He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; Jehovah shall mock at them.

I cried to Jehovah with my voice, and He heard me out of His holy hill. Selah.

Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

To the Chief Musician, for eight-stringed instruments. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, rebuke me not in Your anger, nor chasten me in the heat of Your fury.

My eye is dim because of grief; it wastes away because of all my enemies.

lest he tear my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.

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

And the congregation of the peoples shall surround You; and over it You will return on high.

If he does not turn, He will whet His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready.

He dug a pit and bored it, and has fallen into the ditch which he made.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings You have ordained strength, because of ones vexing You, to cause the enemy and the avenger to cease.

When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;

what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?

You have rebuked the heathen, You have destroyed the wicked, You have put out their name forever and ever.

His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

You have seen it; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil one; seek out his wickedness, until You find none.

Jehovah is King forever and ever; the nations have perished out of His land.

for lo, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow on the string, so that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

To the Chief Musician, on eight. A Psalm of David. Help, Jehovah, for the godly man ceases; for the faithful fail from among the sons of men.

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, I will now arise, says Jehovah. I will set in safety, he pants for it.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

Who will bring the salvation of Israel out of Zion? When Jehovah brings back the captivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

in whose eyes the reprobate is despised, but he honors those who fear Jehovah; he has sworn to his hurt, and does not change it;

he has not put out his money at interest, nor has he taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall not be moved forever.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied who run after another god. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood; and I will not take their names on my lips.

I have set Jehovah always before Me; because He is at My right hand, I shall not be moved.

You will make Me know the way of life; in Your presence is fullness of joys. At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O Jehovah; listen to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, for it is not in lips of deceit.

Let my judgment go out from Your presence; let Your eyes behold uprightly.

Set out Your wonderful loving-kindness, O Savior of those seeking refuge in You, by Your right hand, from those who rise up against me.

In my distress I called on Jehovah, and I cried to my God; He heard my voice out of His temple, and my cry came before Him, into His ears.

A smoke went up out of His nostrils, and fire devoured out of His mouth; coals were kindled by it.

At the brightness before Him, His dark clouds passed through, hailstones and coals of fire passed.

Yea, He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He shot out lightnings and crushed them.

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered, at Your rebuke, O Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

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

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

You have given a wide place for my steps under me, so that my feet have not slipped.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like the dirt in the streets.

The sons of strangers shall fade away and be afraid out of their strongholds.

It is God who avenges me, and humbles the people under me.

Their line has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In them He has set a tabernacle for the sun,

sending you help from the sanctuary, and upholding you out of Zion.

Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You.

All who see Me mock me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

For You are He who took Me out of the womb, causing Me to trust while on My mother's breasts.

They opened wide their mouths on Me, like a ripping and a roaring lion.

I am poured out like water, and all My bones are spread apart; My heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of My bowels.

I can count all My bones; they look and stare at Me.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek Jehovah shall praise Him; your heart shall live forever.

All the fat ones on the earth shall eat and worship; all those who go down to the dust shall bow before Him; and none can keep alive his own soul.

A seed shall serve Him; it shall be spoken of Jehovah to the coming generation.

They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall yet be born, that He has done this.

A Psalm of David. The earth is Jehovah's, and the fullness of it; the world, and those who dwell in it.

For He has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers.

Yea, let none who wait on You be ashamed; let them be ashamed who sin without cause.

Lead me in Your truth, and teach me; for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all the day long.

For Your name's sake, O Jehovah, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

What man is he who fears Jehovah? He shall teach him in the way that he shall choose.

His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

My eyes are ever toward Jehovah; for He shall pluck my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.

Let purity and uprightness keep me; for I wait on You.

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

so that I may cry out with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all Your wonderful works.

When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their practices, give them according to the work of their hands; give them what they deserve.

The voice of Jehovah causes the does to calve, and uncovers the forests; and in His temple all of it is saying, Glory!

A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the House of David. I will praise You, O Jehovah; for You have lifted me up, and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.

Sing praises to Jehovah, O you saints of His, and give thanks at the memory of His holiness.

What profit is in my blood, in going down to the pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth?

Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a broken vessel.

For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood.

A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless Jehovah at all times; His praise always shall be in my mouth.

This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

The righteous cry, and Jehovah hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Jehovah delivers him out of them all.

Also draw out the spear and the lance against those who pursue me; say to my soul, I am your salvation.

Let destruction come upon him, he will not know; and let his net which he has concealed catch him, let him fall in it, into destruction.

And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it shall rejoice in His salvation.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes in order to find his iniquity, to hate it.

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret yourself because of him who prospers in his way, because of him who practices wickedness.

For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on Jehovah, they shall inherit the earth.

It is but a little while, and the wicked shall not be; yea, you shall search his place, and he shall not be.

Jehovah laughs at him; for He sees that his day is coming.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who walk uprightly.

I have been young, and am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread.

The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell in it forever.

Wait on Jehovah, and keep His way, and He shall lift you up to inherit the earth; when the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not; and I looked for him, but he could not be found.

My heart pants; my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.

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

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