His breath kindles coals. A flame goes out of his mouth.
There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.
The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can’t be moved.
His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.
When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.
He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.
Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.
I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.
Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
In Yahweh, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain!”
If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?
There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;
from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.
They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.
The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
Don’t be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is no one to help.
Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.
You who fear Yahweh, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, glorify him! Stand in awe of him, all you descendants of Israel!
Of you comes my praise in the great assembly. I will pay my vows before those who fear him.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
What man is he who fears Yahweh? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.
The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.
Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.
Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
A horse is a vain thing for safety, neither does he deliver any by his great power.
Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness;
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants. None of those who take refuge in him shall be condemned.
An inner sanctuary is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”
Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.
But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
“Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more.”
He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
though its waters roar and are troubled, though the mountains tremble with their swelling. Selah.
The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
Come, see Yahweh’s works, what desolations he has made in the earth.
For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.
Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
The righteous also will see it, and fear, and laugh at him, saying,
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.
For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven’t set God before them. Selah.
Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.
My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.
I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.
Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness.” Selah.
“I would hurry to a shelter from the stormy wind and storm.”
God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.












