For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

For who is +God save Jehovah? and who is a rock if not our God?

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.

I pursued mine enemies, and overtook them; and I turned not again till they were consumed.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;
Those who [diligently] seek Him and require Him [as their greatest need] will praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!

And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he who hath not revived his soul.

{A Psalm of David.} The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He refreshes and restores my soul (life);
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
for His name’s sake.

Even when I walk through a valley of deep darkness, I will not be afraid because you are with me. Your rod and your staff they comfort me.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.

No one who waits for You
will be disgraced;
those who act treacherously without cause
will be disgraced.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.

{A Psalm of David.} Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

When You said, “Seek My face [in prayer, require My presence as your greatest need],” my heart said to You,
“Your face, O Lord, I will seek [on the authority of Your word].”

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!

{A Psalm of David.} Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

{A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David.} I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

And I -- I have said in mine ease, 'I am not moved -- to the age.

To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. In Thee, O Jehovah, I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed to the age, In Thy righteousness deliver me.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

I will rejoice and be glad in Your steadfast love,
Because You have seen my affliction;
You have taken note of my life’s distresses,

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Blessed {are those (LXX/NT)} whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

He is the one who forms every human heart, and takes note of all their actions.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

A false thing is the horse for safety, And by the abundance of his strength He doth not deliver.

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

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

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 do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

The eyes of LORD are toward the righteous, and his ears are [open] to their {prayer (LXX/NT)}.

He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

The Lord redeems the life of His servants,
and all who take refuge in Him will not be punished.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, 'Fear of God is not before his eyes,

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, That his iniquity will not be found out and be hated.

The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

{A Psalm of David.} Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

the law of his God is in his heart; his goings shall not slide.

The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.