Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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

He drove His enemies backward;
He subjected them to lasting shame and dishonor.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

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.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

O Lord God, invincible warrior! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?

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

It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

(May those who hate the Lord cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.

The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, they, in whose heart are the highways.

Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

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

I hear what God Jehovah speaketh, For He speaketh peace unto His people, And unto His saints, and they turn not back to folly.

All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; And they shall glorify thy name.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me including Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia "This one was born there," they say.

They that sing as well as they that dance'shall say , All my fountains are in thee.

They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are decreased arise and praise thee? Selah

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

Thou rulest the pride of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise.

Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

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

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

All they that go by, spoil him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

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:

For lo! thine enemies, Yahweh, For lo! thine enemies, shall perish, They shall be scattered - all the workers of iniquity;

My eyes look down on my enemies;
my ears hear evildoers when they attack me.

The righteous will flourish like the date palm [long-lived, upright and useful];
They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon [majestic and stable].

They are planted in the house of Jehovah; They shall flourish in the courts of our God.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

[They are living memorials] to declare that the Lord is upright and faithful [to His promises];
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

Rise up, Judge of the earth;
repay the proud what they deserve.

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

when your ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, [even] though they had seen my work.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

As for all the gods of the Heathen, they are but Idols, but it is the LORD that made the heavens. {TYNDALE: For all the gods of the heathen are Idols; But the LORD made the heavens.}

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

They shall praise thy great and terrible name, it is holy! --

Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.

He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

O Lord our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears

For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.

so that [they may] make known in Zion the name of Yahweh, and his praise in Jerusalem,

Yet will I say, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my age; as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations."

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:

If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

He sendeth forth springs into the valleys; They run among the mountains;

They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.

By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation; They sing among the branches.

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people's lives.

The trees of the Lord receive all the rain they need, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,

The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

They all wait for you to give [them] their food {at the proper time}.

That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.