he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.

Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, for God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who do not fear God.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

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

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?

They have prepared a net for my steps. My soul is bowed down. They dig a pit before me. They fall into its midst themselves. Selah.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD.

I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me.

They return at evening, howling like dogs, and prowl around the city.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Consume them in wrath. Consume them, and they will be no more. Let them know that God rules in Jacob, to the ends of the earth. Selah.

They shall wander up and down for food, and wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.

to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan." Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

All mankind shall be afraid. They shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely ponder what he has done.

They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.

The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy. They also sing.

All the earth will worship you, and will sing to you; they will sing to your name." Selah.

He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.

"Kings of armies flee. They flee." She who waits at home divides the spoil,

They have seen your processions, God, even the processions of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

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

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

How they are suddenly destroyed. They are completely swept away with terrors.

Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.

They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.

Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

They did not keep God's covenant, and refused to walk by his Law.

They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

Yes, 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. He gave them their own desire.

They did not turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

For all this they still sinned, and did not believe in his wondrous works.

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert.

They turned again and tempted God, and gave pain to the Holy One of Israel.

They did not remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not keep his testimonies;

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your holy ones to the animals of the earth.

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

It's burned with fire. It's cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

They do not know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.