For the choir director. A Song. A Psalm.
Shout joyfully to God, all the earth;

Say to God, “How awesome are Your works!
Because of the greatness of Your power Your enemies will give feigned obedience to You.

“All the earth will worship You,
And will sing praises to You;
They will sing praises to Your name.” Selah.

Who keeps us in life
And does not allow our feet to slip.

I shall offer to You burnt offerings of fat beasts,
With the smoke of rams;
I shall make an offering of bulls with male goats. Selah.

I cried to Him with my mouth,
And He was extolled with my tongue.

But certainly God has heard;
He has given heed to the voice of my prayer.

For the choir director; with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song.
God be gracious to us and bless us,
And cause His face to shine upon us— Selah.

Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
Lift up a song for Him who rides through the deserts,
Whose name is the Lord, and exult before Him.

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,
At the mountain which God has desired for His abode?
Surely the Lord will dwell there forever.

God is to us a God of deliverances;
And to God the Lord belong escapes from death.

Because of Your temple at Jerusalem
Kings will bring gifts to You.

Envoys will come out of Egypt;
Ethiopia will quickly stretch out her hands to God.

Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth,
Sing praises to the Lord, Selah.

To Him who rides upon the highest heavens, which are from ancient times;
Behold, He speaks forth with His voice, a mighty voice.

Ascribe strength to God;
His majesty is over Israel
And His strength is in the skies.

O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary.
The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people.
Blessed be God!

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;
What I did not steal, I then have to restore.

I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.

When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time;
O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness,
Answer me with Your saving truth.

Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;
May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.

Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good;
According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me,

And do not hide Your face from Your servant,
For I am in distress; answer me quickly.

Oh draw near to my soul and redeem it;
Ransom me because of my enemies!

They also gave me gall for my food
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Add iniquity to their iniquity,
And may they not come into Your righteousness.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David; for a memorial.
O God, hasten to deliver me;
O Lord, hasten to my help!

But I am afflicted and needy;
Hasten to me, O God!
You are my help and my deliverer;
O Lord, do not delay.

In Your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
Incline Your ear to me and save me.

Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come;
You have given commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

I have become a marvel to many,
For You are my strong refuge.

My mouth is filled with Your praise
And with Your glory all day long.

Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

Saying, “God has forsaken him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to deliver.”

O God, do not be far from me;
O my God, hasten to my help!

Let those who are adversaries of my soul be ashamed and consumed;
Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek to injure me.

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of Your salvation all day long;
For I do not know the sum of them.

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

For Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You?

May You increase my greatness
And turn to comfort me.

I will also praise You with a harp,
Even Your truth, O my God;
To You I will sing praises with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You;
And my soul, which You have redeemed.

My tongue also will utter Your righteousness all day long;
For they are ashamed, for they are humiliated who seek my hurt.

A Psalm of Solomon.
Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness to the king’s son.

Let the mountains bring peace to the people,
And the hills, in righteousness.

May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River to the ends of the earth.

So may he live, and may the gold of Sheba be given to him;
And let them pray for him continually;
Let them bless him all day long.

A Psalm of Asaph.
Surely God is good to Israel,
To those who are pure in heart!

But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling,
My steps had almost slipped.

Therefore his people return to this place,
And waters of abundance are drunk by them.

For I have been stricken all day long
And chastened every morning.

When I pondered to understand this,
It was troublesome in my sight

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

With Your counsel You will guide me,
And afterward receive me to glory.

For, behold, those who are far from You will perish;
You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

We do not see our signs;
There is no longer any prophet,
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand?
From within Your bosom, destroy them!

Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
You have prepared the light and the sun.

Do not deliver the soul of Your turtledove to the wild beast;
Do not forget the life of Your afflicted forever.

Arise, O God, and plead Your own cause;
Remember how the foolish man reproaches You all day long.

Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You which ascends continually.

For the choir director; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song.
We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks,
For Your name is near;
Men declare Your wondrous works.

“I said to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn;

Do not lift up your horn on high,
Do not speak with insolent pride.’”

But as for me, I will declare it forever;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

You, even You, are to be feared;
And who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

You caused judgment to be heard from heaven;
The earth feared and was still

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

Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them;
Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared.

For the choir director; according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.
My voice rises to God, and I will cry aloud;
My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

Has His lovingkindness ceased forever?
Has His promise come to an end forever?

Has God forgotten to be gracious,
Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.

A Maskil of Asaph.
Listen, O my people, to my instruction;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach them to their children,

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,

And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk in His law;

He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Then He led them with the cloud by day
And all the night with a light of fire.

He brought forth streams also from the rock
And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

And in their heart they put God to the test
By asking food according to their desire.

He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them food from heaven.

He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens
And by His power He directed the south wind.

So they ate and were well filled,
And their desire He gave to them.

So He brought their days to an end in futility
And their years in sudden terror.

But they deceived Him with their mouth
And lied to Him with their tongue.

They did not remember His power,
The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,

And turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, they could not drink.

He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the locust.

He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones
And their herds to bolts of lightning.

He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave over their life to the plague,

So He brought them to His holy land,
To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

And gave up His strength to captivity
And His glory into the hand of the adversary.