You are awe-inspiring, O God, as you emerge from your holy temple! It is the God of Israel who gives the people power and strength. God deserves praise!

But as for me, God’s presence is all I need. I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter, as I declare all the things you have done.

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.

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!

You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

The Lord says, “Because he is devoted to me, I will deliver him; I will protect him because he is loyal to me.

Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.

He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.

For you grant him lasting blessings; you give him great joy by allowing him into your presence.

Yes, wild dogs surround me – a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

The Lord’s shout breaks the cedars, the Lord shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

Vindicate me by your justice, O Lord my God! Do not let them gloat over me!

O Lord, your loyal love reaches to the sky; your faithfulness to the clouds.

I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”

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

Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me.

Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

and all people will fear. They will proclaim what God has done, and reflect on his deeds.