But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.

He drove His enemies backward;
He subjected them to lasting shame and dishonor.

O God, the nations have come into your heritage; they have made your holy Temple unclean; they have made Jerusalem a mass of broken walls.

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, 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 dwelling place.

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

O Lord God, invincible warrior! How long will you remain angry at your people while they pray to you?

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

It was cut down and burned up;
they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.

(May those who hate the Lord cower in fear before him! May they be permanently humiliated!)

They do not know or understand;
they wander in darkness.
All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They devise clever schemes against Your people;
they conspire against Your treasured ones.

They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”

For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance against You—

Even Assyria has joined them;
they lend support to the sons of Lot.Selah

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

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

Cover their faces with shame
so that they will seek Your name Yahweh.

They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

May they know that You alone—
whose name is Yahweh—
are the Most High over all the earth.

The little birds have places for themselves, where they may put their young, even your altars, O Lord of armies, my King and my God.

Happy are they whose resting-place is in your house: they will still be praising you. (Selah.)

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

As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they make it a source of springwater;
even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings.

They go from strength to strength;
each appears before God in Zion.

I hear what God Jehovah speaketh, For He speaketh peace unto His people, And unto His saints, and they turn not back to folly.

All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.

God, arrogant people have attacked me;
a gang of ruthless men seeks my life.
They have no regard for You.

Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

I will think upon Rahab and Babylon, with them that know me. Behold ye the Philistines also, and they of Tyre, with they of the Ethiopians; lo, there was he born.

They that sing as well as they that dance'shall say , All my fountains are in thee.

They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,

My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.

To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

They surround me like water all day long;
they close in on me from every side.

Thou rulest the pride of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise.

Happy are the people who know the joyful shout;
Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your presence.

They rejoice in Your name all day long,
and they are exalted by Your righteousness.

if they dishonor My statutes
and do not keep My commands,

All they that go by, spoil him; he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

how Your enemies have ridiculed, Lord,
how they have ridiculed every step of Your anointed.

You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—

Our lives last seventy years
or, if we are strong, eighty years.
Even the best of them are struggle and sorrow;
indeed, they pass quickly and we fly away.

They will support you with their hands
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.

For lo! thine enemies, Yahweh, For lo! thine enemies, shall perish, They shall be scattered - all the workers of iniquity;

My eyes look down on my enemies;
my ears hear evildoers when they attack me.

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

Planted in the house of the Lord,
they thrive in the courts of our God.

They will still bear fruit in old age,
healthy and green,

So they proclaim that the Lord, my protector, is just and never unfair.

The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry.

Rise up, Judge of the earth;
repay the proud what they deserve.

They pour out arrogant words;
all the evildoers boast.

Lord, they crush Your people;
they afflict Your heritage.

They kill the widow and the foreigner
and murder the fatherless.

They say, “The Lord doesn’t see it.
The God of Jacob doesn’t pay attention.”

The Lord knows man’s thoughts;
they are meaningless.

But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?

They band together against the life of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.

He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

where your fathers tested Me;
they tried Me, though they had seen what I did.

For 40 years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know My ways.”

So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”

As for all the gods of the Heathen, they are but Idols, but it is the LORD that made the heavens. {TYNDALE: For all the gods of the heathen are Idols; But the LORD made the heavens.}

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

They praise Thy name, 'Great, and fearful, holy it is.'

Moses and Aaron were among His priests;
Samuel also was among those calling on His name.
They called to Yahweh and He answered them.

He spoke to them in a pillar of cloud;
they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

O Lord our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

My eyes favor the faithful of the land
so that they may sit down with me.
The one who follows the way of integrity
may serve me.

My enemies taunt me all day long;
they ridicule and curse me.

For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.

so that they might declare
the name of Yahweh in Zion
and His praise in Jerusalem,

Yet will I say, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my age; as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations."

They will perish, but You will endure;
all of them will wear out like clothing.
You will change them like a garment,
and they will pass away.

If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.

At Your rebuke the waters fled;
at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.

You set a boundary they cannot cross;
they will never cover the earth again.

He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;
they flow between the mountains.

They supply water for every wild beast;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

The birds of the sky live beside the springs;
they sing among the foliage.

He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people's lives.

The trees of the Lord receive all the rain they need, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,

The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.

They all wait for you to give [them] their food {at the proper time}.

When You give it to them,
they gather it;
when You open Your hand,
they are satisfied with good things.

When You hide Your face,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.

When You send Your breath,
they are created,
and You renew the face of the earth.