Look at me and shudder;
put your hand over your mouth.

He is carried to the grave,
and someone keeps watch over his tomb.

He gives them a sense of security, so they can rely on it,
but His eyes watch over their ways.

He stretches the northern skies over empty space;
He hangs the earth on nothing.

He obscures the view of His throne,
spreading His cloud over it.

Proud beasts have never walked on it;
no lion has ever prowled over it.

If only I could be as in months gone by,
in the days when God watched over me,

Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress,
or become excited when trouble came his way?

He puts my feet in the stocks;
He stands watch over all my paths.”

Who gave Him authority over the earth?
Who put Him in charge of the entire world?

God is not partial to princes
and does not favor the rich over the poor,
for they are all the work of His hands.

For His eyes watch over a man’s ways,
and He observes all his steps.

But when God is silent, who can declare Him guilty?
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,

They swirl about,
turning round and round at His direction,
accomplishing everything He commands them
over the surface of the inhabited world.

I am so insignificant. How can I answer You?
I place my hand over my mouth.

He surveys everything that is haughty;
he is king over all the proud beasts.

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

Let the assembly of peoples gather around You;
take Your seat on high over it.

You made him lord over the works of Your hands;
You put everything under his feet:

My enemy will say, “I have triumphed over him,”
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.

With You I can attack a barrier,
and with my God I can leap over a wall.

Moreover, keep Your servant from willful sins;
do not let them rule over me.
Then I will be innocent
and cleansed from blatant rebellion.

I was given over to You at birth;
You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

for kingship belongs to the Lord;
He rules over the nations.

My God, I trust in You.
Do not let me be disgraced;
do not let my enemies gloat over me.

Do not give me over to the will of my foes,
for false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing violence.

A psalm; a dedication song for the house. Davidic.I will exalt You, Lord,
because You have lifted me up
and have not allowed my enemies
to triumph over me.

and have not handed me over to the enemy.
You have set my feet in a spacious place.

Do not let my deceitful enemies rejoice over me;
do not let those who hate me without cause
look at me maliciously.

Vindicate me, Lord my God,
in keeping with Your righteousness,
and do not let them rejoice over me.

Let those who rejoice at my misfortune
be disgraced and humiliated;
let those who exalt themselves over me
be clothed with shame and reproach.

Spread Your faithful love over those who know You,
and Your righteousness over the upright in heart.

The Lord watches over the blameless all their days,
and their inheritance will last forever.

For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.

I am bent over and brought low;
all day long I go around in mourning.

For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me—
those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”

The Lord will keep him and preserve him;
he will be blessed in the land.
You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

By this I know that You delight in me:
my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls;
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.

But You give us victory over our foes
and let those who hate us be disgraced.

You hand us over to be eaten like sheep
and scatter us among the nations.

For Yahweh, the Most High, is awe-inspiring,
a great King over all the earth.

God reigns over the nations;
God is seated on His holy throne.

Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.

My heart shudders within me;
terrors of death sweep over me.

God, be exalted above the heavens;
let Your glory be over the whole earth.

Consume them in rage;
consume them until they are gone.
Then people will know throughout the earth
that God rules over Jacob.Selah

Moab is My washbasin.
I throw My sandal on Edom;
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

They will be given over to the power of the sword;
they will become the jackals’ prey.

You let men ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water,
but You brought us out to abundance.

Ascribe power to God.
His majesty is over Israel,
His power among the clouds.

I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep waters,
and a flood sweeps over me.

Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me
or the deep swallow me up;
don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.

He handed over their livestock to hail
and their cattle to lightning bolts.

He brought him from tending ewes
to be shepherd over His people Jacob—
over Israel, His inheritance.

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own plans.

May they know that You alone—
whose name is Yahweh—
are the Most High over all the earth.

Your wrath sweeps over me;
Your terrors destroy me.

For You, Lord,
are the Most High over all the earth;
You are exalted above all the gods.

when the wind passes over it, it vanishes,
and its place is no longer known.

The Lord has established His throne in heaven,
and His kingdom rules over all.

He made him master of his household,
ruler over all his possessions—

He handed them over to the nations;
those who hated them ruled them.

God, be exalted above the heavens,
and let Your glory be over the whole earth.

Moab is My washbasin;
I throw My sandal on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

Set a wicked person over him;
let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Let his days be few;
let another take over his position.

The Lord will extend Your mighty scepter from Zion.
Rule over Your surrounding enemies.

He will judge the nations, heaping up corpses;
He will crush leaders over the entire world.

The Lord disciplined me severely
but did not give me over to death.

I rejoice over Your promise
like one who finds vast treasure.

Then the waters would have engulfed us;
the torrent would have swept over us;

the raging waters would have swept over us.

The scepter of the wicked will not remain
over the land allotted to the righteous,
so that the righteous will not apply their hands to injustice.

A Solomonic song of ascents.Unless the Lord builds a house,
its builders labor over it in vain;
unless the Lord watches over a city,
the watchman stays alert in vain.

Plowmen plowed over my back;
they made their furrows long.

Discretion will watch over you,
and understanding will guard you,

Don’t abandon wisdom, and she will watch over you;
love her, and she will guard you.

When you walk here and there, they will guide you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
when you wake up, they will talk to you.

A wise servant will rule over a disgraceful son
and share an inheritance among brothers.

The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker,
and one who rejoices over calamity
will not go unpunished.

Luxury is not appropriate for a fool—
how much less for a slave to rule over princes!

A wise king separates out the wicked
and drives the threshing wheel over them.

A good name is to be chosen over great wealth;
favor is better than silver and gold.

The rich rule over the poor,
and the borrower is a slave to the lender.

The Lord’s eyes keep watch over knowledge,
but He overthrows the words of the treacherous.

Those who linger over wine,
those who go looking for mixed wine.

A wicked ruler over a helpless people
is like a roaring lion or a charging bear.

If you have been foolish by exalting yourself
or if you’ve been scheming,
put your hand over your mouth.

She watches over the activities of her household
and is never idle.

I, the Teacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.

I said to myself, “Look, I have amassed wisdom far beyond all those who were over Jerusalem before me, and my mind has thoroughly grasped wisdom and knowledge.”

And I realized that there is an advantage to wisdom over folly, like the advantage of light over darkness.

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will take over all my work that I labored at skillfully under the sun. This too is futile.

So I began to give myself over to despair concerning all my work that I had labored at under the sun.

For the fate of people and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; they all have the same breath. People have no advantage over animals since everything is futile.

What advantage then does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage is there for the poor person who knows how to conduct himself before others?

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

All this I have seen, applying my mind to all the work that is done under the sun, at a time when one man has authority over another to his harm.

The calm words of the wise are heeded
more than the shouts of a ruler over fools.