A prayer of David. Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.

A psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.

Present to God a thank-offering! Repay your vows to the sovereign One!

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

A song of ascents. From the deep water I cry out to you, O Lord.

A song of ascents. O Lord, for David’s sake remember all his strenuous effort,

For the music director, a psalm of David. O Lord, you examine me and know.

A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O Lord God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.

If a person does not repent, God sharpens his sword and prepares to shoot his bow.

Rich people from Tyre will seek your favor by bringing a gift.

They made the Lord angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

Then observers will say, “Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”

When you see a thief, you join him; you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives.

He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!

Even the birds find a home there, and the swallow builds a nest, where she can protect her young near your altars, O Lord who rules over all, my king and my God.

He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.