My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? Yea, art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him: The salvation of my countenance -- My God!

By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

I say to God my rock, 'Why hast Thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning in the oppression of an enemy?

With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.

What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.

Thou art He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.

In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. Selah.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies.' -- By sons of Korah. -- An Instruction. -- A song of loves. My heart hath indited a good thing, I am telling my works to a king, My tongue is the pen of a speedy writer.

Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

Thy throne, O God, is age-during, and for ever, A sceptre of uprightness Is the sceptre of Thy kingdom.

Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. 'For the Virgins.' -- A song. God is to us a refuge and strength, A help in adversities found most surely.

A river -- its rivulets rejoice the city of God, Thy holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

God is in her midst -- she is not moved, God doth help her at the turn of the morn!

Jehovah of Hosts is with us, A tower for us is the God of Jacob. Selah.

Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.

Desist, and know that I am God, I am exalted among nations, I am exalted in the earth.

Jehovah of hosts is with us, A tower for us is the God of Jacob! Selah.

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. A Psalm. All ye peoples, clap the hand, Shout to God with a voice of singing,

God hath gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet.

Praise God -- praise -- give praise to our king, praise.

For king of all the earth is God, Give praise, O understanding one.

God hath reigned over nations, God hath sat on His holy throne,

Nobles of peoples have been gathered, With the people of the God of Abraham, For to God are the shields of earth, Greatly hath He been exalted!

A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, In the city of our God -- His holy hill.

God in her high places is known for a tower.

As we have heard, so we have seen, In the city of Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God, God doth establish her -- to the age. Selah.

We have thought, O God, of Thy kindness, In the midst of Thy temple,

As is Thy name, O God, so is Thy praise, Over the ends of the earth, Righteousness hath filled Thy right hand.

That this God is our God -- To the age and for ever, He -- he doth lead us over death!

A brother doth no one at all ransom, He doth not give to God his atonement.

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

Only, God doth ransom my soul from the hand of Sheol, For He doth receive me. Selah.

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods -- Jehovah -- hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.

From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.

Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.

And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God am I.

Sacrifice to God confession, And complete to the Most High thy vows.

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.

To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, 'David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God is all the day.

Thou hast loved evil rather than good, Lying, than speaking righteousness. Selah.

Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

'Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,

I thank Thee to the age, because Thou hast done it, And I wait on Thy name for it is good before Thy saints!

To the Overseer. -- 'On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

God from the heavens looked on the sons of men, To see if there be an understanding one, One seeking God.

Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good -- not even one.

Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

There they feared a fear -- there was no fear, For God hath scattered the bones of him Who is encamping against thee, Thou hast put to shame, For God hath despised them.

Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God turneth back to a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!

To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of the Ziphim, and they say to Saul, 'Is not David hiding himself with us?' O God, by Thy name save me, and by Thy might judge me.

O God, hear my prayer, Give ear to the sayings of my mouth,

For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.

Lo, God is a helper to me, The Lord is with those supporting my soul,

Turn back doth the evil thing to mine enemies, In Thy truth cut them off.

With a free will-offering I sacrifice to Thee, I thank Thy name, O Jehovah, for it is good,

To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.

When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

I -- to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.

God doth hear and afflict them, And He sitteth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, and fear not God,

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Dumb Dove far off.' -- A secret treasure of David, in the Philistines' taking hold of him in Gath. Favour me, O God, for man swallowed me up, All the day fighting he oppresseth me,

In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I fear not what flesh doth to me.

By iniquity they escape, In anger the peoples put down, O God.

Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God is for me.

In God I praise the word, In Jehovah I praise the word.

In God I trusted, I fear not what man doth to me,

On me, O God, are Thy vows, I repay thank-offerings to Thee.

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not.' -- A secret treasure of David, in his fleeing from the face of Saul into a cave. Favour me, O God, favour me, For in Thee is my soul trusting, And in the shadow of Thy wings I trust, Until the calamities pass over.

I call to God Most High, To God who is perfecting for me.

He sendeth from the heaven, and saveth me, He reproached -- who is panting after me. Selah. God sendeth forth His kindness and His truth.

Be Thou exalted above the heavens, O God, Above all the earth Thine honour.

Prepared is my heart, O God, Prepared is my heart, I sing and praise.

Be thou exalted above the heavens, O God. Above all the earth Thine honour!

O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

And man saith: 'Surely fruit is for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not,' by David. -- A secret treasure, in Saul's sending, and they watch the house to put him to death. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God, From my withstanders set me on high.

And Thou, Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel, Awake to inspect all the nations. Favour not any treacherous dealers of iniquity. Selah.