O Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful.

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.

Know this also, that the LORD hath chosen to himself the man that is godly; when I call upon the LORD, he will hear me.

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

The LORD hath heard my humble petition; the LORD will receive my prayer.

If a man will not turn, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready.

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

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, he hath conceived sorrow, and brought forth ungodliness.

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

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

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider the trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death.

While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!

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

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

He hath said in his heart, "Tush, God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face, so that he will never see it."

Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious; search out the wickedness which he hath done, that he may perish.

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

I will sing of the LORD, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me; Yea, I will praise the name of the LORD the most highest.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The fool hath said in his heart, "Tush, there is no God." They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one.

He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour, and hath not slandered his neighbours.

He that hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.

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.}

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?}

Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.}

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,

All thine enemies shall feel thine hand; thy righthand shall find out them that hate thee.

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.

All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul.

They shall come, and declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, whom the LORD hath made.

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and prepared it upon the floods.

Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart, and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.

Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me. For thou art the God of my salvation; in thee hath been my hope all the day long.

Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.

Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me, for my hope hath been in thee.

{A Psalm of David} Be thou my Judge, O LORD, for I walk innocently. My trust hath been also in the LORD; therefore shall I not fall.

I hate the congregation of the wicked, and will not sit among the ungodly.

My heart hath talked of thee, seek ye my face. Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

Praised be the LORD, for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my song will I praise him.

I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities, and my trust hath been in the LORD.

But my hope hath been in thee, O LORD; I have said, "Thou art my God."

Thanks be to the LORD; for he hath showed me marvelous great kindness in a strong city.

Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD Jehovah; and blessed are the folk whom he hath chosen to be his inheritance.

But misfortune shall slay the ungodly; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.

O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over me ungodly; neither let them wink with their eyes, that hate me without a cause.

Let them be glad and rejoice, that favour my righteous dealing; yea, let them say always, "Blessed be the LORD, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."

The words of his mouth are unrighteous and full of deceit; he hath left off to behave himself wisely, and to do good.

He imagineth mischief upon his bed, and hath set himself in no good way; neither doth he abhor any thing that is evil.

Hold thee still in the LORD, and abide patiently upon him: but grieve not thyself at one that hath prosperity, and liveth in abomination.

A small thing that the righteous hath, is better than the great riches of the ungodly.

The LORD ordereth a good man's going, and hath pleasure in his way.

My heart panteth, my strength hath failed me, and the light of mine eyes is gone from me.

But mine enemies live, and are mighty: and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number.

He hath put a new song in my mouth, even a thanksgiving unto our God. Many men seeing this, shall fear the LORD, and put their trust in him.

Blessed is the man that hath set his hope in the LORD, and turned not unto the proud, and to such as go about with lies.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation.

For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up. Yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.

Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted, who did also eat my bread, hath lift up his heel against me.

The LORD hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

But it is thou that savest us from our enemies, and puttest them to confusion that hate us.

Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil our goods.

My confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Thou art the fairest among the children of men; full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.

O come hither, and behold the works of the LORD, what destructions he hath brought upon the earth.

He hath made wars to cease in all the world: he hath broken the bow, he hath knapped the spear in sunder, and burnt the chariots in the fire.

When a man is in honour and hath no understanding, he is compared unto the brute beasts - and becometh like unto them.

{The Psalm of Asaph} The LORD, even the most mighty God, hath spoken, and called the world; from the rising up of the sun unto the going down of the same.

Out of Zion hath God appeared in perfect beauty.

Behold, I was born in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me.

They are afraid where no fear is; for God breaketh the bones of them that besiege thee. Thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and a horrible dread hath overwhelmed me.

God hath spoken in his holiness: I will rejoice, and divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

And all men that see it shall say, "This hath God done!" For they shall perceive that it is his work.

O come hither and hearken, all ye that fear God; and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul.

But God hath heard me; and considered the voice of my prayer.

Praised be God, which hath not cast out my prayer, nor turned his mercy from me.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm and song of David} Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered; let them also that hate him flee before him.

The LORD hath said, "I will bring my people again, as I did from Bashan; mine own will I bring again, as I did sometimes from the deep of the sea,

Thy God hath committed strength unto thee; establish the thing, O God, that thou hast wrought in us,

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless, are mighty. I paid them the things that I never took.

And why? For thy sake have I suffered reproof; shame hath covered my face.

For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me; and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee is fallen upon me.

Take me out of the mire, that I sink not; Oh let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.

This shall please the LORD better than a bullock, that hath horns and hoofs.

saying, "God hath forsaken him. Persecute him, and take him, for there is none to help him."

For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth, and the needy that hath no help.

Lift up thy feet, that thou mayest utterly destroy every enemy which hath done evil in thy sanctuary.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies; for the presumption of them that hate thee, increaseth ever more and more.

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut up his loving-kindness in displeasure? Selah.

that we should not hide them from the children of the generations to come but to show the honour of the LORD, his mighty and wonderful works that he hath done.

The wild boar out of the wood hath rooted it up, and the beasts of the field have devoured it.

and the place of the vineyard that thy righthand hath planted, and the son whom thou madest so strong for thyself.

For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring; and they that hate thee, lift up their head.

My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.

For the sparrow hath found her a house, and the swallow a nest, where she may lay her young; even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Truth shall flourish out of the earth, and righteousness hath looked down from heaven.

Show some token upon me for good, that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed; because thou, LORD, hast helped me, and comforted me.