I will declare the decree: Jehovah hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; I this day have begotten thee.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

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

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.

Thou my soul hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; --

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

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

My heart said for thee, Seek ye my face. Thy face, O Jehovah, will I seek.

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

But I confided in thee, Jehovah; I said, thou art my God.

As for me, 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 I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

And they opened their mouth wide against me; they said, Aha! aha! our eye hath seen it.

For I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified themselves against me.

{To the chief Musician, 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 muzzle, while the wicked is before me.

Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me --

As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God abideth continually.

{To the chief Musician. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

{To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments: an instruction. Of David; when the Ziphites came, and said to Saul, Is not David hiding himself with us?} O God, by thy name save me, and by thy strength do me justice.

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

The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring them again from the depth of the sea;

If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.

They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Then said I, This is my weakness: the years of the right hand of the Most High

And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the Most High;

For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.

And of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; and the Most High himself shall establish her.

For I said, Loving-kindness shall be built up for ever; in the very heavens wilt thou establish thy faithfulness.

When I said, My foot slippeth, thy loving-kindness, O Jehovah, held me up.

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

I said, My God, take me not away in the midst of my days! ... Thy years are from generation to generation.

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

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

{Psalm of David.} Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet.

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

CHETH. My portion, O Jehovah, I have said, is to keep thy words.

{A Song of degrees. Of David.} I rejoiced when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of Jehovah.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing: then said they among the nations, Jehovah hath done great things for them.

Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, Lay it bare, Lay it bare, down to its foundation!

I have said unto Jehovah, Thou art my God: give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplications.

I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.