And I will walk at liberty: for I seek your precepts.

I will speak of your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.

And I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved.

My hands also will I lift up unto your commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in your statutes.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto you because of your righteous judgments.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.

They that fear you will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in your word.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in your precepts.

My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me?

How many are the days of your servant? when will you execute judgment on them that persecute me?

I will never forget your precepts: for with them you have revived me.

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider your testimonies.

I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous judgments.

Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

Hold me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto your statutes continually.

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep your precepts.

I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep your statutes.

[A song of ascents.] I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from which comes my help.

He will not allow your foot to be moved: he that keeps you will not slumber.

For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.

Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek your good.

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,

We will go into his tabernacles: we will worship at his footstool.

The LORD has sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.

If your children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them, their children shall also sit upon your throne forevermore.

This is my rest forever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.

I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

For the LORD will judge his people, and he will have compassion on his servants.

[A Psalm of David.] I will praise you with my whole heart: before the gods will I sing praise unto you.

I will worship toward your holy temple, and praise your name for your lovingkindness and for your truth: for you have magnified your word above all your name.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me: you shall stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand shall save me.

The LORD will perfect that which concerns me: your mercy, O LORD, endures forever: forsake not the works of your own hands.

I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.

Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, you bloody men.

I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

Teach me to do your will; for you are my God: your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

I will sing a new song unto you, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto you.

[A Psalm of praise of David.] I will extol you, my God, O king; and I will bless your name forever and ever.

Every day will I bless you; and I will praise your name forever and ever.

I will speak of the glorious honor of your majesty, and of your wondrous works.

And men shall speak of the might of your wondrous acts: and I will declare your greatness.

He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

The LORD preserves all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

My son, if you will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with you;

Say not unto your neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it with you.

And why will you, my son, be infatuated with an immoral woman, and embrace the bosom of a seductress?

How long will you sleep, O sluggard? when will you arise out of your sleep?

For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

For jealousy causes the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he be appeased, though you give many gifts.

He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and from the opening of my lips shall come right things.

That I may cause those that love me to inherit wealth; and I will fill their treasuries.

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

The LORD will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casts away the desire of the wicked.

The wise in heart will heed commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

A good man obtains favor of the LORD: but a man of wicked intentions will he condemn.

A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

A scoffer loves not one that reproves him: neither will he go unto the wise.

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the boundary of the widow.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will appease it.

The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Many will entreat the favor of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that gives gifts.

He that has pity upon the poor lends unto the LORD; and that which he has given will he pay him again.

A slothful man hides his hand in his dish, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Smite a scoffer, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

Say not, I will repay evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save you.

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

They have stricken me, you shall say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Say not, I will do so to him as he has done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

Whosoever digs a pit shall fall in it: and he that rolls a stone, it will return upon him.

Though you should crush a fool in a mortar among grain with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor that has understanding will find him out.

To show partiality is not good: because for a piece of bread that man will transgress.

A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understands he will not answer.

She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falls; for he has not another to help him up.

Better is a poor and wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no longer be admonished.