Chronological

5 Hear my words, O LORD. Understand my meditation.

² Hear the voice of my cry, my King and my God. For to you I pray.

³ Hear my voice in the morning, O LORD. In the morning I will direct myself to You, and I will wait.

⁴ For You are not a God Who loves wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with You.

⁵ The foolish shall not stand in Your sight. You hate all those who work iniquity.

⁶ You shall destroy those who speak lies. The LORD will abhor the bloody man, and deceitful.

⁷ But I will come into Your house in the multitude of Your mercy. In Your fear I will worship toward Your Holy Temple.

⁸ Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness, because of my enemies. Make Your way plain before my face.

⁹ For no constancy is in their mouth. Inside they are very corruption. Their throat is an open sepulcher. They flatter with their tongue.

¹⁰ Destroy them, O God. Let them fall from their counsels. Cast them out for the multitude of their iniquities, because they have rebelled against You.

¹¹ And let all those who trust in You rejoice, and triumph forever. And cover them. And let those who love Your Name rejoice in You.

¹² For You, LORD, will bless the righteous. You will surround him with favor, as with a shield. To him who excels on Neginoth, upon the eight tune: A Psalm of David.

38 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your wrath.

² For Your arrows have pierced me deeply; and Your hand lies upon me.

³ Because of Your anger, there is nothing sound in my flesh; nor is there rest in my bones because of my sin.

⁴ For my iniquities have gone over my head; as a weighty burden, they are too heavy for me.

⁵ My wounds are putrefied, and corrupt, because of my foolishness.

⁶ I am bowed, and very troubled. I go mourning all day long.

⁷ For my core is full of burning; and there is nothing sound in my flesh.

⁸ I am weakened and very broken: I roar for the very grief of my heart.

⁹ LORD, I pour my whole desire before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.

¹⁰ My heart pants. My strength fails me, and the light of my eyes. Even they are not my own.

¹¹ My lovers and my friends stand aside from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

¹² Also, those who seek after my life lay snares; and those who go about to do me evil talk wicked things and imagine deceit continually.

¹³ But I, as a deaf man, did not hear. I am as a dumb man who does not open his mouth.

¹⁴ Thus I am as a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

¹⁵ For on You, O LORD, I wait. You will hear, my LORD. My God.

¹⁶ For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they extol themselves against me.”

¹⁷ Surely, I am ready to halt; and my sorrow is ever before me.

¹⁸ When I declare my pain, and am sorry for my sin,

¹⁹ then my enemies are alive and are mighty; and those who hate me wrongfully are many.

²⁰ Also, those who reward evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow goodness.

²¹ Do not forsake me, O LORD. Do not be far from me, my God.

²² Hasten to help me, O my LORD. My Salvation. To the excellent musician, Jeduthun: A Psalm of David.

41 Blessed is he who judges wisely of the poor. The LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble.

² The LORD will keep him and preserve him alive. He shall be blessed upon the Earth; and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

³ The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of sorrow. You have turned all his bed in his sickness.

⁴ I said, “LORD have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

⁵ My enemies speak evil of me, saying, “When shall he die, and his name perish?”

⁶ And if he come to see me, he speaks lies; his heart heaps iniquity within him. When he comes forth, he tells it.

⁷ All those who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine my hurt against me, saying,

⁸ “A mischief lies upon him,” and, “He who lies shall rise no more.”

⁹ Indeed, my familiar friend whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up the heel against me.

¹⁰ Therefore, O LORD, have mercy upon me and raise me up. So shall I reward them.

¹¹ By this I know that You favor me: because my enemy does not triumph against me.

¹² And as for me, You uphold me in my integrity, and set me before Your face forever.

¹³ Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, world without end! So be it. Even so be it! To him who excels: A Psalm to give instruction, committed to the sons of Korah.

42 As the deer brays for the rivers of water, so panted my soul after You, O God.

² My soul thirsts for God, even for the living God. When shall I come and appear before the presence of God?

³ My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me daily, “Where is your God?”

⁴ When I remembered these things, I poured out my very heart; because I had gone with the multitude and led them into the House of God with the voice of singing and praise, as a multitude that keeps a feast.

⁵ Why are you cast down, my soul, and unquiet within me? Wait on God; for I will still give Him thanks for the help of His presence.

⁶ My God, my soul is cast down within me because I remembered You from the land of Jordan, and Hermon, and from the Mount Mizar.

⁷ One deep calls another deep by the noise of Your waterspouts. All Your waves and Your floods have gone over me.

⁸ The LORD will grant His lovingkindness in the day; and in the night shall I sing of Him a prayer to the God of my life.

⁹ I will say to God, my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning when the enemy oppresses?”

¹⁰ As a sword shattering my bones, my enemies reproach me, saying daily to me, “Where is your God?”

¹¹ Why are you cast down, my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Wait on God. For I will yet give thanks to Him, to the Face of my Deliverer and my God.