The intimate counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him so they may know his covenant.

I do not sit with those committed to what is false, nor do I travel with hypocrites.

LORD, I love the dwelling place that is your house, the place where your glory resides.

But as for me, I walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be gracious to me!

The LORD is my light and my salvation whom will I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom will I be afraid?

If an army encamps against me, my heart will not fear. If a war is launched against me, I will even trust in that situation.

I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD's Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple.

Hear the sound of my supplications when I cry to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I received help. My heart rejoices, and I give thanks to him with my song.

The LORD is the strength of his people; he is a refuge of deliverance for his anointed.

The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

The LORD sat enthroned over the flood, and the LORD sits as king forever.

For his wrath is only momentary; yet his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may lodge for the night, but shouts of joy will come in the morning.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I will never be moved."

By your favor, LORD, you established me as a strong mountain; Then you hid your face, and I was dismayed.

"What profit is there in my death if I go down to the Pit? Can dust worship you? Can it proclaim your faithfulness?"

I will rejoice and be glad in your gracious love, for you see my affliction and take note that my soul is distressed.

My life is consumed by sorrow, my years with groaning. My strength has faltered because of my iniquity; my bones have been consumed.

I have heard the slander of many; it is like terror all around me, as they conspire together and plot to take my life.

How great is your goodness that you have reserved for those who fear you, that you have set in place for those who take refuge in you, in the presence of the children of men.

How blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

How blessed is the person against whom the LORD does not charge iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; my strength was exhausted as in a summer drought. Interlude

Rejoice in the LORD, righteous ones; for the praise of the upright is beautiful.

For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his works are done in faithfulness.

He loves righteousness and justice; the world is filled with the gracious love of the LORD.

How blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance.

A king is not saved by a large army; a mighty soldier is not delivered by his great strength.

It is vain to trust in a horse for deliverance, even with its great strength, it cannot deliver.

We wait on the LORD; he is our help and our shield.

LORD, may your gracious love be upon us, even as we hope in you. By David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, who drove him away. So David left.

Magnify the LORD with me! Let us lift up his name together!

Taste and see that the LORD is good! How blessed is the person who trusts in him!

The face of the LORD is set against those who do evil, and he will remove people's recollection of them from the earth.

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed.

Make them like the chaff before the wind, as the messenger of the LORD pushes them aside.

May their path be dark and slippery, as the messenger of the LORD tracks them down.

All my bones will say, "LORD, who is like you? Who delivers the weak from the one who is stronger than he, and the weak and the needy from the one who wants to rob him?"

I paced about as for my friend or my brother, and fell down mourning as one weeps for one's mother.

An oracle that came to me about the transgressions of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your justice is like the great depths of the sea. You deliver both people and animals, LORD.

How precious is your gracious love, God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

For with you is a fountain of life, and in your light we will see light.

He will bring forth your righteousness as a light, and your justice as the noonday sun.

Be silent in the LORD's presence and wait patiently for him. Don't be angry because of the one whose way prospers or the one who implements evil schemes.

But the Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming!

Better is the little that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked people.

Every day he is generous, lending freely, and his descendants are blessed.

The instruction of his God is in his heart; his steps will not slip.

but the LORD will not let him fall into his hands. He will not be condemned when he is put on trial.

Observe the blameless! Take note of the upright! Indeed, the future of that man is peace.

But deliverance for the righteous one comes from the LORD; he is their strength in times of distress.

The LORD helps and delivers them; he will deliver them from the wicked, and he will save them because they have sought refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm: As a Reminder.

My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.

My insides are burning and my body is unhealthy.

Lord, all my longings are before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

My heart pounds, my strength fails me, even the gleam in my eye is gone.

As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance.

Indeed, I have become like a man who hears nothing, and in whose mouth there is no rebuke.

For I said, "Do not let them gloat over me, as they congratulate themselves when my foot slips."

I was as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened.

My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out:

"LORD, let me know how my life ends, and the standard by which you will measure my days, whatever it is! Then I will know how transient my life is.

Look, you have made my life span fit in your hand; It is nothing compared to yours. Surely every person at their best is a puff of wind. Interlude

In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.

You rebuke by chastening a man with the consequence of iniquities; you destroy what is attractive to him, as one would treat a moth. Indeed, every person is a puff of wind. Interlude

How blessed is that strong person who places his trust in the LORD, and who has not acknowledged the proud nor resorted to lies.

LORD, my God, You have done great things: marvelous works and your thoughts toward us. There is no one who compares to you! I will try to recite your actions, even though there are too many to number.

Then I said, "Here I am! I have come! In the scroll of the book it is written about me.

I delight to do your will, my God. Your Law is part of my inner being."

In the great congregation I have proclaimed the righteous good news. Behold, I did not seal my lips, LORD, as you know.

Blessed is the one who is considerate of the destitute; the LORD will deliver him when the times are evil.

As for me, I said, "LORD, be gracious to me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you!"

As for my enemies, with malice they said, "When will he die and memory of his name perish?"

As for all who hate me, they whisper together against me; they desire to do me harm.

They say, "Wickedness is entrenched in him. Once he is brought low, he will not rise again."

As for my best friend, the one in whom I trusted, the one who ate my bread, even he has insulted me!

As for me, you will maintain my just cause, and you will cause me to stand in your presence forever.

As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God.

My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?"

These things I will recall as I pour out my troubles within me: I used to go with the crowd in a procession to the house of God, accompanied with shouts of joy and thanksgiving.

Deep waters call out to what is deeper still; at the roar of your waterfalls all your breakers and your waves swirled over me.

By day the LORD will command his gracious love, and by night his song is with me a prayer to the God of my life.

Like the shattering of my bones are the taunts of my oppressors, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for once again I will praise him, since his presence saves me and he is my God.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will praise him once again, since his presence saves me and he is my God. To the Director: An instruction of the Sons of Korah.

God, we heard it with our ears; our ancestors told us about what you did in their day a long time ago.

Through you we will knock down our oppressors; through your name we will tread down those who rise up against us.

For you delivered us from our oppressors and put to shame those who hate us.

However, you cast us off and made us ashamed! You did not even march with our armies!

You made us retreat from our oppressors. Our enemies ransacked us.

You handed us over to be slaughtered like sheep and you scattered us among the nations.

You made us a laughing stock to our neighbors, a source of mockery and derision to those around us.

You made us an object lesson among the nations; people shake their heads at us.

All this came upon us, yet we did not forsake you, and we have not dealt falsely with your covenant;

Nevertheless, you crushed us in the lair of jackals, and covered us in deep darkness.

For your sake we are being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

Wake up! Why are you asleep, Lord? Get up! Don't cast us off forever!

Arise! Deliver us! Redeem us according to your gracious love! To the Director: An instruction by the Sons of Korah. A love song to the tune of "Lilies".