"Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion."

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

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

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.

what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

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

His ways are prosperous at all times. Your judgments are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

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.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

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

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

The LORD is King forever and ever. The nations will perish out of his land.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

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

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

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

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion. When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

He who walks blamelessly does what is right, and speaks truth in his heart;

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.

I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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.

Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.

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

He sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, great lightning bolts, and routed them.

Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.

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.

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

Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.

For you will make them turn their back, when you aim drawn bows at their face.

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

I am poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the LORD who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

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.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

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

For your name's sake, LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose.

His soul shall dwell at ease. His seed shall inherit the land.

My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.

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

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Wait for the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.

"What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.

From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

I will bless the LORD at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

My soul shall boast in the LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

They cried, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.

My soul shall be joyful in the LORD. It shall rejoice in his salvation.

I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore at me, and did not cease.

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, "Aha. Aha. Our eye has seen it."

You have seen it, LORD. Do not keep silent. Lord, do not be far from me.

Do not let them say in their heart, "Aha. That's the way we want it." Do not let them say, "We have swallowed him up."

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Do not fret, it leads only to evildoing.

For evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

The righteous shall inherit the land, and live in it forever.

Wait for the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.

"LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

I was mute. I did not open my mouth, because you did it.

"Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Do not be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the scroll of a book.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.