O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

I am not afraid of myriads of people, That round about they have set against me.

Jehovah, at morning Thou hearest my voice, At morning I set in array for Thee, And I look out.

For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.

He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

Thou hast said to Jehovah, 'My Lord Thou art;' My good is not for thine own sake;

Our steps now have compassed him;' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

Magnifying the salvation of His king, And doing kindness to His anointed, To David, and to his seed -- unto the age!

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Jehovah doth answer thee, In a day of adversity, The name of the God of Jacob doth set thee on high,

We sing of thy salvation, And in the name of our God set up a banner. Jehovah doth fulfil all thy requests.

Their fruit from earth Thou destroyest, And their seed from the sons of men.

Ye who fear Jehovah, praise ye Him, All the seed of Jacob, honour ye Him, And be afraid of Him, all ye seed of Israel.

A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.

His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.

I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Jehovah on the deluge hath sat, And Jehovah sitteth king -- to the age,

And I -- I have said in mine ease, 'I am not moved -- to the age.

And I on Thee -- I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my God.'

And I -- I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, 'I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou -- Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

And they enlarge against me their mouth, They said, 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen.'

Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices.

Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing.

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

When I said, 'Lest they rejoice over me, In the slipping of my foot against me they magnified themselves.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,

I -- I said, 'O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,'

God hath reigned over nations, God hath sat on His holy throne,

Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

To the Overseer. -- 'On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not,' by David. -- A secret treasure, in Saul's sending, and they watch the house to put him to death. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God, From my withstanders set me on high.

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

Why do ye envy, O high hills, The hill God hath desired for His seat? Jehovah also doth tabernacle for ever.

The Lord said: 'From Bashan I bring back, I bring back from the depths of the sea.

And I am afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.

And the seed of His servants inherit it, And those loving His name dwell in it!

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.

They said in their hearts, 'Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.

Thou hast set up all the borders of earth, Summer and winter Thou hast formed them.

I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.'

And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

When He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan,

I -- I have said, 'Gods ye are, And sons of the Most High -- all of you,

They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

Who have said, 'Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.

For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

'Even to the age do I establish thy seed, And have built to generation and generation thy throne. Selah.

And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.

And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.

His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me,

Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,

There fall at thy side a thousand, And a myriad at thy right hand, Unto thee it cometh not nigh.

Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him -- I set him on high, Because he hath known My name.

If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

I set not before mine eyes a worthless thing, The work of those turning aside I have hated, It adhereth not to me.

The sons of Thy servants do continue, And their seed before Thee is established!

A border Thou hast set, they pass not over, They turn not back to cover the earth.

Sweet is my meditation on Him, I -- I do rejoice in Jehovah.

O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

They have set among them the matters of His signs, And wonders in the land of Ham.

He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.

He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm -- innumerable,

And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!'

And they exalt Him in the assembly of the people, And in the seat of the elders praise Him.

And they set against me evil for good, And hatred for my love.

A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: 'Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'

Mighty in the earth is his seed, The generation of the upright is blessed.

Who is as Jehovah our God, He is exalting Himself to sit?

To cause to sit with princes, With the princes of His people.

Causing the barren one of the house to sit, A joyful mother of sons; praise ye Jah!

I said in my haste, 'Every man is a liar.'

Princes also sat -- against me they spoke, Thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes,

Cheth. My portion is Jehovah; I have said -- to keep Thy words,