Wherefore have nations assembled in tumult? Or should, peoples, mutter an empty thing?

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.

Yea they who are seeking my life, have laid snares, and they who are asking my harm, have threatened engulfing ruin, And, deceitful things - all day long, do they mutter.

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

As a matter of fact, in your heart you plan iniquities! In the land your hands are violent!

which doesn't listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

they have hands, but they do not handle; they have feet, but they do not walk; they do not mutter through their throat.

Nor do they mutter through their throat, Like them are their makers, Every one who is trusting in them.

Precious [and of great consequence] in the sight of the Lord
Is the death of His godly ones [so He watches over them].

Your statutes are my songs, no matter where I make my home.

I have seen that all [human] perfection has its limits [no matter how grand and perfect and noble];
Your commandment is exceedingly broad and extends without limits [into eternity].

Let not my heart incline to a matter of wrong, that I should busy myself with practices in lawlessness, with men working iniquity, and let me not eat of their dainties.