A Psalm of Solomon.

1 I cried unto the Lord in my sore distress, even unto God when sinners assailed.

2 Suddenly the alarm of war was heard before me. He will hearken unto me, for I am full of righteousness.

3 I considered in my heart that I was full of righteousness, because I was prosperous and had become plenteous in children.

4 Their riches were gone forth into all the world, and their glory unto the ends of the earth.

5 They were lifted up to the stars; they said, We shall never fall.

6 But they waxed haughty in their prosperity, and were not able to endure.

7 Their sins were in secret; and I knew it not.

8 Their transgressions were greater than those of the heathen that were before them;

9 The holy things of the Lord they had utterly polluted.