And buildeth His sanctuary as a high place, Like the earth, He founded it to the age.

As he was following the ewes great with young, he took him, that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

They have given the dead bodies of Your servants as food to the birds of the heavens,
The flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.

Till when, O Jehovah? art Thou angry for ever? Thy jealousy doth burn as fire.

Why should the nations ask,
“Where is their God?”
Before our eyes,
let vengeance for the shed blood of Your servants
be known among the nations.

To the Overseer. -- 'On the Lilies.' A testimony of Asaph. -- A Psalm. Shepherd of Israel, give ear, Leading Joseph as a flock, Inhabiting the cherubs -- shine forth,

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.

You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.

Restore us, O God of hosts;
And cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were as the great cedars.

It thrust forth its branches as far as the sea, - And, unto the River, its shoots.

He set it up as an ordinance for Joseph
when He went throughout the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar language:

When thou calledest upon me in trouble, I delivered thee, and heard thee, what time as the storm fell upon thee. I proved thee also at the waters of strife. Selah.

Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!

As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,

God stands in the divine assembly;
He judges among the gods (divine beings).

Defend the poor and fatherless, see that such as be in need and necessity have right.

I said, “You are gods;
Indeed, all of you are sons of the Most High.

But as man ye die, and as one of the heads ye fall,

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;
Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

who said, "Let us take [as] our possession the pastures of God."

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

Passing through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The early rain covers [it with] blessings as well.

They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.

See our shield, O God,
And look at the face of Your anointed [the king as Your representative].

Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O LORD, there is not one that can do as thou doest.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: Behold, Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This one was born there.

The LORD will record, as he registers the nations, "This one was born there." Interlude

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

For my life is filled with troubles as I approach Sheol.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Among the dead -- free, As pierced ones lying in the grave, Whom Thou hast not remembered any more, Yea, they by Thy hand have been cut off.

Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?

But as for me, Jehovah, I cry unto thee, and in the morning my prayer cometh before thee.

They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,

For I said, To times age-abiding, shall lovingkindness be built up, As for the heavens, thou wilt establish thy faithfulness therein.

O Lord, the heavens praise your amazing deeds, as well as your faithfulness in the angelic assembly.

LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, who is as mighty as you, LORD? Your faithfulness surrounds you.

Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.

The heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

I have discovered David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him as king.

And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.

It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.

Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?

Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

Your enemies, O Lord, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].

But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? For even thereafter as a man feareth, so is thy displeasure.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, [for as many] years [as] we have seen calamity.

May your awesome deeds be revealed to your servants, as well as your splendor to their children.

As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the sovereign One, and resides in the protective shadow of the mighty king --

You will only [be a spectator as you] look on with your eyes
And witness the [divine] repayment of the wicked [as you watch safely from the shelter of the Most High].

"LORD, you are my refuge!" Because you chose the Most High as your dwelling place,

On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

And Thou exaltest as a reem my horn, I have been anointed with fresh oil.

The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.

Such as be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

They shall yet sprout in old as; they shall be fat and green.

And why? Judgment shall be turned again unto righteousness, and all such as are true in heart shall follow it.

Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

As for all the gods of the Heathen, they are but Idols, but it is the LORD that made the heavens. {TYNDALE: For all the gods of the heathen are Idols; But the LORD made the heavens.}

Clouds and thick darkness surround Him [as at Sinai];
Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

The mountains melted as wax from before the face of Jehovah, from before the face of the Lord of all the earth.

There is sprung up a light for the righteous, and a joyful gladness for such as are true hearted.

Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among such as call upon his name: these called upon the LORD, and he heard them.

Mine eyes shall look for such as be faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me. Whoso leadeth a godly life, he shall be my servant.

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.

The prayer of an oppressed man, as he grows faint and pours out his lament before the Lord. O Lord, hear my prayer! Pay attention to my cry for help!

For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

My enemies taunt me all day long;
Those who ridicule me use my name as a curse.

Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

that he may hear the mournings of such as be in captivity, and deliver the children that are appointed unto death,

Yet will I say, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my age; as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations."

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

Who is satisfying with good thy desire, Renew itself as an eagle doth thy youth.

He has not dealt with us as our sins deserve
or repaid us according to our offenses.

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

For as soon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more.

To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

He lays the beams of His upper rooms in the waters. He sets the clouds as His chariots; He walks on the wings of the wind;