A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. A Psalm of David.
I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for a lifetime;
Weeping may last for the night,
But a shout of joy comes in the morning.

That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.

And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a large place.

Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I call upon You;
Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

The king is not saved by a mighty army;
A warrior is not delivered by great strength.

The young lions do lack and suffer hunger;
But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.

He keeps all his bones,
Not one of them is broken.

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

Let destruction come upon him unawares,
And let the net which he hid catch himself;
Into that very destruction let him fall.

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

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.

Do not let those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me;
Nor let those who hate me without cause wink maliciously.

For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

You have seen it, O Lord, do not keep silent;
O Lord, do not be far from me.

Judge me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness,
And do not let them rejoice over me.

Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, our desire!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

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

A Psalm of David.
Do not fret because of evildoers,
Be not envious toward wrongdoers.

Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

Cease from anger and forsake wrath;
Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;
And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and gives.

When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong,
Because the Lord is the One who holds his hand.

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.

For the Lord loves justice
And does not forsake His godly ones;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

The law of his God is in his heart;
His steps do not slip.

The Lord will not leave him in his hand
Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

Then he passed away, and lo, he was no more;
I sought for him, but he could not be found.

A Psalm of David, for a memorial.
O Lord, rebuke me not in Your wrath,
And chasten me not in Your burning anger.

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

But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

Yes, I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth are no arguments.

For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.”

Do not forsake me, O Lord;
O my God, do not be far from me!

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”

“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

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

“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who have done it.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;
Behold, I will not restrain my lips,
O Lord, You know.

I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

You, O Lord, will not withhold Your compassion from me;
Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

Since I am afflicted and needy,
Let the Lord be mindful of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.

The Lord will protect him and keep him alive,
And he shall be called blessed upon the earth;
And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him,
That when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

By this I know that You are pleased with me,
Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.

For by their own sword they did not possess the land,
And their own arm did not save them,
But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,
For You favored them.

For I will not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.

You sell Your people cheaply,
And have not profited by their sale.

All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You,
And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back,
And our steps have not deviated from Your way,

Would not God find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.

Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;

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

That he should live on eternally,
That he should not undergo decay.

But man in his pomp will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.

Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;

For when he dies he will carry nothing away;
His glory will not descend after him.

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

“I do not reprove you for your sacrifices,
And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

“If I were hungry I would not tell you,
For the world is Mine, and all it contains.

Do not cast me away from Your presence
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with 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 would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his evil desire.”

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?

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

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.

Day and night they go around her upon her walls,
And iniquity and mischief are in her midst.

Destruction is in her midst;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
Then I could hide myself from him.

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.

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?

You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book?

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

They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

So that it does not hear the voice of charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.

For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;
Fierce men launch an attack against me,
Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,

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.

Do not slay them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.

They wander about for food
And growl if they are not satisfied.