I will declare the Lord’s decree:
He said to Me, “You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father.

I said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord;
I have nothing good besides You.”

When I was secure, I said,
“I will never be shaken.”

In my alarm I had said,
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not conceal my iniquity.
I said,
“I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and You took away the guilt of my sin.Selah

For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me—
those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”

Then I said, “See, I have come;
it is written about me in the volume of the scroll.

I said, “Lord, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

I said, “If only I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and find rest.

The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea

They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned down every place throughout the land
where God met with us.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.”

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.

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

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

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

A Davidic song of ascents.I rejoiced with those who said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Our mouths were filled with laughter then,
and our tongues with shouts of joy.
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”