⁴ When I remember these things,
^(E)I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go with the multitude;
^(F)I went with them to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and praise,
With a multitude that kept a pilgrim feast.

^5 (G)Why are you ^[d]cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
^(H)Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him
^[e]For the help of His countenance.

^6 [f]O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan,
And from the heights of Hermon,
From ^[g]the Hill Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls;
^(I)All Your waves and billows have gone over me.
⁸ The Lord will ^(J)command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And ^(K)in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I will say to God my Rock,
^(L)“Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰ As with a ^[h]breaking of my bones,
My enemies ^[i]reproach me,
^(M)While they say to me all day long,
“Where is your God?”

^11 (N)Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The ^[j]help of my countenance and my God.

² God looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who ^(D)seek God.
³ Every one of them has turned aside;
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.

⁴ Have the workers of iniquity ^(E)no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon God?
^5 (F)There they are in great fear
Where no fear was,
For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you;
You have put them to shame,
Because God has despised them.

^6 (G)Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God brings back ^[b]the captivity of His people,
Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.

^3 (A)The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
^4 (B)Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
⁵ Which will not ^(C)heed the voice of charmers,
Charming ever so skillfully.

^6 (D)Break^[b] their teeth in their mouth, O God!
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
^7 (E)Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
⁸ Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
^(F)Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹ Before your ^(G)pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away ^(H)as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath.
¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the ^(I)vengeance;
^(J)He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
^11 (K)So that men will say,
“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who ^(L)judges in the earth.”

³ Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon,
At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.
⁴ For ^(B)this is a statute for Israel,
A law of the God of Jacob.
⁵ This He established in Joseph as a testimony,
When He went throughout the land of Egypt,
^(C)Where I heard a language I did not understand.

⁶ “I removed his shoulder from the burden;
His hands were freed from the baskets.
^7 (D)You called in trouble, and I delivered you;
^(E)I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I ^(F)tested you at the waters of ^[b]Meribah. Selah

⁸ “Hear,^(G) O My people, and I will admonish you!
O Israel, if you will listen to Me!
⁹ There shall be no ^(H)foreign god among you;
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
^10 (I)I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you out of the land of Egypt;
^(J)Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

¹¹ “But My people would not heed My voice,
And Israel would have ^(K)none of Me.
^12 (L)So I gave them over to ^[c]their own stubborn heart,
To walk in their own counsels.

¹³ “Oh,^(M) that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
¹⁴ I would soon subdue their enemies,
And turn My hand against their adversaries.
^15 (N)The haters of the Lord would pretend submission to Him,
But their ^[d]fate would endure forever.
¹⁶ He would ^(O)have fed them also with ^[e]the finest of wheat;
And with honey ^(P)from the rock I would have satisfied you.”

² I will behave wisely in a ^[a]perfect way.
Oh, when will You come to me?
I will ^(A)walk within my house with a perfect heart.

³ I will set nothing ^[b]wicked before my eyes;
^(B)I hate the work of those ^(C)who fall away;
It shall not cling to me.
⁴ A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will not ^(D)know wickedness.

⁵ Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor,
Him I will destroy;
^(E)The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart,
Him I will not endure.

⁶ My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land,
That they may dwell with me;
He who walks in a ^[c]perfect way,
He shall serve me.
⁷ He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house;
He who tells lies shall not ^[d]continue in my presence.
^8 (F)Early I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
That I may cut off all the evildoers ^(G)from the city of the Lord.