Bow down thine ear unto me; deliver me speedily: Be thou to me a strong rock, A house of defence to save me.

For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold.

Into thy hand I commend my spirit: Thou hast redeemed me, O Jehovah, thou God of truth.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;

And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea , my soul and my body.

For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.

But I trusted in thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou art my God.

My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: Save me in thy lovingkindness.

Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

Blessed be Jehovah; For he hath showed me his marvellous lovingkindness in a strong city.

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: Nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications When I cried unto thee.

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed as with the drought of summer. Selah

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah

Thou art my hiding-place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah

I will bless Jehovah at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul shall make her boast in Jehovah: The meek shall hear thereof, and be glad.

Oh magnify Jehovah with me, And let us exalt his name together.

I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.

Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of Jehovah.

What man is he that desireth life, And loveth many days, that he may see good?

Strive thou, O Jehovah, with them that strive with me: Fight thou against them that fight against me.

Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that pursue me: Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.

And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah: It shall rejoice in his salvation.

All my bones shall say, Jehovah, who is like unto thee, Who deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, Yea, the poor and the needy from him that robbeth him?

Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me of things that I know not.

They reward me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My darling from the lions.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Stir up thyself, and awake to the justice due unto me, Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to thy righteousness; And let them not rejoice over me.

Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: Yea, let them say continually, Jehovah be magnified, Who hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

And my tongue shall talk of thy righteousness And of thy praise all the day long.

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.

O Jehovah, rebuke me not in thy wrath; Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

For thine arrows stick fast in me, And thy hand presseth me sore.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation; Neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.

For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.

I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Lord, all my desire is before thee; And my groaning is not hid from thee.

My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar off.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me ; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.

For in thee, O Jehovah, do I hope: Thou wilt answer, O Lord my God.

For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

But mine enemies are lively, and are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.

Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.

Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.

I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.

I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.

My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: Then'spake I with my tongue:

Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah

And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.

Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go hence, and be no more.

I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah.

Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.

Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me:

I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.

I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.

Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.

Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me, Aha, aha.

But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.

I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

Mine enemies speak evil against me,'saying , When will he die, and his name perish?

And if he come to see me , he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.

But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them.