O come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].

Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;
Let Zion’s children rejoice in their King.

Do not drag me away with the wicked
And with those who do evil,
Who speak peace with their neighbors,
While malice and mischief are in their hearts.

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

Day and night they go around her walls;
Wickedness and mischief are in her midst.

“Those who surround me raise their heads;
May the mischief of their own lips come upon them.

Behold, the [wicked and irreverent] man is pregnant with sin,
And he conceives mischief and gives birth to lies.

His mischief will return on his own head,
And his violence will come down on the top of his head [like loose dirt].

His mouth is full of curses and deceit (fraud) and oppression;
Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness [injustice and sin].

They devise evil things in their hearts;
They continually [gather together and] stir up wars.