{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

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

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.

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

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

{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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.} Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song of Asaph.} In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.

{To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph.} I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

{Maschil of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.

{To the chief Musician upon ShoshannimEduth, A Psalm of Asaph.} Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

{To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.} Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

{To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.} LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.

Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.

In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

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

{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: