Beginning

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² Adonai, the king rejoices in Your strength!
How greatly he delights in Your salvation.
³ You granted him his heart’s desire,
and You did not withhold the request of his lips. Selah
⁴ For You met him with the best blessings.
You set on his head a crown of pure gold.
⁵ He asked You for life, You gave it to him,
length of days forever and ever.
⁶ His glory is great through Your salvation.
Honor and majesty You bestow on him.
⁷ For You bestow on him eternal blessings,
gladden him with joy in Your presence.
⁸ For the king trusts in Adonai,
and in the lovingkindness of Elyon
he will not be shaken.
⁹ Your hand will find all your enemies.
Your right hand will overtake those who hate You.
¹⁰ You will make them like a fiery furnace
    at the time of your appearing.
In His wrath Adonai will swallow them up
    and fire will consume them.
¹¹ You destroy their offspring from earth,
their seed from the children of men.
¹² Though they intended evil against You
and devised a plot, they cannot succeed.
¹³ For You make them turn their backs.
You aim Your bowstrings at their faces.
¹⁴ Be exalted, Adonai, in Your strength!
We will sing and praise Your might.

¹ For the music director, on “The Doe of the Dawn,” a psalm of David.
² My God, my God,
    why have You forsaken me?
Distant from my salvation
    are the words of my groaning.^[a]
3 O my God, I cried out by day, but You did not answer,
by night, but there was no rest for me.
⁴ Yet You are holy,
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
⁵ In You our fathers put their trust.
They trusted, and You delivered them.
⁶ They cried to you and were delivered.
In You they trusted, and were not disappointed.
⁷ Am I a worm, and not a man?
Am I a scorn of men, despised by people?
⁸ All who see me mock me.
They curl their lips, shaking their heads:
⁹ “Rely on Adonai! Let Him deliver him!
Let Him rescue him—since he delights in Him!”^[b]
10 Yet You brought me out of the womb,
made me secure at my mother’s breasts.
¹¹ From the womb I was cast on You—
from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
¹² Be not far from me!
For trouble is near—
    there is no one to help.
¹³ Many bulls have surrounded me.
Strong bulls of Bashan encircled me.
¹⁴ They open wide their mouths against me,
like a tearing, roaring lion.
¹⁵ I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are disjointed.
My heart is like wax—
    melting within my innards.
¹⁶ My strength is dried up like a clay pot,
my tongue clings to my jaws.
You lay me in the dust of death.
¹⁷ For dogs have surrounded me.
A band of evildoers has closed in on me.
They pierced^[c] my hands and my feet.
¹⁸ I can count all my bones.
They stare, they gape at me.
¹⁹ They divide my clothes among them,
and cast lots for my garment.^[d]
20 But You, Adonai, be not far off!
O my strength! Come quickly to my aid!
²¹ Deliver my soul from the sword—
my only one from the power of the dog.
²² Save me from the lion’s mouth.
From the horns of the wild oxen rescue me.

¹ A psalm of David.
Adonai is my shepherd, I shall not want.
² He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
³ He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
    for His Name’s sake.

¹ A psalm of David.
The earth is Adonai’s and all that fills it—^[f]
the world, and those dwelling on it.
² For He founded it upon the seas,
and established it upon the rivers.
³ Who may go up on the mountain of Adonai?
Who may stand in His holy place?
⁴ One with clean hands and a pure heart,
who has not lifted his soul in vain,
nor sworn deceitfully.
⁵ He will receive a blessing from Adonai,
righteousness from God his salvation.
⁶ Such is the generation seeking Him,
seeking Your face, even Jacob! Selah
⁷ Lift up your heads, O gates,
and be lifted up, you everlasting doors:
that the King of glory may come in.
⁸ “Who is this King of glory?”
Adonai strong and mighty,
Adonai mighty in battle!
⁹ Lift up your heads, O gates,
and lift them up, you everlasting doors:
that the King of glory may come in.
¹⁰ “Who is this King of glory?”
Adonai-Tzva’ot—He is the King of glory! Selah

¹ Of David.
To You, Adonai, I lift up my soul.
² O my God, in You I trust,
so I will not be ashamed,
and my enemies will not gloat over me.
³ Surely no one who waits for You will be ashamed.
But the treacherous without cause will be ashamed.
⁴ Show me Your ways, Adonai.
Teach me Your paths.
⁵ Guide me in Your truth, and teach me,
for You are God, my salvation,
for You I wait all day.
⁶ Remember, Adonai,
Your compassions and Your mercies—
for they are from eternity.
⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion.
According to Your mercy remember me,
    for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
⁸ Good and upright is Adonai.
Therefore He directs sinners in the way.
⁹ He guides the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble His way.
¹⁰ All Adonai’s ways are lovingkindness
and truth
    to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
¹¹ For Your Name’s sake, Adonai,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
¹² Who is this man who fears Adonai?
He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
¹³ His soul abides in goodness,
and his offspring will inherit the land.
¹⁴ The secret of Adonai is for those who fear Him.
He makes His covenant known to them.
¹⁵ My eyes are always looking to Adonai,
for He will pull my feet out of the net.
¹⁶ Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷ The troubles of my heart increase.
Bring me out of my distress.
¹⁸ See my affliction and my suffering,
and take away all my sins.
¹⁹ See my enemies, how many they are—
they hate me with violent hatred.
²⁰ Guard my soul and deliver me.
Let me not be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.
²¹ May integrity and uprightness protect me—
for I wait for You.
²² Redeem Israel, O God,
from all their troubles.