Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

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 that the righteous have than the abundance of many wicked people.

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 am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are 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 the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

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

Watch the blameless and observe the upright,
for the man of peace will have a future.

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

Yahweh helps them, and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked, and saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him. A Psalm by David, for a memorial.

For Thine arrows have come down on me, And Thou lettest down upon me Thy hand.

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

For mine iniquities have passed over my head, As a heavy burden -- too heavy 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.

Thus have I become as a man who cannot 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.

Look, you have made my days [mere] handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm [is] complete vanity. Selah

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

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done it.

Turn aside from off me Thy stroke, From the striving of Thy hand I have been consumed.

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.

Much hast Thou done, Jehovah my God; Thy wonders and Thy thoughts toward us, There is none to arrange unto Thee, I declare and speak: They have been more than to be numbered.

A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. {My ears you have opened}. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.

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 preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

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.

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.

I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

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."

But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

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

As for me, you have upheld me in my integrity, and you have set me in your presence forever.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy 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 [is] calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me.

I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about 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.

because you [are] the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of [the] oppression of [the] enemy?

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

Rather you have saved us from our enemies, and have humiliated those who hate us.

In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. Selah.

Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies.

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

You have given us as sheep [for] food, and among the nations you have scattered us.

You have sold your people {cheaply}, and did not profit by their price.

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

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

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.

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

wouldn’t God have found this out,
since He knows 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 sunk down to the dust;
our bodies cling to the ground.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

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 gladness 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;