“Yet as for Me, I have anointed and firmly installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

With my voice I was crying to the Lord,
And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.

You have put joy in my heart,
More than [others know] when their wheat and new wine have yielded abundantly.

In the morning, O Lord, You will hear my voice;
In the morning I will prepare [a prayer and a sacrifice] for You and watch and wait [for You to speak to my heart].

But as for me, I will enter Your house through the abundance of Your steadfast love and tender mercy;
At Your holy temple I will bow [obediently] in reverence for You.

Hold them guilty, O God;
Let them fall by their own designs and councils!
Cast them out because of the abundance of their transgressions,
For they are mutinous and have rebelled against You.

My eye grows dim with grief;
It grows old because of all my enemies.

If I have done evil to him who was at peace with me,
Or without cause robbed him who was my enemy,

Let the enemy pursue me and overtake me;
And let him trample my life to the ground
And lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

If a man does not repent, God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung and bent His [mighty] bow and made it ready.

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the [very] pit which he made [as a trap].

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease.

What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

His ways prosper at all times;
Your judgments [Lord] are on high, out of his sight [so he never thinks about them];
As for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

He lurks in a hiding place like a lion in his lair;
He lies in wait to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

You have seen it, for You have noted mischief and vexation (irritation) to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You are the helper of the fatherless.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,
Seek out his wickedness until You find no more.

The Lord is King forever and ever;
The nations will perish from His land.

For look, the wicked are bending the bow;
They take aim with their arrow on the string
To shoot [by stealth] in darkness at the upright in heart.

“If the foundations [of a godly society] are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?”

Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord and master over us?”

Have all the workers of wickedness and injustice no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord restores His captive people,
Then Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

He does not put out his money at interest [to a fellow Israelite],
And does not take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things will never be shaken.

I have set the Lord continually before me;
Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

You will show me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
In Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

From men with Your hand, O Lord,
From men of the world [these moths of the night] whose portion [of enjoyment] is in this life—idle and vain,
And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And they leave what they have left [of wealth] to their children.

In my distress [when I seemed surrounded] I called upon the Lord
And cried to my God for help;
He heard my voice from His temple,
And my cry for help came before Him, into His very ears.

Smoke went up from His nostrils,
And fire from His mouth devoured;
Coals were kindled by it.

Out of the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

He sent out His arrows and scattered them;
And He sent an abundance of lightning flashes and confused and routed them [in defeat].

Then the stream beds of the waters appeared,
And the foundations of the world were laid bare
At Your rebuke, O Lord,
At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

He reached from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.

Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind;
I emptied them out as the dirt of the streets.

Foreigners lose heart,
And come trembling out of their strongholds.

Yet their voice [in quiet evidence] has gone out through all the earth,
Their words to the end of the world.
In them and in the heavens He has made a tent for the sun,

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;
It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

The sun’s rising is from one end of the heavens,
And its circuit to the other end of them;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

We will sing joyously over your victory,
And in the name of our God we will set up our banners.
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

He asked life of You,
And You gave it to him,
Long life forever and evermore.

His glory is great because of Your victory;
Splendor and majesty You bestow upon him.

For You will make them turn their backs [in defeat];
You will aim Your bowstring [of divine justice] at their faces.

All who see me laugh at me and mock me;
They [insultingly] open their lips, they shake their head, saying,

Yet You are He who pulled me out of the womb;
You made me trust when on my mother’s breasts.

They open wide their mouths against me,
Like a ravening and a roaring lion.

I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax;
It is melted [by anguish] within me.

I can count all my bones;
They look, they stare at me.

But You, O Lord, do not be far from me;
O You my help, come quickly to my assistance.

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;
Those who [diligently] seek Him and require Him [as their greatest need] will praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship;
All those who go down to the dust (the dead) will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

They will come and declare His righteousness
To a people yet to be born—that He has done it [and that it is finished].

He refreshes and restores my soul (life);
He leads me in the paths of righteousness
for His name’s sake.

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness of it,
The world, and those who dwell in it.

For He has founded it upon the seas
And established it upon the streams and the rivers.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to what is false,
Nor has sworn [oaths] deceitfully.

Indeed, none of those who [expectantly] wait for You will be ashamed;
Those who turn away from what is right and deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed (humiliated, embarrassed).

Guide me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
For You [and only You] I wait [expectantly] all the day long.

He leads the humble in justice,
And He teaches the humble His way.

His soul will dwell in prosperity and goodness,
And his descendants will inherit the land.

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He will bring my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are multiplied;
Bring me out of my distresses.

Let integrity and uprightness protect me,
For I wait [expectantly] for You.

O God, redeem Israel,
Out of all his troubles.

When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Although my father and my mother have abandoned me,
Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].

Teach me Your way, O Lord,
And lead me on a level path
Because of my enemies [who lie in wait].

Do not give me up to the will of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have come against me;
They breathe out violence.

I would have despaired had I not believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.

Wait for and confidently expect the Lord;
Be strong and let your heart take courage;
Yes, wait for and confidently expect the Lord.

Repay them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;
Repay them according to the deeds of their hands;
Repay them what they deserve.

Sing to the Lord, O you His godly ones,
And give thanks at the mention of His holy name.

“What profit is there in my blood (death), if I go down to the pit (grave)?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness [to man]?

You will draw me out of the net that they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength and my stronghold.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from Your eyes.”
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications (specific requests)
When I cried to You [for help].

Be strong and let your hearts take courage,
All you who wait for and confidently expect the Lord.

For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.

Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon those who fear Him [and worship Him with awe-inspired reverence and obedience],
On those who hope [confidently] in His compassion and lovingkindness,

We wait [expectantly] for the Lord;
He is our help and our shield.

I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him from all his troubles.

Who is the man who desires life
And loves many days, that he may see good?

Turn away from evil and do good;
Seek peace and pursue it.

When the righteous cry [for help], the Lord hears
And rescues them from all their distress and troubles.

Many hardships and perplexing circumstances confront the righteous,
But the Lord rescues him from them all.

Draw also the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me.
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

Like godless jesters at a feast,
They gnashed at me with their teeth [in malice].

They open their mouths wide against me;
They say, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”

Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, that is what we wanted!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up and destroyed him.”

Let those be ashamed and humiliated together who rejoice at my distress;
Let those be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves over me.

For he flatters and deceives himself in his own eyes
Thinking that his sinfulness will not be discovered and hated [by God].

Commit your way to the Lord;
Trust in Him also and He will do it.

Be still before the Lord; wait patiently for Him and entrust yourself to Him;
Do not fret (whine, agonize) because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

Cease from anger and abandon wrath;
Do not fret; it leads only to evil.

For those who do evil will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.

For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];
Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].

The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.

The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous],
For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.