Do not let them say in their heart, “Aha, that is what we wanted!”
Do not let them say, “We have swallowed him up and destroyed him.”

Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication and want what is right for me;
Let them say continually, “Let the Lord be magnified, who delights and takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.”

The words of his mouth [are] wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight [and] to do good.

O let there be no end to your loving mercy to those who have knowledge of you, or of your righteousness to the upright in heart.

There have workers of iniquity fallen, They have been overthrown, And have not been able to arise!

Do not be angry because of the wrongdoers, or have envy of the workers of evil.

Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.

Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

For the evil-doers will be cut off: but those who have faith in the Lord will have the earth for their heritage.

Yet a little, therefore, and the lawless one shall not be, Yea thou shalt look about, over his place - and he shall have vanished!

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

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

Better is the little of the righteous [who seek the will of God]
Than the abundance (riches) of many wicked (godless).

They will not be ashamed when hard times come; when famine comes they will have enough to eat.

But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.

Those who have his blessing will have the earth for their heritage; but those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

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

I have been young and now I am old,
Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned
Or his descendants pleading for bread.

All day long, is he showing favour and lending, his seed, therefore, shall have a blessing.

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

The upright will have the earth for their heritage, and will go on living there for ever.

Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it.

I have seen a wicked, violent man [with great power]
Spreading and flaunting himself like a cedar in its native soil,

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

Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright;
For the man of peace will have a posterity.

Sinful rebels are totally destroyed; evil men have no future.

The LORD helps and delivers them; he will deliver them from the wicked, and he will save them because they have sought refuge in him. A Davidic Psalm: As a Reminder.

For Your arrows have sunk into me and penetrate deeply,
And Your hand has pressed down on me and greatly disciplined me.

My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.

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

Stunk -- become corrupt have my wounds, Because of my folly.

I have been bent down, I have been bowed down -- unto excess, All the day I have gone mourning.

For my flanks have been full of drought, And soundness is not in my flesh.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.

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.

Yes, I am like a man who does not hear,
In whose mouth are no arguments.

Because for Thee, O Jehovah, I have waited, Thou dost answer, O Lord my God.

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

And mine enemies are lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.

They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.

"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.

And, now, what have I expected? O Lord, my hope -- it is of Thee.

I am silent and cannot open my mouth because of what you have done.

Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. I have diligently expected Jehovah, And He inclineth to me, and heareth my cry,

And he put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God; numbers have seen it with fear, and put their faith 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.

Sacrifice and meal offering You do not desire, nor do You delight in them;
You have opened my ears and given me the capacity to hear [and obey Your word];
Burnt offerings and sin offerings You do not require.

Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,

To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

I have proclaimed good news of righteousness [and the joy that comes from obedience to You] in the great assembly;
Behold, I will not restrain my lips [from proclaiming Your righteousness],
As You know, O Lord.

I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart;
I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation.
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.

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.

Let those who go after my soul for its destruction have shame and trouble together; let them be turned back and made foolish who take pleasure in my trouble.

Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May the Lord be great.

As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

And, if he have come to see me, Falsehood, doth he speak, His own heart, gathereth iniquity to itself, he goeth forth, abroad he telleth it.

They have given a wicked sentence upon me, "When he lieth, he shall rise up no more."

As for you, O Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up, so I can pay them back!"

By this I have known, That Thou hast delighted in me, Because my enemy shouteth not over me.

As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And You set me in Your presence forever.

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

These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.

Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.

I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us
The work You did in their days,
In the days of old.

But You have saved us from our enemies,
And You have put them to shame and humiliated those who hate us.

In God we have boasted all the day long,
And we will praise and give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].

Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.

You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton]
And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.

You sell Your people cheaply,
And have not increased Your wealth by their sale.

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

You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of [the] head among [the] peoples.

All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].

Our heart has not turned back,
Nor have our steps wandered from Your path,

Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackals
And covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?

Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.

Why do you hide your face? [Have] you forgotten our misery and our oppression?

For we have collapsed in the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

For the music director; according to the tune of "Lilies;" by the Korahites, a well-written poem, a love song. My heart is stirred by a beautiful song. I say, "I have composed this special song for the king; my tongue is as skilled as the stylus of an experienced scribe."

Good luck have thou with thine honour; ride on with the truth, meekness and righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

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

So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

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

Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.

For this cause we will have no fear, even though the earth is changed, and though the mountains are moved in the heart of the sea;