Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth.

“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground.

Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.

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

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.

“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them; Sinai is now in the sanctuary.

More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?

But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.

Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.

Our Help Is in the Name of the Lord

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side— let Israel now say—

They Have Afflicted Me from My Youth

A Song of Ascents.

“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”— let Israel now say—