But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.

So that I may make clear all your praise in the house of the daughter of Zion: I will be glad because of your salvation.

Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.

Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

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

Keep your servant back from sins of pride; let them not have rule over me: then will I be upright and free from great sin.

May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;

Because of your name, O Lord, let me have forgiveness for my sin, which is very great.

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

I will be glad and have delight in your mercy; because you have seen my trouble; you have had pity on my soul in its sorrows;

My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

I made my wrongdoing clear to you, and did not keep back my sin. I said, I will put it all before the Lord; and you took away my wrongdoing and my sin. (Selah.)

Their mouths were open wide against me, and they said, Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it.

You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.

The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

Put an end to your wrath and be no longer bitter; do not give way to angry feeling which is a cause of sin.

But the wrongdoers will come to destruction, and the haters of the Lord will be like the fat of lambs, they will be burned up; they will go up in smoke, and never again be seen.

I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith in the Lord.

You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

The God of gods, even the Lord, has sent out his voice, and the earth is full of fear; from the coming up of the sun to its going down.

Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

For I am conscious of my error; my sin is ever before me.

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

6 May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! When the fate of his people is changed by God, Jacob will have joy, and Israel will be glad.

Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)

It is right for you, O God, to have praise in Zion: to you let the offering be made.

Let God be seen, and let his haters be put to flight; let those who are against him be turned back before him.

The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel.

When the Most High put the kings to flight, it was as white as snow in Salmon.

The war-carriage of God is among Israel's thousands; the Lord has come from Sinai to the holy place.

You have seen my shame, how I was laughed at and made low; my haters are all before you.

For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

Give the king your authority, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.

May his life go on as long as the sun and moon, through all generations.

May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are ended.

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

In Salem is his tent, his resting-place in Zion.

He did great works before the eyes of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.

But he, being full of pity, has forgiveness for sin, and does not put an end to man: frequently turning back his wrath, and not being violently angry.

How he had done his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

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

Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

For a day in your house is better than a thousand. It is better to be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to be living in the tents of sin.

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.

And of Zion it will be said, This or that man had his birth there; and the Most High will make her strong.

Then I will send punishment on them for their sin; my rod will be the reward of their evil-doing.

His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

O God, in whose hands is punishment, O God of punishment, let your shining face be seen.

What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

And he has made their evil designs come back on themselves, cutting them off in their sin; the Lord our God will put an end to them.

Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.

The Lord is great in Zion; he is high over all the nations.

You gave them an answer, O Lord our God; you took away their sin, though you gave them punishment for their wrongdoing.

He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.

He let his signs be seen among the people, and his wonders in the land of Ham.

When he is judged, let the decision go against him; and may his prayer become sin.

Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

From the coming up of the sun to its going down, the Lord's name is to be praised.

O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.

I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

I have seen, O Lord, that your decisions are right, and that in unchanging faith you have sent trouble on me.

I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.