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Thou hast said to Jehovah, `My Lord Thou [art];' My good [is] not for thine own sake;

For the holy ones who [are] in the land, And the honourable, all my delight [is] in them.

Multiplied are their griefs, [Who] have hastened backward; I pour not out their libations of blood, Nor do I take up their names on my lips.

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I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;(A)
    apart from you I have no good thing.”(B)
I say of the holy people(C) who are in the land,(D)
    “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”
Those who run after other gods(E) will suffer(F) more and more.
    I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods
    or take up their names(G) on my lips.

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