but his delight is in the Law of the LORD. On his Law he meditates day and night.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

When agitated, do not sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger, neither discipline me in your wrath.

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Arise, LORD. Do not let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble."

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

Arise, LORD. God, lift up your hand. Do not forget the helpless.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on the LORD?

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.

I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

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. I did not put away his statutes from me.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

They cried, but there was none to save; even to the LORD, but he did not answer them.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they display knowledge.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

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

For the king trusts in the LORD. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you do not answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

They cried to you, and were delivered. They trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

Do not be far from me, for trouble is near. For there is none to help.

But do not be far off, LORD. You are my help: hurry to help me.

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

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

My God, I have trusted in you. Do not let me be shamed. Do not let my enemies triumph over me.

Do not remember the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. Remember me according to your loving kindness, for your goodness' sake, LORD.

My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

Oh keep my soul, and deliver me. Let me not be disappointed, for I take refuge in you.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

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

Do not gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;

Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

Do not hide your face from me. Do not put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

To you, LORD, I call. My rock, do not be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

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

Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

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

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

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

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.

Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I do not know about.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore at me, and did not cease.

Do not let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause and wink their eyes.

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

You have seen it, LORD. Do not keep silent. Lord, do not be far from me.

Vindicate me, LORD my God, according to your righteousness. Do not let them gloat over me.

Do not let them say in their heart, "Aha. That's the way we want it." Do not let them say, "We have swallowed him up."

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

Do not let the foot of pride come against me. Do not let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

Do not fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

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 makes wicked plots happen.

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

They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous give generously.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for the LORD holds him up with his hand.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

LORD, do not rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Lord, all my desire is before you. My groaning is not hidden from you.

But I, as a deaf man, do not hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

For I said, "Do not let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."

Do not forsake me, LORD. My God, do not be far from me.

I said, "I will watch my ways, so that I do not sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me."

Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the reproach of the foolish.

I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it.

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.