I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.

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 has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

O my soul, you have said to the Lord, You are my Lord: I have no good but you.

When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

But I had faith in you, O Lord; I said, You are my God.

And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner 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 I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,

I said, Lord, have mercy on me; make my soul well, because my faith is in you.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

And I said, If only I had wings like a dove! for then I would go in flight from here 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:

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 make them come back from Bashan, and from the deep parts 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.

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.

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?

Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)

And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.

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

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

For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

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

They did not put an end to the peoples, as the Lord had said;

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

The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

I still had faith, though I said, I am in great trouble;

Though I said in my fear, All men are false.

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

The Lord is my heritage: I have said that I would be ruled by 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.

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

Let my prayer come before you; take me out of trouble, as you have said.

I was glad because they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord.

O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base.

I have said to the Lord, You are my God: give ear, O Lord, to the voice of my prayer.

I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living.