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.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

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

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

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

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want 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 shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

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 have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

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

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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 speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath 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 shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as 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 shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

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

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall 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 loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall 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 shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy 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.

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits 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,

For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against 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 also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.

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 every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

He put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God! Many will watch and be in awe, and they will place their trust in the LORD.

Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth 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 that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

Send out thy light and thy truth: they shall lead me, they shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

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

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us 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.

With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

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

For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.

They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their 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 shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off.

This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

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

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

Man in honour, who understandest not, Hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off!

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,

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.