I told you about my ways and you answered me. Teach me your statutes!

Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.

All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

Listen, O princess! Observe and pay attention! Forget your homeland and your family!

For the music director, a psalm by the Korahites. Listen to this, all you nations! Pay attention, all you inhabitants of the world!

I will learn a song that imparts wisdom; I will then sing my insightful song to the accompaniment of a harp.

Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

For the music director; to be played on a stringed instrument; written by David. O God, hear my cry for help! Pay attention to my prayer!

You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

A well-written song by Asaph. Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!

A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!

A prayer of David. Listen O Lord! Answer me! For I am oppressed and needy.

The king authorized his release; the ruler of nations set him free.

He generously gives to the needy; his integrity endures. He will be vindicated and honored.

My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.

who serve in the Lord’s temple, in the courts of the temple of our God.

It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.

Yes, he struck a rock and water flowed out, streams gushed forth. But can he also give us food? Will he provide meat for his people?”

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Before our very eyes may the shed blood of your servants be avenged among the nations!

Our cattle will be weighted down with produce. No one will break through our walls, no one will be taken captive, and there will be no terrified cries in our city squares.