If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice.

In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

I have set Jehovah continually before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, which is not out of feigned lips.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.

And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

He reached forth from above, he took me, he drew me out of great waters:

For it is thou that savest the afflicted people; but the haughty eyes wilt thou bring down.

For it is thou that makest my lamp to shine: Jehovah my God enlighteneth my darkness.

And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

At the hearing of the ear, they obey me: strangers come cringing unto me.

It is he who giveth great deliverances to his king, and sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

There is no speech and there are no words, yet their voice is heard.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their language to the extremity of the world. In them hath he set a tent for the sun,

His going forth is from the end of the heavens, and his circuit unto the ends of it; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

May he send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

He asked life of thee; thou gavest it him, length of days for ever and ever.

Thy hand shall find out all thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying:

Commit it to Jehovah let him rescue him; let him deliver him, because he delighteth in him!

But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done it.

For it was he that founded it upon seas, and established it upon floods.

Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

Make me to walk in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

For thy name's sake, O Jehovah, thou wilt indeed pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.

What man is he that feareth Jehovah? him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.

Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for he will bring my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are increased: bring me out of my distresses;

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemies, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.

Wait for Jehovah; be strong and let thy heart take courage: yea, wait for Jehovah.

The voice of Jehovah cleaveth out flames of fire.

For a moment is passed in his anger, a life in his favour; at even weeping cometh for the night, and at morn there is rejoicing.

What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Draw me out of the net that they have hidden for me; for thou art my strength.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they will not reach him.

For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

{A Psalm of David; when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed.} I will bless Jehovah at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

This afflicted one called, and Jehovah heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth days, that he may see good?

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

The righteous cry, and Jehovah heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all:

And draw out the spear, and stop the way against my pursuers: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.

For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit; without cause they have digged it for my soul.

And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it shall rejoice in his salvation.

But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen it.

Thou hast seen it, Jehovah: keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from me.

Let them not say in their heart, Aha! so would we have it. Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine adversity; let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.

Commit thy way unto Jehovah, and rely upon him: he will bring it to pass;

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him that prospereth in his way, because of the man that bringeth mischievous devices to pass.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself: it would be only to do evil.

For evil-doers shall be cut off; but those that wait on Jehovah, they shall possess the land.

For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.

The Lord laugheth at him; for he seeth that his day is coming.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to possess the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.

And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.

Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.

And now, what wait I for, Lord? my hope is in thee.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done it.

Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers.

And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall confide in Jehovah.

Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me --

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;

And if one come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

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 art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, for the health of his countenance.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Send out thy light and thy truth: they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.

Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.

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

If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,

Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her at the dawn of the morning.

Come, behold the works of Jehovah, what desolations he hath made in the earth:

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