Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

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

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

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

For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

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

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

[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.

O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

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

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

The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.

But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.

Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.

Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

[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.

For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

[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:

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

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

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.

So shall the congregation of the people surround you: for their sakes therefore return you on high.

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

If he turns not, he will whet his sword; he has bent his bow, and made it ready.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death; he makes ready his arrows against the persecutors.

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.

Out of the mouth of babes and infants have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

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

All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.

[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.

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

When he avenges blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer from them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:

That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.

The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

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.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.

The LORD is King forever and ever: the nations are perished out of his land.

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?

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

[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.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

[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?

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

[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.

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

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

You have shamed the counsel of the poor, but the LORD is his refuge.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

[A Psalm of David.] LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?

[A miktam of David.] Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips.

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

[A prayer of David.] Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept myself from the paths of the destroyer.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Like as a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

The sorrows of sheol surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.

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

Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was angry.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

He made darkness his secret place; his canopy round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, with hailstones and coals of fire.