How blessed is the person, who does not take the advice of the wicked, who does not stand on the path with sinners, and who does not sit in the seat of mockers.

"I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain."

I will not fear multitudes of people, who set themselves against me on every side.

When I call, answer me, my righteous God! When I was in distress, you set me free. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

But understand this: the LORD has set apart the godly for himself! The LORD will hear me when I cry out to him!

Let the assembly of the nations gather around you, and you will sit high above them.

LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! You set your glory above the heavens!

For you have brought about justice for me and my cause; you sit on the throne judging righteously.

The nations have sunk down into the pit they made, their feet are ensnared in the trap they set.

LORD, who may stay in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain?

I have set the LORD before me continuously; because he stands at my right hand, I will stand firm.

He said: "I love you, Lord, my strength.

So the LORD restored me according to my righteousness, because my hands were clean in his sight.

He is the one who gives victories to his king; who shows gracious love to his anointed, to David and his seed forever. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

yet their message goes out into all the world, and their words to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent for the sun in the heavens,

May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

When you appear, you will set them ablaze like a fire furnace. In his wrath, the LORD will consume them, and the fire will devour them.

"All who fear the LORD, praise him! All the seed of Jacob, glorify him! All the seed of Israel, fear him!

This is the generation that seeks him. Those who seek your face are the true seed of Jacob. Interlude

I do not sit with those committed to what is false, nor do I travel with hypocrites.

I hate the company of those who practice evil, nor do I sit with the wicked.

The LORD sat enthroned over the flood, and the LORD sits as king forever.

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

You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy, but you have set my feet in a sturdy place.

How great is your goodness that you have reserved for those who fear you, that you have set in place for those who take refuge in you, in the presence of the children of men.

When I said in my panic, "I have been cut off in your sight," then you surely heard the voice of my prayer in my plea to you for help.

My sin I acknowledged to you; my iniquity I did not hide. I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD." And you forgave the guilt of my sin! Interlude

The face of the LORD is set against those who do evil, and he will remove people's recollection of them from the earth.

For I said, "Do not let them gloat over me, as they congratulate themselves when my foot slips."

Indeed, I am being set up for a fall, and I am continuously reminded of my pain.

I was as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened.

Then I said, "Here I am! I have come! In the scroll of the book it is written about me.

As for me, I said, "LORD, be gracious to me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you!"

As for my enemies, with malice they said, "When will he die and memory of his name perish?"

Strap your sword to your side, mighty warrior, along with your honor and majesty.

Your sons will take the place of your ancestors, and you will set them up as princes in all the earth.

He summoned the heavens above and the earth below, to sit in judgment on his people.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done what was evil in your sight. As a result, you are just in your pronouncement and clear in your judgment.

I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?

They have set a snare for my feet, which makes me depressed. They dug a pit in front of me, but they are the ones who fell into it! Interlude

Don't trust in oppression or put false hope in stealing; if you become wealthy, do not set your heart on it.

You have led us into a trap and set burdens on our backs.

He will redeem them from oppression and violence, since their lives are precious in his sight.

You have certainly set them in slippery places; you will make them fall to their ruin.

You crushed the heads of Leviathan. You set it as food for desert creatures.

You set all the boundaries of the earth; you made summer and winter.

when he set his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the plain of Zoan.

You have set us at strife against our neighbors and our enemies deride us.

"Indeed I said, "You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.

God, do not rest! Don't be silent! Don't stay inactive, God!

who said, "Let us possess the pastures of God."

God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

Your servant rejoices, because, Lord, I set my hope on you.

Indeed, about Zion it will be said: "More than one person was born in it," and "The Most High himself did it."

You spoke to your faithful ones through a vision: "I will set a helper over a warrior. I will raise up a chosen one from the people.

One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.

You have set our iniquities before you, what we have concealed in the light of your presence.

If a thousand fall at your side or ten thousand at your right hand, it will not overcome you.

For forty years I loathed that generation, so I said, "They are a people whose hearts continuously err, and they have not understood my ways."

Fire goes out from his presence to consume his enemies on every side.

A deceitful person will not sit in my house; A liar will not remain in my presence.

to listen to the groans of prisoners, to set free those condemned to death,

You have set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

He said: "I will give Canaan to you as the allotted portion that is your inheritance."

He sent a king who released him, a ruler of people who set him free.

Then a fire burned among their company, a flame that set the wicked ablaze.

Some sat in deepest darkness, shackled with cruel iron,

Appoint an evil person over him; may an accuser stand at his right side.

A declaration from the LORD to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool."

and giving him a seat among nobles with the nobles of his people.

In the sight of the LORD, the death of his faithful ones is valued.

This is from the LORD it is awesome in our sight.

I have stored what you have said in my heart, so I won't sin against you.

Though nobles take their seat and gossip about me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

May your gracious love come to me, LORD, your salvation, just as you said.

Remember what you said to your servant, by which you caused me to hope.

I examined my lifestyle and set my feet in the direction of your decrees.

I look forward to the night watches, when I may meditate on what you have said.

I watch the treacherous, and despise them, because they do not do what you have said.

I find joy at what you have said like one who has discovered a great treasure.

The LORD is your guardian; the LORD is your shade at your right side.

To you, who sit enthroned in heaven, I lift up my eyes.

If the LORD had not been on our side let Israel now say

if the LORD had not been on our side, when men came against us,

Then our mouths were filled with laughter, and our tongues formed joyful shouts. Then it was said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

It is useless to get up early and to stay up late, eating the food of exhausting labor truly he gives sleep to those he loves.

The LORD made an oath to David from which he will not retreat: "One of your sons I will set in place on your throne.

If your sons keep my covenant and my statutes that I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever."

Mouths are attributed to them, but they cannot speak; sight is attributed to them, but they cannot see;

There we sat down and cried by the rivers of Babylon as we remembered Zion.

LORD, set a guard over my mouth; keep watch over the door to my lips.

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for no living person is righteous in your sight.

For those who oppose me are pursuing my life, crushing me to the ground, making me sit in darkness like those who died long ago.

In the morning let me hear of your gracious love, for in you I trust. Cause me to know the way I should take, because I have set my hope on you.

the LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD lifts up those who are weighed down. The LORD loves the righteous.

He set them in place to last forever and ever; he gave the command and will not rescind it.