⁶ God has spoken in his sanctuary:^[c]
“I will celebrate!
I will divide up Shechem.^(H)
I will apportion the Valley of Succoth.^(I)
7 Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine,
and Ephraim is my helmet;^(J)
Judah is my scepter.^(K)
8 Moab is my washbasin.^(L)
I throw my sandal on Edom;^(M)
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”^(N)

⁹ Who will bring me to the fortified city?
Who will lead me to Edom?^(O)
10 God, haven’t you rejected us?
God, you do not march out with our armies.^(P)
11 Give us aid against the foe,
for human help is worthless.^(Q)
12 With God we will perform valiantly;^(R)
he will trample our foes.^(S)

⁵ God, you know my foolishness,
and my guilty acts are not hidden from you.^(G)
6 Do not let those who put their hope in you
be disgraced because of me,
Lord God of Armies;
do not let those who seek you
be humiliated because of me,
God of Israel.^(H)
7 For I have endured insults because of you,
and shame has covered my face.^(I)
8 I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons^(J)
9 because zeal for your house has consumed me,^(K)
and the insults of those who insult you
have fallen on me.^(L)
10 I mourned and fasted,
but it brought me insults.^(M)
11 I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
and I was a joke to them.
¹² Those who sit at the city gate talk about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.^(N)

¹³ But as for me, Lord,
my prayer to you is for a time of favor.
In your abundant, faithful love, God,
answer me with your sure salvation.^(O)
14 Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink.
Let me be rescued from those who hate me
and from the deep water.^(P)
15 Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me
or the deep swallow me up;
don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.^(Q)
16 Answer me, Lord,
for your faithful love is good.
In keeping with your abundant compassion,
turn to me.^(R)
17 Don’t hide your face from your servant,
for I am in distress.
Answer me quickly!^(S)
18 Come near to me and redeem me;
ransom me because of my enemies.^(T)

¹⁹ You know the insults I endure—
my shame and disgrace.
You are aware of all my adversaries.^(U)
20 Insults have broken my heart,
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.^(V)
21 Instead, they gave me gall for my food,
and for my thirst
they gave me vinegar to drink.^(W)

²² Let their table set before them be a snare,
and let it be a trap for their allies.^(X)
23 Let their eyes grow too dim to see,
and let their hips continually quake.^(Y)
24 Pour out your rage on them,
and let your burning anger overtake them.^(Z)
25 Make their fortification desolate;
may no one live in their tents.^(AA)
26 For they persecute the one you struck
and talk about the pain of those you wounded.^(AB)
27 Charge them with crime on top of crime;
do not let them share in your righteousness.^(AC)
28 Let them be erased from the book of life
and not be recorded with the righteous.^(AD)

²⁹ But as for me—poor and in pain—
let your salvation protect me, God.^(AE)
30 I will praise God’s name with song
and exalt him with thanksgiving.^(AF)
31 That will please the Lord more than an ox,
more than a bull with horns and hooves.^(AG)
32 The humble will see it and rejoice.
You who seek God, take heart!^(AH)
33 For the Lord listens to the needy
and does not despise
his own who are prisoners.^(AI)

³⁴ Let heaven and earth praise him,
the seas and everything that moves in them,^(AJ)
35 for God will save Zion
and build up^[a] the cities of Judah.
They will live there and possess it.^(AK)
36 The descendants of his servants will inherit it,
and those who love his name will live in it.^(AL)

⁴ Lord God of Armies,
how long will you be angry
with your people’s prayers?^(J)
5 You fed them the bread of tears
and gave them a full measure^[a]
of tears to drink.^(K)
6 You put us at odds with our neighbors;
our enemies mock us.^(L)
7 Restore us, God of Armies;
make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.^(M)

⁸ You dug up a vine from Egypt;
you drove out the nations and planted it.^(N)
9 You cleared a place for it;
it took root and filled the land.^(O)
10 The mountains were covered by its shade,
and the mighty cedars^[b] with its branches.^(P)
11 It sent out sprouts toward the Sea^[c]
and shoots toward the River.^[d](Q)

¹² Why have you broken down its walls
so that all who pass by pick its fruit?^(R)
13 Boars from the forest tear at it
and creatures of the field feed on it.^(S)
14 Return, God of Armies.^(T)
Look down from heaven and see;
take care of this vine,
¹⁵ the root^[e] your right hand planted,
the son^[f] that you made strong for yourself.^(U)
16 It was cut down and burned;
they^[g] perish at the rebuke of your countenance.^(V)
17 Let your hand be with the man at your right hand,
with the son of man
you have made strong for yourself.^(W)
18 Then we will not turn away from you;
revive us, and we will call on your name.^(X)
19 Restore us, Lord, God of Armies;^(Y)
make your face shine on us, so that we may be saved.^(Z)