Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law does he meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and distress them in his great displeasure.

You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

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.

Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.] Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have delivered me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for you, LORD, only make me dwell in safety.

My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto you, and will look up.

For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.

But as for me, I will come into your house in the multitude of your mercy: and in your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.

Lead me, O LORD, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before my face.

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.

But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

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

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.

So shall the congregation of the people surround you: for their sakes therefore return you on high.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tests the minds and hearts.

My defense is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own crown.

[To the Chief Musician upon gittith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!

I will be glad and rejoice in you: I will sing praise to your name, O most High.

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

For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sat in the throne judging right.

O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is perished with them.

And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness.

The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

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

Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

When he avenges blood, he remembers them: he forgets not the cry of the humble.

That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.

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

The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in your sight.

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?

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

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

Why does the wicked renounce God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

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.

The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.

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

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tested in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

The wicked prowl on every side, when vile men are exalted.

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall my enemy be exalted over me?

Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

[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.

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

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

[A Psalm of David.] LORD, who shall abide in your tabernacle? who shall dwell in your holy hill?

He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.

[A miktam of David.] Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the noble, in whom is all my delight.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

I will bless the LORD, who has given me counsel: my heart also instructs me in the night seasons.

Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices: my flesh also shall rest in hope.

For you will not leave my soul in sheol; neither will you allow your Holy One to see corruption.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Hold up my steps in your paths, that my feet slip not.

Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

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;

Like as a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

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.

As for me, I will behold your face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with your likeness.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.

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

He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.