I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

You have said sharp words to the nations, you have sent destruction on the sinners, you have put an end to their name for ever and ever.

He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

Thou hast said to Jehovah, 'My Lord Thou art;' My good is not for thine own sake;

To the saints that are on the earth, and to the excellent thou hast said, In them is all my delight.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form. For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said,

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto 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.

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

The voice of Jehovah will cause the hinds to bring forth, and will uncover the forests: and in his temple every one said, Glory.

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.

For I said, Lest they shall rejoice over me: in the wavering of my foot they magnified against me.

{To the chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.} I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.

I made no sound, I said no word, even of good; and I was moved with sorrow.

My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I hid not thy justice within my heart; I said thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I hid not thy mercy and thy truth to the great convocation.

I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

As for my enemies, with malice they said, "When will he die and memory of his name perish?"

My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

{To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

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

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back his people from captivity, then Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, "Isn't David hiding himself among us?"

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?} Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

God has said in his holy place, I will be glad: I will make a division of Shechem, and the valley of Succoth will be measured out.

Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

Keeping the word which came from my lips, and which my mouth said, when I was in trouble.

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

For mine enemies said to me, and they watching my soul took counsel together,

And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?

If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

I said, "I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me." (Selah)

I said, "During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully." I tried to make sense of what was happening.

And I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.

They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.

I said, 'Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!

I said, “You are gods;
you are all sons of the Most High.

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.

who said, “Let us seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”

Glorious things are said about you,
city of God.Selah

I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, "This one was born there."

And it will be said of Zion,
“This one and that one were born in her.”
The Most High Himself will establish her.

For you have said, Mercy will be made strong for ever; my faith will be unchanging in the heavens.

The Lord said,
“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.

Thou causest man to return unto dust, And hast said - Return, ye sons of Adam!

Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

Yet have they said - Yah, doth not see, The God of Jacob, doth not understand.

When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

There [the] ships sail. Leviathan [is there] that you formed to play with.

He said: "I will give Canaan to you as the allotted portion that is your inheritance."

Until the time when what he said came about: the word of Jehovah tried him.

He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.

He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm -- innumerable,

So He said He would have destroyed them—
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.

For they made his spirit bitter, and he said unwise things.

They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!'

For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

{A Psalm of David.} The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

I believed, even when I said,
“I am severely afflicted.”

In my alarm I said,
“Everyone is a liar.”

In my heart, have I treasured what thou hast said, to the end I may not sin against thee.

Confirm what You said to Your servant,
for it produces reverence for You.

Let your mercies come to me, O Lord, even your salvation, as you have said.

Remember what you said to your servant, by which you caused me to hope.

[Heth] You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words.

I have given my mind to do your pleasure with all my heart; have mercy on me, as you have said.

The men of pride have said false things about me; but I will keep your orders in my heart.

Let your mercy now be my comfort, as you have said to your servant.

Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.

I look forward to the night watches, when I may meditate on what you have said.

Undertake my cause, and come to my help, give me life, as you have said.

I watch the treacherous, and despise them, because they do not do what you have said.

I find joy at what you have said like one who has discovered a great treasure.