2 Prove me, O Lord, and try me: examine my reins, and mine heart.

3 For thy loving kindness is before mine eyes: therefore have I walked in thy truth.

4 I have not haunted with vain(a) persons, neither kept company with the dissemblers.

5 I have hated the assembly of the evil, and have not companied(a) with the wicked.

6 I will wash mine hands in innocency, O Lord, and compass thine altar,

7 That I may declare with the voice of thanksgiving(b), and set forth all thy wondrous works.

8 O Lord, I have loved the habitation of thine house, and the place where thine honor dwelleth.

9 Gather not my soul with the sinners, nor my life with the bloody men:

10 In whose hands is wickedness, and their right hand is full of bribes.

11 But I will walk in mine innocency: redeem me therefore, and be merciful unto me.

12 My foot standeth in uprightness: I will praise thee, O Lord, in the Congregations.

Related Scripture Study;

(a) Psalm 1:1

(b) Psalm 147:7

2 My God, I trust in thee: let me not be confounded: let not mine enemies rejoice over me.

3 So all that hope in thee, shall not be ashamed: but let them be confounded, that transgress without cause.

4 Shew me thy ways, O Lord, and teach me thy paths.

5 Lead me forth in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation: in thee do I trust all the day.

6 Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies, and thy loving kindness:(a) for they have been forever.

7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellions, but according to thy kindness(a) remember thou me, even for thy goodness sake, O Lord.

8 Gracious and righteous is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

9 Them that be meek, will he guide in judgment, and teach the humble his way.

10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

11 For thy Name’s sake, O Lord, be merciful unto mine iniquity, for it is great.

12 What man is he that feareth the Lord? him will he teach the way that he shall choose.

13 His soul shall dwell at ease, and his seed shall inherit the land.

14 The secret of the Lord is revealed to them, that fear him: and his covenant to give them understanding.

15 Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord: for he will bring my feet out of the net.

16 Turn thy face unto me, and have mercy upon me: for I am desolate and poor.

17 The sorrows of mine heart are enlarged: draw me out of my troubles.

18 Look upon mine affliction and my travel, and forgive all my sins.

19 Behold mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

20 Keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be confounded, for I trust in thee.

21 Let mine uprightness and equity preserve me: for mine hope is in thee.

2 For he hath founded it upon the seas: and established it upon the floods.

3 Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place?

4 Even he that hath innocent hands, and a pure heart: which hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

5 He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek thy face, this is Jacob. Selah.

7 Lift up your heads ye gates, and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

8 Who is this King of glory? the Lord, strong and mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle.

9 Lift up your heads, ye gates, and lift up yourselves, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

10 Who is this King of glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

2 He maketh me to rest in green pasture, and leadeth me by the still waters.

3 He restoreth my soul, and leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his Name’s sake.

4 Yea, though I should walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me: thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

5 Thou doest prepare a table before me in the sight of mine adversaries: thou doest anoint mine head with oil, and my cup runneth over.

6 Doubtless kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall remain a long season in the house of the Lord.

2 O my God, I cry by day, but thou hearest not, and by night, but have no audience.

3 But thou art holy, and doest inhabit the praises of Israel.

4 Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

5 They called upon thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

6 But I am a worm, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people.

7 All they that see me, have me in derision: they make a mow and nod the head, saying,

8 He trusted in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him(b), seeing he loveth him.

9 But thou didst draw me out of ye womb: thou gavest me hope, even at my mother’s breasts.

10 I was cast upon thee, even from ye womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.

11 Be not far from me, because trouble is near: for there is none to help me.

12 Many young bulls have compassed me: mighty bulls of Bashan have closed me about.

13 They gape upon me with their mouths, as a ramping and roaring lion.

14 I am like water poured out(c), and all my bones are out of joint: mine heart is like wax: it is molten in the midst of my bowels.

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

16 For dogs have compassed me, and the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced mine hands and my feet.

17 I may tell all my bones: yet they behold, and look upon me.

18 They part my garments(d) among them, and cast lots upon my vesture(e).

19 But be thou not far off, O Lord, my strength: hasten to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword: my desolate soul from the power of the dog.

21 Save me from the lion’s mouth, and answer me in saving me from the horns of the unicorns.

22 I will declare thy Name unto my brethren: in the midst of the Congregation will I praise thee, saying,

23 Praise the Lord, ye that fear him: magnify ye him, all the seed of Jacob, and fear ye him, all the seed of Israel.

24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred ye affliction of the poor: neither hath he hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard.

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great Congregation: my vows will I perform before them that fear him.

26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied: they that seek after the Lord, shall praise him: your heart shall live forever.

27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and turn to the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

28 For the kingdom is the Lords, and he ruleth among the nations.

29 All they that be fat in the earth, shall eat and worship: all they that go down into the dust, shall bow before him, even he that cannot quicken his own soul.

30 Their seed shall serve him: it shall be counted unto the Lord for a generation.

2 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not denied him the request of his lips. Selah.

3 For thou didst prevent* him with liberal blessings, and didst set a crown of pure gold upon his head.

4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life forever and ever.

5 His glory is great in thy salvation: dignity and honor hast thou laid upon him.

6 For thou hast set him as blessings forever: thou hast made him glad with the joy of thy countenance.

7 Because the King trusteth in the Lord, and in the mercy of the most High, he shall not slide.

8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies, and thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee.

9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thine anger: the Lord shall destroy them in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

10 Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from the children of men.

11 For they intended evil against thee, and imagined mischief, but they shall not prevail.

12 Therefore shalt thou put them apart, and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against their faces.

2 Send thee help from the Sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.

3 Let him remember all thine offerings, and turn thy burnt offerings into ashes. Selah:

4 And grant thee according to thine heart, and fulfill all thy purpose:

5 That we may rejoice in thy salvation, and set up the banner in the Name of our God, when the Lord shall perform all thy petitions.

6 Now know I that the Lord will help his anointed, and will hear him from his Sanctuary, by the mighty help of his right hand.

7 Some trust♠ in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.

8 They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen, and stand upright.

2 Day unto day uttereth the same, and night unto night teacheth knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

4 Their line is gone forth through all the earth, and their words into the ends of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.

5 Which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth like a mighty man to run his race.

6 His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his compass is unto the ends of ye same, and none is hid from the heat thereof.

7 The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, and giveth wisdom unto the simple.

8 The statutes of the Lord are right and rejoice the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, and giveth light unto the eyes.

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, and endureth forever: the judgments of the Lord are truth: they are righteous altogether,

10 And more to be desired than gold, yea, then much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey comb.

11 Moreover by them is thy servant made circumspect, and in keeping of them there is great reward.

12 Who can understand his faults? cleanse me from secret faults.

13 Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sins: let them not reign over me: so shall I be upright, and made clean from much wickedness.

2 Let my sentence come forth from thy presence, and let thine eyes behold equity.

3 Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night: thou hast tried me, and foundest nothing: for I was purposed that my mouth should not offend.♠

4 Concerning the works of men, by the words of thy lips I kept me from the paths of the cruel man.

5 Stay my steps in thy paths, that my feet do not slide.

6 I have called upon thee: surely thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words.

7 Shew thy marvelous mercies, thou that art the Savior of them that trust in thee, from such as resist thy right hand.

8 Keep me as the apple of the eye: hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

9 From the wicked that oppress me, from mine enemies, which compass me round about for my soul.

10 They are enclosed in their own fat, and they have spoken proudly with their mouth.

11 They have compassed us now in our steps: they have set their eyes to bring down to the ground:

12 Like as a lion♣ that is greedy of prey, and as it were a lion’s whelp lurking in secret places.

13 Up Lord, disappoint him: cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked with thy sword,

14 From men by thine hand, O Lord, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thine hid treasure: their children have enough, and leave the rest of their substance for their children.

2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my well doing extendeth not to thee,

3 But to the Saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent: all my delight is in them.

4 The sorrows of them, that offer to another god, shall be multiplied: their offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make mention♠ of their names with my lips.

5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou shalt maintain my lot.

6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places: yea, I have a fair heritage.

2 He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

3 He that slandereth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor receiveth a false report against his neighbor.

4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned, but he honoreth them that fear the Lord: he that sweareth to his own hindrance and changeth not.