That You may grant him relief from the days of adversity,
Until a pit is dug for the wicked.

Sing to the Lord, bless His name;
Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.

Hate evil, you who love the Lord,
Who preserves the souls of His godly ones;
He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will know no evil.

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call answer me quickly.

For He looked down from His holy height;
From heaven the Lord gazed upon the earth,

Who redeems your life from the pit,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;

As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children,

He waters the mountains from His upper chambers;
The earth is satisfied with the fruit of His works.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

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

Let sinners be consumed from the earth
And let the wicked be no more.
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
Praise the Lord!

And they wandered about from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people.

So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in Your praise.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord!

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary

And gathered from the lands,
From the east and from the west,
From the north and from the south.

He sent His word and healed them,
And delivered them from their destructions.

But He sets the needy securely on high away from affliction,
And makes his families like a flock.

Let his children wander about and beg;
And let them seek sustenance far from their ruined homes.

Let them be before the Lord continually,
That He may cut off their memory from the earth;

He also loved cursing, so it came to him;
And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

Let this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord,
And of those who speak evil against my soul.

My knees are weak from fasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

For He stands at the right hand of the needy,
To save him from those who judge his soul.

The Lord will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power;
In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,
Your youth are to You as the dew.

He will drink from the brook by the wayside;
Therefore He will lift up His head.

Blessed be the name of the Lord
From this time forth and forever.

From the rising of the sun to its setting
The name of the Lord is to be praised.

He raises the poor from the dust
And lifts the needy from the ash heap,

When Israel went forth from Egypt,
The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

But as for us, we will bless the Lord
From this time forth and forever.
Praise the Lord!

For You have rescued my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
My feet from stumbling.

From my distress I called upon the Lord;
The Lord answered me and set me in a large place.

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord;
We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.

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

Open my eyes, that I may behold
Wonderful things from Your law.

I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.

You rebuke the arrogant, the cursed,
Who wander from Your commandments.

Take away reproach and contempt from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.

Remove the false way from me,
And graciously grant me Your law.

Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity,
And revive me in Your ways.

The arrogant utterly deride me,
Yet I do not turn aside from Your law.

I have remembered Your ordinances from of old, O Lord,
And comfort myself.

I have restrained my feet from every evil way,
That I may keep Your word.

I have not turned aside from Your ordinances,
For You Yourself have taught me.

From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.

The wicked have laid a snare for me,
Yet I have not gone astray from Your precepts.

Depart from me, evildoers,
That I may observe the commandments of my God.

You have rejected all those who wander from Your statutes,
For their deceitfulness is useless.

Redeem me from the oppression of man,
That I may keep Your precepts.

Those who follow after wickedness draw near;
They are far from Your law.

Of old I have known from Your testimonies
That You have founded them forever.

Salvation is far from the wicked,
For they do not seek Your statutes.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries,
Yet I do not turn aside from Your testimonies.

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

A Song of Ascents.
I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
From where shall my help come?

My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

The Lord will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.

The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.

As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
So the Lord surrounds His people
From this time forth and forever.

He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

The Lord bless you from Zion,
And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

A Song of Ascents.
“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up,”
Let Israel now say,

“Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up;
Yet they have not prevailed against me.

And He will redeem Israel
From all his iniquities.

O Israel, hope in the Lord
From this time forth and forever.

The Lord has sworn to David
A truth from which He will not turn back:
“Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.

May the Lord bless you from Zion,
He who made heaven and earth.

He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth;
Who makes lightnings for the rain,
Who brings forth the wind from His treasuries.

Blessed be the Lord from Zion,
Who dwells in Jerusalem.
Praise the Lord!

And brought Israel out from their midst,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting,

And has rescued us from our adversaries,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting;

For though the Lord is exalted,
Yet He regards the lowly,
But the haughty He knows from afar.

You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
You understand my thought from afar.

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

My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;

O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
Rescue me, O Lord, from evil men;
Preserve me from violent men

Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
Preserve me from violent men
Who have purposed to trip up my feet.

“May burning coals fall upon them;
May they be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the snares of those who do iniquity.

“Give heed to my cry,
For I am brought very low;
Deliver me from my persecutors,
For they are too strong for me.

Answer me quickly, O Lord, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies;
I take refuge in You.

Stretch forth Your hand from on high;
Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters,
Out of the hand of aliens

Who gives salvation to kings,
Who rescues David His servant from the evil sword.

Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord from the heavens;
Praise Him in the heights!

Praise the Lord from the earth,
Sea monsters and all deeps;

My son, do not walk in the way with them.
Keep your feet from their path,

“But he who listens to me shall live securely
And will be at ease from the dread of evil.”

For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;

From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;