Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it,

when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

But the Lord rules forever; he reigns in a just manner.

Sing praises to the Lord, who rules in Zion! Tell the nations what he has done!

He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

A psalm of David. The Lord owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.

I hate the mob of evil men, and do not associate with the wicked.

You plot against your brother; you slander your own brother.

for you live among them. You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.

How blessed are those who live in your temple and praise you continually! (Selah)

The Lord reigns! The nations tremble. He sits enthroned above the winged angels; the earth shakes.

But you, O Lord, rule forever, and your reputation endures.

He makes the barren woman of the family a happy mother of children. Praise the Lord!

Though rulers plot and slander me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.

A song of ascents. I look up toward you, the one enthroned in heaven.

He said, “This will be my resting place forever; I will live here, for I have chosen it.