Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

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 who sees me mocks me;
they sneer and shake their heads:

The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.

Evil brings death to the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be punished.

Without justification they laid a snare for me; without justification they dug a pit to trap me.

Wait patiently for the Lord! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes!

The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

The sinner takes money and does not give it back; but the upright man has mercy, and gives to others.

And those seeking my soul lay a snare, And those seeking my evil Have spoken mischievous things, And they do deceits meditate all the day.

I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

They have set a snare for my feet, which makes me depressed. They dug a pit in front of me, but they are the ones who fell into it! Interlude

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

The upright see it and are glad: the mouth of the sinner is stopped.

For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

An exactor layeth a snare for all that he hath, And strangers spoil his labour.

The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.