O Jehovah my God, many things You have done, Your wonderful works and Your thoughts which are toward us; they cannot be set in order to You; I will declare and speak, for they are more than can be numbered.

Then I said, Lo, I come, in the volume of the Book it is written of Me;

I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My heart.

Let them be desolate as a reward for their shame, those who say to me, Aha, aha!

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he who acts wisely toward the poor; Jehovah will deliver him in time of trouble.

They say, A wicked thing is poured out on him, and he who lies down shall rise no more.

Blessed is Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen and Amen!

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation; for the sons of Korah. As the hart pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?

O my God, my soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember You from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermons, from mount Mizar.

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies shame me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God?

To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah, a contemplation. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work which You did in their days, in the days of old.

Through You we will push our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.

But You have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame, those who hated us.

Now You have cast us off, and have shamed us, and You do not go forth with our armies.

You make us turn back from the adversary; and our haters plunder for themselves.

You have given us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

You make us a curse to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those who are round about us.

You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

My shame is always before me, and the shame of my face has covered me:

All this has come on us; yet we have not forgotten You nor dealt falsely in Your covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps turned aside from Your way,

though You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

Yea, for Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Awaken! Why do You sleep, O Jehovah? Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth.

Arise for our help, and redeem us for the sake of Your mercy.

To the Chief Musician. Concerning the Lilies, for the sons of Korah, a contemplation; A Song of Loves. My heart is overflowing with a good matter; I speak of my works to the King; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured into Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; the staff of Your kingdom is a staff of righteousness.

And cause the King greatly to desire your beauty, for He is your Lord, and you shall worship Him.

The king's daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is trimmed with gold.

To the Chief Musician. For the sons of Korah. A Song "For the Virgins". God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

There is a river, its channels gladden the city of God glad, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her at the turning of the morning.

Jehovah of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

Jehovah of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

For Jehovah Most High is awesome, a great king over all the earth.

He shall humble the peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the majesty of Jacob whom He loved. Selah.

For God is King of all the earth; sing praises with understanding.

The rulers of the peoples are gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth are God's; He is lifted up on high.

A Song and Psalm for the Sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness.

Beautiful on high, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

God is known in her strongholds for a refuge.

as we have heard, so we have seen in the city of Jehovah of Hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

According to Your name, O God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness; let mount Zion rejoice!

For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even to death.

my mouth shall speak of wise things; and the thoughts of my heart shall be of understanding.

for the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever,

For he sees wise men die; likewise the fool and the animal-like ones perish, and leave their wealth to others.

Their inward thought is that their houses shall go on forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

But man, though high in honor, does not remain; he is like the animals that perish.

This way of theirs is their foolishness; yet their followers delight in their sayings. Selah.

Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign for them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form is for rotting; the grave is their home.

Man in honor, but without understanding, is like the animals; they shall perish.

Our God comes, and He is not silent; a fire shall devour before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him.

And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God Himself is judge. Selah.

For every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness of it.

But to the wicked, God says, What is it to you, to declare My Precepts, and to take up My covenant in your mouth?

For I confess my transgressions; and my sin is ever before me.

I will praise You forever, because You have done it; and I will wait on Your name; for it is good before Your saints.

To the Chief Musician on Mahalath. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They acted corruptly, and have worked out abominable wickedness; there is not one doing good.

Every one has turned away; they have altogether become filthy; not one is doing good, no, not even one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.

To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself among us? Save me, O God, by Your name, and judge me by Your strength.

Behold, God is my helper; Jehovah is with those who uphold my soul.

I will freely sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O Jehovah, for it is good.

My heart is pained within me; and the terrors of death have fallen on me.

For it is not an enemy who reviled me; then I could have borne it; it is not one who hates me who magnified himself against me; or I would hide myself from him;

but it is you, a man my rank, my guide and my friend.

God shall hear and answer them, even He who is enthroned of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they do not fear God.

They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul.

When I cry, then my enemies will be turned back. This I know, for God is with me.

My soul is among lions; I lie among those on fire, the sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, they have fallen into it. Selah.

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise.

For Your mercy is great to the heavens, and Your truth to the clouds.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,

Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Let them be as a snail goes into melting; as a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.

And man shall say, Truly, there is a reward for the righteous; truly, there is a God judging in the earth.

O my Strength, let me look to You, for God is my strong tower.

For the sin of their mouth is the word of their lips, even let them be taken in their pride; and for cursing and the lying which they speak.

To You, O my strength, I will sing; for God is my strong tower and the God of my mercy.

To the Chief Musician. On the Lily of Testimony. A secret treasure of David, to teach; when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram of Zobah, when Joab returned and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. O God, You have cast us off, You have scattered us, You were angry; take us back.

You made the earth tremble; You tore it; heal the breaks of it, for it is shaking.

You have shown Your people hard things; You have made us to drink the wine of trembling.

Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine; and Ephraim is the strength of My head, Judah is My lawgiver;

Moab is My washpot; over Edom I will cast out My shoe; over Philistia I cry in triumph.

Have not You, O God, cast us off? And will You, O God, not go out with our armies?

Give us help against our foe; for vain is the help of man.

Through God we shall do great things; for it is He who shall trample our enemies.

From the end of the earth I cry to You when my heart is faint; Lead me to the Rock higher than I.

To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. Only to God is my soul in silence; from Him comes my salvation.

He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my tower; I shall not be greatly moved.

My soul, be silent only to God; for my hope is from Him.

He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my strong tower; I shall not be shaken.

In God is my salvation and my glory; the rock of my strength; my hiding-place is in God.