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¹A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the LORD’s great love forever; with my mouth I will make your faithfulness known through all generations.

²I will declare that your love stands firm forever, that you have established your faithfulness in heaven itself.

³You said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant,

⁴‘I will establish your line forever and make your throne firm through all generations.’ ”

⁵The heavens praise your wonders, LORD, your faithfulness too, in the assembly of the holy ones.

⁶For who in the skies above can compare with the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the heavenly beings?

⁷In the council of the holy ones God is greatly feared; he is more awesome than all who surround him.

⁸Who is like you, LORD God Almighty? You, LORD, are mighty, and your faithfulness surrounds you.

⁹You rule over the surging sea; when its waves mount up, you still them.

¹⁰You crushed Rahab like one of the slain; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

¹¹The heavens are yours, and yours also the earth; you founded the world and all that is in it.

¹²You created the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon sing for joy at your name.

¹³Your arm is endowed with power; your hand is strong, your right hand exalted.

¹⁴Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.

¹⁵Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, LORD.

¹⁶They rejoice in your name all day long; they celebrate your righteousness.

¹⁷For you are their glory and strength, and by your favor you exalt our horn.

¹⁸Indeed, our shield belongs to the LORD, our king to the Holy One of Israel.

¹⁹Once you spoke in a vision, to your faithful people you said: “I have bestowed strength on a warrior; I have raised up a young man from among the people.

²⁰I have found David my servant; with my sacred oil I have anointed him.

²¹My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him.

²²The enemy will not get the better of him; the wicked will not oppress him.

²³I will crush his foes before him and strike down his adversaries.

²⁴My faithful love will be with him, and through my name his horn will be exalted.

²⁵I will set his hand over the sea, his right hand over the rivers.

²⁶He will call out to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock my Savior.’

²⁷And I will appoint him to be my firstborn, the most exalted of the kings of the earth.

²⁸I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail.

²⁹I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.

³⁰“If his sons forsake my law and do not follow my statutes,

³¹if they violate my decrees and fail to keep my commands,

³²I will punish their sin with the rod, their iniquity with flogging;

³³but I will not take my love from him, nor will I ever betray my faithfulness.

³⁴I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

³⁵Once for all, I have sworn by my holiness— and I will not lie to David—

³⁶that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun;

³⁷it will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.”

³⁸But you have rejected, you have spurned, you have been very angry with your anointed one.

³⁹You have renounced the covenant with your servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.

⁴⁰You have broken through all his walls and reduced his strongholds to ruins.

⁴¹All who pass by have plundered him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors.

⁴²You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.

⁴³Indeed, you have turned back the edge of his sword and have not supported him in battle.

⁴⁴You have put an end to his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

⁴⁵You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with a mantle of shame.

⁴⁶How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire?

⁴⁷Remember how fleeting is my life. For what futility you have created all humanity!

⁴⁸Who can live and not see death, or who can escape the power of the grave?

⁴⁹Lord, where is your former great love, which in your faithfulness you swore to David?

⁵⁰Remember, Lord, how your servant has been mocked, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the nations,

⁵¹the taunts with which your enemies, LORD, have mocked, with which they have mocked every step of your anointed one.

⁵²Praise be to the LORD forever! Amen and Amen.

¹A prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.

²Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

³You turn people back to dust, saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”

⁴A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

⁵Yet you sweep people away in the sleep of death— they are like the new grass of the morning:

⁶In the morning it springs up new, but by evening it is dry and withered.

⁷We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.

⁸You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

⁹All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.

¹⁰Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

¹¹If only we knew the power of your anger! Your wrath is as great as the fear that is your due.

¹²Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

¹³Relent, LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.

¹⁴Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.

¹⁶May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.

¹⁷May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands.

¹Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

³Surely he will save you from the fowler’s snare and from the deadly pestilence.

⁴He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

⁵You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

⁶nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

⁷A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

⁸You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

⁹If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,

¹⁰no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.

¹¹For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways;

¹²they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

¹³You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

¹⁴“Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

¹⁵He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.

¹⁶With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”

¹A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High,

²proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night,

³to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp.

⁴For you make me glad by your deeds, LORD; I sing for joy at what your hands have done.

⁵How great are your works, LORD, how profound your thoughts!

⁶Senseless people do not know, fools do not understand,

⁷that though the wicked spring up like grass and all evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

⁸But you, LORD, are forever exalted.

⁹For surely your enemies, LORD, surely your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

¹⁰You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; fine oils have been poured on me.

¹¹My eyes have seen the defeat of my adversaries; my ears have heard the rout of my wicked foes.

¹²The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;

¹³planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,

¹⁵proclaiming, “The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”

¹The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed in majesty and armed with strength; indeed, the world is established, firm and secure.

²Your throne was established long ago; you are from all eternity.

³The seas have lifted up, LORD, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.

⁴Mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is mighty.

⁵Your statutes, LORD, stand firm; holiness adorns your house for endless days.

¹The LORD is a God who avenges. O God who avenges, shine forth.

²Rise up, Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve.

³How long, LORD, will the wicked, how long will the wicked be jubilant?

⁴They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting.

⁵They crush your people, LORD; they oppress your inheritance.

⁶They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

⁷They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob takes no notice.”

⁸Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?

⁹Does he who fashioned the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?

¹⁰Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches mankind lack knowledge?

¹¹The LORD knows all human plans; he knows that they are futile.

¹²Blessed is the one you discipline, LORD, the one you teach from your law;

¹³you grant them relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked.

¹⁴For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵Judgment will again be founded on righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will take a stand for me against evildoers?

¹⁷Unless the LORD had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.

¹⁸When I said, “My foot is slipping,” your unfailing love, LORD, supported me.

¹⁹When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.

²⁰Can a corrupt throne be allied with you— a throne that brings on misery by its decrees?

²¹The wicked band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

²²But the LORD has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge.

²³He will repay them for their sins and destroy them for their wickedness; the LORD our God will destroy them.