Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly;
Be to me a rock of strength,
A stronghold to save me.

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

Because of all my adversaries, I have become a reproach,
Especially to my neighbors,
And an object of dread to my acquaintances;
Those who see me in the street flee from me.

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

Make Your face to shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.

Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I call upon You;
Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

Blessed be the Lord,
For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried to You.

How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

Sing for joy in the Lord, O you righteous ones;
Praise is becoming to the upright.

Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;
Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings.

Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a shout of joy.

The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The plans of His heart from generation to generation.

To deliver their soul from death
And to keep them alive in famine.

They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces will never be ashamed.

O fear the Lord, you His saints;
For to those who fear Him there is no want.

The young lions do lack and suffer hunger;
But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.

Come, you children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Depart from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.

The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous
And His ears are open to their cry.

The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
To cut off the memory of them from the earth.

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me;
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

All my bones will say, “Lord, who is like You,
Who delivers the afflicted from him who is too strong for him,
And the afflicted and the needy from him who robs him?”

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

They repay me evil for good,
To the bereavement of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled my soul with fasting,
And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

Do not let those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me;
Nor let those who hate me without cause wink maliciously.

For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

You have seen it, O Lord, do not keep silent;
O Lord, do not be far from me.

Stir up Yourself, and awake to my right
And to my cause, my God and my Lord.

Judge me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness,
And do not let them rejoice over me.

Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, our desire!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

And my tongue shall declare Your righteousness
And Your praise all day long.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart;
There is no fear of God before his eyes.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Your lovingkindness, O Lord, extends to the heavens,
Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;
And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

O continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.

A Psalm of David.
Do not fret because of evildoers,
Be not envious toward wrongdoers.

Trust in the Lord and do good;
Dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.

Commit your way to the Lord,
Trust also in Him, and He will do it.

Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

Cease from anger and forsake wrath;
Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

The Lord laughs at him,
For He sees his day is coming.

The wicked have drawn the sword and bent their bow
To cast down the afflicted and the needy,
To slay those who are upright in conduct.

All day long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.

Depart from evil and do good,
So you will abide forever.

The law of his God is in his heart;
His steps do not slip.

The wicked spies upon the righteous
And seeks to kill him.

Wait for the Lord and keep His way,
And He will exalt you to inherit the land;
When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

For my iniquities are gone over my head;
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go mourning all day long.

Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,
And they devise treachery all day long.

But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

For I am ready to fall,
And my sorrow is continually before me.

Do not forsake me, O Lord;
O my God, do not be far from me!

Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!

“Lord, make me to know my end
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how transient I am.

“And now, Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is in You.

“I have become mute, I do not open my mouth,
Because it is You who have done it.

“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You consume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah.

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am a stranger with You,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
I waited patiently for the Lord;
And He inclined to me and heard my cry.

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;
Many will see and fear
And will trust in the Lord.

How blessed is the man who has made the Lord his trust,
And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

I delight to do Your will, O my God;
Your Law is within my heart.”

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;
Make haste, O Lord, to help me.

Let those be ashamed and humiliated together
Who seek my life to destroy it;
Let those be turned back and dishonored
Who delight in my hurt.

Let those be appalled because of their shame
Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

Since I am afflicted and needy,
Let the Lord be mindful of me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.

The Lord will protect him and keep him alive,
And he shall be called blessed upon the earth;
And do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

The Lord will sustain him upon his sickbed;
In his illness, You restore him to health.

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

My enemies speak evil against me,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”

And when he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood;
His heart gathers wickedness to itself;
When he goes outside, he tells it.

But You, O Lord, be gracious to me and raise me up,
That I may repay them.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and Amen.

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.

Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

But You have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have put to shame those who hate us.

In God we have boasted all day long,
And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.

You cause us to turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.