Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?

The kings of earth take their station, and, grave men, have met by appointment together, - against Yahweh, and against his Anointed One saying :

Yet, I, have installed my king, - on Zion my holy mountain.

Let me tell of a decree, - Yahweh, hath said unto me, My son, thou art, I, to-day, have begotten thee:

Yahweh! how have mine adversaries multiplied, Multitudes, are rising against me;

I will not be afraid of myriads of people, who, round about, have set themselves against me.

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, - beyond the season when, their corn and their new wine, have increased.

Declare them guilty, O God, Let them fall by their own counsels, - Into the throng of their own transgressions, thrust them down, For they have rebelled against thee: -

O Yahweh my God, in thee, have I sought refuge, - Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me:

O Yahweh my God, If I have done this, If there hath been perversity in my hands:

If I have requited my friend with wrong, - or have oppressed mine adversary without need,

Shouldst give him dominion over the works of thy hands, - All things, shouldst have put under his feet:

The nations, have sunk, in the pit they had made, In the net which they had hidden, is caught their own foot.

In the pride of the lawless one, he hotly pursueth the poor, let them be caught in the plots which they have devised!

Yahweh, is king, to times age-abiding and beyond, The nations have perished out of his land.

In Yahweh, have I sought refuge. How can ye say to my soul, Flee to a mountain like a little bird;

For lo! the lawless, bend the bow They have fixed their arrow upon the string, To shoot in the darkness at the upright in heart:

O save Yahweh, for the man of lovingkindness, is no more, for the faithful, have vanished, from among the sons of men.

Have regard! answer me O Yahweh my God, - Light up mine eyes, lest I sleep on into death:

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed over him! and, mine adversaries, exult, that I totter.

But, I, in thy lovingkindness, have put my trust, My heart shall exult in thy salvation:

The impious hath said in his heart - There is no God! They have acted corruptly, they have done an abominable deed, there is none that doeth good.

The whole, have turned aside, Together have they become tainted, - There is none that doeth good, not so much as, one!

Are all the workers of iniquity, without knowledge? devouring my people as they devour food! Upon Yahweh, have they not called.

There have they been in great dread, because, God, is in the circle of the righteous man.

Preserve me, O GOD, for I have sought refuge in thee.

They multiply their idols - another, have they purchased! I will not pour out their drink-offerings of blood, nor will I take up their names on my lips.

The lines, have fallen unto me, in pleasant places, Verily an inheritance that delighteth me.

I have set Yahweh before me continually, because he is on my right hand, I shall not be shaken!

Thou hast tested my heart, hast made inspection by night, hast refined me until thou couldst find nothing, Had I devised evil, my mouth should not have transgressed:

As for the workings of men, By the word of thy lips, have, I, taken heed of the paths of the violent one.

Thou hast held fast my goings on to thy ways, My footsteps have not been shaken:

I, have called upon thee, for thou wilt answer me, O GOD, - Incline thine ear unto me, Hear thou my speech:

From the face of lawless ones who have treated me with violence, the foes of my soul, who come round against me:

Their own fat heart , have they shut up, - With their mouth, have they spoken proudly.

As for our own goings, now, have they surrounded us, - Their eyes, they fix, bending to the earth:

Even from the presumptuous, keep back thy servant, May they not have dominion over me, Then, shall I be blameless, and shall be acquitted from great transgression:

They, have bowed down and fallen, but, we, have arisen, and stand upright.

For they have held out, against thee, a wicked thing, They have devised a scheme they cannot accomplish.

Many bulls have surrounded me, Strong oxen of Bashan, have enclosed me;

They have opened wide against me their mouth, A lion rending and roaring.

For dogs have surrounded me, - An assembly of evil doers, have encircled me, They have pierced my hands and my feet,

O my God, in thee, have I put my trust, Let me not be put to shame, Let not my foe exult over me:

Guide me into thy truth and teach me, for, thou, art my delivering God, For thee, have I waited all the day:

Remember thy compassions, O Yahweh, and thy lovingkindnesses, For, from age-past times, have they been.

Intimacy with Yahweh, have they who revere him, His covenant also, he letteth them know.

Oh keep my soul, and rescue me, Let me not be put to shame, for I have sought refuge in thee.

Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.

Do me justice, O Yahweh, For, I, in my blamelessness, have walked, and, in Yahweh, have I trusted, I will not waver.

For, thy lovingkindness, hath been before mine eyes, and I have walked to and fro in thy faithfulness;

I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter;

I have hated the convocation of evil-doers, and, with lawless men, would I not sit;

O Yahweh, I have loved the asylum of thy house, even the place of the habitation of thy glory!

One thing, have I asked of Yahweh, That, will I seek to secure, - That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh, all the days of my life, To view the delightfulness of Yahweh, And to contemplate in his temple.

Do not give me up unto the desire of mine adversaries, for there have risen up against me witnesses that are false, and he that fanneth up violence.

Yahweh, is my strength and my shield, In him, hath trusted my heart, and I have found help, - Therefore hath my heart danced for joy, and, with my song, do I praise him.

In thee, O Yahweh, have I sought refuge, Let me not be ashamed to times age-abiding, In thy righteousness, deliver me:

Wilt thou bring me forth, out of the net which they have hidden for me? For, thou, art my refuge.

I hate such as give heed to false vanities, I, then, in Yahweh, have set my hope.

By reason of all mine adversaries, have I become a reproach. Even to my neighbours, altogether, and a dread to mine acquaintance, - They who have seen me abroad, have fled from me:

I have been forgotten, like one dead - out of mind, I have been as a missing vessel.

For I have heard the whispering of many - A terror round about! When they have sat in conclave together against me, to take away my life, have they intrigued.

I, therefore. in thee, have put ray trust, O Yahweh, I have said, My God, thou art!

O Yahweh! let me not be ashamed, For I have called upon thee, Let the lawless ha ashamed, go down in silence to hades!

For, in him, shall our heart rejoice, For, in his holy Name, have we trusted.

Be thy lovingkindness, O Yahweh, upon us, According as we have waited for thee.

Young lions, have come short, and suffered hunger, but, they who seek Yahweh, shall not lack any good thing.

For, without cause, have they hid for me, in a ditch, their net, - Without cause, have they digged a pit for my life.

But, in mine overthrow, have they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together, - There gathered themselves together against me foolish men, and I knew it not, They have torn in pieces, and not been silent;

Amidst profane praters of perversion, have they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Yea they have opened wide against me their mouth, They have said, Aha! Aha! our own eye, hath seen!

Let them not say in their heart, Aha! to our mind! Let them not say, We have swallowed him up!

Yet a little, therefore, and the lawless one shall not be, Yea thou shalt look about, over his place - and he shall have vanished!

A sword, have the lawless, drawn out, and have trodden their bow, - To bring down the oppressed and the needy, To slaughter the upright in life:

For, the lawless, shall perish, and, the foes of Yahweh, be like the glory of the meadows, They have vanished! In smoke, have they vanished!

Young, have I been, moreover am old, - Yet have I not seen, A righteous man forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread:

All day long, is he showing favour and lending, his seed, therefore, shall have a blessing.

For, Yahweh, loveth justice, and will not forsake his men of lovingkindness, Unto times age-abiding, have the perverse been destroyed, - and the seed of the lawless, been cut off.

I have seen a lawless man, a tyrant, and spreading himself out, like a cedar in Lebanon;

Thus hath Yahweh helped them, thus hath he delivered them, - He will deliver them from the lawless, and will save them, because they have sought refuge in him.

For, mine iniquities, have passed over my head, Like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me:

My wounds are of bad odour - they have festered, by reason of my folly:

I am bent, I am bowed down very low. All the day, have I gloomily walked;

I am benumbed and crushed exceedingly, - I have cried aloud because of the groaning of my heart.

Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things - all day long, do they mutter.

Thus have I become as a man who cannot hear, in whose mouth are no arguments:

Because, for thee, O Yahweh, have I waited, Thou, wilt answer, O Adonay, my God!

For I said, Lest they rejoice over me! When my feet were tottering, against me, have they magnified themselves:

And, my foes, are alive - have become strong, - and multiplied are they who hate me for false cause:

Now, therefore, for what have I waited, O My Lord? My hope, is, in thee.

I have told the good-tidings of righteousness in a great convocation, Lo! my lips, do I not restrain, O Yahweh, thou, knowest:

Thy righteousness, have I not hid in the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and thy salvation, have I spoken, I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truthfulness from the great convocation.

For there have closed in upon me, misfortunes beyond number, Mine iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see, They have become more than the hairs of my head, And, my courage, hath forsaken me!

I, said - O Yahweh, show me favour, heal thou my soul, for I have sinned against thee:

And, if he have come to see me, Falsehood, doth he speak, His own heart, gathereth iniquity to itself, he goeth forth, abroad he telleth it.

My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Roaring deep unto roaring deep, is calling, at the voice of thy cataracts, All thy breakers and thy rolling waves, over me, have passed.

With a crushing of my bones, have my adversaries reproached me, - While they keep saying unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us, - The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime:

In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name - unto times age-abiding, will we praise. Selah.