The princes of the people have gathered together, The people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain.

Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city of the great King.

God is in her palaces; He is known as her refuge.

For behold, the kings assembled, They passed by together.

They saw it, and so they marveled; They were troubled, they hastened away.

Fear took hold of them there, And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,

As when You break the ships of Tarshish With an east wind.

As we have heard, So we have seen In the city of the LORD of hosts, In the city of our God: God will establish it forever.Selah

We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness, In the midst of Your temple.

According to Your name, O God, So is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.

Let Mount Zion rejoice, Let the daughters of Judah be glad, Because of Your judgments.

Walk about Zion, And go all around her. Count her towers;

Mark well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces; That you may tell it to the generation following.

For this is God, Our God forever and ever; He will be our guide Even to death.

Hear this, all peoples; Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

My mouth shall speak wisdom, And the meditation of my heart shall give understanding.

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Those who trust in their wealth And boast in the multitude of their riches,

None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him--

For the redemption of their souls is costly, And it shall cease forever--

That he should continue to live eternally, And not see the Pit.

For he sees wise men die; Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish, And leave their wealth to others.

Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever, Their dwelling places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not remain; He is like the beasts that perish.

This is the way of those who are foolish, And of their posterity who approve their sayings.Selah

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; Death shall feed on them; The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me.Selah

Do not be afraid when one becomes rich, When the glory of his house is increased;

For when he dies he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.

Though while he lives he blesses himself (For men will praise you when you do well for yourself),

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see light.

A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, Is like the beasts that perish.

The Mighty One, God the LORD, Has spoken and called the earth From the rising of the sun to its going down.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God will shine forth.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silent; A fire shall devour before Him, And it shall be very tempestuous all around Him.

He shall call to the heavens from above, And to the earth, that He may judge His people:

«Gather My saints together to Me, Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.»

Let the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is Judge.Selah

«Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God!

I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me.

I will not take a bull from your house, Nor goats out of your folds.

For every beast of the forest is Mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the mountains, And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

«If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High.

Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.»

But to the wicked God says: «What right have you to declare My statutes, Or take My covenant in your mouth,

Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers.

You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit.

You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own motheŕs son.

These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes.

«Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver:

Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; And to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God.»

Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

For I acknowledge my transgressions, And my sin is always before me.

Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight-- That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge.

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.

Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Make me hear joy and gladness, That the bones You have broken may rejoice.

Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, And sinners shall be converted to You.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, The God of my salvation, And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.

O Lord, open my lips, And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.

For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-- These, O God, You will not despise.

Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, With burnt offering and whole burnt offering; Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.

Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually.

Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness.Selah

You love all devouring words, You deceitful tongue.

God shall likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

The righteous also shall see and fear, And shall laugh at him, saying,

«Here is the man who did not make God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of his riches, And strengthened himself in his wickedness.»

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God; I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.

I will praise You forever, Because You have done it; And in the presence of Your saints I will wait on Your name, for it is good.

The fool has said in his heart, «There is no God.» They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none who does good.

God looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.

Every one of them has turned aside; They have together become corrupt; There is none who does good, No, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon God?

There they are in great fear Where no fear was, For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you; You have put them to shame, Because God has despised them.

Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of His people, Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.

Save me, O God, by Your name, And vindicate me by Your strength.

Hear my prayer, O God; Give ear to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen up against me, And oppressors have sought after my life; They have not set God before them.Selah

Behold, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who uphold my life.

He will repay my enemies for their evil. Cut them off in Your truth.

I will freely sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.

For He has delivered me out of all trouble; And my eye has seen its desire upon my enemies.

Give ear to my prayer, O God, And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

Attend to me, and hear me; I am restless in my complaint, and moan noisily,

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they bring down trouble upon me, And in wrath they hate me.

My heart is severely pained within me, And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me, And horror has overwhelmed me.

So I said, «Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.

Indeed, I would wander far off, And remain in the wilderness.Selah

I would hasten my escape From the windy storm and tempest.»

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Day and night they go around it on its walls; Iniquity and trouble are also in the midst of it.

Destruction is in its midst; Oppression and deceit do not depart from its streets.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; Then I could bear it. Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me; Then I could hide from him.

But it was you, a man my equal, My companion and my acquaintance.

We took sweet counsel together, And walked to the house of God in the throng.

Let death seize them; Let them go down alive into hell, For wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

As for me, I will call upon God, And the LORD shall save me.

Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, For there were many against me.

God will hear, and afflict them, Even He who abides from of old.Selah Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God.

He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him; He has broken his covenant.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, But war was in his heart; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.

Cast your burden on the LORD, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction; Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in You.