I will declare the decree: the LORD has said unto me, You are my Son; this day have I begotten you.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

O you sons of men, how long will you turn my glory into shame? how long will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

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

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

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

Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto you will I pray.

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

You shall destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

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.

For you, LORD, will bless the righteous; with favor will you surround him with a shield.

The LORD has heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

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

I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.

[To the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Death of the Son." A Psalm of David.] I will praise you, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will show forth all your marvelous works.

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

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.

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

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, 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.

LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:

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.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] How long will you forget me, O LORD? forever? how long will you hide your face from me?

I will sing unto the LORD, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips.

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

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.

I have called upon you, for you will hear me, O God: incline your ear unto me, and hear my speech.

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.

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from my enemies.

With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; with an upright man you will show yourself upright;

With the pure you will show yourself pure; and with the devious you will show yourself shrewd.

For you will save the humble people; but will bring down haughty looks.

For you will light my lamp: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.

Therefore will I give thanks unto you, O LORD, among the nations, and sing praises unto your name.

We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfill all your petitions.

Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.

Be exalted, LORD, in your own strength: so will we sing and praise your power.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for you have heard me from the horns of the wild oxen.

I will declare your name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise you.

My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

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.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

The meek will he guide in justice: and the meek will he teach his way.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked.

I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I go about your altar, O LORD:

But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: redeem me, and be merciful unto me.

My foot stands in an even place: in the congregations will I bless the LORD.

Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; 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 inquire in his temple.

And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

When you said, Seek my face; my heart said unto you, your face, LORD, will I seek.

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

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

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoices; and with my song will I praise him.

He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

[A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the house of David.] I will extol you, O LORD; for you have lifted me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you forever.

I will be glad and rejoice in your mercy: for you have considered my trouble; you have known my soul in adversities;

I acknowledged my sin unto you, and my iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye.

[A Psalm of David when he pretended madness 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.

Come, you children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my precious life from the lions.

I will give you thanks in the great congregation: I will praise you among many people.

The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

For in you, O LORD, do I hope: you will hear, O Lord my God.

For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.

[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.

I delight to do your will, O my God: yea, your law is within my heart.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and you will not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: you will restore his bed in his sickness.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

I will say unto God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise you, O God my God.

Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise you forever and ever.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah.

For this God is our God forever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.

I will incline my ear to a proverb: I will disclose my riddles upon the harp.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, when you do well for yourself.

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.