Jehovah is my rock and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, I will put my trust in him; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my height.

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

He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hate me, for they were too strong for 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.}

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

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.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

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.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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.

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.

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!

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.

I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

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.

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.

Because they heed not The Deeds of Yahweh, or the Work of his hands, he will pull them down, and not build them.

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."

LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

Bring me out from the net that they hid for me, For Thou art my strength.

I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in Jehovah.

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;

Because of all those who are against me, I have become a word of shame to my neighbours; a cause of shaking the head and a fear to my friends: those who saw me in the street went in flight from me.

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!

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

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.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into [the] dry heat 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.

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

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

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.

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

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth (mourning garment);
I humbled my soul with fasting,
And I prayed with my head bowed on my chest.

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

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 in his own eyes he flatters himself too much
to discover and hate his sin.

He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

Wait for and expect the Lord and keep His way,
And He will exalt you to inherit the land;
[In the end] when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.

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

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

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.

{A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

For mine iniquities passed over my head: as a heavy lifting up they will be loaded above me.

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

O Jehovah, before thee all my desire, and my sighing was not hid from thee.

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

{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.

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

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

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.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

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 thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us.

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

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.

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

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,

Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

You have loved righteousness (virtue, morality, justice) and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, your God, has anointed You
Above Your companions with the oil of jubilation.

Jehovah of armies is with us, the God of Jacob a height for us. Silence.

Jehovah of armies is with us; the God of Jacob a height for us. Silence.

God being known in her fortresses for a height

“For you hate instruction and discipline
And cast My words behind you [discarding them].

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.

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

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.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?} Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

O God, hear my prayer; heed the words of my mouth.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

Give heed to me and answer me;
I am restless in my complaint and am surely distracted,

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

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