All my haters are talking secretly together against me; they are designing my downfall.

They say, He has an evil disease, which will not let him go: and now that he is down he will not get up again.

My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?

The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

For they did not make the land theirs by their swords, and it was not their arms which kept them safe; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you had pleasure in them.

Through you will we overcome our haters; by your name will they be crushed under our feet who are violent against us.

With joy and rapture will they come; they will go into the king's house.

Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.

Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.

The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food, as they would take bread; they make no prayer to God.

They were in great fear, where there was no cause for fear: for the bones of those who make war on you have been broken by God; you have put them to shame, because God has no desire for them.

For men who are going after me have come out against me, violent men are purposing to take my soul; they have not put God before their eyes. (Selah.)

I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.

Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record?

They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)

The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

For see, they are watching in secret for my soul; the strong have come together against me? but not because of my sin, or my evil-doing, O Lord.

For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)

Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

Give a safe place to those who have fear of you, where they may go in flight from before the bow. (Selah.)

Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

So that in secret they may let loose their arrows at the upright, suddenly and unseen.

They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

But God sends out an arrow against them; suddenly they are wounded.

And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.

Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.

The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.

The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.

Kings will give you offerings, they will come out of Egypt; from Pathros will come offerings of silver; Ethiopia will be stretching out her hands to God.

When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.

They gave me poison for my food; and bitter wine for my drink.

Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.

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.

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

And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

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

You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

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.

Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

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

They have put on fire your holy place; they have made the place of your name unclean, pulling it down to the earth.

They have said in their hearts, Let us put an end to them all together; they have given over to the fire all God's places of worship in the land.

The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;

They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

They let his works go out of their memory, and the wonders which he had made them see.

The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

And they went on sinning against him even more, turning away from the Most High in the waste land;

They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

Because they had no faith in God, and no hope in his salvation.

So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

For all this they went on sinning even more, and had no faith in his great wonders.

When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

How frequently did they go against him in the waste land, and give him cause for grief in the dry places!

Again they put God to the test, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

They did not keep in mind the work of his hand, or the day when he took them from the power of their haters;

So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

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

So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

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

Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.

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.

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

In your name will they have joy all the day: in your righteousness will they be lifted up.

In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;

And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

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