They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.

My soul is among lions; I lie 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 digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah

My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yea, I will sing praises.

For thy lovingkindness is great unto the heavens, And thy truth unto the skies.

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 stoppeth her ear,

Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: Verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Because of his strength I will give heed unto thee; For God is my high tower.

Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing praises: For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

O God thou hast cast us off, thou hast broken us down; Thou hast been angry; oh restore us again.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: Thou hast made us to drink the wine of staggering.

That thy beloved may be delivered, Save with thy right hand, and answer us.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.

Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe: Philistia, shout thou because of me.

Hast not thou, O God, cast us off? And thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts.

Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

Through God we shall do valiantly; For he it is that will tread down our adversaries.

From the end of the earth will I call unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Thou wilt prolong the king's life; His years shall be as many generations.

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

My soul, wait thou in silence for God only; For my expectation is from him.

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

With God is my salvation and my glory: The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

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

O God, thou art my God; earnestly will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.

Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise thee.

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

They search out iniquities; We have accomplished,'say they , a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.

Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, thou wilt forgive them.

Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee , That he may dwell in thy courts: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, Thy holy temple.

By terrible things thou wilt answer us in righteousness, Oh God of our salvation, Thou that art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, And of them that are afar off upon the sea:

Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.

Come, and see the works of God; He is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Thou broughtest us into the net; Thou layedst a sore burden upon our loins.

Thou didst cause men to ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water; But thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

God be merciful unto us, and bless us, And cause his face to shine upon us; Selah

The earth hath yielded its increase: God, even our own God, will bless us.

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

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

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: Cast up a highway for him that rideth through the deserts; His name is Jehovah; and exult ye before him.

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

When ye lie among the sheepfolds, It is as the wings of a dove covered with silver, And her pinions with yellow gold.

When the Almighty scattered kings therein, It was as when it snoweth in Zalmon.

A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A high mountain is the mountain of Bashan.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands; The Lord is among them, as in'sinai, in the sanctuary.

Blessed be the Lord, who daily beareth our burden, Even the God who is our salvation. Selah

God is unto us a God of deliverances; And unto Jehovah the Lord belongeth escape from death.

But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his guiltiness.

There is little Benjamin their ruler, The princes of Judah and their council, The princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.

Thy God hath commanded thy strength: Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

Ascribe ye strength unto God: His excellency is over Israel, And his strength is in the skies.

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

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

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness, Answer me in the truth of thy salvation.

Answer me, O Jehovah; for thy lovingkindness is good: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies turn thou unto me.

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; And let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

I am as a wonder unto many; But thou art my strong refuge.

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

Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high; Thou who hast done great things, O God, who is like unto thee?

Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

They shall fear thee while the sun endureth, And so long as the moon, throughout all generations.

He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.

His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun: And men shall be blessed in him; All nations shall call him happy.

Surely God is good to Israel, Even to such as are pure in heart.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.

For there are no pangs 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 is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.

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

My flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works.

O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

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

The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

We give thanks unto thee, O God; We give thanks, for thy name is near: Men tell of thy wondrous works.

But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine foameth; It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.

In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel.

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

He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.

I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah

Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?

And I said, This is my infirmity; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god like unto God?

Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.

And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.

He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.