1Deliver me from my enemies, my God.
Set me on high from those who rise up against me.
2Deliver me from the workers of iniquity.
Save me from the bloodthirsty men.
3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul.
The mighty gather themselves together against me,
not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
4I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me.
Rise up, behold, and help me!
5You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel,
rouse yourself to punish the nations.
Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.
Selah.
6They return at evening, howling like dogs,
and prowl around the city.
7Behold, they spew with their mouth.
Swords are in their lips,
“For”, they say, “who hears us?”
8But you, Yahweh, laugh at them.
You scoff at all the nations.
9Oh, my Strength, I watch for you,
for God is my high tower.
10My God will go before me with his loving kindness.
God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
11Don’t kill them, or my people may forget.
Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.
12For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips,
let them be caught in their pride,
for the curses and lies which they utter.
13Consume them in wrath.
Consume them, and they will be no more.
Let them know that God rules in Jacob,
to the ends of the earth.
Selah.
14At evening let them return.
Let them howl like a dog, and go around the city.
15They shall wander up and down for food,
and wait all night if they aren’t satisfied.
16But I will sing of your strength.
Yes, I will sing aloud of your loving kindness in the morning.
For you have been my high tower,
a refuge in the day of my distress.
17To you, my strength, I will sing praises.
For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
1God, you have rejected us.
You have broken us down.
You have been angry.
Restore us, again.
2You have made the land tremble.
You have torn it.
Mend its fractures,
for it quakes.
3You have shown your people hard things.
You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
4You have given a banner to those who fear you,
that it may be displayed because of the truth.
Selah.
5So that your beloved may be delivered,
save with your right hand, and answer us.
6God has spoken from his sanctuary:
“I will triumph.
I will divide Shechem,
and measure out the valley of Succoth.
7Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine.
Ephraim also is the defense of my head.
Judah is my scepter.
8Moab is my wash basin.
I will throw my shoe on Edom.
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
9Who will bring me into the strong city?
Who has led me to Edom?
10Haven’t you, God, rejected us?
You don’t go out with our armies, God.
11Give us help against the adversary,
for the help of man is vain.
12Through God we shall do valiantly,
for it is he who will tread down our adversaries.
1Rejoice in Yahweh, you righteous!
Praise is fitting for the upright.
2Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre.
Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
3Sing to him a new song.
Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
4For Yahweh’s word is right.
All his work is done in faithfulness.
5He loves righteousness and justice.
The earth is full of the loving kindness of Yahweh.
6By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made;
all their army by the breath of his mouth.
7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap.
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.
8Let all the earth fear Yahweh.
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
9For he spoke, and it was done.
He commanded, and it stood firm.
10Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing.
He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
11The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever,
the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
12Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh,
the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.
13Yahweh looks from heaven.
He sees all the sons of men.
14From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
15he who fashions all of their hearts;
and he considers all of their works.
16There is no king saved by the multitude of an army.
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
17A horse is a vain thing for safety,
neither does he deliver any by his great power.
18Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him,
on those who hope in his loving kindness;
19to deliver their soul from death,
to keep them alive in famine.
20Our soul has waited for Yahweh.
He is our help and our shield.
21For our heart rejoices in him,
because we have trusted in his holy name.
22Let your loving kindness be on us, Yahweh,
since we have hoped in you.