Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

But as for me, in the abundance of your loving kindness I will come into your house. I will bow toward your holy temple in reverence of you.

For you will bless the righteous. LORD, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.

His ways are prosperous at all times. Your judgments are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain."

The words of the LORD are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on the LORD?

As for the holy ones who are in the land, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. The LORD will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Let them be as chaff before the wind, The LORD's angel driving them on.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I do not know about.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

And he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

But I, as a deaf man, do not hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let the LORD be exalted."

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

As for me, I will call on God. The LORD will save me.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

But God will strike through the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of such a one as still continues in his guiltiness.

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.

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

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

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

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

He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you."

I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Do not harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.

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

My enemies reproach me all day. Those who are mad at me use my name as a curse.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.

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

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

I will sing to the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

He rebuked the Sea of Suf also, and it was dried up; so he led them through the depths, as through a desert.

They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them,

He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.

Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.