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

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said to me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thy inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

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

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

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

I cried to the LORD with my voice, and he heard me from 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 on all sides.

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

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

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

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time when their corn and their wine increased.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for thou only, LORD, makest me dwell in safety.

To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

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

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer to thee, and will look up.

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

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

To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

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

My soul is also greatly disquieted: but thou, O LORD, how long?

Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: Oh save me for thy mercies sake.

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

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

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

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

Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite. O LORD my God, in thee do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

Lest he 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 is iniquity in my hands;

If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)

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

Arise, O LORD, in thy anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast 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 from God, who saveth the upright in heart.

To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all thy wonderful works.

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

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou sattest on the throne judging right.

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

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

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

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

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 I put my trust: how say ye 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 privily shoot at the upright in heart.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy 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 thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

I will sing to the LORD, because he hath 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.

Michtam of David. Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

O my soul, thou hast said to the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, 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 their names into my lips.

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; yes, I have a goodly heritage.

I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night season.

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 rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption.

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thy eyes behold the things that are equal.

Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

Uphold my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

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

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shade of thy wings.

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

Arise, O LORD disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, who is thy sword:

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

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in 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 thee, 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 buckler, 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 compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

The sorrows of hell encompassed me: the snares of death seized me.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to 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 attacked me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

He brought me forth also in 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 hath 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 hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.

For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

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

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.

Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath held me up and thy gentleness hath made me great.

Thou hast enlarged my steps 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 have fallen under my feet.

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

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