Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wrongdoing; there is no evil with you.

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

For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.

On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.

The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

The cords of death were round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear.

Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

In whose hands are evil designs, and whose right hands take money for judging falsely.

When evil-doers, even my haters, came on me to put an end to me, they were broken and put to shame.

Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

Give them the right reward of their acts, and of their evil doings: give them punishment for the works of their hands, let them have their full reward.

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

Happy is the man in whom the Lord sees no evil, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to take away the memory of them from the earth.

Evil will put an end to the sinner, and those who are haters of righteousness will come to destruction.

They gave me back evil for good, troubling my soul.

For they do not say words of peace; in their deceit they are designing evil things against the quiet ones in the land.

The sin of the evil-doer says in his heart, There is no fear of the Lord before his eyes.

In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, or the hand of the evil-doers put me out of my place.

There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.

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

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

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

For in a short time the evil-doer will be gone: you will go searching for his place, and it will not be there.

The sinner has evil designs against the upright, lifting up the voice of wrath against him.

The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

They will not be shamed in the evil time, and in the days when all are in need of food they will have enough.

Be turned from evil, and do good; and your place will be for ever.

For the Lord is a lover of righteousness, and takes care of his saints; they will be kept safe for ever; but the seed of the evil-doers will be cut off.

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 evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree.

And the Lord will be their help, and keep them safe: he will take them out of the hands of the evil-doers, and be their saviour, because they had faith in him.

Make me free from all my sins; do not let me be shamed by the man of evil behaviour.

My haters say evil against me, When will he be dead, and his name come to an end?

If one comes to see me, deceit is in his heart; he keeps a store of evil, which he makes public in every place.

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

Let all my wrongdoing be washed away, and make me clean from evil.

Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging.

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

Let the evil works of my haters come back on them again; let them be cut off by your good faith.

I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.

Take me out of the power of the workers of evil, and keep me safe from the men of blood.

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Keep me safe from the secret purpose of wrongdoers; from the band of the workers of evil;

They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

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

The heads of the haters of God will be crushed; even the head of him who still goes on in his evil ways.

When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.

O my God, take me out of the hand of the sinner, out of the hand of the evil and cruel man.

For my haters are waiting secretly for me; and those who are watching for my soul are banded together in their evil designs,

Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

My tongue will be talking of your righteousness all the day; for those whose purpose is to do me evil have been crushed and put to shame.

He will keep their souls free from evil designs and violent attacks; and their blood will be of value in his eyes.

Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.