Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain?

He brought me up out of a horrible pit [of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock, steadying my footsteps and establishing my path.

Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains tremble at its roaring. Selah.

Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of iniquity;

Which stilleth the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the people.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.