Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.

For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

{To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

He shall abide before God for ever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him.

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm or Song of David.} Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.

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

But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea, let them exceedingly rejoice.

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.

O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.

Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him.

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

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

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

{A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

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

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

{A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.} Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.

I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

I will speak of thy testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

TAU. Let my cry come near before thee, O LORD: give me understanding according to thy word.

Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.

{A Psalm of David.} I will praise thee with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto thee.

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?

The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:

Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be shewed before the whole congregation.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.