I said to the proud, Do not boast; and to the wicked, Do not lift up the horn;

do not lift up your horn on high; nor speak with a stiff neck.

But I will declare forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. God is known in Judah, His name is great in Israel.

You cause judgment to be heard from Heaven; the earth feared and was still,

when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

Vow, and pay to Jehovah your God; let all that are around Him bring presents to the Fearful One.

To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, to God is my voice; and He gave ear to me.

In the day of my trouble I sought Jehovah; my hand was poured in the night, and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.

An instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; bow down your ears to the words of my mouth.

We will not hide them from their sons, showing to the generations to come the praises of Jehovah, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done.

For He set up a testimony in Jacob, and ordered a Law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their sons;

so that the generation to come might know; sons shall be born, and they shall arise and tell their sons,

The sons of Ephraim, armed shooters of bows, 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 to stand in a heap.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

and had rained down manna on them to eat, and He gave them of the grain of the heavens.

Man ate the food of the mighty; He sent them meat to the full.

He caused an east wind to blow in the sky; and by His power He brought in the south wind.

So they ate, and were filled to the full; for He gave them their own desire.

But they flattered Him with their mouths, and they lied to Him with their tongues.

They did not remember His hand, the day when He delivered them from the enemy;

He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust.

He gave up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire.

He made a way to His anger; He did not save their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague,

He also cast out the nations before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

He also gave His people over to the sword, and was angry with His inheritance.

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows were not able to weep.

And He drove His enemies backward; He put them to a never-ending shame.

from following the ewes great with young He brought him to feed Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

And he fed them according to the pureness of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

They have shed their blood like water round about Jerusalem, and none to bury.

We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us.

O do not remember against us our former sins; let Your tender mercies meet us quickly; for we are brought very low.

Let the groaning of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, leave a remnant of those who are to die,

and give to our neighbors their curse sevenfold into their bosom, the curse with which they have cursed You, O Lord.

Then we, Your people and sheep of Your pasture, will give You thanks forever; we will show forth Your praise to all generations.

To the Chief Musician. A Testimony Concerning the Lilies. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You dwelling between the cherubs, shine forth.

Turn us again, O God, and cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved!

You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.

Turn us again, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine; and we shall be saved.

You cleared before it, and caused it to take deep root; and it filled the land.

It sent out its boughs to the sea, and its branches to the river.

Turn us again, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts; cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved.

To the Chief Musician. On Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.

Blow the ram's horn in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

Hear, O My people, and I will testify to you; O Israel, if you will listen to Me,

But My people would not listen to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts; and they walked in their own conceits.

Oh that My people had listened to Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

The haters of Jehovah would have been found liars to Him, and their time would have lasted forever.

Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy.

But you shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. Keep not silence, O God; do not be speechless, and be not still, O God.

Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the torrent Kishon;

Let them be ashamed and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and lost;

To the Chief Musician. On Gittith. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Jehovah of Hosts!

My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh shout for joy to the living God.

They go from strength to strength, appearing in Zion before God.

For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. O Jehovah, You have been gracious to Your land; You have brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause Your anger toward us to cease.

Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?

I will hear what God Jehovah will speak; for He will speak peace to His people, and to His saints; but let them not turn again to folly.

Be merciful to me, O Lord; for I cry to You daily.

Give joy to the soul of Your servant; for to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and rich in mercy to all those who call on You.

Give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer; and attend to the voice of my prayers.

In the day of my trouble I will call on You; for You will answer me.

For You are great and do wonderful things; You alone are God.

Teach me Your way, O Jehovah; I will walk in Your truth; my heart rejoices to fear Your name.

Oh turn to me, and have mercy on me; give Your strength to Your servant, and save the son of Your handmaid.

I will mention Rahab and Babylon to those who know me; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

And to Zion it shall be said, This man and that man was born in her; and the Highest shall establish her.

A Song. A Psalm for the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. On Mahalath, to make humble. A Poem of Heman the Ezrahite. O Jehovah, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before You.

Let my prayer come before You; bow down Your ear to my cry.

I am counted with those who go down to the Pit; I am like a feeble man;

You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.

My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called daily on You; I have stretched out my hands to You.

For will You do wonders to the dead? Shall the dead rise and praise You? Selah.

But to You I have cried, O Jehovah; and in the morning my prayer shall go before You.

O Jehovah, why do You cast off my soul? Why do You hide Your face from me?

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up; while I suffer Your terrors, I pine away.

They surrounded me like waters all the day long; they have come together around me.

A Poem of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the mercies of Jehovah forever; with my mouth I will make known Your faithfulness to all generations.

I have cut a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to David My servant,

Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

God is greatly to be feared in the congregation of the saints, and to be adored by all around Him.

In Your name they shall rejoice all the day; and in Your righteousness they shall be lifted up.

Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one, and You said, I have laid help on a mighty one; I have lifted up a chosen one out of the people.

He shall cry to Me, My Father, You are my God, and the rock of my salvation.

If his children forsake My Law, and do not walk in My judgments;

if they profane My Precepts, and do not keep My Commandments;

Once I have sworn by My holiness that I will not lie to David.

You have turned away from the covenant of Your servant; You have defiled his crown to the ground.

You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.