"But as for me, I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain."

I will tell the decree; Yahweh said to me: "You are my son; today I have begotten you.

I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me.

You have put gladness in my heart more than {when} their grain and their wine abound.

Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge. Save me from all [who] pursue me, and deliver me.

O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

if I have repaid {my ally} [with] harm, or [if] I have plundered my enemy without cause,

Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment.

From the mouth of children and infants you have founded strength on account of your enemies, to silence [the] enemy and [the] avenger.

You make him over the works of your hands; all [things] you have placed under his feet:

For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on [the] throne judging correctly.

You have rebuked [the] nations; you have destroyed [the] wicked. Their name you have blotted out forever and ever.

The enemies are destroyed [in] ruins forever, and you have uprooted [their] cities; their very memory has perished.

[The] nations have fallen in [the] pit [that] they made; their foot is caught in [the] net that they hid.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved {throughout all generations}, [during] which [I will have] no trouble."

[But] you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take [it] into your hand. The helpless abandons [himself] upon you; you have been [the] helper [for the] orphan.

Yahweh [is] king forever and ever; the nations have perished from his land.

[The] longing of [the] afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh. You will make their heart secure. You will {listen attentively}

In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?

For look: The wicked {string the bow}. They have fitted their arrow to [the] string, to shoot from [the] darkness at the upright of heart.

Save, O Yahweh, for [the] pious have ceased [to be]; for [the] faithful have vanished from [among the] children of humankind.

[and] lest my enemy should say, "I have overcome him," [lest] my enemies rejoice because I am shaken.

But as for me, I have trusted in your steadfast love. My heart will rejoice in your deliverance.

All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.

[Oh my soul] you have said to Yahweh, "You [are] my Lord. I have no good apart from you."

[The] measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, [my] inheritance is delightful for me.

I have set Yahweh before me always. Because [he is] at my right hand I will not be shaken.

You have tried my heart; you have examined [me] by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided [that] my mouth will not transgress.

As for [the] works of humankind, by the word of your lips, I have kept [from] the ways of [the] violent.

[I have] held my steps in your path My feet will not slip.

As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words.

They have shut off their calloused [heart]; [with] their mouth they speak arrogantly.

Yahweh [is] my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.

Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God,

because all his ordinances [are] before me, and his statutes I have not removed from me,

You have given him the desire of his heart, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah

His honor [is] great because of your help. Splendor and majesty you have bestowed upon him.

Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning?

O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and [by] night but I have no rest.

On you I was cast from [the] womb. From my mother's belly you [have been] my God.

Many bulls have encircled me; mighty [bulls] of Bashan have surrounded me.

My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking [to] my jaws; and you have placed me in [the] dust of death.

Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.

Turn to me and have mercy on me because I [am] lonely and afflicted.

Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered.

One [thing] I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: [that] I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple.

Do not hide your face from me; do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and [each] breathing out violence.

I will exalt you, O Yahweh, because you have drawn me up, and have not made my enemies rejoice over me.

O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol. You preserved me alive from among those going down to [the] pit.

You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me [with] joy

In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge. Let me not be put to shame ever. Deliver me by your righteousness.

Bring me out of [the] net that they have secretly set for me, for you [are] my refuge.

Into your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God.

I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life.

And you have not delivered me into [the] hand of [the] enemy. You have set my feet in a broad place.

Be gracious [to] me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, [along with] my soul and my {body}.

Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. [Those who] see me in the street flee from me.

I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

For I hear [the] rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life.

How abundant [is] your goodness that you have stored up for [those who] fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before [the] children of humankind.

They also made wide their mouths against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen [it]."

You have seen, O Yahweh. Do not be deaf. O Lord, do not be far from me.

Do not let them say in their hearts, "Aha, our desire." Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up."

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

There doers of evil have fallen; they are thrust down and not able to rise.

[The] wicked have drawn [the] sword and have bent their bow to throw down [the] poor and [the] needy, to kill [those] upright in [their] way.

I was a youth, but I am [now] old; yet I have not seen [the] righteous forsaken or his children {begging for} bread.

I have seen [the] wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.

For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me.

For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah

I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done [it].

Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done-- your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with you. If I [tried to] proclaim and tell [of them], they would be too numerous to count.

A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. {My ears you have opened}. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.

I have brought good tidings [of] righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, {you surely know that}.

Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart. I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness from [the] great congregation.

For evils without number have encompassed me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

As for me, I said, "O Yahweh, be gracious [to] me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

As for me, you have upheld me in my integrity, and you have set me in your presence forever.

My tears have been my food day and night, while [they] say to me all day [long], "Where [is] your God?"

Deep [is] calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.

I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?"

because you [are] the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?

O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old.

Rather you have saved us from our enemies, and have humiliated those who hate us.

Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies.

You have caused us to pull back from [the] enemy, and [so] those who hate us have plundered for themselves.

You have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

You have sold your people {cheaply}, and did not profit by their price.

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.

All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have [not] turned aside from your way.

But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

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

We have pondered your loyal love, O God, in the midst of your temple.