There shall reach him a ruin he could not know, - Yea, his own net which he hath hidden, shall capture him, Into that ruin, shall he fall!

Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, [to] all [that the] enemy has ruined in the sanctuary.

The enemy has perished, reduced to ruins forever. You uprooted their cities, the very memory of them vanished.

Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

Destruction is within her;
Oppression and deceit do not depart from her streets and market places.

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

But those who seek my life to destroy it
Will [be destroyed and] go into the depths of the earth [into the underworld].

Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

O God, the nations have invaded [the land of Your people] Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your sacred temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

The wild boars of the forest ruin it; the insects of the field feed on it.

Thou hast broken down all his hedges; thou hast brought his strong holds to ruin.

Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?

For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.

I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins.

May his children roam around begging, seeking food while driven far from their ruined homes.

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow;
But He makes crooked the way of the wicked.

For in his mouth is nothing worthy of trust, Their inward purpose, is engulphing ruin, - An opened sepulchre, is their throat, With their tongue, speak they smooth things.

Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things - all day long, do they mutter.

Engulfing ruin, doth thy tongue devise, Like a whetted razor, working deceit;

Show me favour, O God, Show me favour, For, in thee, hath my soul sought refuge, - And, in the shadow of thy wings, will I seek refuge, Until the storm of ruin pass by.

When they were to have ruined another, their tongue smote themselves, All who observe them take flight.

Shall the throne that inflicteth ruin, have fellowship with thee, That frameth oppression, by statute?

Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his ruin.

O ruined daughter of Babylon, - how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!

For the Lord knows and fully approves the way of the righteous,
But the way of the wicked shall perish.

The cords of death surrounded me,
And the streams of ungodliness and torrents of destruction terrified me.

Let those who seek after my soul be disappointed and brought to dishonor. Let those who plot my ruin be turned back and confounded.

Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.

Their table shall be before them for a snare, for a retribution, for a cause of ruin.

For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, from the word of ruin.

Come, behold the works of Jehovah, who makes ruins on the earth;

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

who redeems your life from ruin; who crowns you with loving-kindness and tender mercies;