I will tell of the decree. LORD said to me, Thou are my son, this day I have begotten thee.

who have said, With our tongue will we prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?

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

Thou [my soul] have said to LORD, Thou are my LORD. I have no good beyond thee.

My heart said to thee, I have sought thy face. O LORD, I will seek thy face.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.

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

As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes. Nevertheless thou heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to thee.

I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to LORD, and thou forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

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

For I said, Lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

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 man is before me.

Then I said, Lo, I have come. In the volume of a book it is written of me.

I said, O LORD, have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.

And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! Then I would fly away, and be at rest.

LORD said, I will bring again from Bashan. I will bring again from the depths of the sea,

If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.

They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether. They have burned up all the meeting-places of God in the land.

I said to the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly, and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn.

And I said, This is my infirmity, the change of the right hand of the Most High.

Yea, they spoke against God. They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

I said, Ye are gods, and all of you 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 take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.

Yea, of Zion it shall be said, this and that man was born in her, and the Most High himself will establish her.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness thou will establish in the very heavens.

Then thou spoke in a vision to thy sanctified, and said, I have laid help upon a mighty [man]. I have exalted a chosen [man] out of the people.

When I said, My foot slips, thy loving kindness, O LORD, held me up.

Forty years long I was grieved with [that] generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

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

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

LORD is my portion; I have said that I would observe thy words.

I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of LORD.

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, LORD has done great things for them.

Remember, O LORD, the day of Jerusalem against the sons of Edom, who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

I said to LORD, Thou are my God. Give ear to the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

I cried to thee, O LORD. I said, Thou are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.