I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

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

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

When you said, "Seek my face," my heart said to you, "I will seek your face, Yahweh."

As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."

But I trust in you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my God."

As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!"

For I said, "Don't let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I don't sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"

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

The Lord said, "I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again 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, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

I said to the arrogant, "Don't boast!" I said to the wicked, "Don't lift up the horn.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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

who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."

Yes, of Zion it will be said, "This one and that one was born in her;" the Most High himself will establish her.

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

I said, "My God, don't take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.

I believed, therefore I said, "I was greatly afflicted."

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!"

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for them."

Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"

I said to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, Yahweh.

I cried to you, Yahweh. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."