Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.

To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

For the Lord is upright; he is a lover of righteousness: the upright will see his face.

Send help, Lord, for mercy has come to an end; there is no more faith among the children of men.

The words of the Lord are true words: like silver tested by fire and burned clean seven times.

You will keep them, O Lord, you will keep them safe from this generation for ever.

Will you for ever put me out of your memory, O Lord? will your face for ever be turned away from me?

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.

Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the noble in whom is all my delight.

Fair are the places marked out for me; I have a noble heritage.

For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.

The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: flames were lighted by it.

Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.

He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

He made me free from my strong hater, and from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.

For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?

For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

They will be wasting away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.

Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

For you go before him with the blessings of good things: you put a crown of fair gold on his head.

He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

For you have made him a blessing for ever: you have given him joy in the light of your face.

For the king has faith in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he will not be moved.

Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?

They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.

Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.

You who have fear of the Lord, give him praise; all you seed of Jacob, give him glory; go in fear of him, all you seed of Israel.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

For the kingdom is the Lord's; he is the ruler among the nations.

All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.

O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.

His soul will be full of good things, and his seed will have the earth for its heritage.

The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.

My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.

Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

O keep my soul, and take me out of danger: let me not be shamed, for I have put my faith in you.

For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.

In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

I have a safe resting-place for my feet; I will give praise to the Lord in the meetings of the people.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.

Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.

For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

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

Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my saviour, O Lord God for ever true.

I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

Put away fear and let your heart be strong, all you whose hope is in the Lord.

Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

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

Be glad in the Lord, O doers of righteousness; for praise is beautiful for the upright.

For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his works are certain.