALE: I will praise and call on the LORD, and so shall be saved from mine enemies.}

With the holy thou shalt be holy, and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect. {TYNDALE: With the holy thou shalt be holy, and with the man that is uncorrupt, thou shalt be uncorrupt.}

For in thee I can discomfit a host of men, and with the help of my God I shall leap over the wall. {TYNDALE: With thy help I will run through a host of men, and by the aid of my God will spring over a wall.}

He teacheth my hands to fight, and mine arms shall bend even a bow of steel. {TYNDALE: And teacheth my hands to fight, that a bow of brass is too weak for mine arms.}

I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them; neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them. {TYNDALE: I followed mine enemies and destroyed them, and turned not again until I had consumed them.}

Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.}

It is he that delivereth me from my cruel enemies, and setteth me up against mine adversaries: thou shalt rid me from the wicked man. {TYNDALE: And delivereth me from mine enemies: thou liftest me up on high from them that rise against me, and deliverest me from the wicked men.}

Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

But as for me, I am a worm and no man: a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people.

All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul.

Thou preparest a table before me against mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil, and fillest my cup full.

My God, I have put my trust in thee. O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me.

What man is he that feareth the LORD? Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

Mine eyes are ever looking unto the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.

For thy loving-kindness is ever before mine eyes; and I will walk in thy truth.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Though a host of men were laid against me, yet shall not my heart be afraid; and though there rose up war against me, yet will I put my trust in him.

And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me. Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness; I will sing and speak praises unto the LORD.

Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in the right way, because of mine enemies.

Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries; for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as imagine mischief.

The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to bring forth young, and discovereth the thick bushes; in his temple doth every man speak of his honour.

Therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing. O my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble, and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness, yea my soul and my body.

For my life is waxen old with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

I am become a very reproof among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours. And they of mine own acquaintance are afraid of me; they that see me in the street, convey themselves from me.

I am clean forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; I am become like a broken vessel.

My time is in thy hand; deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

O how plentiful is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, and that thou hast prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the sons of men!

Thou shalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men; thou shalt keep them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues.

Blessed is the man, unto whom the LORD imputeth no sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

I will acknowledge my sin unto thee; and mine unrighteousness have I not hid. I said, "I will confess my sins unto the LORD." And so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. Selah.

I will inform thee, and teach thee in the way wherein thou shalt go; and I will guide thee with mine eye.

The LORD looked down from heaven, and beheld all the children of men;

There is no king that can be saved by the multitude of a host; neither is any mighty man delivered by much strength.

A horse is counted but a vain thing to save a man; neither shall he deliver any man by his great strength.

O taste and see how friendly the LORD is; blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

What man is he that lusteth to live, and would fain see good days?

Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the very lame came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.

O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over me ungodly; neither let them wink with their eyes, that hate me without a cause.

Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains; thy judgments are like the great deep. Thou, LORD, shalt save both man and beast.

How excellent is thy mercy, O God! And the children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

The LORD ordereth a good man's going, and hath pleasure in his way.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

My heart panteth, my strength hath failed me, and the light of mine eyes is gone from me.

As for me, I was like a deaf man and heard not; as one that were dumb, not opening his mouth.

I am become as a man that heareth not: and that can make no resistance with his mouth.

My desire is that mine enemies triumph not over me; for if my foot slip, they rejoice greatly against me.

But mine enemies live, and are mighty: and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number.

"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

Behold, thou hast made my days a span long, and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee; and verily every man living is altogether vanity. Selah

Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

Deliver me from all mine offenses; and make me not a rebuke unto the foolish.

When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment; every man therefore is but vanity. Selah.

He hath put a new song in my mouth, even a thanksgiving unto our God. Many men seeing this, shall fear the LORD, and put their trust in him.

Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the LORD, and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies.

O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not, but mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required.

Mine enemies speak evil upon me, "When shall he die, and his name perish?"

All mine enemies whisper together against me; even against me do they imagine this evil.

Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, who did also eat my bread, hath lift up his heel against me.

My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword, while mine enemies that trouble me cast me in the teeth, daily saying unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

Give sentence with me, O God, and defend my cause against the ungodly people; O deliver me from the deceitful and wicked man.

Thou sellest thy people for naught, and takest no money for them.

Thou art the fairest among the children of men; full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.

I will incline mine ear to the parable, and show my dark speech upon the harp.

But no man may deliver his brother, nor make agreement unto God for him,

For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others.

Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them.

For while he lived, he counted himself a happy man; and so long as thou doest well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee.

When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts - and becometh like unto them.

For all the beasts of the forest are mine, and so are the cattle upon a thousand hills.

If I be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the whole world is mine, and all that therein is.

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

"Lo, this is the man that took not God for his strength, but trusted unto the multitude of his riches, and was mighty in his wickedness!"

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

He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: destroy thou them in thy truth!

For thou hast delivered me out of all my trouble, so that mine eye seeth his desire upon mine enemies.

If it were mine enemy that reviled me, I could bear it: or if one that ought me evil will did threaten me, I would hide myself from him.