The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.

O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is perished with them.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

The LORD is King forever and ever: the nations are perished out of his land.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

The wicked prowl on every side, when vile men are exalted.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness reaches not to you;

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the noble, in whom is all my delight.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Let my vindication come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are right.

They are enclosed in their own fat hearts: with their mouth they speak proudly.

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

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

For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous act, which they are not able to perform.

[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

I was cast upon you from birth: you are my God from my mother's womb.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my body.

Yea, 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.

Lead me in your truth, and teach me: for you are the God of my salvation; on you do I wait all the day.

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

My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring me out of my distresses.

Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

For you are my rock and my fortress; therefore for your name's sake lead me, and guide me.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, you are my God.

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

You are my hiding place; you shall preserve me from trouble; you shall surround me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.

Your righteousness is like the great mountains; your judgments are a great deep: O LORD, you preserve man and beast.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.

He is ever merciful, and lends; and his descendants are blessed.

For the LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt you to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds are foul and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Thus I was as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls: all your waves and your billows are gone over me.

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

For you are the God of my strength: why do you cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disturbed within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

You are fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.

Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; by which the people fall under you.

The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

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

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

My heart is greatly pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

My enemies would daily swallow me up: for they are many that fight against me, O most High.

Every day they twist my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

You number my wanderings: put you my tears into your bottle: are they not in your book?