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;

Set you a wicked man over him: and let an accuser stand at his right hand.

[A Psalm of David.] The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.

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

I said in my haste, All men are liars.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.

I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a broad place.

The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?

Princes also did sit and speak against me: but your servant did meditate in your statutes.

[Heth] You are my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep your words.

How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

[A song of ascents. Of David.] I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.

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

[A song of ascents. Of David.] If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;

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

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

He that goes forth weeping, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep.

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.

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

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

I said unto the LORD, you are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.

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

Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

I cried unto you, O LORD: I said, you are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight shall no man living be justified.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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

When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

For I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother.

He taught me also, and said unto me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

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

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

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

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

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Remove not the ancient landmark, which your fathers have set.

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

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

The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and waste your sweet words.

My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:

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

As he that takes away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, so is he that sings songs to a heavy heart.

The full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

Is there any thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.

And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is like grasping the wind.

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

I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What use is it?

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

For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.

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

I said in my heart concerning the condition of the sons of men, that God might reveal them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as 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 is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing that will come after him.

All this have I proved by 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 upon the earth; that there are just men, unto 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 low place.