It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.

Therefore I esteem as right all Your precepts concerning everything;
I hate every false way.

Your unchanging word is full of wonder; for this reason my soul keeps it.

I open my mouth and pant as I long for your commands.

Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name.

O Lord, great is your righteousness, and upright are your decisions.

You have given your unchanging word in righteousness, and it is for ever.

Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

Trouble and heaviness have taken hold upon me; yet is my delight in thy commandments.

The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.

Before the sun is up, my cry for help comes to your ear; my hope is in your words.

Listen to me because of your loyal love! O Lord, revive me, as you typically do!

Of old I have known from Your testimonies
That You have founded them forever.

Defend my cause and redeem me;
give me life as You promised.

Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Great is the number of your mercies, O Lord; give me life in keeping with your decisions.

Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.

See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

As for lies, I hate and abhor them; but thy law do I love.

Great peace [is] for those who love your law, and they do not have a cause for stumbling.

I am looking in hope for your deliverance, LORD, as I carry out your commands.

My soul has kept your unchanging word; great is my love for it.

Let my prayer come before you; take me out of trouble, as you have said.

Thy hand is for a help to me, For Thy commands I have chosen.

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.

My help is from Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth,

Lo, He slumbereth not, nor sleepeth, He who is preserving Israel.

The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The LORD preserveth thee from all evil; yea, it is the LORD that keepeth thy soul.

{A Song of degrees of David.} I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:

To which the [twelve] tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord,
[As was decreed as] an ordinance for Israel,
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

For there is the seat of judgment, even the seat of the house of David.

Peace is in thy bulwark, rest in thy high places,

To you my eyes are lifted up, even to you whose seat is in the heavens.

Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

{A Song of degrees. Of David.} If it had not been Jehovah who was for us oh let Israel say --

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:

Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”

Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.

{A Song of degrees.} They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

Do what is good, Lord, to the good,
to those whose hearts are upright.

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back to the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

Then filled with laughter is our mouth, And our tongue with singing, Then do they say among nations, 'Jehovah did great things with these.'

The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.

Those who shed tears as they plant will shout for joy when they reap the harvest.

Whoso goeth on and weepeth, Bearing the basket of seed, Surely cometh in with singing, bearing his sheaves!

If the Lord is not helping the builders, then the building of a house is to no purpose: if the Lord does not keep the town, the watchman keeps his watch for nothing.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

{A Song of degrees.} Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.

The labour of thy hands thou surely eatest, Happy art thou, and good is to thee.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.

The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

And the passers by have not said, 'The blessing of Jehovah is on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'

If You, Lord, should keep an account of our sins and treat us accordingly,
O Lord, who could stand [before you in judgment and claim innocence]?

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.

I look for the LORD; my soul doth wait for him, and in his word is my trust.

My soul is for the Lord, More than those watching for morning, Watching for morning!

Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.

{A Song of degrees of David.} LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

Let us go into his habitations, let us worship at his footstool.

For Yahweh hath chosen Zion, - He hath desired it as a dwelling for himself:

This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

As for his enemies, I shall clothe them with shame; but upon himself shall his crown flourish."

{A Song of degrees of David.} Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Praise the LORD; for the LORD is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.

For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his special possession.

For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

And He gave their land as a heritage,
A heritage to Israel His people.

Thy name, O Jehovah, is for ever; thy memorial, O Jehovah, from generation to generation.

As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Mouths are attributed to them, but they cannot speak; sight is attributed to them, but they cannot see;

They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.

Blessed is Jehovah from Zion, Inhabiting Jerusalem -- praise ye Jah!

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.