Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

I recall the old days; I meditate on all you have done; I reflect on your accomplishments.

As a demonstration of your loyal love, destroy my enemies! Annihilate all who threaten my life, for I am your servant.

Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.

My mouth will praise the Lord. Let all who live praise his holy name forever!

the one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who remains forever faithful,

He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the Lord!

He has made his people victorious, and given all his loyal followers reason to praise – the Israelites, the people who are close to him. Praise the Lord!

and execute the judgment to which their enemies have been sentenced. All his loyal followers will be vindicated. Praise the Lord!

He is like a tree planted by flowing streams; it yields its fruit at the proper time, and its leaves never fall off. He succeeds in everything he attempts.

Give sincere homage! Otherwise he will be angry, and you will die because of your behavior, when his anger quickly ignites. How blessed are all who take shelter in him!

Rise up, Lord! Deliver me, my God! Yes, you will strike all my enemies on the jaw; you will break the teeth of the wicked.

But may all who take shelter in you be happy! May they continually shout for joy! Shelter them so that those who are loyal to you may rejoice!

A musical composition by David, which he sang to the Lord concerning a Benjaminite named Cush. O Lord my God, in you I have taken shelter. Deliver me from all who chase me! Rescue me!

For the music director, according to the gittith style; a psalm of David. O Lord, our Lord, how magnificent is your reputation throughout the earth! You reveal your majesty in the heavens above!

I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.

Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering – those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

Love the Lord, all you faithful followers of his! The Lord protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly.