From the heavens hath Jehovah looked, He hath seen all the sons of men.

Out of his settled place of abode, hath he fixed his gaze on all the inhabitants of the earth:

Our soul hath waited for Jehovah, Our help and our shield is He,

I enquired of Yahweh, and he hath answered me, And, out of all my terrors, hath he rescued me.

The messenger of Yahweh encampeth around them who revere him, Thus hath he delivered them.

They made outcry, and Yahweh heard, And, out of all their straits, hath he rescued them.

He is keeping all his bones, One of them hath not been broken.

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

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

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

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

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

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

And hath brought out as light thy righteousness, And thy judgment as noon-day.

Hold thee still in the LORD, and abide patiently upon him: but grieve not thyself at one that hath prosperity, and liveth in abomination.

The Lord doth laugh at him, For He hath seen that his day cometh.

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

The LORD ordereth a good man's going, and hath pleasure in his way.

Thus hath Yahweh helped them, thus hath he delivered them, - He will deliver them from the lawless, and will save them, because they have sought refuge in him.

Lord, before Thee is all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid.

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

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

O the happiness of the man Who hath made Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the proud, And those turning aside to lies.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation.

For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth -- his name hath perished!

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

An infliction of the Abandoned One hath been fixed upon him, and, now that he hath lien down, he will not again rise.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

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

The LORD hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

Rather you have saved us from our enemies, and have humiliated those who hate us.

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;

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

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies.' -- By sons of Korah. -- An Instruction. -- A song of loves. My heart hath indited a good thing, I am telling my works to a king, My tongue is the pen of a speedy writer.

Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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

A river! whose channels, shall gladden the city of God, The Most High, hath hallowed his habitation.

Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.

Causing wars to cease, Unto the end of the earth, the bow he shivereth, And the spear He hath cut asunder, Chariots he doth burn with fire.

He hath chosen our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

God hath gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet.

God hath reigned over nations, God hath sat on His holy throne,

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!

God hath made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

Trembling hath seized them there, Pain, as of a travailing woman.

As is Thy name, O God, so is Thy praise, Over the ends of the earth, Righteousness hath filled Thy right hand.

And precious is the redemption of their soul, And it hath ceased -- to the age.

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

{A Psalm of Asaph.} The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

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

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you?

If thou sawest a thief, then didst thou run with him, - And, with adulterers, hath been thy chosen life;

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

Also -- God doth break thee down for ever, Taketh thee, and pulleth thee out of the tent, And He hath uprooted thee Out of the land of the living. Selah.

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

For he hath delivered me out of all trouble: and mine eye hath seen his desire upon mine enemies.

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

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.

At evening and morning and high noon, have I been wont to lament and complain, And he hath heard my voice!

He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.

He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.

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

Cast on Jehovah that which He hath given thee, And He doth sustain thee, He doth not suffer for ever the moving of the righteous.

Show me favour, O God, For weak man hath panted for me, All the day, a fighter oppresseth me:

Show me favour, O God, Show me favour, For, in thee, hath my soul sought refuge, - And, in the shadow of thy wings, will I seek refuge, Until the storm of ruin pass by.

He will send from the heavens and save me; he hath covered with reproach him that would swallow me up. Selah. God hath sent forth his loving-kindness and his truth.

A net they have prepared for my steps, Bowed down hath my soul, They have digged before me a pit, They have fallen into its midst. Selah.

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved.

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

Who doth bring me to a city of bulwarks? Who hath led me unto Edom?

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.

Cleaved hath my soul after Thee, On me hath Thy right hand taken hold.

And all men that see it shall say, "This hath God done!" For they shall perceive that it is his work.

The righteous doth rejoice in Jehovah, And hath trusted in Him, And boast themselves do all the upright of heart!

Establishing mountains by His power, He hath been girded with might,

Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

He hath turned a sea to dry land, Through a river they pass over on foot, There do we rejoice in Him.

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

Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.

Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.