You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

All day long my dishonor is before me
And my humiliation has overwhelmed me,

If we had forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our hands to a strange god,

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.

Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

For our soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.

For the choir director; according to the Shoshannim. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.
My heart overflows with a good theme;
I address my verses to the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Then the King will desire your beauty.
Because He is your Lord, bow down to Him.

She will be led to the King in embroidered work;
The virgins, her companions who follow her,
Will be brought to You.

I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the peoples will give You thanks forever and ever.

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
O clap your hands, all peoples;
Shout to God with the voice of joy.

For the Lord Most High is to be feared,
A great King over all the earth.

Sing praises to God, sing praises;
Sing praises to our King, sing praises.

The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham,
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is highly exalted.

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
In the city of our God, His holy mountain.

As is Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.

Consider her ramparts;
Go through her palaces,
That you may tell it to the next generation.

I will incline my ear to a proverb;
I will express my riddle on the harp.

No man can by any means redeem his brother
Or give to God a ransom for him—

For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.

Their inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;

Though while he lives he congratulates himself—
And though men praise you when you do well for yourself—

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They will never see the light.

A Psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, the Lord, has spoken,
And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

He summons the heavens above,
And the earth, to judge His people:

“Gather My godly ones to Me,
Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

“I do not reprove you for your sacrifices,
And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

“Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving
And pay your vows to the Most High;

Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.”

But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to tell of My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?

“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.

“He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me;
And to him who orders his way aright
I shall show the salvation of God.”

For the choir director. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.

Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

Do not cast me away from Your presence
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation
And sustain me with a willing spirit.

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners will be converted to You.

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.

By Your favor do good to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.

For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God.

There they were in great fear where no fear had been;
For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you;
You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.

Hear my prayer, O God;
Give ear to the words of my mouth.

He will recompense the evil to my foes;
Destroy them in Your faithfulness.

Willingly I will sacrifice to You;
I will give thanks to Your name, O Lord, for it is good.

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
Give ear to my prayer, O God;
And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

Give heed to me and answer me;
I am restless in my complaint and am surely distracted,

“I would hasten to my place of refuge
From the stormy wind and tempest.”

Day and night they go around her upon her walls,
And iniquity and mischief are in her midst.

Destruction is in her midst;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets.

Let death come deceitfully upon them;
Let them go down alive to Sheol,
For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.

God will hear and answer them—
Even the one who sits enthroned from of old— Selah.
With whom there is no change,
And who do not fear God.

Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;
Fighting all day long he oppresses me.

My foes have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.

In God, whose word I praise,
In God I have put my trust;
I shall not be afraid.
What can mere man do to me?

All day long they distort my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.

They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.

In God I have put my trust, I shall not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

Your vows are binding upon me, O God;
I will render thank offerings to You.

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.
Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
For my soul takes refuge in You;
And in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge
Until destruction passes by.

I will cry to God Most High,
To God who accomplishes all things for me.

I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the peoples;
I will sing praises to You among the nations.

For Your lovingkindness is great to the heavens
And Your truth to the clouds.

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Mikhtam of David.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, O gods?
Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

Deliver me from those who do iniquity
And save me from men of bloodshed.

For no guilt of mine, they run and set themselves against me.
Arouse Yourself to help me, and see!

You, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the nations;
Do not be gracious to any who are treacherous in iniquity. Selah.

Do not slay them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord, our shield.

Destroy them in wrath, destroy them that they may be no more;
That men may know that God rules in Jacob
To the ends of the earth. Selah.

But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength;
Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For You have been my stronghold
And a refuge in the day of my distress.

O my strength, I will sing praises to You;
For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me lovingkindness.

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

You have given a banner to those who fear You,
That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Who will bring me into the besieged city?
Who will lead me to Edom?

Through God we shall do valiantly,
And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

For the choir director; on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.
Hear my cry, O God;
Give heed to my prayer.

From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

So I will sing praise to Your name forever,
That I may pay my vows day by day.

They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;
They delight in falsehood;
They bless with their mouth,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.

Do not trust in oppression
And do not vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Once God has spoken;
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God;

And lovingkindness is Yours, O Lord,
For You recompense a man according to his work.

Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

My soul clings to You;
Your right hand upholds me.

But those who seek my life to destroy it,
Will go into the depths of the earth.

They will be delivered over to the power of the sword;
They will be a prey for foxes.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,

To shoot from concealment at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”

For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song.
There will be silence before You, and praise in Zion, O God,
And to You the vow will be performed.

O You who hear prayer,
To You all men come.

How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You
To dwell in Your courts.
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Your holy temple.

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow;
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You prepare their grain, for thus You prepare the earth.