For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.

A posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.

For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.

[A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

For your lovingkindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

[A Psalm of David.] The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret place of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

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

Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

[A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the house of David.] I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

For his anger endures but for a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing: you have put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.

For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my body.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon you: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

Blessed be the LORD: for he has showed me his marvelous kindness in a strong city.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.

O love the LORD, all you his saints: for the LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully repays the proud doer.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous: for praise is fitting for the upright.

For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

A horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

Our soul waits for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.

For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

The angel of the LORD encamps round about them that fear him, and delivers them.

O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no lack to them that fear him.

Come, you children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that plunders him?

They rewarded me evil for good to the sorrow of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.] The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, you shall diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

The Lord shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.

For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholds the righteous.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholds him with his hand.

For the LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me down.

For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

My heart pants, my strength fails me: as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.

For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

My heart was hot within me, while I was meditating the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,

And now, Lord, what do I wait for? my hope is in you.

When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, you make his beauty melt away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not your peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

Let them be desolate as a reward for their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.

And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.