For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah,
That His servants may remain there and possess it.

O God, come quickly to save me;
O Lord, come quickly to help me!

May all those who seek You [as life’s first priority] rejoice and be glad in You;
May those who love Your salvation say continually,
“Let God be magnified!”

But I am afflicted and needy;
Come quickly to me, O God!
You are my help and my rescuer;
O Lord, do not delay.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked (godless),
From the grasp of the unrighteous and ruthless man.

For You are my hope;
O Lord God, You are my trust and the source of my confidence from my youth.

Saying, “God has abandoned him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to rescue him.”

O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, come quickly to help me!

I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord God [and in His strength];
I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

O God, You have taught me from my youth,
And I still declare Your wondrous works and miraculous deeds.

And even when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not abandon me,
Until I declare Your [mighty] strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?

I will also praise You with the harp,
Your truth and faithfulness, O my God;
To You I will sing praises with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.

Give the king [knowledge of] Your judgments, O God,
And [the spirit of] Your righteousness to the king’s son [to guide all his ways].

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,
Who alone does wonderful things.

Truly God is good to Israel,
To those who are pure in heart.

They say, “How does God know?
Is there knowledge [of us] with the Most High?”

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood [for I considered] their end.

My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the rock and strength of my heart and my portion forever.

But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have made the Lord God my refuge and placed my trust in Him,
That I may tell of all Your works.

O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?
Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

Yet God is my King of old,
Working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Arise, O God, plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man scoffs at You all day long.

We give thanks and praise to You, O God, we give thanks,
For Your [wonderful works declare that Your] name is near;
People declare Your wonders.

But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and lifts up another.

But as for me, I will declare it and rejoice forever;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

All the horns of the wicked He will cut off,
But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

God is known in Judah;
His name is great in Israel.

At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep [of death].

When God arose to [establish] judgment,
To save all the humble of the earth. Selah.

Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them;
Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared [with awe-inspired reverence].

He will cut off the spirit of princes;
He is awesome and feared by the kings of the earth.

My voice rises to God, and I will cry aloud;
My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.

I remember God; then I am disquieted and I groan;
I sigh [in prayer], and my spirit grows faint. Selah.

Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Your way, O God, is holy [far from sin and guilt].
What god is great like our God?

You are the [awesome] God who works [powerful] wonders;
You have demonstrated Your power among the people.

The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.

For He established a testimony (a specific precept) in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach to their children [the great facts of God’s transactions with Israel],

That they should place their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments,

And not be like their fathers—
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart to know and follow God,
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk according to His law;

And in their hearts they put God to the test
By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.

Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare [food for] a table in the wilderness?

Because they did not believe in God [they did not rely on Him, they did not adhere to Him],
And they did not trust in His salvation (His power to save).

Man ate the bread of angels;
God sent them provision in abundance.

The wrath of God rose against them
And killed some of the strongest of them,
And subdued the choice young men of Israel.

When He killed [some of] them, then those remaining sought Him,
And they returned [to Him] and searched diligently for God [for a time].

And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.

Again and again they tempted God,
And distressed the Holy One of Israel.

But God led His own people forward like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like [a good shepherd with] a flock.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies (laws).

When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath;
And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

O God, the nations have invaded [the land of Your people] Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your sacred temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;
Rescue us, forgive us our sins for Your name’s sake.

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],
Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

Restore us, O God;
Cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

O Lord God of hosts,
How long will You be angry with the prayers of Your people?

Restore us, O God of hosts;
And cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

The mountains were covered with its shadow,
And its branches were like the cedars of God.

Turn again [in favor to us], O God of hosts;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

It is burned with fire, it is cut down;
They perish at the rebuke of Your [angry] appearance.

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;
Cause Your face to shine on us [in favor and approval], and we shall be saved.

Sing aloud to God our strength;
Shout for joy to the God of Jacob (Israel).

For this is a statute for Israel,
An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

“Let there be no strange god among you,
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

“I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

“But I would feed Israel with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

God stands in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods (divine beings).

Arise, O God, judge the earth!
For to You belong all the nations.

Do not keep silent, O God;
Do not hold Your peace or be still, O God.

Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves
The pastures of God.”

O my God, make them like whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].

My soul (my life, my inner self) longs for and greatly desires the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

The bird has found a house,
And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young—
Even Your altars, O Lord of hosts,
My King and my God.

They go from strength to strength [increasing in victorious power];
Each of them appears before God in Zion.

O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
Listen, O God of Jacob! Selah.

See our shield, O God,
And look at the face of Your anointed [the king as Your representative].

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand [anywhere else];
I would rather stand [as a doorkeeper] at the threshold of the house of my God
Than to live [at ease] in the tents of wickedness.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord bestows grace and favor and honor;
No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Restore us, O God of our salvation,
And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.

I will hear [with expectant hope] what God the Lord will say,
For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones—
But let them not turn again to folly.

Surely His salvation is near to those who [reverently] fear Him [and obey Him with submissive wonder],
That glory [the manifest presence of God] may dwell in our land.

Indeed, the Lord will give what is good,
And our land will yield its produce.

Protect my life (soul), for I am godly and faithful;
O You my God, save Your servant, who trusts in You [believing in You and relying on You, confidently committing everything to You].

For You, O Lord, are good, and ready to forgive [our sins, sending them away, completely letting them go forever and ever];
And abundant in lovingkindness and overflowing in mercy to all those who call upon You.

For You are great and do wondrous works!
You alone are God.

I will give thanks and praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart;
And will glorify Your name forevermore.

O God, arrogant and insolent men have risen up against me;
A band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.

But You, O Lord, are a God [who protects and is] merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and truth.

His foundation is on the holy mountain.

Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God [Jerusalem]. Selah.

“I will mention Rahab (Egypt) and Babylon among those who know Me—
Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia (Cush)—
‘This one was born there.’”

The singers as well as the players of flutes will say,
“All my springs and sources of joy are in you [Jerusalem, city of God].”

O Lord, the God of my salvation,
I have cried out [for help] by day and in the night before You.

Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave,
Whom You no longer remember,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

A God greatly feared and reverently worshiped in the council of the holy [angelic] ones,
And awesome above all those who are around Him?