Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you [are] with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me

because he has founded it on [the] seas, and has established it on [the] rivers.

Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you [are] the God of my salvation. I await you {all day long}.

Remember your compassion, O Yahweh, and your acts of loyal love, because they [are] from of old.

Also, for the sake of your name, O Yahweh, forgive my sin, because it [is] great.

My eyes [are] continually toward Yahweh, because he will take my feet from [the] net.

Turn to me and have mercy on me because I [am] lonely and afflicted.

Protect my life and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you.

Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.

Because your loyal love [is] before my eyes, and I walk about in your faithfulness.

Because he will hide me in his shelter in [the] day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.

Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies.

Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and [each] breathing out violence.

Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh, nor the work of his hands, he will destroy them and not rebuild them.

Blessed [is] Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my supplications.

I will exalt you, O Yahweh, because you have drawn me up, and have not made my enemies rejoice over me.

I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.

Be gracious [to] me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, [along with] my soul and my {body}.

For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away.

Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. [Those who] see me in the street flee from me.

Blessed [is] Yahweh, because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me in a besieged city.

For in him our heart rejoices because in his holy name we trust.

Do not fret because of evildoers; do not be envious of doers of wickedness.

And Yahweh helps them and he rescues them. He rescues them from [the] wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.

I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.

For my iniquity I confess; I am anxious because of my sin.

Let them be appalled because of their shame, those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"

By this I know that you delight in me: because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me.

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, [for] the salvation of his presence.

I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?"

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.

because you [are] the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, {my salvation} and my God.

For not with their sword did they possess [the] land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather [it was] your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.

because of [the] voice of [the] taunter and [the] reviler, because of [the] enemy and [the] avenger.

And [in] your majesty {ride victoriously}, because of truth and humility [and] righteousness. And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds.

Let the king desire your beauty. Because he [is] your lord, therefore bow down to him.

Let {Mount Zion} rejoice; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments.

Surely God will ransom my life from the {power} of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah

because when he dies he will not take [away] any [of it]. His wealth will not follow down after him.

And [the] heavens declare his righteousness, because God himself is judge. Selah

because every animal of the forest is mine, [the] cattle on a thousand hills.

If I were hungry I would not tell you, because [the] world and its fullness [are] mine.

I will give thanks to you forever, because [of what] you have done, and I will wait on your name, because [it is] good, in the presence of your faithful ones.

There {they are very fearful} [where] no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps [against] you. You have put [them] to shame, because God has rejected them.

I will freely sacrifice to you; I will give thanks [to] your name, O Yahweh, because [it is] good.

Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked [with satisfaction] on my enemies.

because of [the] voice [of] an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge [against] me.

Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city.

Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil [is] in their home [and] {heart}.

He safely redeems my life from [the] battle against me, because [those standing] against me are among many.

God will hear and answer them, [he] who [is] enthroned from of old, Selah Because they do not change, and they do not fear God.

Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me.

My enemies trample all day, because many [are] attacking me proudly.

Because of iniquity will they escape? In anger cast down [the] peoples, O God.

Then my enemies will turn back {when} I call. This I know because God [is] for me.

because you have delivered my soul from death. [Have you] not [kept] my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, because in you my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by.

Because your loyal love [is] high to [the] heavens, and your faithfulness to [the] clouds.

For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not [because of] my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.

O my strength, I will watch for you, because [you], O God, [are] my (high) stronghold.

But as for me, I will sing [of] your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my [high] stronghold and a refuge in my {time} of trouble.

O my strength, to you I will give praise, because God [is] my [high] stronghold, my God of loyal love.

You have made [the] land quake. You have split it open. Heal its fissures, because it totters.

Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope [is] from him.

And to you [belongs] loyal love, O Lord, because you will render to each according to his work.

Because your loyal love [is] better than life, my lips will praise you.

Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

However, the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast, because [the] mouth of [the] liars will be stopped.

Say to God, "How awesome are your works! Because of the greatness of your strength, your enemies will cringe before you.

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, because you judge [the] peoples with equity and guide the nations on the earth. Selah

Because your temple [is] above Jerusalem, kings will bring tribute to you.

Save me, O God, because waters have come up to [my] neck.

Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh [of] hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel.

Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face.

because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.

Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love [is] good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me,

and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.

Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me.

because they persecute [those] whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of [those] you have wounded.

because Yahweh hears [the] needy and does not despise his [own who are] prisoners.

because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.

let them turn back because of their shame, those who say, "Aha! Aha!"

Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always; you have ordained to save me, because you [are] my rock and my fortress.

because you [are] my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

saying, "His God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer."

My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.

because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being of [the] wicked.

Have regard for the covenant, because [the] dark places of [the] land are full of [the] haunts of violence.

because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation.

because they have devoured Jacob and have laid waste his habitation.

Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low.

because it [is] a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

Rise up, O God, judge the earth, because you shall inherit all the nations.

Because better [is] a day in your courtyards than a thousand [elsewhere]. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in [the] tents of wickedness.

Because Yahweh God [is] a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful [ones], but let them not return to folly.