For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity?

Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way, though his anger burn but a little. Blessed are all who have their trust in him.

A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me.

I -- I have lain down, and I sleep, I have waked, for Jehovah sustaineth me.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

Arise, O Lord; save me, O my God!
For You have struck all my enemies on the cheek;
You have shattered the teeth of the wicked.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour, and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

Let there be fear in your hearts, and do no sin; have bitter feelings on your bed, but make no sound. (Selah.)

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than they have when their grain and their new wine are increased.

The boastful and the arrogant will not stand in Your sight;
You hate all who do evil.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

{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;

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

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

Arise, O Lord, in Your anger;
Lift up Yourself against the rage of my enemies;
Rise up for me; You have commanded judgment and vindication.

The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic and glorious and excellent is Your name in all the earth!
You have displayed Your splendor above the heavens.

Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
That You might silence the enemy and make the revengeful cease.

When I see and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have established,

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to your name, O Most High.

When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish before You.

For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You have sat on the throne judging righteously.

You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked and unrepentant;
You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

O thou Enemy, Finished have been destructions for ever, As to cities thou hast plucked up, Perished hath their memorial with them.

And those who know Your name [who have experienced Your precious mercy] will put their confident trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not abandoned those who seek You.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured.

The LORD has made himself known, executing judgment. The wicked are ensnared by what their hands have made. Interlude

The sinners and all the nations who have no memory of God will be turned into the underworld.

Arise, LORD, and let no man have the upper hand; let the Heathen be judged in thy sight.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

He crouches and bows, and the poor have fallen by his might.

You have seen it, for You have noted mischief and vexation (irritation) to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You are the helper of the fatherless.

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

O Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble and oppressed;
You will strengthen their heart, You will incline Your ear to hear,

{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?

For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

{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.

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

How long must I take counsel in my soul,
Having sorrow in my heart day after day?
How long will my enemy exalt himself and triumph over me?

Have regard! answer me O Yahweh my God, - Light up mine eyes, lest I sleep on into death:

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

{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 have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.

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

There they have feared a fear, For God is in the generation of the righteous.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

May the salvation of Israel come out of Zion! when the fate of his people is changed by the Lord, Jacob will have joy and Israel will be glad.

Lord, who may have a resting-place in your tent, a living-place on your holy hill?

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;

Keep and protect me, O God, for in You I have placed my trust and found refuge.

O my soul , thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.

Multiplied are their griefs, Who have hastened backward; I pour not out their libations of blood, Nor do I take up their names on my lips.

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

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

You have tried my heart;
You have visited me in the night;
You have tested me and You find nothing [evil in me];
I intend that my mouth will not transgress.

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

My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

From the face of lawless ones who have treated me with violence, the foes of my soul, who come round against me:

Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

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.

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

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.

Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.

Cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been snares of death.

Gone up hath smoke by His nostrils, And fire from His mouth consumeth, Coals have been kindled by it.

From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.

He delivereth me from my strong enemy, And from those hating me, For they have been stronger than I.

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

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

On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;

For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

You have also given me the shield of Your salvation,
And Your right hand upholds and sustains me;
Your gentleness [Your gracious response when I pray] makes me great.

Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

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

For You have encircled me with strength for the battle;
You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me [in defeat],
And I silenced and destroyed those who hated me.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places.

He makes me free from my haters; I am lifted up over those who come up against me: you have made me free from the violent man.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Now I have known That Jehovah hath saved His anointed, He answereth him from His holy heavens, With the saving might of His right hand.