Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in 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.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open sepulcher; they flatter with their tongue.

Destroy them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against you.

Lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

When my enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at your presence.

And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

They are enclosed in their own fat hearts: with their mouth they speak proudly.

They have now surrounded us in our steps: they have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth;

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them who hated me: for they were too strong for me.

They confronted me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous act, which they are not able to perform.

Our fathers trusted in you: they trusted, and you did deliver them.

They cried unto you, and were delivered: they trusted in you, and were not disappointed.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I can count all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

They part my garments among them, and cast lots for my clothing.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever.

All the prosperous of earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me.

[A Psalm of David.] The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Remember, O LORD, your tender mercies and your lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Consider my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.

Be you not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, else they come not near unto you.

They looked unto him, and were radiant: and their faces were not ashamed.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

They rewarded me evil for good to the sorrow of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

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

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fullness of your house; and you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall vanish; into smoke shall they vanish away.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

For the LORD loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the descendants of the wicked shall be cut off.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

For my iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and plan deceit all the day long.

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good are my adversaries; because I follow the thing that is good.

Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us: they cannot be recounted in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me: my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

An evil disease, say they, clings close unto him: and now that he lies down he shall rise up no more.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had favor unto them.

You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us take spoil for themselves.

All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made you glad.

With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hastened away.

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Then shall you be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon your altar.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abides of old. Selah. Because they do not change, therefore they fear not God.