Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full!

because he has founded it on [the] seas, and has established it on [the] rivers.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

For Thy name's sake, O Jehovah, Thou hast pardoned mine iniquity, for it is great.

If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.

O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

Lord, your house has been dear to me, and the resting-place of your glory.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Because they do not consider
what the Lord has done
or the work of His hands,
He will tear them down and not rebuild them.

Blessed [is] Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

{A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.} I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be removed." And why? Thou, LORD, of thy goodness, hast made my hill so strong.

LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief
and my years with groaning;
my strength has failed
because of my sinfulness,
and my bones waste away.

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Thou hast wrought for those trusting in Thee, Before sons of men. Thou hidest them in the secret place of Thy presence, From artifices of man, Thou concealest them in a tabernacle, From the strife of tongues.

Blessed [is] Yahweh, because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me in a besieged city.

And I -- I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, 'I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou -- Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Do not ye become like a horse, like a mule, without discernment, - With the bit and bridle of his mouth, hast thou to restrain him, - He will not come near unto thee.

The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

Blessed [is] the nation whose God [is] Yahweh, the people he has chosen for his inheritance.

Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

By experience you will see that the Lord is good; happy is the man who has faith in him.

What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.

The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Let them shout for joy and be glad, who favor my righteous cause. Yes, let them say continually, "Yahweh be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant!"

An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.

The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

Take note of the one who has integrity! Observe the godly! For the one who promotes peace has a future.

For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

I am like a man who does not hear
and has no arguments in his mouth.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done it.

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

How happy is the man
who has put his trust in the Lord
and has not turned to the proud
or to those who run after lies!

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

I have proclaimed tidings of righteousness In the great assembly, lo, my lips I restrain not, O Jehovah, Thou hast known.

Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

Though I am poor and in need, the Lord has me in mind; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O my God.

Blessed [is the one who] has regard for [the] poor; in [the] day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.

Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.

"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.

By this I have known, That Thou hast delighted in me, Because my enemy shouteth not over me.

As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age.

I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

For thou art the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

Thou, with Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.

But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Thou sellest Thy people -- without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have [not] turned aside from your way.

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

For our soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.

Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

Thou hast loved righteousness and hatest wickedness, Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee, Oil of joy above thy companions.

Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

The king's daughters are among your honorable women; the queen, dressed in gold from Ophir, has taken her place at your right hand."

God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

Come, see the works of Yahweh, who has placed desolations on the earth.

God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with [the] sound of a trumpet.

The nobles of the nations assemble, along with the people of the God of Abraham, for God has authority over the rulers of the earth. He is highly exalted!

God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

With an east wind thou hast broken the ships of Tarshish.

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish. A Psalm by Asaph.

The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken and summoned [the] earth, from [the] rising of [the] sun to its setting.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

Our God has appeared and he has not been silent; a devouring fire blazed before him, and a mighty storm swirled around him.

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.