You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men.

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

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish you the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish it.

He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Surely he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a melodious sound.

For you, LORD, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the works of your hands.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever:

For, lo, your enemies, O LORD, for, lo, your enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

But my horn shall you exalt like the horn of a wild ox: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

My eye also shall see my desire on my enemies, and my ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

Those that are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

Your throne is established of old: you are from everlasting.

The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;

That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.

For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law?

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice,

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of trials in the wilderness:

For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

Give unto the LORD, O you families of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice

The LORD reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of coastlands be glad.

Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and justice are the habitation of his throne.

The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all you gods.

Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of your judgments, O LORD.

You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

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

He has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

With trumpets and the sound of a horn make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

He spoke unto them in the pillar of cloud: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.

[A Psalm of Praise.] Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all you lands.

Know you that the LORD he is God: it is he that has made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

I will sing of mercy and justice: unto you, O LORD, will I sing.

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

Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: he that has a haughty look and a proud heart will I not endure.

My eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walks in a perfect way, he shall serve me.

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

[A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before the LORD.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto you.

Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.

I am like a vulture of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

Because of your indignation and your wrath: for you have lifted me up, and cast me down.

So the nations shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth your glory.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

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

Of old have you laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of your hands.

They shall perish, but you shall endure: yea, all of them shall grow old like a garment; as a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed:

The children of your servants shall continue, and their descendants shall be established before you.

[A Psalm of David.] Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;

Bless the LORD, you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

Bless you the LORD, all you his hosts; you ministers of his, that do his pleasure.

Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters: who makes the clouds his chariot: who walks upon the wings of the wind:

Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed forever.

At your rebuke they fled; at the voice of your thunder they hastened away.

They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.

He waters the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works.

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.

The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;