His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

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

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

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

When I said, "My foot is slipping." Your loving kindness, LORD, held me up.

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries on every side.

The LORD has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

I said, "My God, do not take me away in the midst of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.

The children of your servants will continue. Their seed will be established before you."

He will not always accuse; neither will he stay angry forever.

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

He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

Let your meditation be sweet to him. I will rejoice in the LORD.

you seed of Abraham, his servant, you children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

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

that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat of the elders.

Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.

The LORD says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."

His seed will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

Who is like the LORD, our God, who has his seat on high,

that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

I believed, therefore I said, "I am greatly afflicted."

I said in my haste, "All men are liars."

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his holy ones.

The LORD is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

The LORD is on my side among those who help me. Therefore I will look in triumph at those who hate me.

Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

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

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth.

I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to the LORD's house."

For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David's house.

To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, let Israel now say,

if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, "The LORD has done great things for them."

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

The LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

If your children will keep my covenant, my testimony that I will teach them, their children also will sit on your throne forevermore."

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

Remember, LORD, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, "Raze it. Raze it even to its foundation."

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

I said to the LORD, "You are my God." Listen to the cry of my petitions, LORD.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Set a watch, LORD, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

I cried to you, LORD. I said, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living."

Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet do not stay in her house.

So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,

She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

"Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."

Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the seed of the righteous will be delivered.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

Do not move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.

When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you;

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine.

My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common: The LORD gives sight to the eyes of both.

Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."

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

I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"

Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

I said in my heart, "God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."

I said in my heart, "As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

All this have I proved in wisdom. I said, "I will be wise;" but it was far from me.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.