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¹How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers!

²Instead, his delight is in the LORD’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.

³He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears its fruit in its season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

⁴The wicked are not like this; instead, they are like chaff that the wind blows away.

⁵Therefore the wicked will not stand up in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

⁶For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

¹Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

²The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers conspire together against the LORD and his Anointed One:

³“Let’s tear off their chains and throw their ropes off of us.”

⁴The one enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord ridicules them.

⁵Then he speaks to them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath:

⁶“I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”

⁷I will declare the LORD’s decree. He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.

⁸Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance and the ends of the earth your possession.

⁹You will break them with an iron scepter; you will shatter them like pottery.”

¹⁰So now, kings, be wise; receive instruction, you judges of the earth.

¹¹Serve the LORD with reverential awe and rejoice with trembling.

¹²Pay homage to the Son or he will be angry and you will perish in your rebellion, for his anger may ignite at any moment. All who take refuge in him are happy.

¹A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom. [1] LORD, how my foes increase! There are many who attack me.

²Many say about me, “There is no help for him in God.” Selah

³But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

⁴I cry aloud to the LORD, and he answers me from his holy mountain. Selah

⁵I lie down and sleep; I wake again because the LORD sustains me.

⁶I will not be afraid of thousands of people who have taken their stand against me on every side.

⁷Rise up, LORD! Save me, my God! You strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

⁸Salvation belongs to the LORD; may your blessing be on your people. Selah

¹For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A psalm of David. [1] Answer me when I call, God, who vindicates me. You freed me from affliction; be gracious to me and hear my prayer.

²How long, exalted ones, will my honor be insulted? How long will you love what is worthless and pursue a lie? Selah

³Know that the LORD has set apart the faithful for himself; the LORD will hear when I call to him.

⁴Be angry and do not sin; on your bed, reflect in your heart and be still. Selah

⁵Offer sacrifices in righteousness and trust in the LORD.

⁶Many are asking, “Who can show us anything good?” Let the light of your face shine on us, LORD.

⁷You have put more joy in my heart than they have when their grain and new wine abound.

⁸I will both lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, LORD, make me live in safety.

¹For the choir director: with the flutes. A psalm of David. [1] Listen to my words, LORD; consider my sighing.

²Pay attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.

³In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I plead my case to you and watch expectantly.

⁴For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with you.

⁵The boastful cannot stand in your sight; you hate all evildoers.

⁶You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors violent and treacherous people.

⁷But I enter your house by the abundance of your faithful love; I bow down toward your holy temple in reverential awe of you.

⁸LORD, lead me in your righteousness because of my adversaries; make your way straight before me.

⁹For there is nothing reliable in what they say; destruction is within them; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongues.

¹⁰Punish them, God; let them fall by their own schemes. Drive them out because of their many crimes, for they rebel against you.

¹¹But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them shout for joy forever. May you shelter them, and may those who love your name boast about you.

¹²For you, LORD, bless the righteous one; you surround him with favor like a shield.

¹For the choir director: with stringed instruments, according to . A psalm of David. [1] LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger; do not discipline me in your wrath.

²Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am weak; heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking;

³my whole being is shaken with terror. And you, LORD  — how long?

⁴Turn, LORD! Rescue me; save me because of your faithful love.

⁵For there is no remembrance of you in death; who can thank you in Sheol?

⁶I am weary from my groaning; with my tears I dampen my bed and drench my couch every night.

⁷My eyes are swollen from grief; they grow old because of all my enemies.

⁸Depart from me, all evildoers, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.

⁹The LORD has heard my plea for help; the LORD accepts my prayer.

¹⁰All my enemies will be ashamed and shake with terror; they will turn back and suddenly be disgraced.

¹A of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. [1] LORD my God, I seek refuge in you; save me from all my pursuers and rescue me

²or they will tear me like a lion, ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

³LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice on my hands,

⁴if I have done harm to one at peace with me or have plundered my adversary without cause,

⁵may an enemy pursue and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶Rise up, LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my adversaries; awake for me; you have ordained a judgment.

⁷Let the assembly of peoples gather around you; take your seat on high over it.

⁸The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, LORD, according to my righteousness and my integrity.

⁹Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. The one who examines the thoughts and emotions is a righteous God.

¹⁰My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge and a God who shows his wrath every day.

¹²If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready.

¹³He has prepared his deadly weapons; he tips his arrows with fire.

¹⁴See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil, conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.

¹⁵He dug a pit and hollowed it out but fell into the hole he had made.

¹⁶His trouble comes back on his own head; his own violence comes down on top of his head.

¹⁷I will thank the LORD for his righteousness; I will sing about the name of the LORD Most High.

¹For the choir director: on the . A psalm of David. [1] LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with your majesty.

²From the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have established a stronghold on account of your adversaries in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

⁴what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man that you look after him?

⁵You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor.

⁶You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:

⁷all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild,

⁸the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas.

⁹LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!