Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are ever praising you. Selah.

Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.

They go from strength to strength. Everyone of them appears before God in Zion.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they do not hold regard for you before them.

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.

Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout. They walk in the light of your presence, LORD.

In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

if they break my statutes, and do not keep my commandments;

With which your enemies have mocked, LORD, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

They are planted in the LORD's house. They will flourish in our God's courts.

They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

They break your people in pieces, LORD, and afflict your heritage.

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

They say, "The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob's God consider."

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They won't enter into my rest."

Moses and Aaron were among his priests, Samuel among those who call on his name; they called on the LORD, and he answered them.

He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed.

At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away.

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they do not turn again to cover the earth.

He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.

They give drink to every animal of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The birds of the sky nest by them. They sing among the branches.

The sun rises, and they steal away, and lie down in their dens.

You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.

He looks at the earth, and it trembles. He touches the mountains, and they smoke.

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They did not rebel against his words.

Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen on them.

They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of the sky.

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,

that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD.

Our fathers did not understand your wonders in Egypt. They did not remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Sea of Suf.

Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

They soon forgot his works. They did not wait for his counsel,

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, the LORD's holy one.

They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.

Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.

They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They did not believe his word,

They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds. The plague broke in on them.

They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, so that Moses was troubled for their sakes;

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses,

he led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city to live in.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Therefore he brought down their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was none to help.

Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.

Their soul abhors all kinds of food. They draw near to the gates of death.

Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, he saves them out of their distresses.

They mount up to the sky; they go down again to the depths. Their soul melts away because of trouble.

They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

Then they cry to the LORD in their trouble, and he brings them out of their distress.

Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.

There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn't allow their livestock to decrease.

Again, they are diminished and bowed down through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of the LORD.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.

that they may know that this is your hand; that you, LORD, have done it.

They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.

They are established forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness.

They have mouths, but they do not speak. They have eyes, but they do not see.

They have ears, but they do not hear. They have noses, but they do not smell.

They have hands, but they do not feel. They have feet, but they do not walk, neither do they speak through their throat.

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. In the name of the LORD I indeed cut them off.

They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.