I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.

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 not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

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

Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

May you pour out your fury on them. May your burning anger overtake them.

Make their fortification desolate;
may no one live in their tents.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk how they may vex them whom thou hast wounded.

May you punish them for their crimes; may they receive no verdict of innocence from you.

May they be erased from the Book of Life, and their names not be written with the righteous.

But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.

Let me praise the name of God with a song that I may magnify him with thanksgiving.

The afflicted will watch and rejoice. May you who seek God take courage.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

May those who say "Aha! Aha!" be turned back because of their shameful deeds.

May all those who seek You [as life’s first priority] rejoice and be glad in You;
May those who love Your salvation say continually,
“Let God be magnified!”

But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.

For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.

By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

But as for me, I will hope continually, and will praise thee yet more and more.

My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

I will give news of the great acts of the Lord God; my words will be of your righteousness, and of yours only.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

May the mountains bring prosperity to the people
and the hills, righteousness.

May he bring justice to the poor among the people,
Save the children of the needy
And crush the oppressor,

Let them fear You [with awe-inspired reverence and worship You with obedience] while the sun endures,
And as long as the moon [reflects light], throughout all generations.

May he come down like rain on the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

May [what is] right blossom in his days and an abundance of peace, until [the] moon is no more.

And may he rule from sea up to sea, and from [the] River to [the] edges of [the] land.

May desert tribes kneel before him
and his enemies lick the dust.

May the kings of Tarshish
and the coasts and islands bring tribute,
the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

May all kings bow down to him, and all nations serve him.

So may he live, and may gold from Sheba be given to him, and may prayers be offered for him continually. May blessings be invoked for him {all day long}.

May there be an abundance of grain in the land [even] on [the] top of [the] mountains. May his crop sway like the [trees of] Lebanon, and may [those] from [the] city blossom like the grass of the earth.

May his name endure forever. May his name increase {as long as the sun shines}, and let them be blessed in him. Let all nations call him blessed.

May the Lord God, the God of Israel,
who alone does wonders, be praised.

And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen.

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

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

Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.

If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

As the dream of him that waketh, O my Lord! when rousing thyself up, their shadowy being, wilt thou despise.

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Who to me in the heavens? and from thee I desired nothing in the earth.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

May the crushed one not again be confounded, As for the oppressed and the needy, let them praise thy Name.

“When I select an appointed time,
I will judge with equity,” [says the Lord].

But as for me, I will declare for ever; I will sing psalms to the God of Jacob.

Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

{To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.} I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Will the Lord put me away for ever? will he be kind no longer?

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

I will give thought to all your work, while my mind goes over your acts of power.

Your way was in the sea
And Your paths in the mighty waters,
And Your footprints may not be known.

{Maschil of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

To the end, A later generation, might come m know, Children who should be born, Who should arise, and recount them to their children;

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants be avenged among the nations!

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

O God, restore us, and cause your face to shine that we may be saved.