Why are the nations in an uproar [in turmoil against God],
And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?

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

Chanting of David in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how they pressing upon me were multiplied! many rising up against me.

I did call upon the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.

I shall not be afraid of ten thousand of people who sit round about upon me.

Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

{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.

Know this also, that the LORD hath chosen to himself the man that is godly; when I call upon the LORD, he will hear me.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

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

But as for me, I will come into thy house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

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.

For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield. For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.} O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

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

Song of David which he sang to Jehovah upon the words of Cush, son of the right hand. O Jehovah my God, in thee I put My trust: save me from all pursuing me, and deliver me:

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Yahweh, will judge the peoples, - Do me justice, O Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity upon me,

My shield upon God, saving the upright of heart

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

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

{To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David.} I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

For thou didst my judgment and my cause; thou satest upon the throne judging justice.

And it is he that will judge the world with righteousness; he shall execute judgment upon the peoples with equity.

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:

For the unjust boasted upon the desire of his soul, and he blessed him plundering, despising Jehovah.

He croucheth, he lieth down, then falleth he with his strong claws upon the unfortunate.

[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.

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face. For the Chief Musician; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.

{To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.} Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Look upon, answer me, O Jehovah my God: enlighten mine eyes, lest I shall sleep the death;

I do sing to Jehovah, For He hath conferred benefits upon me!

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

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

{A Psalm of David} Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? Who shall rest upon thy holy hill?

He that hath not given his money upon usury, nor taken reward against the innocent. Whoso doeth these things shall never fall.

Thou saidst to Jehovah, Thou my Lord: my good not upon thee.

All my delight is upon the saints that are in the earth, and upon such as excel in virtue.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another god : Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take their names upon my lips.

The cords fell to me in sweetnesses; also the inheritance was bountiful upon me.

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; Let thine eyes look upon equity.

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

[By contrast,] I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied [seeing] your form.

I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

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

They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

He brought me out to a spacious place;
He rescued me because He delighted in me.

For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall.

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them; neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them. {TYNDALE: I followed mine enemies and destroyed them, and turned not again until I had consumed them.}

Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.}

And I will beat them in pieces as dust upon the face of the wind: I will pour them out as the mire of the streets.

His going out is from the end of the heaven, and his circle to the ends of it; there is nothing which is not open to his heat.

Save, LORD, and hear us, O King of heaven, when we call upon thee.

For thou shalt prevent him with the blessings of goodness, and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.

His glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon him.

For they stretched out evil upon thee: they purposed a device, they will not prevail.

Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.

Be thou exalted, O Jehovah, in thy strength: we will sing and play thy powers upon the harp.

{To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David.} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

Yet You are holy,
O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

They called upon thee, and were helped: they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded.

All [who] see me mock me. They open wide [their] lips; they shake [the] head, [saying]:

He rolled upon Jehovah, he will deliver him: he will deliver him for he delighted in him.

But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

Who shall ascend upon the hill of the LORD? and who shall stand in his holy place?

O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.

Look upon my enemies, for they are many,
And they hate me with violent hatred.

Let perfectness and righteous dealing wait upon me, for my hope hath been in thee.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

One thing I have asked of the Lord, and that I will seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life,
To gaze upon the beauty [the delightful loveliness and majestic grandeur] of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Unless I believed to look upon the goodness of Jehovah in the land of the living.

The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.

The voice of Yahweh, bringeth birth-pains upon the wilderness; Yahweh bringeth birth-pains upon the wilderness of Kadesh!

The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.

Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

I will indeed exult and rejoice, in thy lovingkindness, - In that thou hast looked upon my humiliation, thou hast taken note that in distresses was my life;

You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

And I trusted upon thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou my God.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, favored by God] is he whose transgression is forgiven,
And whose sin is covered.