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

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

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

The LORD has heard my supplication. The LORD accepts my prayer.

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.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

He has dug a hole, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens.

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

But the LORD reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.

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

The LORD has made himself known. He has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

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

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

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

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.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

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,

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.

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.

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

Blessed be the LORD, because he has heard the voice of my petitions.

The LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

Praise be to the LORD, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.

Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

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

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

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

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.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

Come, see the LORD's works, what desolations he has made in the earth.

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

God has shown himself in her citadels as a refuge.

A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies.

Fearfulness and trembling have come on me. Horror has overwhelmed me.

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, although there are many who oppose me.

He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

God has spoken from his sanctuary: "I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.

Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?

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

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

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

But most certainly, God has listened. He has heard the voice of my prayer.

Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor his loving kindness from me.

The earth has yielded its increase. God, even our own God, will bless us.

Your God has commanded your strength. Strengthen, God, that which you have done for us.

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

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

It will please the LORD better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, LORD. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

Yes, the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young, near your altars, LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Truth springs out of the earth. Righteousness has looked down from heaven.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

Your fierce wrath has gone over me. Your terrors have cut me off.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

"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.

My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.

But the LORD has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.

Sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand, and his holy arm, have worked salvation for him.

The LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

He has remembered his loving kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

For the LORD has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.

He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary. From heaven, the LORD looked at the earth;

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

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

Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.

The LORD has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

The LORD's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;