⁴ How can we sing the songs of the Lord^(I)
    while in a foreign land?
⁵ If I forget you,^(J) Jerusalem,
    may my right hand forget its skill.
⁶ May my tongue cling to the roof^(K) of my mouth
    if I do not remember^(L) you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem^(M)
    my highest joy.

⁷ Remember, Lord, what the Edomites^(N) did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.^(O)
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”^(P)
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,^(Q)
    happy is the one who repays you
    according to what you have done to us.
⁹ Happy is the one who seizes your infants
    and dashes them^(R) against the rocks.

⁴ May all the kings of the earth^(AB) praise you, Lord,
    when they hear what you have decreed.
⁵ May they sing^(AC) of the ways of the Lord,
    for the glory of the Lord^(AD) is great.

⁶ Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;^(AE)
    though lofty, he sees them^(AF) from afar.
⁷ Though I walk^(AG) in the midst of trouble,
    you preserve my life.^(AH)
You stretch out your hand^(AI) against the anger of my foes;^(AJ)
    with your right hand^(AK) you save me.^(AL)
8 The Lord will vindicate^(AM) me;
    your love, Lord, endures forever^(AN)—
    do not abandon^(AO) the works of your hands.^(AP)

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee^(BA) from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens,^(BB) you are there;
    if I make my bed^(BC) in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,^(BD)
    your right hand^(BE) will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
    and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark^(BF) to you;
    the night will shine like the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;^(BG)
    you knit me together^(BH) in my mother’s womb.^(BI)
14 I praise you^(BJ) because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,^(BK)
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made^(BL) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together^(BM) in the depths of the earth.^(BN)
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained^(BO) for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a](BP) God!^(BQ)
    How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,^(BR)
    they would outnumber the grains of sand^(BS)—
    when I awake,^(BT) I am still with you.

¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!^(BU)
    Away from me,^(BV) you who are bloodthirsty!^(BW)
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
    your adversaries^(BX) misuse your name.^(BY)
21 Do I not hate those^(BZ) who hate you, Lord,
    and abhor^(CA) those who are in rebellion against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
    I count them my enemies.^(CB)
23 Search me,^(CC) God, and know my heart;^(CD)
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way^(CE) in me,
    and lead me^(CF) in the way everlasting.