May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

May those who say, "Aha! Aha!" be driven back and disgraced!

May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, "May God be praised!"

In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated!

Vindicate me by rescuing me! Listen to me! Deliver me!

Be my protector and refuge, a stronghold where I can be safe! For you are my high ridge and my stronghold.

May my accusers be humiliated and defeated! May those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace!

I will express my thanks to you with a stringed instrument, praising your faithfulness, O my God! I will sing praises to you accompanied by a harp, O Holy One of Israel!

All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice, for those who want to harm me will be embarrassed and ashamed.

Before him the coastlands will bow down, and his enemies will lick the dust.

All kings will bow down to him; all nations will serve him.

May there be an abundance of grain in the earth; on the tops of the mountains may it sway! May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon! May its crops be as abundant as the grass of the earth!

May his fame endure! May his dynasty last as long as the sun remains in the sky! May they use his name when they formulate their blessings! May all nations consider him to be favored by God!

A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!

You guide me by your wise advice, and then you will lead me to a position of honor.

A well-written song by Asaph. Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us? Why does your anger burn against the sheep of your pasture?

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.

You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

Do not let the afflicted be turned back in shame! Let the oppressed and poor praise your name!

I say to the proud, "Do not be proud," and to the wicked, "Do not be so confident of victory!

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

God says, "I will bring down all the power of the wicked; the godly will be victorious."

For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of Asaph, a song. God has revealed himself in Judah; in Israel his reputation is great.

From heaven you announced what their punishment would be. The earth was afraid and silent

For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of Asaph. I will cry out to God and call for help! I will cry out to God and he will pay attention to me.

In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.

Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has his anger stifled his compassion?"

Then I said, "I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive.

You delivered your people by your strength -- the children of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah)

You led your people like a flock of sheep, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

A well-written song by Asaph. Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.

They willfully challenged God by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

He brought the east wind through the sky, and by his strength led forth the south wind.

They were unfaithful and acted as treacherously as their ancestors; they were as unreliable as a malfunctioning bow.

He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy.

Their priests fell by the sword, but their widows did not weep.

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants be avenged among the nations!

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; a psalm of Asaph. O shepherd of Israel, pay attention, you who lead Joseph like a flock of sheep! You who sit enthroned above the winged angels, reveal your splendor!

O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!

You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.

O God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!

The mountains were covered by its shadow, the highest cedars by its branches.

Why did you break down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruit?

O Lord God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!

For the music director; according to the gittith style; by Asaph. Shout for joy to God, our source of strength! Shout out to the God of Jacob!

For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel; it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.

There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.

(May those who hate the Lord cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)

A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!

They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!

May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!

For the music director; according to the gittith style; written by the Korahites, a psalm. How lovely is the place where you live, O Lord who rules over all!

I desperately want to be in the courts of the Lord's temple. My heart and my entire being shout for joy to the living God.

For the music director; written by the Korahites, a psalm. O Lord, you showed favor to your land; you restored the well-being of Jacob.

Restore us, O God our deliverer! Do not be displeased with us!

O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!

Show me evidence of your favor! Then those who hate me will see it and be ashamed, for you, O Lord, will help me and comfort me.

Written by the Korahites; a psalm, a song. The Lord's city is in the holy hills.

A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O Lord God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.

Listen to my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

O Lord, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

A well-written song by Ethan the Ezrachite. I will sing continually about the Lord's faithful deeds; to future generations I will proclaim your faithfulness.

They rejoice in your name all day long, and are vindicated by your justice.

For you give them splendor and strength. By your favor we are victorious.

No enemy will be able to exact tribute from him; a violent oppressor will not be able to humiliate him.

He will experience my faithfulness and loyal love, and by my name he will win victories.

I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth's kings.

I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises.

But I will not remove my loyal love from him, nor be unfaithful to my promise.

Once and for all I have vowed by my own holiness, I will never deceive David.

All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.

You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious, and all his enemies to rejoice.

Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love! Then we will shout for joy and be happy all our days!

You need not fear the terrors of the night, the arrow that flies by day,

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.

For you, O Lord, have made me happy by your work. I will sing for joy because of what you have done.

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty, the Lord is robed, he wears strength around his waist. Indeed, the world is established, it cannot be moved.

Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!

For justice will prevail, and all the morally upright will be vindicated.

He will pay them back for their sin. He will destroy them because of their evil; the Lord our God will destroy them.

Come! Let's bow down and worship! Let's kneel before the Lord, our creator!

He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

Say among the nations, "The Lord reigns! The world is established, it cannot be moved. He judges the nations fairly."

Let the sky rejoice, and the earth be happy! Let the sea and everything in it shout!

The Lord reigns! Let the earth be happy! Let the many coastlands rejoice!

All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

Sing to the Lord accompanied by a harp, accompanied by a harp and the sound of music!

The king is strong; he loves justice. You ensure that legal decisions will be made fairly; you promote justice and equity in Jacob.

O Lord our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.

Deceitful people will not live in my palace. Liars will not be welcome in my presence.

The prayer of an oppressed man, as he grows faint and pours out his lament before the Lord. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!