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¹O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!

²Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.

³Take control of what I say, O LORD, and guard my lips.

⁴Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness. Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.

⁵Let the godly strike me! It will be a kindness! If they correct me, it is soothing medicine. Don’t let me refuse it. But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds.

⁶When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true.

⁷Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial.

⁸I look to you for help, O Sovereign LORD. You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me.

⁹Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong.

¹⁰Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.

¹I cry out to the LORD; I plead for the LORD’s mercy.

²I pour out my complaints before him and tell him all my troubles.

³When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn. Wherever I go, my enemies have set traps for me.

⁴I look for someone to come and help me, but no one gives me a passing thought! No one will help me; no one cares a bit what happens to me.

⁵Then I pray to you, O LORD. I say, “You are my place of refuge. You are all I really want in life.

⁶Hear my cry, for I am very low. Rescue me from my persecutors, for they are too strong for me.

⁷Bring me out of prison so I can thank you. The godly will crowd around me, for you are good to me.”

¹Hear my prayer, O LORD; listen to my plea! Answer me because you are faithful and righteous.

²Don’t put your servant on trial, for no one is innocent before you.

³My enemy has chased me. He has knocked me to the ground and forces me to live in darkness like those in the grave.

⁴I am losing all hope; I am paralyzed with fear.

⁵I remember the days of old. I ponder all your great works and think about what you have done.

⁶I lift my hands to you in prayer. I thirst for you as parched land thirsts for rain. Interlude

⁷Come quickly, LORD, and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don’t turn away from me, or I will die.

⁸Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I give myself to you.

⁹Rescue me from my enemies, LORD; I run to you to hide me.

¹⁰Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing.

¹¹For the glory of your name, O LORD, preserve my life. Because of your faithfulness, bring me out of this distress.

¹²In your unfailing love, silence all my enemies and destroy all my foes, for I am your servant.

¹Praise the LORD, who is my rock. He trains my hands for war and gives my fingers skill for battle.

²He is my loving ally and my fortress, my tower of safety, my rescuer. He is my shield, and I take refuge in him. He makes the nations submit to me.

³O LORD, what are human beings that you should notice them, mere mortals that you should think about them?

⁴For they are like a breath of air; their days are like a passing shadow.

⁵Open the heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains so they billow smoke.

⁶Hurl your lightning bolts and scatter your enemies! Shoot your arrows and confuse them!

⁷Reach down from heaven and rescue me; rescue me from deep waters, from the power of my enemies.

⁸Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead.

⁹I will sing a new song to you, O God! I will sing your praises with a ten-stringed harp.

¹⁰For you grant victory to kings! You rescued your servant David from the fatal sword.

¹¹Save me! Rescue me from the power of my enemies. Their mouths are full of lies; they swear to tell the truth, but they lie instead.

¹²May our sons flourish in their youth like well-nurtured plants. May our daughters be like graceful pillars, carved to beautify a palace.

¹³May our barns be filled with crops of every kind. May the flocks in our fields multiply by the thousands, even tens of thousands,

¹⁴and may our oxen be loaded down with produce. May there be no enemy breaking through our walls, no going into captivity, no cries of alarm in our town squares.

¹⁵Yes, joyful are those who live like this! Joyful indeed are those whose God is the LORD.

¹I will exalt you, my God and King, and praise your name forever and ever.

²I will praise you every day; yes, I will praise you forever.

³Great is the LORD! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure his greatness.

⁴Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts; let them proclaim your power.

⁵I will meditate on your majestic, glorious splendor and your wonderful miracles.

⁶Your awe-inspiring deeds will be on every tongue; I will proclaim your greatness.

⁷Everyone will share the story of your wonderful goodness; they will sing with joy about your righteousness.

⁸The LORD is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.

⁹The LORD is good to everyone. He showers compassion on all his creation.

¹⁰All of your works will thank you, LORD, and your faithful followers will praise you.

¹¹They will speak of the glory of your kingdom; they will give examples of your power.

¹²They will tell about your mighty deeds and about the majesty and glory of your reign.

¹³For your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. You rule throughout all generations. The LORD always keeps his promises; he is gracious in all he does.

¹⁴The LORD helps the fallen and lifts those bent beneath their loads.

¹⁵The eyes of all look to you in hope; you give them their food as they need it.

¹⁶When you open your hand, you satisfy the hunger and thirst of every living thing.

¹⁷The LORD is righteous in everything he does; he is filled with kindness.

¹⁸The LORD is close to all who call on him, yes, to all who call on him in truth.

¹⁹He grants the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cries for help and rescues them.

²⁰The LORD protects all those who love him, but he destroys the wicked.

²¹I will praise the LORD, and may everyone on earth bless his holy name forever and ever.

¹Praise the LORD! Let all that I am praise the LORD.

²I will praise the LORD as long as I live. I will sing praises to my God with my dying breath.

³Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there.

⁴When they breathe their last, they return to the earth, and all their plans die with them.

⁵But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their God.

⁶He made heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He keeps every promise forever.

⁷He gives justice to the oppressed and food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

⁸The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are weighed down. The LORD loves the godly.

⁹The LORD protects the foreigners among us. He cares for the orphans and widows, but he frustrates the plans of the wicked.

¹⁰The LORD will reign forever. He will be your God, O Jerusalem, throughout the generations. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! How good to sing praises to our God! How delightful and how fitting!

²The LORD is rebuilding Jerusalem and bringing the exiles back to Israel.

³He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.

⁴He counts the stars and calls them all by name.

⁵How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!

⁶The LORD supports the humble, but he brings the wicked down into the dust.

⁷Sing out your thanks to the LORD; sing praises to our God with a harp.

⁸He covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the grass grow in mountain pastures.

⁹He gives food to the wild animals and feeds the young ravens when they cry.

¹⁰He takes no pleasure in the strength of a horse or in human might.

¹¹No, the LORD’s delight is in those who fear him, those who put their hope in his unfailing love.

¹²Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem! Praise your God, O Zion!

¹³For he has strengthened the bars of your gates and blessed your children within your walls.

¹⁴He sends peace across your nation and satisfies your hunger with the finest wheat.

¹⁵He sends his orders to the world — how swiftly his word flies!

¹⁶He sends the snow like white wool; he scatters frost upon the ground like ashes.

¹⁷He hurls the hail like stones. Who can stand against his freezing cold?

¹⁸Then, at his command, it all melts. He sends his winds, and the ice thaws.

¹⁹He has revealed his words to Jacob, his decrees and regulations to Israel.

²⁰He has not done this for any other nation; they do not know his regulations. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens! Praise him from the skies!

²Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all the armies of heaven!

³Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you twinkling stars!

⁴Praise him, skies above! Praise him, vapors high above the clouds!

⁵Let every created thing give praise to the LORD, for he issued his command, and they came into being.

⁶He set them in place forever and ever. His decree will never be revoked.

⁷Praise the LORD from the earth, you creatures of the ocean depths,

⁸fire and hail, snow and clouds, wind and weather that obey him,

⁹mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,

¹⁰wild animals and all livestock, small scurrying animals and birds,

¹¹kings of the earth and all people, rulers and judges of the earth,

¹²young men and young women, old men and children.

¹³Let them all praise the name of the LORD. For his name is very great; his glory towers over the earth and heaven!

¹⁴He has made his people strong, honoring his faithful ones — the people of Israel who are close to him. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song. Sing his praises in the assembly of the faithful.

²O Israel, rejoice in your Maker. O people of Jerusalem, exult in your King.

³Praise his name with dancing, accompanied by tambourine and harp.

⁴For the LORD delights in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.

⁵Let the faithful rejoice that he honors them. Let them sing for joy as they lie on their beds.

⁶Let the praises of God be in their mouths, and a sharp sword in their hands —

⁷to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

⁸to bind their kings with shackles and their leaders with iron chains,

⁹to execute the judgment written against them. This is the glorious privilege of his faithful ones. Praise the LORD!

¹Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heaven!

²Praise him for his mighty works; praise his unequaled greatness!

³Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn; praise him with the lyre and harp!

⁴Praise him with the tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flutes!

⁵Praise him with a clash of cymbals; praise him with loud clanging cymbals.

⁶Let everything that breathes sing praises to the LORD! Praise the LORD!