Let destruction come upon them unawares, and let the net that he hid catch him; let him fall into destruction.

An oracle that came to me about the transgressions of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

But the Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming!

Better is the little that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked people.

Observe the blameless! Take note of the upright! Indeed, the future of that man is peace.

How blessed is that strong person who places his trust in the LORD, and who has not acknowledged the proud nor resorted to lies.

Innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I cannot see. They are more in number than the hair on my head, and my courage has forsaken me.

But you, LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up so that I may pay them back!

In this way I will know that you are pleased with me, and that my enemies will not shout in triumph over me.

It was not with their sword that they inherited the land, nor did their own arm deliver them. But it was by your power, your strength, and by the light of your face; because you were pleased with them.

You sold out your people for nothing, and made no profit at that price.

You love justice and hate wickedness. That is why God, even your God, has anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.

Be in awe and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted throughout the earth.

Take note of her ramparts; investigate her citadels; that you may speak about them to the next generation.

that he should go on living and not see corruption.

Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

Humanity, despite its conceit, does not understand that it will perish, just like the animals. A song of Asaph.

I know all the birds in the mountains; indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine.

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."

Let me know joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue!

Therefore I will praise you forever because of what you did; I will proclaim that your name is good in the midst of your faithful ones. To the Director: Upon . A Davidic instruction.

Would that Israel's deliverance come out of Zion! When God restores the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A Davidic instruction, when the Ziphites came and told Saul, "David is hiding among us, is he not?"

I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?

For it is not an enemy who insults me I could have handled that nor is it someone who hates me and who now arises against me I could have hidden myself from him

For you have delivered me from death and my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living! To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy," when he fled from Saul into a cave.

I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.

How is it that by remaining silent you can speak righteously? How can you judge people fairly?

Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears,

May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.

May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.

Go ahead and destroy them in anger! Wipe them out, and they will know to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Interlude

You made your people go through hard times; you had us drink wine that makes us stagger.

From the end of the earth I will cry to you whenever my heart is overwhelmed. Place me on the rock that's too high for me.

You take care of the earth, you water it, and you enrich it greatly with the river of God that overflows with water. You provide grain for them, for you have ordained it this way.

You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.

that my lips uttered and that my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.

May God truly bless us so that all the nations of the earth will fear him. To the Director of music: A Psalm. A song.

that your feet may wade through blood. The tongues of your dogs will have their portions from your enemies."

Summon the power of your God, the power, God, that you have shown us.

Rebuke the wildlife that lives among the reeds, the nations that congregate like bulls and cows, humbling themselves with pieces of silver, for God scatters the nations that delight in battle.

Let me praise the name of God with a song that I may magnify him with thanksgiving.

That will please the LORD more than oxen and bulls with horns and hooves.

I have become an example to many that you are my strong refuge.

God, who can compare to you, who caused me to experience troubles that were numerous and disastrous? You will return to revive me and lift me up from the depths of the earth.

May he be like the rain that descends on mown grass, like showers sprinkling on the ground.

As for me, how good for me it is that God is near! I have made the Lord GOD my refuge so I can tell about all your deeds. An instruction of Asaph

Get up, God, and prosecute your case remember that you're being scorned by fools all day long.

"At the time that I choose I will judge the righteous.

since God is the judge. This one he will debase or that one he will exalt.

For there is a cup in the hand of the LORD, foaming with well-mixed wine that he will pour out, leaving only the dregs, from which all the wicked of the earth will drink.

So I say: "It causes me pain that the right hand of the Most High has changed."

things that we have heard and known and that our ancestors related to us.

We will not withhold them from their descendants; we'll declare to the next generation the praises of the LORD his might and awesome deeds that he has performed.

He established a decree in Jacob, and established the Law in Israel, that he commanded our ancestors to reveal to their children

in order that the next generation children yet to be born will know them and in turn teach them to their children.

They have forgotten what he has done, his awesome deeds that they witnessed.

He divided the sea so that they were able to cross; he caused the water to stand in a single location.

It's true that Moses struck the rock so that water flowed forth and torrents of water gushed out, but is he also able to give bread or to supply meat for his people?"

so that manna rained down on them for food and he sent them the grain of heaven.

Then they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God was their deliverer.

For he remembered that they were only flesh, a passing wind that doesn't return.

He abandoned the tent at Shiloh, the tent that he established among mankind.

He built his sanctuary, high as the heavens, like the earth that he established forever.

Pour out your wrath upon the nations that do not acknowledge you, and over the kingdoms that do not call on your name.

You cleared the ground so that its roots grew and filled the land.

Why did you break down its walls so that those who pass by pluck its fruits?

The root that your right hand planted, the shoot that you tended for yourself,

a decree that he prescribed for Joseph when he went throughout the land of Egypt, speaking a language I did not recognize.

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, open your mouth that I may fill it.

Then they will know that you alone whose name is LORD are the Most High over all the earth. To the Director: On the Gittith. A Psalm by the descendants of Korah.

Will you restore our lives again so that your people may rejoice in you?

All the nations that you have established will come and worship you, my Lord. They will honor your name.

Teach me your ways, LORD, that I may walk in your truth; let me wholeheartedly revere your name.

Show me a sign of your goodness, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed. For you, LORD, will help and comfort me. A psalm by the descendants of Korah. A song.

I will declare that your gracious love was established forever; in the heavens itself, you have established your faithfulness.

Where is your gracious love of old, Lord, that in your faithfulness you promised to David?

One thousand years in your sight are but a single day that passes by, just like a night watch.

You need not fear terror that stalks in the night, the arrow that flies in the day,

plague that strikes in the darkness, or calamity that destroys at noon.

The LORD knows the thoughts of human beings that they are futile.

When I say that my foot is shaking, your gracious love, LORD, will sustain me.

The sea that he made belongs to him, along with the dry land that his hands formed.

do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness,

For forty years I loathed that generation, so I said, "They are a people whose hearts continuously err, and they have not understood my ways."

Declare among the nations, "The LORD reigns!" Indeed, he established the world so that it will not falter. He will judge people fairly.

The heavens will be glad and the earth will rejoice; even the sea and everything that fills it will roar.

The field and all that is in it will rejoice; then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

The heavens declare his righteousness so that all the nations see his glory.

In a pillar of cloud he spoke to them; they obeyed his decrees and the Law that he gave them.

Acknowledge that the LORD is God. He made us and we belong to him; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Write this for the next generation, that a people yet to be created will praise the LORD.

Bless the LORD, my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

As distant as the east is from the west, that is how far he has removed our sins from us.

For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

He established the earth on its foundations, so that it never falters.

He causes springs to gush forth into rivers that flow between the mountains.

like wine that makes the heart of people happy, oil that makes the face glow, and food that sustains people.

The loftiest trees are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,