They are not ashamed in a time of evil, And in days of famine they are satisfied.

For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.

My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.

Yea, I am as a man who heareth not, And in his mouth are no reproofs.

And mine enemies are lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

And He putteth in my mouth a new song, 'Praise to our God.' Many do see and fear, and trust in Jehovah.

They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my evil.

They are desolate because of their shame, Who are saying to me, 'Aha, aha.'

All seeking Thee rejoice and are glad in Thee, Those loving Thy salvation say continually, 'Jehovah is magnified.'

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.

By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,

For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.

In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,

For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.

Thine arrows are sharp, -- Peoples fall under Thee -- In the heart of the enemies of the king.

Daughters of kings are among thy precious ones, A queen hath stood at thy right hand, In pure gold of Ophir.

Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,

In divers colours she is brought to the king, Virgins -- after her -- her companions, Are brought to thee.

They are brought with joy and gladness, They come into the palace of the king.

Instead of thy fathers are thy sons, Thou dost appoint them for princes in all the earth.

Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.

He leadeth peoples under us, and nations under our feet.

He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.

Praise God -- praise -- give praise to our king, praise.

Nobles of peoples have been gathered, With the people of the God of Abraham, For to God are the shields of earth, Greatly hath He been exalted!

A Song, a Psalm, by sons of Korah. Great is Jehovah, and praised greatly, In the city of our God -- His holy hill.

They have seen -- so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away.

As we have heard, so we have seen, In the city of Jehovah of hosts, In the city of our God, God doth establish her -- to the age. Selah.

Rejoice doth Mount Zion, The daughters of Judah are joyful, For the sake of Thy judgments.

Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

That this God is our God -- To the age and for ever, He -- he doth lead us over death!

To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Hear this, all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart are things of understanding.

I incline to a simile mine ear, I open with a harp my riddle:

Their heart is: Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

This their way is folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.

Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings Are before Me continually.

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

For Thou desirest not sacrifice, or I give it, Burnt-offering Thou acceptest not.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

O God, hear my prayer, Give ear to the sayings of my mouth,

To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.

By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,

Mischiefs are in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

For an enemy reproacheth me not, or I bear it, He who is hating me Hath not magnified himself against me, Or I hide from him.

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.

Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many are fighting against me, O most High,

All the day they wrest my words, Concerning me all their thoughts are for evil,

My wandering Thou hast counted, Thou -- place Thou my tear in Thy bottle, Are they not in Thy book?

On me, O God, are Thy vows, I repay thank-offerings to Thee.

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

Their poison is as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

Lo, they belch out with their mouths, Swords are in their lips, for 'Who heareth?'

Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

Consume in fury, consume and they are not, And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah.

They -- they wander for food, If they are not satisfied -- then they murmur.

Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!

In God we do mightily, And He treadeth down our adversaries!

Till when do ye devise mischief against a man? Ye are destroyed all of you, As a wall inclined, a hedge that is cast down.

Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter.

They cause him to run on the edge of the sword, A portion for foxes they are.

Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow -- a bitter word.

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

O the happiness of him whom Thou choosest, And drawest near, he inhabiteth Thy courts, We are satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, Thy holy temple.

By fearful things in righteousness Thou answerest us, O God of our salvation, The confidence of all far off ends of earth and sea.

And the inhabitants of the uttermost parts From Thy signs are afraid, The outgoings of morning and evening Thou causest to sing.

Thou hast crowned the year of Thy goodness, And Thy paths drop fatness.

Clothed have lambs the flock, And valleys are covered with corn, They shout -- yea, they sing!

Say to God, 'How fearful are Thy works, By the abundance of Thy strength, Thine enemies feign obedience to Thee.

Bless, ye peoples, our God, And sound the voice of His praise,

Who hath placed our soul in life, And suffered not our feet to be moved.

Thou hast brought us into a net, Thou hast placed pressure on our loins.

Thou hast caused man to ride at our head. We have entered into fire and into water, And Thou bringest us out to a watered place.

For opened were my lips, And my mouth spake in my distress:

Earth hath given her increase, God doth bless us -- our God,

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God -- scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.

The Lord doth give the saying, The female proclaimers are a numerous host.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands of changes, The Lord is among them, in Sinai, in the sanctuary.