“But as for Me, I have installed My King
Upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

‘Ask of Me, and I will surely give the nations as Your inheritance,
And the very ends of the earth as Your possession.

But as for me, by Your abundant lovingkindness I will enter Your house,
At Your holy temple I will bow in reverence for You.

For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O Lord,
You surround him with favor as with a shield.

His ways prosper at all times;
Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;
As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;
He lurks to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In the Lord I take refuge;
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;

The words of the Lord are pure words;
As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

As for the saints who are in the earth,
They are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight.

As for the deeds of men, by the word of Your lips
I have kept from the paths of the violent.

Keep me as the apple of the eye;
Hide me in the shadow of Your wings

He is like a lion that is eager to tear,
And as a young lion lurking in hiding places.

As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness;
I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.

As for God, His way is blameless;
The word of the Lord is tried;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind;
I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.

You have delivered me from the contentions of the people;
You have placed me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.

As soon as they hear, they obey me;
Foreigners submit to me.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;
It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger;
The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,
And fire will devour them.

They open wide their mouth at me,
As a ravening and a roaring lion.

But as for me, I shall walk in my integrity;
Redeem me, and be gracious to me.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.

The Lord sat as King at the flood;
Yes, the Lord sits as King forever.

Now as for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I will never be moved.”

I am forgotten as a dead man, out of mind;
I am like a broken vessel.

But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord,
I say, “You are my God.”

As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried to You.

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me;
My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer. Selah.

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Let Your lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us,
According as we have hoped in You.

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled my soul with fasting,
And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

I went about as though it were my friend or brother;
I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

He will bring forth your righteousness as the light
And your judgment as the noonday.

For my iniquities are gone over my head;
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity;
You consume as a moth what is precious to him;
Surely every man is a mere breath. Selah.

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And You set me in Your presence forever.

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

You give us as sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

But for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham,
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is highly exalted.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

Panic seized them there,
Anguish, as of a woman in childbirth.

As we have heard, so have we seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God;
God will establish her forever. Selah.

As is Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

As for me, I shall call upon God,
And the Lord will save me.

They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength;
Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For You have been my stronghold
And a refuge in the day of my distress.

You will prolong the king’s life;
His years will be as many generations.

So I will bless You as long as I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.

My soul is satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions, You forgive them.

For You have tried us, O God;
You have refined us as silver is refined.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish before God.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands;
The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time;
O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness,
Answer me with Your saving truth.

But as for me, I will hope continually,
And will praise You yet more and more.

Let them fear You while the sun endures,
And as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

May his name endure forever;
May his name increase as long as the sun shines;
And let men bless themselves by him;
Let all nations call him blessed.

But as for me, my feet came close to stumbling,
My steps had almost slipped.

For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

They are not in trouble as other men,
Nor are they plagued like mankind.

But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
That I may tell of all Your works.

It seems as if one had lifted up
His axe in a forest of trees.

You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
You gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.

But as for me, I will declare it forever;
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a warrior overcome by wine.

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Deal with them as with Midian,
As with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent of Kishon,

Who were destroyed at En-dor,
Who became as dung for the ground.

Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes shall say,
“All my springs of joy are in you.”

“So I will establish his descendants forever
And his throne as the days of heaven.

“His descendants shall endure forever
And his throne as the sun before Me.

For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night.

As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,
Or if due to strength, eighty years,
Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;
For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

Every morning I will destroy all the wicked of the land,
So as to cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do iniquity.

My enemies have reproached me all day long;
Those who deride me have used my name as a curse.

For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him.

As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Just as a father has compassion on his children,
So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.

As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Covering Yourself with light as with a cloak,
Stretching out heaven like a tent curtain.

You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
The waters were standing above the mountains.

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live;
I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

Let my meditation be pleasing to Him;
As for me, I shall be glad in the Lord.

Then He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,