And those who repay evil for good,
They oppose me, because I follow what is good.

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”

“Lord, make me to know my end
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how transient I am.

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

“And now, Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is in You.

“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who have done it.

“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You consume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah.

How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your Law is within my heart.”

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him,
That when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And You set me in Your presence forever.

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
O God, we have heard with our ears,
Our fathers have told us
The work that You did in their days,
In the days of old.

Through You we will push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

But You have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have put to shame those who hate us.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.

You cause us to turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

You make us a byword among the nations,
A laughingstock among the peoples.

All day long my dishonor is before me
And my humiliation has overwhelmed me,

All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You,
And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.

Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals
And covered us with the shadow of death.

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.

Rise up, be our help,
And redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.

For the choir director; according to the Shoshannim. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.
My heart overflows with a good theme;
I address my verses to the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your kingdom.

Then the King will desire your beauty.
Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.

The King’s daughter is all glorious within;
Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah, set to Alamoth. A Song.
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

For the Lord Most High is to be feared,
A great King over all the earth.

He subdues peoples under us
And nations under our feet.

He chooses our inheritance for us,
The glory of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

For God is the King of all the earth;
Sing praises with a skillful psalm.

The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham,
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is highly exalted.

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion in the far north,
The city of the great King.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

Panic seized them there,
Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

As we have heard, so have we seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God;
God will establish her forever. Selah.

As is Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.

For such is God,
Our God forever and ever;
He will guide us until death.

For the redemption of his soul is costly,
And he should cease trying forever—

For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.

Their inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

But man in his pomp will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.

This is the way of those who are foolish,
And of those after them who approve their words. Selah.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;

Man in his pomp, yet without understanding,
Is like the beasts that perish.

May our God come and not keep silence;
Fire devours before Him,
And it is very tempestuous around Him.

And the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge. Selah.

“For every beast of the forest is Mine,
The cattle on a thousand hills.

“I know every bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is Mine.

“If I were hungry I would not tell you,
For the world is Mine, and all it contains.

For I know my transgressions,
And my sin is ever before me.

Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

I will give You thanks forever, because You have done it,
And I will wait on Your name, for it is good, in the presence of Your godly ones.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God.

Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

Behold, God is my helper;
The Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

Willingly I will sacrifice to You;
I will give thanks to Your name, O Lord, for it is good.

My heart is in anguish within me,
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Destruction is in her midst;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
Then I could hide myself from him.

But it is you, a man my equal,
My companion and my familiar friend;

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.

As for me, I shall call upon God,
And the Lord will save me.

He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me,
For they are many who strive with me.

God will hear and answer them—
Even the one who sits enthroned from of old— Selah.
With whom there is no change,
And who do not fear God.

In God, whose word I praise,
In God I have put my trust;
I shall not be afraid.
What can mere man do to me?

They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.

In God, whose word I praise,
In the Lord, whose word I praise,

My soul is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe forth 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 dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises!

For Your lovingkindness is great to the heavens
And Your truth to the clouds.

Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

And men will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely there is a God who judges on earth!”

Because of his strength I will watch for You,
For God is my stronghold.