¹Incline Your ear, O Jehovah; answer me;
For I am poor and needy.

Keep my soul; for I am faithful;
Save Your servant who trusts in You, O You who are my God.

Be gracious to me, O Lord;
For to You do I call out all day long.

Cause the soul of Your servant to rejoice,
For unto You, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

For You, O Lord, are good and ready to forgive
And abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You.

Give ear, O Jehovah, to my prayer,
And give heed to the voice of my supplications.

In the day of my distress I call upon You,
For You answer me.

There is none like You among the gods, O Lord;
Nor are there any works like Yours.

All the nations which You have made will come
And worship before You, O Lord;
And they will glorify Your name.

For You are great, and You do wondrous deeds;
You alone are God.

Teach me, O Jehovah, Your way;
I will walk in Your truth.
Make my heart single in fearing Your name.

I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart;
And I will glorify Your name forever.

For Your lovingkindness is great toward me,
And You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

O God, the proud have risen up against me,
And a company of violent men seek my life;
And they do not set You before them.

But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
Long-suffering and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

Turn to me and be gracious to me;
Give Your strength to Your servant,
And save the son of Your female servant.

Show me a token of goodness,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed;
For You, O Jehovah, have helped me and comforted me.

Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm; a Song

His  ¹foundation is in the holy mountains.

Jehovah loves the  ¹gates of  ²Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God. Selah

I will make mention of  ¹Rahab and Babylon as those who know Me;
Behold, Philistia and Tyre along with  ²Cush:
 ³This one was born there, they say.

But of Zion it will be said,
 ¹This one and that one were born in her,
And the Most High Himself will establish her.

Jehovah will count
When He records the peoples:
This  ¹One was born there. Selah

Then singing as well as dancing, they will say,
All my springs are in  ¹you.

A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the choir director: according to  ¹mahalath leannoth. A  ²Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.

O Jehovah, the God of my  ¹salvation,
I have cried out by day and in the night before You.

May my prayer come before You;
Incline Your ear to my cry.

For my soul is full of troubles,
And my life draws near to Sheol.

I am accounted among those who go down into the pit;
I am like a man without any  ¹help,

Abandoned among the dead,
Like the slain that lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

You have put me in the lowest pit,
In the dark places, in the depths.

Your wrath lies heavily upon me,
And You have afflicted me with all Your waves. Selah

You have put my acquaintances far from me;
You have made me an abomination to them.
I am shut in and cannot go out.

My eye wastes away at the affliction;
I have called out to You, O Jehovah, every day;
I have spread out my hands to You.

Will You perform wonders for the dead?
Will the deceased rise up and praise You? Selah

Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave,
Or Your faithfulness in  ¹Abaddon?

Will Your wonders be made known in the darkness,
Or Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

But I, O Jehovah, have cried out to You;
And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

Why, O Jehovah, have You rejected my soul?
Why do You hide Your face from me?

I have been afflicted and about to die since my youth;
I bear Your terrors; I am  ¹overwhelmed.

Your fierce wrath has gone over me;
Your terrors have cut me off.

They surrounded me like water all day long;
They altogether encompassed me.

You have put far from me
Lover and friend;
My acquaintances are in darkness.

A  ¹Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite

 ¹I will sing of the lovingkindness of Jehovah forever;
From generation to generation I will make known Your faithfulness with
my mouth.

For I have said, Lovingkindness will be built up forever;
In the heavens themselves You will establish Your faithfulness.

I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn to David My servant:

I will establish your seed forever,
And I will build up your throne from generation to generation. Selah

And the heavens will praise Your wonders, O Jehovah,
Indeed Your faithfulness in the congregation of the holy ones.

For who in the skies can be compared to Jehovah?
Who among the sons of the mighty is like Jehovah,

Like God, greatly feared in the council of the holy ones
And awesome beyond all around Him?

O Jehovah God of hosts, who is like You, the mighty  ¹Jah?
Your faithfulness also surrounds You.

You rule the swelling of the sea:
When its waves rise up, You still them.

You crushed  ¹Rahab like one slain;
You scattered Your enemies with the arm of Your strength.

The heavens are Yours; the earth also is Yours;
The world and its fullness You have founded.

You created the north and the south;
Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

You have an arm with might;
Your hand is strong; Your right hand is high.

Righteousness and justice are the  ¹foundation of Your throne;
Lovingkindness and truth go before Your face.

Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout;
They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of Your countenance.

In Your name they exult all day long,
And in Your righteousness they are exalted.

For You are the  ¹glory of their strength,
And in Your favor our horn is exalted.

For our shield belongs to Jehovah,
And our king, to the Holy One of Israel.

Then You spoke in vision
Of Your  ¹Holy One, and You said,
I have given help to One who is mighty;
I have exalted One chosen from My people.

I have found  ¹David My Servant;
With My holy oil I have anointed Him,

With whom My hand will be established;
My arm will also strengthen Him.

The enemy will not exact anything from Him,
Nor will the son of wickedness afflict Him.

And I will crush His adversaries before Him,
And I will strike those who hate Him.

And My faithfulness and My lovingkindness will be with Him,
And in My name His horn will be exalted.

And I will set His hand on the sea
And His right hand on the rivers.

He will call upon Me, saying, You are My Father,
My God and the rock of My salvation.

I will also make Him the Firstborn,
The highest of the kings of the earth.

I will keep My lovingkindness for Him forever,
And My covenant will stand firm with Him.

And I will establish His seed forever,
And His throne as the days of heaven.

If His children forsake My law
And do not walk in My ordinances,

If they profane My statutes
And do not keep My commandments,

I will punish their transgression with a rod
And their iniquity with stripes.

But My lovingkindness I will not utterly take away from Him,
Nor will I be false to My own faithfulness.

I will not profane My covenant,
Nor will I change what has gone forth from My lips.

Once I have sworn by My holiness;
I will not lie to David.

His seed shall endure forever,
And His throne, like the sun before Me;

It shall be established forever like the moon;
And the witness in the skies is firm. Selah

But You have cast off and rejected;
You have been angry with Your anointed.

You have abhorred the covenant of Your servant;
You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.

You have broken down all his walls;
You have brought his strongholds to ruin.

All who pass by on the way plunder him;
He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have caused all his enemies to rejoice.

Indeed You have turned back the edge of his sword
And have not made him stand in the battle.

You have made his brightness cease
And have cast down his throne to the ground.

You have shortened the days of his youth;
You have covered him with shame. Selah

How long, O Jehovah? Will You hide Yourself forever?
How long will Your wrath burn like fire?

Remember how short my time is —
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

What man will live and not see death?
Will he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Where are Your former acts of lovingkindness, O  ¹Lord,
Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants,
How I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,

With which Your enemies have reproached, O Jehovah,
With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.

Blessed be Jehovah forever.
Amen and Amen.

A Prayer of Moses, the man of God

O Lord, You have been our  ¹dwelling place
In all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth,
And before You gave birth to the earth and the world,
Indeed from eternity to eternity, You are God.

You return man to dust
And say, Return, you sons of men.

For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by
And like a watch in the night.

You sweep them away as with a rain flood; they are as in a sleep:
In the morning they are like grass that comes up anew.

In the morning it flourishes and comes up anew;
In the evening it is cut down, and it dries up.

For we have been consumed by Your anger,
And by Your wrath we have been troubled.

You have set our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.

For all our days have passed away in Your overflowing wrath;
We bring our years to an end like a sigh.

The  ¹days of our years are seventy years,
Or, if because of strength, eighty years;
But their pride is labor and sorrow,
For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

Who knows the power of Your anger,
And Your overflowing wrath according to the fear that is due You?

Teach us then to number our days
That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Return, O Jehovah! How long?
And repent concerning Your servants.

Satisfy us in the morning with Your lovingkindness
That we may give a ringing shout and rejoice all our days.

Cause us to rejoice according to the days that You have afflicted us,
According to the years that we have seen evil.

Let Your work appear to Your servants,
And Your splendor, to their children.

And let the  ¹favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
And establish the work of our hands upon us;
Indeed the work of our hands, establish it.