Blessed is the Lord, day by day He layeth on us. God Himself is our salvation. Selah.

Singers have been before, Behind are players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

Thou -- Thou hast known my reproach, And my shame, and my blushing, Before Thee are all mine adversaries.

Darkened are their eyes from seeing, And their loins continually shake Thou.

They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written.

The humble have seen -- they rejoice, Ye who seek God -- and your heart liveth.

Let them be ashamed and confounded Who are seeking my soul, Let them be turned backward and blush Who are desiring my evil.

Let them turn back because of their shame, Who are saying, 'Aha, aha.'

In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

They are ashamed, they are consumed, Who are opposing my soul, They are covered with reproach and blushing, Who are seeking my evil,

The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.

Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

Our ensigns we have not seen, There is no more a prophet, Nor with us is one knowing how long.

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness -- is elevation.

And all horns of the wicked I cut off, Exalted are the horns of the righteous!

Vow and complete to Jehovah your God, All ye surrounding him. They bring presents to the Fearful One.

To the Overseer, for Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of Asaph. My voice is to God, and I cry, my voice is to God, And He hath given ear unto me.

The waters have seen Thee, O God, The waters have seen Thee, They are afraid -- also depths are troubled.

In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.

That we have heard and do know, And our fathers have recounted to us.

And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.

So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,

And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

And they eat, and are greatly satisfied, And their desire He bringeth to them.

And He remembereth that they are flesh, A wind going on -- and it returneth not.

We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

Help us, O God of our salvation, Because of the honour of Thy name, And deliver us, and cover over our sins, For Thy name's sake.

Why do the nations say, 'Where is their God?' Let be known among the nations before our eyes, The vengeance of the blood of Thy servants that is shed.

And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,

Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, Wake up Thy might, and come for our salvation.

O God, cause us to turn back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

Thou makest us a strife to our neighbours, And our enemies mock at it.

God of Hosts, turn us back, And cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved.

Covered have been hills with its shadow, And its boughs are cedars of God.

O Jehovah, God of Hosts, turn us back, Cause Thy face to shine, and we are saved!

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Gittith.' By Asaph. Cry aloud to God our strength, Shout to the God of Jacob.

Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,

O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

I -- I have said, 'Gods ye are, And sons of the Most High -- all of you,

They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!

They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

(Even a sparrow hath found a house, And a swallow a nest for herself, Where she hath placed her brood,) Thine altars, O Jehovah of Hosts, My king and my God.

O the happiness of a man whose strength is in Thee, Highways are in their heart.

O Jehovah, God of Hosts, hear my prayer, Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.

Our shield, see, O God, And behold the face of Thine anointed,

Turn back to us, O God of our salvation, And make void Thine anger with us.

Only, near to those fearing Him is His salvation, That honour may dwell in our land.

Jehovah also giveth that which is good, And our land doth give its increase.

A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I am poor and needy.

There is none like Thee among the gods, O Lord, And like Thy works there are none.

Do with me a sign for good, And those hating me see and are ashamed, For Thou, O Jehovah, hast helped me, Yea, Thou hast comforted me!

Honourable things are spoken in Thee, O city of God. Selah.

Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains are in Thee!

My prayer cometh in before Thee, Incline Thine ear to my loud cry,

Are Thy wonders known in the darkness? And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Thine are the heavens -- the earth also is Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.

Righteousness and judgment Are the fixed place of Thy throne, Kindness and truth go before Thy face.

In Thy name they rejoice all the day, And in Thy righteousness they are exalted,

For the beauty of their strength art Thou, And in Thy good will is our horn exalted,

For of Jehovah is our shield, And of the Holy One of Israel our king.

And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.

Where are Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,

Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou art God.

For a thousand years in Thine eyes are as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,

For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

Days of our years, in them are seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet is their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

To number our days aright let us know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

Satisfy us at morn with Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

Thou art not afraid of fear by night, Of arrow that flieth by day,

Those planted in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of our God do flourish.

Still they bring forth in old age, Fat and flourishing are they,

He who planteth the ear doth He not hear? He who formeth the eye doth He not see?

He knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Unless Jehovah were a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.

And turneth back on them their iniquity, And in their wickedness cutteth them off; Jehovah our God doth cut them off!

Come, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation.

In whose hand are the deep places of earth, And the strong places of hills are His.

Come in, we bow ourselves, and we bend, We kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken,

Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

Where I sware in Mine anger, 'If they come in unto My rest !'

For all the gods of the peoples are nought, And Jehovah made the heavens.

Honour and majesty are before Him, Strength and beauty in His sanctuary.

Cloud and darkness are round about Him, Righteousness and judgment the basis of His throne.

Ashamed are all servants of a graven image, Those boasting themselves in idols, Bow yourselves to him, all ye gods.

Zion hath heard and rejoiceth, And daughters of Judah are joyful, Because of Thy judgments, O Jehovah.

He hath remembered His kindness, And His faithfulness to the house of Israel, All ends of earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Exalt ye Jehovah our God, And bow yourselves at His footstool, holy is He.