But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

Then shall he speak to them in his wrath, and trouble them in his sore displeasure.

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said to me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

I cried to the LORD with my voice, and he heard me from his holy hill. Selah.

Salvation belongeth to the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

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

To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

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

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer to thee, and will look up.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)

Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

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

God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of David. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy wonderful works.

I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.

O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial hath perished with them.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

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

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself to thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thy ear to hear:

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the LORD I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

To the chief Musician upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

I will sing to the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoreth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

O my soul, thou hast said to the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a goodly heritage.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thy ear to me, and hear my speech.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

From men who are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

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

They attacked me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

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

He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet.

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

They cried, but there was none to save them: even to the LORD, but he answered them not.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me.

Therefore will I give thanks to thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises to thy name.

He giveth great deliverance to his king; and showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for ever.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth the work of his hands.

Day to day uttereth speech, and night to night showeth knowledge.

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

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from his heat.

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honey-comb.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

Grant thee according to thy own heart, and fulfill all thy counsel.

To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it to him, even length of days for ever and ever.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.

They cried to thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

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

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

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

I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

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

All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

All they that are fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

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

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

A Psalm of David. To thee, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

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

All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Turn thee to me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

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

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.