They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.

They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright.

For they intended evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.

They cried unto thee, and were delivered; they confided in thee, and were not confounded.

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

They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.

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

{Of David. A Psalm.} The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting.

Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

For they regard not the deeds of Jehovah, nor the work of his hands: he will destroy them, and not build them up.

Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength.

More than to all mine oppressors, I am become exceedingly a reproach, even to my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that see me without flee from me.

For I have heard the slander of many terror on every side when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.

Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.

They looked unto him, and were enlightened, and their faces were not confounded.

The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.

Evil shall destroy the wicked; and they that hate the righteous shall bear their guilt.

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

Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not.

They reward me evil for good, to the bereavement of my soul.

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

But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me.

For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land.

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

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and are not able to rise.

for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.

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

For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away.

for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: They are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

And Jehovah will help them and deliver them: he will deliver them from the wicked, and save them; for they trust in him.

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

My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.

And they 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 I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified themselves against me.

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

And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.

Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.

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

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Send out thy light and thy truth: they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.

For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.

Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;

With joy and gladness shall they be brought; they shall enter into the king's palace.

For behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together;

They saw, so they marvelled; they were troubled, they fled in consternation:

They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. ...

For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.

Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever,their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.

Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

It shall go to the generation of his fathers: they shall never see light.

Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

{To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Every one of them is gone back, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was; for God scattereth the bones of him that encampeth against thee. Thou hast put them to shame, for God hath despised them.

For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Because of the voice of the enemy; because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.

God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah) ... because there is no change in them, and they fear not God.

Smooth were the milky words of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily.

All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

Thou countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away.

{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' Of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God; secure me on high from them that rise up against me.

For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to meet me, and behold.

They return in the evening; they howl like a dog, and go round about the city:

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?

Because of the sin of their mouth, the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and because of cursing and lying which they speak.

Make an end in wrath, make an end, that they may be no more; that they may know that God ruleth in Jacob, unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

And in the evening they shall return, they shall howl like a dog, and go round about the city.

They shall wander about for meat, and stay all night if they be not satisfied.

He shall abide before God for ever: bestow loving-kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

They only consult to thrust him down from his excellency; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but in their inward part they curse. Selah.

Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.