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

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

I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.] Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have delivered me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

[To the Chief Musician. With flutes. A Psalm of David.] Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

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

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.

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 tests the minds and hearts.

God judges 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 your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

[To the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Death of the Son." A Psalm of David.] I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O most High.

O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is 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 dwells 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 lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

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.

LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your 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 put I my trust: how say you 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 ceases; 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 will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does 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 backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

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.

O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness reaches not to you;

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

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

They have now surrounded us in our steps: they have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth;

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your 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 on 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 you, O LORD, my strength.

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

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

They confronted 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 has he recompensed me.

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

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.

He teaches my hands to make war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms.

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

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

Great deliverance gives he to his king; and shows mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his descendants forevermore.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.

Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge.

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,

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

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The LORD hear you in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend you;

Grant you according to your own heart, and fulfill all your plans.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The king shall joy in your strength, O LORD; and in your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

He asked life of you, and you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

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?

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

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 clings to my jaws; and you have brought me to the dust of death.

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

All the prosperous of 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 posterity shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

He makes me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you, O LORD, do I lift up my soul.

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

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

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve.

Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.

The voice of the LORD makes the hinds to calve, and strips bare the forests: and in his temple does every one speak of his glory.

[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.

O LORD, you have brought up my soul from the grave: you have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

LORD, by your favor you have made my mountain to stand strong: you did hide your face, and I was troubled.

I cried to you, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you forever.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In you, O LORD, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in your righteousness.

Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: be my strong rock, for a house of defense to save me.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Make your face to shine upon your servant: save me for your mercies' sake.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; who speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

When I kept silence, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long.

For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my strength is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.

The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing: he makes the devices of the people of none effect.

The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no lack to them that fear him.