They shall be given over to the power of the sword; they shall be the portion of foxes.

That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?

They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.

But God will shoot an arrow at them: suddenly are they wounded;

By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

And all men shall fear, and shall declare God's doing; and they shall wisely consider his work.

And they that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens; thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills are girded with gladness.

The meadows are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, yea, they sing.

All the earth shall worship thee, and sing psalms unto thee: they shall sing forth thy name. Selah.

He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the river on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

But the righteous shall rejoice: they shall exult before God and be glad with joy.

Kings of armies flee; they flee, and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.

They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

They that sit in the gate talk of me, and I am the song of the drunkards.

Yea, they gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.

For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.

The meek shall see it, they shall be glad; ye that seek God, your heart shall live.

For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; and they shall dwell there, and possess it:

And the seed of his servants shall inherit it, and they that love his name shall dwell therein.

For mine enemies speak against me, and they that watch for my soul consult together,

My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day; for they shall be ashamed, for they shall be brought to confusion, that seek my hurt.

They shall fear thee as long as sun and moon endure, from generation to generation.

There shall be abundance of corn in the earth, upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon; and they of the city shall bloom like the herb of the earth.

For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:

Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:

They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:

They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?

Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.

How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.

For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.

Thine adversaries roar in the midst of thy place of assembly; they set up their signs for signs.

And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.

They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.

They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

The stout-hearted are made a spoil, they have slept their sleep; and none of the men of might have found their hands.

The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they trembled, yea, the depths were troubled:

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

That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,

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

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;

And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God;

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

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;

For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;

And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

{A Psalm of Asaph.} O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance: thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowl of the heavens, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth:

Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.

For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.

And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

It is burned with fire, it is cut down; they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels.

They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.

For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.

They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:

They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.

For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.

Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.

Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.

For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.

Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.

That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be constantly praising thee. Selah.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee, they, in whose heart are the highways.

Passing through the valley of Baca, they make it a well-spring; yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

They go from strength to strength: each one will appear before God in Zion.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assembly of the violent seek after my soul, and they have not set thee before them.

Shew me a token for good, that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed; for thou, Jehovah, hast helped me and comforted me.

They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.

Blessed is the people that know the shout of joy: they walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance.

In thy name are they joyful all the day, and in thy righteousness are they exalted.

If they profane my statutes, and keep not my commandments:

Wherewith thine enemies, O Jehovah, have reproached, wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass that groweth up:

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if, by reason of strength, they be fourscore years, yet their pride is labour and vanity, for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.

They are still vigorous in old age, they are full of sap and green;

How long shall they utter and speak insolence all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?