For the Chief Musician; on an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!     You have set your glory above the heavens! From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength,     because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,     the moon and the stars, which you have ordained; what is man, that you think of him?     What is the son of man, that you care for him? For you have made him a little lower than the angels,     and crowned him with glory and honor. You make him ruler over the works …

A Psalm by David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased!     Many are those who rise up against me. Many there are who say of my soul,     “There is no help for him in God.” Selah. But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me,     my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. I cry to Yahweh with my voice,     and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah. I laid myself down and slept.     I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me. I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people     who have set themselves against me on every side. Arise, Yahweh!     Save me, my God! For you have struck all …

Why do the nations rage,     and the peoples plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth take a stand,     and the rulers take counsel together,     against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying, “Let’s break their bonds apart,     and cast their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens will laugh.     The Lord will have them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his anger,     and terrify them in his wrath: “Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”     I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, “You are my son.     Today I have become your father. Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance,     the uttermost …

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,     nor stand on the path of sinners,     nor sit in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in Yahweh’s law.     On his law he meditates day and night. He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,     that produces its fruit in its season,     whose leaf also does not wither.     Whatever he does shall prosper. The wicked are not so,     but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,     nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,     but the way of the wicked shall perish.