As for the ungodly, it is not so with them: but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the right way. For his wrath shall be kindled shortly: blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

{A Psalm of David when he fled from the face of Absalom} LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! Many are they that rise against me.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouths; they dissemble in their hearts. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them perish in their own imaginations! Cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness; for they have rebelled against thee.

And let all them that put their trust in thee rejoice. They shall ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest them. They that love thy name shall be joyful in thee;

All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed; they shall be turned back and put to shame suddenly.

While mine enemies are driven back, they fall and perish at thy presence.

And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; for thou, LORD, hast never failed them that seek thee.

The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.

While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!

For lo, the ungodly bend their bow, and make ready their arrows within the quiver, that they may privily shoot at them which are true of heart.

They talk of vanity every one with his neighbour; they do but flatter with their lips, and dissemble in their double heart.

Which have said, "With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak; Who is lord over us?"

The ungodly walk on every side; when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

lest mine enemy say, "I have prevailed against him." For if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} The fool hath said in his heart, "Tush, there is no God." They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings; there is none that doeth good, no not one.

But they are all gone out of the way, they are all together become abominable: there is none that doeth good, no not one.

Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the LORD?

There were they brought in great fear, even where no fear was; for God is in the generation of the righteous.

But they that run after another god shall have great trouble. Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make mention of their names within my lips.

They are enclosed in their own fat, and their mouth speaketh proud things.

They lie waiting in our way on every side, watching to cast us down to the ground,

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

He shall deliver me from my strongest enemy, and from them which hate me; for they are too mighty for me. {TYNDALE: He delivered me from my mighty enemy, and from them that hated me and were too strong for me.}

They prevented me in the day of my trouble, but the LORD was my upholder. {TYNDALE: When they had compassed me in the day of my tribulation, the LORD stayed me up.}

I will smite them, that they shall not be able to stand, but fall under my feet. {TYNDALE: I wasted them and so clouted them, that they could not arise: but fell under my feet.}

They shall cry, but there shall be none to help them: Yea, even unto the LORD shall they cry, but he shall hear them not. {TYNDALE: They looked for help, but none came to save them: unto the LORD they cried, but he heard them not.}

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me, but the strange children dissemble with me. {TYNDALE: And the aliens crouched unto me, and obeyed me at a word.}

More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Keep thy servant also from presumptuous sins, lest they get dominion over me: so shall I be undefiled and innocent from the great offense.

They are brought down and fallen, but we are risen and stand upright.

For they intended mischief against thee, and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform.

Our fathers hoped in thee; they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them.

They called upon thee, and were helped: they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded.

All they that see me, laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads.

They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.

They pierced my hands and my feet; I may tell all my bones. They stand staring and looking upon me.

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

The poor shall eat, and be satisfied: they that seek after the LORD shall praise him. Your heart shall live for ever.

All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul.

My seed shall serve him; they shall be counted unto the LORD for a generation.

They shall come, and declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, whom the LORD hath made.

For all they that hope in thee shall not be ashamed; but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to confusion.

Consider mine enemies, how many they are; and they bear a tyrannous hate against me.

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Reward them according to their deeds and wickedness of their own inventions. Recompense them after the works of their hands; pay them that they have deserved.

For they regard not in their mind the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands: therefore shall he break them down, and not build them up.

Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me, for thou art my strength.

I am become a very reproof among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours. And they of mine own acquaintance are afraid of me; they that see me in the street, convey themselves from me.

For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life.

For this shall every saint make his prayer unto thee in due season; but in the great water-floods they shall not come nigh him.

Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no understanding, whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle, if they will not obey thee.

They had an eye unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed.

O fear the LORD, ye that are his saints: for they that fear him lack nothing.

The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

But misfortune shall slay the ungodly; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

The LORD delivereth the souls of his servants, and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute.

For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved.

They reward me evil for good, to the great discomfort of my soul.

Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: Yea, the very lame came together against me unawares, making mouths at me, and ceased not.

LORD, how long wilt thou look upon this? O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my darling from the lions.

And why? Their communing is not for peace, but they imagine deceitful words against them that are quiet in the land.

They gape upon me with their mouths, saying, "There! There! We see it with our eyes!"

They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy house, and thou shalt give them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

There are they fallen, all that work wickedness; they are cast down, and shall not be able to stand.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green herb.

For wicked doers shall be rooted out; but they that patiently abide the LORD, shall inherit the land.

They shall not be confounded in the perilous time; and in the days of dearth they shall have enough.

As for the ungodly, they shall perish. and the enemies of the LORD shall consume as the fat of lambs; yea, even as the smoke shall they consume away.

Such as are blessed of God shall possess the land; and they that are cursed of him shall be rooted out.

For the LORD loveth the thing that is right; he forsaketh not his saints, but they are preserved forever. The unrighteous shall be punished; as for the seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out.

As for the transgressors, they shall perish together; and the ungodly shall be rooted out at the last.

And the LORD shall stand by them, and save them; he shall deliver them from the ungodly, and shall save them, because they put their trust in him.

They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.

My desire is that mine enemies triumph not over me; for if my foot slip, they rejoice greatly against me.

But mine enemies live, and are mighty: and they that hate me wrongfully are many in number.

They also that reward evil for good are against me, because I follow the thing that is good.

O LORD my God, great are the wondrous works which thou hast done, like as be also thy thoughts, which are to us-ward; and yet there is no man that ordereth them unto thee. If I should declare them, and speak of them, they should be more than I am able to express.

For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up. Yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.

All mine enemies whisper together against me; even against me do they imagine this evil.

They have given a wicked sentence upon me, "When he lieth, he shall rise up no more."

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, "Where is now thy God?"

O send out thy light and thy truth, that they may lead me and bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy dwelling;

For they got not the land in possession through their own sword, neither was it their own arm that helped them - But thy righthand, thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us spoil our goods.

With joy and gladness shall they be brought, and shall enter into the king's palace.

They marveled, to see such things: they were astonished, and suddenly cast down.

And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.

They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling.

For then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and oblations; then shall they lay bullocks upon thine altar.

{To the Chanter, upon Mahalath, an instruction of David} The foolish bodies say in their hearts, "Tush, there is no God." Corrupt are they, and become abominable in their wickednesses, there is not one that doeth good.

But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable. There is none that doeth good, no not one.

How can they have understanding, that are the workers of wickedness, eating up my people as it were bread, and calling not upon God?

They are afraid where no fear is; for God breaketh the bones of them that besiege thee. Thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them.

The enemy crieth so, and the ungodly cometh on so fast: for they are minded to do me some mischief, so maliciously are they set against me.

It is he that delivereth my soul in peace from them that lay wait for me; for they are many against me.

Yea, even God, that endureth forever, shall hear me, and bring them down; Selah. For they will not turn, nor fear God.