As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.

For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

As for me, I will preach the law, whereof the LORD hath said unto me, "Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

Desire of me, and I shall give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance; and the uttermost parts of the world for thy possession.

Serve the LORD in fear, and rejoice unto him in reverence.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the right way. For his wrath shall be kindled shortly: blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Many ones there be that say of my soul, "There is no help for him in his God." Selah.

I laid me down and slept, and rose up again; for the LORD sustained me.

I will not be afraid for ten thousands of the people that have set themselves against me.

Arise, LORD, and help me, O my God: for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest; for it is thou, LORD, only that makest me dwell in safety.

O hearken thou unto the voice of my petition, my King and my God; for unto thee will I make my prayer.

For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness; neither shall any evil dwell with thee.

Such as be foolish shall not stand in thy sight, for thou hatest all them that work vanity.

But as for me, I will come into thy house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouths; they dissemble in their hearts. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them perish in their own imaginations! Cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness; for they have rebelled against thee.

for thou, LORD, wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous, and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him, as with a shield.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are vexed.

Turn thee, O LORD, and deliver my soul; O save me for thy mercies' sake.

For in death no man remembereth thee: and who will give thee thanks in the hell?

My beauty is gone for very trouble, and worn away because of all mine enemies.

Away from me, all ye that work vanity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

{Shiggaion of David, which he sang for the words of Cush the son of Benjamin} O LORD my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me,

Stand up, O LORD, in thy wrath, lift up thyself, because of the indignation of mine enemies; arise up for me in the judgment that thou hast commanded.

And so shall the congregation of the people come about thee. For their sakes, therefore, lift up thyself again.

O let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end; but guide thou the just. For the righteous God trieth the very hearts and reins.

He hath prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.

For his travail shall come upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall on his own pate.

As for me, I will give thanks unto the LORD according to his righteousness; and I will praise the name of the LORD most high.

For I will consider thy heavens, even the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained.

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou art set in the throne that judgest right.

But the LORD shall endure forever; he hath also prepared his seat for judgment.

For he shall judge the world in righteousness, and minister true judgment unto the people.

The LORD also will be a defense for the oppressed, even a refuge in due time of trouble.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou, LORD, hast never failed them that seek thee.

And why? For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them, and forgetteth not the complaint of the poor.

For the poor shall not always be forgotten; the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish forever.

Why standest thou so far off, O LORD, and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble?

For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

The ungodly is so proud and full of indignation, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above, out of his sight. Therefore defieth he all his enemies.

For he hath said in his heart, "Tush, I shall never be cast down; there shall no harm happen unto me."

For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den, that he may ravish the poor. He doth ravish the poor when he getteth him into his net.

Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God, while he doth say in his heart, "Tush, thou God careth not for it?"

Surely thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong, that thou mayest take the matter into thy hand. The poor committeth himself unto thee, for thou art the helper of the friendless.

The LORD is King for ever and ever, and the Heathen are perished out of the land.

For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart.

For the foundations will be cast down, and what hath the righteous done?

Upon the ungodly he shall rain snares, fire, brimstone, storm and tempest: this shall be their portion to drink.

For the LORD is righteous, and he loveth righteousness: his countenance will behold the thing that is just.

{To the Chanter upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David} Help me, LORD, for there is not one godly man left: for the faithful are diminished from among the children of men.

"Now, for the comfortless troubles' sake of the needy, and because of the deep sighing of the poor, I will arise," saith the LORD, "and will help them, and set them at rest."

The words of the LORD are pure words: even as the silver, which from the earth is tried, and purified seven times in the fire.

Keep them therefore, O LORD, and preserve us from this generation for ever.

lest mine enemy say, "I have prevailed against him." For if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor, because he putteth his trust in the LORD.

He that sitteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes, and maketh much of them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth unto his neighbour, and disappointeth him not, though it were to his own hindrance.

{Michtam of David} Preserve me, O God, for in thee have I put my trust.

The lot is fallen unto me in fair ground; yea I have a goodly heritage.

I will thank the LORD for giving me warning: my reins also chasten me in the night season.

I have set the LORD always before me; for he is on my righthand. Therefore I shall not fall.

For why? Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, neither shalt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

Thou shalt show me the path of life; in thy presence is the fulness of joy, and at thy righthand there is pleasure for evermore.

Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me, for I am utterly purposed that my mouth shall not offend.

I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me; incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words.

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. {TYNDALE: For the waves of death have closed me about, and the floods of Belial have feared me.}

There went a smoke out in his presence, and a consuming fire out of his mouth, so that coals were kindled at it. {TYNDALE: Smoke went up out of his nostrils, and consuming fire out of his mouth, that coals were kindled of him.}

At the brightness of his presence, his clouds removed hailstones and coals of fire. {TYNDALE: Of the brightness that was before him, coals were set on fire.}

The LORD also thundered out of the heaven, and the highest gave his thunder, with hailstones and coals of fire. {TYNDALE: The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most high put out his voice.}

He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy, and from them which hate me; for they are too mighty for me. {TYNDALE: He delivered me from my mighty enemy, and from them that hated me and were too strong for me.}

Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.}

For I have an eye unto all his laws, and will not cast out his commandments from me. {TYNDALE: But I had all his laws in my sight, and I turned my face from none of his ordinances.}

For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity, and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud. {TYNDALE: And the people that are in adversity, thou shalt help. And on the proud shalt thou cast thine eyes.}

For in thee I can discomfit a host of men, and with the help of my God I shall leap over the wall. {TYNDALE: With thy help I will run through a host of men, and by the aid of my God will spring over a wall.}

The way of God is an undefiled way; the word of the LORD also is tried in the fire. He is the defender of all them that put their trust in him. {TYNDALE: The way of God is undefiled, and the word of the LORD fined as gold, and he a shield to all that trust in him.}

For who is God, but the LORD? Or, who hath any strength, but our God? {TYNDALE: Who is a God save the LORD, and who mighty save our God?}

He teacheth my hands to fight, and mine arms shall bend even a bow of steel. {TYNDALE: And teacheth my hands to fight, that a bow of brass is too weak for mine arms.}

Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go, that my footsteps shall not slide. {TYNDALE: And thou madest me space to walk in, that my feet should not stumble.}

They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them: Yea, even unto the LORD shall they cry, but he shall hear them not. {TYNDALE: They looked for help, but none came to save them: unto the LORD they cried, but he heard them not.}

Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people, and thou shalt make me the head of the Heathen. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. {TYNDALE: And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.}

The strange children shall fail, and be afraid out of their prisons. {TYNDALE: And the aliens that shrink away shall tremble for fear in their defended places.}

For this cause will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the gentiles, and sing praises unto thy name. {TYNDALE: And therefore I will praise thee O LORD among the heathen, and will sing unto thy name.}

Great prosperity giveth he unto his king, and showeth loving-kindness unto David his anointed, and unto his seed for evermore. {TYNDALE: For thy great and manifold saving of thy king, and showing mercy unto thine anointed, even to David, and his seed forever.}

Their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words in to the ends of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

The fear of the LORD is clean, and endureth forever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness, and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.

For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity, and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance.

Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in the time of thy wrath; the LORD shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them.

For they intended mischief against thee, and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform.

{To the Chanter, upon Aijeleth of the dawning, a Psalm of David} My God, my God: why hast thou forsaken me, and art so far from my health and from the words of my complaint?

But as for me, I am a worm and no man: a very scorn of men and the outcast of the people.

O go not far from me then, for trouble is hard at hand, and here is none to help me.

For many dogs are come about me, the counsel of the wicked layeth siege against me.

But be not thou far from me, O LORD; thou art my succor. Haste thee to help me.

O praise the LORD, ye that fear him! Magnify him, all ye seed of Jacob, and fear him, all ye seed of Israel.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor: he hath not hid his face from him, but when he called unto him, he heard him.