Save me, God, because the floods Do so environ me, That ev'n unto my very soul Come in the waters be. Downward in deep mire I sink, Where standing there is none: I am into deep waters come, Where floods have o'er me gone. I weary with my crying am, My throat is also dried; Mine eyes do fail, while for my God I waiting do abide. Those men that do without a cause Bear hatred unto me, Than are the hairs upon my head In number more they be: Lord, you know my folly, my sins Not covered are from thee. Let none that wait on thee be shamed, Lord God of hosts, for me. For I have borne reproach for thee, My face is hid with shame. To brethren strange, to mother's sons An alien I became. Because the zeal did eat me up, Which to thine house I bear; And the reproaches cast at thee, Upon me fallen are. My tears and fasts, t' afflict my soul, Were turned to my shame. When sackcloth I did wear, to them A proverb I became. But, in an acceptable time, My pray'r, Lord, is to thee: In truth of thy salvation, Lord, And mercy great, hear me. Deliver me out of the mire, From sinking do me keep; Free me from those that do me hate, And from the waters deep. Hear me, O Lord, because thy love And kindness is most good; Turn unto me, according to Thy mercies' multitude. Nor from thy servant hide thy face: I'm troubled, soon attend. Draw near my soul, and it redeem; Me from my foes defend. Reproach hath broke my heart; I'm full Of grief: I looked for one To pity me, but none I found; Comforters found I none. They also bitter gall did give Unto me for my meat: They gave me vinegar to drink, When as my thirst was great. Before them let their table prove A snare; and do thou make Their welfare and prosperity A trap themselves to take. Let thou their eyes so darkened be, That sight may them forsake; And let their loins be made by thee Continually to shake. Pour thy fury out on them, And let thy indignation; And thy wrathful anger, Lord, Fast hold take them upon. All waste and desolate let be Their habitation; And in all their tabernacles Let inhabitants be none. Add thou iniquity unto Their former wickedness; And do not let them come at all Into thy righteousness. Out of the book of life let them Be razed and blotted quite; Among the just and righteous Let their names be never writ. But now become exceeding poor And sorrowful am I: By thy salvation, O my God, Let me be set on high. The name of God I with a song Most cheerfully will praise; And I, in giving thanks to him, His name shall highly raise. When this the humble men shall see, It joy to them shall give: O all ye that do seek the Lord, Your hearts shall ever live. For God the poor hears, and will not His prisoners contemn. Let heav'n, and earth, and seas, him praise, And all that move in them. God will Judah's cities build, And he will Zion save, That they may dwell therein, and it In sure possession have. And they that are his servants' seed Inherit shall the same; So shall they have their dwelling there That love his blessèd name.

In the assembly of the gods our God doth stand; He judgeth them among. In the assembly of the gods our God doth stand; He judgeth them among. How long, accepting persons vile, will ye give judgment wrong? Defend the weak and fatherless; to all the poor and destitute do right. Defend the weak and fatherless; to all the poor and destitute do right. The needy and oppressed set free; rid them from ill men's might. I said that ye are gods, and are Sons of the Highest all: But ye shall die like men, and as One of the princes fall. O God, do thou raise up thyself, The earth to judgment call: For thou, as thine inheritance, Shalt take the nations all. They know not, nor will they understand; in darkness they walk on: They know not, nor will they understand; in darkness they walk on: All the foundations of the earth out of their course are gone.

Do ye decree, O gods, what is right? Do ye speak righteousness? Do them that are the sons of men, Judge ye with uprightness? Yea, ev'n within your very hearts Ye wickedness have done; And ye the violence of your hands Do weigh the earth upon. Wicked men estranged are, Ev'n from the womb; They, speaking lies, do stray As to the world they come. Their teeth, God, in their mouths Break thou in pieces small; The teeth break out, O Lord, Of these young lions all. Unto a serpent's poison like Their poison doth appear; Yea, they are like the adder deaf, That closely stops its ear Let them like waters melt away, Which downward still do flow: In pieces cut his arrows all, When he shall bend his bow. Like a snail that melts away, Let them be gone; Like a stillborn child that Never sees the sun. Their teeth, God, in their mouths Break thou in pieces small; The teeth break out, O Lord, Of these young lions all. He shall them take away before Your pots the thorns can find, Both living, and in fury great, As with a stormy wind. The righteous, when he vengeance sees, He shall be joyful then; The righteous one shall wash his feet In blood of wicked men. So all shall say: the righteous Shall have their reward And as a judge on earth There truly is a God Their teeth, God, in their mouths Break thou in pieces small; The teeth break out, O Lord, Of these young lions all.

O Lord, how my foes are increased And against me many rise. Many say of my soul that for me In God no succor lies. Yet thou art my shield and glory And the lifter of mine head. I cried, and, from his holy hill, The Lord me answer made. I laid me down and slept; I waked; For God sustained me. I will not fear though thousands ten Set round against me be. Arise, O Lord; save me, my God; For thou my foes hast stroke All on the cheek-bone, and the teeth Of wicked men hast broke. Salvation doth appertain Unto the Lord alone: Thy blessing, Lord, for evermore Thy people is upon.

I in the Lord do put my trust: How is it then that ye Say to my soul, Flee, as a bird, Unto your mountain high? For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, Their shafts on string they fit, That those who upright are in heart They privily may hit. If the foundations be destroyed, What hath the righteous done? God in his holy temple is, In heaven is his throne: His eyes do see, his eye-lids try Men's sons. The just he proves: But his soul hates the wicked man, And him that vi'lence loves. Snares, fire and brimstone, furious storms, On sinners he shall rain: This, as the portion of their cup, Doth unto them pertain. Because the Lord most righteous doth In righteousness delight; And with a pleasant countenance Beholdeth the upright.

O God, the heathen entered have Thine heritage; by them Defilèd is thy house: on heaps They laid Jerusalem. The bodies of thy servants they Have cast forth to be meat To rav'nous fowls; thy dear saints' flesh They gave to beasts to eat. Their blood about Jerusalem Like water they have shed; And there was none to bury them When they were slain and dead. How long, Lord, shall thine anger last? Wilt thou still keep the same? And shall thy fervent jealousy Burn like unto a flame? Why say the heathen, where's their God? Let him to them be known; When those who shed thy servants' blood Are in our sight o'erthrown. O let the pris'ner's sighs ascend Before thy sight on high; Preserve those in thy mighty pow'r That are designed to die. Against us mind not former sins; Thy tender mercies show; Let them prevent us speedily, For we're brought very low. For thy name's glory help us, Lord, Who hast our Savior been: Deliver us; for thy name's sake, O purge away our sin. So we thy folk, and pasture-sheep, Shall give thee thanks always; And unto generations all We will show forth thy praise. On heathen pour thy fury forth, That have thee never known, And on those kingdoms which thy name Have never called And to our neighbors' bosom cause It sev'n-fold rendered be, Ev'n the reproach wherewith they have, Lord, reproachèd thee. For these are they who Jacob have Devoured cruelly; And they his habitation Have caused waste to lie.

Help, Lord, because the godly man Doth fade away; And from among the sons of men The faithful do decay. Unto his neighbor every one Doth utter vanity: They with a double heart do speak, And lips of flattery. God shall cutoff flattering lips, Tongues that speak proudly thus, We'll with our tongue prevail Who is lord of us? For poor oppressed, and for the sighs Of needy, rise will I, Says God, and him in safety set From such as him defy. The words of God are words most pure; They be like silver tried In earthen furnace, seven times That hath been purified. Lord, thou shalt them preserve and keep For ever from this race. On each side walk the wicked, when Vile men are high in place.

My God, deliver me from those That are mine enemies; Do thou me defend from those That up against me rise. Do thou deliver me from them That work iniquity; Give me safety from the men Of bloody cruelty. Lo, they for my soul lay wait: The mighty do combine Against me not for my fault, Nor any sin of mine. r They run, and, without fault in me, Themselves ready make: Awake to meet me with thy help; Do thou notice take. Behold, they gnash out with their mouths, And in their lips are swords: They do say thus, Who is he That now doth hear our words? Awake O Lord God of hosts, Thou God of Israel, To visit heathen all: spare none That wickedly rebel. At evening they go to and fro; They make great noise and howl, Like a dog, and in The city they prowl Thou, Lord, shall laugh at them, And all the heathen mock. While they’re in power I'll wait on thee; God my high rock. For their mouth's sin, and for the words That from their lips do fly, Let them be taken in their pride; Because they curse and lie. In wrath consume them, them consume, That so they may not be: And that in Jacob God doth rule To th' earth's ends let them see. He of my mercy that is God Betimes shall me prevent; Upon mine enemies God shall let Me see mine heart's content. Them slay not, lest my folk forget; But scatter them abroad By thy strong power; and bring them down, O thou our shield and God. And let them wander up and down, In seeking food to eat; And let them grudge when they shall not Be satisfied with meat. O God, thou art my strength, I will Sing praises unto thee; For God is my defense, a God Of mercy unto me. At evening they go to and fro; They make great noise and howl, Like a dog, and in The city they prowl But of thy power I will sing; At morn thy mercy praise: For thou to me a refuge was, In troubled days.

Lord, from the ill and froward man Give me deliverance, And do thou safe preserve me from The man of violence: Who in their heart mischievous things Are meditating ever; And they for war assembled are Continually together. Much like unto a serpent's tongue Their tongues they sharp do make; And underneath their lips there lies The poison of a snake. Lord, keep me from the wicked's hands, From violent men me save; Who utterly to overthrow My goings purposed have. The proud for me a snare have hid, And cords; yea, they a net Have by the way-side for me spread; They gins for me have set. I said unto the Lord, Thou art My God: unto the cry Of all my supplications, Lord, do thine ear apply. O God the Lord, who art the strength Of my salvation: A covering in the day of war My head thou hast put on. Unto the wicked man, O Lord, His wishes do not grant; Nor further thou his ill device, Lest they themselves should vaunt. As for the head and chief of those About that compass me, Even by the mischief of their lips Let thou them covered be. Let burning coals upon them fall, Them throw in fiery flame, And in deep pits, that they no more May rise out of the same. Let not an evil speaker be On earth established: Mischief shall hunt the violent man, Till he be ruin-ed. I know God will the afflicted's cause Maintain, and poor men's right. Surely the just shall praise thy name; Th' upright dwell in thy sight. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

The Lord's my light and saving health, Who shall make me dismayed? My life's strength is the Lord, of whom Then shall I be afraid? When as my enemies and foes, Most wicked persons all, To eat my flesh against me rose, They stumbled and did fall. Against me though an host encamp, My heart yet fearless is: Though war against me rise, I will Be confident in this. One thing I of the Lord desire, And will seek to obtain, That all days of my life I may Within God's house remain; That I the beauty of the Lord Behold may and admire, And that I in his holy place May reverently enquire. For he in his pavilion shall Me hide in evil days; In secret of his tent me hide, And on a rock me raise. Now, even at this present time, My head shall lifted be Above all those that are my foes, And round encompass me: Unto his tabernacle I will sacrifices bring Of joyfulness; I'll sing, yes, I To God will praises sing. O Lord, give ear unto my voice, When I do cry to thee; Upon me also mercy have, And do thou answer me. When thou didst say, seek ye my face, Then unto thee reply Thus did my heart, above all things Thy face, Lord, seek will I. Far from me hide not thou thy face; Put not away from thee Thy servant in thy wrath: thou hast An helper been to me. O God of my salvation, Leave me not, nor forsake: Though me my parents both should leave, The Lord will me up take. O Lord, instruct me in thy way, To me a leader be In a plain path, because of those That hatred bear to me. Give me not to mine enemies' will; For witnesses that lie Against me risen are, and such As breathe out cruelty. I fainted had, unless that I Believed had to see The Lord's own goodness in the land Of them that living be. Wait on the Lord, and be thou strong, And he shall strength afford Unto thine heart; yea, do thou wait, I say, upon the Lord.