O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.

Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.

But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,

But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

A great herd of oxen is round me: I am shut in by the strong oxen of Bashan.

I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

They make a division of my robes among them, by the decision of chance they take my clothing.

Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.

You who have fear of the Lord, give him praise; all you seed of Jacob, give him glory; go in fear of him, all you seed of Israel.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

My praise will be of you in the great meeting: I will make my offerings before his worshippers.

The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.

They will come and make his righteousness clear to a people of the future because he has done this.

The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

To you, O Lord, my soul is lifted up.

O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.

Let no servant of yours be put to shame; may those be shamed who are false without cause.

Make your steps clear to me, O Lord; give me knowledge of your ways.

Be my guide and teacher in the true way; for you are the God of my salvation; I am waiting for your word all the day.

O Lord, keep in mind your pity and your mercies; for they have been from the earliest times.

Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way.

He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.

All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.

Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.

Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

O keep my soul, and take me out of danger: let me not be shamed, for I have put my faith in you.

For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all his troubles.

O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.

For your mercy is before my eyes; and I have gone in the way of your good faith.

I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

That I may give out the voice of praise, and make public all the wonders which you have done.

But as for me, I will go on in my upright ways: be my saviour, and have mercy on me.

I have a safe resting-place for my feet; I will give praise to the Lord in the meetings of the people.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

For in the time of trouble he will keep me safe in his tent: in the secret place of his tent he will keep me from men's eyes; high on a rock he will put me.

And now my head will be lifted up higher than my haters who are round me: because of this I will make offerings of joy in his tent; I will make a song, truly I will make a song of praise to the Lord.

O Lord, let the voice of my cry come to your ears: have mercy on me, and give me an answer.

When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

Make your way clear to me, O Lord, guiding me by the right way, because of my haters.

I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.

Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.

Give to the Lord, you sons of the gods, give to the Lord glory and strength.

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

In you, O Lord, have I put my hope; let me never be shamed; keep me safe in your righteousness.

Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

For you are my Rock and my strong tower; go in front of me and be my guide, because of your name.

Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

Into your hands I give my spirit; you are my saviour, O Lord God for ever true.

I am full of hate for those who go after false gods; but my hope is in the Lord.

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

You will keep them safe in your house from the designs of man; in the secret of your tent will you keep them from angry tongues.

May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.

And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

Put away fear and let your heart be strong, all you whose hope is in the Lord.

Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.)

I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.