Psalm 13–15

Psalm 13

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?

^aHow long will You hide Your face from me?

²How long shall I take counsel in my soul,

Having sorrow in my heart daily?

How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

³Consider and hear me, O Lord my God;

^bEnlighten my eyes,

^cLest I sleep the sleep of death;

⁴Lest my enemy say,

“I have prevailed against him”;

Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

⁵But I have trusted in Your mercy;

My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.

⁶I will sing to the Lord,

Because He has dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 14

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹The ^afool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”

They are corrupt,

They have done abominable works,

There is none who does good.

^2bThe Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,

To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.

^3cThey have all turned aside,

They have together become corrupt;

There is none who does good,

No, not one.

⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,

Who eat up my people as they eat bread,

And ^ddo not call on the Lord?

⁵There they are in great fear,

For God is with the generation of the righteous.

⁶You shame the counsel of the poor,

But the Lord is his ^erefuge.

^7fOh, ¹that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!

^gWhen the Lord brings back ²the captivity of His people,

Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.

Psalm 15

A Psalm of David.

¹Lord, ^awho may ¹abide in Your tabernacle?

Who may dwell in Your holy hill?

²He who walks uprightly,

And works righteousness,

And speaks the ^btruth in his heart;

³He who ^cdoes not backbite with his tongue,

Nor does evil to his neighbor,

^dNor does he ²take up a reproach against his friend;

^4eIn whose eyes a vile person is despised,

But he honors those who fear the Lord;

He who ^fswears to his own hurt and does not change;

⁵He who does not put out his money at usury,

Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.

He who does these things ^gshall never be moved.