For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

Hold them guilty, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against You.

When my enemies have turned back, they shall fall and perish before You.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their foot is caught in the net which they hid.

Put them in fear, O Jehovah, let the nations know they are but men. Selah.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the plans that they have imagined.

for lo, the wicked bend their bow; they make ready their arrow on the string, so that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

They speak vanity each one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.

All have gone aside, together they are filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.

Have all the workers of iniquity not known, eating up My people as they eat bread? They have not called on Jehovah.

There they were in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

As to the saints in the earth, they are the excellent, in whom is all my delight.

They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly,

they have now hemmed in our steps, they have set their eyes to bow me to the earth,

from men by Your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly You fill with Your treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and will leave their riches to their babes.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me; for they were too strong for me.

They went before me in the day of my calamity; but Jehovah was my stay.

I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; nor did I turn again until they were destroyed.

I have shattered them, and they cannot rise again; they have fallen under my feet.

They cried, but there was none to save; even to Jehovah, but He did not answer them.

As soon as they hear of Me, they shall obey Me; the sons of strangers shall bow down to Me.

They have bowed down and fallen; but we have risen and stand upright.

For they intended evil against You; they imagined a wicked thing; they are not able to prevail.

Our fathers trusted in You; they trusted, and You delivered them.

They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

All who see Me mock me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

They opened wide their mouths on Me, like a ripping and a roaring lion.

I can count all My bones; they look and stare at Me.

They divide My garments among them and cast lots for My clothing.

They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall yet be born, that He has done this.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

Remember, O Jehovah, Your tender mercies and Your loving-kindnesses; for they are from eternity.

Look on my enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their practices, give them according to the work of their hands; give them what they deserve.

Because they do not pay attention to the works of Jehovah and to the work of His hands, He shall destroy them and never build them up.

Bring me out of the net that they hid for me, for You are my strength.

For I have heard the slander of many; fear is on every side; because of their plottings together against me, they planned to take away my life.

For this let every godly one pray to You, in a time when You may be found; surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come near him.

Be not like the horse, or like the mule, who have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

They looked to Him, and were filled with light; and their faces were not ashamed.

For without cause they have spread their net for me in a pit-net; without cause they have dug for my soul.

Cruel witnesses rose up; they asked of me that which I never knew.

They rewarded me evil for good; bereaving my soul.

But when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth; I humbled my soul with fastings; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

But in my stumbling they rejoiced, and gathered themselves; the defamers gathered themselves against me, and I knew not; they tore and were not silent,

with the hypocrites, mockers, for a cake, they gnashed on me with their teeth.

For they do not speak peace; but they think deceitful things against the quiet ones of the earth.

And they widen their mouths against me; they say, Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen.

Let those who delight in my justification shout and rejoice; and they shall say without ceasing, The Lord be magnified, delighting in the peace of His servant.

They shall be satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of Your pleasures.

There the evil-doers have fallen; they are cast down, and cannot rise.

For they shall soon wither like the grass; and fade as the green herb.

For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on Jehovah, they shall inherit the earth.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

But the wicked shall pass, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be like the beauty of pastures; they are consumed, like smoke they perish.

For Jehovah loves judgment and does not forsake His saints; they are kept forever; but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

And Jehovah shall help them, and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him.

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

For I said, Hear me, lest they rejoice over me; when my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me.

And my enemies are lively; they are strong; and my haters increase by deception.

Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

O Jehovah my God, many things You have done, Your wonderful works and Your thoughts which are toward us; they cannot be set in order to You; I will declare and speak, for they are more than can be numbered.

For evils without number have hemmed me in; my sins have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

All those hating me whisper against me; they plot evil against me.

They say, A wicked thing is poured out on him, and he who lies down shall rise no more.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day, Where is your God?

As with a sword in my bones, my enemies shame me; while they say daily to me, Where is your God?

For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but it was Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

All Your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.

They shall be led with joy and gladness; they shall enter into the King's palace.

For, lo, the kings were gathered; they passed by together.

They saw, so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hurried away.

Their inward thought is that their houses shall go on forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall reign for them; and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; and their form is for rotting; the grave is their home.

For in his life he blessed his soul; yea, they praise you when you do well to yourself.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

Man in honor, but without understanding, is like the animals; they shall perish.

Then shall You be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering; then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.

To the Chief Musician on Mahalath. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They acted corruptly, and have worked out abominable wickedness; there is not one doing good.

Every one has turned away; they have altogether become filthy; not one is doing good, no, not even one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.

There they dreaded with dread, where no dread was; for God has scattered the bones of him who camps against you; you have put them to shame because God rejects them.

For strangers have risen up against me, and cruel men seek after my soul; they have not set God before them. Selah.

from the voice of the enemy, from the oppression of the wicked, for they shake trouble over me, and in wrath they hate me.

They go around her on her walls by day and night; and evil and sorrow are in her midst.

God shall hear and answer them, even He who is enthroned of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they do not fear God.

The butterings of his mouth were forked, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

My watchers panted for me daily; for many are they who proudly fight against me.

All day long they pervert my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They stir up strife; they hide themselves; they watch my steps as they wait for my soul.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.

You number my wandering; O put my tears into Your bottle; are they not in Your Book?

They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me, they have fallen into it. Selah.

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from the womb, speaking lies.

Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

Let them be as a snail goes into melting; as a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun.

To the Chief Musician. Do not destroy. A secret treasure of David, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, O my God; defend me from those who rise up against me.

For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah.