As for me, I will preach the law, whereof the LORD hath said unto me, "Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

For he hath said in his heart, "Tush, I shall never be cast down; there shall no harm happen unto me."

He hath said in his heart, "Tush, God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face, so that he will never see it."

Which have said, "With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak; Who is lord over us?"

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The fool hath said in his heart, "Tush, there is no God." They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one.

O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, "Thou art my God, my goods are nothing like unto thee."

{To the Chanter, of David, servant of the Lord, which said unto the Lord the words of this song, on the day in which the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and said} I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be removed." And why? Thou, LORD, of thy goodness, hast made my hill so strong.

But my hope hath been in thee, O LORD; I have said, "Thou art my God."

And when I made haste, I said, "I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes." Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.

I will acknowledge my sin unto thee; and mine unrighteousness have I not hid. I said, "I will confess my sins unto the LORD." And so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. Selah.

{To the Chanter, for praising, a Psalm of David} I said, "I will take heed to my ways, that I offend not in my tongue. I will keep my mouth as it were with a bridle, while the ungodly is in my sight."

Then said I, "Lo, I come. In the beginning of the book it is written of me,

I said, "LORD be merciful unto me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee!"

{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David when the Ziphites came, and said unto Saul: David is hid among us} Save me, O God, for thy name's sake, and avenge me in thy strength.

And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.

The LORD hath said, "I will bring my people again, as I did from Bashan; mine own will I bring again, as I did sometimes from the deep of the sea,

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

Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.

I said unto the fools, "Deal not so madly," and to the ungodly, "Set not up your horn.

For they spake against God, and said, "Yea yea, God shall prepare a table in the wilderness, shall he?

I have said, "Ye are gods, and ye are all the children of the most highest.

For I have said, "Mercy shall be set up for ever; thy truth shalt thou establish in the heavens."

When I said, "My foot hath slipped, thy mercy, O LORD, held me up."

Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."

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

So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.

{A Psalm of David} The LORD said unto my LORD, "Sit thou on my righthand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool."

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

{A song of the stairs} I was glad when they said unto me, "We will go in to the house of the LORD."

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with joy. Then said they among the heathen, "The LORD hath done great things for them."

Remember the children of Edom, O LORD, in the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Down with it! Down with it, even to the ground!"