Behold, God is my helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.

I will freely sacrifice unto you: I will praise your name, O LORD; for it is good.

My heart is greatly pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into the grave: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

As for me, I will call upon God; and the LORD shall save me.

He has put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: he has broken his covenant.

When I cry unto you, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even 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, into the midst of which they are fallen themselves. Selah.

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

For your mercy is great unto the heavens, and your truth unto the clouds.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops its ear;

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

As a snail who melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God who judges in the earth.

Because of your strength will I wait upon you: for God is my defense.

Unto you, O my Strength, will I sing: for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.

[To the Chief Musician upon shushaneduth. A michtam of David to teach; when he fought with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned and smote of Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.] O God, you have cast us off, you have scattered us, you have been displeased; O turn yourself to us again.

You have shown your people hard things: you have made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the helmet for my head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Moab is my washpot; upon Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph you because of me.

Will not you, O God, who had cast us off? and you, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto you, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

You will prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

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

How long will you imagine evil against a man? you shall be slain all of you: as a leaning wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence.

My soul, wait you only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.] O God, you are my God; early will I seek you: my soul thirsts for you, my flesh longs for you in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.

Because your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise you with joyful lips:

Iniquities prevail against me: as for our transgressions, you shall purge them away.

Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach unto you, that he may dwell in your courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, even of your holy temple.

By awesome deeds in righteousness will you answer us, O God of our salvation; who is the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

You visit the earth, and water it: you greatly enrich it with the river of God, which is full of water: you prepare them grain, when you have so provided for it.

Come and see the works of God: he is awesome in his doing toward the children of men.

For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

You brought us into the net; you laid affliction upon our backs.

You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth. A Song or Psalm.] God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.

Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

Though you have slept among the sheepfolds, yet shall you be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Zalmon.

The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; a high hill as the hill of Bashan.

Why leap you, you high hills? this is the hill which God desires to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it forever.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

Blessed be the Lord, who daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.

He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the escape from death.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goes on still in his trespasses.

There is little Benjamin, their leader, the princes of Judah and their company, the princes of Zebulun, and the princes of Naphtali.

Your God has commanded your strength: strengthen, O God, that which you have done for us.

Ascribe you strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

O God, you are awesome out of your holy places: the God of Israel is he that gives strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

I am weary from my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

But as for me, my prayer is unto you, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of your mercy hear me, in the truth of your salvation.

Hear me, O LORD; for your lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of your tender mercies.

Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.

Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.

Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who has done great things: O God, who is like unto you!

They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endures.

His name shall endure forever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had nearly slipped.

For there are no pains in their death: but their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.

Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides you.

My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all your works.

[A maschil of Asaph.] O God, why have you cast us off forever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A Psalm or Song of Asaph.] Unto you, O God, do we give thanks, unto you do we give thanks: for that your name is near, your wondrous works declare.

But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them down, and drink them.

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth. A Psalm or Song of Asaph.] In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.