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Jehovah [is] in the temple of his holiness; Jehovah,—his throne is in the heavens: his eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.

Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

For righteous is Jehovah; he loveth righteousness, his countenance doth behold the upright.

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the afflicted, because Jehovah [was] his refuge.

Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Jehovah turneth again the captivity of his people, Jacob shall be glad, Israel shall rejoice.

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth from his heart.

[He that] slandereth not with his tongue, doeth not evil to his companion, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour;

In whose eyes the depraved person is contemned, and who honoureth them that fear Jehovah; who, if he have sworn to his own hurt, changeth it not;

[He that] putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these [things] shall never be moved.

To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said, I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.

In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals burned forth from it.

And he bowed the heavens, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

He made darkness his secret place, his tent round about him: darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.

And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.

And he sent his arrows, and scattered [mine enemies]; and he shot forth lightnings, and discomfited them.

For all his ordinances were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me;