Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

O Lord, do not be bitter with me in your wrath; do not send punishment on me in the heat of your passion.

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

For the poor will not be without help; the hopes of those in need will not be crushed for ever.

Up! O Lord; let not man overcome you: let the nations be judged before you.

Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

Because of the crushing of the poor and the weeping of those in need, now will I come to his help, says the Lord; I will give him the salvation which he is desiring.

Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;

And he who is against me may not say, I have overcome him; and those who are troubling me may not be glad when I am moved.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.

I have put the Lord before me at all times; because he is at my right hand, I will not be moved.

For you will not let my soul be prisoned in the underworld; you will not let your loved one see the place of death.

Let my cause come to your ears, O Lord, give attention to my cry; give ear to my prayer which goes not out from false lips.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

Day after day it sends out its word, and night after night it gives knowledge.

His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

You have given him his heart's desire, and have not kept back the request of his lips. (Selah.)

For the king has faith in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High he will not be moved.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.

They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.

But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

All the fat ones of the earth will give him worship; all those who go down to the dust will make themselves low before him, even he who has not enough for the life of his soul.

The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

O my God, I have put my faith in you, let me not be shamed; let not my haters be glorying over me.

Do not keep in mind my sins when I was young, or my wrongdoing: let your memory of me be full of mercy, O Lord, because of your righteousness.

My eyes are turned to the Lord at all times; for he will take my feet out of the net.

O keep my soul, and take me out of danger: let me not be shamed, for I have put my faith in you.

O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

Let not my soul be numbered among sinners, or my life among men of blood;

Even if an army came against me with its tents, my heart would have no fear: if war was made on me, my faith would not be moved.

Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

Do not give me into their hands, because false witnesses have come out against me, and men breathing destruction.

My cry goes up to you, O Lord, my Rock; do not keep back your answer from me, so that I may not become like those who go down into the underworld.

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Because they have no respect for the works of the Lord, or for the things which his hands have made, they will be broken down and not lifted up by him.

I will give you praise and honour, O Lord, because through you I have been lifted up; you have not given my haters cause to be glad over me.

Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.

And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.

Let me not be shamed, O Lord, for I have made my prayer to you; let the sinners be shamed, and let their mouths be shut in the underworld.

For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

For this cause let every saint make his prayer to you at a time when you are near: then the overflowing of the great waters will not overtake him.

Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...

A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.

A horse is a false hope; his great power will not make any man free from danger.

To keep their souls from death; and to keep them living in time of need.

Let your eyes be turned to him and you will have light, and your faces will not be shamed.

Keep yourselves in the fear of the Lord, all you his saints; for those who do so will have no need of anything.

The young lions are in need and have no food; but those who are looking to the Lord will have every good thing.

He keeps all his bones: not one of them is broken.

For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.

All my bones will say, Lord, who is like you? The saviour of the poor man from the hands of the strong, of him who is poor and in need from him who takes his goods.

Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.

Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

Let them not say in their hearts, So we will have it: let them not say, We have put an end to him.

For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

Even if he has a fall he will not be without help: for the hand of the Lord is supporting him.

I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

The Lord will not give him into their hands, or be against him when he is judged.

But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

Give attention to the good man, and take note of the upright; because the end of that man is peace.

O Lord, be not bitter with me in your wrath; let not your hand be on me in the heat of your passion.

Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.