Ask of me, and I will give thee nations for an inheritance, and for thy possession the ends of the earth:

Thou shalt break them with a sceptre of iron, as a potter's vessel thou shalt dash them in pieces.

And now, O kings, be ye wise, be admonished, ye judges of the earth.

{A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.} Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me!

Many say of my soul, There is no salvation for him in God. Selah.

But thou, Jehovah, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

With my voice will I call to Jehovah, and he will answer me from the hill of his holiness. Selah.

I will not fear for myriads of the people that have set themselves against me round about.

Arise, Jehovah; save me, my God! For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheekbone, thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked.

Salvation is of Jehovah; thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

{To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.} When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness: in pressure thou hast enlarged me; be gracious unto me, and hear my prayer.

Ye sons of men, till when is my glory to be put to shame? How long will ye love vanity, will ye seek after a lie? Selah.

Offer sacrifices of righteousness, and confide in Jehovah.

Many say, Who shall cause us to see good? Lift up upon us the light of thy countenance, O Jehovah.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.} Give ear to my words, O Jehovah; consider my meditation.

Hearken unto the voice of my crying, my king and my God; for to thee will I pray.

Insolent fools shall not stand before thine eyes; thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth a man of blood and deceit.

But as for me, in the greatness of thy loving-kindness will I enter thy house; I will bow down toward the temple of thy holiness in thy fear.

Lead me, Jehovah, in thy righteousness, because of my foes; make thy way plain before me.

Bring guilt upon them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels: drive them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against thee.

{To the chief Musician. On stringed instruments, upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, rebuke me not in thine anger, and chasten me not in thy hot displeasure.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee?

Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.

{Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Jehovah, concerning the words of Cush the Benjaminite.} Jehovah my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me;

Jehovah my God, if I have done this, if there be iniquity in my hands;

If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (indeed I have freed him that without cause oppressed me;)

Arise, Jehovah, in thine anger; lift thyself up against the raging of mine oppressors, and awake for me: thou hast commanded judgment.

And the assembly of the peoples shall encompass thee; and for their sakes return thou on high.

Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.

If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,

And he hath prepared for him instruments of death; his arrows hath he made burning.

I will praise Jehovah according to his righteousness, and will sing forth the name of Jehovah the Most High.

{To the chief Musician. Upon the Gittith. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy majesty above the heavens.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou established praise because of thine adversaries, to still the enemy and the avenger.

When I see thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars, which thou hast established;

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:

Sheep and oxen, all of them, and also the beasts of the field;

The fowl of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, whatever passeth through the paths of the seas.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.} I will praise Jehovah with my whole heart; I will recount all thy marvellous works.

O enemy! destructions are ended for ever. Thou hast also destroyed cities, even the remembrance of them hath perished.

And Jehovah will be a refuge to the oppressed one, a refuge in times of distress.

For when he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them; the cry of the afflicted ones hath he not forgotten.

Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death:

That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation.

Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of the meek shall not perish for ever.

Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? Why hidest thou thyself in times of distress?

For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.

The wicked saith, in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!

His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.

Thou hast seen it, for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land.

Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear,

To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?

Jehovah is in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah, his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.} Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men.

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things,

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times.

The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is exalted among the children of men.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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

Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah.

There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because Jehovah was his refuge.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice.

{A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, who shall sojourn in thy tent? who shall dwell in the hill of thy holiness?

In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

{Michtam of David.} Preserve me, O God: for I trust in thee.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another: their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, and I will not take up their names into my lips.

Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.

{A Prayer of David.} Hear the right, O Jehovah, attend unto my cry; give ear unto my prayer, which is not out of feigned lips.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent man.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

He is like a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.

The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.

In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.

Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled and shook, because he was wroth.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.

And he rode upon a cherub and did fly; yea, he flew fast upon the wings of the wind.

He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.

And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

And the beds of the waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were uncovered at thy rebuke, Jehovah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.