12 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases.
    For the faithful fail from among the children of men.
² Everyone lies to his neighbor.
    They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
³ May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips,
    and the tongue that boasts,
⁴ who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail.
    Our lips are our own.
    Who is lord over us?”
⁵ “Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy,
    I will now arise,” says Yahweh;
“I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”
⁶ Yahweh’s words are flawless words,
    as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.
⁷ You will keep them, Yahweh.
    You will preserve them from this generation forever.
⁸ The wicked walk on every side,
    when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

6 Yahweh, don’t rebuke me in your anger,
    neither discipline me in your wrath.
² Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am faint.
    Yahweh, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
³ My soul is also in great anguish.
    But you, Yahweh—how long?
⁴ Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul,
    and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.
⁵ For in death there is no memory of you.
    In Sheol,^[a] who shall give you thanks?
⁶ I am weary with my groaning.
    Every night I flood my bed.
    I drench my couch with my tears.
⁷ My eye wastes away because of grief.
    It grows old because of all my adversaries.
⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity,
    for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
⁹ Yahweh has heard my supplication.
    Yahweh accepts my prayer.
¹⁰ May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed.
    They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

7 Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you.
    Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
² lest they tear apart my soul like a lion,
    ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
³ Yahweh, my God, if I have done this,
    if there is iniquity in my hands,
⁴ if I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me
    (yes, I have delivered him who without cause was my adversary),
⁵     let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it;
yes, let him tread my life down to the earth,
    and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
⁶ Arise, Yahweh, in your anger.
    Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries.
Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
⁷     Let the congregation of the peoples surround you.
    Rule over them on high.
⁸ Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples.
    Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness,
    and to my integrity that is in me.
⁹ Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end,
    but establish the righteous;
    their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
¹⁰ My shield is with God,
    who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    yes, a God who has indignation every day.
¹² If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword;
    he has bent and strung his bow.
¹³ He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death.
    He makes ready his flaming arrows.
¹⁴ Behold,^[b] he travails with iniquity.
    Yes, he has conceived mischief,
    and brought out falsehood.
¹⁵ He has dug a hole,
    and has fallen into the pit which he made.
¹⁶ The trouble he causes shall return to his own head.
    His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
¹⁷ I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness,
    and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.

⁵ Yahweh is your keeper.
    Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.
⁶ The sun will not harm you by day,
    nor the moon by night.
⁷ Yahweh will keep you from all evil.
    He will keep your soul.
⁸ Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in,
    from this time forward, and forever more.