In God – I boast in his promise – in God I trust, I am not afraid. What can mere men do to me?

Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks, at the mountain where God has decided to live? Indeed the Lord will live there permanently!

Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.

May my accusers be humiliated and defeated! May those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace!

Though you have allowed me to experience much trouble and distress, revive me once again! Bring me up once again from the depths of the earth!

I will express my thanks to you with a stringed instrument, praising your faithfulness, O my God! I will sing praises to you accompanied by a harp, O Holy One of Israel!

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.

May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!

When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.

A psalm; a song for the Sabbath day. It is fitting to thank the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O sovereign One!

The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty, the Lord is robed, he wears strength around his waist. Indeed, the world is established, it cannot be moved.

I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.

They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear.

Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.

The Lord is God and he has delivered us. Tie the offering with ropes to the horns of the altar!

for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: “Sing for us a song about Zion!”

Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

The Lord protects those residing outside their native land; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.