I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked.

[A Psalm of David.] Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious of the workers of iniquity.

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

Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Depart from me, you evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a descendant of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they have turned away backward.

You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the descendants of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

Sing unto the LORD, praise you the LORD: for he has delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

Having your conduct honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good behavior in Christ.