He that sitteth in the heavens will laugh: The Lord will have them in derision.

Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.

I will tell of the decree: Jehovah said unto me, Thou art my son; This day have I begotten thee.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people That have set themselves against me round about.

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness; Thou hast set me at large when I was in distress: Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than they have when their grain and their new wine are increased.

Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)

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

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; Behold my affliction which I suffer of them that hate me, Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death;

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

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

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; Lest mine adversaries rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in thy lovingkindness; My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

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.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

O my soul , thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; Yea, I have a goodly heritage.

I have set Jehovah always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.

My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.

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

They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous'sins ; Let them not have dominion over me: Then shall I be upright, And I shall be clear from great transgression.

Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

O my God, in thee have I trusted, Let me not be put to shame; Let not mine enemies triumph over me.

Remember, O Jehovah, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindness; For they have been ever of old.

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.

Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes; And I have walked in thy truth.

I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.

One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.

Hear, O Jehovah, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Hear, O Jehovah, and have mercy upon me: Jehovah, be thou my helper.

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid privily for me; For thou art my stronghold.

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, yea , my soul and my body.

For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.

Let me not be put to shame, O Jehovah; for I have called upon thee: Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.

For our heart shall rejoice in him, Because we have trusted in his holy name.

Let thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, be upon us, According as we have hoped in thee.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.

Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.

I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

And Jehovah helpeth them, and rescueth them; He rescueth them from the wicked, and saveth them, Because they have taken refuge in him.

I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me.

I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them.

My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.

In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah

All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,

If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

All thy garments'smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Jehovah of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah

We have thought on thy lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of thy temple.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.

Gather my saints together unto me, Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And call not upon God?

For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:

God will hear, and answer them, Even he that abideth of old, Selah The men who have no changes, And who fear not God.

In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can flesh do unto me?

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do unto me?

They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah

But thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; Thou wilt have all the nations in derision.

God hath spoken once, Twice have I heard this, That power belongeth unto God.

So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, To see thy power and thy glory.

Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

They search out iniquities; We have accomplished,'say they , a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.

That thou mayest crush them , dipping thy foot in blood, That the tongue of thy dogs may have its portion from thine enemies.

They have seen thy goings, O God, Even the goings of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.

Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; Shame hath covered my face.

The meek have seen it, and are glad: Ye that seek after God, let your heart live.

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there, and have it in possession.

By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.

O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River unto the ends of the earth.

He will have pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he will save.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.