For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

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

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto you will I pray.

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

But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

For you, LORD, will bless the righteous; with favor will you surround him with a shield.

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

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake.

For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.

So shall the congregation of the people surround you: for their sakes therefore return you on high.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tests the minds and hearts.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death; he makes ready his arrows against the persecutors.

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.

But the LORD shall endure forever: he has prepared his throne for judgment.

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.

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

He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

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.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

For the righteous LORD loves righteousness; his countenance does behold the upright.

[To the Chief Musician upon sheminith. A Psalm of David.] Help, LORD; for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.

[A miktam of David.] Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.

For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.

I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.

As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, with hailstones and coals of fire.

The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

For you will save the humble people; but will bring down haughty looks.

For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

For by you I have advanced against a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.

For who is God except the LORD? or who is a rock except our God?

For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

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

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of pure gold on his head.

For you have made him most blessed forever: you have made him exceedingly glad with your presence.

For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.

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?

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

They part my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing.

But be not far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste you to help me.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen.

You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you descendants of Israel.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.

My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

For the kingdom is the LORD'S: and he is the governor among the nations.

A posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

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.

For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

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

Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to your mercy remember me for your goodness' sake, O LORD.

For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

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

Turn you unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

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

O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in you.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on you.

[A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

For your lovingkindness is before my eyes: and I have walked in your truth.

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

[A Psalm of David.] The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret place of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Hide not your face far from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

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

The voice of the LORD divides the flames of fire.

[A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the house of David.] I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

For his anger endures but for a moment; in his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.