I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Save me from the lion's mouth. Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

My God, I have trusted in you. Do not let me be shamed. Do not let my enemies triumph over me.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in LORD without wavering.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Do not hide your face from me. Do not put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper."

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men.

Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

Let your loving kindness be on us, LORD, since we have hoped in you.

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

You have seen it, LORD. Do not keep silent. Lord, do not be far from me.

Do not let them say in their heart, "Aha. That's the way we want it." Do not let them say, "We have swallowed him up."

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

The LORD helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the scroll of a book.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

I said, "LORD, have mercy on me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

As we have heard, so we have seen, in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish it forever. Selah.

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the midst of your temple.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

"Gather my holy ones together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.

Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

For you do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your holy ones.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

Confuse them, Lord, and confound their language, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hid myself from him.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

For you have delivered my soul from death, and prevented my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living.