I will declare the Lord’s decree:
He said to Me, “You are My Son;
today I have become Your Father.

I am not afraid of the thousands of people
who have taken their stand against me on every side.

Know that the Lord has set apart
the faithful for Himself;
the Lord will hear when I call to Him.

Let the assembly of peoples gather around You;
take Your seat on high over it.

When I observe Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which You set in place,

His ways are always secure;
Your lofty judgments are beyond his sight;
he scoffs at all his adversaries.

I said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord;
I have nothing good besides You.”

Smoke rose from His nostrils,
and consuming fire came from His mouth;
coals were set ablaze by it.

So the Lord repaid me
according to my righteousness,
according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.

They cried to You and were set free;
they trusted in You and were not disgraced.

The one who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who has not set his mind on what is false,
and who has not sworn deceitfully.

I do not sit with the worthless
or associate with hypocrites.

I hate a crowd of evildoers,
and I do not sit with the wicked.

For He will conceal me in His shelter
in the day of adversity;
He will hide me under the cover of His tent;
He will set me high on a rock.

The Lord sat enthroned at the flood;
the Lord sits enthroned, King forever.

When I was secure, I said,
“I will never be shaken.”

You will free me from the net
that is secretly set for me,
for You are my refuge.

and have not handed me over to the enemy.
You have set my feet in a spacious place.

I have heard the gossip of many;
terror is on every side.
When they conspired against me,
they plotted to take my life.

How great is Your goodness
that You have stored up for those who fear You
and accomplished in the sight of everyone
for those who take refuge in You.

In my alarm I had said,
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.

Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not conceal my iniquity.
I said,
“I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and You took away the guilt of my sin.Selah

The face of the Lord is set
against those who do what is evil,
to erase all memory of them from the earth.

Those who seek my life set traps,
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.

For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me—
those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Davidic psalm.I said, “I will guard my ways
so that I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth with a muzzle
as long as the wicked are in my presence.”

You, indeed, have made my days short in length,
and my life span as nothing in Your sight.
Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.Selah

He brought me up from a desolate pit,
out of the muddy clay,
and set my feet on a rock,
making my steps secure.

Then I said, “See, I have come;
it is written about me in the volume of the scroll.

I said, “Lord, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

You supported me because of my integrity
and set me in Your presence forever.

Mighty warrior, strap your sword at your side.
In your majesty and splendor—

You sit, maligning your brother,
slandering your mother’s son.

Against You—You alone—I have sinned
and done this evil in Your sight.
So You are right when You pass sentence;
You are blameless when You judge.

I said, “If only I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and find rest.

How far away I would flee;
I would stay in the wilderness.Selah

Lord, look! They set an ambush for me.
Powerful men attack me,
but not because of any sin or rebellion of mine.

May he sit enthroned before God forever;
appoint faithful love and truth to guard him.

The Lord said, “I will bring them back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea

Those who sit at the city gate talk about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.

Let their table set before them be a snare,
and let it be a trap for their allies.

He will redeem them from oppression and violence,
for their lives are precious in his sight.

They set their mouths against heaven,
and their tongues strut across the earth.

Your adversaries roared in the meeting place
where You met with us.
They set up their emblems as signs.

They set Your sanctuary on fire;
they utterly desecrated
the dwelling place of Your name.

They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned down every place throughout the land
where God met with us.

You set all the boundaries of the earth;
You made summer and winter.

He established a testimony in Jacob
and set up a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers
to teach to their children

He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, the region of Zoan.

For the choir director: according to “The Lilies.” A testimony of Asaph. A psalm.Listen, Shepherd of Israel,
who leads Joseph like a flock;
You who sit enthroned on the cherubim,
rise up

You make us quarrel with our neighbors;
our enemies make fun of us.

He set it up as an ordinance for Joseph
when He went throughout the land of Egypt.

I heard an unfamiliar language:

I said, “You are gods;
you are all sons of the Most High.

who said, “Let us seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”

Happy are the people whose strength is in You,
whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.

Bring joy to Your servant’s life,
because I turn to You, Lord.

Glorious things are said about you,
city of God.Selah

And it will be said of Zion,
“This one and that one were born in her.”
The Most High Himself will establish her.

They surround me like water all day long;
they close in on me from every side.

The Lord said,
“I have made a covenant with My chosen one;
I have sworn an oath to David My servant:

You once spoke in a vision to Your loyal ones
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

I will not violate My covenant
or change what My lips have said.

For in Your sight a thousand years
are like yesterday that passes by,
like a few hours of the night.

You have set our unjust ways before You,
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Though a thousand fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand,
the pestilence will not reach you.

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

Fire goes before Him
and burns up His foes on every side.

The Lord has made His victory known;
He has revealed His righteousness
in the sight of the nations.

I will not set anything worthless before my eyes.
I hate the practice of transgression;
it will not cling to me.

My eyes favor the faithful of the land
so that they may sit down with me.
The one who follows the way of integrity
may serve me.

I stay awake;
I am like a solitary bird on a roof.

to hear a prisoner’s groaning,
to set free those condemned to die,

You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.

He made the moon to mark the festivals;
the sun knows when to set.

The king sent for him and released him;
the ruler of peoples set him free.

So He said He would have destroyed them—
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.

Others sat in darkness and gloom—
prisoners in cruel chains—

Set a wicked person over him;
let an accuser stand at his right hand.

A Davidic psalm.This is the declaration of the Lord
to my Lord:
“Sit at My right hand
until I make Your enemies Your footstool.”

in order to seat them with nobles—
with the nobles of His people.

I believed, even when I said,
“I am severely afflicted.”

In my alarm I said,
“Everyone is a liar.”

The death of His faithful ones
is valuable in the Lord’s sight.

Though princes sit together speaking against me,
Your servant will think about Your statutes;

I have chosen the way of truth;
I have set Your ordinances before me.

Help me stay on the path of Your commands,
for I take pleasure in it.

Confirm what You said to Your servant,
for it produces reverence for You.

How sweet Your word is to my taste—
sweeter than honey in my mouth.

The wicked have set a trap for me,
but I have not wandered from Your precepts.

The Lord protects you;
the Lord is a shelter right by your side.

A Davidic song of ascents.I rejoiced with those who said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

A Davidic song of ascents.If the Lord had not been on our side—
let Israel say—

If the Lord had not been on our side
when men attacked us,

Our mouths were filled with laughter then,
and our tongues with shouts of joy.
Then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”

Though one goes along weeping,
carrying the bag of seed,
he will surely come back with shouts of joy,
carrying his sheaves.

In vain you get up early and stay up late,
working hard to have enough food—
yes, He gives sleep to the one He loves.

The Lord swore an oath to David,
a promise He will not abandon:
“I will set one of your descendants
on your throne.

If your sons keep My covenant
and My decrees that I will teach them,
their sons will also sit on your throne forever.”

By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and wept
when we remembered Zion.

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”