The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.

There is nothing reliable in what they say;
Their inward part is destruction itself.
Their throat is an open grave;
They flatter with their tongue.

Hold them guilty, O God;
By their own devices let them fall!
In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out,
For they are rebellious against You.

All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed;
They shall turn back, they will suddenly be ashamed.

When my enemies turn back,
They stumble and perish before You.

The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught.

Put them in fear, O Lord;
Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah.

In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

For, behold, the wicked bend the bow,
They make ready their arrow upon the string
To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.

They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

There they are in great dread,
For God is with the righteous generation.

As for the saints who are in the earth,
They are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight.

They have closed their unfeeling heart,
With their mouth they speak proudly.

They have now surrounded us in our steps;
They set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

From men with Your hand, O Lord,
From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,
And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And leave their abundance to their babes.

He delivered me from my strong enemy,
And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the Lord was my stay.

I pursued my enemies and overtook them,
And I did not turn back until they were consumed.

I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise;
They fell under my feet.

They cried for help, but there was none to save,
Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.

As soon as they hear, they obey me;
Foreigners submit to me.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.

They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

They have bowed down and fallen,
But we have risen and stood upright.

Though they intended evil against You
And devised a plot,
They will not succeed.

In You our fathers trusted;
They trusted and You delivered them.

To You they cried out and were delivered;
In You they trusted and were not disappointed.

All who see me sneer at me;
They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

They open wide their mouth at me,
As a ravening and a roaring lion.

For dogs have surrounded me;
A band of evildoers has encompassed me;
They pierced my hands and my feet.

I can count all my bones.
They look, they stare at me;

They divide my garments among them,
And for my clothing they cast lots.

They will come and will declare His righteousness
To a people who will be born, that He has performed it.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

Remember, O Lord, Your compassion and Your lovingkindnesses,
For they have been from of old.

Look upon my enemies, for they are many,
And they hate me with violent hatred.

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

Because they do not regard the works of the Lord
Nor the deeds of His hands,
He will tear them down and not build them up.

You will pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me,
For You are my strength.

For I have heard the slander of many,
Terror is on every side;
While they took counsel together against me,
They schemed to take away my life.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters they will not reach him.

Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding,
Whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check,
Otherwise they will not come near to you.

They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces will never be ashamed.

The young lions do lack and suffer hunger;
But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

Malicious witnesses rise up;
They ask me of things that I do not know.

They repay me evil for good,
To the bereavement of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled my soul with fasting,
And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.

Like godless jesters at a feast,
They gnashed at me with their teeth.

For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

They opened their mouth wide against me;
They said, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;
And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

There the doers of iniquity have fallen;
They have been thrust down and cannot rise.

For they will wither quickly like the grass
And fade like the green herb.

For evildoers will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

But the wicked will perish;
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures,
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

For the Lord loves justice
And does not forsake His godly ones;
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will be cut off.

The Lord helps them and delivers them;
He delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
Because they take refuge in Him.

For my iniquities are gone over my head;
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,
And they devise treachery all day long.

For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.”

And those who repay evil for good,
They oppose me, because I follow what is good.

“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they devise my hurt, saying,

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

For by their own sword they did not possess the land,
And their own arm did not save them,
But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,
For You favored them.

They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing;
They will enter into the King’s palace.

For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,
They passed by together.

They saw it, then they were amazed;
They were terrified, they fled in alarm.

Their inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They will never see the light.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

There they were in great fear where no fear had been;
For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you;
You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble upon me
And in anger they bear a grudge against me.

Day and night they go around her upon her walls,
And iniquity and mischief are in her midst.

He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me,
For they are many who strive with me.

His speech was smoother than butter,
But his heart was war;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.

My foes have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.

All day long they distort my words;
All their thoughts are against me for evil.

They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book?

They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;
Fierce men launch an attack against me,
Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,

For no guilt of mine, they run and set themselves against me.
Arouse Yourself to help me, and see!

They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go around the city.

Behold, they belch forth with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips,
For, they say, “Who hears?”

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be caught in their pride,
And on account of curses and lies which they utter.