Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

Many there be who say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.

There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.

You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their grain and their wine increased.

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

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

But let all those that put their trust in you rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because you defend them: let them also that love your name be joyful in you.

For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall give you thanks?

Lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

So shall the congregation of the people surround you: for their sakes therefore return you on high.

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas.

You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked, you have put out their name forever and ever.

O you enemy, destructions are come to an everlasting end: and you have destroyed cities; their memory is perished with them.

And they that know your name will put their trust in you: for you, LORD, have not forsaken them that seek you.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:

For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good.

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.

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

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names upon my lips.

You will show me the path of life: in your presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

Show your marvelous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them who put their trust in you from those that rise up against them.

They are enclosed in their own fat hearts: with their mouth they speak proudly.

They have now surrounded us in our steps: they have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth;

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

The foreigners shall fade away, and be frightened out of their fortresses.

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun,

Its going forth is from the end of the heaven, and its circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.

Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

Their offspring shall you destroy from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of men.

Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings toward their face.

Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.

They gaped on me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

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.

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors: give them after the work of their hands; render to them what they deserve.

The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? shall it declare your truth?

Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

When I kept silence, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long.

He fashions their hearts alike; he considers all their works.

There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

They looked unto him, and were radiant: and their faces were not ashamed.

O fear the LORD, you his saints: for there is no lack to them that fear him.

The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

The righteous cry, and the LORD hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dug for my soul.

With hypocritical mockers at feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

Lord, how long will you look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my precious life from the lions.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD.] The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

How excellent is your lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright behavior.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever.

But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

Let them be desolate as a reward for their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

[To the Chief Musician for the Sons of Korah, a maschil.] We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had favor unto them.

Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.

And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall entreat your favor.

There is a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the most High.

Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceases forever:)

For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the senseless person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

[To the Chief Musician upon mahalath. A maschil. A Song of David.] The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that does good.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that does good, no, not one.

There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God has scattered the bones of him that encamps against you: you have put them to shame, because God has despised them.

Destroy, O Lord, and confuse their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into the grave: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

He has delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many against me.

But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.

Every day they twist my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stops its ear;

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.