Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.

Many are saying of my soul,
“There is no deliverance for him in God.” Selah.

But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
The Lord hears when I call to Him.

You have put gladness in my heart,
More than when their grain and new wine abound.

For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness;
No evil dwells with You.

For there is no mention of You in death;
In Sheol who will give You thanks?

And those who know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

Put them in fear, O Lord;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good besides You.”

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

There is no speech, nor are there words;
Their voice is not heard.

Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven
With the saving strength of His right hand.

O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer;
And by night, but I have no rest.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

Make me know Your ways, O Lord;
Teach me Your paths.

The secret of the Lord is for those who fear Him,
And He will make them know His covenant.

And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me,
And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I will never be moved.”

How blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity,
And in whose spirit there is no deceit!

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a shout of joy.

O fear the Lord, you His saints;
For to those who fear Him there is no want.

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord.
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart;
There is no fear of God before his eyes.

O continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You,
And Your righteousness to the upright in heart.

Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more;
And you will look carefully for his place and he will not be there.

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.

Then he passed away, and lo, he was no more;
I sought for him, but he could not be found.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

For my loins are filled with burning,
And there is no soundness in my flesh.

Yes, I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth are no arguments.

“Lord, make me to know my end
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how transient I am.

“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

“And now, Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is in You.

“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
Before I depart and am no more.”

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;
Many will see and fear
And will trust in the Lord.

I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation;
Behold, I will not restrain my lips,
O Lord, You know.

By this I know that You are pleased with me,
Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

“Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

No man can by any means redeem his brother
Or give to God a ransom for him—

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

“I shall take no young bull out of your house
Nor male goats out of your folds.

“I know every bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is Mine.

“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.

For I know my transgressions,
And my sin is ever before me.

Behold, You desire truth in the innermost being,
And in the hidden part You will make me know wisdom.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

There they were in great fear where no fear had been;
For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you;
You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.

God will hear and answer them—
Even the one who sits enthroned from of old— Selah.
With whom there is no change,
And who do not fear God.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.

No, in heart you work unrighteousness;
On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.

For no guilt of mine, they run and set themselves against me.
Arouse Yourself to help me, and see!

Destroy them in wrath, destroy them that they may be no more;
That men may know that God rules in Jacob
To the ends of the earth. Selah.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly;
My soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You,
In a dry and weary land where there is no water.

I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

You know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor;
All my adversaries are before You.

Saying, “God has forsaken him;
Pursue and seize him, for there is no one to deliver.”

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of Your salvation all day long;
For I do not know the sum of them.

In his days may the righteous flourish,
And abundance of peace till the moon is no more.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

For there are no pains in their death,
And their body is fat.

They say, “How does God know?
And is there knowledge with the Most High?”

And now all its carved work
They smash with hatchet and hammers.

We do not see our signs;
There is no longer any prophet,
Nor is there any among us who knows how long.

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,

Fire devoured His young men,
And His virgins had no wedding songs.

They have poured out their blood like water round about Jerusalem;
And there was no one to bury them.

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

O God of hosts, turn again now, we beseech You;
Look down from heaven and see, and take care of this vine,

Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on our feast day.

He established it for a testimony in Joseph
When he went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard a language that I did not know:

“Let there be no strange god among you;
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

They do not know nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

That they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord,
Are the Most High over all the earth.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord gives grace and glory;
No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord,
Nor are there any works like Yours.

“I shall mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me;
Behold, Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’”

Forsaken among the dead,
Like the slain who lie in the grave,
Whom You remember no more,
And they are cut off from Your hand.

How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!
O Lord, they walk in the light of Your countenance.

No evil will befall you,
Nor will any plague come near your tent.

A senseless man has no knowledge,
Nor does a stupid man understand this:

To declare that the Lord is upright;
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

“For forty years I loathed that generation,
And said they are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not know My ways.

Sing to the Lord a new song;
Sing to the Lord, all the earth.

A Psalm.
O sing to the Lord a new song,
For He has done wonderful things,
His right hand and His holy arm have gained the victory for Him.

Know that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me;
I will know no evil.

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him I will destroy;
No one who has a haughty look and an arrogant heart will I endure.

When the wind has passed over it, it is no more,
And its place acknowledges it no longer.