My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.

I have made an agreement with the man of my selection, I have made an oath to David my servant;

For who is there in the heavens in comparison with the Lord? who is like the Lord among the sons of the gods?

O Lord God of armies, who is strong like you, O Jah? and your unchanging faith is round about you.

Yours is an arm of power; strong is your hand and high your right hand.

The seat of your kingdom is resting on righteousness and right judging: mercy and good faith come before your face.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

For our breastplate is the Lord; and our king is the Holy One of Israel's.

I have made discovery of David my servant; I have put my holy oil on his head.

The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

And I will make him the first of my sons, most high over the kings of the earth.

If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

I will be true to my agreement; the things which have gone out of my lips will not be changed.

His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.

But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection.

You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth.

You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.

You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.

Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart;

The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.

Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.

Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.

The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.

The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.

The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.

O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

Be lifted up, O judge of the earth; let their reward come to the men of pride.

Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

He who is the judge of the nations, will he not give men the reward of their acts, even he who gives knowledge to man?

The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.

Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

If the Lord had not been my helper, my soul would quickly have gone down into death.

If I say, My foot is slipping; your mercy, O Lord, is my support.

Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.

The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.

For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

Let not your hearts be hard, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the waste land;

For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

And I made an oath in my wrath, that they might not come into my place of rest.

Make songs to the Lord, blessing his name; give the good news of his salvation day by day.

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength.

Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come into his house.

Say among the nations, The Lord is King; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved; he will be an upright judge of the peoples.

Let the field be glad, and everything which is in it; yes, let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy,

Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.

The mountains became like wax at the coming of the Lord, at the coming of the Lord of all the earth.

The heavens gave out the news of his righteousness, and all the people saw his glory.

Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.

You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.

Be glad in the Lord, you upright men; praising the memory of his holy name.

O make a new song to the Lord, because he has done works of wonder; with his right hand, and with his holy arm, he has overcome.

The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.

I will make a song of mercy and righteousness; to you, O Lord, will I make melody.

He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.

He gave knowledge of his way to Moses, and made his acts clear to the children of Israel.

The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.

He has not given us the punishment for our sins, or the reward of our wrongdoing.

For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

But the mercy of the Lord is eternal for his worshippers, and their children's children will see his righteousness;

If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

He makes winds his angels, and flames of fire his servants.

At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear;

They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water.

The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.

He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.