⁵ How great are your works, O Lord!
    Your thoughts are very deep!
⁶ The dullard cannot know,
    the stupid cannot understand this:
⁷ though the wicked sprout like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction for ever,
⁸     but you, O Lord, are on high for ever.
⁹ For your enemies, O Lord,
    for your enemies shall perish;
    all evildoers shall be scattered.

¹⁰ But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;
    you have poured over me^[a] fresh oil.
¹¹ My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;
    my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

¹² The righteous flourish like the palm tree,
    and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
¹³ They are planted in the house of the Lord;
    they flourish in the courts of our God.
¹⁴ In old age they still produce fruit;
    they are always green and full of sap,
¹⁵ showing that the Lord is upright;
    he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

³ The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
    the floods have lifted up their voice;
    the floods lift up their roaring.
⁴ More majestic than the thunders of mighty waters,
    more majestic than the waves^[a] of the sea,
    majestic on high is the Lord!

⁵ Your decrees are very sure;
    holiness befits your house,
    O Lord, for evermore.

⁴ They pour out their arrogant words;
    all the evildoers boast.
⁵ They crush your people, O Lord,
    and afflict your heritage.
⁶ They kill the widow and the stranger,
    they murder the orphan,
⁷ and they say, ‘The Lord does not see;
    the God of Jacob does not perceive.’

⁸ Understand, O dullest of the people;
    fools, when will you be wise?
⁹ He who planted the ear, does he not hear?
He who formed the eye, does he not see?
¹⁰ He who disciplines the nations,
he who teaches knowledge to humankind,
    does he not chastise?
¹¹ The Lord knows our thoughts,^[a]
    that they are but an empty breath.

¹² Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,
¹³ giving them respite from days of trouble,
    until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not forsake his people;
    he will not abandon his heritage;
¹⁵ for justice will return to the righteous,
    and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who rises up for me against the wicked?
    Who stands up for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ If the Lord had not been my help,
    my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
¹⁸ When I thought, ‘My foot is slipping’,
    your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
¹⁹ When the cares of my heart are many,
    your consolations cheer my soul.
²⁰ Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
    those who contrive mischief by statute?
²¹ They band together against the life of the righteous,
    and condemn the innocent to death.
²² But the Lord has become my stronghold,
    and my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ He will repay them for their iniquity
    and wipe them out for their wickedness;
    the Lord our God will wipe them out.

⁶ O come, let us worship and bow down,
    let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
⁷ For he is our God,
    and we are the people of his pasture,
    and the sheep of his hand.

O that today you would listen to his voice!
⁸     Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
    as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,
⁹ when your ancestors tested me,
    and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
¹⁰ For forty years I loathed that generation
    and said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,
    and they do not regard my ways.’
¹¹ Therefore in my anger I swore,
    ‘They shall not enter my rest.’

⁷ Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
    ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
⁸ Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
    bring an offering, and come into his courts.
⁹ Worship the Lord in holy splendour;
    tremble before him, all the earth.

¹⁰ Say among the nations, ‘The Lord is king!
    The world is firmly established; it shall never be moved.
    He will judge the peoples with equity.’
¹¹ Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
    let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
¹²     let the field exult, and everything in it.
Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy
¹³     before the Lord; for he is coming,
    for he is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness,
    and the peoples with his truth.

⁶ The heavens proclaim his righteousness;
    and all the peoples behold his glory.
⁷ All worshippers of images are put to shame,
    those who make their boast in worthless idols;
    all gods bow down before him.
⁸ Zion hears and is glad,
    and the towns^[a] of Judah rejoice,
    because of your judgements, O God.
⁹ For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth;
    you are exalted far above all gods.

¹⁰ The Lord loves those who hate^[b] evil;
    he guards the lives of his faithful;
    he rescues them from the hand of the wicked.
¹¹ Light dawns^[c] for the righteous,
    and joy for the upright in heart.
¹² Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,
    and give thanks to his holy name!