I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

Thou hast said to Jehovah, 'My Lord Thou art;' My good is not for thine own sake;

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

And I -- I have said in mine ease, 'I am not moved -- to the age.

And I on Thee -- I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my God.'

And I -- I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, 'I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou -- Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

And they enlarge against me their mouth, They said, 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen.'

When I said, 'Lest they rejoice over me, In the slipping of my foot against me they magnified themselves.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,

I -- I said, 'O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,'

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

To the Overseer. -- 'On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

The Lord said: 'From Bashan I bring back, I bring back from the depths of the sea.

And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

They said in their hearts, 'Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.

I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.'

And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

I -- I have said, 'Gods ye are, And sons of the Most High -- all of you,

They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

Who have said, 'Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.

For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.

He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm -- innumerable,

They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!'

I said in my haste, 'Every man is a liar.'

Cheth. My portion is Jehovah; I have said -- to keep Thy words,

And the passers by have not said, 'The blessing of Jehovah is on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'

I have said to Jehovah, 'My God art Thou, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of my supplications.'

I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'