The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.

Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

The princes of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.} Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.

The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.