Psalm 1-36

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴ The wicked are not so,
    but are like chaff which the wind drives away.
⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
⁶ for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

⁴ He who sits in the heavens laughs;
    the Lord has them in derision.
⁵ Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
    and terrify them in his fury, saying,
⁶ “I have set my king
    on Zion, my holy hill.”

⁷ I will tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to me, “You are my son,
    today I have begotten you.
⁸ Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
    and the ends of the earth your possession.
⁹ You shall break them with a rod of iron,
    and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

¹⁰ Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
    be warned, O rulers of the earth.
¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear,
    with trembling ¹² kiss his feet,^[b]
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way;
    for his wrath is quickly kindled.

Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

³ But thou, O Lord, art a shield about me,
    my glory, and the lifter of my head.
⁴ I cry aloud to the Lord,
    and he answers me from his holy hill.Selah

⁵ I lie down and sleep;
    I wake again, for the Lord sustains me.
⁶ I am not afraid of ten thousands of people
    who have set themselves against me round about.

⁷ Arise, O Lord!
    Deliver me, O my God!
For thou dost smite all my enemies on the cheek,
    thou dost break the teeth of the wicked.

⁸ Deliverance belongs to the Lord;
    thy blessing be upon thy people!Selah

² O men, how long shall my honor suffer shame?
    How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies?Selah
³ But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself;
    the Lord hears when I call to him.

⁴ Be angry, but sin not;
    commune with your own hearts on your beds, and be silent.Selah
⁵ Offer right sacrifices,
    and put your trust in the Lord.

⁶ There are many who say, “O that we might see some good!
    Lift up the light of thy countenance upon us, O Lord!”
⁷ Thou hast put more joy in my heart
    than they have when their grain and wine abound.

⁸ In peace I will both lie down and sleep;
    for thou alone, O Lord, makest me dwell in safety.

⁴ For thou art not a God who delights in wickedness;
    evil may not sojourn with thee.
⁵ The boastful may not stand before thy eyes;
    thou hatest all evildoers.
⁶ Thou destroyest those who speak lies;
    the Lord abhors bloodthirsty and deceitful men.

⁷ But I through the abundance of thy steadfast love
    will enter thy house,
I will worship toward thy holy temple
    in the fear of thee.
⁸ Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness
    because of my enemies;
    make thy way straight before me.

⁹ For there is no truth in their mouth;
    their heart is destruction,
their throat is an open sepulchre,
    they flatter with their tongue.
¹⁰ Make them bear their guilt, O God;
    let them fall by their own counsels;
because of their many transgressions cast them out,
    for they have rebelled against thee.

¹¹ But let all who take refuge in thee rejoice,
    let them ever sing for joy;
and do thou defend them,
    that those who love thy name may exult in thee.
¹² For thou dost bless the righteous, O Lord;
    thou dost cover him with favor as with a shield.

⁴ Turn, O Lord, save my life;
    deliver me for the sake of thy steadfast love.
⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of thee;
    in Sheol who can give thee praise?

⁶ I am weary with my moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷ My eye wastes away because of grief,
    it grows weak because of all my foes.

⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of evil;
    for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
⁹ The Lord has heard my supplication;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.
¹⁰ All my enemies shall be ashamed and sorely troubled;
    they shall turn back, and be put to shame in a moment.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
    if there is wrong in my hands,
⁴ if I have requited my friend with evil
    or plundered my enemy without cause,
⁵ let the enemy pursue me and overtake me,
    and let him trample my life to the ground,
    and lay my soul in the dust.Selah

⁶ Arise, O Lord, in thy anger,
    lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies;
    awake, O my God;^[c] thou hast appointed a judgment.
⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee;
    and over it take thy seat^[d] on high.
⁸ The Lord judges the peoples;
    judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹ O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    but establish thou the righteous,
thou who triest the minds and hearts,
    thou righteous God.
¹⁰ My shield is with God,
    who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    and a God who has indignation every day.

¹² If a man^[e] does not repent, God^[f] will whet his sword;
    he has bent and strung his bow;
¹³ he has prepared his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ Behold, the wicked man conceives evil,
    and is pregnant with mischief,
    and brings forth lies.
¹⁵ He makes a pit, digging it out,
    and falls into the hole which he has made.
¹⁶ His mischief returns upon his own head,
    and on his own pate his violence descends.

¹⁷ I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
    and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted
²     by the mouth of babes and infants,
thou hast founded a bulwark because of thy foes,
    to still the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,
    the moon and the stars which thou hast established;
⁴ what is man that thou art mindful of him,
    and the son of man that thou dost care for him?

⁵ Yet thou hast made him little less than God,
    and dost crown him with glory and honor.
⁶ Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands;
    thou hast put all things under his feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the sea.

⁹ O Lord, our Lord,
    how majestic is thy name in all the earth!

³ When my enemies turned back,
    they stumbled and perished before thee.
⁴ For thou hast maintained my just cause;
    thou hast sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

⁵ Thou hast rebuked the nations, thou hast destroyed the wicked;
    thou hast blotted out their name for ever and ever.
⁶ The enemy have vanished in everlasting ruins;
    their cities thou hast rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

⁷ But the Lord sits enthroned for ever,
    he has established his throne for judgment;
⁸ and he judges the world with righteousness,
    he judges the peoples with equity.

⁹ The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
    a stronghold in times of trouble.
¹⁰ And those who know thy name put their trust in thee,
    for thou, O Lord, hast not forsaken those who seek thee.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!
    Tell among the peoples his deeds!
¹² For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
    he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ Be gracious to me, O Lord!
    Behold what I suffer from those who hate me,
    O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ that I may recount all thy praises,
    that in the gates of the daughter of Zion
    I may rejoice in thy deliverance.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk in the pit which they made;
    in the net which they hid has their own foot been caught.
¹⁶ The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment;
    the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall depart to Sheol,
    all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
    and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord! Let not man prevail;
    let the nations be judged before thee!
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord!
    Let the nations know that they are but men!Selah

³ For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart,
    and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
⁴ In the pride of his countenance the wicked does not seek him;
    all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

⁵ His ways prosper at all times;
    thy judgments are on high, out of his sight;
    as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
⁶ He thinks in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
    throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”

⁷ His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
    under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
⁸ He sits in ambush in the villages;
    in hiding places he murders the innocent.

His eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,
⁹     he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert;
he lurks that he may seize the poor,
    he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

¹⁰ The hapless is crushed, sinks down,
    and falls by his might.
¹¹ He thinks in his heart, “God has forgotten,
    he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

¹² Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thy hand;
    forget not the afflicted.
¹³ Why does the wicked renounce God,
    and say in his heart, “Thou wilt not call to account”?

¹⁴ Thou dost see; yea, thou dost note trouble and vexation,
    that thou mayst take it into thy hands;
the hapless commits himself to thee;
    thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked and evildoer;
    seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
¹⁶ The Lord is king for ever and ever;
    the nations shall perish from his land.

¹⁷ O Lord, thou wilt hear the desire of the meek;
    thou wilt strengthen their heart, thou wilt incline thy ear
¹⁸ to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
    so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

⁴ The Lord is in his holy temple,
    the Lord’s throne is in heaven;
    his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.
⁵ The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked,
    and his soul hates him that loves violence.
⁶ On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and brimstone;
    a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
⁷ For the Lord is righteous, he loves righteous deeds;
    the upright shall behold his face.

³ May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
    the tongue that makes great boasts,
⁴ those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
    our lips are with us; who is our master?”

⁵ “Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
    I will now arise,” says the Lord;
    “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
⁶ The promises of the Lord are promises that are pure,
    silver refined in a furnace on the ground,
    purified seven times.

⁷ Do thou, O Lord, protect us,
    guard us ever from this generation.
⁸ On every side the wicked prowl,
    as vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

³ Consider and answer me, O Lord my God;
    lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
⁴ lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed over him”;
    lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken.

⁵ But I have trusted in thy steadfast love;
    my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
⁶ I will sing to the Lord,
    because he has dealt bountifully with me.

² The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
    to see if there are any that act wisely,
    that seek after God.

³ They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt;
    there is none that does good,
    no, not one.

⁴ Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers
    who eat up my people as they eat bread,
    and do not call upon the Lord?

⁵ There they shall be in great terror,
    for God is with the generation of the righteous.
⁶ You would confound the plans of the poor,
    but the Lord is his refuge.

⁷ O that deliverance for Israel would come out of Zion!
    When the Lord restores the fortunes of his people,
    Jacob shall rejoice, Israel shall be glad.

² He who walks blamelessly, and does what is right,
    and speaks truth from his heart;
³ who does not slander with his tongue,
    and does no evil to his friend,
    nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
⁴ in whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
    but who honors those who fear the Lord;
who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
⁵ who does not put out his money at interest,
    and does not take a bribe against the innocent.

He who does these things shall never be moved.

³ As for the saints in the land, they are the noble,
    in whom is all my delight.

⁴ Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows;^[k]
    their libations of blood I will not pour out
    or take their names upon my lips.

⁵ The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup;
    thou holdest my lot.
⁶ The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
    yea, I have a goodly heritage.

⁷ I bless the Lord who gives me counsel;
    in the night also my heart instructs me.
⁸ I keep the Lord always before me;
    because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad, and my soul rejoices;
    my body also dwells secure.
¹⁰ For thou dost not give me up to Sheol,
    or let thy godly one see the Pit.

¹¹ Thou dost show me the path of life;
    in thy presence there is fulness of joy,
    in thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

³ If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night,
    if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me;
    my mouth does not transgress.
⁴ With regard to the works of men, by the word of thy lips
    I have avoided the ways of the violent.
⁵ My steps have held fast to thy paths,
    my feet have not slipped.

⁶ I call upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O God;
    incline thy ear to me, hear my words.
⁷ Wondrously show thy steadfast love,
    O savior of those who seek refuge
    from their adversaries at thy right hand.

⁸ Keep me as the apple of the eye;
    hide me in the shadow of thy wings,
⁹ from the wicked who despoil me,
    my deadly enemies who surround me.

¹⁰ They close their hearts to pity;
    with their mouths they speak arrogantly.
¹¹ They track me down; now they surround me;
    they set their eyes to cast me to the ground.
¹² They are like a lion eager to tear,
    as a young lion lurking in ambush.

¹³ Arise, O Lord! confront them, overthrow them!
    Deliver my life from the wicked by thy sword,
¹⁴ from men by thy hand, O Lord,
    from men whose portion in life is of the world.
May their belly be filled with what thou hast stored up for them;
    may their children have more than enough;
    may they leave something over to their babes.

¹⁵ As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness;
    when I awake, I shall be satisfied with beholding thy form.

⁴ The cords of death encompassed me,
    the torrents of perdition assailed me;
⁵ the cords of Sheol entangled me,
    the snares of death confronted me.

⁶ In my distress I called upon the Lord;
    to my God I cried for help.
From his temple he heard my voice,
    and my cry to him reached his ears.

⁷ Then the earth reeled and rocked;
    the foundations also of the mountains trembled
    and quaked, because he was angry.
⁸ Smoke went up from his nostrils,
    and devouring fire from his mouth;
    glowing coals flamed forth from him.
⁹ He bowed the heavens, and came down;
    thick darkness was under his feet.
¹⁰ He rode on a cherub, and flew;
    he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.
¹¹ He made darkness his covering around him,
    his canopy thick clouds dark with water.
¹² Out of the brightness before him
    there broke through his clouds
    hailstones and coals of fire.

¹³ The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
    and the Most High uttered his voice,
    hailstones and coals of fire.

¹⁴ And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;
    he flashed forth lightnings, and routed them.
¹⁵ Then the channels of the sea were seen,
    and the foundations of the world were laid bare,
at thy rebuke, O Lord,
    at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

¹⁶ He reached from on high, he took me,
    he drew me out of many waters.
¹⁷ He delivered me from my strong enemy,
    and from those who hated me;
    for they were too mighty for me.
¹⁸ They came upon me in the day of my calamity;
    but the Lord was my stay.
¹⁹ He brought me forth into a broad place;
    he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

²⁰ The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness;
    according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me.
²¹ For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
    and have not wickedly departed from my God.
²² For all his ordinances were before me,
    and his statutes I did not put away from me.
²³ I was blameless before him,
    and I kept myself from guilt.
²⁴ Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
    according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

²⁵ With the loyal thou dost show thyself loyal;
    with the blameless man thou dost show thyself blameless;
²⁶ with the pure thou dost show thyself pure;
    and with the crooked thou dost show thyself perverse.
²⁷ For thou dost deliver a humble people;
    but the haughty eyes thou dost bring down.
²⁸ Yea, thou dost light my lamp;
    the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
²⁹ Yea, by thee I can crush a troop;
    and by my God I can leap over a wall.
³⁰ This God—his way is perfect;
    the promise of the Lord proves true;
    he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.

³¹ For who is God, but the Lord?
    And who is a rock, except our God?—
³² the God who girded me with strength,
    and made my way safe.
³³ He made my feet like hinds’ feet,
    and set me secure on the heights.
³⁴ He trains my hands for war,
    so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
³⁵ Thou hast given me the shield of thy salvation,
    and thy right hand supported me,
    and thy help^[m] made me great.
³⁶ Thou didst give a wide place for my steps under me,
    and my feet did not slip.
³⁷ I pursued my enemies and overtook them;
    and did not turn back till they were consumed.
³⁸ I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise;
    they fell under my feet.
³⁹ For thou didst gird me with strength for the battle;
    thou didst make my assailants sink under me.
⁴⁰ Thou didst make my enemies turn their backs to me,
    and those who hated me I destroyed.
⁴¹ They cried for help, but there was none to save,
    they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
⁴² I beat them fine as dust before the wind;
    I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

⁴³ Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples;^[n]
    thou didst make me the head of the nations;
    people whom I had not known served me.
⁴⁴ As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;
    foreigners came cringing to me.
⁴⁵ Foreigners lost heart,
    and came trembling out of their fastnesses.

⁴⁶ The Lord lives; and blessed be my rock,
    and exalted be the God of my salvation,
⁴⁷ the God who gave me vengeance
    and subdued peoples under me;
⁴⁸ who delivered me from my enemies;
    yea, thou didst exalt me above my adversaries;
    thou didst deliver me from men of violence.

⁴⁹ For this I will extol thee, O Lord, among the nations,
    and sing praises to thy name.
⁵⁰ Great triumphs he gives to his king,
    and shows steadfast love to his anointed,
    to David and his descendants for ever.

In them he has set a tent for the sun,
⁵ which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber,
    and like a strong man runs its course with joy.
⁶ Its rising is from the end of the heavens,
    and its circuit to the end of them;
    and there is nothing hid from its heat.

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect,
    reviving the soul;
the testimony of the Lord is sure,
    making wise the simple;
⁸ the precepts of the Lord are right,
    rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
    enlightening the eyes;
⁹ the fear of the Lord is clean,
    enduring for ever;
the ordinances of the Lord are true,
    and righteous altogether.
¹⁰ More to be desired are they than gold,
    even much fine gold;
sweeter also than honey
    and drippings of the honeycomb.

¹¹ Moreover by them is thy servant warned;
    in keeping them there is great reward.
¹² But who can discern his errors?
    Clear thou me from hidden faults.
¹³ Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins;
    let them not have dominion over me!
Then I shall be blameless,
    and innocent of great transgression.

¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
    be acceptable in thy sight,
    O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

⁴ May he grant you your heart’s desire,
    and fulfil all your plans!
⁵ May we shout for joy over your victory,
    and in the name of our God set up our banners!
May the Lord fulfil all your petitions!

⁶ Now I know that the Lord will help his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with mighty victories by his right hand.
⁷ Some boast of chariots, and some of horses;
    but we boast of the name of the Lord our God.
⁸ They will collapse and fall;
    but we shall rise and stand upright.

⁹ Give victory to the king, O Lord;
    answer us when we call.^[p]

⁸ Your hand will find out all your enemies;
    your right hand will find out those who hate you.
⁹ You will make them as a blazing oven
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath;
    and fire will consume them.
¹⁰ You will destroy their offspring from the earth,
    and their children from among the sons of men.
¹¹ If they plan evil against you,
    if they devise mischief, they will not succeed.
¹² For you will put them to flight;
    you will aim at their faces with your bows.

¹³ Be exalted, O Lord, in thy strength!
    We will sing and praise thy power.

³ Yet thou art holy,
    enthroned on the praises of Israel.
⁴ In thee our fathers trusted;
    they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
⁵ To thee they cried, and were saved;
    in thee they trusted, and were not disappointed.

⁶ But I am a worm, and no man;
    scorned by men, and despised by the people.
⁷ All who see me mock at me,
    they make mouths at me, they wag their heads;
⁸ “He committed his cause to the Lord; let him deliver him,
    let him rescue him, for he delights in him!”

⁹ Yet thou art he who took me from the womb;
    thou didst keep me safe upon my mother’s breasts.
¹⁰ Upon thee was I cast from my birth,
    and since my mother bore me thou hast been my God.
¹¹ Be not far from me,
    for trouble is near
    and there is none to help.

¹² Many bulls encompass me,
    strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
¹³ they open wide their mouths at me,
    like a ravening and roaring lion.

¹⁴ I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are out of joint;
my heart is like wax,
    it is melted within my breast;
¹⁵ my strength is dried up like a potsherd,
    and my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
    thou dost lay me in the dust of death.

¹⁶ Yea, dogs are round about me;
    a company of evildoers encircle me;
    they have pierced^[r] my hands and feet—
¹⁷ I can count all my bones—
    they stare and gloat over me;
¹⁸ they divide my garments among them,
    and for my raiment they cast lots.

¹⁹ But thou, O Lord, be not far off!
    O thou my help, hasten to my aid!
²⁰ Deliver my soul from the sword,
    my life^[s] from the power of the dog!
²¹ Save me from the mouth of the lion,
    my afflicted soul^[t] from the horns of the wild oxen!

²² I will tell of thy name to my brethren;
    in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee:
²³ You who fear the Lord, praise him!
    all you sons of Jacob, glorify him,
    and stand in awe of him, all you sons of Israel!
²⁴ For he has not despised or abhorred
    the affliction of the afflicted;
and he has not hid his face from him,
    but has heard, when he cried to him.

²⁵ From thee comes my praise in the great congregation;
    my vows I will pay before those who fear him.
²⁶ The afflicted^[u] shall eat and be satisfied;
    those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
    May your hearts live for ever!

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember
    and turn to the Lord;
and all the families of the nations
    shall worship before him.^[v]
28 For dominion belongs to the Lord,
    and he rules over the nations.

²⁹ Yea, to him^[w] shall all the proud of the earth bow down;
    before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,
    and he who cannot keep himself alive.
³⁰ Posterity shall serve him;
    men shall tell of the Lord to the coming generation,
³¹ and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,
    that he has wrought it.

⁴ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,^[aa]
    I fear no evil;
for thou art with me;
    thy rod and thy staff,
    they comfort me.

⁵ Thou preparest a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies;
thou anointest my head with oil,
    my cup overflows.
⁶ Surely^[ab] goodness and mercy^[ac] shall follow me
    all the days of my life;
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
    for ever.^[ad]

³ Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
    And who shall stand in his holy place?
⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
    who does not lift up his soul to what is false,
    and does not swear deceitfully.
⁵ He will receive blessing from the Lord,
    and vindication from the God of his salvation.
⁶ Such is the generation of those who seek him,
    who seek the face of the God of Jacob.^[ae]Selah

⁷ Lift up your heads, O gates!
    and be lifted up, O ancient doors!
    that the King of glory may come in.
⁸ Who is the King of glory?
    The Lord, strong and mighty,
    the Lord, mighty in battle!
⁹ Lift up your heads, O gates!
    and be lifted up,^[af] O ancient doors!
    that the King of glory may come in.
¹⁰ Who is this King of glory?
    The Lord of hosts,
    he is the King of glory!Selah

⁴ Make me to know thy ways, O Lord;
    teach me thy paths.
⁵ Lead me in thy truth, and teach me,
    for thou art the God of my salvation;
    for thee I wait all the day long.

⁶ Be mindful of thy mercy, O Lord, and of thy steadfast love,
    for they have been from of old.
⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, or my trangressions;
    according to thy steadfast love remember me,
    for thy goodness’ sake, O Lord!

⁸ Good and upright is the Lord;
    therefore he instructs sinners in the way.
⁹ He leads the humble in what is right,
    and teaches the humble his way.
¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness,
    for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

¹¹ For thy name’s sake, O Lord,
    pardon my guilt, for it is great.
¹² Who is the man that fears the Lord?
    Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.
¹³ He himself shall abide in prosperity,
    and his children shall possess the land.
¹⁴ The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him,
    and he makes known to them his covenant.
¹⁵ My eyes are ever toward the Lord,
    for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

¹⁶ Turn thou to me, and be gracious to me;
    for I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷ Relieve the troubles of my heart,
    and bring me^[ag] out of my distresses.
¹⁸ Consider my affliction and my trouble,
    and forgive all my sins.

¹⁹ Consider how many are my foes,
    and with what violent hatred they hate me.
²⁰ Oh guard my life, and deliver me;
    let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in thee.
²¹ May integrity and uprightness preserve me,
    for I wait for thee.

²² Redeem Israel, O God,
    out of all his troubles.

⁴ I do not sit with false men,
    nor do I consort with dissemblers;
⁵ I hate the company of evildoers,
    and I will not sit with the wicked.

⁶ I wash my hands in innocence,
    and go about thy altar, O Lord,
⁷ singing aloud a song of thanksgiving,
    and telling all thy wondrous deeds.

⁸ O Lord, I love the habitation of thy house,
    and the place where thy glory dwells.
⁹ Sweep me not away with sinners,
    nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
¹⁰ men in whose hands are evil devices,
    and whose right hands are full of bribes.

¹¹ But as for me, I walk in my integrity;
    redeem me, and be gracious to me.
¹² My foot stands on level ground;
    in the great congregation I will bless the Lord.

² When evildoers assail me,
    uttering slanders against me,^[aj]
my adversaries and foes,
    they shall stumble and fall.

³ Though a host encamp against me,
    my heart shall not fear;
though war arise against me,
    yet I will be confident.

⁴ One thing have I asked of the Lord,
    that will I seek after;
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
    all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of the Lord,
    and to inquire in his temple.

⁵ For he will hide me in his shelter
    in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent,
    he will set me high upon a rock.

⁶ And now my head shall be lifted up
    above my enemies round about me;
and I will offer in his tent
    sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the Lord.

⁷ Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud,
    be gracious to me and answer me!
⁸ Thou hast said, “Seek ye my face.”
    My heart says to thee,
“Thy face, Lord, do I seek.”
⁹     Hide not thy face from me.

Turn not thy servant away in anger,
    thou who hast been my help.
Cast me not off, forsake me not,
    O God of my salvation!
¹⁰ For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
    but the Lord will take me up.

¹¹ Teach me thy way, O Lord;
    and lead me on a level path
    because of my enemies.
¹² Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
    for false witnesses have risen against me,
    and they breathe out violence.

¹³ I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord
    in the land of the living!
¹⁴ Wait for the Lord;
    be strong, and let your heart take courage;
    yea, wait for the Lord!

³ Take me not off with the wicked,
    with those who are workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors,
    while mischief is in their hearts.
⁴ Requite them according to their work,
    and according to the evil of their deeds;
requite them according to the work of their hands;
    render them their due reward.
⁵ Because they do not regard the works of the Lord,
    or the work of his hands,
he will break them down and build them up no more.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord!
    for he has heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷ The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    in him my heart trusts;
so I am helped, and my heart exults,
    and with my song I give thanks to him.

⁸ The Lord is the strength of his people,
    he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
⁹ O save thy people, and bless thy heritage;
    be thou their shepherd, and carry them for ever.

³ The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;
    the God of glory thunders,
    the Lord, upon many waters.
⁴ The voice of the Lord is powerful,
    the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

⁵ The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars,
    the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ He makes Lebanon to skip like a calf,
    and Sir′ion like a young wild ox.

⁷ The voice of the Lord flashes forth flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness,
    the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.

⁹ The voice of the Lord makes the oaks to whirl,^[am]
    and strips the forests bare;
    and in his temple all cry, “Glory!”

¹⁰ The Lord sits enthroned over the flood;
    the Lord sits enthroned as king for ever.
¹¹ May the Lord give strength to his people!
    May the Lord bless his people with peace!

⁴ Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints,
    and give thanks to his holy name.
⁵ For his anger is but for a moment,
    and his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may tarry for the night,
    but joy comes with the morning.

⁶ As for me, I said in my prosperity,
    “I shall never be moved.”
⁷ By thy favor, O Lord,
    thou hadst established me as a strong mountain;
thou didst hide thy face,
    I was dismayed.

⁸ To thee, O Lord, I cried;
    and to the Lord I made supplication:
⁹ “What profit is there in my death,
    if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise thee?
    Will it tell of thy faithfulness?
¹⁰ Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me!
    O Lord, be thou my helper!”

¹¹ Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing;
    thou hast loosed my sackcloth
    and girded me with gladness,
¹² that my soul^[ao] may praise thee and not be silent.
    O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.

³ Yea, thou art my rock and my fortress;
    for thy name’s sake lead me and guide me,
⁴ take me out of the net which is hidden for me,
    for thou art my refuge.
⁵ Into thy hand I commit my spirit;
    thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.

⁶ Thou hatest^[ap] those who pay regard to vain idols;
    but I trust in the Lord.
⁷ I will rejoice and be glad for thy steadfast love,
    because thou hast seen my affliction,
    thou hast taken heed of my adversities,
⁸ and hast not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
    thou hast set my feet in a broad place.

⁹ Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    my eye is wasted from grief,
    my soul and my body also.
¹⁰ For my life is spent with sorrow,
    and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery,^[aq]
    and my bones waste away.

¹¹ I am the scorn of all my adversaries,
    a horror^[ar] to my neighbors,
an object of dread to my acquaintances;
    those who see me in the street flee from me.
¹² I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
    I have become like a broken vessel.
¹³ Yea, I hear the whispering of many—
    terror on every side!—
as they scheme together against me,
    as they plot to take my life.

¹⁴ But I trust in thee, O Lord,
    I say, “Thou art my God.”
¹⁵ My times are in thy hand;
    deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors!
¹⁶ Let thy face shine on thy servant;
    save me in thy steadfast love!
¹⁷ Let me not be put to shame, O Lord,
    for I call on thee;
let the wicked be put to shame,
    let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
¹⁸ Let the lying lips be dumb,
    which speak insolently against the righteous
    in pride and contempt.

¹⁹ O how abundant is thy goodness,
    which thou hast laid up for those who fear thee,
and wrought for those who take refuge in thee,
    in the sight of the sons of men!
²⁰ In the covert of thy presence thou hidest them
    from the plots of men;
thou holdest them safe under thy shelter
    from the strife of tongues.

²¹ Blessed be the Lord,
    for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
    when I was beset as in a besieged city.
²² I had said in my alarm,
    “I am driven far^[as] from thy sight.”
But thou didst hear my supplications,
    when I cried to thee for help.

²³ Love the Lord, all you his saints!
    The Lord preserves the faithful,
    but abundantly requites him who acts haughtily.
²⁴ Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
    all you who wait for the Lord!

³ When I declared not my sin, my body wasted away
    through my groaning all day long.
⁴ For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me;
    my strength was dried up^[at] as by the heat of summer.Selah

⁵ I acknowledged my sin to thee,
    and I did not hide my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my trangressions to the Lord”;
    then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin.Selah

⁶ Therefore let every one who is godly
    offer prayer to thee;
at a time of distress,^[au] in the rush of great waters,
    they shall not reach him.
⁷ Thou art a hiding place for me,
    thou preservest me from trouble;
    thou dost encompass me with deliverance.^[av]Selah

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you
    the way you should go;
    I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
⁹ Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
    which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
    else it will not keep with you.

¹⁰ Many are the pangs of the wicked;
    but steadfast love surrounds him who trusts in the Lord.
¹¹ Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
    and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

⁴ For the word of the Lord is upright;
    and all his work is done in faithfulness.
⁵ He loves righteousness and justice;
    the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

⁶ By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
    and all their host by the breath of his mouth.
⁷ He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle;
    he put the deeps in storehouses.

⁸ Let all the earth fear the Lord,
    let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!
⁹ For he spoke, and it came to be;
    he commanded, and it stood forth.

¹⁰ The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nought;
    he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
¹¹ The counsel of the Lord stands for ever,
    the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
¹² Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
    the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!

¹³ The Lord looks down from heaven,
    he sees all the sons of men;
¹⁴ from where he sits enthroned he looks forth
    on all the inhabitants of the earth,
¹⁵ he who fashions the hearts of them all,
    and observes all their deeds.
¹⁶ A king is not saved by his great army;
    a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
¹⁷ The war horse is a vain hope for victory,
    and by its great might it cannot save.

¹⁸ Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him,
    on those who hope in his steadfast love,
¹⁹ that he may deliver their soul from death,
    and keep them alive in famine.

²⁰ Our soul waits for the Lord;
    he is our help and shield.
²¹ Yea, our heart is glad in him,
    because we trust in his holy name.
²² Let thy steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us,
    even as we hope in thee.

⁴ I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
    and delivered me from all my fears.
⁵ Look to him, and be radiant;
    so your^[aw] faces shall never be ashamed.
⁶ This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
    and saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of the Lord encamps
    around those who fear him, and delivers them.
⁸ O taste and see that the Lord is good!
    Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
⁹ O fear the Lord, you his saints,
    for those who fear him have no want!
¹⁰ The young lions suffer want and hunger;
    but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

¹¹ Come, O sons, listen to me,
    I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
¹² What man is there who desires life,
    and covets many days, that he may enjoy good?
¹³ Keep your tongue from evil,
    and your lips from speaking deceit.
¹⁴ Depart from evil, and do good;
    seek peace, and pursue it.

¹⁵ The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
    and his ears toward their cry.
¹⁶ The face of the Lord is against evildoers,
    to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
¹⁷ When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears,
    and delivers them out of all their troubles.
¹⁸ The Lord is near to the brokenhearted,
    and saves the crushed in spirit.

¹⁹ Many are the afflictions of the righteous;
    but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
²⁰ He keeps all his bones;
    not one of them is broken.
²¹ Evil shall slay the wicked;
    and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
²² The Lord redeems the life of his servants;
    none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

⁴ Let them be put to shame and dishonor
    who seek after my life!
Let them be turned back and confounded
    who devise evil against me!
⁵ Let them be like chaff before the wind,
    with the angel of the Lord driving them on!
⁶ Let their way be dark and slippery,
    with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!

⁷ For without cause they hid their net for me;
    without cause they dug a pit^[ax] for my life.
⁸ Let ruin come upon them unawares!
And let the net which they hid ensnare them;
    let them fall therein to ruin!

⁹ Then my soul shall rejoice in the Lord,
    exulting in his deliverance.
¹⁰ All my bones shall say,
    “O Lord, who is like thee,
thou who deliverest the weak
    from him who is too strong for him,
    the weak and needy from him who despoils him?”

¹¹ Malicious witnesses rise up;
    they ask me of things that I know not.
¹² They requite me evil for good;
    my soul is forlorn.
¹³ But I, when they were sick—
    I wore sackcloth,
    I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed^[ay] on my bosom,
¹⁴     as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
I went about as one who laments his mother,
    bowed down and in mourning.

¹⁵ But at my stumbling they gathered in glee,
    they gathered together against me;
cripples whom I knew not
    slandered me without ceasing;
¹⁶ they impiously mocked more and more,^[az]
    gnashing at me with their teeth.

¹⁷ How long, O Lord, wilt thou look on?
    Rescue me from their ravages,
    my life from the lions!
¹⁸ Then I will thank thee in the great congregation;
    in the mighty throng I will praise thee.

¹⁹ Let not those rejoice over me
    who are wrongfully my foes,
and let not those wink the eye
    who hate me without cause.
²⁰ For they do not speak peace,
    but against those who are quiet in the land
    they conceive words of deceit.
²¹ They open wide their mouths against me;
    they say, “Aha, Aha!
    our eyes have seen it!”

²² Thou hast seen, O Lord; be not silent!
    O Lord, be not far from me!
²³ Bestir thyself, and awake for my right,
    for my cause, my God and my Lord!
²⁴ Vindicate me, O Lord, my God, according to thy righteousness;
    and let them not rejoice over me!
²⁵ Let them not say to themselves,
    “Aha, we have our heart’s desire!”
Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up.”

²⁶ Let them be put to shame and confusion altogether
    who rejoice at my calamity!
Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor
    who magnify themselves against me!

²⁷ Let those who desire my vindication
    shout for joy and be glad,
    and say evermore,
“Great is the Lord,
    who delights in the welfare of his servant!”
²⁸ Then my tongue shall tell of thy righteousness
    and of thy praise all the day long.