The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God’s law] are not so,
But they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

The kings of the earth take their stand;
And the rulers take counsel together
Against the Lord and His Anointed (the Davidic King, the Messiah, the Christ), saying,

They say, "Let's tear off the shackles they've put on us! Let's free ourselves from their ropes!"

Then will his angry words come to their ears, and by his wrath they will be troubled:

They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

{A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.} LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me.

I am not afraid of myriads of people, That round about they have set against me.

Thou hast put gladness in my heart, More than they have when their grain and their new wine are increased.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

And all that trust in thee shall rejoice: for ever shall they shout joyously, and thou wilt protect them; and they that love thy name shall exult in thee.

My eyes are swollen from grief;
they grow old because of all my enemies.

All mine enemies shall be put to shame and sore troubled: They shall turn back, they shall be put to shame suddenly.

Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

O Lord my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.

The enemy are come to an end, they are desolate for ever; And the cities which thou hast overthrown, The very remembrance of them is perished.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.

when they prayed: "Have mercy on me, Lord! See how I am oppressed by those who hate me, O one who can snatch me away from the gates of death!

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

Appoint, O Jehovah, a director to them, Let nations know they are men! Selah.

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

They say to themselves, "We will not be moved throughout all time, and we will not experience adversity."

They wait in ambush in the villages, they kill the innocent in secret.

Their eyes secretly watch the helpless, lying in wait like a lion in his den. They lie in wait to catch the afflicted. They catch the afflicted when they pull him into their net.

The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

To the Overseer. -- By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, 'They moved to Thy mountain for the bird?

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

Yahweh [is] in his holy temple; Yahweh [is] in the heavens [on] his throne. His eyelids see; they test [the] children of humankind.

May the Lord rain down burning coals and brimstone on the wicked! A whirlwind is what they deserve!

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

They say, “Through our tongues we have power;
our lips are our own—who can be our master?”

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set him in safety, at whom they puff.

The Lord's words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

The ungodly walk on every side; when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

lest mine enemy say, "I have prevailed against him." For if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.

As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my delight.

They multiply their idols - another, have they purchased! I will not pour out their drink-offerings of blood, nor will I take up their names on my lips.

from [the] {presence} of [the] wicked who destroy me, [those] enemies against my life, [they that] surround me.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

They are like a lion eager to tear,
like a young lion lurking in ambush.

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

And shake and tremble doth the earth, And foundations of hills are troubled, And they shake -- because He hath wrath.

He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.

Strangers have faded away, and they come trembling forth from their close places.

{Every day} [they] pour forth speech, and {every night} [they] tell knowledge.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever; the judgments of Jehovah are truth, they are righteous altogether:

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Even from the presumptuous, keep back thy servant, May they not have dominion over me, Then, shall I be blameless, and shall be acquitted from great transgression:

They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

They say, "Commit yourself to the LORD; perhaps the LORD will deliver him, perhaps he will cause him to escape, since he delights in him."

They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

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.

Posterity will serve Him;
They will tell of the Lord to the next generation.

They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

{A Psalm of David.} The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Yea, none that wait for thee shall be put to shame: They shall be put to shame that deal treacherously without cause.

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and goodness and truth and faithfulness
To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.

For Your name’s sake, O Lord,
Pardon my wickedness and my guilt, for they are great.

The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live.

They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.

The secret [of the wise counsel] of the Lord is for those who fear Him,
And He will let them know His covenant and reveal to them [through His word] its [deep, inner] meaning.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

Repay them according to their work and according to the evil of their practices;
Repay them according to the deeds of their hands;
Repay them what they deserve.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

O Lord, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!