You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

When you send your life-giving breath, they are created, and you replenish the surface of the ground.

May the splendor of the Lord endure! May the Lord find pleasure in the living things he has made!

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar.

and how he made a vow to the Lord, and swore an oath to the powerful ruler of Jacob.

until I find a place for the Lord, a fine dwelling place for the powerful ruler of Jacob.”

How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Praise the Lord! Sing to the Lord a new song! Praise him in the assembly of the godly!

I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices, along with the smell of sacrificial rams. I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah)

For this reason every one of your faithful followers should pray to you while there is a window of opportunity. Certainly when the surging water rises, it will not reach them.

Ask me, and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the earth as your personal property.

As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

Let them exalt him in the assembly of the people! Let them praise him in the place where the leaders preside!

You are my source of strength! I will wait for you! For God is my refuge.

He sent a man ahead of them – Joseph was sold as a servant.

I will thank the Lord profusely, in the middle of a crowd I will praise him,

A song of ascents. I look up toward the hills. From where does my help come?

A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven.

A song of ascents. “Since my youth they have often attacked me,” let Israel say.