If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

Truly, because of you we are put to death every day; we are numbered like sheep for destruction.

Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.

God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

He puts an end to wars over all the earth; by him the bow is broken, and the spear cut in two, and the carriage burned in the fire.

O make a glad noise with your hands, all you peoples; letting your voices go up to God with joy.

For the Lord Most High is to be feared; he is a great King over all the earth.

He will give us our heritage, the glory of Jacob who is dear to him. (Selah.)

Give praises to God, make songs of praise; give praises to our King, make songs of praise.

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, in the town of our God, in his holy mountain.

Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.

Truly, no man may get back his soul for a price, or give to God the payment for himself;

(Because it takes a great price to keep his soul from death, and man is not able to give it.)

For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others.

The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;

Though he might have pride in his soul in his life-time, and men will give you praise if you do well for yourself,

He will go to the generation of his fathers; he will not see the light again.

Man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.

Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

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.)

I will give you praise without end for what you have done; I will give honour to your name before your saints, for it is good.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

God was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

Let my prayer come before you, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.

For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.

Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

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;

We had loving talk together, and went to the house of God in company.

As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour.

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.

God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

Have mercy on me, O God, for man is attempting my destruction; every day he makes cruel attacks against me.

My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.

In God will I give praise to his word; in God have I put my hope; I will have no fear of what flesh may do to me.

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

When I send up my cry to you, my haters will be turned back; I am certain of this, for God is with 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 hope, I will have no fear of what man may do to me.

I keep the memory of my debt to you, O God; I will give you the offerings of praise.

I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me.

I will give you praise, O Lord, among the peoples; I will make songs to you among the nations.

For your mercy is great, stretching up to the heavens, and your righteousness goes up to the clouds.

Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

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

Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)

But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.

To you, O my strength, will I make my song: because God is my high tower, even the God of my mercy.

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

Through God we will do great things, for through him our haters will be crushed under our feet.

Let my cry come to you, O God; let your ears be open to my prayer.

From the end of the earth will I send up my cry to you, when my heart is overcome: take me to the rock which is over-high for me.

For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.

So will I make songs in praise of your name for ever, giving to God that which is right day by day.

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:

And mercy, O Lord, is yours, for you give to every man the reward of his work.

O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.

And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.

It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.

To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.

Happy is the man of your selection, to whom you give a resting-place in your house; we will be full of the good things out of your holy place.

Who makes the loud voice of the sea quiet, and puts an end to the sound of its waves.

You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

Send up a glad cry to God, all the earth:

Make a song in honour of his name: give praise and glory to him.

Say to God, How greatly to be feared are your works! because of your great power your haters are forced to put themselves under your feet.

Let all the earth give you worship, and make songs to you; let them make songs to your name. (Selah.)

Come and see the works of God: he is to be feared in all he does to the children of men.

Give blessings to our God, O you peoples, let the voice of his praise be loud;

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

I will come into your house with burned offerings, I will make payment of my debt to you,

Come, give ear to me, all you God-fearing men, so that I may make clear to you what he has done for my soul.

My voice went up to him, and I was lifted up from the underworld.

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

But truly God's ear has been open; he has give attention to the voice of my prayer.

Praise be to God who has not taken away his good faith and his mercy from me.

Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.

Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

Make songs to God, make songs of praise to his name; make a way for him who comes through the waste lands; his name is Jah; be glad before him.