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

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from 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 thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

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

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

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

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers 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 hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

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

{A Psalm of David, Maschil.} Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

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

This thou hast 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 seed 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 thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

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

{To the chief Musician, even 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 is before me.

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Beautiful for situation, 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 for ever. Selah.

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

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

{A Psalm of Asaph.} The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

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

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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

Behold, I was shapen 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 thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

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

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

Destroy, O Lord, and divide 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 be born, speaking lies.

As a snail which melteth, 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 cursing and lying which they speak.

To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm and Song of David.} Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

The earth shook, the heavens also dropped 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 Salmon.

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 thy 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 for Solomon.} Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son.

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

His name shall endure for ever: 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 thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

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

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

How he had wrought 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 thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

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 appeareth 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.

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

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

The LORD loveth 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 exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

His seed shall endure for ever, 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 labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

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

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

He hath 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.

Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour 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 knoweth his going down.

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

They soon forgat 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 thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine 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 thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.

I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad.

The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.

{A Song of degrees.} They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

{A Song of degrees.} When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

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

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

As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

The LORD that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Zion.