1¤ In thee, O Lord, have I hoped, let me never be confounded: deliver me in thy justice.2Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.3For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou wilt lead me, and nourish me.4Thou wilt bring me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me: for thou art my protector.5Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord, the God of truth.6Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have hoped in the Lord:7I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.8And thou hast not shut me up in the hands of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a spacious place.9Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am afflicted: my eye is troubled with wrath, my soul, and my belly:10For my life is wasted with grief: and my years in sighs. My strength is weakened through poverty and my bones are disturbed.11I am become a reproach among all my enemies, and very much to my neighbours; and a fear to my acquaintance. They that saw me without fled from me.12I am forgotten as one dead from the heart. I am become as a vessel that is destroyed.13For I have heard the blame of many that dwell round about. While they assembled together against me, they consulted to take away my life.14But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.15My lots are in thy hands. Deliver me out of the hands of my enemies; and from them that persecute me.16Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.17Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee. Let the wicked be ashamed, and be brought down to hell.18Let deceitful lips be made dumb. Which speak iniquity against the just, with pride and abuse.19O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the contradiction of tongues.21Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a fortified city.22But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried to thee.23O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth, and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.24Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

To David himself, understanding.1¤ Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.2Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.3Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: I am turned in my anguish, whilst the thorn is fastened.5I have acknowledged my sin to thee, and my injustice I have not concealed. I said I will confess against my self my injustice to the Lord: and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.6For this shall every one that is holy pray to thee in a seasonable time. And yet in a flood of many waters, they shall not come nigh unto him.7Thou art my refuge from the trouble which hath encompassed me: my joy, deliver me from them that surround me.8I will give thee understanding, and I will instruct thee in this way, in which thou shalt go: I will fix my eyes upon thee.9Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.10Many are the scourges of the sinner, but mercy shall encompass him that hopeth in the Lord.11Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just, and glory, all ye right of heart.

1¤ Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh the upright.2Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.3Sing to him a new canticle, sing well unto him with a loud noise.4For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness.5He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.6By the word of the Lord the heavens were established; and all the power of them by the spirit of his mouth:7Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.8Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all the inhabitants of the world be in awe of him.9For he spoke and they were made: he commanded and they were created.10The Lord bringeth to nought the counsels of nations; and he rejecteth the devices of people, and casteth away the counsels of princes.11But the counsel of the Lord standeth for ever: the thoughts of his heart to all generations.12Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance.13The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men.14From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth.15He who hath made the hearts of every one of them: who understandeth all their works.16The king is not saved by a great army: nor shall the giant be saved by his own great strength.17Vain is the horse for safety: neither shall he be saved by the abundance of his strength.18Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.19To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.20Our soul waiteth for the Lord: for he is our helper and protector.21For in him our heart shall rejoice: and in his holy name we have trusted.22Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, as we have hoped in thee.