Now therefore be wise, you kings. Be instructed, you judges of the earth.

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

But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble."

to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

"Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on Yahweh?

My soul, you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

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

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

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

Yes, no one who waits for you shall be shamed. They shall be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh doesn't impute iniquity, in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Don't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

Oh fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack with those who fear him.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don't know about.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn't there.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation, neither is there any health in my bones because of my sin.

For my waist is filled with burning. There is no soundness in my flesh.

Yes, I am as a man who doesn't hear, in whose mouth are no reproofs.

"Yahweh, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.

"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

"An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.

"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth."

For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

"Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don't call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.

No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors. Selah.

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren't hidden from you.

You know my reproach, my shame, and my dishonor. My adversaries are all before you.

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.

God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

"Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don't know you; on the kingdoms that don't call on your name;

Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.

There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.

You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.

A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.