For the choir director; according to the Shoshannim. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.
My heart overflows with a good theme;
I address my verses to the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah, set to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

“Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
O clap your hands, all peoples;
Shout to God with the voice of joy.

God has ascended with a shout,
The Lord, with the sound of a trumpet.

Sing praises to God, sing praises;
Sing praises to our King, sing praises.

For God is the King of all the earth;
Sing praises with a skillful psalm.

God reigns over the nations,
God sits on His holy throne.

The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham,
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is highly exalted.

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

As we have heard, so have we seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God;
God will establish her forever. Selah.

We have thought on Your lovingkindness, O God,
In the midst of Your temple.

As is Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.

For such is God,
Our God forever and ever;
He will guide us until death.

No man can by any means redeem his brother
Or give to God a ransom for him—

But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol,
For He will receive me. Selah.

A Psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, the Lord, has spoken,
And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth.

May our God come and not keep silence;
Fire devours before Him,
And it is very tempestuous around Him.

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

“Hear, O My people, and I will speak;
O Israel, I will testify against you;
I am God, your God.

“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving
And pay your vows to the Most High;

But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to tell of My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?

“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.

“He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me;
And to him who orders his way aright
I shall show the salvation of God.”

For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation;
Then my tongue will joyfully sing of Your righteousness.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

By Your favor do good to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.

For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

But God will break you down forever;
He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.

“Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his evil desire.”

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God.

Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

There they were in great fear where no fear had been;
For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you;
You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.

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

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding himself among us?”
Save me, O God, by Your name,
And vindicate me by Your power.

Hear my prayer, O God;
Give ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

Behold, God is my helper;
The Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

Willingly I will sacrifice to You;
I will give thanks to Your name, O Lord, for it is good.

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
Give ear to my prayer, O God;
And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

We who had sweet fellowship together
Walked in the house of God in the throng.

As for me, I shall call upon God,
And the Lord will save me.

God will hear and answer them—
Even the one who sits enthroned from of old— Selah.
With whom there is no change,
And who do not fear God.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;
Fighting all day long he oppresses me.

In God, whose word I praise,
In God I have put my trust;
I shall not be afraid.
What can mere man do to me?

Because of wickedness, cast them forth,
In anger put down the peoples, O God!

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.

In God, whose word I praise,
In the Lord, whose word I praise,

In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

Your vows are binding upon me, O God;
I will render thank offerings to You.

For You have delivered my soul from death,
Indeed my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of the living.

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.
Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
For my soul takes refuge in You;
And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge
Until destruction passes by.

I will cry to God Most High,
To God who accomplishes all things for me.

He will send from heaven and save me;
He reproaches him who tramples upon me. Selah.
God will send forth His lovingkindness and His truth.

Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises!

Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

And men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely there is a God who judges on earth!”

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when Saul sent men and they watched the house in order to kill him.
Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Set me securely on high away from those who rise up against me.

You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the nations;
Do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity. Selah.

Because of his strength I will watch for You,
For God is my stronghold.

My God in His lovingkindness will meet me;
God will let me look triumphantly upon my foes.

Destroy them in wrath, destroy them that they may be no more;
That men may know that God rules in Jacob
To the ends of the earth. Selah.

O my strength, I will sing praises to You;
For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me lovingkindness.

For the choir director; according to Shushan Eduth. A Mikhtam of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt.
O God, You have rejected us. You have broken us;
You have been angry; O, restore us.

God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will exult, I will portion out Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Have not You Yourself, O God, rejected us?
And will You not go forth with our armies, O God?

Through God we shall do valiantly,
And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

For the choir director; on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.
Hear my cry, O God;
Give heed to my prayer.

For You have heard my vows, O God;
You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.

He will abide before God forever;
Appoint lovingkindness and truth that they may preserve him.

For the choir director; according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
My soul waits in silence for God only;
From Him is my salvation.

My soul, wait in silence for God only,
For my hope is from Him.

On God my salvation and my glory rest;
The rock of my strength, my refuge is in God.

Trust in Him at all times, O people;
Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Once God has spoken;
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God;

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

But the king will rejoice in God;
Everyone who swears by Him will glory,
For the mouths of those who speak lies will be stopped.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint;
Preserve my life from dread of the enemy.

But God will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.

Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song.
There will be silence before You, and praise in Zion, O God,
And to You the vow will be performed.