He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.

The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

He has dug a pit and hollowed it out,
And has fallen into the hole which he made.

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

“Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”

A Prayer of David.
Hear a just cause, O Lord, give heed to my cry;
Give ear to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;
It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.

Let the lying lips be mute,
Which speak arrogantly against the righteous
With pride and contempt.

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You,
Before the sons of men!

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

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

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

Make me to hear joy and gladness,
Let the bones which You have broken rejoice.

He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me,
For they are many who strive with me.

Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be caught in their pride,
And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

Which my lips uttered
And my mouth spoke when I was in distress.

Why do you look with envy, O mountains with many peaks,
At the mountain which God has desired for His abode?
Surely the Lord will dwell there forever.

To Him who rides upon the highest heavens, which are from ancient times;
Behold, He speaks forth with His voice, a mighty voice.

Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come;
You have given commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You;
And my soul, which You have redeemed.

Remember Your congregation, which You have purchased of old,
Which You have redeemed to be the tribe of Your inheritance;
And this Mount Zion, where You have dwelt.

Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries,
The uproar of those who rise against You which ascends continually.

Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.

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,

He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.

So He brought them to His holy land,
To this hill country which His right hand had gained.

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

But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loved.

And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever.

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight,
Vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom
The reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

Even the shoot which Your right hand has planted,
And on the son whom You have strengthened for Yourself.

Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord,
Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

With which Your enemies have reproached, O Lord,
With which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed.

You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep;
In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew.

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which devises mischief by decree?

The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.

And wine which makes man’s heart glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And food which sustains man’s heart.

The trees of the Lord drink their fill,
The cedars of Lebanon which He planted,

You appoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.

There is the sea, great and broad,
In which are swarms without number,
Animals both small and great.

There the ships move along,
And Leviathan, which You have formed to sport in it.

Remember His wonders which He has done,
His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,

The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac.

And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.

For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind,
Which lifted up the waves of the sea.

Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself,
And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner stone.

This is the day which the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Establish Your word to Your servant,
As that which produces reverence for You.

Turn away my reproach which I dread,
For Your ordinances are good.

I shall delight in Your commandments,
Which I love.

And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments,
Which I love;
And I will meditate on Your statutes.

Zayin.
Remember the word to Your servant,
In which You have made me hope.

To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of the Lord—
An ordinance for Israel—
To give thanks to the name of the Lord.

A Song of Ascents.
Those who trust in the Lord
Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

Let them be like grass upon the housetops,
Which withers before it grows up;

With which the reaper does not fill his hand,
Or the binder of sheaves his bosom;

The Lord has sworn to David
A truth from which He will not turn back:
“Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.

“If your sons will keep My covenant
And My testimony which I will teach them,
Their sons also shall sit upon your throne forever.”

O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one,
How blessed will be the one who repays you
With the recompense with which you have repaid us.

“May burning coals fall upon them;
May they be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the snares of those who do iniquity.

Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;
For I trust in You;
Teach me the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul.

He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young ravens which cry.

He has also established them forever and ever;
He has made a decree which will not pass away.