Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

For he gave the word, and it was done; by his order it was fixed for ever.

I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.

What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.

Great are the troubles of the upright: but the Lord takes him safely out of them all.

O Lord, be on my side against those who are judging me; be at war with those who make war against me.

And my soul will have joy in the Lord; it will be glad in his salvation.

My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.

And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.

And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith in the Lord.

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,

For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.

Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.)

But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

Will not God make search for it? for he sees the secrets of the heart.

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.

God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

The nations were angry, the kingdoms were moved; at the sound of his voice the earth became like wax.

Be at peace in the knowledge that I am God: I will be lifted up among the nations, I will be honoured through all the earth.

What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you: strong in his wealth.

I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.

6 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.

For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.

Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here and be at rest.

By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

But it was you, my equal, my guide, my well-loved friend.

He has taken my soul away from the attack which was made against me, and given it peace; for great numbers were against me.

He has put out his hand against those who were at peace with him; he has not kept his agreement.

In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.

In God have I put my hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.

He will send from heaven, and take me from the power of him whose desire is for my destruction. God will send out his mercy and his good faith.

My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.

They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

O God, let their teeth be broken in their mouths; let the great teeth of the young lions be pulled out, O Lord.

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Take me out of the hands of the cruel ones, O my God; keep me safe from those who come up against me.

Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

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

But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.

Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I put out my shoe; over Philistia will a glad cry be sounded.

Have not you put us away, O God? and you have not gone out with our armies.

Have faith in him at all times, you people; let your hearts go flowing out before him: God is our safe place. (Selah.)

Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:

So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.