Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked,
Out of the grasp of the wrongdoer and ruthless man,

For You are my hope;
O Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth.

By You I have been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb;
My praise is continually of You.

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

For my enemies have spoken against me;
And those who watch for my life have consulted together,

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.

But as for me, I will hope continually,
And will praise You yet more and more.

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

I will come with the mighty deeds of the Lord God;
I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

O God, You have taught me from my youth,
And I still declare Your wondrous deeds.

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?

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

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 them fear You while the sun endures,
And as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,
Who alone works wonders.

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

For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Their eye bulges from fatness;
The imaginations of their heart run riot.

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure
And washed my hands in innocence;

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

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

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

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I perceived their end.

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

How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

When my heart was embittered
And I was pierced within,

Then I was senseless and ignorant;
I was like a beast before You.

Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You have taken hold of my right hand.

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

Whom have I in heaven but You?
And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.

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

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.

A Maskil of Asaph.
O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

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.

It seems as if one had lifted up
His axe in a forest of trees.

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

How long, O God, will the adversary revile,
And the enemy spurn Your name forever?

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

Yet God is my king from of old,
Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.

You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

You broke open springs and torrents;
You dried up ever-flowing streams.

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

You have established all the boundaries of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.

Remember this, O Lord, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name.

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.

“When I select an appointed time,
It is I who judge with equity.

“The earth and all who dwell in it melt;
It is I who have firmly set its pillars. Selah.

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

For a cup is in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foams;
It is well mixed, and He pours out of this;
Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

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

You are resplendent,
More majestic than the mountains of prey.

At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep.

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

For the wrath of man shall praise You;
With a remnant of wrath You will gird Yourself.

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.

When I remember God, then I am disturbed;
When I sigh, then my spirit grows faint. Selah.

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

I have considered the days of old,
The years of long ago.

I will remember my song in the night;
I will meditate with my heart,
And my spirit ponders:

Then I said, “It is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

I shall remember the deeds of the Lord;
Surely I will remember Your wonders of old.

I will meditate on all Your work
And muse on Your deeds.

Your way, O God, is holy;
What god is great like our God?

You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.

You have by Your power redeemed Your people,
The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

The waters saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.

The clouds poured out water;
The skies gave forth a sound;
Your arrows flashed here and there.

Your way was in the sea
And Your paths in the mighty waters,
And Your footprints may not be known.

You led Your people like a flock
By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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

I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,

Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.

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,

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.

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.

Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Therefore the Lord heard and was full of wrath;
And a fire was kindled against Jacob
And anger also mounted against Israel,

Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passes and does not return.

He sent upon them His burning anger,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
A band of destroying angels.

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

But He led forth His own people like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;
They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a warrior overcome by wine.

A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.