Hear my prayer, LORD. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

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

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

Hurry to answer me, LORD. My spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, so that I do not become like those who go down into the pit.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Deliver me, LORD, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle:

I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.

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

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised. His greatness is unsearchable.

One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.

The LORD is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

The LORD is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

All your works will give thanks to you, LORD. Your holy ones will extol you.

to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

The LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

While I live, I will praise the LORD. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

Do not put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD frees the prisoners.

The LORD will reign forever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD.

Praise the LORD, for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant and fitting to praise him.

The LORD upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,

He doesn't delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.

He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.

He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

He has not done this for just any nation. They do not know his ordinances. Praise the LORD.

He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his holy ones; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise the LORD.

Praise the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the holy ones.

Let them praise his name in the dance. Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp.

May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;

To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

to execute on them the written judgment. All his holy ones have this honor. Praise the LORD.

Praise him for his mighty acts. Praise him according to his excellent greatness.

to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

My son, listen to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching:

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm."

So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

My son, do not forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

Do not let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Do not be wise in your own eyes. Fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:

She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her, and those who hold on to her are blessed

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

Then you shall walk in your way securely, and your foot won't stumble.

Do not be afraid of sudden fear, or of the storm of the wicked when it comes:

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again; tomorrow I will give it to you," when you have it by you.

Do not devise evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.

Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.

Do not envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

For the perverse is an abomination to the LORD, but his friendship is with the upright.

Surely he is scornful to scoffers, but he gives grace to the humble.

Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

for I give you sound learning. Do not forsake my law.

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.

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Do not forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Do not enter into the path of the wicked. Do not walk in the way of evil men.

Avoid it, and do not pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

For they do not sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what they stumble over.

My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

For they are life to him who finds them, and health to all of his body.

Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.