³ For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life ^(C)draws near to the grave.
⁴ I am counted with those who ^(D)go^[c] down to the pit;
^(E)I am like a man who has no strength,
^5 [d]Adrift among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And who are cut off from Your hand.

⁶ You have laid me in the lowest pit,
In darkness, in the depths.
⁷ Your wrath lies heavy upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all ^(F)Your waves. Selah
^8 (G)You have ^[e]put away my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an abomination to them;
^(H)I am shut up, and I cannot get out;
⁹ My eye wastes away because of affliction.

^(I)Lord, I have called daily upon You;
I have stretched out my hands to You.
¹⁰ Will You work wonders for the dead?
Shall ^[f]the dead arise and praise You? Selah
¹¹ Shall Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
Or Your faithfulness in the place of destruction?
¹² Shall Your wonders be known in the dark?
And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

¹³ But to You I have cried out, O Lord,
And in the morning my prayer comes before You.
¹⁴ Lord, why do You cast off my soul?
Why do You hide Your face from me?
¹⁵ I have been afflicted and ready to die from my youth;
I suffer Your terrors;
I am distraught.
¹⁶ Your fierce wrath has gone over me;
Your terrors have ^[g]cut me off.
¹⁷ They came around me all day long like water;
They engulfed me altogether.
^18 (J)Loved one and friend You have put far from me,
And my acquaintances into darkness.

³ Surely ^(D)He shall deliver you from the snare of the ^[a]fowler
And from the perilous pestilence.
^4 (E)He shall cover you with His feathers,
And under His wings you shall take refuge;
His truth shall be your shield and ^[b]buckler.
^5 (F)You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,
⁶ Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

⁷ A thousand may fall at your side,
And ten thousand at your right hand;
But it shall not come near you.
⁸ Only ^(G)with your eyes shall you look,
And see the reward of the wicked.

⁹ Because you have made the Lord, who is ^(H)my refuge,
Even the Most High, ^(I)your dwelling place,
^10 (J)No evil shall befall you,
Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;
^11 (K)For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
¹² In their hands they shall ^[c]bear you up,
^(L)Lest you ^[d]dash your foot against a stone.
¹³ You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

¹⁴ “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;
I will ^[e]set him on high, because he has ^(M)known My name.
¹⁵ He shall ^(N)call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be ^(O)with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
¹⁶ With ^[f]long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.”

⁶ Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let ^(D)us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
⁷ For He is our God,
And ^(E)we are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep ^[b]of His hand.

^(F)Today, if you will hear His voice:
⁸ “Do not harden your hearts, as in the ^[c]rebellion,
^(G)As in the day of ^[d]trial in the wilderness,
⁹ When ^(H)your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they ^(I)saw My work.
¹⁰ For ^(J)forty years I was ^[e]grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
¹¹ So ^(K)I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”

^5 (D)Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,
And Your glory above all the earth;
^6 (E)That Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right hand, and ^[b]hear me.

⁷ God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will rejoice;
I will divide Shechem
And measure out the Valley of Succoth.
⁸ Gilead is Mine; Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim also is the ^[c]helmet for My head;
^(F)Judah is My lawgiver.
⁹ Moab is My washpot;
Over Edom I will cast My shoe;
Over Philistia I will triumph.”

^10 (G)Who will bring me into the strong city?
Who will lead me to Edom?
¹¹ Is it not You, O God, who cast us off?
And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?
¹² Give us help from trouble,
For the help of man is useless.
^13 (H)Through God we will do valiantly,
For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.

⁶ Set a wicked man over him,
And let ^(E)an ^[a]accuser stand at his right hand.
⁷ When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And ^(F)let his prayer become sin.
⁸ Let his days be ^(G)few,
And ^(H)let another take his office.
^9 (I)Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
¹⁰ Let his children ^[b]continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them ^[c]seek their bread also from their desolate places.
^11 (J)Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor.
¹² Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
^13 (K)Let his ^[d]posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their ^(L)name be blotted out.

^14 (M)Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
And let not the sin of his mother ^(N)be blotted out.
¹⁵ Let them be continually before the Lord,
That He may ^(O)cut off the memory of them from the earth;
¹⁶ Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the ^(P)broken in heart.
^17 (Q)As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it ^(R)enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
¹⁹ Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,
And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
²⁰ Let this be the Lord’s reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak evil against my person.

²¹ But You, O God the Lord,
Deal with me for Your name’s sake;
Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
²² For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
²³ I am gone ^(S)like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.
²⁴ My ^(T)knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
²⁵ I also have become ^(U)a reproach to them;
When they look at me, ^(V)they shake their heads.

²⁶ Help me, O Lord my God!
Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
^27 (W)That they may know that this is Your hand—
That You, Lord, have done it!
^28 (X)Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, let them be ashamed,
But let ^(Y)Your servant rejoice.
^29 (Z)Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

³⁰ I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
Yes, ^(AA)I will praise Him among the multitude.
³¹ For ^(AB)He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
To save him from those ^[e]who condemn him.