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¹I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart; I will tell of all Your wonders.

²I will rejoice and be jubilant in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

³When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You.

⁴For You have maintained my just cause; You have sat on the throne judging righteously.

⁵You have rebuked the nations, You have eliminated the wicked; You have wiped out their name forever and ever.

⁶The enemy has come to an end in everlasting ruins, And You have uprooted the cities; The very memory of them has perished.

⁷But the LORD sits as King forever; He has established His throne for judgment,

⁸And He will judge the world in righteousness; He will execute judgment for the peoples fairly.

⁹The LORD will also be a stronghold for the oppressed, A stronghold in times of trouble;

¹⁰And those who know Your name will put their trust in You, For You, LORD, have not abandoned those who seek You.

¹¹Sing praises to the LORD, who dwells in Zion; Declare His deeds among the peoples.

¹²For He who requires blood remembers them; He does not forget the cry of the needy.

¹³Be gracious to me, LORD; See my oppression from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death,

¹⁴So that I may tell of all Your praises, That in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.

¹⁵The nations have sunk down into the pit which they have made; In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

¹⁶The LORD has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. A wicked one is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion Selah

¹⁷The wicked will return to Sheol, All the nations who forget God.

¹⁸For the needy will not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the afflicted perish forever.

¹⁹Arise, LORD, do not let mankind prevail; Let the nations be judged before You.

²⁰Put them in fear, LORD; Let the nations know that they are merely human. Selah

¹Why do You stand far away, LORD? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

²In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the needy; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

³For the wicked boasts of his soul’s desire, And the greedy person curses and shows disrespect to the LORD.

⁴The wicked, in his haughtiness, does not seek Him. There is no God in all his schemes.

⁵His ways succeed at all times; Yet Your judgments are on high, out of his sight; As for all his enemies, he snorts at them.

⁶He says to himself, “I will not be moved; Throughout the generations I will not be in adversity.”

⁷His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression; Under his tongue is harm and injustice.

⁸He sits in the lurking places of the villages; He kills the innocent in the secret places; His eyes surreptitiously watch for the unfortunate.

⁹He lurks in secret like a lion in his lair; He lurks to catch the needy; He catches the needy when he pulls him into his net.

¹⁰Then he crushes the needy one, who cowers; And unfortunate people fall by his mighty power.

¹¹He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

¹²Arise, LORD; God, lift up Your hand. Do not forget the humble.

¹³Why has the wicked treated God disrespectfully? He has said to himself, “You will not require an account.”

¹⁴You have seen it, for You have looked at harm and provocation to take it into Your hand. The unfortunate commits himself to You; You have been the helper of the orphan.

¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer, Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

¹⁶The LORD is King forever and ever; Nations have perished from His land.

¹⁷LORD, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their heart, You will make Your ear attentive

¹⁸To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed, So that mankind, which is of the earth, will no longer cause terror.

¹In the LORD I take refuge; How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain?

²For, behold, the wicked bend the bow, They have set their arrow on the string To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

³If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?”

⁴The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD’S throne is in heaven; His eyes see, His eyelids test the sons of mankind.

⁵The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And His soul hates one who loves violence.

⁶He will rain coals of fire upon the wicked, And brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.

⁷For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will see His face.

¹Help, LORD, for the godly person has come to an end, For the faithful have disappeared from the sons of mankind.

²They speak lies to one another; They speak with flattering lips and a double heart.

³May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things;

⁴Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”

⁵“Because of the devastation of the poor, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the LORD; “I will put him in the safety for which he longs.”

⁶The words of the LORD are pure words; Like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, filtered seven times.

⁷You, LORD, will keep them; You will protect him from this generation forever.

⁸The wicked strut about on every side When vileness is exalted among the sons of mankind.

¹How long, LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

²How long am I to feel anxious in my soul, With grief in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

³Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; Enlighten my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death,

⁴And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

⁵But I have trusted in Your faithfulness; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.

⁶I will sing to the LORD, Because He has looked after me.

¹The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they have committed detestable acts; There is no one who does good.

²The LORD has looked down from heaven upon the sons of mankind To see if there are any who understand, Who seek God.

³They have all turned aside, together they are corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.

⁴Do all the workers of injustice not know, Who devour my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon the LORD?

⁵There they are in great dread, For God is with a righteous generation.

⁶You would put to shame the plan of the poor, But the LORD is his refuge.

⁷Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of His people, Jacob will rejoice, Israel will be glad.

¹LORD, who may reside in Your tent? Who may settle on Your holy hill?

²One who walks with integrity, practices righteousness, And speaks truth in his heart.

³He does not slander with his tongue, Nor do evil to his neighbor, Nor bring shame on his friend;

⁴A despicable person is despised in his eyes, But he honors those who fear the LORD; He takes an oath to his own detriment, and does not change;

⁵He does not lend his money at interest, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. One who does these things will never be shaken.

¹Protect me, God, for I take refuge in You.

²I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; I have nothing good besides You.”

³As for the saints who are on the earth, They are the majestic ones; all my delight is in them.

⁴The pains of those who have acquired another god will be multiplied; I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood, Nor will I take their names upon my lips.

⁵The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and my cup; You support my lot.

⁶The measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; Indeed, my inheritance is beautiful to me.

⁷I will bless the LORD who has advised me; Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night.

⁸I have set the LORD continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

⁹Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely.

¹⁰For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; You will not allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.

¹¹You will make known to me the way of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.

¹Hear a just cause, LORD, give Your attention to my cry; Listen to my prayer, which is not from deceitful lips.

²Let my judgment come forth from Your presence; Let Your eyes look with integrity.

³You have put my heart to the test; You have visited me by night; You have sifted me and You find nothing; My intent is that my mouth will not offend.

⁴As for the works of mankind, by the word of Your lips I have kept from the ways of the violent.

⁵My steps have held to Your paths. My feet have not slipped.

⁶I have called upon You, for You will answer me, God; Incline Your ear to me, hear my speech.

⁷Show Your wonderful faithfulness, Savior of those who take refuge at Your right hand From those who rise up against them.

⁸Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings

⁹From the wicked who deal violently with me, My deadly enemies who surround me.

¹⁰They have closed their unfeeling hearts, With their mouths they speak proudly.

¹¹They have now surrounded us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

¹²He is like a lion that is eager to tear, And as a young lion lurking in secret places.

¹³Arise, LORD, confront him, make him bow down; Save my soul from the wicked with Your sword,

¹⁴From people by Your hand, LORD, From people of the world, whose portion is in this life, And whose belly You fill with Your treasure; They are satisfied with children, And leave their abundance to their babies.

¹⁵As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.