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 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High ♦︎
and abides under the shadow of the Almighty,
2 Shall say to the Lord, My refuge and my stronghold, ♦︎
my God, in whom I put my trust.
3 For he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler ♦︎
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He shall cover you with his wings
and you shall be safe under his feathers; ♦︎
his faithfulness shall be your shield and buckler.
5 You shall not be afraid of any terror by night, ♦︎
nor of the arrow that flies by day;
6 Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, ♦︎
nor of the sickness that destroys at noonday.
7 Though a thousand fall at your side
and ten thousand at your right hand, ♦︎
yet it shall not come near you.
8 Your eyes have only to behold ♦︎
to see the reward of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the Lord your refuge ♦︎
and the Most High your stronghold,
10 There shall no evil happen to you, ♦︎
neither shall any plague come near your tent.
11 For he shall give his angels charge over you, ♦︎
to keep you in all your ways.
12 They shall bear you in their hands, ♦︎
lest you dash your foot against a stone.
13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder; ♦︎
the young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.
14 Because they have set their love upon me,
therefore will I deliver them; ♦︎
I will lift them up, because they know my name.
15 They will call upon me and I will answer them; ♦︎
I am with them in trouble,
I will deliver them and bring them to honour.
16 With long life will I satisfy them ♦︎
and show them my salvation.