Therefore the wicked will not escape judgment, nor will sinners have a place in the assembly of the righteous.

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

He that dwelleth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall have them in derision.

"I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain."

Let me announce the decree of the LORD that he told me: "You are my son, today I have become your father.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.

LORD, I have so many persecutors! Many are rising up against me!

I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

I am not afraid of myriads of people, That round about they have set against me.

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!
For You have smitten all my enemies on the cheek;
You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have relieved me in my distress;
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour, and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

You have given me more joy in my heart than at harvest times, when grain and wine abound.

The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

Declare them guilty, God! Let them fall by their own schemes. Drive them away because of their many transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

'The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me.

LORD, my God, if I have done this thing, if there is injustice on my hands,

if I have rewarded those who did me good with evil, if I have plundered my enemy without justification,

Get up, LORD, in your anger! Rise up, because of the fury of my enemies; Arouse yourself for me; you have ordained justice.

The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

For the choir director; on the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have established strength on account of your adversaries, in order to silence the enemy and vengeful foe.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish before You.

For you have brought about justice for me and my cause; you sit on the throne judging righteously.

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

O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

Those who know your name will trust you, for you have not forsaken those who seek you, LORD.

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

The nations have sunk down into the pit they made, their feet are ensnared in the trap they set.

The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude

The wicked will turn back to where the dead are all the nations that have forgotten God.

Arise, LORD, and let no man have the upper hand; let the Heathen be judged in thy sight.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations}, [during] which [I will have] no trouble."

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

He crouches and bows, and the poor have fallen by his might.

You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

Jehovah is king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!

Lord, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.

For the music director; by David. In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, "Flee to a mountain like a bird!

Look, the wicked have bent their bow and placed their arrow on the string, to shoot from the darkness at the upright in heart.

For the music director; according to the sheminith style; a psalm of David. Deliver, Lord! For the godly have disappeared; people of integrity have vanished.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

How long must I struggle in my soul at night and have sorrow in my heart during the day? How long will my enemy rise up against me?

Have regard! answer me O Yahweh my God, - Light up mine eyes, lest I sleep on into death:

Then my enemy will say, "I have defeated him!" Then my foes will rejoice because I am upended.

As for me, I have trusted in your gracious love, my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

All have turned away, together they have become corrupt; no one practices what is good, not even one.

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

There they have feared a fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

A prayer of David. Protect me, O God, for I have taken shelter in you.

I told the LORD, "You are my master, I have nothing good apart from you."

Those who hurry after another god will have many sorrows; I will not present their drink offerings of blood, nor will my lips speak their names.

It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land.

I have set the LORD before me continuously; because he stands at my right hand, I will stand firm.

You have scrutinized my inner motives; you have examined me during the night. You have carefully evaluated me, but you find no sin. I am determined I will say nothing sinful.

As for the actions of people -- just as you have commanded, I have not followed in the footsteps of violent men.

Because my steps have held fast to your paths, my footsteps have not faltered.

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

from the wicked who have afflicted me, from my enemies who have surrounded me.

They are imprisoned by their own prosperity, they have boasted proudly with their mouth.

Now they have encircled our paths and are determined to cast us down to the ground.

Lord, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.

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.

Yahweh [is] my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.

Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.

From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.

He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.

For I have obeyed the Lord's commands; I have not rebelled against my God.

Indeed, I have kept all His ordinances in mind
and have not disregarded His statutes.

On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

You have given to me the shield of your deliverance, and your right hand holds me up; your gentleness made me great.

Thou enlargest my step under me, And mine ankles have not slidden.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

For You have girded me with strength for battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

You have made my enemies turn their back to me, and I will destroy those who hate me.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places.

He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Now I have known That Jehovah hath saved His anointed, He answereth him from His holy heavens, With the saving might of His right hand.