Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.

For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me—
those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”

But my [numerous] enemies are vigorous and strong,
And those who hate me without cause are many.

And those paying evil for good accuse me, Because of my pursuing good.

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

O the happiness of the man Who hath made Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the proud, And those turning aside to lies.

May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!" be humiliated and disgraced!

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let those who love Your salvation say continually,
“The Lord be magnified!”

All those hating me whisper against me; they plot evil against me.

Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.

Through you we will knock down our oppressors; through your name we will tread down those who rise up against us.

For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us.

You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.

You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

Trembling seized them there, pains like those of a woman in labor,

both average people and those of means, the rich and the poor together.

Why should I fear in the days of evil,
When the wickedness of those who would betray me surrounds me [on every side],

Even those who trust in and rely on their wealth
And boast of the abundance of their riches?

The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

This is the fate of those who are foolishly confident,
And of those after them who approve [and are influenced by] their words. Selah.

“Gather My godly ones to Me,
Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

If thou sawest a thief, and thou wilt run with him, and thy portion with those committing adultery.

I will teach those transgressing, thy ways, and those sinning shall turn back to thee.

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.

They are absolutely terrified, even by things that do not normally cause fear. For God annihilates those who attack you. You are able to humiliate them because God has rejected them.

Look, God is my deliverer! The Lord is among those who support me.

May those who wait to ambush me be repaid for their evil! As a demonstration of your faithfulness, destroy them!

He will rescue me and protect me from those who attack me, even though they greatly outnumber me.

He [my companion] has put out his hands against those who were at peace with him;
He has broken his covenant [of friendship and loyalty].

Have mercy on me, God, because men have harassed me. Those who oppress me have fought against me all day long.

Those who anticipate my defeat attack me all day long. Indeed, many are fighting against me, O Exalted One.

He will send help from heaven to deliver me from those who harass and despise me. Interlude God will send his gracious love and truth.

My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.

Deliver me from my enemies, O my God;
Set me securely on an inaccessibly high place away from those who rise up against me.

Deliver me from those who practice wrongdoing,
And save me from bloodthirsty men.

You, LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, God of Israel, stir yourself up to punish all the nations. Show no mercy to those wicked transgressors. Interlude

My God in His [steadfast] lovingkindness will meet me;
God will let me look triumphantly on my enemies [who lie in wait for me].

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

You have set up a banner for those who fear You [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder—a banner to shield them from attack],
A banner that may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

Save with Your right hand, and answer me,
so that those You love may be rescued.

For you have been my secret place, and my high tower from those who made war on me.

For You have heard my vows, O God;
You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name [with reverence].

You will add days to the days of the king, his years like [those of] {many generations}.

But those who seek my life to destroy it
Will [be destroyed and] go into the depths of the earth [into the underworld].

But the king will rejoice in God; everyone who takes oaths in his name will boast, for the mouths of those who speak lies will be shut up.

O God, let the voice of my grief come to your ear: keep my life from the fear of those who are against me.

Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the mob of those who practice evil,

The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

By awesome and wondrous things You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation,
You who are the trust and hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;

So they who dwell at the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs [the evidence of Your presence].
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

those which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken in my trouble.

Then those living on earth will know what you are like; all nations will know how you deliver your people.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm, a song of David. Rise doth God -- scattered are His enemies! And those hating Him flee from His face.

A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.

The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it.

Thou didst go up to height, thou didst take captive captivity: thou didst receive gifts in man, also those turning away, for Jehovah God to dwell.

Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion.

Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last, between [them] young women [playing] tambourines.

Rebuke the beasts [living] among the reeds [in Egypt],
The herd of bulls (the leaders) with the calves of the peoples;
Trampling underfoot the pieces of silver;
He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being my enemies wrongfully;
I am forced to restore what I did not steal.

Do not let those who wait [confidently] for You be ashamed through me, O Lord God of hosts;
Do not let those who seek You [as necessary for life itself] be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,

For zeal for Your house has consumed me,
And the [mocking] insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.

Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink;
Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters.

Come near to my soul, for its salvation: be my saviour, because of those who are against me.

Reproach broke my heart, and I shall be ill at ease: and I shall hope for comforting, and none; and for those consoling, and I found not

Let their table become a snare before them; and to those at ease a trap.

For they have persecuted him whom You have struck,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.

May they be blotted out of the book of life [and their lives come to an end]
And may they not be recorded with the righteous (those in right standing with God).

For the LORD listens to the needy and doesn't despise those in bondage.

The descendants of His servants will inherit it,
And those who love His name will dwell in it.

May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

May those who say, "Aha! Aha!" be driven back and disgraced!

May all those who seek You [as life’s first priority] rejoice and be glad in You;
May those who love Your salvation say continually,
“Let God be magnified!”

For my enemies have spoken against me;
Those who watch for my life have consulted together,

May my accusers be humiliated and defeated! May those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace!

Even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me, until I tell the next generation about your strength, and those coming after me about your power.

All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice, for those who want to harm me will be embarrassed and ashamed.

May he be a judge of the poor among the people, may he give salvation to the children of those who are in need; by him let the violent be crushed.

The nomads of the desert will bow before him,
And his enemies will lick the dust.

He will have pity on the poor, and be the saviour of those who are in need.

May there be abundance of grain in the earth on top of the mountains;
Its fruit will wave like the cedars of Lebanon;
And may those from the city flourish like vegetation of the earth.

A psalm by Asaph. Certainly God is good to Israel, and to those whose motives are pure!

For I envied those who are proud, as I observed the prosperity of the wicked.

Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

Yes, look! Those far from you die; you destroy everyone who is unfaithful to you.

Those who are opposing you roar where we were meeting with you; they unfurl their war banners as signs.

They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Thou didst break in pieces the heads of leviathan, thou gavest him to be meat to those that people the desert.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.

Make vows to the Lord your God and repay them! Let all those who surround him bring tribute to the awesome one!

He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel
And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned;
And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].

From those bringing up to care for Jacob his people and for Israel his inheritance.

We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],
A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.