Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, and has not stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of the scornful.

I will declare the decree of Jehovah. He has said to Me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You.

But know that Jehovah has set apart the godly for Himself. Jehovah hears when I call to Him.

Depart from me, all workers of iniquity; for Jehovah has heard the voice of my weeping.

Jehovah has heard my cry; Jehovah will receive my prayer.

If he does not turn, He will whet His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

Yea, He has fitted him for instruments of death; He has made His arrows hotly pursue.

Behold, he labors in pain with iniquity, and he has conceived mischief, and has brought forth falsehood.

He dug a pit and bored it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.

The desolations of the enemy have come to an end forever, and You have destroyed the cities; their memorial has perished with them.

But Jehovah shall endure forever; He has prepared His throne for judgment.

Jehovah is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. A meditation. Selah.

He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation, never in evil!

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever!

Why do the wicked condemn God? He has said in his heart, You will not judge.

that has said, With our tongue we shall do much; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?

I will sing to Jehovah, because He has rewarded me.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.

in whose eyes the reprobate is despised, but he honors those who fear Jehovah; he has sworn to his hurt, and does not change it;

he has not put out his money at interest, nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall not be moved forever.

I will bless Jehovah, who has given me wisdom; my heart also instructs me in the nights.

Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He has repaid me.

And Jehovah has returned to me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.

You have also given me the shield of Your salvation; and Your right hand has held me up, and Your gentleness has made me great.

Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,

For He has not despised nor hated the affliction of the afflicted; and He has not hidden His face from him, but when he cried to Him, He heard.

They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall yet be born, that He has done this.

For He has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.

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

Blessed is Jehovah, because He has heard the voice of my prayers.

Have mercy on me, O Jehovah, for I am in trouble; my eye has become old with grief, my soul and my belly.

Blessed is Jehovah; for He has worked His mercy wondrously in a besieged city.

The wicked has many sorrows, but mercy embraces him who trusts in Jehovah.

Blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah; the people He has chosen for His inheritance.

Let destruction come upon him, he will not know; and let his net which he has concealed catch him, let him fall in it, into destruction.

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

And He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God; many shall see it and fear, and shall trust in Jehovah.

Even a man, my friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

My shame is always before me, and the shame of my face has covered me:

All this has come on us; yet we have not forgotten You nor dealt falsely in Your covenant.

You are the fairest of the sons of men; grace is poured into Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever.

You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows.

God has gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet.

A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, Jehovah, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.

To the Chief Musician on Mahalath. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They acted corruptly, and have worked out abominable wickedness; there is not one doing good.

Every one has turned away; they have altogether become filthy; not one is doing good, no, not even one.

There they dreaded with dread, where no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you; you have put them to shame because God rejects them.

For He has delivered me out of all trouble; and my eye has seen its desire on my enemies.

Fear and trembling have come on me, and horror has covered me.

He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; for there were many with me.

He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; he has broken his covenant.

God has spoken in His holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.

those which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken in my trouble.

Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will declare what He has done for my soul.

Surely God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

Blessed is God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.

Your flock has dwelt in it; You, O God, have prepared in Your goodness for the poor.

Why do you gaze in envy, O mountain range, at the mountain God has chosen for His resting place? Yes, Jehovah will dwell in it forever.

Your God has commanded your strength; O God, be strong in that which You have worked out for us.

because I have borne reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face.

For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen on Me.

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness; and I looked for some to mourn with me, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

This also shall please Jehovah better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up.

Lift up Your feet to the never-ending ruins, even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.

Remember this, the enemy has cursed, O Jehovah, and the foolish people have blasphemed Your name.

Is His mercy gone forever? Has His Word failed for all generations?

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.

We will not hide them from their sons, showing to the generations to come the praises of Jehovah, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done.

And He built His holy place like high palaces, like the earth which He has founded forever.

and the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, and the Son that You make strong for Yourself.

and Assyria has joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. Selah.

Even the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, Your altars, O Jehovah of Hosts, my King and my God.

I will not break My covenant, nor change the thing that has gone out of My lips.

Because He has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver Him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name.

A Psalm. O sing to Jehovah a new song; for He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have saved for Him.

Jehovah has made known His salvation; His righteousness He has unveiled to the eyes of the nations.

He has remembered His mercy and His truth toward the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of Jehovah.

Know that Jehovah, He is God. He has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, I will cut him off; him who has a high look and a proud heart, I will not allow.

You shall arise, and have mercy on Zion; for the time to pity her, yea, the set time, has come.

For He has looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from Heaven Jehovah beheld the earth;

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Jehovah has prepared His throne in the heavens; and His kingdom rules over all.

The trees of Jehovah are full, the cedars of Lebanon which He has planted;

Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth,

He has remembered His covenant forever, the Word which He commanded to a thousand generations;

Let the redeemed of Jehovah say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy,

For He has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two.

God has spoken in His holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and I will measure out the valley of Succoth.

Jehovah has sworn, and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; Jehovah is gracious and full of pity.

He has given food to those who fear Him; He will always be mindful of His covenant.

He has shown His people the power of His works, to give to them the inheritance of the nations.

He sent redemption to His people; He has commanded His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.