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

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

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.

But I am like a branching olive-tree in the house of God; I have put my faith in his mercy for ever and ever.

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.

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

They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

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.

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.

My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

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

I would go wandering far away, living in the waste land. (Selah.)

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

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;

As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

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

God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

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

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.

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with me.

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

Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for 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.)

For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.

So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.

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

You have made the people see hard times; you have given us the wine of shaking for our drink.

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

Give us help in our trouble; for there is no help in man.

Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.

From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)

For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.

May the seat of his authority be before God for ever; may mercy and righteousness keep him safe.

So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.

My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my salvation.

My soul, put all your faith in God; for from him comes my hope.

And mercy, O Lord, is yours, for you give to every man the reward of his work.

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.

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

And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.

It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.

Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

You will give us an answer in righteousness by great acts of power, O God of our salvation; you who are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the far-off lands of the sea;

Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.

He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

You let men go driving over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but you took us out into a wide place.

Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.

O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.)

God will give us his blessing; so let all the ends of the earth be in fear of him.

Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.

Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

Why are you looking with envy, you high hills, on the hill desired by God as his resting-place? truly, God will make it his house for ever.

Our God is for us a God of salvation; his are the ways out of death.

O God, send out your strength; the strength, O God, with which you have done great things for us,

I am tired with my crying; my throat is burning: my eyes are wasted with waiting for my God.

Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

Let not those who have hope in you be put to shame because of me, O Lord God of armies: let not those who are waiting for you be made low because of me, O God of Israel.

I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

But as for me, let my prayer be made to you, O Lord, at a time when you are pleased; O God, give me an answer in your great mercy, for your salvation is certain.

Give an answer to my words, O Lord; for your mercy is good: be turned to me, because of your great pity.

Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me.

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

Let their table before them be for their destruction; let their feasts become a net to take them.

Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

I will give praise to the name of God with a song; I will give glory to him for what he has done.

For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.

For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.

Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

I will give praise to you with instruments of music, O my God, for you are true; I will make songs to you with music, O Holy One of Israel.

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

May he be a judge of your people in righteousness, and make true decisions for the poor.