Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a blameless way is the one who will minister to me.

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call answer me quickly.

For my days have been consumed in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.

I resemble a pelican of the wilderness;
I have become like an owl of the waste places.

I lie awake,
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.

Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.

For the Lord has built up Zion;
He has appeared in His glory.

That men may tell of the name of the Lord in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,

When the peoples are gathered together,
And the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.

He has weakened my strength in the way;
He has shortened my days.

I say, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days,
Your years are throughout all generations.

“But You are the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.

Just as a father has compassion on his children,
So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

When the wind has passed over it, it is no more,
And its place acknowledges it no longer.

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children,

The Lord has established His throne in the heavens,
And His sovereignty rules over all.

Bless the Lord, you His angels,
Mighty in strength, who perform His word,
Obeying the voice of His word!

Bless the Lord, all you works of His,
In all places of His dominion;
Bless the Lord, O my soul!

He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters;
He makes the clouds His chariot;
He walks upon the wings of the wind;

He sends forth springs in the valleys;
They flow between the mountains;

And wine which makes man’s heart glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And food which sustains man’s heart.

You appoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.

When the sun rises they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.

O Lord, how many are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all;
The earth is full of Your possessions.

There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Animals both small and great.

There the ships move along,
And Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.

They all wait for You
To give them their food in due season.

Let the glory of the Lord endure forever;
Let the Lord be glad in His works;

Let my meditation be pleasing to Him;
As for me, I shall be glad in the Lord.

Glory in His holy name;
Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad.

He is the Lord our God;
His judgments are in all the earth.

Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

When they were only a few men in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.

And they wandered about from nation to nation,
From one kingdom to another people.

They afflicted his feet with fetters,
He himself was laid in irons;

Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

They performed His wondrous acts among them,
And miracles in the land of Ham.

Their land swarmed with frogs
Even in the chambers of their kings.

He spoke, and there came a swarm of flies
And gnats in all their territory.

He gave them hail for rain,
And flaming fire in their land.

And ate up all vegetation in their land,
And ate up the fruit of their ground.

He also struck down all the firstborn in their land,
The first fruits of all their vigor.

Then He brought them out with silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

Egypt was glad when they departed,
For the dread of them had fallen upon them.

He opened the rock and water flowed out;
It ran in the dry places like a river.

Remember me, O Lord, in Your favor toward Your people;
Visit me with Your salvation,

That I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones,
That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation,
That I may glory with Your inheritance.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders;
They did not remember Your abundant kindnesses,
But rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.

So He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them,
And redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

The waters covered their adversaries;
Not one of them was left.

But craved intensely in the wilderness,
And tempted God in the desert.

When they became envious of Moses in the camp,
And of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord,

And a fire blazed up in their company;
The flame consumed the wicked.

They made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.

Thus they exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.

They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,

Wonders in the land of Ham
And awesome things by the Red Sea.

Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

Then they despised the pleasant land;
They did not believe in His word,

But grumbled in their tents;
They did not listen to the voice of the Lord.

Therefore He swore to them
That He would cast them down in the wilderness,

And that He would cast their seed among the nations
And scatter them in the lands.

They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

Thus they became unclean in their practices,
And played the harlot in their deeds.

Many times He would deliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,
And so sank down in their iniquity.

Nevertheless He looked upon their distress
When He heard their cry;

He also made them objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.

Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in Your praise.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desert region;
They did not find a way to an inhabited city.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble;
He delivered them out of their distresses.

He led them also by a straight way,
To go to an inhabited city.

There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Prisoners in misery and chains,

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble;
He saved them out of their distresses.

Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble;
He saved them out of their distresses.

Those who go down to the sea in ships,
Who do business on great waters;

They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.

They rose up to the heavens, they went down to the depths;
Their soul melted away in their misery.

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
And He brought them out of their distresses.

Let them extol Him also in the congregation of the people,
And praise Him at the seat of the elders.

A fruitful land into a salt waste,
Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

And there He makes the hungry to dwell,
So that they may establish an inhabited city,

When they are diminished and bowed down
Through oppression, misery and sorrow,

He pours contempt upon princes
And makes them wander in a pathless waste.

But He sets the needy securely on high away from affliction,
And makes his families like a flock.

God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will exult, I will portion out Shechem
And measure out the valley of Succoth.

Oh give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain.

In return for my love they act as my accusers;
But I am in prayer.

Appoint a wicked man over him,
And let an accuser stand at his right hand.

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty,
And let his prayer become sin.

Let his posterity be cut off;
In a following generation let their name be blotted out.

Because he did not remember to show lovingkindness,
But persecuted the afflicted and needy man,
And the despondent in heart, to put them to death.

He also loved cursing, so it came to him;
And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

I am passing like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like the locust.

I also have become a reproach to them;
When they see me, they wag their head.

Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, they shall be ashamed,
But Your servant shall be glad.

Let my accusers be clothed with dishonor,
And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the Lord;
And in the midst of many I will praise Him.