“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

“I will surely tell of the decree of the Lord:
He said to Me, ‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.

Do homage to the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way,
For His wrath may soon be kindled.
How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!

Tremble, and do not sin;
Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
Declare among the peoples His deeds.

That I may tell of all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in Your salvation.

You have seen it, for You have beheld mischief and vexation to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the helper of the orphan.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When the Lord restores His captive people,
Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

As soon as they hear, they obey me;
Foreigners submit to me.

Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their utterances to the end of the world.
In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

May He send you help from the sanctuary
And support you from Zion!

I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,
Because You have seen my affliction;
You have known the troubles of my soul,

A Psalm of David. A Maskil.
How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven,
Whose sin is covered!

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.

I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I did not hide;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord”;
And You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah.

They opened their mouth wide against me;
They said, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”

You have seen it, O Lord, do not keep silent;
O Lord, do not be far from me.

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken
Or his descendants begging bread.

I have seen a wicked, violent man
Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.

For I confess my iniquity;
I am full of anxiety because of my sin.

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”

Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion in the far 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 her forever. Selah.

Let Mount Zion be glad,
Let the daughters of Judah rejoice
Because of Your judgments.

Walk about Zion and go around her;
Count her towers;

A Psalm of Asaph.
The Mighty One, God, the Lord, has spoken,
And summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth.

“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 know my transgressions,
And my sin is ever before me.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.

Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

By Your favor do good to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion!
When God restores His captive people,
Let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad.

Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;
Fierce men launch an attack against me,
Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be caught in their pride,
And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song.
There will be silence before You, and praise in Zion, O God,
And to You the vow will be performed.

The earth quaked;
The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God;
Sinai itself quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands;
The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.

They have seen Your procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

The humble have seen it and are glad;
You who seek God, let your heart revive.

For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.

A Psalm of Solomon.
Give the king Your judgments, O God,
And Your righteousness to the king’s son.

Let them fear You while the sun endures,
And as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

May his name endure forever;
May his name increase as long as the sun shines;
And let men bless themselves by him;
Let all nations call him blessed.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
You have prepared the light and the sun.

His tabernacle is in Salem;
His dwelling place also is in Zion.

He wrought wonders before their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

When He performed His signs in Egypt
And His marvels in the field of Zoan,

But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loved.

Even the shoot which Your right hand has planted,
And on the son whom You have strengthened for Yourself.

Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand,
Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself.

How blessed 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 appears before God in Zion.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord gives grace and glory;
No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

You forgave the iniquity of Your people;
You covered all their sin. Selah.

Turn to me, and be gracious to me;
Oh grant Your strength to Your servant,
And save the son of Your handmaid.

Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.

But of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”;
And the Most High Himself will establish her.

“The enemy will not deceive him,
Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

“His descendants shall endure forever
And his throne as the sun before Me.

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Make us glad according to the days You have afflicted us,
And the years we have seen evil.

If the Lord had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, though they had seen My work.

The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples have seen His glory.

Zion heard this and was glad,
And the daughters of Judah have rejoiced
Because of Your judgments, O Lord.

Light is sown like seed for the righteous
And gladness for the upright in heart.

He has remembered His lovingkindness and His faithfulness to 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 exalted above all the peoples.

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.

For the Lord has built up Zion;
He has appeared in His glory.

That men may tell of the name of the Lord in Zion
And His praise in Jerusalem,

He made the moon for the seasons;
The sun knows the place of its setting.

When the sun rises they withdraw
And lie down in their dens.

They have seen the works of the Lord,
And His wonders in the deep.

When he is judged, let him come forth guilty,
And let his prayer become sin.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
And do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.

The Lord will stretch forth Your strong scepter from Zion, saying,
“Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”

From the rising of the sun to its setting
The name of the Lord is to be praised.

O Lord, surely I am Your servant,
I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid,
You have loosed my bonds.

Your word I have treasured in my heart,
That I may not sin against You.

I have seen a limit to all perfection;
Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

The sun will not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.

A Song of Ascents.
Those who trust in the Lord
Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

A Song of Ascents.
When the Lord brought back the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream.

The Lord bless you from Zion,
And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

May all who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned backward;

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.

It is like the dew of Hermon
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the Lord commanded the blessing—life forever. Cross references: Psalm 133:1 : Gen 13:8; Heb 13:1 Psalm 133:2 : Ex 29:7; 30:25, 30; Lev 8:12 Psalm 133:2 : Ex 28:33; 39:24 Psalm 133:3 : Prov 19:12; Hos 14:5; Mic 5:7 Psalm 133:3 : Deut 3:9; 4:48 Psalm 133:3 : Ps 48:2; 74:2; 78:68 Psalm 133:3 : Lev 25:21; Deut 28:8; Ps 42:8 Psalm 133:3 : Ps 21:4 end of crossrefs