The wicked are not so; but are as the chaff which the wind driveth away.

But You, O Lord, are a shield for me,
My glory [and my honor], and the One who lifts my head.

The sons of pride have no place before you; you are a hater of all workers of evil.

For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say;
Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies].
Their throat is an open grave;
They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue.

O Lord my God, if I have done what they say, or am guilty of unjust actions,

Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous [those in right standing with You];
For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.

The Lord's words are absolutely reliable. They are as untainted as silver purified in a furnace on the ground, where it is thoroughly refined.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.

Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion [they are at] my hands and my feet.

You are my hiding place; You, Lord, protect me from trouble;
You surround me with songs and shouts of deliverance. Selah.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, Else they will not come near unto thee.

They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.

Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.

All the day he [is] gracious and lends, and his children [are] a blessing.

For my sins have flooded over my head;
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.

Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, And, unto my cry for help, give ear, At my tears, do not be silent, - For, a sojourner, am, I, with thee, A stranger, like all my fathers.

You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
You open my ears to listen.
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Desolations on them! Let them go down into hades alive, For, wicked doings, are at home within them.

He hath put forth his hands against such as were at peace with him: He hath profaned his covenant.

His mouth is as smooth as butter, while war is in his heart. His words were as smooth as olive oil, while his sword is drawn.

My soul is in the midst of lions, I lie down among flames -- sons of men, Their teeth are a spear and arrows, And their tongue a sharp sword.

The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,

So that it does not hear the voice of charmers,
Or a skillful caster of spells.

Let them be as a snail which melts away (secretes slime) as it goes along,
Like the miscarriage of a woman which never sees the sun.

How long will ye assail a man; will ye seek, all of you, to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

The Lord giveth the word: The women that publish the tidings are a great host.

I have sunk in deep swamp, Where there is no place to stand, I have come into abysses of waters, Where a flood hath overflowed me;

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

May their table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare [to them];
And when they are in peace [secure at their sacrificial feasts], may it become a trap.

And it will please Jehovah better than an ox, Or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

I am become as it were a monster unto many, but my sure trust is in thee.

Behold, these are the ungodly,
Who always prosper and are at ease [in the world]; they have increased in wealth.

So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

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.

And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

So then he remembered, That, Flesh, they were, A Wind departing, that returneth not.

They fell away and were as disloyal as their ancestors. They became unreliable, like a defective bow;

We were a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and scorn to those being round about us.

The hills were covered with its shadow, and its boughs were as the great cedars.

Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.

But You, O Lord, are a God [who protects and is] merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness and truth.

For a thousand years, in thy sight, are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

He will cover you and completely protect you with His pinions,
And under His wings you will find refuge;
His faithfulness is a shield and a wall.

Yahweh, knoweth the plans of men, That, they, are a breath!

Unless Jehovah were a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.

do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness,

For forty years I loathed [that] generation, and said, '[They are] a people [whose] heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.'

You answered them, O Lord our God;
You were a forgiving God to them,
And yet an avenger of their evil practices.

I will destroy anyone
who secretly slanders his neighbor;
I cannot tolerate anyone
with haughty eyes or an arrogant heart.

For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.

I resemble a pelican in the wilderness or an owl in a desolate land.

I watch, and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the housetop.

As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,

You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.

wherein the birds make their nests; and the fir trees are a dwelling for the stork.

The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the conies.

When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.

He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.

Then are they glad, because they are at rest; and so he bringeth them unto the haven where they would be.

Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter {his body} like water, and into his bones like oil.

May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually!

My accusers will be covered with shame, and draped in humiliation as if it were a robe.

Your people will offer themselves willingly [to participate in Your battle] in the day of Your power;
In the splendor of holiness, from the womb of the dawn,
Your young men are to You as the dew.

The Lord has sworn [an oath] and will not change His mind:
“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”

Their heart is insensitive like fat [their minds are dull and brutal],
But I delight in Your law.

Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.

I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. A Song of Ascents.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

They that trust in Jehovah Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.

Song of ascensions. In Jehovah turning back the returning of we were as those dreaming.

Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; And the fruit of the womb is his reward.

They are as grass of the roofs, That before it was drawn out withereth,

My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Because our sons are as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,