Surely God has heard, and he paid attention to my prayers.

Blessed be God, who did not turn away my prayers nor his gracious love from me. To the Director of music: Accompanied by stringed instruments. A Psalm. A song.

May God show us favor and bless us; may he truly show us his favor. Interlude

Let the people thank you, God. Let all the people thank you.

Let the people thank you, God; let all the people thank you.

May the earth yield its produce. May God, our God, bless us.

May God truly bless us so that all the nations of the earth will fear him. To the Director of music: A Psalm. A song.

God arises, and his enemies are scattered. Those who hate him flee from his presence.

As smoke is driven away, so you drive them away. As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God.

But the righteous rejoice and exult before God; they are overwhelmed with joy.

Sing to God! Sing praise to his name! Exalt the one who rides on the clouds. The LORD is his name. Be jubilant in his presence.

A father to orphans and an advocate for widows is God in his holy dwelling place.

God causes the lonely to dwell in families. He leads prisoners into prosperity, but rebels live on parched land.

God, when you led out your people, when you marched through the desert, Interlude

the land quaked. Indeed, the heavens poured down rain from the presence of God, this God of Sinai, from the presence of God, the God of Israel.

God, you poured out abundant rain on your inheritance. When Israel was weary, you sustained her.

Your people live there; you sustain the needy with your goodness, God.

The mountain of God is as the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is Mount Bashan.

You mountains of many peaks, why do you watch with envy the mountain in which God has chosen to dwell? Indeed, the LORD will live there forever.

God's chariots were many thousands. The Lord was there with them at Sinai in holiness.

You ascended to the heights, you took captives. You received gifts among mankind, even the rebellious, so the LORD God may live there.

Blessed be the Lord who daily carries us. God is our deliverer.

God is for us the God of our deliverance. The Lord GOD rescues us from death.

God surely strikes the heads of his enemies, even the hairy heads of those who continue in their guilt.

They have observed your processions, God, the processions of my God, my king, in the sanctuary.

Bless God in the great congregation, the LORD who is the fountain of Israel.

Summon the power of your God, the power, God, that you have shown us.

Rebuke the wildlife that lives among the reeds, the nations that congregate like bulls and cows, humbling themselves with pieces of silver, for God scatters the nations that delight in battle.

Envoys will come from Egypt. Let the Ethiopians stretch out their hands to God.

You kingdoms of the earth, sing to God! Sing praises to the Lord, Interlude

Ascribe power to God, whose glory is over Israel, whose power is in the skies.

You are awesome, God, from your sanctuaries. The God of Israel is the one who gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God! To the Director: To the tune of "The Lilies". Davidic.

Deliver me, God, because the waters are up to my neck.

I am exhausted from calling for help. My throat is parched. My eyes are strained from looking for God.

God, you know my sins, and my guilt is not hidden from you.

Do not let those who look up to you be ashamed because of me, Lord God of the Heavenly Armies. Let not those who seek you be humiliated because of me, God of Israel.

As for me, LORD, may my prayer to you come at a favorable time. God, in the abundance of your gracious love, answer me with your sure deliverance.

Answer me, LORD, for your gracious love is good; Turn to me in keeping with your great compassion,

As for me, I am afflicted and hurting; may your deliverance, God, establish me on high.

Let me praise the name of God with a song that I may magnify him with thanksgiving.

The afflicted will watch and rejoice. May you who seek God take courage.

For God will deliver Zion and will rebuild the cities of Judah so they may live there and possess them.

God, come to my rescue. LORD, hurry to help me.

Let those who seek you greatly rejoice in you. Let those who love your deliverance say, "May God be continuously exalted."

As for me, I am poor and needy. God, come quickly to me. You are my helper and my deliverer. LORD, please do not delay.

My God, deliver me from the power of the wicked and the grasp of ruthless practicers of evil.

For you are my hope, Lord GOD, my security since I was young.

and say, "God has abandoned him. Run after him and seize him, because there's no deliverer."

God, do not be distant from me. My God, come quickly to help me.

Lord GOD, I will come in the power of your mighty acts, remembering your righteousness yours alone.

God, you taught me from my youth, so I am still declaring your awesome deeds.

Also, when I reach old age and have gray hair, God, do not forsake me, until I have declared your power to this generation and your might to the next one.

Your many righteous deeds, God, are great,

God, who can compare to you, who caused me to experience troubles that were numerous and disastrous? You will return to revive me and lift me up from the depths of the earth.

I also will praise you with the harp; because of your faithfulness, my God, I will praise you with the lyre Holy One of Israel.

God, endow the king with ability to render your justice, and the king's son to render your right decisions.

Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does awesome deeds.

God is indeed good to Israel, to those pure in heart.

Therefore God's people return there and drink it all in like water until they're satiated.

Then they say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"

until I entered the sanctuaries of God. Then I understood their destiny.

My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.

As for me, how good for me it is that God is near! I have made the Lord GOD my refuge so I can tell about all your deeds. An instruction of Asaph

Why, God? Have you rejected us forever? Your anger is burning against the sheep of your pasture.

They say to themselves, "We'll crush them completely;" They burned down all the meeting places of God in the land.

God, how long will the adversary scorn while the enemy despises your name endlessly?

But God is my king from ancient times, who brings acts of deliverance throughout the earth.

Get up, God, and prosecute your case remember that you're being scorned by fools all day long.

We praise you, God! We praise you your presence draws near as we declare your wonderful deeds.

since God is the judge. This one he will debase or that one he will exalt.

But as for me, I will declare forever, singing praise to the God of Jacob.

I will cut down the strength of the wicked, but the strength of the righteous will be lifted up. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.

God is known in Judah; in Israel his reputation is great.

At the sound of your battle cry, God of Jacob, both horse and chariot rider fell into deep sleep.

From heaven you declared judgment. The earth stands in awe and is quiet

when God arose to execute justice and to deliver all the afflicted of the earth. Interlude

Let everyone who surrounds the LORD your God make a vow and fulfill it to the Awesome One.

I cry out to God! I cry out to God and he hears me.

I remember God, and I groan; I meditate, while my spirit grows faint. Interlude

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger withheld his compassion? Interlude

God, your way is holy. What god is like our great God?

God, you are the one performing awesome deeds. You reveal your might among the nations.

The waters saw you, God; the waters saw you and writhed. Indeed, the depths of the sea quaked.

Then they will put their trust in God and they will not forget his awesome deeds. Instead, they will keep his commandments.

They will not be like the rebellious generation of their ancestors, a rebellious generation, whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirits were unfaithful to God.

They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to live by his Law.

To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.

They spoke against God by asking, "Is God able to prepare a feast in the desert?

because they didn't believe in God and didn't trust in his deliverance.

the anger of God flared against them, and he killed the strongest men and humbled Israel's young men.

When he struck them, they sought him; they repented, and eagerly sought God.

Then they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their deliverer.

They tested God again and again, provoking the Holy One of Israel.

But they tested the Most High God by rebelling against him, and they did not obey his statutes.

God heard and became furious, and he completely rejected Israel.

God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,

Help us, God, our deliverer, on account of your glorious name, deliver us and forgive our sins on account of your name.

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let vengeance for the blood of your servants be meted out before our eyes and among the nations.

God, restore us, show your favor and deliver us.

LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, when will your smoldering anger toward your people's prayers cease?