I will tell the decree; Yahweh said to me: "You are my son; today I have begotten you.

[Oh my soul] you have said to Yahweh, "You [are] my Lord. I have no good apart from you."

And he said: "I love you, O Yahweh, my strength."

But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, "I shall not be moved ever."

As for me, I said in my alarm, "I am cut off from before your eyes." However you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you for help.

I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah

They also made wide their mouths against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen [it]."

For I said, "[Help,] lest they rejoice over me, [lest] they boast against me when my foot slips."

I said, "I will guard my ways {that I may not sin} with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as [the] wicked [are] before me."

Then I said, "Look, I come. In [the] scroll of [the] book it is written concerning me:

As for me, I said, "O Yahweh, be gracious [to] me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

The Lord said, "I will bring [them] back from Bashan; I will bring [them] back from [the] depths of [the] sea,

If I had said, "I will speak thus," behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children's generation.

They have said in their heart, "We will completely oppress them." They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

So I said, "This pierces me-- the right [hand] of the Most High [has] changed."

And they spoke against God. They said, "Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

I have said, "You [are] gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you.

who said, "Let us take [as] our possession the pastures of God."

But with respect to Zion it shall be said, "{Each one} was born in her," for the Most High himself will establish her.

Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, "I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from [the] people.

For forty years I loathed [that] generation, and said, '[They are] a people [whose] heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.'

So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying [them].

I said in my haste, "{Everyone} [is] a liar."

I rejoiced in [those who] said to me, "Let us go to the house of Yahweh."

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great [things] for these [people]."

Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, the ones who said, "Lay [it] bare! Lay [it] bare to its foundation!"