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Hear, My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God.

Offer thanksgiving to God, and pay your vows to the Most High.

But to the wicked, God says, What is it to you to proclaim My statutes, and to take up My covenant on your mouth?

Now think of this, you who forget God, lest I tear, and there not be any to deliver:

Whoever offers thanks glorifies Me; and he who prepares a way, I will show the salvation of God to him.

To the chief musician, A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your loving-kindness, according to themultitude of Your tender mercies; blot outmy transgressions.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Deliver me from the guilt of shedding blood, O God, O God of my salvation; my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

To the chief musician. A Contemplation. A Psalm of David when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil,O hero? The mercy of God is allthe day.

God will likewise break you forever; He shall take you away, even pluck you from your tent and uproot you out of the land of the living. Selah.

Behold, the man who did not set God as his strength; but he trusted in his many riches; he was strong in his destruction.

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

To the Chief musician on Mahalath. A Contemplation; A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They have done corruptly; they have committed abominable wickedness; there is none doing good!

God looked down from Heaven on the sons of mankind, to see if there was any discerning, who was seeking God:

Have the workers of evil not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on God.

There they dreaded with dread, where no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of the one who besieges you; you have put them to shame because God rejects them.

Who gives from Zion the salvation of Israel? When God brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice; Israel shall be glad.

To the Chief Musician on Neginoth. A Contemplation; A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself among us? Save me, O God, by Your name; and judge me by Your strength.

Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.