Answer me, O Lord, for your loyal love is good! Because of your great compassion, turn toward me!

May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! Do not let their names be listed with the godly!

I will sing praises to God’s name! I will magnify him as I give him thanks!

The oppressed look on – let them rejoice! You who seek God, may you be encouraged!

My lips will shout for joy! Yes, I will sing your praises! I will praise you when you rescue me!

He will take pity on the poor and needy; the lives of the needy he will save.

If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your loyal followers.

Remember how the enemy hurls insults, O Lord, and how a foolish nation blasphemes your name!

Remember your covenant promises, for the dark regions of the earth are full of places where violence rules.

Rise up, O God! Defend your honor! Remember how fools insult you all day long!

Do not disregard what your enemies say, or the unceasing shouts of those who defy you.

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

The bravehearted were plundered; they “fell asleep.” All the warriors were helpless.

He humbles princes; the kings of the earth regard him as awesome.

He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

O God, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!

Then we will not turn away from you. Revive us and we will pray to you!

O Lord God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!

There must be no other god among you. You must not worship a foreign god.