⁶ The Lord executeth righteousness
and judgment for all that are oppressed.
⁷ He made known his ways unto Moses,
his acts unto the children of Israel.
⁸ The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
⁹ He will not always chide:
neither will he keep his anger for ever.
¹⁰ He hath not dealt with us after our sins;
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
¹¹ For as the heaven is high above the earth,
so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
¹² As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
¹³ Like as a father pitieth his children,
so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
¹⁴ For he knoweth our frame;
he remembereth that we are dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass:
as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
¹⁶ For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
and the place thereof shall know it no more.
¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,
and his righteousness unto children’s children;
¹⁸ to such as keep his covenant,
and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

¹⁹ The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens;
and his kingdom ruleth over all.
²⁰ Bless the Lord, ye his angels,
that excel in strength, that do his commandments,
hearkening unto the voice of his word.
²¹ Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts;
ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
²² Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion:
bless the Lord, O my soul.

² Awake, psaltery and harp:
I myself will awake early.
³ I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people:
and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
⁴ For thy mercy is great above the heavens:
and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
⁵ Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens:
and thy glory above all the earth;
⁶ that thy beloved may be delivered:
save with thy right hand, and answer me.

⁷ God hath spoken in his holiness;
I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem,
and mete out the valley of Succoth.
⁸ Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine;
Ephraim also is the strength of mine head;
Judah is my lawgiver;
⁹ Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe;
over Philistia will I triumph.

¹⁰ Who will bring me into the strong city?
who will lead me into Edom?
¹¹ Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off?
and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our hosts?
¹² Give us help from trouble:
for vain is the help of man.
¹³ Through God we shall do valiantly:
for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

⁶ Set thou a wicked man over him:
and let Satan stand at his right hand.
⁷ When he shall be judged, let him be condemned:
and let his prayer become sin.
⁸ Let his days be few;
and let another take his office.
⁹ Let his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow.
¹⁰ Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg:
let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
¹¹ Let the extortioner catch all that he hath;
and let the strangers spoil his labour.
¹² Let there be none to extend mercy unto him:
neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
¹³ Let his posterity be cut off;
and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
¹⁴ Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord;
and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
¹⁵ Let them be before the Lord continually,
that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
¹⁶ Because that he remembered not to shew mercy,
but persecuted the poor and needy man,
that he might even slay the broken in heart.
¹⁷ As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him:
as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment,
so let it come into his bowels like water,
and like oil into his bones.
¹⁹ Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him,
and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
²⁰ Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord,
and of them that speak evil against my soul.

²¹ But do thou for me, O God the Lord, for thy name’s sake:
because thy mercy is good,
deliver thou me.
²² For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is wounded within me.
²³ I am gone like the shadow when it declineth:
I am tossed up and down as the locust.
²⁴ My knees are weak through fasting;
and my flesh faileth of fatness.
²⁵ I became also a reproach unto them:
when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.

²⁶ Help me, O Lord my God:
O save me according to thy mercy:
²⁷ that they may know that this is thy hand;
that thou, Lord, hast done it.
²⁸ Let them curse, but bless thou:
when they arise, let them be ashamed;
but let thy servant rejoice.
²⁹ Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame,
and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

³⁰ I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
³¹ For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
to save him from those that condemn his soul.

⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
they shall prosper that love thee.
⁷ Peace be within thy walls,
and prosperity within thy palaces.
⁸ For my brethren and companions’ sakes,
I will now say, Peace be within thee.
⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God
I will seek thy good.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord,
who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
⁷ Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:
the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
⁸ Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.