Destroy in anger; destroy so they are no more, so that they may know that God [is] ruling in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah

They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl [the] city.

As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night.

They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah

Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.

But as for them [who] seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth.

They [who] would {deliver him to the sword} will become a portion for jackals.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend [their bow to shoot] their arrows--bitter words,

to shoot from their hiding places [at the] blameless. Suddenly they shoot [at] him and do not fear.

They encourage themselves [in the] evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"

{They carefully plot} injustices [saying], "We have perfected {the perfect plot}!" Both [the] {inner thought} and heart of man [are] deep.

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

And they [who] would cause him to stumble, their [own] tongue [will be] against them. All who gaze on them will shake.

They drop [on the] pastures of [the] wilderness, and the hills gird themselves with joy.

[The] pasturelands put on flocks, and [the] valleys clothe themselves with grain. They shout in triumph; they even sing.

All the earth will bow in worship to you, and sing [praise] to you. They will sing [the praise of] your name." Selah

He turned [the] sea into dry ground; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him.

But [the] righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy.

"[The] kings of armies flee, they flee, and she [who] remains at home divides [the] spoil.

They have seen your processions, O God, the processions of my God, my king, distinctive [in victory].

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

Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble.

because they persecute [those] whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of [those] you have wounded.

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

My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm.

They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak [as though] from on high.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.

And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"

See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.

How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.

Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs [for] signs.

They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees.

And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.

They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name.

They have said in their heart, "We will completely oppress them." They burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

[The] stouthearted are plundered; they sleep their sleep, and all [the] able men cannot {use} their hands.

Waters saw you, O God; waters saw you [and] they trembled. Surely [the] deeps shook.

so that [the] next generation might know-- children [yet to] be born-- [that] they might rise up and tell their children,

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

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law.

They also forgot his deeds, and his wonders that he had shown them.

But they sinned still further against him by rebelling [against the] Most High in the desert.

And they tested God in their heart [by] asking food {for their craving}.

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

because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation.

So they ate and were well filled, and he brought about [what] they craved.

They had not yet turned aside from their craving, [while] their food [was] still in their mouth,

In spite of all this they sinned further and did not believe his wonders.

When he killed [some of] them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God.

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

But they enticed him with their mouth and lied to him with their tongue.

For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant.

for he remembered that they [were] flesh, a passing wind that does not return.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in [the] wasteland!

So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel.

And they did not remember his {power} {when} he redeemed them from the enemy,

when he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink [from] their streams.

And he led them safely and they were not afraid, but the sea covered their enemies.

But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.

And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.

O God, [the] nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins.

They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to [the] beasts of [the] earth.

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].

because they have devoured Jacob and have laid waste his habitation.

And return to our neighbors sevenfold {upon them} their taunts [with] which they taunted you, O Lord.

[It is] burned with fire, cut down. They perish at the rebuke of your face.

So I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels.

They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.

They devise cunning schemes against your people, and consult together against your protected ones.

They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from [being] a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

For they have consulted together {with a unified purpose}. They have made a covenant against you:

Assyria also has joined with them. They {provide help} to the children of Lot. Selah

They were destroyed at En-dor; they became dung for the ground.

Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Yahweh.

that they may know that you, [whose] name [is] Yahweh, you alone, [are the] Most High over the whole earth.

Blessed [are] those who dwell in your house; they can ever praise you. Selah

Passing through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The early rain covers [it with] blessings as well.

They go from strength to strength, [until each] appears before God in Zion.

O God, arrogant men have risen up against me, even a gang of ruthless men seek my life, but they do not set you before them.

They surround me like water all the day; they circle about me altogether.

Blessed [are] the people who know [the] joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance.

In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise up.

if they defile my statutes and do not keep my commandments,

[by] which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, [by] which they taunt the steps of your anointed one.

You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.

In [their] hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.

When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.

[The] righteous will flourish like the date palm. They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Planted in the house of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

They will still prosper in old age. They will be fat and luxuriant,

{They gush words} unrestrained. All [the] evildoers boast.

They crush your people, O Yahweh; they oppress your inheritance.

They kill widow and stranger, and they murder orphans,

while they say, "Yah does not see," and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention."

Yahweh knows [the] thoughts of humankind, that {they [are] to no purpose}.

They band together against [the] life of [the] righteous, and declare [the] blameless guilty of blood.

when your ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, [even] though they had seen my work.

For forty years I loathed [that] generation, and said, '[They are] a people [whose] heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.'