Let my vindication come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are right.

You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Hold up my steps in your paths, that my feet slip not.

Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

Like as a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, with hailstones and coals of fire.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.

It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.

He teaches my hands to make war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms.

You have enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.

He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.

But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

He trusted in the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you descendants of Israel.

My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever.

All the prosperous of earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

[A Psalm of David.] The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.

Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you forever.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

I have hated them that regard vain idols: but I trust in the LORD.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

The angel of the LORD encamps round about them that fear him, and delivers them.

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.

O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no lack to them that fear him.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

[A Psalm of David.] Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am your salvation.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Let destruction come upon him unawares; and let his net that he has hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto you, who delivers the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that plunders him?

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourns for his mother.

Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.] The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

He devises mischief upon his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.

O continue your lovingkindness unto them that know you; and your righteousness to the upright in heart.

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

The Lord shall laugh at him: for he sees that his day is coming.

A little that a righteous man has is better than the riches of many wicked.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.

But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that opens not his mouth.

Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and be no more.

Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Let them be desolate as a reward for their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

An evil disease, say they, clings close unto him: and now that he lies down he shall rise up no more.

But you, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

By this I know that you favor me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; because of the enemy and avenger.