Psalm 1-35

Tree of Life Version

¹ Happy is the one who has not walked in the advice of the wicked,
nor stood in the way of sinners,
nor sat in the seat of scoffers.
² But his delight is in the Torah of Adonai,
and on His Torah he meditates day and night.
³ He will be like a planted tree over streams of water,
producing its fruit during its season.
Its leaf never droops—
    but in all he does, he succeeds.

¹ Why are the nations in an uproar,
and the peoples mutter vanity?
² The kings of earth set themselves up^[a]
and rulers conspire together^[b] against Adonai
and against His Anointed One^[c]:
³ “Let’s rip their chains apart,
and throw their ropes off us!”
⁴ He who sits in heaven laughs!
Adonai mocks them.
⁵ So He will speak to them in His anger,
and terrify them in His fury:
⁶ “I have set up My king
upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

¹ A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom.
² Adonai, how many are my foes!
Many are rising up against me!
³ Many are saying to my soul:
“There is no deliverance for him in God.”
    Selah
⁴ But You, Adonai, are a shield around me,
my glory and the lifter of my head.
⁵ I cry out to Adonai with my voice,
and He answers me from His holy mountain.
    Selah
⁶ I lie down and sleep.
I awake—for Adonai sustains me.
⁷ I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people all around
who have taken their stand against me.
⁸ Arise, Adonai! Deliver me, my God!
For you strike all my enemies on the cheek.
You shatter the teeth of the wicked.
⁹ Deliverance belongs to Adonai.^[g]
Let Your blessing be on Your people.
    Selah

¹ For the music director, on stringed instruments, a psalm of David.
² Answer me when I call,
God of my righteousness!
You set me free when I am in distress.
    Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.
³ O sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into my shame?
How long will you love worthlessness and pursue falsehood? Selah
⁴ But know that Adonai has set apart the godly for His own.
Adonai will hear when I call to Him.
⁵ Tremble, but do not sin!^[h]
Search your heart while on your bed, and be silent. Selah
⁶ Offer righteous sacrifices
and put your trust in Adonai.

¹ For the music director, on the wind instruments, a psalm of David.
² Hear my words, Adonai,
consider my groaning.
³ Listen to the sound of my cry for help,
my King and my God, for I pray to you.
⁴ Adonai, in the morning You hear my voice.
In the morning I order my prayer before You and watch expectantly.
⁵ For You are not a God who rejoices in evil.
No wickedness dwells with you.
⁶ Braggarts will not stand before your eyes.
You hate all wrongdoers.
⁷ You destroy those who speak falsehood.
A person of bloodshed and deceit Adonai detests.

¹ For the music director, on the eight-string lyre, a psalm of David.
² Adonai, do not rebuke me in Your anger!
Do not discipline me in Your wrath.
³ Be gracious to me, Adonai, for I am weak.
Heal me, Adonai—for my bones are shuddering with fear,
⁴ as is my soul—
and You, Adonai—how long?
⁵ Turn toward me, Adonai, deliver my soul!
Save me—because of Your mercy.
⁶ For there is no memory of You in death,
in Sheol who will praise You?
⁷ I am worn out with my groaning.
Every night I make my bed swim,
drenching my pillow with my tears.
⁸ My eyes are weakened with grief—
they age because of my enemies.

¹ A passionate song of David, which he sang to Adonai concerning Cush, a Benjamite.
² Adonai my God, in You I have taken refuge.
Save me from each of my persecutors, and deliver me.
³ Otherwise he will rip me apart like a lion,
with no one to rescue me.
⁴ Adonai my God, if I have done this—
if there is guilt on my hands,
⁵ if I have paid back evil to anyone at peace with me,
or unjustly attacked my adversary,
⁶ then let the enemy chase me,
overtake me, and trample me into the ground,
leaving my honor in the dirt! Selah

¹ For the music director, upon the Gittite lyre: a psalm of David.
² Adonai our Lord,
    how excellent is Your Name over all the earth!
You set Your splendor above the heavens.
³ Out of the mouths of babies and toddlers
You established power,^[k] because of Your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
⁴ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which You established—
⁵ what is man, that You are mindful of him?
And the son of man, that You care for him?^[l]
6 Yet You made him a little lower than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and majesty!
⁷ You gave him dominion over the works of Your hands.
You put all things under their feet:^[m]
8 all sheep and oxen,
and also beasts of the field,
⁹ birds in the air, and fish in the ocean—
all passing through the paths of the seas.

¹ For the music director, to the tune of “The Death of the Son,” a psalm of David.
² I will praise Adonai with my whole heart.
I will tell about all Your wonders.
³ I will be glad and rejoice in You.
I will sing praise to Your Name, Elyon!
⁴ When my enemies turn back,
they stumble and perish before You.
⁵ For You upheld my right and my cause.
You sat upon the throne, judging righteously.
⁶ You rebuked the nations,
You destroyed the wicked—
blotting out their name forever and ever.
⁷ The enemy is finished, in ruins forever.
You overturned their cities—
even the memory of them has perished.
⁸ But Adonai reigns forever.
He established His throne for judgment.
⁹ He judges the world in righteousness
and governs the peoples justly.
¹⁰ Adonai is a stronghold for the oppressed,
a high tower in times of trouble.
¹¹ Those who know Your Name trust You—
for You, Adonai, never have forsaken those who seek You.
¹² Sing praises to Adonai, who dwells in Zion.
Declare His deeds among the peoples.
¹³ He who avenges blood remembers.
He will not forget the cry of the afflicted.
¹⁴ Be compassionate to me, Adonai.
See my affliction from those hating me.
Lift me up from the gates of death.
¹⁵ Then I will tell all your praises
in the gates of the daughter of Zion,
rejoicing in Your salvation.
¹⁶ The nations sank into the pit they made.
The net they hid caught their own foot.
¹⁷ Adonai is known for executing judgment.
The wicked one is trapped in the work of his own hands.
    Selah
¹⁸ The wicked will turn to Sheol,
as will all the nations that forget God.
¹⁹ For the needy will not forever be forgotten,
nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
²⁰ Arise, Adonai, do not let man triumph.
Let the nations be judged before You.
²¹ Strike them with terror, Adonai.
Let the nations know they are only human. Selah

¹ Why, Adonai, are You standing far off?
Why hide Yourself in times of trouble?
² In pride the wicked hotly hunts the poor.
Let them be caught in the plots they have planned.
³ For the wicked one boasts about his soul’s desire.
The greedy one curses, reviling Adonai.
⁴ The wicked one, with his nose in the air, never seeks Him.
All his thoughts are: “There is no God.”
⁵ His ways are secure at all times.
He haughtily disregards Your judgments.
He snorts at all his adversaries.
⁶ He says in his heart: “I’ll never be shaken!
From generation to generation nothing bad will happen.”
⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, lies and oppression.
On his tongue are trouble and iniquity.^[n]
8 He lies in ambush near villages.
In hidden places he slays the innocent.
His eyes watch in secret for the helpless.
⁹ He lurks in a hiding place like a lion in a thicket.
He lies in wait to catch the helpless.
He catches the unfortunate one, dragging him away in his net.
¹⁰ The victim is crushed, brought down,
and falls into his mighty claws.
¹¹ He says in his heart: “God has forgotten.
He hides His face—He will never see it.”
¹² Arise, Adonai! O God, lift up Your hand.
Do not forget the afflicted.
¹³ Why does the wicked one revile God?
He says in his heart:
“You will never require anything.”
¹⁴ You saw—for You see trouble and grief,
    to take it in Your hand.
The victim puts his trust in You—
You are the helper of the orphan.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked, evil one!
Call him to account for his wickedness—
    until no more is found.
¹⁶ Adonai is King forever and ever!
Nations will be wiped off His land.
¹⁷ You hear, Adonai, the desire of the meek.
You encourage them and incline Your ear.
¹⁸ You vindicate the orphan and oppressed,
so that man, who is earthly, may terrify no more.

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
In Adonai I have taken shelter.
How can you say to my soul:
“Fly like a bird to your mountain?
² For look, the wicked bend the bow.
They fix their arrow on the bowstring
so they can shoot from the shadows
at those who are upright in heart.
³ If our foundations are destroyed,
what should the righteous do?”

¹ For the music director, on the eight-string lyre, a psalm of David.
² Help, Adonai! For no one godly exists.
For the faithful have vanished from the children of men.
³ Everyone tells a lie to his neighbor,
talking with flattering lips and a divided heart.
⁴ May Adonai cut off all flattering lips—
a tongue bragging big things.
⁵ They say: “With our tongue we’ll prevail.
We own our lips—who can master us?”

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² How long, Adonai? Will You forget me forever?
    How long will You hide Your face from me?
³ How long must I have cares in my soul
    and daily sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
⁴ Look at me and answer, Adonai my God.
Light up my eyes, or I will sleep in death.
⁵ Or else my enemy will say: “I have overcome him!”
    and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.

¹ For the music director, of David.
The fool said in his heart:
    “There is no God.”
They are corrupt; their deeds are vile;
    there is no one who does good.^[p]
2 Adonai looked down from heaven on the children of men,
to see if there are any who understand,
    who seek after God.
³ They all turned aside, became corrupt.
There is no one who does good
—not even one.
⁴ “Will evildoers never understand—
those who consume My people as they eat bread—
and never call on Adonai?”
⁵ There they are, in great dread.
For God is with the righteous generation.
⁶ You would frustrate the plan of the lowly.
Surely Adonai is his refuge!
⁷ O may He give Israel’s salvation out of Zion!
When Adonai restores His captive people,
Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad!

¹ A psalm of David.
Adonai, who may dwell in Your tent?
Who may live on Your holy mountain?
² The one who walks with integrity,
who does what is right,
    and speaks truth in his heart,
³ who does not slander with his tongue,
    does not wrong his neighbor,
and does not disgrace his friend,
⁴ who despises a vile person in his eyes,
    but honors those who fear Adonai,
who keeps his oath even when it hurts,
    and does not change,
⁵ who lends his money without usury,
and takes no bribe against the innocent.
One who does these things will never be shaken.

¹ A Michtam of David.
Keep me safe, O God, for in You I have found shelter.
² I said to Adonai: “You are my Lord—
I have no good apart from You.”
³ As for the kedoshim who are in the land,
they are noble—in them is all my delight.
⁴ As for those who run after another god,
    may their sorrows multiply.
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
    nor lift up their names with my lips.

¹ A prayer of David.
Hear, Adonai, a just plea, listen to my cry!
Give ear to my prayer—from lips with no deceit.
² From Your presence comes my vindication.
Your eyes see what is right.
³ You have examined my heart.
You searched me at night.
Though You test me, You find nothing.
I resolved that my mouth will not sin.
⁴ As for the deeds of mankind—
by the word of Your lips
I have kept out of the ways of the violent.
⁵ My steps have kept on Your paths.
My feet have not slipped.
⁶ I called upon You, O God,
    for You will answer me.
Incline Your ear to me,
    hear my speech.
⁷ Be wonderful with Your lovingkindness,
O Savior of those taking refuge at Your right hand
from those rising up against them.
⁸ Protect me like the pupil of the eye.
Hide me in the shadow of Your wings,
⁹ from the wicked who attack me—
    my enemies, who surround me.
¹⁰ Their callous heart they shut tight.
With their mouth they speak proudly.
¹¹ Our steps are now surrounded.
They set their eyes to throw us down to the ground,
¹² like a lion eager to tear to pieces,
like a young lion crouching in cover.
¹³ Arise, Adonai! Confront him!
    Make him bow down!
Deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword,
¹⁴ from men, with Your hand, Adonai,
from men of the world whose portion is in this life.
You fill their belly with Your treasure
—with plenty of children—
and leave their surplus to their babes.
¹⁵ I in righteousness will behold Your face!
When I awake,
    I will be satisfied with Your likeness.

¹ For the music director: a psalm of David the servant of Adonai. He chanted the words of this song to Adonai on the day Adonai delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.
² He said, I love You, Adonai my strength!
³ Adonai is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.
My God is my rock, in Him I take refuge,
    my shield, my horn of salvation, my stronghold.
⁴ I called upon Adonai, worthy of praise,
and I was rescued from my enemies.
⁵ Cords of death entangled me.
Torrents of Belial overwhelmed me.
⁶ Cords of Sheol coiled around me.
Snares of death came before me.
⁷ In my distress I called on Adonai,
    and cried to my God for help.
From His Temple He heard my voice,
    my cry before Him came into His ears.
⁸ Then the earth rocked and quaked.
The foundations of mountains trembled.
They reeled because He was angry.
⁹ Smoke rose from His nostrils
    and consuming fire from His mouth.
Coals blazed from Him.
¹⁰ He parted the heavens and came down,
    with thick darkness under His feet.
¹¹ He rode upon a cheruv and flew.
He soared on the wings of the wind.
¹² He made darkness His cover,
His sukkah all around Him—
dark waters, thick clouds.
¹³ Out of the brilliance before Him
passed His thick clouds, hail and fiery coals.
¹⁴ Adonai also thundered in the heavens,
and Elyon gave forth His voice, hail and fiery coals.
¹⁵ He shot His arrows and scattered them,
hurled lightning bolts and routed them.
¹⁶ Then ravines of water appeared.
The foundations of earth were exposed,
    at Your rebuke, Adonai,
    at a blast of breath from Your nostrils.
¹⁷ He reached down from on high
    and took hold of me.
He drew me out of mighty waters.
¹⁸ He saved me from my powerful enemy,
from those who hated me—
for they were much stronger than me.
¹⁹ They came against me in my day of calamity,
but Adonai was my support.
²⁰ He brought me out to a wide-open place.
He rescued me since He delighted in me.
²¹ Adonai rewarded me for my righteousness.
For the cleanness of my hands He repaid me.
²² For I kept the ways of Adonai,
and did not turn wickedly from my God.
²³ For all His judgments are before me.
I do not put His rulings away from me.
²⁴ I also had integrity with Him,
and kept myself from my sin.
²⁵ So Adonai rewarded me for my righteousness,
for the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² May Adonai answer you in the day of trouble!
May the Name of the God of Jacob set you up securely on high.
³ May He send you help from the Sanctuary
and support you from Zion.
⁴ May He remember all your meal offerings
and accept the fat of your burnt offering. Selah
⁵ May He grant you your heart’s desire
and fulfill all your plans.
⁶ We will shout for joy in your victory
    and lift up our banners in the Name of our God!
May Adonai fulfill all your petitions.

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.^[u]
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!”^[v]
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^[w] 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.^[x]
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—^[z]
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.

¹ Of David.
Vindicate me, Adonai,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and trusted in Adonai without wavering.
² Probe me, Adonai, and test me,
refine my mind and my heart.
³ For Your love is before my eyes
and I have walked in Your truth.
⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
⁵ I detest the company of evildoers,
and do not sit with the wicked.
⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence,
so I can walk around Your altar, Adonai,
⁷ hearing the voice of thanksgiving
    while proclaiming all Your wonders.
⁸ Adonai, I love the House where You live,
the place where Your glory dwells.
⁹ Do not take my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with people of bloodshed—
¹⁰ in whose hands are wicked schemes,
whose right hand is full of bribes.
¹¹ But I—I will walk in my integrity.
Redeem me and be gracious to me.
¹² My feet stand on level ground.
In congregations I will bless Adonai.

¹ Of David.
Adonai is my light and my salvation:
    whom should I fear?
Adonai is the stronghold of my life:
    whom should I dread?
² When evildoers approached me to devour my flesh
—my adversaries and my foes—they stumbled and fell.
³ Though an army camp besieges me, my heart will not fear.
Though war breaks out against me, even then will I be confident.
⁴ One thing have I asked of Adonai,
that will I seek:
to dwell in the House of Adonai
    all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of Adonai,
    and to meditate in His Temple.
⁵ For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His sukkah,
conceal me in the shelter of His tent,
and set me high upon a rock.
⁶ Then will my head be high above my enemies around me.
In His Tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy.
I will sing, yes, sing praises to Adonai.

¹ Of David.
To You, Adonai, I call—
    my Rock, do not be deaf to me.
If You were silent to me,
    I would become like those going down to the Pit.
² Hear the sound of my pleas,
when I cry to You for help,
when I lift up my hands toward Your holy Sanctuary.
³ Do not drag me away with the wicked and with doers of iniquity,
who speak peace with their neighbors,
while evil is in their hearts.
⁴ Repay them for their deeds, their evil acts.
Repay them for the deeds of their hands.
Bring back on them what they deserve.
⁵ Since they show no regard for the deeds of Adonai
nor the work of His hands,
He will tear them down
    and never build them up.
⁶ Blessed be Adonai, because He has heard
the sound of my supplications.
⁷ Adonai is my strength and my shield.^[aa]
My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped.
Therefore my heart leaps for joy,
and I will praise Him with my song.
⁸ Adonai is their strength—
a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.
⁹ Save Your people, bless Your inheritance,
shepherd them and carry them forever.

¹ A psalm of David.
Ascribe to Adonai, O sons of God,
ascribe to Adonai glory and strength.
² Ascribe to Adonai the glory of His Name.
Bow down to Adonai in the beauty of holiness.
³ The voice of Adonai is over the waters.
The God of glory thunders—
Adonai is over mighty waters.
⁴ The voice of Adonai is powerful.
The voice of Adonai is full of majesty.
⁵ The voice of Adonai breaks the cedars.
Yes, Adonai shatters cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
Sirion like a young wild ox.
⁷ The voice of Adonai hews out flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of Adonai shakes the desert.
Adonai shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of Adonai makes the deer writhe in birth
and strips forests bare,
and in His Temple all are saying, “Glory!”
¹⁰ Adonai sits enthroned over the flood.
Yes, Adonai sits as King forever.
¹¹ Adonai gives strength to His people.
Adonai blesses His people with shalom.

¹ A psalm, a song for the dedication of the Temple, of David.
² I will exalt You, Adonai,
for You have lifted me up,
and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
³ Adonai my God, I cried to You for help,
and You healed me.
⁴ Adonai, You brought my soul up from Sheol.
You kept me alive, so I would not go down to the Pit.
⁵ Sing praise to Adonai, His faithful ones,
and praise His holy name.
⁶ For His anger lasts for only a moment,
    His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
    but joy comes in the morning.
⁷ When I felt secure, I said:
“I will never be shaken.”
⁸ Adonai, in Your favor
You made my mountain stand strong.
When You hid Your face,
I was terrified.
⁹ To You, Adonai, I called,
and to my Lord I made my plea:
¹⁰ “What gain is there in my blood,
    in my going down to the Pit?
    Will the dust praise You?
    Will it declare Your truth?
¹¹ Hear, Adonai, and be gracious to me.
    Adonai, be my help.”

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² In You, Adonai, have I taken refuge:
Let me never be put to shame.
In Your righteousness, deliver me.
³ Turn Your ear to me, rescue me quickly.
Be a rock of refuge for me, a stronghold for my deliverance.
⁴ Since You are my rock and my fortress,
You lead me and guide me for Your Name’s sake.
⁵ Free me from the net they hid for me,
for You are my refuge.
⁶ Into Your hand I commit my spirit.^[ab]
You have redeemed me, Adonai, God of truth.
⁷ I detest those who continue to watch worthless idols,
but I trust in Adonai.
⁸ I will be glad and rejoice in Your lovingkindness,
for You saw my affliction.
You knew the troubles of my soul.
⁹ You did not hand me over to the enemy.
You set my feet in a wide-open place.
¹⁰ Be gracious to me, Adonai,
    for I am in distress.
My eyes waste away with grief,
    my soul and my body as well.
¹¹ For my life is consumed in sorrow
    and my years in sighing.
My strength fails because of my anguish
    and my bones waste away.
¹² Because of all my adversaries
I am the contempt of my neighbors
    and a dread to my acquaintances.
Seeing me on the street, they flee from me.
¹³ I am as forgotten as a dead man.
I have become like a broken vessel.
¹⁴ For I have heard the whispering of many.
There is terror on every side
    as they conspire against me
    and plot to take my life.
¹⁵ But I have trusted in You, Adonai.
I said: “You are my God.”
¹⁶ My times are in Your hands.
Deliver me from the hands of my foes and from those who pursue me.
¹⁷ Make Your face shine on Your servant.
Save me in Your lovingkindness.
¹⁸ Adonai, let me not be ashamed,
for I have called upon You.
Let the wicked be ashamed—
let them be silent in Sheol.
¹⁹ Let the lying lips be mute.
For they speak arrogantly against the righteous,
    with pride and contempt.
²⁰ How great is Your goodness,
which You have stored up for those who fear You,
which You have given to those who take refuge in You,
    before the children of men.
²¹ In the shelter of Your presence
You hide them from people’s plots.
You conceal them in a sukkah
from the strife of tongues.
²² Blessed be Adonai,
    for He has shown me His wonderful love
    in a besieged city.
²³ I said in my alarm,
“I have been cut off from Your sight!”
But You heard the sound of my pleas
    when I cried out to You.
²⁴ Love Adonai, all His kedoshim!
Adonai preserves all the faithful,
but the proud He pays back in full.
²⁵ Chazak! Let your heart take courage,^[ac]
all you who wait for Adonai.

¹ Of David, a contemplative song.
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
    whose sin is pardoned.
² Blessed is the one whose guilt Adonai does not count,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.^[ad]
3 When I kept silent,
my bones became brittle
through my groaning all day long.
⁴ For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me.
My strength was drained as in the droughts of summer.
        Selah
⁵ Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not hide my iniquity. I said:
“I confess my transgressions to Adonai,”
and You forgave the guilt of my sin.^[ae]
        Selah

¹ Sing for joy to Adonai, you righteous.
Praise is fitting for the upright.
² Praise Adonai with the harp.
Sing praises to Him with a ten string lyre.
³ Sing to Him a new song!^[af]
Play skillfully amid shouts of joy.

¹ Of David, when he feigned insanity before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he left.
² I will bless Adonai at all times.
His praise is continually in my mouth.
³ My soul boasts in Adonai.
The humble ones hear of it and rejoice.
⁴ Magnify Adonai with me
and let us exalt His Name together.
⁵ I sought Adonai, and He answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
⁶ They who looked to Him were radiant,
and their faces will never be ashamed.
⁷ This poor man cried, and Adonai heard,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
⁸ The angel of Adonai encamps around those who fear Him,
and delivers them.
⁹ Taste and see how good Adonai is.
Blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him.
¹⁰ Fear Adonai, His kedoshim,
For those who fear Him lack nothing.
¹¹ Young lions may lack, and go hungry,
but those who seek Adonai want for no good thing.

¹ A psalm of David.
Adonai, oppose those who oppose me.
Fight those who fight me.
² Take hold of shield and buckler,
and rise up to my help.
³ Draw out also a spear and battle-axe.
Stop those who pursue me.
Say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”
⁴ May those who seek my life
be ashamed and disgraced.
May they be turned back and humiliated
—those who plot evil against me.
⁵ May they be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of Adonai driving them off.
⁶ May their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of Adonai pursuing them.
⁷ For without cause they hid their net for me,
and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
⁸ Let ruin come upon him by surprise.
Let the net he hid entangle himself
—into that same pit let him fall.
⁹ Then my soul will rejoice in Adonai
and delight in His salvation.
¹⁰ All my bones will say:
“Adonai, who is like You,
rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,
the poor and needy from one who robs him?”
¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up.
They question me about things I know nothing about.
¹² They repay me evil for good—
my soul is forlorn.
¹³ But as for me, when they were sick,
    my clothing was sackcloth.
I afflicted my soul with fasting,
    my prayer kept returning to my heart.