“I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.

Why has the wicked spurned God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”

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

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.

I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good besides You.”

When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You,
“Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.”

Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I will never be moved.”

As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried to You.

I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.

They opened their mouth wide against me;
They said, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”

For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.”

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”

Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.

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 betrayed the generation of Your children.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

“I said to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn;

Then I said, “It is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

I said, “You are gods,
And all of you are sons of the Most High.

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves
The pastures of God.”

But of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”;
And the Most High Himself will establish her.

For I have said, “Lovingkindness will be built up forever;
In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness.”

Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

They have said, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob pay heed.”

“For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.

Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one stood in the breach before Him,
To turn away His wrath from destroying them.

I believed when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted.”

I said in my alarm,
“All men are liars.”

A Song of Ascents, of David.
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Then our mouth was filled with laughter
And our tongue with joyful shouting;
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, “Raze it, raze it
To its very foundation.”

I said to the Lord, “You are my God;
Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my supplications.

I cried out to You, O Lord;
I said, “You are my refuge,
My portion in the land of the living.