Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

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

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:

I will tell of the decree. The LORD said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

I cry to the LORD with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.

Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing be on your people. Selah.

But know that the LORD has set apart for himself him who is godly: The LORD will hear when I call to him.

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

Give ear to my words, LORD. Consider my meditation.

Listen to the voice of my cry, my King and my God; for to you do I pray.

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

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

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.

The LORD administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, LORD, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.

God is a righteous judge, yes, a God who has indignation every day.

If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.

The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

I will give thanks to the LORD according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works.

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

He will judge the world in righteousness. He will administer judgment to the peoples in uprightness.

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn't forget the cry of the afflicted.

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

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

Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of 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.

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

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 man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, "Flee as a bird to your mountain."

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

I will sing to the LORD, because he has been good to me.

The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who did understand, who did seek after God.

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

He who doesn't slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear the LORD; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;

he who doesn't lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

My soul, you have said to the LORD, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

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.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

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

Hear, LORD, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn't go out of deceitful lips.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; and I am saved from my enemies.

In my distress I called on the LORD, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

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

For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

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

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.

He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, forevermore.

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

Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of the God of Jacob set you up on high.

He asked life of you, you gave it to him, even length of days forever and ever.

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.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

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

I will declare your name to my brothers. In the midst of the assembly, I will praise you.

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.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.

All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't keep his soul alive.

They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.

Who may ascend to the LORD's hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

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

To you, LORD, do I lift up my soul.

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

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

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

All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth to those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous works.

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

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.