I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.

He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

Who can understand his errors? cleanse me from secret faults.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent of great transgression.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

I was cast upon you from birth: you are my God from my mother's womb.

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round about.

They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my body.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I can count all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

They part my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing.

But be not far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me.

Deliver my soul from the sword; my life from the power of the dog.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen.

I will declare your name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise you.

My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

[A Psalm of David.] The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not lack.

He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: you anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

O my God, I trust in you: let me not be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.

Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.

Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring me out of my distresses.

Look upon my affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.

[A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my heart and my mind.

For your lovingkindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.

I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I go about your altar, O LORD:

That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

[A Psalm of David.] The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

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

Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret place of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

When you said, Seek my face; my heart said unto you, your face, LORD, will I seek.

Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Teach me your way, O LORD, and lead me in a level path, because of my enemies.

Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy sanctuary.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.

[A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the house of David.] I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

O LORD my God, I cried unto you, and you have healed me.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For his anger endures but for a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be my helper.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you forever.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.

Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.

For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

Into your hand I commit my spirit: you have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, you are my God.

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Blessed be the LORD: for he has showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.