He dug a pit and hollowed it out
but fell into the hole he had made.

The nations have fallen into the pit they made;
their foot is caught in the net they have concealed.

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.

Break the arm of the wicked and evil person;
call his wickedness into account
until nothing remains of it.

My strength is dried up like baked clay;
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.

You turned my lament into dancing;
You removed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,

Into Your hand I entrust my spirit;
You redeem me, Lord, God of truth.

He gathers the waters of the sea into a heap;
He puts the depths into storehouses.

For He spoke, and it came into being;
He commanded, and it came into existence.

Let ruin come on him unexpectedly,
and let the net that he hid ensnare him;
let him fall into it—to his ruin.

For Your arrows have sunk into me,
and Your hand has pressed down on me.

“Lethal poison has been poured into him,
and he won’t rise again from where he lies!”

Therefore we will not be afraid,
though the earth trembles
and the mountains topple
into the depths of the seas,

We used to have close fellowship;
we walked with the crowd into the house of God.

They prepared a net for my steps;
I was despondent.
They dug a pit ahead of me,
but they fell into it!Selah

But those who seek to destroy my life
will go into the depths of the earth.

He turned the sea into dry land,
and they crossed the river on foot.
There we rejoiced in Him.

You lured us into a trap;
You placed burdens on our backs.

I have sunk in deep mud, and there is no footing;
I have come into deep waters,
and a flood sweeps over me.

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

The brave-hearted have been plundered;
they have slipped into their final sleep.
None of the warriors was able to lift a hand.

He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.

A psalm of Asaph.God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
desecrated Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.

He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.

He turned their water into blood
and caused their fish to die.

He turns rivers into desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground,

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

He turns a desert into a pool of water,
dry land into springs of water.

He wore cursing like his coat—
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.

who turned the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.

It is not the dead who praise the Lord,
nor any of those descending into the silence of death.

“I will not enter my house
or get into my bed,

but hurled Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea.
        His love is eternal.

Let hot coals fall on them.
Let them be thrown into the fire,
into the abyss, never again to rise.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by safely.

Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

Our cattle will be well fed.
There will be no breach in the walls,
no going into captivity,
and no cry of lament in our public squares.