For You are not a God that enjoys wickedness; nor shall evil dwell with You.

if I have rewarded evil to my friend, or if I have delivered one oppressing me without cause;

He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation, never in evil!

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil one; seek out his wickedness, until You find none.

he does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;

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

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.

I have hated the congregation of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.

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

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile.

Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

The face of Jehovah is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Evil shall slay the wicked; and those who hate the righteous shall be held guilty.

Let them be humbled and put to shame, those who seek after my soul; let them be turned back and be brought to blushing, those who plot evil to me.

They rewarded me evil for good; bereaving my soul.

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

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

A Psalm of David. Do not fret yourself with evil doers; and do not be envious against the workers of iniquity.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret yourself to do evil.

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

Depart from evil and do good; and live forevermore.

And those who give evil for good oppose me, because I follow good.

Let them be ashamed and humbled together, those who seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame, those who wish me evil.

My enemies speak evil of me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?

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

You drove out the nations with Your hand, and planted them; You brought evil on peoples and cast them out.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when the perversity of my ambushers will surround me?

You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be justified when You speak, and be clear when You judge.

To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

You love evil more than good, and lying more than to speak righteousness. Selah.

He shall reward evil to my enemies; cut them off in Your truth.

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

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

Yes, in heart you work the evil, you weigh the violence of your hands in the land.

Deliver me from the workers of evil and save me from bloody men.

And You, O Jehovah, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the nations; do not be merciful to any plotting evil. Selah.

They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

who has shown me great and evil distresses; You will turn me; You will make me live. You will turn me from the depths of the earth, You will bring me up.

My tongue also shall muse on Your righteousness all the day long; for those who seek my evil have turned pale, they are brought to shame.

O God, how long shall the enemy speak evil? Shall the enemy blaspheme Your name forever?

Look to the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the houses of evil.

He sent on them the heat of His anger, wrath and fury and trouble, by sending evil angels.

Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil.

no evil shall befall You, nor shall any plague come near Your dwelling.

And He will bring on them their own iniquity, and He will cut them off in their evil. Jehovah our God shall cut them off.

You who love Jehovah, hate evil; He keeps the souls of His saints; He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

This is the reward of my foes from Jehovah, and of them who speak evil against my soul.

I have kept my feet from every evil way, so that I might keep Your Word.

Depart from me, you evil-doers, for I will keep the Commandments of my God.

Jehovah shall keep you from all evil; He shall keep your soul.

To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; keep me from the violent man,

who devised evil things in the heart; they are always gathered for war.

As for the head of those around me, let the evil of their own lips cover them.

Do not let an evil speaker be established in the earth; evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

Let not my heart turn aside to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity; and let me not eat of their delicacies.

Keep me from the traps which they have laid for me, and the snares of the workers of evil.