Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob unto the ends of the earth. Selah.

At night they return like howling dogs; they prowl around the city.

Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied.

Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

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

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

Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.

Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

Reproach hath broken my heart, and I am weak, - Though I waited for one to pity me, yet there was none, And for comforters, yet I found not any.

Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

The humble have seen it and are glad;
You who seek God [requiring Him as your greatest need], let your heart revive and live.

For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

May all those who seek You [as life’s first priority] rejoice and be glad in You;
May those who love Your salvation say continually,
“Let God be magnified!”

And I am poor and needy, O God, haste to me, My help and my deliverer art Thou, O Jehovah, tarry Thou not!

In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

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

May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

Flourish in his days doth the righteous, And abundance of peace till the moon is not.

For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.

For not the pains to their death, and their body fat

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

Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state.

Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,
O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

But as for me, God's presence is all I need. I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter, as I declare all the things you have done.

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

Why do you not withdraw your hand your right hand from your bosom and destroy them?

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

O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

{To the chief Musician. 'Destroy not.' A Psalm of Asaph: a Song.} Unto thee we give thanks, O God, we give thanks; and thy name is near: thy marvellous works declare it.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation come:

The mighty of heart were spoiled, they slumbered their sleep: and all the men of strength found not their hands.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

For ages, will My Lord reject? And, not again, grant acceptance any more?

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

I will open my mouth in parable{s (LXX/NT)}. I will utter dark sayings of old,

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

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.

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],
Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.

Shout ye for joy, unto God our strength, Sound the note of triumph, to the God of Jacob;

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

In a time of need you called out and I delivered you; I answered you from the dark thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Interlude

There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

{A Song or Psalm of Asaph.} Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

For a sun and a shield is Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.

Restore us, O God our deliverer! Do not be displeased with us!