And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

Thou hast given joy in my heart, From the time their corn and their wine Have been multiplied.

Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

And my soul hath been troubled greatly, And Thou, O Jehovah, till when?

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.

Therefore hath my heart been glad, And my honour doth rejoice, Also my flesh dwelleth confidently:

Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.

He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.

There is no speech, and there are no words. Their voice hath not been heard.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together.

On Thee I have been cast from the womb, From the belly of my mother Thou art my God.

As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.

Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

Jehovah is my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.

O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face -- I have been troubled.

I have hated the observers of lying vanities, And I toward Jehovah have been confident.

For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

Among all mine adversaries I have been a reproach, And to my neighbours exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintances, Those seeing me without -- fled from me.

I have been forgotten as dead out of mind, I have been as a perishing vessel.

And I -- I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

When by day and by night Thy hand is heavy upon me, My moisture hath been changed Into the droughts of summer. Selah.

By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.

Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

He is keeping all his bones, One of them hath not been broken.

And -- in my halting they have rejoiced, And have been gathered together, Gathered against me were the smiters, And I have not known, They have rent, and they have not ceased;

There have workers of iniquity fallen, They have been overthrown, And have not been able to arise!

But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.

From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.

For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.

I have been feeble and smitten -- unto excess, I have roared from disquietude of heart.

Lord, before Thee is all my desire, And my sighing from Thee hath not been hid.

And mine enemies are lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done it.

Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

For compassed me have evils innumerable, Overtaken me have mine iniquities, And I have not been able to see; They have been more than the hairs of my head, And my heart hath forsaken me.

My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

Thou hast been beautified above the sons of men, Grace hath been poured into thy lips, Therefore hath God blessed thee to the age.

Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.

Nobles of peoples have been gathered, With the people of the God of Abraham, For to God are the shields of earth, Greatly hath He been exalted!

They have seen -- so they have marvelled, They have been troubled, they were hastened away.

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

Our God cometh, and is not silent, Fire before Him doth devour, And round about him it hath been very tempestuous.

Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

Sweeter than honey hath been his mouth, And his heart is war! Softer have been his words than oil, And they are drawn swords.

The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

And I -- I sing of Thy strength, And I sing at morn of Thy kindness, For thou hast been a tower to me, And a refuge for me in a day of adversity.

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

For Thou hast been a refuge for me, A tower of strength because of the enemy.

For Thou hast been a help to me, And in the shadow of Thy wings I sing.

And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

Establishing mountains by His power, He hath been girded with might,

Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

A shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it.

Singers have been before, Behind are players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away -- I bring back.

O God, Thou -- Thou hast known Concerning my overturn, And my desolations from Thee have not been hid.

A stranger I have been to my brother, And a foreigner to sons of my mother.

By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually.

As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou art my strong refuge.

My tongue also all the day uttereth Thy righteousness, Because ashamed -- because confounded, Have been those seeking my evil!

The prayers of David son of Jesse have been ended.

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.

From Thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both rider and horse have been fast asleep.

Thou, fearful art Thou, And who doth stand before Thee, Since Thou hast been angry!

From heaven Thou hast sounded judgment, Earth hath feared, and hath been still,

In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

Thou hast taken hold of the watches of mine eyes, I have been moved, and I speak not.

In the sea is Thy way, And Thy paths are in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.

Therefore hath Jehovah heard, And He sheweth Himself wroth, And fire hath been kindled against Jacob, And anger also hath gone up against Israel,

They have not been estranged from their desire, Yet is their food in their mouth,

And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

And He leadeth them confidently, And they have not been afraid, And their enemies hath the sea covered.

And they turn back, And deal treacherously like their fathers, They have been turned like a deceitful bow,

His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.

Covered have been hills with its shadow, And its boughs are cedars of God.

Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.

My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,