KAPH. My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

My eyes fail for your word. I say, "When will you comfort me?"

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I do not forget your statutes.

How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?

LAMED. LORD, your word is settled in heaven forever.

Unless your Law had been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction.

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won't forget your Law.

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

You reject all those who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is in vain.

AYIN. I have done what is just and righteous. Do not leave me to my oppressors.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, as you always do to those who love your name.

Establish my footsteps in your word. Do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

Make your face shine on your servant. Teach me your statutes.

You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your Law is truth.

I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

SIN and SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil.

In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.

Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade on your right hand.

The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore.

I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to the LORD's house."

where the tribes go up, even the tribes of the LORD, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,

if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but remains forever.

For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

Do good, LORD, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, The LORD will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

When the LORD brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Restore our fortunes again, LORD, like the streams in the Negev.

Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

Blessed is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in his ways.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

Neither do those who go by say, "The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the name of the LORD."

I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Israel, hope in the LORD, for with the LORD there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.

Israel, hope in the LORD, from this time forth and forevermore.

how he swore to the LORD, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:

until I find out a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob."

Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:

For your servant David's sake, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.

The LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent."

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity.

It is like the precious oil on the head, that ran down on the beard, even Aaron's beard; that came down on the edge of his robes;

like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion: for there the LORD gives the blessing, even life forevermore.

Look. Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD, who stand by night in the LORD's house.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD.

you who stand in the house of the LORD, in the courts of our God's house.

For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.

Whatever the LORD pleased, that he has done, in heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps;

Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his servants;

For the LORD will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

They have ears, but they can't hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.

With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; for his loving kindness endures forever:

But overthrew Pharaoh and his army in the Sea of Suf; for his loving kindness endures forever:

And gave their land as an inheritance; for his loving kindness endures forever;

Who remembered us in our low estate; for his loving kindness endures forever;

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."

How can we sing the LORD's song in a foreign land?

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

The LORD will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, LORD, endures forever. Do not forsake the works of your own hands.

For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, LORD, you know it altogether.

You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there.

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

LORD, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name. The upright will dwell in your presence.

LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly. Listen to my voice when I call to you.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; do not let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.