For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

They are not in trouble as others are; they have no part in the unhappy fate of men.

For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

For this reason they are full of bread; and water is ever flowing for them.

Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

My flesh and my heart are wasting away: but God is the Rock of my heart and my eternal heritage.

For those who are far away from you will come to destruction: you will put an end to all those who have not kept faith with you.

Of God, why have you put us away from you for ever? why is the fire of your wrath smoking against the sheep who are your care?

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

They are cutting down, like a man whose blade is lifted up against the thick trees.

Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

You are shining and full of glory, more than the eternal mountains.

You, you are to be feared; who may keep his place before you in the time of your wrath?

Give to the Lord your God what is his by right; let all who are round him give offerings to him who is to be feared.

I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)

My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.

Has God put away the memory of his pity? are his mercies shut up by his wrath? (Selah.)

You are the God who does works of power: you have made your strength clear to the nations.

You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

Why are its walls broken down by your hands, so that all who go by may take its fruit?

It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

How dear are your tents, O Lord of armies!

The passion of my soul's desire is for the house of the Lord; my heart and my flesh are crying out for the living God.

Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)

The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.

My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

My eyes are wasting away because of my trouble: Lord, my cry has gone up to you every day, my hands are stretched out to you.

They are round me all the day like water; they have made a circle about me.

You have sent my friends and lovers far from me; I am gone from the memory of those who are dear to me.

God is greatly to be feared among the saints, and to be honoured over all those who are about him.

You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

Yours are the heavens, and the earth is yours; you have made the world, and everything which is in it.

You have made the north and the south; Tabor and Hermon are sounding with joy at your name.

Happy are the people who have knowledge of the holy cry: the light of your face, O Lord, will be shining on their way.

For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

I will have those who are against him broken before his face, and his haters will be crushed under my blows.

He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

If my rules are broken, and my orders are not kept;

All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.

Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?

The seat of your power has been from the past; you are eternal.

Your people are crushed by them, O Lord, your heritage is troubled,

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.

They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

The deep places of the earth are in his hand; and the tops of the mountains are his.

For he is our God; and we are the people to whom he gives food, and the sheep of his flock. Today, if you would only give ear to his voice!

For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.

Honour and glory are before him: strong and fair is his holy place.

Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

Fire goes before him, burning up all those who are against him round about.

For you, Lord, are most high over the earth; you are lifted up over all other gods.

You who are lovers of the Lord, be haters of evil; he keeps the souls of his saints; he takes them out of the hand of sinners.

The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.

For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.

Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, you are very great; you are robed with honour and power.

You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

The trees of the Lord are full of growth, the cedars of Lebanon of his planting;

Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.

The high hills are a safe place for the mountain goats, and the rocks for the small beasts.

There is the great, wide sea, where there are living things, great and small, more than may be numbered.

All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

They take what you give them; they are full of the good things which come from your open hand.

If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

If you send out your spirit, they are given life; you make new the face of the earth.

Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.

Happy are they whose decisions are upright, and he who does righteousness at all times.

Keep me in mind, O Lord, when you are good to your people; O let your salvation come to me;

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

They are disgusted by all food, and they come near to the doors of death.

The sailors go up to heaven, and down into the deep; their souls are wasted because of their trouble.

They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.

He makes the storm into a calm, so that the waves are at peace.

Then they are glad, because the sea is quiet, and he takes them to the harbour of their desire.

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.