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.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

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

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.

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

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

[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.

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

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

His ways are always prosperous; your judgments are far above, out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.

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 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.

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

[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.

O my soul, you have said unto the LORD, You are my Lord: my goodness reaches not to you;

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

They have now surrounded us in our steps: they have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth;

[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.

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

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

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

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.

For you meet him with the blessings of goodness: you set a crown of pure gold on his head.

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.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret place of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

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

And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

But I trusted in you, O LORD: I said, you are my God.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: nevertheless you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried unto you.

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.

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

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

[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.

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 steps.

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

I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.

And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face forever.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

These things have you done, and I kept silence; you thought that I was altogether such a one as yourself: but I will rebuke you, and set them in order before your eyes.

Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done this evil in your sight: that you might be justified when you speak, and be blameless when you judge.

[To the Chief Musician, a maschil. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.] Why boast you yourself in evil, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth. A maschil, a Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself with us?] Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Trust not in oppression, and hope not vainly in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.

The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.

But I am poor and sorrowful: let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.

You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

He shall redeem their souls from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.

Your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their banners for signs.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

You, even you, are to be feared: and who may stand in your sight when once you are angry?

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Why should the nations say, Where is their God? let him be known among the nations in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed.

I have said, You are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.

And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

For I have said, Mercy shall be built up forever: your faithfulness shall you establish in the very heavens.

Your seed will I establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations. Selah.

Then you spoke in a vision to your holy one, and said, I have laid help upon one that is mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.

For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.

A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

When I said, My foot slips; your mercy, O LORD, held me up.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

The LORD has made known his salvation: his righteousness has he openly showed in the sight of the nations.

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that tells lies shall not tarry in my sight.

You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: your years are throughout all generations.

You have set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons;