But know that Jehovah has set apart the godly for Himself. Jehovah hears when I call to Him.

You have seen it; for You behold mischief and vexation, to repay it with Your hand. The poor commits himself to You; You are the Helper of the fatherless.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes in order to find his iniquity, to hate it.

He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

I have seen the wicked ruthless, and spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree.

And the heavens shall declare His righteousness; for God Himself is judge. Selah.

To the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself among us? Save me, O God, by Your name, and judge me by Your strength.

For it is not an enemy who reviled me; then I could have borne it; it is not one who hates me who magnified himself against me; or I would hide myself from him;

Jehovah reigns, He is clothed with majesty; Jehovah is clothed with strength. He clothed Himself and the world is established; it shall not be shaken.

As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

who humbles Himself to behold the things in the heavens and in the earth!

For Jehovah has chosen Jacob to Himself, and Israel for His peculiar treasure.