The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Why are the nations in tumultuous agitation, and why do the peoples meditate a vain thing?

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.

{A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.} Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!

O enemy! destructions are ended for ever. Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken.

The wicked saith, in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!

His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times.

They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

There is no speech and there are no words, yet their voice is heard.

The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes;

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether:

They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.

They are bowed down and fallen; but we are risen and stand upright.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

Remember, Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses; for they are from everlasting.

All the paths of Jehovah are loving-kindness and truth for such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Mine eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for he will bring my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are increased: bring me out of my distresses;

Consider mine enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

In whose hands are evil devices, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Deliver me not over to the will of mine adversaries; for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out violence.

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength faileth through mine iniquity, and my bones are wasted.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.

The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.

The eyes of Jehovah are upon the righteous, and his ears are toward their cry;

Jehovah is nigh to those that are of a broken heart, and saveth them that are of a contrite spirit.

Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all:

Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without cause.

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, to do good.

Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and are not able to rise.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the afflicted and needy, to slay those that are upright in the way:

for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.

The steps of a man are established by Jehovah, and he delighteth in his way:

for Jehovah loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: They are preserved for ever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to possess the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.

For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Yea, I am as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

But mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied:

And they that render evil for good are adversaries unto me; because I pursue what is good.

Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy cataracts; all thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;

But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

Thine arrows are sharp peoples fall under thee in the heart of the king's enemies.

Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever,their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

Like sheep are they laid in Sheol: Death feedeth on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their comeliness shall be for Sheol to consume, that there be no habitation for them.

I know all the fowl of the mountains, and the roaming creatures of the field are mine:

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Every one of them is gone back, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.

My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Fear and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof; and iniquity and mischief are in the midst of it.

Perversities are in the midst thereof; and oppression and deceit depart not from its streets.

He hath put forth his hands against such as are at peace with him; he hath profaned his covenant.

Smooth were the milky words of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; for they are many that fight against me haughtily.

All the day long they wrest my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Thou countest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render thanks unto thee.

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul was bowed down: they have digged a pit before me; they are fallen into the midst thereof. Selah.

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;

For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?

Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

And they that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills are girded with gladness.

The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.

Say unto God, How terrible are thy works! because of the greatness of thy strength, thine enemies come cringing unto thee.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, thousands upon thousands; the Lord is among them: it is a Sinai in holiness.

Our God is the God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth even from death.

Of him that rideth upon the heavens, the heavens which are of old: lo, he uttereth his voice, a mighty voice.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

Thou, O God, knowest my foolishness, and my trespasses are not hidden from thee.

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Let them be ashamed, let them be consumed, that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart.

They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:

Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.