Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

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

My eye is consumed because of grief; it groweth old because of all my enemies.

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

If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him that without cause is my enemy:)

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

If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.

He made a pit, and digged it, and hath fallen into the ditch which he made.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thy enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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

Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

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

Why doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself to thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou shalt find none.

The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen have perished out of his land.

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

If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

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

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

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

He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

A Prayer of David. Hear the right, O LORD, attend to my cry, give ear to my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.

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

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

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.

Yes, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.

Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

Their line hath gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from his heat.

Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion.

He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it to him, even length of days for ever and ever.

Thy hand shall find out all thy enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

All they that see me deride me: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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

All they that are fat upon 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.

A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Also, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great.

What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

His soul shall dwell at ease; and his seed shall inherit the earth.

My eyes are ever towards the LORD; for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.

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

Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses have risen against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he will strengthen thy heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

A Psalm and Song, at the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Sing to the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

For he spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.

A Psalm of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed. I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear of it and be glad.

This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul, I am thy salvation.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation.

But in my adversity they rejoiced, and assembled themselves: yes, the abjects assembled themselves against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

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

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at my hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

Commit thy way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he will bring it to pass.

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

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

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yes, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

The Lord will laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as are of upright deportment.

I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not: yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

Behold, thou hast made my days as a hand-breadth; and my age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.