Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

[To the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Death of the Son." A Psalm of David.] I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.

You have seen it: for you behold mischief and spite, to repay it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;

[A Psalm of David. A maschil.] Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

I acknowledged my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O LORD, be not far from me.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his offspring begging bread.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

[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 bridle, while the wicked are before me.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.

Beautiful for elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah.

Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of your judgments.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: number the towers thereof.

[A Psalm of Asaph.] The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined.

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

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

For he has delivered me out of all trouble: and my eye has seen his desire upon my enemies.

Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

As a snail who melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

To see your power and your glory, so as I have seen you in the sanctuary.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm and Song of David.] Praise waits for you, O God, in Zion: and unto you shall the vow be performed.

The earth shook, the heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Zalmon.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah: that they may dwell there, and have it in possession.

[A Psalm of Solomon.] Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness unto the king's son.

They shall fear you as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.

His name shall endure forever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the tribe of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, where you have dwelt.

The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.

In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

How he had worked his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give your strength unto your servant, and save the son of your handmaid.

Show me a sign for good; that they who hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because you, LORD, have helped me, and comforted me.

The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

The enemy shall not outwit him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

His descendants shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Make us glad according to the days in which you have afflicted us, and the years in which we have seen evil.

Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O LORD.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.

You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.

When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows its going down.

The sun arises, they gather themselves together, and lay themselves down in their dens.

They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel:

When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the midst of your enemies.

From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD's name is to be praised.

O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, and the son of your handmaid: you have loosed my bonds.

Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

[Zayin] Remember the word unto your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope.

I have seen a limit to all perfection: but your commandment is exceedingly broad.

The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

[A song of ascents.] They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abides forever.

[A song of ascents.] When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

The LORD shall bless you out of Zion: and you shall see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

For the LORD has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation.