[Ayin] I have done what is right and just: leave me not to my oppressors.

Be surety for your servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

Order my steps in your word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law.

I am small and despised: yet do I not forget your precepts.

My eyes awake before the night watches, that I might meditate in your word.

[Resh] Consider my affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget your law.

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not your statutes.

Many are my persecutors and my enemies; yet do I not turn from your testimonies.

I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not your word.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant; for I do not forget your commandments.

He will not allow your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber.

The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

With which the reaper fills not his hand; nor he that binds sheaves his bosom.

[A song of ascents. Of David.] LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

For your servant David's sake turn not away the face of your anointed.

The LORD has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.

[A song of ascents.] Behold, bless you the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who by night stand in the house of the LORD.

They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not;

They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endures forever.

If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures forever: forsake not the works of your own hands.

For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

My frame was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their delicacies.

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be against their evil.

But my eyes are unto you, O GOD the Lord: in you is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.

Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit fails: hide not your face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of a man.

He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.

He has also established them forever and ever: he has made a decree which shall not pass.

My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:

My son, if sinners entice you, consent not.

My son, walk not in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them upon the table of your heart:

Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto your own understanding.

Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:

She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared unto her.

My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.

When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the ruin from the wicked, when it comes.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it with you.

Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

Strive not with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

For I give you good doctrine, forsake not my law.

Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.

When you go, your steps shall not be hindered; and when you run, you shall not stumble.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause someone to fall.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, that you can not know them.

Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!

Let them be only for your own, and not for strangers with you.

Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of your mother:

Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her allure you with her eyelids.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

So is he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

For jealousy causes the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he be appeased, though you give many gifts.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey:

Till an arrow strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.