“There is no darkness nor deep shadow
Where the evildoers may hide themselves.

The boastful and the arrogant will not stand in Your sight;
You hate all who do evil.

You [evildoers] shamefully plan against the poor,
But the Lord is his safe refuge.

For [a pack of] dogs have surrounded me;
A gang of evildoers has encircled me,
They pierced my hands and my feet.

I can count all my bones;
They look, they stare at me.

I hate the company of evildoers,
And will not sit with the wicked.

Do not worry because of evildoers,
Nor be envious toward wrongdoers;

For those who do evil will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.

For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];
Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].

Hide me from the secret counsel and conspiracy of the ungodly,
From the scheming of those who do wrong,

That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.

For behold, Your enemies, O Lord,
For behold, Your enemies will perish;
All who do evil will be scattered.

My eye has looked on my foes;
My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

They pour out words, speaking arrogant things;
All who do evil boast proudly.

Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Who will take a stand for me against those who do wickedness?

Morning after morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land,
That I may cut off from the city of the Lord all those who do evil.

Leave me, you evildoers,
That I may keep the commandments of my God [honoring and obeying them].

Keep me from the jaws of the trap which they have set for me,
And from the snares of those who do evil.

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous (the upright, the one in right standing with God),
But to the evildoers it is disaster.

Do not get upset because of evildoers,
Or be envious of the wicked,

Ah, sinful nation,
A people loaded down with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing],
Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who behave corruptly!
They have abandoned (rejected) the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel [provoking Him to anger],
They have turned away from Him.

“You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land,
You have slain your people.
May the descendants of evildoers never be named!

Yet He is also wise and will bring disaster,
And does not retract His words,
But will arise against the house of evildoers
And against the helpers of those who do evil.

Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord!
For He has rescued the life of the needy one
From the hand of evildoers.

“Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They encourage and strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become like Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Gilead is a city of wrongdoers;
It is tracked with bloody footprints.

So now we call the arrogant happy and blessed. Evildoers are exalted and prosper; and when they test God, they escape [unpunished].’”

Keep your behavior excellent among the [unsaved] Gentiles [conduct yourself honorably, with graciousness and integrity], so that for whatever reason they may slander you as evildoers, yet by observing your good deeds they may [instead come to] glorify God in the day of visitation [when He looks upon them with mercy].

And see to it that your conscience is entirely clear, so that every time you are slandered or falsely accused, those who attack or disparage your good behavior in Christ will be shamed [by their own words].