The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

Thou wilt destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhorreth a man of blood and deceit.

For there is not [anything] reliable in his mouth; their inner part [is] destruction. Their throat is an open grave; [with] their tongue they speak deceit.

For Thou blessest the righteous, O Jehovah, As a buckler with favour dost compass him!

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish [the] righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.

See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil,
conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.

Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Thou hast seen! For, thou, mischief and misery, dost discern, to requite with thine own hand, Unto thee, doth, the unfortunate one, give himself up, To the fatherless, thou thyself, hast become a helper.

The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord’s throne is in heaven.
His eyes see, His eyelids test the children of men.

The Lord puts the upright and the sinner to the test, but he has hate in his soul for the lover of violent acts.

Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

Thou, O Jehovah, dost preserve them, Thou keepest us from this generation to the age.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

He that hath used no deceit in his tongue, nor done evil to his neighbour, and hath not slandered his neighbours.

Jehovah is the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

A Prayer of David. Hear, O Jehovah, righteousness, attend my cry, Give ear to my prayer, without lips of deceit.

I -- I called Thee, for Thou dost answer me, O God, incline Thine ear to me, hear my speech.

Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.

With the gracious thou dost shew thyself gracious; with the upright man thou dost shew thyself upright;

With the pure thou dost shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou dost shew thyself contrary.

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

My deliverer from mine enemies, Above my withstanders Thou raisest me, From a man of violence dost deliver me.

His glory is great in thy salvation: Honor and majesty dost thou lay upon him.

For Thou makest him blessings for ever, Thou dost cause him to rejoice with joy, By Thy countenance.

My God! I keep crying - By day, and thou dost not answer, and, By night, and there is no rest for me.

In Thee did our fathers trust -- they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

Prove me, Jehovah, and test me; try my reins and my heart:

I have not sat with men of deceit, nor, with dissemblers, would I enter;

Jehovah my God, I have cried to Thee, And Thou dost heal me.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?

O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Thou art a hiding-place for me; thou preservest me from trouble; thou dost encompass me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

Let them be like dust from the grain before the wind; let the angel of the Lord send them in flight.

Like men of deceit they put me to shame; the voice of their wrath was loud against me.

Lord, how long dost thou behold? Keep back my soul from their desolations, From young lions my only one.

For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.

Those who seek my life lay snares for me,
And those who seek to injure me threaten mischievous things and destruction;
They devise treachery all the day long.

Because for Thee, O Jehovah, I have waited, Thou dost answer, O Lord my God.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Happy is the man who has faith in the Lord, and does not give honour to the men of pride or to those who are turned away to deceit.

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Thou, with Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;

Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

Thou dust make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:

Thou dust make us, A by-word among the nations, - A shaking of the head among the peoples.

But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Instead of thy fathers are thy sons, Thou dost appoint them for princes in all the earth.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

But unto the ungodly sayeth God, "Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth,

Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

This thou doest, while I hold my tongue: and thinkest wickedly that I am even such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done.

O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.

Why dost thou boast thyself of wickedness, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of GOD, lasteth all the day.

Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

Thou lovedst all words of destruction, a tongue of deceit

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

All day long they twist my words and say hurtful things;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

And Thou, O Jehovah dost laugh at them, Thou dost mock at all the nations.

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!

From the end of the land unto Thee I call, In the feebleness of my heart, Into a rock higher than I Thou dost lead me.

Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)

And with Thee, O Lord, is kindness, For Thou dost recompense to each, According to his work!

Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,

Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.

For you, O God, have put us to the test: testing us by fire like silver.

A bounteous rain, dost thou shed abroad, O God, upon thine inheritance, When exhausted, thou thyself, hast supported it:

Thy living host, have remained therein, Thou dost provide, in thy bounty, for the humbled ones - O God!

In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually.

Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest -- Thou comfortest me,