They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me.

I pursue mine enemies, and overtake them, And turn back not till they are consumed.

I smite them, and they are not able to rise, They fall under my feet,

They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me, Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me,

[The] children of a foreign land {lost heart}, and they came trembling from their strongholds.

{Every day} [they] pour forth speech, and {every night} [they] tell knowledge.

The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous -- together.

They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

Even from the presumptuous, keep back thy servant, May they not have dominion over me, Then, shall I be blameless, and shall be acquitted from great transgression:

They -- they have bowed and have fallen, And we have risen and station ourselves upright.

You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

For they stretched out against Thee evil, They devised a wicked device, they prevail not,

In Thee did our fathers trust -- they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them.

Unto Thee they cried, and were delivered, In Thee they trusted, and were not ashamed.

All beholding me do mock at me, They make free with the lip -- shake the head,

They say, "Commit yourself to the Lord! Let the Lord rescue him! Let the Lord deliver him, for he delights in him."

They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I count all my bones -- they look expectingly, They look upon me,

They apportion my garments to themselves, And for my clothing they cause a lot to fall.

The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he who hath not revived his soul.

A whole generation will serve him; they will tell the next generation about the sovereign Lord.

They come and declare His righteousness, To a people that is borne, that He hath made!

Also -- when I walk in a valley of death-shade, I fear no evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff -- they comfort me.

{A Psalm of David.} The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Yea, none that wait on thee shall be ashamed: they shall be ashamed that deal treacherously without cause.

Remember Thy mercies, O Jehovah, And Thy kindnesses, for from the age are they.

All the paths of the Lord are lovingkindness and goodness and truth and faithfulness
To those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.

For Your name’s sake, O Lord,
Pardon my wickedness and my guilt, for they are great.

The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live.

They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.

Intimacy with Yahweh, have they who revere him, His covenant also, he letteth them know.

See my enemies, for they have been many, And with violent hatred they have hated me.

When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

O Lord, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!

Let lying lips be quieted;
they speak arrogantly against the righteous
with pride and contempt.

You hide them with you, where they are safe from the attacks of men; you conceal them in a shelter, where they are safe from slanderous attacks.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

He formed the hearts of them all; he understands everything they do.

They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

O fear the LORD, ye that are his saints: for they that fear him lack nothing.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile.

They cried, and Jehovah heard, And from all their distresses delivered them.

Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

The LORD delivereth the souls of his servants, and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute.

They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned backward and confounded, Those devising my evil.

They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

LORD, how long wilt thou look upon this? O deliver my soul from the calamities which they bring on me, and my darling from the lions.

Mine enemies shall not rejoice over me for falsehood: they hating me gratuitously shall pinch the eye.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

Judge me according to Thy righteousness, O Jehovah my God, And they do not rejoice over me.

They do not say in their heart, 'Aha, our desire.' They do not say, 'We swallowed him up.'

They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.

They sing and rejoice, who are desiring my righteousness, And they say continually, 'Jehovah is magnified, Who is desiring the peace of His servant.'

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.

Evil men will soon disappear; you will stare at the spot where they once were, but they will be gone.

And the humble do possess the land, And they have delighted themselves In the abundance of peace.

The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.

A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

The Lord watches over the innocent day by day and they possess a permanent inheritance.

They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and kind and gives.

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

From Jehovah are the steps of a man, They have been prepared, And his way he desireth.

All day long he is gracious and lends,
And his descendants are a blessing.

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

The righteous possess the land, And they dwell for ever on it.

The Lord will not leave him in his hand
Or let him be condemned when he is judged.

But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness.

My stripes became loathsome: they flowed from the face of my folly.

My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.