For you, O Lord, have made me happy by your work. I will sing for joy because of what you have done.

He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.

and gathered from foreign lands, from east and west, from north and south.

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

A song, a psalm of David. I am determined, O God! I will sing and praise you with my whole heart.

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

Sustain me as you promised, so that I will live. Do not disappoint me!

O Lord, do not let the wicked have their way! Do not allow their plan to succeed when they attack! (Selah)

How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

By wisdom the Lord laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.

for one who goes astray is an abomination to the Lord, but he reveals his intimate counsel to the upright.

if you have been ensnared by the words you have uttered, and have been caught by the words you have spoken,

Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.

The one who heeds instruction is on the way to life, but the one who rejects rebuke goes astray.

Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.

The one who goes about slandering others reveals secrets, but the one who is trustworthy conceals a matter.

The one who puts up security for a stranger will surely have trouble, but whoever avoids shaking hands will be secure.