³ O send out your light and your truth;
    let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy hill
    and to your dwelling.^(C)
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
    to God my exceeding joy,
and I will praise you with the harp,
    O God, my God.^(D)

⁵ Why are you cast down, O my soul,
    and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise him,
    my help and my God.^(E)

⁴ You are my King and my God;
    you command^[a] victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through you we push down our foes;
    through your name we tread down our assailants.^(I)
6 For not in my bow do I trust,
    nor can my sword save me.
⁷ But you have saved us from our foes
    and have put to confusion those who hate us.^(J)
8 In God we have boasted continually,
    and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah^(K)

⁹ Yet you have rejected us and shamed us
    and have not gone out with our armies.^(L)
10 You made us turn back from the foe,
    and our enemies have gotten spoil.^(M)
11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
    and have scattered us among the nations.^(N)
12 You have sold your people for a trifle,
    demanding no high price for them.^(O)

¹³ You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
    the derision and scorn of those around us.^(P)
14 You have made us a byword among the nations,
    a laughingstock^[b] among the peoples.^(Q)
15 All day long my disgrace is before me,
    and shame has covered my face
¹⁶ at the words of the taunters and revilers,
    at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.^(R)

¹⁷ All this has come upon us,
    yet we have not forgotten you
    or been false to your covenant.^(S)
18 Our heart has not turned back,
    nor have our steps departed from your way,^(T)
19 yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals
    and covered us with deep darkness.^(U)

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God
    or spread out our hands to a strange god,^(V)
21 would not God discover this?
    For he knows the secrets of the heart.^(W)
22 Because of you we are being killed all day long
    and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.^(X)

²³ Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
    Awake, do not cast us off forever!^(Y)
24 Why do you hide your face?
    Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?^(Z)
25 For we sink down to the dust;
    our bodies cling to the ground.^(AA)
26 Rise up, come to our help.
    Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.^(AB)

² You are the most handsome of men;
    grace is poured upon your lips;
    therefore God has blessed you forever.^(AD)
3 Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
    in your glory and majesty.^(AE)

⁴ In your majesty ride on victoriously
    for the cause of truth and to defend^[c] the right;
    let your right hand teach you dread deeds.^(AF)
5 Your arrows are sharp
    in the heart of the king’s enemies;
    the peoples fall under you.

⁶ Your throne, O God,^[d] endures forever and ever.
    Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;^(AG)
7     you love righteousness and hate wickedness.
Therefore God, your God, has anointed you
    with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;^(AH)
8     your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.
From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad;^(AI)
9     daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor;
    at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.^(AJ)

¹⁰ Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear;
    forget your people and your father’s house,^(AK)
11     and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your lord, bow to him;^(AL)
12     Daughter Tyre will seek your favor with gifts,
the richest of the people^{(AM) 13}     with all kinds of wealth.

The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;^[e](AN)
14     in many-colored robes she is led to the king;
    behind her the virgins, her companions, follow.^(AO)
15 With joy and gladness they are led along
    as they enter the palace of the king.

¹⁶ In the place of ancestors you, O king,^[f] shall have sons;
    you will make them princes in all the earth.^(AP)
17 I will cause your name to be celebrated in all generations;
    therefore the peoples will praise you forever and ever.^(AQ)

⁵ Why should I fear in times of trouble,
    when the iniquity of my persecutors surrounds me,^(D)
6 those who trust in their wealth
    and boast of the abundance of their riches?^(E)
7 Truly, no ransom avails for one’s life;^[a]
    there is no price one can give to God for it.^(F)
8 For the ransom of life is costly
    and can never suffice,^(G)
9 that one should live on forever
    and never see the Pit.^(H)

¹⁰ When we look at the wise, they die;
    fool and dolt perish together
    and leave their wealth to others.^(I)
11 Their graves^[b] are their homes forever,
    their dwelling places to all generations,
    though they named lands their own.^(J)
12 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
    they are like the animals that perish.^(K)

¹³ Such is the fate of the foolhardy,
    the end of those^[c] who are pleased with their lot. Selah^(L)
14 Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
    Death shall be their shepherd;
straight to the grave they descend,^[d]
    and their form shall waste away;
    Sheol shall be their home.^[e](M)
15 But God will ransom my soul from the power of Sheol,
    for he will receive me. Selah^(N)

¹⁶ Do not be afraid when some become rich,
    when the wealth of their houses increases.^(O)
17 For when they die they will carry nothing away;
    their wealth will not go down after them.^(P)
18 Though in their lifetime they count themselves happy
    —for you are praised when you do well for yourself—^(Q)
19 they^[f] will go to the company of their ancestors,
    who will never again see the light.^(R)
20 Mortals cannot abide in their pomp;
    they are like the animals that perish.^(S)

³ Even the sparrow finds a home
    and the swallow a nest for herself,
    where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O Lord of hosts,
    my King and my God.^(C)
4 Happy are those who live in your house,
    ever singing your praise. Selah^(D)

⁵ Happy are those whose strength is in you,
    in whose heart are the highways to Zion.^[a](E)
6 As they go through the valley of Baca,
    they make it a place of springs;
    the early rain also covers it with pools.^(F)
7 They go from strength to strength;
    the God of gods will be seen in Zion.^(G)

⁸ O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;
    give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
⁹ Behold our shield, O God;
    look on the face of your anointed.^(H)

¹⁰ For a day in your courts is better
    than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
    than live in the tents of wickedness.^(I)
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
    he bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does the Lord withhold
    from those who walk uprightly.^(J)
12 O Lord of hosts,
    happy is everyone who trusts in you.^(K)

⁴ I lie down among lions
    that greedily devour^[a] human prey;
their teeth are spears and arrows,
    their tongues sharp swords.^(D)

⁵ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens.
    Let your glory be over all the earth.^(E)

⁶ They set a net for my steps;
    my soul was bowed down.
They dug a pit in my path,
    but they have fallen into it themselves. Selah^(F)
7 My heart is steadfast, O God;
    my heart is steadfast.
I will sing and make melody.^(G)
8     Awake, my soul!
Awake, O harp and lyre!
    I will awake the dawn.^(H)
9 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples;
    I will sing praises to you among the nations.^(I)
10 For your steadfast love is as high as the heavens;
    your faithfulness extends to the clouds.^(J)

¹¹ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens.
    Let your glory be over all the earth.^(K)