For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.

• ¹An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked:
• “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”

• ²For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
• too much to detect and hate his sin.

• ³The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit.
• He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

• ⁴He plots iniquity on his bed.
• He sets himself in a way that is not good.
• He doesn’t abhor evil.

• ⁵Your loving kindness, Yahweh, is in the heavens.
• Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

• ⁶Your righteousness is like the mountains of God.
• Your judgments are like a great deep.
• Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

• ⁷How precious is your loving kindness, God!
• The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.

• ⁸They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house.
• You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.

• ⁹For with you is the spring of life.
• In your light shall we see light.

• ¹⁰Oh continue your loving kindness to those who know you,
• your righteousness to the upright in heart.

• ¹¹Don’t let the foot of pride come against me.
• Don’t let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

• ¹²There the workers of iniquity are fallen.
• They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.