Thou hast tested my heart, hast made inspection by night, hast refined me until thou couldst find nothing, Had I devised evil, my mouth should not have transgressed:

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

The meshes of hades, had surrounded me, The snares of death, had confronted me,

They prevented me in the day of my trouble, but the LORD was my upholder. {TYNDALE: When they had compassed me in the day of my tribulation, the LORD stayed me up.}

He took me out into a wide place; he was my saviour because he had delight in me.

For I had kept the ways of Yahweh, and not broken away from my God;

For I have an eye unto all his laws, and will not cast out his commandments from me. {TYNDALE: But I had all his laws in my sight, and I turned my face from none of his ordinances.}

Therefore shall the LORD reward me after my righteous dealing, and according unto the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. {TYNDALE: And the LORD did to me again, according to my righteousness, and after my pureness that I had in his sight.}

I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them; neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them. {TYNDALE: I followed mine enemies and destroyed them, and turned not again until I had consumed them.}

You have rescued me from the contentions of the people;
You have placed me as the head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

Our fathers had faith in you: they had faith and you were their saviour.

Unto thee, made they outcry, and escaped, In thee, they trusted, and had not turned pale.

He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.

All the great ones of the earth, shall eat and bow down, Before him shall kneel, all that go down to the dust, Even he who had not kept alive, his own soul!

For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.

But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, "I shall not be moved ever."

Thou, LORD, of thy favor had made my mountain to stand strong. Thou hid thy face; I was troubled.

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

In my alarm I had said,
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.

They had an eye unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed.

False witnesses got up: they put questions to me about crimes of which I had no knowledge.

I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.

Then I passed by, and lo! he had vanished! Yea I sought him, but he could not be found.

And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

I was mute and silent [before my enemies],
I refrained even from good,
And my distress grew worse.

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

Even my dearest friend, in whom I had faith, who took bread with me, is turned against me.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision of them that are round about us.

All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;

Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;

If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,

Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.} Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself

God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;
For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

We who had sweet fellowship together,
Who walked to the house of God in company.

You made your people go through hard times; you had us drink wine that makes us stagger.

Will not you, O God, who had cast us off? and you, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

Everyone was gripped with fear and acknowledged God's deeds, understanding what he had done.

The righteous rejoiced in the LORD, because they had fled to him for refuge. Let all the upright in heart exult. To the Director: A song. Lyrics by David.

Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.

Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

But my heart had grown embittered, And, in my reins, had I received wounds;

But, I, was brutish, and could not perceive, Like the beasts, had I become before thee.

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

that they also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but to keep his commandments.

And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

He clove the hard rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink thereof, as it had been out of the great depth.

Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

Before they had satisfied their desire,
And while their food was in their mouths,

For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

They did not remember what he had done, how he delivered them from the enemy,

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

Then the Lord awoke like [one who had been] asleep, [awoke] like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.

Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

From tending the ewes with nursing young He brought him
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.

This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of Egypt, and had heard a strange language.

Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

Those who hate the Lord would pretend obedience to Him and cringe before Him,
And their time of punishment would be forever.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

You have withdrawn all Your wrath,
You have turned away from Your burning anger.

Rahab and Babylon will be named among those who have knowledge of me; see, Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man had his birth there.

And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.

The Lord will keep in mind, when he is writing the records of the people, that this man had his birth there. (Selah.)

For I have had enough troubles,
and my life is near Sheol.

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

Before the mountains were born
Or before You had given birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are [the eternal] God.

Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart, thy comforts have refreshed my soul.

when your ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, [even] though they had seen my work.

So I made a vow in my anger, 'They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.'"

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them.

He had sent a man ahead of them—
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.