Psalm 119-150

Tree of Life Version

¹ Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the Torah of Adonai.
² Happy are those who keep His testimonies,
who seek Him with a whole heart,
³ who also do no injustice, but walk in His ways.
⁴ You have commanded that Your precepts
be kept diligently.
⁵ Oh that my ways were steadfast
to observe Your decrees!
⁶ Then I would not be ashamed,
when I consider all Your mitzvot.
⁷ I will praise You with an upright heart
as I learn Your righteous judgments.
⁸ I will observe Your statutes.
Never abandon me utterly!

⁹ How can a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to Your word.
¹⁰ With my whole heart have I sought You
—let me not stray from Your mitzvot.
¹¹ I have treasured Your word in my heart,
so I might not sin against You.
¹² Blessed are You, Adonai.
Teach me Your statutes.
¹³ With my lips I rehearse
all the rulings of Your mouth.
¹⁴ I rejoice in the way of Your testimonies
above all wealth.
¹⁵ I will meditate on Your precepts,
and regard Your ways.
¹⁶ I will delight in Your decrees.
I will never forget Your word.

¹⁷ Do good to Your servant
that I may live and keep Your word.
¹⁸ Open my eyes, so I may behold
wonders from Your Torah.
¹⁹ I am a temporary dweller on earth—
do not hide Your mitzvot from me.
²⁰ My soul is crushed with longing
for Your judgments at all times.
²¹ You rebuke the proud, who are cursed,
who wander from Your mitzvot.
²² Take scorn and contempt away from me,
for I have kept Your testimonies.
²³ Though princes sit and talk against me,
Your servant meditates on Your decrees.
²⁴ For Your testimonies are my delight—
they are also my counselors.

²⁵ My soul clings to the dust.
Revive me according to Your word!
²⁶ I told of my ways and You answered me.
Teach me Your statutes.
²⁷ Help me discern the way of Your precepts,
so I may meditate on Your wonders.
²⁸ My soul weeps with grief.
Make me stand firm with Your word.
²⁹ Turn me away from the deceitful way,
and be gracious to me with Your Torah.
³⁰ I have chosen the way of faithfulness.
I have set my heart on Your judgments.
³¹ I cling to Your testimonies.
Adonai, do not put me to shame!
³² I run the course of Your mitzvot,
for You open wide my heart.

³³ Teach me the way of Your decrees, Adonai,
and I will follow them to the end.
³⁴ Give me understanding,
that I may keep Your Torah
and observe it with all my heart.
³⁵ Help me walk in the path of Your mitzvot—
for I delight in it.
³⁶ Turn my heart to Your testimonies
and not to dishonest gain.
³⁷ Turn my eyes away from gazing at vanity
but revive me in Your ways.
³⁸ Fulfill Your word to Your servant,
which leads to reverence for You.
³⁹ Make the disgrace I dread pass away,
for Your judgments are good.
⁴⁰ Behold, I long for Your precepts.
Revive me by Your righteousness.

⁴¹ May Your lovingkindnesses come to me, Adonai—
Your salvation according to Your word—
⁴² so I may answer the one taunting me,
for I trust in Your word.
⁴³ Never snatch out of my mouth a word of truth,
for I hope in Your judgments.
⁴⁴ So I may always keep Your Torah,
forever and ever,
⁴⁵ and walk about in freedom.
For I have sought Your precepts.
⁴⁶ I will speak of Your testimonies
before kings, and never be ashamed.
⁴⁷ I delight in Your mitzvot,
    which I love.
⁴⁸ I reach out my hands for Your mitzvot,
    which I love,
and meditate on Your decrees.

⁴⁹ Remember the word to Your servant,
on which You have made me hope.
⁵⁰ My comfort in my affliction is this:
Your word has kept me alive.
⁵¹ The arrogant have viciously ridiculed me,
yet I did not turn away from Your Torah.
⁵² I remember Your judgments from of old,
Adonai, and comfort myself.
⁵³ Burning indignation grips me,
because of the wicked who forsake Your Torah.
⁵⁴ Your decrees have become my songs
in the house where I dwell.
⁵⁵ In the night I remember Your Name, Adonai,
and keep watching over Your Torah.
⁵⁶ This is my own:
that I keep Your precepts.

⁵⁷ Adonai is my portion.
I promised to guard Your words.
⁵⁸ I have entreated Your favor with all my heart.
Be gracious to me according to Your word.
⁵⁹ I have considered my ways
and turned my feet back to Your testimonies.
⁶⁰ I hasten and do not delay
to obey Your mitzvot.
⁶¹ The ropes of the wicked are coiled around me,
but I did not forget Your Torah.
⁶² At midnight I rise to praise You,
because of Your righteous rulings.
⁶³ I am a companion of all who fear You,
of those who observe Your precepts.
⁶⁴ The earth is full of Your lovingkindness.
Adonai—teach me Your decrees.

⁶⁵ You do good to Your servant,
Adonai, according to Your word.
⁶⁶ Teach me good sense and knowledge,
for I trusted in Your mitzvot.
⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I went astray,
but now I keep Your word.
⁶⁸ You are good and keep doing good—
teach me Your decrees.
⁶⁹ Though the proud smeared a lie on me,
with all my heart I keep Your precepts.
⁷⁰ Their minds are insensible,
but Your Torah is my delight.
⁷¹ It is good for me that I was afflicted,
so that I may learn Your decrees.
⁷² The Torah from Your mouth is better to me
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

⁷³ Your hands have made me and formed me.
Give me understanding that I may learn Your mitzvot.
⁷⁴ Those in awe of You see me and rejoice,
because I put my hope in Your word.
⁷⁵ I know, Adonai, Your judgments are just.
In faithfulness You have afflicted me.
⁷⁶ May Your lovingkindness comfort me,
according to Your promise to Your servant.
⁷⁷ Let Your tender mercies reach me,
Let me live, for Your Torah is my delight.
⁷⁸ May the proud be put to shame
for wronging me with a lie,
but I will meditate on Your precepts.
⁷⁹ Let those in awe of You return to me—
those who know Your testimonies.
⁸⁰ My heart will have integrity in following Your decrees,
so that I would not be ashamed.

⁸¹ My soul faints with longing for Your salvation,
but I still hope in Your word.
⁸² My eyes are worn out longing for Your promise,
    saying, “When will You comfort me?”
⁸³ Though I became like a wineskin dried in smoke,
I do not forget Your decrees.
⁸⁴ How many are the days of Your servant?
When will You execute judgment on my persecutors?
⁸⁵ The proud have dug pits for me—
that is not in accord with Your Torah!
⁸⁶ All Your mitzvot are faithful.
They persecute me with a lie—help me!
⁸⁷ They almost finished me off on earth.
But I—I will not forsake Your precepts.
⁸⁸ Revive me with Your lovingkindness,
so I may keep Your mouth’s testimony.

⁸⁹ Forever, Adonai,
Your word stands firm in the heavens.
⁹⁰ Your faithfulness endures from generation to generation.
You established the earth, and it stands.
⁹¹ Your judgments stand today,
for all things are Your servants.
⁹² If Your Torah had not been my delight,
I would have perished in my affliction.
⁹³ I will never forget Your precepts.
For with them You have kept me alive.
⁹⁴ I am Yours, save me!
For I have sought out Your precepts.
⁹⁵ The wicked wait for me to destroy me.
But I will study Your testimonies.
⁹⁶ I have seen a limit to all perfection,
yet Your commandment is boundless.

⁹⁷ O how I love Your Torah!
It is my meditation all day.
⁹⁸ Your mitzvot make me wiser than my enemies
—for they are mine forever.
⁹⁹ I have more insight than all my teachers,
for Your testimonies are my meditation.
¹⁰⁰ I have gained more understanding than all my elders,
for I have kept Your precepts.
¹⁰¹ I kept my feet from every evil way,
in order to follow Your word.
¹⁰² I do not turn away from Your rulings,
for You Yourself have taught me.
¹⁰³ How sweet is Your word to my taste—
yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
¹⁰⁴ From Your precepts I get discernment,
therefore I hate every false way.

¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.^[a]
106 I have sworn and confirmed
to observe Your righteous rulings.
¹⁰⁷ I am severely afflicted.
Keep me alive, Adonai, according to Your word.
¹⁰⁸ Please accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, Adonai,
and teach me Your rulings.
¹⁰⁹ My soul is continually in danger,
yet I have not forgotten Your Torah.
¹¹⁰ The wicked have set a snare for me,
yet I did not stray from Your precepts.
¹¹¹ Your testimonies I have as a heritage
forever, for they are my heart’s joy.
¹¹² I turned my heart to do Your decrees,
forever, to the very end.

¹¹³ I hate double-minded ones,
but Your Torah I love.
¹¹⁴ You are my hiding place and my shield
—in Your word I hope.
¹¹⁵ Away from me, evildoers,
so I may keep the mitzvot of my God!
¹¹⁶ Sustain me according to Your word, so I may live,
and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
¹¹⁷ Support me and I will be saved,
and study Your decrees continually.
¹¹⁸ You despise all who wander from Your decrees,
for their deceitfulness is in vain.
¹¹⁹ All the wicked of the earth You remove like dross.
Therefore I love Your testimonies.
¹²⁰ My flesh shudders for fear of You,
and I am in awe of Your judgments.

¹²¹ I did what is just and right.
Do not leave me to my oppressors.
¹²² Guarantee Your servant’s well-being.
Do not let arrogant ones oppress me.
¹²³ My eyes fail, longing for Your salvation
and for Your righteous word.
¹²⁴ Deal with Your servant as befits Your lovingkindness,
and teach me Your statutes.
¹²⁵ I am Your servant, give me discernment,
so I may understand Your testimonies.
¹²⁶ It is time for Adonai to act—
they have violated Your Torah!
¹²⁷ Therefore I love Your mitzvot
more than gold, more than pure gold.
¹²⁸ Therefore I esteem all Your precepts as right in every way
—every false way I hate.

¹²⁹ Your testimonies are wonderful.
Therefore my soul obeys them.
¹³⁰ The unfolding of Your words gives light,
giving understanding to the simple.
¹³¹ I opened my mouth wide and panted,
for I longed for Your mitzvot.
¹³² Turn to me and be gracious to me,
as is fitting to those who love Your Name.
¹³³ Direct my footsteps in Your word,
and let no iniquity get mastery over me.
¹³⁴ Redeem me from human oppression,
and I will keep Your precepts.
¹³⁵ Make Your face shine on Your servant,
and teach me Your decrees.
¹³⁶ Streams of water run down from my eyes,
because they do not observe Your Torah.

¹³⁷ Righteous are You, Adonai,
and Your judgments are upright.
¹³⁸ You have commanded righteousness,
Your testimonies, and great faithfulness.
¹³⁹ My zeal has consumed me,
because my foes forgot Your words.
¹⁴⁰ Your word is thoroughly refined,
and Your servant loves it.
¹⁴¹ I am insignificant and despised,
yet I have not forgotten Your precepts.
¹⁴² Your justice is righteousness forever,
and Your Torah is truth.
¹⁴³ Trouble and anguish have overtaken me,
yet Your mitzvot are my delight.
¹⁴⁴ Your testimonies are righteous forever
—make me understand, so I may live.

¹⁴⁵ I cried out with all my heart,
“Answer me, Adonai!
I will keep Your decrees.”
¹⁴⁶ I cried out to You, “Save me,
and I will keep Your testimonies.”
¹⁴⁷ I am up before dawn, crying for help—
I put my hope in Your word.
¹⁴⁸ My eyes are up before every night watch,
as I meditate on Your word.
¹⁴⁹ Hear my voice with Your lovingkindness.
Revive me, Adonai, with Your judgments.
¹⁵⁰ Pursuers of wicked schemes draw near—
they are far from Your Torah.
¹⁵¹ You are near, Adonai,
and all Your mitzvot are truth.
¹⁵² Long ago I learned from Your testimonies
that You founded them firmly forever.

¹⁵³ See my affliction and rescue me,
for I do not forget Your Torah.
¹⁵⁴ Defend my cause and redeem me.
Restore my life through Your word.
¹⁵⁵ Salvation is far from the wicked,
for they do not seek after Your decrees.
¹⁵⁶ Great are Your mercies, Adonai.
Restore my life with Your judgments.
¹⁵⁷ Many are my persecutors and my foes.
Yet I do not turn from Your testimonies.
¹⁵⁸ I see the treacherous and loathe them,
because they do not keep Your word.
¹⁵⁹ See how I loved Your precepts.
Restore my life, Adonai, with Your lovingkindness.
¹⁶⁰ Truth is the essence of Your word,
and all Your righteous rulings are eternal.

¹⁶¹ Princes persecute me for no reason,
but my heart is in awe of Your words.
¹⁶² I rejoice in Your word,
as one who finds great spoil.
¹⁶³ I hate and abhor falsehood,
but Your Torah I love.
¹⁶⁴ Seven times a day I praise You,
because of Your righteous judgments.
¹⁶⁵ Great peace have they who love Your Torah,
and nothing causes them to stumble.
¹⁶⁶ I hope for Your salvation, Adonai,
and do Your mitzvot.
¹⁶⁷ My soul has observed Your testimonies
and I love them exceedingly.
¹⁶⁸ I observe Your precepts and Your laws,
for all my ways are before You.

¹⁶⁹ Let my cry come to You, Adonai.
Grant me understanding by Your word.
¹⁷⁰ Let my supplication come before You.
Deliver me, according to Your promise.
¹⁷¹ My lips utter praise,
for You teach me Your statutes.
¹⁷² My tongue sings of Your word,
for all Your mitzvot are righteous.
¹⁷³ Let Your hand be ready to help me,
for I have chosen Your precepts.
¹⁷⁴ I long for Your deliverance, Adonai,
and Your Torah is my delight.
¹⁷⁵ Let my soul live and praise You,
and may Your rulings help me.
¹⁷⁶ I have strayed like a lost sheep—seek Your servant.
For I did not forget Your mitzvot.

¹ A Song of Ascents.
In my trouble I cried out to Adonai,
    and He answered me.
² Adonai, deliver my soul from lying lips,
from a deceitful tongue.
³ What can be given to you,
and what more can be done to you, O deceitful tongue?—
⁴ sharp arrows of the mighty,
    with burning coals of a broom tree!
⁵ Woe to me, for I sojourn in Meshech,
for I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
⁶ My soul has too long dwelt
with those who hate shalom.
⁷ I am for shalom and thus I speak,
but they are for war!

¹ A Song of Ascents.
I will lift up my eyes to the mountains—
from where does my help come?
² My help comes from Adonai,
Maker of heaven and earth.
³ He will not let your foot slip.
Your Keeper will not slumber.
⁴ Behold, the Keeper of Israel
neither slumbers nor sleeps.
⁵ Adonai is your Keeper.
Adonai is your shadow at your right hand.
⁶ The sun will not strike you by day,
nor the moon by night.
⁷ Adonai will protect you from all evil.
He will guard your life.
⁸ Adonai will watch over your coming and your going
from this time forth and forevermore.

¹ A Song of Ascents. Of David.
I rejoiced when they said to me,
“Let us go to the House of Adonai.”
² Our feet are standing in your gates, Jerusalem—
³ Jerusalem, built as a city
joined together.
⁴ There the tribes go up,
the tribes of Adonai
—as a testimony to Israel—
to praise the Name of Adonai.
⁵ For there thrones for judgment are set up,
the thrones of the house of David.
⁶ Pray for the peace of Jerusalem—
“May those who love you be at peace!
⁷ May there be shalom within your walls—
quietness within your palaces.”
⁸ For the sake of my brothers and friends,
I now say: “Shalom be within you.”
⁹ For the sake of the House of Adonai our God,
I will seek your good.

¹ A Song of Ascents.
To You I lift up my eyes—
You enthroned in the heavens.
² Behold, as the eyes of slaves to the hand of their master,
as the eyes of a slave-girl to the hand of her mistress—
so our eyes look to Adonai our God, till He shows us favor.
³ Show us favor, Adonai, show us favor!
For we have endured much contempt.
⁴ Our soul has had enough
of the scorn of those at ease,
the contempt of the proud.

¹ A Song of Ascents. Of David.
“Had Adonai not been on our side”
—let Israel now say—
² “Had Adonai not been on our side,
when men rose up against us,
³ then they would have swallowed us alive,
when their wrath burned against us.
⁴ Then the waters would have engulfed us,
the torrent would have swept over our soul,
⁵ then the raging waters
would have swept over our soul.”

¹ A Song of Ascents.
Those who trust in Adonai are like Mount Zion—
it cannot be moved, but endures forever.
² As the mountains are around Jerusalem,
so Adonai is all around His people,
both now and forever.
³ For a scepter of wickedness will not rest
over the land of the righteous—
lest the righteous set their hands to evil.
⁴ Do good, Adonai, to the good,
and to those upright in their hearts.
⁵ But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
Adonai will lead them away with evildoers.
Shalom be upon Israel.

¹ A Song of Ascents.
When Adonai restored the captives of Zion,
it was as if we were dreaming.
² Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with a song of joy.
Then they said among the nations,
“Adonai has done great things for them.”
³ Adonai has done great things for us
    —we are joyful!
⁴ Restore us from captivity, Adonai,
like streams in the Negev.
⁵ Those who sow in tears
will reap with a song of joy.
⁶ Whoever keeps going out weeping,
    carrying his bag of seed,
will surely come back with a song of joy,
    carrying his sheaves.

¹ A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon.
Unless Adonai builds the house,
    the builders labor in vain.
Unless Adonai watches over the city,
    the watchman stands guard in vain.
² In vain you rise up early and stay up late,
    eating the bread of toil—
for He provides for His beloved ones even in their sleep.

¹ A Song of Ascents.
Happy is everyone in awe of Adonai,
    who walks in His ways,
² for you will eat the labor of your hands.
You will be blessed
and it will be good for you.
³ Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house.
Your children will be like olive saplings around your table.
⁴ Behold, thus will the man be blessed
who fears Adonai.
⁵ May Adonai bless you out of Zion,
and may you see Jerusalem in prosperity
    all the days of your life,
⁶ and may you live to see your children’s children.

¹ A Song of Ascents.
“How many times they have been hostile to me,
even from my youth”—let Israel now say—
² “How greatly they have been
hostile to me, even from my youth.
Yet they have not prevailed against me.
³ Plowmen plowed on my back—
they made their furrows long!”
⁴ Adonai is righteous—
He has cut the ropes of the wicked.
⁵ May all who hate Zion
be driven back in disgrace.
⁶ Let them be like grass on the roofs,
which withers before it springs up—
⁷ with it a reaper cannot fill his hand,
nor can a binder of sheaves fill his lap.
⁸ So the passersby may never say:
“The blessing of Adonai be upon you—
    we bless you in the Name of Adonai.”

¹ A Song of Ascents.
Out of the depths I cry to You, Adonai!
² Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive to the sound of my supplications.
³ If You, Adonai, kept a record of iniquities—
my Lord, who could stand?
⁴ For with You there is forgiveness,
so You may be revered.
⁵ I wait for Adonai, my soul waits,
and in His word I hope.
⁶ My soul waits for my Lord,
more than watchmen for the morning,
watchmen for the morning.
⁷ O Israel, wait for Adonai.
For with Adonai there is lovingkindness,
and with Him is full redemption,
⁸ and He will redeem Israel
    from all its iniquities.

¹ A Song of Ascents. Of David.
Adonai, my heart is not proud,
nor my eyes lofty,
nor do I go after things too great
or too difficult for me.
² But I have calmed and quieted my soul—
like a weaned child with his mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
³ O Israel, put your hope in Adonai
from this time forth and forever.

¹ A Song of Ascents.
Adonai, remember David,
all his afflictions,
² and how he swore to Adonai,
vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
³ “I will not enter the tent of my house
    nor lie on my bed,
⁴ nor will I will give sleep to my eyes,
    nor slumber to my eyelids,
⁵ till I find a place for Adonai,
    a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”

¹ A Song of Ascents. Of David.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
for brothers to dwell together in unity!
² It is like the precious oil upon the head,
coming down upon the beard—Aaron’s beard—
coming down on the collar of his robes.
³ It is like the dew of Hermon,
coming down upon the mountains of Zion.
For there Adonai commanded the blessing
—life forevermore!

¹ A Song of Ascents.
Behold, bless Adonai, all servants of Adonai,
who stand by night in the House of Adonai.
² Lift up your hands to the Sanctuary
and bless Adonai.
³ May Adonai bless you out of Zion—
Maker of heaven and earth.

¹ Halleluyah! Praise the Name of Adonai.
Give praise, O servants of Adonai—
² standing in the House of Adonai,
in the courts of the House of our God.
³ Praise Adonai, for Adonai is good.
Sing praises to His Name, for it is delightful.
⁴ For Adonai has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel as His treasured possession.^[e]
5 For I have known that Adonai is great,
and that our Lord is above all gods.
⁶ Whatever Adonai pleases, He does,
in heaven and in earth,
in the seas and in all deeps.
⁷ He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain.
He brings wind out of His storehouses.

¹ Praise Adonai, for He is good,
for His lovingkindness endures forever.
² Praise the God of gods,
for His lovingkindness endures forever.
³ Praise the Lord of lords,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
⁴ who alone did great wonders,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
⁵ who made the heavens by wisdom,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
⁶ who spread the earth on the waters,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
⁷ who made great lights,
for His lovingkindness endures forever—
⁸ the sun to rule by day,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
⁹ the moon and stars to rule by night,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹⁰ who struck Egypt in their firstborn,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹¹ and led out Israel from among them,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹² with a strong hand and outstretched arm,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹³ who cut the Sea of Reeds into parts,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹⁴ and made Israel pass through the midst of it,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹⁵ but hurled Pharaoh and his army into the Sea of Reeds,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹⁶ who led His people through the desert,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹⁷ who struck down great kings,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹⁸ and slew mighty kings,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
¹⁹ Sihon, king of the Amorites,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
²⁰ and Og, king of Bashan,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
²¹ and gave their land for an inheritance,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
²² an inheritance for Israel His servant,
for His lovingkindness endures forever.
²³ He remembered us in our lowly estate,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
²⁴ and separated between us
and He delivered us from our adversaries,
for His lovingkindness endures forever,
²⁵ who gives food to all flesh,
for His lovingkindness endures forever.
²⁶ Praise the God of heaven,
for His lovingkindness endures forever!

¹ By the rivers of Babylon,
we sat down and wept,
when we remembered Zion.
² On the willows there
we hung up our harps.
³ For there our captors demanded songs
and our tormentors asked for joy:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
⁴ How can we sing a song of Adonai in a foreign land?
⁵ If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand wither.
⁶ May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I cease to remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem above my chief joy.
⁷ Remember, Adonai, the children of Edom,
what they said on the day Jerusalem fell:
“Strip her, strip her to her very foundation!”
⁸ O daughter of Babylon, the devastated one,
happy is the one who repays you
as you have paid us.
⁹ Happy is the one who seizes your little ones
and dashes them upon the rock.

¹ Of David.
I praise You with all my heart.
In the presence of the mighty I will sing praises to You.
² I bow down toward Your holy Temple
and praise Your Name for Your love and Your faithfulness.
For You—magnified above all Your Name and Your word.
³ On the day I called, You answered me.
You made me bold with strength in my soul.
⁴ All the kings of the earth will praise You, Adonai,
when they hear Your mouth’s speech.
⁵ So they will sing of the ways of Adonai,
for great is the glory of Adonai.
⁶ For though Adonai is exalted,
yet He looks upon the lowly,
but the haughty He knows from afar.
⁷ Though I walk amid trouble,
You revive me.
You stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
and Your right hand delivers me.
⁸ Adonai will fulfill His purpose for me.
Your lovingkindness, Adonai, endures forever.
Do not abandon the work of Your hands.

¹ For the music director: a psalm of David.
Adonai, You searched me and know me.
² Whenever I sit down or stand up, You know it.
You discern my thinking from afar.
³ You observe my journeying and my resting
and You are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, Adonai, You know all about it.
⁵ You hemmed me in behind and before,
and laid Your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
⁷ Where can I go from Your Ruach?
Where can I flee from Your presence?
⁸ If I go up to heaven, You are there,
and if I make my bed in Sheol,
look, You are there too.
⁹ If I take the wings of the dawn
and settle on the other side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there Your hand will lead me,
and Your right hand will lay hold of me.
¹¹ If I say: “Surely darkness covers me,
night keeps light at a distance from me,”
¹² even darkness is not dark for You,
    and night is as bright as day—
    darkness and light are alike.
¹³ For You have created my conscience.
You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise You, for I am awesomely, wonderfully made!
Wonderful are Your works—
and my soul knows that very well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from You
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw me when I was unformed,
and in Your book were written the days that were formed—
when not one of them had come to be.
¹⁷ How precious are Your thoughts, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand!
When I awake, I am still with You.

¹ For the music director: a psalm of David.
² Rescue me, Adonai, from the evil man.
Protect me from the violent men—
³ who devise evil in their heart—
    every day they stir up wars.
⁴ They sharpen their tongue like a serpent’s
—viper’s venom is under their lips.^[f] Selah
⁵ Keep me safe, Adonai, from the clutches of the wicked.
Protect me from the man of violence who planned to push me off my feet.
⁶ The proud have hidden a trap and cords for me.
They spread out a net by the path.
They set snares for me. Selah
⁷ I said to Adonai: “You are my God!”
Hear, Adonai, the sound of my supplications.
⁸ God my Lord, the strength of my deliverance,
You shield my head in the day of battle.
⁹ Grant not, Adonai, the desires of the wicked.
Do not let their evil plan succeed,
or they will exalt themselves. Selah
¹⁰ As for the head of those surrounding me,
may the mischief of their lips overwhelm them.
¹¹ Let burning coals fall upon them.
May they be cast into the fire, into deep pits,
never to rise again.^[g]
12 May a slanderer not endure in the land.
May calamity hunt down a violent man.
¹³ I know Adonai will vindicate the poor,
and secure justice for the needy.
¹⁴ Surely, the righteous ones will praise Your name.
The upright will dwell in Your presence.

¹ A psalm of David.
Adonai, I call to You—come quickly to me!
Hear my voice when I call to You.
² May my prayer be set before You like incense.
May the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
³ Set a guard, Adonai, over my mouth.
Keep watch over the door of my lips.
⁴ Let not my heart turn to any evil thing,
to practice deeds of wickedness
with men that work iniquity,
nor let me eat of their delicacies.
⁵ Let the righteous strike me—it is kindness.
Let him correct me—it is oil on my head
—my head will not refuse it.
Yet still my prayer is against their wickedness.
⁶ Their judges are thrown down from a cliff.
Then they will hear my words, since they are sweet.
⁷ As when one plows and breaks open the earth,
so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
⁸ For my eyes are toward You, God my Lord.
In You I have taken refuge—do not expose my soul.
⁹ Keep me from the jaws of the trap they have laid for me,
and from the snares of the evildoers.
¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.

¹ A contemplative poem of David, when he was in the cave, a prayer.
² I cry aloud with my voice to Adonai.
With my voice I seek favor from Adonai.
³ I pour out my complaint before Him,
before Him I tell my trouble.
⁴ When my spirit grows faint within me,
You know my path.
In the way where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.
⁵ Look at my right hand and see,
for no one cares about me.
I have no refuge—
no one cares for my soul.
⁶ I have cried out to You, Adonai.
I said: “You are my refuge,
    my portion in the land of the living.”
⁷ Listen to my cry,
    for I am brought very low.
Rescue me from my persecutors,
    for they are too strong for me.
⁸ Bring my soul out of prison,
    so I may praise Your Name.
The righteous will triumph through me,
    for You will reward me.

¹ A psalm of David.
Hear my prayer, Adonai,
give ear to my petitions.
In Your faithfulness and Your righteousness,
answer me!
² Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for in Your eyes no one living is righteous.
³ For an enemy pursues my soul.
He crushes my life down to the ground.
He makes me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.
⁴ So my spirit grows faint within me.
My heart is shocked within me.
⁵ I remember the days of old.
I meditate on all You have done.
I ponder the work of Your hands.
⁶ I spread forth my hands to You.
My soul longs for You as a parched land. Selah
⁷ Answer me speedily, Adonai—my spirit fails.
Hide not Your face from me,
lest I become like those who go down into the Pit.
⁸ Make me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning,
for in You I trust.
Show me the way I should go,
    for to You I lift up my soul.
⁹ Deliver me from my enemies, Adonai.
I hide myself in You.
¹⁰ Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God.
Let Your good Ruach lead me on level ground.
¹¹ For Your Name’s sake, Adonai, revive me.
In Your justice bring my soul out of trouble.
¹² In Your mercy cut off my enemies
and destroy all who harass my soul,
for I am Your servant.

¹ Of David.
Blessed be Adonai my Rock—
who trains my hands for war,
my fingers for battle.
² He is my lovingkindness, my fortress,
my strong tower, and my deliverer,
my shield, in whom I take refuge,
who subdues my people under me.
³ Adonai, what is man, that You take note of him?
Or the son of man, that You consider him?^[h]
4 Man is like a breath—
his days are like a passing shadow.
⁵ Adonai, part Your heavens and come down.
Touch the mountains, so they smoke.
⁶ Flash forth lightning and scatter them.
Send out Your arrows and confuse them.
⁷ Stretch forth Your hands from on high.
Snatch me, deliver me out of deep waters,
    out of the hand of foreigners,
⁸ whose mouth speaks falsehood,
whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
⁹ God, I sing a new song to You, on a ten-string harp
I sing praises to You—
¹⁰ who gives salvation to kings,
who rescues Your servant David from the evil sword.
¹¹ Snatch me, deliver me
out of the hand of foreigners,
whose mouth speaks falsehood,
whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.
¹² Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth,
our daughters like corner pillars carved for the construction of a palace.
¹³ Our storehouses are full,
supplying every kind of produce.
Our flocks increase by thousands
and ten thousands in our fields.
¹⁴ Our oxen bear a heavy load.
There is no breach,
no going into captivity,
no outcry in our streets.
¹⁵ Happy are such a people!
Blessed are the people whose God is Adonai!

¹ A psalm of praise. Of David.
I will exalt You, my God, the King,
and I will bless Your Name forever and ever.
² Every day I will bless You,
and praise Your Name forever and ever!
³ Great is Adonai, and greatly to be praised
—His greatness is unsearchable.
⁴ One generation will praise Your works
to another and declare Your mighty acts.
⁵ I will meditate on the glorious splendor
of Your majesty and Your wonders.
⁶ They will speak of the might of Your awesome deeds,
and I will proclaim Your greatness.
⁷ They will pour out the renown of Your great goodness,
and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.
⁸ Adonai is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and great in lovingkindness.
⁹ Adonai is good to all.
He has compassion on all His creatures.
¹⁰ All Your works praise You, Adonai,
and Your kedoshim bless You.
¹¹ They declare the glory of Your kingdom
and speak of Your might,
¹² to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts
and the glory of the majesty of His kingdom.
¹³ Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages,
and Your dominion endures from generation to generation.

¹ Halleluyah! Praise Adonai, O my soul!
² I will praise Adonai all my life.
I will praise my God yet again.
³ Do not put your trust in princes—
in man, in whom there is no salvation.
⁴ His breath departs,
he returns to his dust.
In that very day his plans perish.
⁵ Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in Adonai his God,
⁶ who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps truth forever,
⁷ who executes justice for the oppressed,
who gives bread to the hungry.
Adonai sets the prisoners free.
⁸ Adonai opens the eyes of the blind.^[i]
Adonai raises up those who are bowed down.
Adonai loves the righteous.
⁹ Adonai protects outsiders,
upholds the fatherless and the widow,
but thwarts the way of the wicked.
¹⁰ Adonai will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, from generation to generation.
Halleluyah!

¹ Halleluyah!
How good it is to sing praises to our God.
How pleasant and fitting is praise.
² Adonai builds up Jerusalem.
He gathers together the exiles of Israel.
³ He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
⁴ He determines the number of the stars.
He gives them all their names.
⁵ Great is our Lord and mighty in power—
His understanding is infinite!
⁶ Adonai upholds the humble.
He brings the wicked to the ground.
⁷ Sing to Adonai with thanksgiving.
Sing praises to our God on the harp.
⁸ He covers the sky with clouds.
He provides rain for the earth.
He makes grass sprout on the hills.
⁹ He gives food to the cattle
and to the young ravens which cry.
¹⁰ He delights not in the horse’s strength,
nor takes pleasure in a man’s legs.
¹¹ Adonai delights in those who revere Him,
in those who trust in His lovingkindness.

¹ Halleluyah!
Praise Adonai from the heavens!
Praise Him in the highest!
² Praise Him all His angels!
Praise Him all His armies.
³ Praise Him, sun and moon! 
Praise Him, all stars of light.
⁴ Praise Him, highest heavens,
and waters above the heavens.
⁵ Let them praise the Name of Adonai,
for He commanded and they were created.
⁶ He set them in place forever and ever.
He made a decree that will never pass away.
⁷ Praise Adonai from the earth,
sea monsters and all depths,
⁸ fire and hail, snow and vapor,
    storm wind doing His bidding,
⁹ mountains and all hills,
    fruit trees and all cedars,
¹⁰ beasts and all cattle,
    crawling things and winged birds,
¹¹ kings of the earth and all peoples,
    princes and all rulers of earth,
¹² both young men and maidens,
    old men and children.
¹³ Let them praise the Name of Adonai,
for His Name alone is exalted.
His glory is above earth and heaven.
¹⁴ He has raised up a horn for His people,
a praise for all His kedoshim,^[j]
for the children of Israel—
    a people near to Him.
Halleluyah!

¹ Halleluyah! Sing to Adonai a new song,
His praise in the assembly of the kedoshim.
² Let Israel rejoice in its Maker.
Let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
³ Let them praise His Name with dancing.
Let them sing praises to Him with tambourine and harp.
⁴ For Adonai takes pleasure in His people.
He crowns the humble with salvation.
⁵ Let the kedoshim exult in glory.
Let them sing for joy on their beds.
⁶ Let God’s high praises be in their mouth
and a two-edged sword in their hand—
⁷ to execute vengeance upon the nations
    and rebukes on the peoples,
⁸ to bind their kings with chains
    and their nobles with fetters of iron,
⁹ to carry out the sentence decreed—
    this is the glory of all His kedoshim.
Halleluyah!

¹ Halleluyah! Praise God in His Sanctuary!
Praise Him in His mighty expanse.
² Praise Him for His acts of power.
Praise Him for His enormous greatness.