1 Why do you glory in evil, you tyrant, ♦︎
while the goodness of God endures continually?
2 You plot destruction, you deceiver; ♦︎
your tongue is like a sharpened razor.
3 You love evil rather than good, ♦︎
falsehood rather than the word of truth.
4 You love all words that hurt, ♦︎
O you deceitful tongue.
5 Therefore God shall utterly bring you down; ♦︎
he shall take you and pluck you out of your tent
and root you out of the land of the living.
6 The righteous shall see this and tremble; ♦︎
they shall laugh you to scorn, and say:
7 This is the one who did not take God for a refuge, ♦︎
but trusted in great riches and relied upon wickedness.
8 But I am like a spreading olive tree in the house of God; ♦︎
I trust in the goodness of God for ever and ever.
9 I will always give thanks to you for what you have done; ♦︎
I will hope in your name,
for your faithful ones delight in it.
1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. ♦︎
Corrupt are they, and abominable in their wickedness;
there is no one that does good.
2 God has looked down from heaven upon the children of earth, ♦︎
to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks after God.
3 They are all gone out of the way;
all alike have become corrupt; ♦︎
there is no one that does good, no not one.
4 Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, ♦︎
who eat up my people as if they ate bread,
and do not call upon God?
5 There shall they be in great fear,
such fear as never was; ♦︎
for God will scatter the bones of the ungodly.
6 They will be put to shame, ♦︎
because God has rejected them.
7 O that Israels salvation would come out of Zion! ♦︎
When God restores the fortunes of his people
then will Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.
1 Save me, O God, by your name ♦︎
and vindicate me by your power.
2 Hear my prayer, O God; ♦︎
give heed to the words of my mouth.
3 For strangers have risen up against me,
and the ruthless seek after my life; ♦︎
they have not set God before them.
4 Behold, God is my helper; ♦︎
it is the Lord who upholds my life.
5 May evil rebound on those who lie in wait for me; ♦︎
destroy them in your faithfulness.
6 An offering of a free heart will I give you ♦︎
and praise your name, O Lord, for it is gracious.
7 For he has delivered me out of all my trouble, ♦︎
and my eye has seen the downfall of my enemies.