1O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.2Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.3O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,4If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause,5An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.6Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:7And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,8Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me,9Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.10My shield is on God, Saviour of the upright in heart!11God is a righteous judge, And He is not angry at all times.12If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden -- He prepareth it,13Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.14Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.15A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.16Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.17I thank Jehovah, According to His righteousness, And praise the name of Jehovah Most High!

To the Overseer, `On the Gittith.' A Psalm of David.1Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth! Who settest thine honour on the heavens.2From the mouths of infants and sucklings Thou hast founded strength, Because of Thine adversaries, To still an enemy and a self-avenger.3For I see Thy heavens, a work of Thy fingers, Moon and stars that Thou didst establish.4What is man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?5And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.6Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.7Sheep and oxen, all of them, And also beasts of the field,8Bird of the heavens, and fish of the sea, Passing through the paths of the seas!9Jehovah, our Lord, How honourable Thy name in all the earth!

To the Overseer, `On the Death of Labben.' -- A Psalm of David.1I confess, O Jehovah, with all my heart, I recount all Thy wonders,2I rejoice and exult in Thee, I praise Thy Name, O Most High.3In mine enemies turning backward, they stumble and perish from Thy face.4For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.5Thou hast rebuked nations, Thou hast destroyed the wicked, Their name Thou hast blotted out to the age and for ever.6O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.7And Jehovah to the age abideth, He is preparing for judgment His throne.8And He judgeth the world in righteousness, He judgeth the peoples in uprightness.9And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.10They trust in Thee who do know Thy name, For Thou hast not forsaken Those seeking Thee, O Jehovah.11Sing ye praise to Jehovah, inhabiting Zion, Declare ye among the peoples His acts,12For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.13Favour me, O Jehovah, See mine affliction by those hating me, Thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,14So that I recount all Thy praise, In the gates of the daughter of Zion. I rejoice on Thy salvation.15Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.16Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.17The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.18For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.19Rise, O Jehovah, let not man be strong, Let nations be judged before Thy face.20Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.