Ascribe strength to God. His excellency is over Israel, his strength is in the skies.

You are awesome, God, in your sanctuaries. The God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I did not take away.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

Do not let those who wait for you be shamed through me, Lord GOD of Hosts. Do not let those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, God of Israel.

I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother's children.

When I wept and I fasted, that was to my reproach.

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

But as for me, my prayer is to you, LORD, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

Deliver me out of the mire, and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me, and out of the deep waters.

Do not let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Do not let the pit shut its mouth on me.

Answer me, LORD, for your loving kindness is good. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, turn to me.

Do not hide your face from your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily.

Draw near to my soul, and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

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

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

Charge them with crime upon crime. Do not let them come into your righteousness.

For the LORD hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.

Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, LORD.

But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. LORD, do not delay.

Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me. Turn your ear to me, and save me.

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all the day.

Do not reject me in my old age. Do not forsake me when my strength fails.

God, do not be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I do not know its full measure.

Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, do not forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

My lips shall shout for joy. My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you.

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.

God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

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

But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it out of your pocket and consume them.

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures.

The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have prepared the light and the sun.

Do not deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Do not forget the life of your poor forever.

Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

Arise, God. Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

Do not forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.

We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.

I said to the arrogant, "Do not boast." I said to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn.

Do not lift up your horn on high. Do not speak with a stiff neck."

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

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

You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?

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

Make vows to the LORD your God, and fulfill them. Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

My cry goes to God. Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and did not get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High."

Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

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

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them bread from heaven.

Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

They turned again and tempted God, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

He made a path for his anger. He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for 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 engraved 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 couldn't weep.

He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.