O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not answer; and in the night, and am not silent.

They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

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

But You, O Jehovah, be not far from Me; O My strength, hurry to help Me!

For He has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; and He has not hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.

A Psalm of David. Jehovah is my Shepherd; I shall not want.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to vanity, and has not sworn deceitfully.

O my God, I trust in You; do not let me be ashamed, let not my enemies triumph over me.

Do not remember the sins of my youth, or my rebellings; according to Your mercy remember me for Your goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

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

Keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in You.

A Psalm of David. Judge me, O Jehovah; for I have walked in my truthfulness. I have trusted also in Jehovah; I shall not slide.

I have not sat with lying men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.

Do not take away my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men

Though an army should camp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, in this I am trusting.

Hide not Your face from me. Turn not Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.

A Psalm of David. I will cry to You, O Jehovah; my Rock, do not be deaf to me, lest, if You be silent to me, I become like those who go down into the pit.

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

Because they do not pay attention to the works of Jehovah and to the work of His hands, He shall destroy them and never build them up.

A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the House of David. I will praise You, O Jehovah; for You have lifted me up, and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.

O Jehovah, You have brought up my soul from the grave; You have kept me alive, so that I should not go down to the Pit.

For His anger is only a moment; in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

so that my glory may sing praise to You, and not be silent. O Jehovah my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.

and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.

Let me not be ashamed, O Jehovah; for I have called on You; Let the wicked be ashamed; let them be silent in the grave.

Blessed is the man to whom Jehovah does not charge iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

For by day and by night Your hand was heavy on me; my sap is turned into the droughts of summer. Selah.

I confessed my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess my transgression to Jehovah; and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For this let every godly one pray to You, in a time when You may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near him.

Be not like the horse, or like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

The king is not saved by a great army; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

They looked to Him, and were filled with light; and their faces were not ashamed.

The young lions lack, and suffer hunger; but those who seek Jehovah shall not lack any good thing.

He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul.

Let destruction come upon him, he will not know; and let his net which he has concealed catch him, let him fall in it, into destruction.

But in my stumbling they rejoiced, and gathered themselves; the defamers gathered themselves against me, and I knew not; they tore and were not silent,

Let not those who are my lying enemies rejoice over me, those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

For they do not speak peace; but they think deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.

You have seen, O Jehovah; do not keep silence; O Jehovah, do not be far from me.

Judge me, O Jehovah my God, according to Your righteousness; and do not let them rejoice over me.

Let them not say in their hearts, Aha! Our Soul! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

Do not let the foot of pride come against me, and do not let the hand of the wicked move me.

A Psalm of David. Do not fret yourself with evil doers; and do not be envious against the workers of iniquity.

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of him who practices wickedness.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret yourself to do evil.

It is but a little while, and the wicked shall not be; yea, you shall search his place, and he shall not be.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Though he fall, he shall not be cast down; for Jehovah upholds his hand.

I have been young, and am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread.

For Jehovah loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are kept forever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor allow him to be found guilty when he is judged.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not; and I looked for him, but he could not be found.

A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Jehovah, do not rebuke me in Your wrath; neither chasten me in Your fury.

My Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.

But like a deaf one, I do not hear; and I am like a dumb one who opens not his mouth.

And I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

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

To the Chief Musician, to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways so that I do not sin with my tongue; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before me.

Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; make me not the reproach of the fool.

I was dumb, I did not open my mouth; because You have done it.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears; for I am a stranger with You, a pilgrim, as all my fathers were.

Blessed is the man who makes Jehovah his trust and does not turn to the proud, nor to those who turn aside to a lie.

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; My ears You have opened; burnt offering and sin offering You have not asked.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not kept back My lips, O Jehovah, You know.

I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not hidden Your loving-kindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth always watch over me.

For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

But I am poor and needy; Jehovah will care for me; You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.

Jehovah will watch over him and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed on the earth; and You will not deliver him to the soul of his enemies.

By this I know that You delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?

Jehovah will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, my prayer to the God of my life.

For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but it was Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Now You have cast us off, and have shamed us, and You do not go forth with our armies.

You have sold Your people for nothing, and You did not increase by their price.

All this has come on us; yet we have not forgotten You nor dealt falsely in Your covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps turned aside from Your way,

shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

Awaken! Why do You sleep, O Jehovah? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

Therefore we will not fear when the earth changes, and when mountains are slipping into the heart of the seas.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her at the turning of the morning.

But man, though high in honor, does not remain; he is like the animals that perish.

Be not afraid when one becomes rich, when the glory of his house increases;

for when he dies he shall take nothing away; his glory shall not go down after him.

Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.

Cast me not away from Your presence, and take not Your Holy Spirit from me.

For You do not desire sacrifice; or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

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

Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.

To the Chief Musician on Mahalath. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They acted corruptly, and have worked out abominable wickedness; there is not one doing good.

Every one has turned away; they have altogether become filthy; not one is doing good, no, not even one.