Protect me, for I am loyal! O my God, deliver your servant, who trusts in you!

They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.

In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the Lord’s holy priest.

He does not fear bad news. He is confident; he trusts in the Lord.

O family of Aaron, trust in the Lord! He is their deliverer and protector.

You loyal followers of the Lord, trust in the Lord! He is their deliverer and protector.

Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

O sovereign Lord, my strong deliverer, you shield my head in the day of battle.

Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the sky! Praise him in the heavens!

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.

The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.

For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments, according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David. Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger! Do not discipline me in your raging fury!

For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times.

He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

Do not reject me in my old age! When my strength fails, do not abandon me!

For I say, “Loyal love is permanently established; in the skies you set up your faithfulness.”

For he will order his angels to protect you in all you do.

The godly grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.

where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live.