Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's house."

{To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

You love to use all the words that destroy, and the tongue that deceives.

But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

The righteous also shall see this, and fear, and shall laugh him to scorn.

"Behold, this is the man who didn't make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."

And I, as a green olive in the house of God, I have trusted in the kindness of God, To the age and for ever,

I thank Thee to the age, because Thou hast done it, And I wait on Thy name for it is good before Thy saints!

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?
They eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God turneth back to a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!

{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.

Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

Lo, God is a helper to me, The Lord is with those supporting my soul,

He will requite evil to mine enemies: in thy truth cut them off.

With a free will-offering I sacrifice to Thee, I thank Thy name, O Jehovah, for it is good,

for he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eyes have seen the end of my enemies. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic instruction.

{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.

Attend to me, and answer me, I mourn in my meditation, and make a noise,

Because of the voice of an enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked, For they cause sorrow to move against me, And in anger they hate me.

Fear and trembling come in to me, And horror doth cover me.

And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,

Look, I want to flee far away; I want to settle down in the wilderness. Interlude

I would haste me to a shelter From the stormy wind and tempest.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Destruction is within her;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

And thou a man according to my estimation, my friend and my acquaintance.

We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house of God we walked amid the throng.

Desolations are upon them, They go down to Sheol -- alive, For wickedness is in their dwelling, in their midst.

I -- to God I call, and Jehovah saveth me.

In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

He hath ransomed in peace my soul From him who is near to me, For with the multitude they were with me.

God will hear and humble them,
Even He who sits enthroned from old— Selah.
Because in them there has been no change [of heart],
And they do not fear God [at all].

He hath thrust forth his hands, against them he was wont to salute, he hath violated his covenant;

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

{To the chief Musician upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.} Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.

In the day that I am afraid, I will confide in thee.

In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They stir up strife, they lurk;
they watch my steps
while they wait to take my life.

Cast them out because of their wickedness.
In anger bring down the peoples, O God!

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?

Then shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.

In God will I give praise to his word; in the Lord will I give praise to his word.

In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

On me, O God, are Thy vows, I repay thank-offerings to Thee.

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave.} Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.

I call to God Most High, To God who is perfecting for me.

He will send from heaven and save me;
He calls to account him who tramples me down. Selah.
God will send out His lovingkindness and His truth.

I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net to trap me; I am discouraged. They have dug a pit for me. They will fall into it! (Selah)

I will praise and give thanks to You, O Lord, among the people;
I will sing praises to You among the nations.

For Your faithfulness and lovingkindness are great, reaching to the heavens,
And Your truth to the clouds.

Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David.} Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Aye! ye all do work, perversity, - Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!

Wrath to them according to the likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the deaf adder will stop its ear;

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

Let them be as a snail which melts away (secretes slime) as it goes along,
Like the miscarriage of a woman which never sees the sun.

As a green thorn kindled with fire goeth out before your pots be made hot; even so, let a furious rage bring him to nought.

so that men shall say, "Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth." For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Do Not Destroy." A poem by David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

Deliver me from those who do iniquity
And save me from men of bloodshed.

For look, they wait to ambush me; powerful men stalk me, but not because I have rebelled or sinned, O Lord.

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.

Let them go to and fro, and run about the city, howling like dogs.

See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

But thou, O LORD, shalt have them in derision, thou shalt laugh all the Heathen to scorn.

Their strength! ... I will take heed to thee; for God is my high fortress.

God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet me, God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.

Do not kill them, or my people will forget;
Scatter them and make them wander [endlessly] back and forth by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord our shield!

Consume in fury, consume and they are not, And they know that God is ruling in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah.

Let them go to and fro, and run about the city, howling like dogs.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defence and refuge in the day of my trouble.

O my strength, to you I will give praise, because God [is] my [high] stronghold, my God of loyal love.

{To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.} O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.

Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.

Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

God has spoken in His holiness [in His promises]:
“I will rejoice, I will divide [the land of] Shechem and measure out the Valley of Succoth [west to east].

Gilead belongs to me, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim is my helmet, and Judah my scepter.

“Moab is My washbowl;
Over Edom I shall throw My shoe [in triumph];
Over Philistia I raise the shout [of victory].”

Who doth bring me to a city of bulwarks? Who hath led me unto Edom?

God, haven’t You rejected us?
God, You do not march out with our armies.

Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the deliverance of man.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

{To the chief Musician upon Neginah, A Psalm of David.} Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.