In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thy ear to me, and save me.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Thou wilt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: to thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall be their blood in his sight.

There shall be a handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit of it shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they afflicted like other men.

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old: the rod of thy inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, in which thou hast dwelt.

Lift up thy feet to the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Thy enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Thou didst break the head of leviathan in pieces, and didst give him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Arise, O God, plead thy own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs of it all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God!

The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their desire.

Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

So they ate, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

They were not estranged from their desire: but while their meat was yet in their mouths,

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

And smote all the first-born in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

And he smote his enemies in the hinder part: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen have come into thy inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of thy servants which is shed.

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.

Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

O that my people had hearkened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee,

Who perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.