¹Be gracious to me, O God; for man tramples me;
All day long he, fighting, oppresses me.

Those who lie in wait for me trample me all day long,
For many are those who arrogantly fight against me.

When I am afraid,
I trust in You.

In God, whose word I praise,
In God do I trust, and I will not be afraid.
What can flesh do to me?

All day long they wrest my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.

They gather themselves; they lurk;
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

Will there be deliverance for them in spite of their iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

You have counted my wanderings.
Put my tears into Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book?

Then my enemies will turn back
When I call;
This I know,
That God is for me.

In God, whose word I praise,
In Jehovah, whose word I praise,

In God do I trust; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?

Your vows, O God, are on me;
I will render thank offerings to You.

For You have delivered my soul from death,
Indeed, my feet from stumbling,
That I may walk before God
In the light of the living.

To the choir director:  ¹Do not destroy. Of David. A  ²Michtam, when he fled from Saul, in the cave

 ¹Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me;
For my soul takes refuge in You;
Indeed in the shadow of Your wings I will take refuge,
Until the destruction passes by.

I call out to God the Most High,
To the God who accomplishes all things for me.

He sends forth from heaven and saves me;
He reproaches him who would trample me; Selah
God sends forth
His lovingkindness and His  ¹faithfulness.

My soul is among lions;
I lie down among those who blaze forth, the sons of men,
Whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And whose tongue is a sharp sword.

Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down.
They have dug a pit before me;
They have fallen into it themselves. Selah

My heart is steadfast, O God;
My heart is steadfast.
I will sing, indeed I will sing psalms.

Awake, my glory;
Awake, O harp and lyre!
I will awaken the dawn.

I will give thanks to You among the peoples, O Lord;
I will sing psalms to You among the nations.

For Your lovingkindness is as great as the heavens;
And Your faithfulness reaches unto the skies.

Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

To the choir director:  ¹Do not destroy. Of David. A  ²Michtam

 ¹Do you indeed, O  ²judges, speak righteousness?
Do you judge in uprightness, O sons of men?

No, in heart you perform injustice;
You weigh out the violence of your hands on earth.

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They err from their birth, speaking lies.

Their venom is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that has shut its ear,

Which does not hear the sound of the charmers
Or the wise spellbinder.

O God, break their teeth in their mouth;
Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Jehovah.

Let them melt like water that runs off.
When he shoots his arrows,
Let them be as though they were cut off.

Let them be like a snail that melts and goes away,
Like a woman's miscarriage, which by no means sees the sun.

Before your pots can feel the fire of the thorns,
Whether green or burning, He will sweep them away.

The righteous man will rejoice when he sees vengeance;
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

And men will say, Indeed there is fruit for the righteous man;
Indeed there is a God who judges on earth.

To the choir director:  ¹Do not destroy. Of David. A  ²Michtam, when Saul sent men, and they watched the house in order to kill him

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Set me on high, secure from those who rise up against me.

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity,
And save me from men of bloodshed.

For behold, they lie in wait for my soul;
The strong gather themselves against me.
Not because of any transgression of mine nor because of any sin of
mine, O Jehovah,

Not for any fault of mine, they run and ready themselves;
Awake to meet me, and see.

Indeed You, O Jehovah, God of hosts, God of Israel,
Arise to punish all the nations;
Have no mercy upon any who treacherously commit iniquity. Selah

They return in the evening;
They growl like a dog
And go around the city.

Behold, they belch forth with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips;
For, Who, they say, hears?

But You, O Jehovah, laugh at them;
You have all the nations in derision.

O  ¹my strength, I will watch for You;
For God is my high retreat.

My God in His lovingkindness will meet me;
God will let me look triumphantly upon those who lie in wait for me.

Do not slay them, lest my people forget;
Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down,
O Lord our shield.

For the sin of their mouth,
For the word of their lips,
Let them even be taken in their arrogance,
And because of the cursing and the lying that they speak.

Consume them in wrath; consume them so that they are no more;
And men will know that God rules in Jacob
Unto the ends of the earth. Selah

They return in the evening;
They growl like a dog
And go around the city.

They wander about for food;
And if they are not filled, they  ¹linger.

 ¹But I will sing of Your strength;
And I will joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning.
For You have been my high retreat
And a refuge in the day of my distress.

O my strength, unto You I will sing psalms,
For God is my high retreat,
My God of lovingkindness.

To the choir director: according to the  ¹lily of the testimony. A  ²Michtam of David, for instruction, when he struggled with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck twelve thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt

O God, You have rejected us; You have broken out upon us;
You have been angry. Restore us.

You have caused the earth to quake; You have split it open.
Heal the breaks in it, for it totters.

You have shown Your people hard things;
You have made us drink wine to stagger us.

You have given a banner to those who fear You,
To be displayed because of the truth. Selah

That Your beloved ones may be delivered,
Save with Your right hand, and answer  ¹us.

God has spoken in His  ¹holiness: I will exult;
I will divide Shechem
And measure out the Valley of Succoth.

Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine,
And Ephraim is the helmet for My head;
Judah is My scepter.

Moab is My washbowl;
Upon Edom I will cast My sandal;
Philistia, shout aloud because of Me.

Who will bring me into the besieged city?
Who will lead me to Edom?

Will not You, O God, who rejected us?
And will You not go forth, O God, with our armies?

Give us help from the adversary,
For a salvation by man is vain.

In God we will do valiantly,
And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.