Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,
and he meditates on it day and night.

For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

Why do the nations rebel
and the peoples plot in vain?

Then He speaks to them in His anger
and terrifies them in His wrath:

I will declare the Lord’s decree:
He said to Me, “You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father.

Pay homage to the Son or He will be angry
and you will perish in your rebellion,
for His anger may ignite at any moment.
All those who take refuge in Him are happy.

I cry aloud to the Lord,
and He answers me from His holy mountain.Selah

Salvation belongs to the Lord;
may Your blessing be on Your people.Selah

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic psalm.Answer me when I call,
God, who vindicates me.
You freed me from affliction;
be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

Know that the Lord has set apart
the faithful for Himself;
the Lord will hear when I call to Him.

Be angry and do not sin;
on your bed, reflect in your heart and be still.Selah

For the choir director: with the flutes. A Davidic psalm.Listen to my words, Lord;
consider my sighing.

Pay attention to the sound of my cry,
my King and my God,
for I pray to You.

At daybreak, Lord, You hear my voice;
at daybreak I plead my case to You and watch expectantly.

For the choir director: with stringed instruments, according to Sheminith. A Davidic psalm.Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger;
do not discipline me in Your wrath.

Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am weak;
heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking;

or they will tear me like a lion,
ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

if I have done harm to one at peace with me
or have plundered my adversary without cause,

may an enemy pursue and overtake me;
may he trample me to the ground
and leave my honor in the dust.Selah

The Lord judges the peoples;
vindicate me, Lord,
according to my righteousness and my integrity.

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
but establish the righteous.
The One who examines the thoughts and emotions
is a righteous God.

God is a righteous judge
and a God who shows His wrath every day.

See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil,
conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.

Because of Your adversaries,
You have established a stronghold
from the mouths of children and nursing infants
to silence the enemy and the avenger.

The enemy has come to eternal ruin;
You have uprooted the cities,
and the very memory of them has perished.

Sing to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
proclaim His deeds among the nations.

Be gracious to me, Lord;
consider my affliction at the hands of those who hate me.
Lift me up from the gates of death,

The wicked will return to Sheol—
all the nations that forget God.

Rise up, Lord! Do not let man prevail;
let the nations be judged in Your presence.

Lord, why do You stand so far away?
Why do You hide in times of trouble?

He says to himself, “I will never be moved—
from generation to generation without calamity.”

he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket.
He lurks in order to seize the afflicted;
he seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He hides His face and will never see.”

Rise up, Lord God! Lift up Your hand.
Do not forget the afflicted.

Why has the wicked person despised God?
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.

For the choir director. Davidic.I have taken refuge in the Lord.
How can you say to me,
“Escape to the mountain like a bird!

For look, the wicked string the bow;
they put the arrow on the bowstring
to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.

When the foundations are destroyed,
what can the righteous do?”

They lie to one another;
they speak with flattering lips and deceptive hearts.

How long will I store up anxious concerns within me,
agony in my mind every day?
How long will my enemy dominate me?

Consider me and answer, Lord my God.
Restore brightness to my eyes;
otherwise, I will sleep in death.

I will sing to the Lord
because He has treated me generously.

The Lord looks down from heaven on the human race
to see if there is one who is wise,
one who seeks God.

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on the Lord.

I said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord;
I have nothing good besides You.”

For You will not abandon me to Sheol;
You will not allow Your Faithful One to see decay.

You reveal the path of life to me;
in Your presence is abundant joy;
in Your right hand are eternal pleasures.

A Davidic prayer.Lord, hear a just cause;
pay attention to my cry;
listen to my prayer—
from lips free of deceit.

Concerning what people do:
by the word of Your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.

I call on You, God,
because You will answer me;
listen closely to me; hear what I say.

They advance against me; now they surround me.
They are determined
to throw me to the ground.

They are like a lion eager to tear,
like a young lion lurking in ambush.

With Your hand, Lord, save me from men,
from men of the world
whose portion is in this life:
You fill their bellies with what You have in store;
their sons are satisfied,
and they leave their surplus to their children.

I called to the Lord, who is worthy of praise,
and I was saved from my enemies.

I called to the Lord in my distress,
and I cried to my God for help.
From His temple He heard my voice,
and my cry to Him reached His ears.

He rescued me from my powerful enemy
and from those who hated me,
for they were too strong for me.

They confronted me in the day of my distress,
but the Lord was my support.

He brought me out to a spacious place;
He rescued me because He delighted in me.

The Lord rewarded me
according to my righteousness;
He repaid me
according to the cleanness of my hands.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord
and have not turned from my God to wickedness.

So the Lord repaid me
according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.

God—His way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is pure.
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

You widen a place beneath me for my steps,
and my ankles do not give way.

I pursue my enemies and overtake them;
I do not turn back until they are wiped out.

They cry for help, but there is no one to save them—
they cry to the Lord, but He does not answer them.

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

He gives great victories to His king;
He shows loyalty to His anointed,
to David and his descendants forever.

Day after day they pour out speech;
night after night they communicate knowledge.

Their message has gone out to all the earth,
and their words to the ends of the world.

In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.

It rises from one end of the heavens
and circles to their other end;
nothing is hidden from its heat.

Moreover, keep Your servant from willful sins;
do not let them rule over me.
Then I will be innocent
and cleansed from blatant rebellion.

May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You,
Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.

For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.May Yahweh answer you in a day of trouble;
may the name of Jacob’s God protect you.

Now I know that the Lord gives victory to His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven
with mighty victories from His right hand.

Lord, give victory to the king!
May He answer us on the day that we call.

He asked You for life, and You gave it to him—
length of days forever and ever.

Though they intend to harm you
and devise a wicked plan, they will not prevail.

Instead, you will put them to flight
when you aim your bow at their faces.

My God, I cry by day, but You do not answer,
by night, yet I have no rest.

They cried to You and were set free;
they trusted in You and were not disgraced.

I was given over to You at birth;
You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

Do not be far from me, because distress is near
and there is no one to help.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.

But You, Lord, don’t be far away.
My strength, come quickly to help me.

I will proclaim Your name to my brothers;
I will praise You in the congregation.

For He has not despised or detested
the torment of the afflicted.
He did not hide His face from him
but listened when he cried to Him for help.

All the ends of the earth will remember
and turn to the Lord.
All the families of the nations
will bow down before You,

for kingship belongs to the Lord;
He rules over the nations.

All who prosper on earth will eat and bow down;
all those who go down to the dust
will kneel before Him—
even the one who cannot preserve his life.

They will come and tell a people yet to be born
about His righteousness—
what He has done.

A Davidic psalm.The earth and everything in it,
the world and its inhabitants,
belong to the Lord;

Davidic.Lord, I turn to You.

My God, I trust in You.
Do not let me be disgraced;
do not let my enemies gloat over me.

Make Your ways known to me, Lord;
teach me Your paths.

Guide me in Your truth and teach me,
for You are the God of my salvation;
I wait for You all day long.

Do not remember the sins of my youth
or my acts of rebellion;
in keeping with Your faithful love, remember me
because of Your goodness, Lord.

All the Lord’s ways show faithful love and truth
to those who keep His covenant and decrees.

The secret counsel of the Lord
is for those who fear Him,
and He reveals His covenant to them.

Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am alone and afflicted.