But this is not the case with the wicked. They are like chaff that the wind blows away.

Let me announce the decree of the LORD that he told me: "You are my son, today I have become your father.

Offer sacrifices that are righteous, and put your confidence in the LORD.

He digs a pit, even excavates it; then he fell into the hole that he had made.

When I look at the heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you established

what is man that you take notice of him, or the son of man that you pay attention to him?

The wicked will turn back to where the dead are all the nations that have forgotten God.

Make them afraid, LORD, Let the nations know that they are only human. Interlude

Break the arm of the wicked and evil man; so that when you seek out his wickedness you will find it no more.

to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that men of the earth may cause terror no more. To the Director: A Davidic Song.

The LORD will cut off all slippery lips, and the tongue that boasts great things,

As for the saints that are in the land, they are noble, and all my delight is in them.

When you probe my heart, and examine me at night; when you refine me, you will find nothing wrong, for I have determined that I will not transgress with my mouth.

Now I know that the LORD has delivered his anointed; he has answered him from his sanctuary with the strength of his right hand of deliverance.

Our descendants will serve him, and that generation will be told about the Lord.

He revives my life; he leads me in pathways that are righteous for the sake of his name.

This is the generation that seeks him. Those who seek your face are the true seed of Jacob. Interlude

LORD, I love the dwelling place that is your house, the place where your glory resides.

If an army encamps against me, my heart will not fear. If a war is launched against me, I will even trust in that situation.

I have asked one thing from the LORD; it is what I really seek: that I may remain in the LORD's Temple all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD; and to inquire in his Temple.

I believe that I will see the LORD's goodness in the land of the living.

LORD, you brought me from death; you kept me alive so that I did not descend into the Pit.

so that I may sing praise to you and not remain silent. LORD, my God, I will give you thanks forever! To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

Rescue me from the net that they concealed to trap me; for you are my strength.

I will rejoice and be glad in your gracious love, for you see my affliction and take note that my soul is distressed.

How great is your goodness that you have reserved for those who fear you, that you have set in place for those who take refuge in you, in the presence of the children of men.

Taste and see that the LORD is good! How blessed is the person who trusts in him!

Let destruction come upon them unawares, and let the net that he hid catch him; let him fall into destruction.

An oracle that came to me about the transgressions of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

But the Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming!

Better is the little that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked people.

Observe the blameless! Take note of the upright! Indeed, the future of that man is peace.

How blessed is that strong person who places his trust in the LORD, and who has not acknowledged the proud nor resorted to lies.

Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.

But you, LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up so that I may pay them back!

In this way I will know that you are pleased with me, and that my enemies will not shout in triumph over me.

It was not with their sword that they inherited the land, nor did their own arm deliver them. But it was by your power, your strength, and by the light of your face; because you were pleased with them.

You sold out your people for nothing, and made no profit at that price.

You love justice and hate wickedness. That is why God, even your God, has anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.

Be in awe and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted throughout the earth.

Take note of her ramparts; investigate her citadels; that you may speak about them to the next generation.

that he should go on living and not see corruption.

Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals. A song of Asaph.

I know all the birds in the mountains; indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine.

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."

Let me know joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue!

Therefore I will praise you forever because of what you did; I will proclaim that your name is good in the midst of your faithful ones. To the Director: Upon . A Davidic instruction.

Would that Israel's deliverance come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic instruction, when the Ziphites came and told Saul, "David is hiding among us, is he not?"

I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?

For it is not an enemy who insults me I could have handled that nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me I could have hidden myself from him

For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living! To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy," when he fled from Saul into a cave.

I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.

How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly?

Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears,

May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.

May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.

Go ahead and destroy them in anger! Wipe them out, and they will know to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Interlude

You made your people go through hard times; you had us drink wine that makes us stagger.

From the end of the earth I will cry to you whenever my heart is overwhelmed. Place me on the rock that's too high for me.

You take care of the earth, you water it, and you enrich it greatly with the river of God that overflows with water. You provide grain for them, for you have ordained it this way.

You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.

that my lips uttered and that my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.

May God truly bless us so that all the nations of the earth will fear him. To the Director of music: A Psalm. A song.

that your feet may wade through blood. The tongues of your dogs will have their portions from your enemies."

Summon the power of your God, the power, God, that you have shown us.

Rebuke the wildlife that lives among the reeds, the nations that congregate like bulls and cows, humbling themselves with pieces of silver, for God scatters the nations that delight in battle.

Let me praise the name of God with a song that I may magnify him with thanksgiving.

That will please the LORD more than oxen and bulls with horns and hooves.

I have become an example to many that you are my strong refuge.

God, who can compare to you, who caused me to experience troubles that were numerous and disastrous? You will return to revive me and lift me up from the depths of the earth.

May he be like the rain that descends on mown grass, like showers sprinkling on the ground.

As for me, how good for me it is that God is near! I have made the Lord GOD my refuge so I can tell about all your deeds. An instruction of Asaph

Get up, God, and prosecute your case remember that you're being scorned by fools all day long.

"At the time that I choose I will judge the righteous.

since God is the judge. This one he will debase or that one he will exalt.

For there is a cup in the hand of the LORD, foaming with well-mixed wine that he will pour out, leaving only the dregs, from which all the wicked of the earth will drink.

So I say: "It causes me pain that the right hand of the Most High has changed."

things that we have heard and known and that our ancestors related to us.

We will not withhold them from their descendants; we'll declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD his might and awesome deeds that he has performed.

He established a decree in Jacob, and established the Law in Israel, that he commanded our ancestors to reveal to their children

in order that the next generation children yet to be born will know them and in turn teach them to their children.

They have forgotten what he has done, his awesome deeds that they witnessed.

He divided the sea so that they were able to cross; he caused the water to stand in a single location.

It's true that Moses struck the rock so that water flowed forth and torrents of water gushed out, but is he also able to give bread or to supply meat for his people?"

so that manna rained down on them for food and he sent them the grain of heaven.

Then they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their deliverer.

For he remembered that they were only flesh, a passing wind that doesn't return.

He abandoned the tent at Shiloh, the tent that he established among mankind.

He built his sanctuary, high as the heavens, like the earth that he established forever.

Pour out your wrath upon the nations that do not acknowledge you, and over the kingdoms that do not call on your name.

You cleared the ground so that its roots grew and filled the land.

Why did you break down its walls so that those who pass by pluck its fruits?

The root that your right hand planted, the shoot that you tended for yourself,

a decree that he prescribed for Joseph when he went throughout the land of Egypt, speaking a language I did not recognize.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, open your mouth that I may fill it.

Then they will know that you alone whose name is LORD are the Most High over all the earth. To the Director: On the Gittith. A Psalm by the descendants of Korah.

Will you restore our lives again so that your people may rejoice in you?