Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

May the Lord be praised, because he has given ear to the voice of my prayer.

Be a saviour to your people, and send a blessing on your heritage: be their guide, and let them be lifted up for ever.

Give to the Lord, you sons of the gods, give to the Lord glory and strength.

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

False statements against me have come to my ears; fear was on every side: they were talking together against me, designing to take away my life.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

May the Lord be praised, because he has made clear to me the wonder of his grace in a strong town.

And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

O have love for the Lord, all you his saints; for the Lord keeps safe from danger all those who are true to him, and gives the workers of pride their right reward.

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

Give praise to the Lord on the corded instrument; make melody to him with instruments of music.

Make a new song to him; playing expertly with a loud noise.

He makes all their hearts; their works are clear to him.

To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

O give praise to the Lord with me; let us be witnesses together of his great name.

I was searching for the Lord, and he gave ear to my voice, and made me free from all my fears.

Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.

The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.

Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.

The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

The eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their cry.

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

The Lord will be the saviour of the souls of his servants, and no one who has faith in him will be put to shame.

Be a breastplate to me, and give me your help.

Take up your spear and keep back my attackers; say to my soul, I am your salvation.

Let them be overcome and put to shame who make attempts to take my soul; let those who would do me damage be turned back and made foolish.

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.

But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.

Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

And my tongue will be talking of your righteousness and of your praise all the day.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judging is like the great deep; O Lord, you give life to man and beast.

O let there be no end to your loving mercy to those who have knowledge of you, or of your righteousness to the upright in heart.

Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.

Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

The sinners are watching the upright man, desiring to put him to death.

But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.

Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.

And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith in the Lord.

Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.

My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

Be pleased, O Lord, to take me out of danger; O Lord, come quickly and give me help.

Let those who say to me, Aha, aha! be surprised because of their shame.

Happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.

The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

Deep is sounding to deep at the noise of your waterfalls; all your waves have gone rolling over me.

But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.

I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

O send out your light and your true word; let them be my guide: let them take me to your holy hill, and to your tents.

Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.

It has come to our ears, O God, our fathers have given us the story, of the works which you did in their days, in the old times,

But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.)

But now you have sent us away from you, and put us to shame; you do not go out with our armies.

You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.