1 Why sleepest thou, my soul, and dost not bless the Lord?

2 Sing a new song to GOD and keep vigil in His watch. For a psalm is good to sing to GOD out of a good heart.

3 The righteous will ever make mention of the Lord: in confession and in righteousness are the judgments of the Lord.

4 The righteous will never neglect when he is chastened by the Lord: because his will is always before the Lord.

5 The righteous stumbles and justifies GOD: he falls and I wait what the Lord will do to him.

6 And he looks to see from whence his salvation comes.

7 The stability of the righteous is from GOD their Saviour: for in the house of the righteous there does not lodge sin upon sin:

8 because He always visits the house of the righteous to remove the sins of his transgressions.

9 And He delivers his soul, in whatever he has sinned without knowledge, by fasting and by humiliation:

10 and the Lord purifies every holy man and his house.

11 But the sinner stumbleth and curseth his own life, and the day in which he was born: and the birth-pangs of his mother;

12 and he adds sin upon sin to his life:

13 he falls, and because his fall is grievous, he rises not again: for the destruction of the sinner is for ever:

14 and He will not remember him when He visits the righteous:

15 this is the portion of sinners for ever.

16 But those who fear the Lord shall rise to eternal life: and their life shall be in the light of the Lord, and he will not fail any more.