He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around.

Answer Me When I Call

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.

Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!

For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.

O Lord, Deliver My Life

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath.

I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.

if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds

To the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David.

I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.

and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.

His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.

Everyone utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.

who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.

They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.