For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

We who had sweet fellowship together,
Who walked to the house of God in company.

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Before your pots can feel [the heat of] a thornbush, whether green [or] {dry}, he will sweep it away.

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

Because of his strength I will give heed unto thee; For God is my high tower.

And I will sing thy strength; and I will rejoice at morning for thy mercy; for they wert a height to me, and a refuge in the day of straits to me.

My help, to thee I will play on the harp, for God my height, the God of my mercy.

You made your people go through hard times; you had us drink wine that makes us stagger.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Will not you, O God, who had cast us off? and you, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

For the choir director; on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.
Hear my cry, O God;
Give heed to my prayer.

Let me make my home in your tent forever; let me hide under the shelter of your wings. Interlude

Surely he my rock and my salvation, my height; I shall not be greatly moved.

They consult only to throw him down from his high position [to dishonor him];
They delight in lies.
They bless with [the words of] their mouths,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.

Surely he my rock and my salvation: my height; I shall not be moved.

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

That they may privily hurt the innocent, and suddenly hit him without any fear.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?

So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

Everyone was gripped with fear and acknowledged God's deeds, understanding what he had done.

The righteous rejoiced in the LORD, because they had fled to him for refuge. Let all the upright in heart exult. To the Director: A song. Lyrics by David.

Thou didst cause men to ride over our head; we went through fire and through water: but thou hast brought us out into abundance.

Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.

But certainly God has heard [me];
He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.} Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

The mountain of God the mountain of Basilan; the mountain of height the mountain of Bashan.

Thou didst go up to height, thou didst take captive captivity: thou didst receive gifts in man, also those turning away, for Jehovah God to dwell.

But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

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.

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 me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

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

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

Let your curse come on them; let the heat of your wrath overtake them.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

And your righteousness, O God, [is] to [the] height [of heaven]. You who have done great things, O God, who [is] like you?

There shall be diffusion of grain in the earth upon the head of the mountains; its fruit shall shake as Lebanon, and they shall blossom from the city as the grass of the earth.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

Until I could enter the holy places of God, - Could give heed to their hereafter: -

But my heart had grown embittered, And, in my reins, had I received wounds;

But, I, was brutish, and could not perceive, Like the beasts, had I become before thee.

{An Instruction of Asaph} O God, wherefore doest thou cast us so clean away? Why is thy wrath so hot against the sheep of thy pasture?

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies; for the presumption of them that hate thee, increaseth ever more and more.

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

I will open my mouth in a parable [to instruct using examples];
I will utter dark and puzzling sayings of old [that contain important truth]—

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 also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but to keep his commandments.

And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.

Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

Before they had satisfied their desire,
And while their food was in their mouths,

For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

They did not remember what he had done, how he delivered them from the enemy,

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

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

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

He sent on them the heat of his wrath, his bitter disgust, letting loose evil angels among them.

He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

Then the Lord awoke like [one who had been] asleep, [awoke] like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.

Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

From tending the ewes with nursing young He brought him
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.

before Ephraim,
Benjamin, and Manasseh.
Rally Your power and come to save us.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

You have withdrawn all Your wrath,
You have turned away from Your burning anger.

Heed, O Yahweh, my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications.

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.

The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.)

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

The heat of your wrath has gone over me; I am broken by your cruel punishments.

My lovers and friends hast thou put away from me, and hid mine acquaintance out of my sight.

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?

Before the mountains were born
Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.

For thou hat made me glad, O Yahweh, in thy doing, In the works of thy hands, will I shout for joy.

They have said, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.”