How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.

He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.

The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people
Who have set themselves against me round about.

Tremble, and do not sin;
Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil dwells with You.

The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes;
You hate all who do iniquity.

For the choir director; with stringed instruments, upon an eight-string lyre. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger,
Nor chasten me in Your wrath.

I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.

If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword;
He has bent His bow and made it ready.

And those who know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

For He who requires blood remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

For the needy will not always be forgotten,
Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;
Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;
He lurks to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up Your hand.
Do not forget the afflicted.

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

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

He does not slander with his tongue,
Nor does evil to his neighbor,
Nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
But who honors those who fear the Lord;
He swears to his own hurt and does not change;

He does not put out his money at interest,
Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will never be shaken.

The sorrows of those who have bartered for another god will be multiplied;
I shall not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
Nor will I take their names upon my lips.

I will bless the Lord who has counseled me;
Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night.

I have set the Lord continually before me;
Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol;
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

A Prayer of David.
Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

You have tried my heart;
You have visited me by night;
You have tested me and You find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

My steps have held fast to Your paths.
My feet have not slipped.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all His ordinances were before me,
And I did not put away His statutes from me.

You enlarge my steps under me,
And my feet have not slipped.

I pursued my enemies and overtook them,
And I did not turn back until they were consumed.

I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise;
They fell under my feet.

They cried for help, but there was none to save,
Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.

You have delivered me from the contentions of the people;
You have placed me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.

Day to day pours forth speech,
And night to night reveals knowledge.

There is no speech, nor are there words;
Their voice is not heard.

Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not rule over me;
Then I will be blameless,
And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

You have given him his heart’s desire,
And You have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah.

For the king trusts in the Lord,
And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he will not be shaken.

Though they intended evil against You
And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.

O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I have no rest.

To You they cried out and were delivered;
In You they trusted and were not disappointed.

But I am a worm and not a man,
A reproach of men and despised by the people.

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

But You, O Lord, be not far off;
O You my help, hasten to my assistance.

For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
Nor has He hidden His face from him;
But when he cried to Him for help, He heard.

A Psalm of David.
The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood
And has not sworn deceitfully.

O my God, in You I trust,
Do not let me be ashamed;
Do not let my enemies exult over me.

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;
According to Your lovingkindness remember me,
For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He will pluck my feet out of the net.

Guard my soul and deliver me;
Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.

I do not sit with deceitful men,
Nor will I go with pretenders.

I hate the assembly of evildoers,
And I will not sit with the wicked.

Do not take my soul away along with sinners,
Nor my life with men of bloodshed,

Though a host encamp against me,
My heart will not fear;
Though war arise against me,
In spite of this I shall be confident.

Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not abandon me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation!

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.

Do not drag me away with the wicked
And with those who work iniquity,
Who speak peace with their neighbors,
While evil is in their hearts.

Because they do not regard the works of the Lord
Nor the deeds of His hands,
He will tear them down and not build them up.

A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. A Psalm of David.
I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

For His anger is but for a moment,
His favor is for a lifetime;
Weeping may last for the night,
But a shout of joy comes in the morning.

That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.

And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a large place.

Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I call upon You;
Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

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.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

The king is not saved by a mighty army;
A warrior is not delivered by great strength.

The young lions do lack and suffer hunger;
But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.

He keeps all his bones,
Not one of them is broken.

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

Let destruction come upon him unawares,
And let the net which he hid catch himself;
Into that very destruction let him fall.

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.

Do not let those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me;
Nor let those who hate me without cause wink maliciously.

For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

You have seen it, O Lord, do not keep silent;
O Lord, do not be far from me.

Judge me, O Lord my God, according to Your righteousness,
And do not let them rejoice over me.

Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, our desire!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

Let not the foot of pride come upon me,
And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.

A Psalm of David.
Do not fret because of evildoers,
Be not envious toward wrongdoers.

Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

Cease from anger and forsake wrath;
Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;
And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.