How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!

The kings of the earth take their stand
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

How long shall I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

You would put to shame the counsel of the afflicted,
But the Lord is his refuge.

May He grant you your heart’s desire
And fulfill all your counsel!

For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle;
In the secret place of His tent He will hide me;
He will lift me up on a rock.

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The plans of His heart from generation to generation.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers,
From the tumult of those who do iniquity,

With Your counsel You will guide me,
And afterward receive me to glory.

We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones,
And awesome above all those who are around Him?

They quickly forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,

Many times He would deliver them;
They, however, were rebellious in their counsel,
And so sank down in their iniquity.

Because they had rebelled against the words of God
And spurned the counsel of the Most High.