He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.

"Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of Zion."

I will tell of the decree. The LORD said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.

LORD, how my adversaries have increased. Many are those who rise up against me.

I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.

Arise, LORD. Save me, my God. For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than when their grain and their new wine are increased.

Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint. LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

LORD, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me (yes, if I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),

Arise, LORD, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

From the lips of babes and infants you have ordained praise, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.

You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their name forever and ever.

The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Have mercy on me, LORD. See my affliction by those who hate me, and lift me up from the gates of death;

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

He says in his heart, "I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble."

LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed against him;" Lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is none who does good.

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is none who does good, no, not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on the LORD?

My soul, you have said to the LORD, "You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing."

The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

As for the works of men, by the word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the violent.

My steps have held fast to your paths. My feet have not slipped.

I have called on you, for you will answer me, God. Turn your ear to me. Hear my speech.

They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

from men by your hand, LORD, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.

For you have girded me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.

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

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

Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Save me from the lion's mouth. Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen, you have answered me.

My God, I have trusted in you. Do not let me be shamed. Do not let my enemies triumph over me.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

Judge me, LORD, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in LORD without wavering.

For your loving kindness is before my eyes. I have walked in your truth.

I have not sat with deceitful men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to see the LORD's beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

Hear, LORD, when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also on me, and answer me.

Do not hide your face from me. Do not put your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not abandon me, neither forsake me, God of my salvation.

Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

I will extol you, LORD, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

LORD, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

Hear, LORD, and have mercy on me. LORD, be my helper."

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me, for you are my stronghold.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.

Let me not be disappointed, LORD, for I have called on you. Let the wicked be disappointed. Let them be silent in Sheol.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men.

Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

Let your loving kindness be on us, LORD, since we have hoped in you.

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

You have seen it, LORD. Do not keep silent. Lord, do not be far from me.

Do not let them say in their heart, "Aha. That's the way we want it." Do not let them say, "We have swallowed him up."

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

The LORD helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.

For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the scroll of a book.

I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

I said, "LORD, have mercy on me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"