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

I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

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

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for you have smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone; you have broken the teeth of the ungodly.

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.] Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have delivered me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.

[To the Chief Musician. With flutes. A Psalm of David.] Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto you will I pray.

My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto you, and will look up.

But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.

Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.

My soul is also greatly troubled: but you, O LORD, how long?

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for your mercies' sake.

I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed wet with tears; I water my couch with my tears.

My eye is consumed because of grief; it grows old because of all my enemies.

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 will receive my prayer.

Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

Lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

O LORD 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 is my enemy:)

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

My defense is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

[To the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Death of the Son." A Psalm of David.] I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.

When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.

For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.

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

That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

He crouches, and lies low, that the poor may fall by his strength.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

I will sing unto the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

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

[A miktam of David.] Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.

O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness reaches not to you;

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the noble, in whom is all my delight.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips.

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot.

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

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

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

[A prayer of David.] Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.

Let my vindication come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are right.

You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Hold up my steps in your paths, that my feet slip not.

I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of your wings,

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

Arise, O LORD, confront him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, by your sword:

As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

The sorrows of sheol surrounded me: the snares of death confronted me.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me.

They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.

The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.

I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.

Therefore has the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

For by you I have advanced against a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.

He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places.

He teaches my hands to make war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms.

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.

You have enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip.

I have pursued my 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 unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.