Let lying lips be quieted;
they speak arrogantly against the righteous
with pride and contempt.

You hide them with you, where they are safe from the attacks of men; you conceal them in a shelter, where they are safe from slanderous attacks.

Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You [for forgiveness] in a time when You [are near and] may be found;
Surely when the great waters [of trial and distressing times] overflow they will not reach [the spirit in] him.

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

He formed the hearts of them all; he understands everything they do.

They looked to Him and were radiant;
Their faces will never blush in shame or confusion.

O fear the LORD, ye that are his saints: for they that fear him lack nothing.

The young lions lack [food] and grow hungry,
But they who seek the Lord will not lack any good thing.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them.

Evil will cause the death of the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be held guilty and will be condemned.

The LORD delivereth the souls of his servants, and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute.

They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned backward and confounded, Those devising my evil.

They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit [of destruction] for my life.

Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

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

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

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth (mourning garment);
I humbled my soul with fasting,
And I prayed with my head bowed on my chest.

But in my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together [against me];
The slanderers whom I did not know gathered against me;
They slandered and reviled me without ceasing.

Like godless jesters at a feast,
They gnashed at me with their teeth [in malice].

LORD, how long wilt thou look upon this? O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my darling from the lions.

Mine enemies shall not rejoice over me for falsehood: they hating me gratuitously shall pinch the eye.

For they do not speak peace,
But they devise deceitful words [half-truths and lies] against those who are quiet in the land.

They open their mouths wide against me;
They say, “Aha, aha, our eyes have seen it!”

Judge me according to Thy righteousness, O Jehovah my God, And they do not rejoice over me.

They do not say in their heart, 'Aha, our desire.' They do not say, 'We swallowed him up.'

They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.

They sing and rejoice, who are desiring my righteousness, And they say continually, 'Jehovah is magnified, Who is desiring the peace of His servant.'

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

There those who [are perverse and] do evil 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 shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];
Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].

And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.

The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.

A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

The Lord watches over the innocent day by day and they possess a permanent inheritance.

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

But the wicked (ungodly) will perish,
And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures and like the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke],
They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and kind and gives.

For those blessed by God will [at last] inherit the land,
But those cursed by Him will be cut off.

From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

All day long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.

For the Lord delights in justice
And does not abandon His saints (faithful ones);
They are preserved forever,
But the descendants of the wicked will [in time] be cut off.

The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.

The Lord will not leave him in his hand
Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

As for transgressors, they will be completely destroyed;
The future of the wicked will be cut off.

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

For my iniquities have gone over my head [like the waves of a flood];
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.

My wounds stink, they are corrupt, because of my foolishness.

My stripes became loathsome: they flowed from the face of my folly.

My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.

As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance.

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.

And they seeking my soul will lay snares: and they seeking my evil spake mischief, and they will meditate deceits all the day,

I have prayed for deliverance, because otherwise they will gloat over me; when my foot slips they will arrogantly taunt me.

For I said, Lest they shall rejoice over me: in the wavering of my foot they magnified against me.

But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

They repay evil for good, they attack and try to kill me,
Because I follow what is good.

And they requiting evil for good will be mine adversaries, for my pursuing Thou Thou wilt not forsake me, O Jehovah: my God, thou wilt not remove far off from me.

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away."

He gave me reason to sing a new song, praising our God. May many see what God has done, so that they might swear allegiance to him and trust in the Lord!

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

For innumerable evils have encompassed me;
My sins 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.

They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are seeking my soul to destroy it, They are turned backward, And are ashamed, who are desiring my evil.

They are desolate because of their shame, Who are saying to me, 'Aha, aha.'

All they seeking thee shall rejoice and be glad in thee: they loving thy salvation shall say, Jehovah shall be magnified.

As for my enemies, with malice they said, "When will he die and memory of his name perish?"

All who hate me whisper together about me;
Against me they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me], saying,

“A wicked thing is poured out upon him and holds him;
And when he lies down, he will not rise up again.”

I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?"

As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”

Reveal your light and your faithfulness! They will lead me, they will escort me back to your holy hill, and to the place where you live.

For our fathers did not possess the land [of Canaan] by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them,
But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,
Because You favored and delighted in them.

Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

You make us turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

Thine arrows are sharp. The peoples fall under thee. [They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

They are bubbling with joy as they walk in procession and enter the royal palace.

Roar -- troubled are its waters, Mountains they shake in its pride. Selah.

For look, the kings assemble; they advance together.

As soon as they see, they are shocked; they are terrified, they quickly retreat.

They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.

Their inward thought is that their houses will continue forever,
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have named their lands after their own names [ignoring God].

but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.

This is the fate of those who are foolish and of those who correct their words after they speak. Interlude

Like sheep they are appointed for Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead);
Death will be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form and beauty shall be for Sheol to consume,
So that they have no dwelling [on earth].

For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

Wealthy people do not understand; they are like animals that perish.

Gather ye my godly ones to me, they cutting out my covenant upon sacrifice

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

The righteous will see it and fear,
And will [scoffingly] laugh, saying,

The [empty-headed] fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt and evil, and have committed repulsive injustice;
There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has turned aside and fallen away;
Together they have become filthy and corrupt;
There is no one who does good, no, not even one.

Have workers of wickedness no knowledge or no understanding?
They eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God.

There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;
For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.