Look unto me, and favour me, Give Thy strength to Thy servant, And give salvation to a son of Thine handmaid.

Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me.

To the sons of Korah chanting a song. His foundations are in the mountains of holiness.

Glorious things, are to be spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

But with respect to Zion it shall be said, "{Each one} was born in her," for the Most High himself will establish her.

The LORD shall cause it to be preached and written among the people, that he was born there. Selah.

Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you." A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.

{A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.} O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:

My prayer cometh in before Thee, Incline Thine ear to my loud cry,

For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draweth nigh to Sheol.

I have been reckoned with those going down to the pit, I have been as a man without strength.

My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

You have assigned me to the lowest part of the Pit, to the darkest depths.

Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.

Mine eye consumeth by reason of affliction. Upon thee, Jehovah, have I called every day; I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.

Will the story of your mercy be given in the house of the dead? will news of your faith come to the place of destruction?

But I have cried out to You, O Lord, for help;
And in the morning my prayer will come to You.

O Lord, why do You reject me?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

Thy fierce anger hath gone over me; thy terrors have brought me to nought:

They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

{Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

I have made a covenant for My chosen, I have sworn to David My servant:

Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

For who in the heaven can be compared to Jehovah? who among the sons of the mighty shall be likened to Jehovah?

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.

O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?

Rahab was crushed by you like one wounded to death; with your strong arm you put to flight all your haters.

Heaven and the earth belong to you, the world and everything it contains you established them.

North and south Thou hast appointed them, Tabor and Hermon in Thy name do sing.

To thee an arm with strength: thou wilt strengthen thy hand, and thou wilt lift up thy right hand.

Blessed and happy are the people who know the joyful sound [of the trumpet’s blast]!
They walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!

In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Then thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

“The enemy will not outwit him,
Nor will the wicked man afflict or humiliate him.

I will extend his power to the sea
and his right hand to the rivers.

“He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

And as to me, I will make him firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.

To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.

His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.

If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

then I will call their rebellion
to account with the rod,
their sin with blows.

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,

His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me,

As the moon it is established -- to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.

But [in apparent contradiction of all this] You [the faithful Lord] have cast off and rejected;
You have been full of wrath against Your anointed.

Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.

Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

You have caused the days of his youth to be cut short; you have covered him with shame Interlude

How long, O Lord, will this last? Will you remain hidden forever? Will your anger continue to burn like fire?

Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

Where are Thy former kindnesses, O Lord. Thou hast sworn to David in Thy faithfulness,

Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

Blessed is Jehovah to the age. Amen, and amen!

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou -- Thou hast been, To us -- in generation and generation,

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep [forgotten as soon as they are gone];
In the morning they are like grass which grows anew—

For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten [off] by your wrath.

You have placed our wickedness before you,
Our secret sins [which we tried to conceal, You have placed] in the [revealing] light of Your presence.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one's best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And be sorry for Your servants.

Satisfy us in the morning with your gracious love so we may sing for joy and rejoice every day.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants
And Your [glorious] majesty to their children.

May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!

I will say to Yahweh, "[You are] my refuge and my fortress, my God [in whom] I trust."

Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.

A thousand shall fall from thy side, and ten thousand from thy right hand; and to thee it shall not reach.

no harm will come to you;
no plague will come near your tent.

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won't dash your foot against a stone.

Because he is lovingly devoted to Me,
I will deliver him;
I will protect him because he knows My name.

When he calls out to Me, I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble.
I will rescue him and give him honor.

With length of days I satisfy him, And I cause him to look on My salvation!

{A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.} It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:

To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.

For Thou hast caused me to rejoice, O Jehovah, in Thy work, Concerning the works of Thy hands I sing.

A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

And Thou art high to the age, O Jehovah.