For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.

They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.

Therefore they have more than enough food to eat, and even suck up the water of the sea.

They say, "How does God know what we do? Is the sovereign one aware of what goes on?"

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Yea, I had almost also said even as they do; but lo, then should I have condemned the generation of thy children.

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

How desolate they become in a mere moment! Terrifying judgments make their demise complete!

They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them.

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Remember your people whom you acquired in ancient times, whom you rescued so they could be your very own nation, as well as Mount Zion, where you dwell!

Your enemies roar in the middle of your sanctuary; they set up their battle flags.

They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest.

And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.

They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Thou, didst cleave asunder, in thy might, the sea, Thou didst break in pieces the heads of the Crocodiles, till they floated on the waters;

We give thanks and praise to You, O God, we give thanks,
For Your [wonderful works declare that Your] name is near;
People declare Your wonders.

For, a cup, is in the hand of Yahweh, Whose wine is foaming, It is full of spiced wine, Which he hath caused to flow from one to another, - Surely, the dregs thereof, they shall drain out - they shall drink, Even all the lawless ones of the earth.

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

Vow and complete to Jehovah your God, All ye surrounding him. They bring presents to the Fearful One.

When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; my hands were raised at night and they did not grow weary. I refused to be comforted.

The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

The sons of Ephraim were armed as archers and carrying bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

They forgot what he had done, the amazing things he had shown them.

He divided the sea so that they were able to cross; he caused the water to stand in a single location.

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

Then ate they angels' food, for he sent them meat enough.

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

He will send forth among them the gad-fly, and they shall devour them; and frogs, and they shall destroy them.

He gave their crops to caterpillars and what they worked for to locusts.

And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

He drove His enemies backward;
He subjected them to lasting shame and dishonor.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

O Lord God, invincible warrior! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

It is burned and cut down. They die because you are displeased with them.

I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.

(May those who hate the Lord cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)

They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.

They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.

For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!

That they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord,
Are the Most High over all the earth.

The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, they, in whose heart are the highways.

Passing through the Valley of Weeping (Baca), they make it a place of springs;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

I will listen to what God the Lord says. For he will make peace with his people, his faithful followers. Yet they must not return to their foolish ways.

All nations whom You have made shall come and kneel down in worship before You, O Lord,
And they shall glorify Your name.

O God, arrogant and insolent men have risen up against me;
A band of violent men have sought my life,
And they have not set You before them.

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me including Philistia, Tyre, and Ethiopia "This one was born there," they say.

Then singers, as they play their instruments, will declare, "All my roots are in you." A song. A psalm by the descendants of Korah. According to . An instruction by Heman the Ezrahite.

They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

Thou rulest the pride of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise.

Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted.

If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;

All they that go by, spoil him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.