Book of Common Prayer

⁴ I have not sat with the worthless,
    nor will I go with hypocrites.
⁵ I have hated the congregation of evildoers,
    and will not sit with the wicked.
⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence;
    thus I will go around Your altar, O Lord,
⁷ that I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,
    and tell of all Your wondrous works.
⁸ Lord, I have loved the refuge of Your house,
    and the place where Your honor dwells.
⁹ Do not gather my soul with sinners,
    nor my life with murderers,
¹⁰ in whose hands is wickedness,
    and their right hand is full of bribes.
¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in my integrity;
    redeem me and be gracious to me.

¹² My foot stands in an even place;
    with the congregations I will bless the Lord.

³ Do not draw me away with the wicked
    and with the workers of iniquity,
who speak peace to their neighbors,
    but mischief is in their hearts.
⁴ Give them according to their deeds,
    and according to the wickedness of their endeavors;
give them according to the work of their hands;
    return to them what they deserve.

⁵ Because they do not regard the works of the Lord,
    nor the work of His hands,
He will destroy them
    and not build them up.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord,
    because He has heard the voice of my supplications.
⁷ The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    my heart trusted in Him, and I was helped;
therefore my heart rejoices,
    and with my song I will thank Him.

⁸ The Lord is the strength of His people,
    and He is the saving strength of His anointed.
⁹ Save Your people,
    and bless Your inheritance;
    feed them and lift them up forever.

² For they flatter themselves in their own eyes,
    that their iniquity cannot be found out and hated.
³ The words of their mouth are wickedness and deceit;
    they have ceased to be wise and to do good.
⁴ They devise mischief on their bed;
    they set themselves on a path that is not good;
    they do not reject evil.

⁵ Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens,
    and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
⁶ Your righteousness is like the great mountains,
    Your judgments like the great deep;
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.
⁷     How excellent is Your lovingkindness, O God!
Therefore mankind
    seeks refuge in the shadow of Your wings.
⁸ They will drink their fill from the abundance of Your house,
    and You will cause them to drink from the river of Your pleasures.
⁹ For with You is the fountain of life;
    in Your light we see light.

¹⁰ Oh, continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
    and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
¹¹ Do not let the foot of the arrogant come against me,
    and do not let the hand of the wicked cause me to wander.
¹² There the workers of iniquity have fallen;
    they are cast down and not able to rise.

⁴ “Lord, make me to know my end,
    and what is the measure of my days,
    that I may know how transient I am.
⁵ Indeed, You have made my days as a handbreadth,
    and my age is as nothing before You;
    indeed every man at his best is as a breath.” Selah
⁶ Surely every man walks in a mere shadow;
    surely he goes as a breath;
    he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

⁷ Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
    My hope is in You.
⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions;
    do not make me the reproach of the foolish.
⁹ I was speechless, I did not open my mouth,
    because You did it.
¹⁰ Remove Your blow from me;
    I am consumed by the hostility of Your hand.
¹¹ When with rebukes You correct a man for iniquity,
    You consume like a moth what is dear to him;
    surely every man is vapor. Selah

¹² Hear my prayer, O Lord,
    and give ear to my cry;
    do not be silent at my tears,
for I am a stranger with You,
    and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
¹³ Turn Your gaze of displeasure from me, that I may smile,
    before I go away and am no more.

For all this His anger is not turned away,
    and His hand is still stretched out.