⁴ These things I remember,
    as I pour out my soul:
how I went with the throng,^[a]
    and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
    a multitude keeping festival.
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 ⁶ and my God.

My soul is cast down within me;
    therefore I remember you
from the land of Jordan and of Hermon,
    from Mount Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls to deep
    at the thunder of your cataracts;
all your waves and your billows
    have gone over me.
⁸ By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,
    and at night his song is with me,
    a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I say to God, my rock,
    ‘Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I walk about mournfully
    because the enemy oppresses me?’
¹⁰ As with a deadly wound in my body,
    my adversaries taunt me,
while they say to me continually,
    ‘Where is your God?’

¹¹ 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.

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.
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.

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.

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.
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.
⁸ In God we have boasted continually,
    and we will give thanks to your name for ever.Selah

⁹ Yet you have rejected us and abased us,
    and have not gone out with our armies.
¹⁰ You made us turn back from the foe,
    and our enemies have taken spoil for themselves.
¹¹ You have made us like sheep for slaughter,
    and have scattered us among the nations.
¹² You have sold your people for a trifle,
    demanding no high price for them.

¹³ You have made us the taunt of our neighbours,
    the derision and scorn of those around us.
¹⁴ You have made us a byword among the nations,
    a laughing-stock^[b] among the peoples.
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.

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

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

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

⁴ There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
    the holy habitation of the Most High.
⁵ God is in the midst of the city;^[b] it shall not be moved;
    God will help it when the morning dawns.
⁶ The nations are in an uproar, the kingdoms totter;
    he utters his voice, the earth melts.
⁷ The Lord of hosts is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our refuge.^[c]Selah

⁸ Come, behold the works of the Lord;
    see what desolations he has brought on the earth.
⁹ He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
    he breaks the bow, and shatters the spear;
    he burns the shields with fire.
¹⁰ ‘Be still, and know that I am God!
    I am exalted among the nations,
    I am exalted in the earth.’
¹¹ The Lord of hosts is with us;
    the God of Jacob is our refuge.^[d]Selah

³ For my days pass away like smoke,
    and my bones burn like a furnace.
⁴ My heart is stricken and withered like grass;
    I am too wasted to eat my bread.
⁵ Because of my loud groaning
    my bones cling to my skin.
⁶ I am like an owl of the wilderness,
    like a little owl of the waste places.
⁷ I lie awake;
    I am like a lonely bird on the housetop.
⁸ All day long my enemies taunt me;
    those who deride me use my name for a curse.
⁹ For I eat ashes like bread,
    and mingle tears with my drink,
¹⁰ because of your indignation and anger;
    for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
¹¹ My days are like an evening shadow;
    I wither away like grass.

¹² But you, O Lord, are enthroned for ever;
    your name endures to all generations.
¹³ You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
    for it is time to favour it;
    the appointed time has come.
¹⁴ For your servants hold its stones dear,
    and have pity on its dust.
¹⁵ The nations will fear the name of the Lord,
    and all the kings of the earth your glory.
¹⁶ For the Lord will build up Zion;
    he will appear in his glory.
¹⁷ He will regard the prayer of the destitute,
    and will not despise their prayer.

¹⁸ Let this be recorded for a generation to come,
    so that a people yet unborn may praise the Lord:
¹⁹ that he looked down from his holy height,
    from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,
²⁰ to hear the groans of the prisoners,
    to set free those who were doomed to die;
²¹ so that the name of the Lord may be declared in Zion,
    and his praise in Jerusalem,
²² when peoples gather together,
    and kingdoms, to worship the Lord.

²³ He has broken my strength in mid-course;
    he has shortened my days.
²⁴ ‘O my God,’ I say, ‘do not take me away
    at the mid-point of my life,
you whose years endure
    throughout all generations.’

²⁵ Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth,
    and the heavens are the work of your hands.
²⁶ They will perish, but you endure;
    they will all wear out like a garment.
You change them like clothing, and they pass away;
²⁷     but you are the same, and your years have no end.
²⁸ The children of your servants shall live secure;
    their offspring shall be established in your presence.