¹⁷ God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

¹⁸ Yes, even when I am old and gray-haired, God, don't forsake me, until I have declared your strength to the next generation, your might to everyone who is to come.

¹⁹ Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

²⁰ You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

²¹ Increase my honor, and comfort me again.

²² I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.

²³ My lips shall shout for joy! My soul, which you have redeemed, sings praises to you!

²⁴ My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. By Solomon.

¹ God, give the king your justice; your righteousness to the royal son.

² He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

³ The mountains shall bring prosperity to the people. The hills bring the fruit of righteousness.

⁴ He will judge the poor of the people. He will save the children of the needy, and will break the oppressor in pieces.

⁵ They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

⁶ He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

⁷ In his days, the righteous shall flourish, and abundance of peace, until the moon is no more.

⁸ He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, from the River to the ends of the earth.

⁹ Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him. His enemies shall lick the dust.

¹⁰ The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

¹¹ Yes, all kings shall fall down before him. All nations shall serve him.

¹² For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

¹³ He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the souls of the needy.

¹⁴ He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

¹⁵ They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

¹⁶ Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

¹⁷ His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

¹⁸ Praise be to Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does marvelous deeds.

¹⁹ Blessed be his glorious name forever! Let the whole earth be filled with his glory! Amen and amen.

²⁰ This ends the prayers by David, the son of Jesse. BOOK III A Psalm by Asaph.

¹ Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

² But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

³ For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴ For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

⁵ They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

⁶ Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

⁷ Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

⁸ They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

⁹ They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

¹⁰ Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

¹¹ They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

¹² Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

¹³ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

¹⁴ For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

¹⁵ If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

¹⁶ When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

¹⁷ Until I entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

¹⁸ Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

¹⁹ How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

²⁰ As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.