¹Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassions  ²blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
And from my sin cleanse me.

For I do know my transgressions,
And my sin is before me continually.

Against You and You alone have I sinned,
And I have done what is evil in Your sight.
Therefore You are righteous when You speak;
You are clear when You judge.

Behold, I was  ¹brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Behold, You delight in truth in the  ¹inward parts;
And in the hidden part You would make known wisdom to me.

Purge my sin with  ¹hyssop, and I will be clean;
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

Let me hear gladness and joy,
That the bones which You have broken may exult.

Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a  ¹clean heart, O God,
And  ²renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Do not cast me from Your  ¹presence,
And do not take the  ²Spirit of Your holiness away from me.

Restore to me the gladness of Your salvation,
And sustain me with a willing spirit.

I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners will turn back to You.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation;
And my tongue will ring forth Your righteousness.

O Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth will declare Your praise.

For You do not delight in sacrifice;
Otherwise I would offer it;
You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Do  ¹good in Your good pleasure unto Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Then You will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness,
In burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
Then they will offer bulls upon Your altar.

To the choir director. A  ¹Maschil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech

 ¹Why do you boast in evil, O mighty one?
God's lovingkindness endures continually.

Your tongue devises destruction;
It is like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

You have loved evil rather than good,
Falsehood rather than speaking righteousness. Selah

You have loved all the devouring words,
O deceitful tongue.

God will likewise  ¹break you down forever;
He will take you and pluck you up from your tent,
And uproot you from the land of the living. Selah

And the righteous will see it and fear,
And they will laugh at him, saying,

Behold, this is that mighty man
Who did not make God his  ¹strength,
But trusted in the multitude of his riches
And strengthened himself in his desire.

But I, like a flourishing olive tree
In the house of God,
Trust in God's lovingkindness
Forever and ever.

I will give You thanks forever,
For You have acted;
And I will hope in Your name in the presence of Your faithful ones,
For it is good.

To the choir director: according to  ¹mahalath. A  ²Maschil of David

The  ¹fool has said in his heart,
There is no God.
They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds;
There is none who does good.

God looked down from heaven
Upon the sons of men
To see if there was anyone who had insight,
Who seeks after God.

All of them have turned back;
They are together perverse.
There is none who does good;
There is not even one.

Have they no knowledge, the workers of iniquity,
Who eat up my people as they would eat up bread
And do not call upon God?

There they were in great fear,
Where there was no fear.
For God scattered the bones
Of him who encamped against you.
You put them to shame
Because God has rejected them.

Oh that the  ¹salvation of Israel might come forth from Zion!
When God turns the captivity of His people,
Jacob will exult, Israel will rejoice.

To the choir director: on the stringed instruments. A  ¹Maschil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, David is indeed hiding among us!

O God,  ¹save me by Your name,
And execute judgment for me by Your might.

O God, hear my prayer;
Give ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen up against me,
And those who terrorize seek my life;
They do not set God before them.Selah

Behold, God is my Helper;
The Lord is among those who sustain my soul.

He will return the evil to those who lie in wait for me.
Annihilate them in Your  ¹faithfulness.

I will offer a freewill offering to You;
I will  ¹praise Your name, O Jehovah, for it is good.

For He has delivered me from all distress,
And my eye looks triumphantly upon my enemies.

To the choir director: on the stringed instruments. A  ¹Maschil of David

 ¹Give ear, O God, to my prayer;
And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

Give heed to me, and answer me.
I grow restless in my complaint and moan,

Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the oppression of the wicked man;
For they drop iniquity upon me,
And in anger they make me their enemy.

My heart writhes within me,
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Fear and trembling have come upon me,
And shuddering overwhelms me.

And I say, Oh that I had wings like a dove!
Then I would fly away and be at rest.

Indeed I would wander far away;
I would lodge in the wilderness.Selah

I would hasten my escape
From the storm wind and the tempest.

Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongue;
For I have seen violence and contention in the city.

Day and night they go around it,
Upon its walls;
And iniquity and trouble are in the midst of it.

Utter ruin is in the midst of it,
And oppression and deceit
Do not depart from its streets.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me;
Otherwise I could bear it.
It is not he who hates me who magnifies himself against me;
Otherwise I could hide myself from him.

But it is you,  ¹my equal,
My close friend and my acquaintance.

We were in sweet counsel together;
We walked with the throng in the house of God.

 ¹Let death surprise them;
May they go down into Sheol alive.
For evil is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

As for me, I call out to God,
And Jehovah will save me.

Evening and morning and at noontime
I complain and moan,
And He hears my voice.

He has redeemed my soul in peace
From the battle against me,
For many are they who strive with me.

God hears and answers them —
Even He who sits enthroned from of old — Selah
Because with them there is no change,
And they do not fear God.

 ¹He put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him;
He profaned his covenant.

Smooth were the buttery words of his mouth,
But his heart was war;
More soothing than oil were his words,
But they were in fact drawn swords.

Cast your burden upon Jehovah,
And He will sustain you;
He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

But You, O God, will bring them down
Into the pit of decay.
Men of bloodshed and deceit
Will not live out half their days;
But I will trust in You.