But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself;
The Lord hears when I call to Him.

He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;
He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

The Lord has made Himself known;
He has executed judgment.
In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;
Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He has hidden His face; He will never see it.”

Why has the wicked spurned God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”

You have seen it, for You have beheld mischief and vexation to take it into Your hand.
The unfortunate commits himself to You;
You have been the helper of the orphan.

Let destruction come upon him unawares,
And let the net which he hid catch himself;
Into that very destruction let him fall.

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

I have seen a wicked, violent man
Spreading himself like a luxuriant tree in its native soil.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

Though while he lives he congratulates himself—
And though men praise you when you do well for yourself—

And the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge. Selah.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
Then I could hide myself from him.

O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary.
The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people.
Blessed be God!

But of Zion it shall be said, “This one and that one were born in her”;
And the Most High Himself will establish her.

The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;
The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength;
Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

Know that the Lord Himself is God;
It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

For He Himself knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are but dust.

They afflicted his feet with fetters,
He himself was laid in irons;

But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it entered into his body like water
And like oil into his bones.

Let it be to him as a garment with which he covers himself,
And for a belt with which he constantly girds himself.

Who humbles Himself to behold
The things that are in heaven and in the earth?

“His enemies I will clothe with shame,
But upon himself his crown shall shine.”

For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel for His own possession.