Chronological

5 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. On wind instruments. A psalm of David:

^2 (1) Give ear to my words, Adonai,
consider my inmost thoughts.
^3 (2) Listen to my cry for help,
my king and my God, for I pray to you.
^4 (3) Adonai, in the morning you will hear my voice;
in the morning I lay my needs before you
and wait expectantly.

^5 (4) For you are not a God
who takes pleasure in wickedness;
evil cannot remain with you.
^6 (5) Those who brag cannot stand before your eyes,
you hate all who do evil,
^7 (6) you destroy those who tell lies,
Adonai detests men of blood and deceivers.

^8 (7) But I can enter your house
because of your great grace and love;
I will bow down toward your holy temple
in reverence for you.
^9 (8) Lead me, Adonai, in your righteousness
because of those lying in wait for me;
make your way straight before me.
^10 (9) For in their mouths there is nothing sincere,
within them are calamities,
their throats are open tombs,
they flatter with their tongues.
^11 (10) God, declare them guilty!
Let them fall through their own intrigues,
For their many crimes, throw them down;
since they have rebelled against you.

^12 (11) But let all who take refuge in you rejoice,
let them forever shout for joy!
Shelter them; and they will be glad,
those who love your name.
^13 (12) For you, Adonai, bless the righteous;
you surround them with favor like a shield.

38 ⁽⁰⁾ A psalm of David, serving as a reminder:

^2 (1) Adonai, don’t rebuke me when you are angry
or discipline me when you are enraged,
^3 (2) for your arrows penetrate me deeply,
and your hand is pressing me down.

^4 (3) Your indignation left no part of me intact;
my sin made my whole body sick;
^5 (4) for my iniquities loom high over my head
as a heavy burden, too heavy for me.

^6 (5) I have stinking, festering wounds
because of my foolishness.
^7 (6) I am bent down, prostrate completely;
I go about mourning all day long.

^8 (7) For my insides burn with fever,
and my whole body is sick.
^9 (8) I am numb, completely crushed;
my anguished heart makes me groan aloud.

^10 (9) Adonai, all my longing is known to you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
^11 (10) My heart is throbbing, my strength is gone,
and the light in my eyes has left me.

^12 (11) My friends and companions shun my disease;
even the closest keep their distance.
^13 (12) Those seeking my life lay snares for me,
those seeking to harm me speak of disaster
and think up deceptions all day long.

^14 (13) But I’m like a deaf man — I don’t hear it;
and, like a mute, I don’t say a word.
^15 (14) Yes, I’ve become like a man who doesn’t hear
and in whose mouth are no defenses.

^16 (15) For it is in you, Adonai, that I hope.
You will answer, Adonai my God.
^17 (16) I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me
or boast against me when my foot slips.”

^18 (17) For I am about to fall,
and my pain is always with me.
^19 (18) I acknowledge my guilt,
I am anxious because of my sin.

^20 (19) But my enemies are alive and well,
those who wrongfully hate me increase their numbers;
^21 (20) and, since they repay good with evil,
they oppose me because I pursue good.

^22 (21) Don’t abandon me, Adonai!
My God, don’t be far from me!
^23 (22) Come quickly to help me,
Adonai, my salvation!

41 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. A psalm of David:

^2 (1) How blessed are those who care for the poor!
When calamity comes, Adonai will save them.
^3 (2) Adonai will preserve them, keep them alive,
and make them happy in the land.
You will not hand them over
to the whims of their enemies.
^4 (3) Adonai sustains them on their sickbed;
when they lie ill, you make them recover.
^5 (4) I said, “Adonai, have pity on me!
Heal me, for I have sinned against you!”
^6 (5) My enemies say the worst about me:
“When will he die and his name disappear?”
^7 (6) When they come to see me they speak insincerely,
their hearts meanwhile gathering falsehoods;
then they go out and spread bad reports.
^8 (7) All who hate me whisper together against me,
imagining the worst about me.
^9 (8) “A fatal disease has attached itself to him;
now that he lies ill, he will never get up.”
^10 (9) Even my close friend, on whom I relied,
who shared my table, has turned against me.

^11 (10) But you, Adonai, have pity on me,
put me on my feet, so I can pay them back.
^12 (11) I will know you are pleased with me
if my enemy doesn’t defeat me.
^13 (12) You uphold me because of my innocence
you establish me in your presence forever.

^14 (13) Blessed be Adonai the God of Isra’el
from eternity past to eternity future.

Amen. Amen.

^2 (1) Just as a deer longs for running streams,
God, I long for you.
^3 (2) I am thirsty for God, for the living God!
When can I come and appear before God?

^4 (3) My tears are my food, day and night,
while all day people ask me, “Where is your God?”
^5 (4) I recall, as my feelings well up within me,
how I’d go with the crowd to the house of God,
with sounds of joy and praise from the throngs
observing the festival.

^6 (5) My soul, why are you so downcast?
Why are you groaning inside me?
Hope in God, since I will praise him again
for the salvation that comes from his presence.
^7 (6) My God, when I feel so downcast,
I remind myself of you
from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon,
from the hill Mizar.
^8 (7) Deep is calling to deep
at the thunder of your waterfalls;
all your surging rapids and waves
are sweeping over me.
^9 (8) By day Adonai commands his grace,
and at night his song is with me
as a prayer to the God of my life.
^10 (9) I say to God my Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
under pressure by the enemy?
^11 (10) My adversaries’ taunts make me feel
as if my bones were crushed,
as they ask me all day long,
‘Where is your God?’ ”

^12 (11) My soul, why are you so downcast?
Why are you groaning inside me?
Hope in God, since I will praise him again
for being my Savior and God.