Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

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

But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call to him.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who will give thee thanks?

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

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

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

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. 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.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

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

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

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

Now I know that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear 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.

Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shades of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

And now shall my head be lifted above my enemies around me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

For this shall every one that is godly pray to thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh to him.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near to thee.

Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he maketh the devices of the people of no effect.

There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

The LORD is nigh to them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

False witnesses arose; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and assembled themselves: yes, the abjects assembled themselves against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

O continue thy loving-kindness to them that know thee; and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

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

There is no soundness in my flesh because of thy anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

For my loins are filled with a lothsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no delay, O my God.

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast to him: and now that he lieth he shall rise no more.

By this I know that thou favorest me, because my enemy doth not triumph over me.

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

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread! they have not called upon God.

There they were in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

God will hear and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.

When I cry to thee, then shall my enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.

Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be: and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Draw nigh to my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of my enemies.

But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no delay.

My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.

Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

For he shall deliver the needy when he crieth; the poor also, and him that hath no helper.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?

When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

But now they break down the carved work of it at once with axes and hammers.

We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more?

That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

Blow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.

I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Cush; this man was born there.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh to the grave.

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Blessed are the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

He that chastiseth the heathen, shall he not correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know?

O 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 hath done marvelous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

But thou art the same, and thy years will have no end.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more.

Let sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.

He suffered no man to do them wrong: yes, he reproved kings for their sakes;

Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.

That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.

Why should the heathen say, Where is now their God?

I will pay my vows to the LORD now in the presence of all his people.