I am a cause of wonder to those in authority; a song to those who are given to strong drink.

But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, Jehovah, in an acceptable time: O God, in the abundance of thy loving-kindness answer me, according to the truth of thy salvation:

Deliver me from [the] mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from [those who] hate me and from [the] watery depths.

Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or [the] deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me.

Hear me, O LORD; for thy lovingkindness is good: turn unto me according to the multitude of thy tender mercies.

and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly.

Draw near to my soul and redeem it;
Ransom me because of my enemies [so that they do not delight in my distress].

You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor [how I am insulted];
My adversaries are all before You [each one fully known].

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

May their table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare [to them];
And when they are in peace [secure at their sacrificial feasts], may it become a trap.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

Give their houses to destruction, and let there be no one in their tents.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

{Add guilt on top of their guilt}, and do not let them {be acquitted}.

May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!

I will give praise to the name of God with a song; I will give glory to him for what he has done.

And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock -- horned -- hoofed.

For the Lord listens to the needy
and does not despise
His own who are prisoners.

The heavens and earth do praise Him, Seas, and every moving thing in them.

The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who cherish his name will live there. To the Music director. Davidic. As a memorial.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.} Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Let them soon be brought to shame, that cry over me, "There! there!"

May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, "May God be praised!"

And I am poor and needy, O God, haste to me, My help and my deliverer art Thou, O Jehovah, tarry Thou not!

In thee, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.

Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me.

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress.

O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

Upon You have I relied and been sustained from my birth;
You are He who took me from my mother’s womb and You have been my benefactor from that day.
My praise is continually of You.

As a wonder I have been to many, And Thou art my strong refuge.

Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

For my enemies talk against me; those who seek to kill me plot together

Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.

O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise.

My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

I will come in [to tell] the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh. I will {make known} your righteousness, yours only.

O God, you have taught me from my youth, and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens,
You who have done great things;
O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?

You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up.

Raise me to a position of great honor! Turn and comfort me!

I also thank Thee with a vessel of psaltery, Thy truth, O my God, I sing to Thee with a harp, O Holy One of Israel,

My lips cry aloud when I sing praise to Thee, And my soul that Thou hast redeemed,

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

By Solomon. O God, Thy judgments to the king give, And Thy righteousness to the king's son.

The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.

He will do justice to the afflicted of the people; he will save the children of the needy, and will break in pieces the oppressor.

They shall fear thee as long as sun and moon endure, from generation to generation.

Let him come down, Like rain on fields to be mown, Like myriad drops on land to be reaped.

In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth.

Before him bow do the inhabitants of the dry places, And his enemies lick the dust.

And all kings do bow themselves to him, All nations do serve him,

For he will be a saviour to the poor in answer to his cry; and to him who is in need, without a helper.

He shall be favorable to the simple and poor; he shall preserve the souls of such as be in adversity.

And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.

May grain be abundant in the land all the way to the mountain tops; may its fruits flourish like the forests of Lebanon, and may the cities sprout like the grass of the earth.

His name is to the age, Before the sun is his name continued, And they bless themselves in him, All nations do pronounce him happy.

Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

And blessed is the Name of His honour to the age, And the whole earth is filled with His honour. Amen, and amen!

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

For I was envious of the boasters, At the prosperity of the lawless, used I to look.

For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies [are] {healthy}.

They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them.

Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

They say, "How does God know what we do? Is the sovereign one aware of what goes on?"

Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.

Like a dream [which seems real] until one awakens,
O Lord, when stirred, [You observe the wicked], You will despise their image.

When I chose to be bitter I was emotionally pained.

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

Nevertheless I am continually with You;
You have taken hold of my right hand.

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

Whom do I have in the heavens [except you]? And with you I have no [other] desire on earth.

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.

But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; And mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.

Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

It seems as if one had lifted up
An axe in a forest of trees [to set a record of destruction].

And now all its carvings too, they break down with axes and hammers.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.