<p class="poetry">No enemy will be able to exact tribute<n id="1" /> from him;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">a violent oppressor will not be able to humiliate him.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">He spoke to them from a pillar of cloud;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they obeyed his regulations and the ordinance he gave them.p>

<p class="poetry">Many times he delivered<n id="1" /> them,p> <p class="poetry">but they had a rebellious attitude,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and degraded themselves<n id="3" /> by their sin.p>

<p class="poetry">He announced that he would do mighty deeds for his people,p> <p class="poetry">giving them a land that belonged to other nations.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I am surrounded by lions;p> <p class="poetry">I lie down<n id="1" /> among those who want to devour me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">men whose teeth are spears and arrows,p> <p class="poetry">whose tongues are a sharp sword.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A psalm of David, written to get God&#8217;s attention.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lordsc>, do not continue to rebuke me in your anger!p> <p class="poetry">Do not continue to punish me in your raging fury!<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; according to the <i>gittithi> style;<n id="2" /> written by the Korahites, a psalm.p> <p class="poetry">How lovely is the place where you live,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">O <sc>Lord who rules over allsc>!<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For this reason every one of your faithful followers<n id="1" /> should pray to youp> <p class="poetry">while there is a window of opportunity.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Certainly<n id="3" /> when the surging water<n id="4" /> rises,p> <p class="poetry">it will not reach them.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Your wife will be like a fruitful vine<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in the inner rooms of your house;p> <p class="poetry">your children<n id="2" /> will be like olive branches,p> <p class="poetry">as they sit all around your table.p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">May the <sc>Lordsc> answer<n id="2" /> you<n id="3" /> when you are in trouble;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">may the God of Jacob<n id="5" /> make you secure!p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">In you, O <sc>Lordsc>, I have taken shelter!p> <p class="poetry">Never let me be humiliated!p> <p class="poetry">Vindicate me by rescuing me!<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">You hide them with you, where they are safe from the attacks<n id="1" /> of men;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you conceal them in a shelter, where they are safe from slanderous attacks.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A well-written song<n id="2" /> by Asaph.p> <p class="poetry">Why, O God, have you permanently rejected us?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Why does your anger burn<n id="4" /> against the sheep of your pasture?p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">A well-written song<n id="2" /> by Ethan the Ezrachite.p> <p class="poetry">I will sing continually<n id="3" /> about the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s faithful deeds;p> <p class="poetry">to future generations I will proclaim your faithfulness.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you have covered us with darkness.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He made cursing a way of life,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so curses poured into his stomach like waterp> <p class="poetry">and seeped into his bones like oil.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of David.p> <p class="poetry">When I call out, answer me,p> <p class="poetry">O God who vindicates me!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Have mercy on me<n id="4" /> and respond to<n id="5" /> my prayer!p>

<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> holds in his hand a cup fullp> <p class="poetry">of foaming wine mixed with spices,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and pours it out.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Surely all the wicked of the earthp> <p class="poetry">will slurp it up and drink it to its very last drop.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">In your distress you called out and I rescued you.p> <p class="poetry">I answered you from a dark thundercloud.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I tested you at the waters of Meribah.<n id="2" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">The one who weeps as he walks along, carrying his bag<n id="1" /> of seed,p> <p class="poetry">will certainly come in with a shout of joy, carrying his sheaves of grain.<n id="2" />p>