Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper.

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

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

[A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.] LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

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

But know that the LORD has set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.

For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with you.

You shall destroy them that speak falsehood: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

[A shaggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning Cush, a Benjamite.] O LORD my God, in you do I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me:

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

Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage of my enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that you have commanded.

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to my integrity that is in me.

Out of the mouth of babes and infants have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.

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

That I may show forth all your praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in your salvation.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

The wicked shall be turned into sheol, and all the nations that forget God.

Put them in fear, O LORD: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

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

He crouches, and lies low, that the poor may fall by his strength.

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

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

The LORD tests the righteous: but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul hates.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that sneers at him.

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

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

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

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD brings back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart.

He that backbites not with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor.

In whose eyes a vile person is despised; but he honors them that fear the LORD. He that swears to his own hurt, and changes not.

He that puts not out his money at interest, nor takes reward against the innocent. He that does these things shall never be moved.

But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the noble, in whom is all my delight.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips.

[A prayer of David.] Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goes not out of feigned lips.

Let my vindication come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold the things that are right.

You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; you have tested me, and shall find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Hold up my steps in your paths, that my feet slip not.

Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who surround me.

Like as a lion that is greedy of its prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song on the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. And he said,] I will love you, O LORD, my strength.

At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, with hailstones and coals of fire.

As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him.

It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.

He teaches my hands to make war, so that a bow of bronze is bent by my arms.

You have enlarged my path under me, that my feet did not slip.

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

For you have girded me with strength unto the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

It is God that avenges me, and subdues the people under me.

He delivers me from my enemies: yea, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

Now know I that the LORD saves his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

Your hand shall find out all your enemies: your right hand shall find out those that hate you.

But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

He trusted in the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

You that fear the LORD, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all you descendants of Israel.

My praise shall be of you in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live forever.

All the prosperous of 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.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he has done this.

[A Psalm of David.] The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek your face, O Jacob. Selah.

Yea, let none that wait on you be ashamed: let them be ashamed who transgress without cause.

What man is he that fears the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.

The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous works.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

[A Psalm of David.] Unto you will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if you be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

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

To the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks unto you forever.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me: for you are my strength.

I have hated them that regard vain idols: but I trust in the LORD.

I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a horror to my acquaintance: they that did see me outside fled from me.

My times are in your hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for them that fear you; which you have wrought for them that trust in you before the sons of men!

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope in the LORD.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto you in a time when you may be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near unto him.

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him.

Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, you righteous: and shout for joy, all you that are upright in heart.

Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;

The angel of the LORD encamps round about them that fear him, and delivers them.

O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusts in him.

O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no lack to them that fear him.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

The LORD is near unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.