³ Do not drag me away with the wicked,
    with those who are workers of evil,
who speak peace with their neighbors,
    while mischief is in their hearts.
⁴ Repay them according to their work,
    and according to the evil of their deeds;
repay them according to the work of their hands;
    render them their due reward.
⁵ Because they do not regard the works of the Lord,
    or the work of his hands,
he will break them down and build them up no more.

⁶ Blessed be the Lord,
    for he has heard the sound of my pleadings.
⁷ The Lord is my strength and my shield;
    in him my heart trusts;
so I am helped, and my heart exults,
    and with my song I give thanks to him.

⁸ The Lord is the strength of his people;
    he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
⁹ O save your people, and bless your heritage;
    be their shepherd, and carry them forever.

⁴ The wicked are not so,
    but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
    nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
⁶ for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
    but the way of the wicked will perish.

⁴ Turn, O Lord, save my life;
    deliver me for the sake of your steadfast love.
⁵ For in death there is no remembrance of you;
    in Sheol who can give you praise?

⁶ I am weary with my moaning;
    every night I flood my bed with tears;
    I drench my couch with my weeping.
⁷ My eyes waste away because of grief;
    they grow weak because of all my foes.

⁸ Depart from me, all you workers of evil,
    for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
⁹ The Lord has heard my supplication;
    the Lord accepts my prayer.
¹⁰ All my enemies shall be ashamed and struck with terror;
    they shall turn back, and in a moment be put to shame.

³ O Lord my God, if I have done this,
    if there is wrong in my hands,
⁴ if I have repaid my ally with harm
    or plundered my foe without cause,
⁵ then let the enemy pursue and overtake me,
    trample my life to the ground,
    and lay my soul in the dust.Selah

⁶ Rise up, O Lord, in your anger;
    lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies;
    awake, O my God;^[a] you have appointed a judgment.
⁷ Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered around you,
    and over it take your seat^[b] on high.
⁸ The Lord judges the peoples;
    judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness
    and according to the integrity that is in me.

⁹ O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,
    but establish the righteous,
you who test the minds and hearts,
    O righteous God.
¹⁰ God is my shield,
    who saves the upright in heart.
¹¹ God is a righteous judge,
    and a God who has indignation every day.

¹² If one does not repent, God^[c] will whet his sword;
    he has bent and strung his bow;
¹³ he has prepared his deadly weapons,
    making his arrows fiery shafts.
¹⁴ See how they conceive evil,
    and are pregnant with mischief,
    and bring forth lies.
¹⁵ They make a pit, digging it out,
    and fall into the hole that they have made.
¹⁶ Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
    and on their own heads their violence descends.

¹⁷ I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,
    and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

You have set your glory above the heavens.
²     Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
    to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
    the moon and the stars that you have established;
⁴ what are human beings that you are mindful of them,
    mortals^[d] that you care for them?

⁵ Yet you have made them a little lower than God,^[e]
    and crowned them with glory and honor.
⁶ You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under their feet,
⁷ all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸ the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹ O Lord, our Sovereign,
    how majestic is your name in all the earth!

³ When my enemies turned back,
    they stumbled and perished before you.
⁴ For you have maintained my just cause;
    you have sat on the throne giving righteous judgment.

⁵ You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked;
    you have blotted out their name forever and ever.
⁶ The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins;
    their cities you have rooted out;
    the very memory of them has perished.

⁷ But the Lord sits enthroned forever,
    he has established his throne for judgment.
⁸ He judges the world with righteousness;
    he judges the peoples with equity.

⁹ The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed,
    a stronghold in times of trouble.
¹⁰ And those who know your name put their trust in you,
    for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion.
    Declare his deeds among the peoples.
¹² For he who avenges blood is mindful of them;
    he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

¹³ Be gracious to me, O Lord.
    See what I suffer from those who hate me;
    you are the one who lifts me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ so that I may recount all your praises,
    and, in the gates of daughter Zion,
    rejoice in your deliverance.

¹⁵ The nations have sunk in the pit that they made;
    in the net that they hid has their own foot been caught.
¹⁶ The Lord has made himself known, he has executed judgment;
    the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands.Higgaion. Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall depart to Sheol,
    all the nations that forget God.

¹⁸ For the needy shall not always be forgotten,
    nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

¹⁹ Rise up, O Lord! Do not let mortals prevail;
    let the nations be judged before you.
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord;
    let the nations know that they are only human.Selah