By this I have known, That Thou hast delighted in me, Because my enemy shouteth not over me.

As for me, you have upheld me in my integrity, and you have set me in your presence forever.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.

Deep [is] calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.

I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?"

With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

because you [are] the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Rather you have saved us from our enemies, and have humiliated those who hate us.

In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. Selah.

Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies.

Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.

You have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

You have sold your people {cheaply}, and did not profit by their price.

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

wouldn’t God have found this out,
since He knows the secrets of the heart?

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

For we have sunk down to the dust;
our bodies cling to the ground.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Good luck have thou with thine honour; ride on with the truth, meekness and righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.

For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;

Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

Nobles of peoples have been gathered, With the people of the God of Abraham, For to God are the shields of earth, Greatly hath He been exalted!

They have seen -- so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.

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?

So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld.

For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth.

Their graves are their eternal homes,
their homes from generation to generation,
though they have named estates after themselves.

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

This [is] the journey [of those who] have foolish [confidence], and those after them [who] accept their sayings. Selah

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;

He pronounces this blessing on himself while he is alive: "May men praise you, for you have done well!"

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Now have the heavens declared his righteousness, Because, God, is, about to judge. Selah.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

I have known every fowl of the mountains, And the wild beast of the field is with Me.

But to the wicked God says, "What [right] have you to recite my statutes and {mention my covenant with your mouth},

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

These [things] you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present [an argument] before your eyes.

Consider this, you who have forgotten God Otherwise, I will tear you in pieces and there will be no deliverer:

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

Behold, thou wilt have truth in the inward parts; and in the hidden part thou wilt make me to know wisdom.

Make me hear joy and gladness; let [the] bones you have crushed rejoice.

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Then shalt thou have sacrifices of righteousness, burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering; then shall they offer up bullocks upon thine altar.

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,

I will give thanks to you forever, because [of what] you have done, and I will wait on your name, because [it is] good, in the presence of your faithful ones.

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

{All of them} have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

There {they are very fearful} [where] no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps [against] you. You have put [them] to shame, because God has rejected them.

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 strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

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

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

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 used to have close fellowship;
we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

At evening and morning and high noon, have I been wont to lament and complain, And he hath heard my voice!

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

For the music director; according to the yonath-elem-rechovim style; a prayer of David, written when the Philistines captured him in Gath. Have mercy on me, O God, for men are attacking me! All day long hostile enemies are tormenting me.

Mine enemies have swallowed up all the day, For many are fighting against me, O most High,

In the time of my fear, I will have faith in you.

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; [are they] not in your book?

Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God is for me.

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

God, I have taken vows before you; therefore I will offer thanksgiving sacrifices to you.

because you have delivered my soul from death. [Have you] not [kept] my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

[To the Chief Musician, altaschith. A michtam of David, when he fled from Saul into the cave.] Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities have passed.

I will call unto the Most High God, even unto the God that shall perform the cause which I have in hand.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.