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!

But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
The Lord hears when I call to Him.

But let all who take refuge in You be glad,
Let them ever sing for joy;
And may You shelter them,
That those who love Your name may exult in You.

The Lord judges the peoples;
Vindicate me, O Lord, according to my righteousness and my integrity that is in me.

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

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

Put them in fear, O Lord;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things;

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.

You have tried my heart;
You have visited me by night;
You have tested me and You find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.

He trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise;
They fell under my feet.

Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven
With the saving strength of His right hand.

They will come and will declare His righteousness
To a people who will be born, that He has performed it.

Lift up your heads, O gates,
And be lifted up, O ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in!

Lift up your heads, O gates,
And lift them up, O ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in!

That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving
And declare all Your wonders.

One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.

I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

O taste and see that the Lord is good;
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!

Who is the man who desires life
And loves length of days that he may see good?

Let destruction come upon him unawares,
And let the net which he hid catch himself;
Into that very destruction let him fall.

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

My heart throbs, my strength fails me;
And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me.

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.”

“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
Before I depart and am no more.”

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him,
That when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

But You, O Lord, be gracious to me and raise me up,
That I may repay them.

By this I know that You are pleased with me,
Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
O God, we have heard with our ears,
Our fathers have told us
The work that You did in their days,
In the days of old.

“Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Consider her ramparts;
Go through her palaces,
That you may tell it to the next generation.

That he should live on eternally,
That he should not undergo decay.

For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.

Their inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

But man in his pomp will not endure;
He is like the beasts that perish.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

Man in his pomp, yet without understanding,
Is like the beasts that perish.

“I know every bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is Mine.

“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

Against You, You only, I have sinned
And done what is evil in Your sight,
So that You are justified when You speak
And blameless when You judge.

O Lord, open my lips,
That my mouth may declare Your praise.

You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

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

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.

For You have delivered my soul from death,
Indeed my feet from stumbling,
So that I may walk before God
In the light of the living.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

So that it does not hear the voice of charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.

Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

Destroy them in wrath, destroy them that they may be no more;
That men may know that God rules in Jacob
To the ends of the earth. Selah.

You have made Your people experience hardship;
You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger.

You have given a banner to those who fear You,
That it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

That Your beloved may be delivered,
Save with Your right hand, and answer us!

From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

He will abide before God forever;
Appoint lovingkindness and truth that they may preserve him.

So I will sing praise to Your name forever,
That I may pay my vows day by day.

How long will you assail a man,
That you may murder him, all of you,
Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Once God has spoken;
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God;

That Your way may be known on the earth,
Your salvation among all nations.

God blesses us,
That all the ends of the earth may fear Him.

You have ascended on high, You have led captive Your captives;
You have received gifts among men,
Even among the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell there.

That your foot may shatter them in blood,
The tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies.”

May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually.

Let heaven and earth praise Him,
The seas and everything that moves in them.

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

May he come down like rain upon the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.

Remember this, O Lord, that the enemy has reviled,
And a foolish people has spurned Your name.

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Then I said, “It is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach them to their children,

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,

That they should put their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments,

And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

They forgot His deeds
And His miracles that He had shown them.

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out,
And streams were overflowing;
Can He give bread also?
Will He provide meat for His people?”

And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.

Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passes and does not return.

He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies.

So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent which He had pitched among men,

Why have You broken down its hedges,
So that all who pass that way pick its fruit?

He established it for a testimony in Joseph
When he went throughout the land of Egypt.
I heard a language that I did not know:

“Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Like fire that burns the forest
And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

Fill their faces with dishonor,
That they may seek Your name, O Lord.

That they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord,
Are the Most High over all the earth.

Will You not Yourself revive us again,
That Your people may rejoice in You?

Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him,
That glory may dwell in our land.

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.

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

Who understands the power of Your anger
And Your fury, according to the fear that is due You?