Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,
And they devise treachery all day long.

For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.”

And those who repay evil for good,
They oppose me, because I follow what is good.

“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they devise my hurt, saying,

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

For by their own sword they did not possess the land,
And their own arm did not save them,
But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence,
For You favored them.

They will be led forth with gladness and rejoicing;
They will enter into the King’s palace.

For, lo, the kings assembled themselves,
They passed by together.

They saw it, then they were amazed;
They were terrified, they fled in alarm.

Their inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

As sheep they are appointed for Sheol;
Death shall be their shepherd;
And the upright shall rule over them in the morning,
And their form shall be for Sheol to consume
So that they have no habitation.

He shall go to the generation of his fathers;
They will never see the light.

For the choir director; according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,”
They are corrupt, and have committed abominable injustice;
There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

Have the workers of wickedness no knowledge,
Who eat up My people as though they ate bread
And have not called upon God?

There they were in great fear where no fear had been;
For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you;
You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.

For strangers have risen against me
And violent men have sought my life;
They have not set God before them. Selah.

Because of the voice of the enemy,
Because of the pressure of the wicked;
For they bring down trouble upon me
And in anger they bear a grudge against me.

Day and night they go around her upon her walls,
And iniquity and mischief are in her midst.

He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me,
For they are many who strive with me.

His speech was smoother than butter,
But his heart was war;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.

My foes have trampled upon me all day long,
For they are many who fight proudly against me.

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

They attack, they lurk,
They watch my steps,
As they have waited to take my life.

You have taken account of my wanderings;
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book?

They have prepared a net for my steps;
My soul is bowed down;
They dug a pit before me;
They themselves have fallen into the midst of it. Selah.

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;
Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;
Fierce men launch an attack against me,
Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,

For no guilt of mine, they run and set themselves against me.
Arouse Yourself to help me, and see!

They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go around the city.

Behold, they belch forth with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips,
For, they say, “Who hears?”

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be caught in their pride,
And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

Destroy them in wrath, destroy them that they may be no more;
That men may know that God rules in Jacob
To the ends of the earth. Selah.

They return at evening, they howl like a dog,
And go around the city.

They wander about for food
And growl if they are not satisfied.

He will abide before God forever;
Appoint lovingkindness and truth that they may preserve him.

They have counseled only to thrust him down from his high position;
They delight in falsehood;
They bless with their mouth,
But inwardly they curse. Selah.

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

They will be delivered over to the power of the sword;
They will be a prey for foxes.

Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,

To shoot from concealment at the blameless;
Suddenly they shoot at him, and do not fear.

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”

They devise injustices, saying,
“We are ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.

But God will shoot at them with an arrow;
Suddenly they will be wounded.

So they will make him stumble;
Their own tongue is against them;
All who see them will shake the head.

Then all men will fear,
And they will declare the work of God,
And will consider what He has done.

They who dwell in the ends of the earth stand in awe of Your signs;
You make the dawn and the sunset shout for joy.

The meadows are clothed with flocks
And the valleys are covered with grain;
They shout for joy, yes, they sing.

“All the earth will worship You,
And will sing praises to You;
They will sing praises to Your name.” Selah.

He turned the sea into dry land;
They passed through the river on foot;
There let us rejoice in Him!

“Kings of armies flee, they flee,
And she who remains at home will divide the spoil!”

They have seen Your procession, O God,
The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

They also gave me gall for my food
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

May their table before them become a snare;
And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually.

For they have persecuted him whom You Yourself have smitten,
And they tell of the pain of those whom You have wounded.

Add iniquity to their iniquity,
And may they not come into Your righteousness.

May they be blotted out of the book of life
And may they not be recorded with the righteous.

For God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah,
That they may dwell there and possess it.

My tongue also will utter Your righteousness all day long;
For they are ashamed, for they are humiliated who seek my hurt.

They are not in trouble as other men,
Nor are they plagued like mankind.

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak from on high.

They have set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue parades through the earth.

They say, “How does God know?
And is there knowledge with the Most High?”

Behold, these are the wicked;
And always at ease, they have increased in wealth.

How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place;
They have set up their own standards for signs.

And now all its carved work
They smash with hatchet and hammers.

They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

The stouthearted were plundered,
They sank into sleep;
And none of the warriors could use his hands.

The waters saw You, O God;
The waters saw You, they were in anguish;
The deeps also trembled.

For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach them to their children,

That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,

That they should put their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments,

The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk in His law;

They forgot His deeds
And His miracles that He had shown them.

Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

And in their heart they put God to the test
By asking food according to their desire.

Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Because they did not believe in God
And did not trust in His salvation.

So they ate and were well filled,
And their desire He gave to them.

Before they had satisfied their desire,
While their food was in their mouths,

In spite of all this they still sinned
And did not believe in His wonderful works.

When He killed them, then they sought Him,
And returned and searched diligently for God;

And they remembered that God was their rock,
And the Most High God their Redeemer.

But they deceived Him with their mouth
And lied to Him with their tongue.

For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A wind that passes and does not return.

How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!

Again and again they tempted God,
And pained the Holy One of Israel.

They did not remember His power,
The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,

And turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, they could not drink.

He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,