1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.2For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?3Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the *God of the gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.5Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.1O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:2Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.3For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.4Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.5Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.6For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.7For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.8In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah.9But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;10Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;11Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;12Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.15All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,16Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;19Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.20If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange *god,21Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.22But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.23Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.26Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness' sake.
To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; -- a song of the Beloved.1My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.2Thou art fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, in thy majesty and thy splendour;4And in thy splendour ride prosperously, because of truth and meekness and righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.5Thine arrows are sharp -- peoples fall under thee -- in the heart of the king's enemies.6Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of uprightness is the sceptre of thy kingdom:7Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.8Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.9Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.10Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:11And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.12And the daughter of Tyre with a gift, the rich ones among the people, shall court thy favour.13All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold:14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:15With joy and gladness shall they be brought; they shall enter into the king's palace.16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons; princes shalt thou make them in all the earth.17I will make thy name to be remembered throughout all generations; therefore shall the peoples praise thee for ever and ever.