Chronological

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence;
So I will go about Your altar, O Lord,
⁷ That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,
And tell of all Your wondrous works.
⁸ Lord, ^(H)I have loved the habitation of Your house,
And the place ^[b]where Your glory dwells.

^9 (I)Do^[c] not gather my soul with sinners,
Nor my life with bloodthirsty men,
¹⁰ In whose hands is a sinister scheme,
And whose right hand is full of ^(J)bribes.

¹¹ But as for me, I will walk in my integrity;
Redeem me and be merciful to me.
^12 (K)My foot stands in an even place;
In the congregations I will bless the Lord.

^4 (F)Blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust,
And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
^5 (G)Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works
Which You have done;
^(H)And Your thoughts toward us
Cannot be recounted to You in order;
If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered.

^6 (I)Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
My ears You have opened.
Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
⁷ Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written of me.
^8 (J)I delight to do Your will, O my God,
And Your law is ^(K)within my heart.”

^9 (L)I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness
In the great assembly;
Indeed, ^(M)I do not restrain my lips,
O Lord, You Yourself know.
^10 (N)I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth
From the great assembly.

¹¹ Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord;
^(O)Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.
¹² For innumerable evils have surrounded me;
^(P)My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of my head;
Therefore my heart fails me.

^13 (Q)Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;
O Lord, make haste to help me!
^14 (R)Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who seek to destroy my ^[a]life;
Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor
Who wish me evil.
¹⁵ Let them be ^(S)confounded because of their shame,
Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

^16 (T)Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let such as love Your salvation ^(U)say continually,
“The Lord be magnified!”
^17 (V)But I am poor and needy;
^(W)Yet the Lord thinks upon me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.

^3 (A)The wicked are estranged from the womb;
They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
^4 (B)Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,
⁵ Which will not ^(C)heed the voice of charmers,
Charming ever so skillfully.

^6 (D)Break^[b] their teeth in their mouth, O God!
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!
^7 (E)Let them flow away as waters which run continually;
When he bends his bow,
Let his arrows be as if cut in pieces.
⁸ Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes,
^(F)Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹ Before your ^(G)pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away ^(H)as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath.
¹⁰ The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the ^(I)vengeance;
^(J)He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,
^11 (K)So that men will say,
“Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
Surely He is God who ^(L)judges in the earth.”

³ For You have been a shelter for me,
^(A)A strong tower from the enemy.
⁴ I will abide in Your ^[b]tabernacle forever;
^(B)I will trust in the shelter of Your wings. Selah

⁵ For You, O God, have heard my vows;
You have given me the heritage of those who fear Your name.
⁶ You will prolong the king’s life,
His years as many generations.
⁷ He shall abide before God forever.
Oh, prepare mercy ^(C)and truth, which may ^[c]preserve him!

⁸ So I will sing praise to Your name forever,
That I may daily perform my vows.

³ How long will you attack a man?
You shall be slain, all of you,
^(G)Like a leaning wall and a tottering fence.
⁴ They only consult to cast him down from his high position;
They ^(H)delight in lies;
They bless with their mouth,
But they curse inwardly. Selah

⁵ My soul, wait silently for God alone,
For my ^[f]expectation is from Him.
⁶ He only is my rock and my salvation;
He is my defense;
I shall not be ^[g]moved.
^7 (I)In God is my salvation and my glory;
The rock of my strength,
And my refuge, is in God.

⁸ Trust in Him at all times, you people;
^(J)Pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us. Selah

^9 (K)Surely men of low degree are ^[h]a vapor,
Men of high degree are a lie;
If they are weighed on the scales,
They are altogether lighter than vapor.
¹⁰ Do not trust in oppression,
Nor vainly hope in robbery;
^(L)If riches increase,
Do not set your heart on them.

¹¹ God has spoken once,
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God.
¹² Also to You, O Lord, belongs mercy;
For ^(M)You ^[i]render to each one according to his work.

⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil matter;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
^(B)They say, “Who will see them?”
⁶ They devise iniquities:
“We have perfected a shrewd scheme.”
Both the inward thought and the heart of man are deep.

⁷ But God shall shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they shall be wounded.
⁸ So He will make them stumble over their own tongue;
^(C)All who see them shall flee away.
⁹ All men shall fear,
And shall ^(D)declare the work of God;
For they shall wisely consider His doing.

^10 (E)The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and trust in Him.
And all the upright in heart shall glory.