^4 (D)He shall call to the heavens from above,
And to the earth, that He may judge His people:
⁵ “Gather ^(E)My saints together to Me,
^(F)Those who have ^[a]made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
⁶ Let the ^(G)heavens declare His righteousness,
For ^(H)God Himself is Judge. Selah

⁷ “Hear, O My people, and I will speak,
O Israel, and I will testify against you;
^(I)I am God, your God!
^8 (J)I will not ^[b]rebuke you ^(K)for your sacrifices
Or your burnt offerings,
Which are continually before Me.
^9 (L)I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your folds.
¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹ I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

¹² “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
^(M)For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
^13 (N)Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats?
^14 (O)Offer to God thanksgiving,
And ^(P)pay your vows to the Most High.
^15 (Q)Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

¹⁶ But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to declare My statutes,
Or take My covenant in your mouth,
^17 (R)Seeing you hate instruction
And cast My words behind you?
¹⁸ When you saw a thief, you ^(S)consented^[c] with him,
And have been a ^(T)partaker with adulterers.
¹⁹ You give your mouth to evil,
And ^(U)your tongue frames deceit.
²⁰ You sit and speak against your brother;
You slander your own mother’s son.
²¹ These things you have done, and I kept silent;
^(V)You thought that I was altogether like you;
But I will rebuke you,
And ^(W)set them in order before your eyes.

²² “Now consider this, you who ^(X)forget God,
Lest I tear you in pieces,
And there be none to deliver:
²³ Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;
And ^(Y)to him who orders his conduct aright
I will show the salvation of God.”

⁵ For they have consulted together with one ^[c]consent;
They ^[d]form a confederacy against You:
^6 (E)The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab and the Hagrites;
⁷ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸ Assyria also has joined with them;
They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

⁹ Deal with them as with ^(F)Midian,
As with ^(G)Sisera,
As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,
¹⁰ Who perished at En Dor,
^(H)Who became as refuse on the earth.
¹¹ Make their nobles like ^(I)Oreb and like Zeeb,
Yes, all their princes like ^(J)Zebah and Zalmunna,
¹² Who said, “Let us take for ourselves
The pastures of God for a possession.”

^13 (K)O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
^(L)Like the chaff before the wind!
¹⁴ As the fire burns the woods,
And as the flame ^(M)sets the mountains on fire,
¹⁵ So pursue them with Your tempest,
And frighten them with Your storm.
¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame,
That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
¹⁷ Let them be ^[e]confounded and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
^18 (N)That they may know that You, whose ^(O)name alone is the Lord,
Are ^(P)the Most High over all the earth.

⁶ Set a wicked man over him,
And let ^(E)an ^[a]accuser stand at his right hand.
⁷ When he is judged, let him be found guilty,
And ^(F)let his prayer become sin.
⁸ Let his days be ^(G)few,
And ^(H)let another take his office.
^9 (I)Let his children be fatherless,
And his wife a widow.
¹⁰ Let his children ^[b]continually be vagabonds, and beg;
Let them ^[c]seek their bread also from their desolate places.
^11 (J)Let the creditor seize all that he has,
And let strangers plunder his labor.
¹² Let there be none to extend mercy to him,
Nor let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
^13 (K)Let his ^[d]posterity be cut off,
And in the generation following let their ^(L)name be blotted out.

^14 (M)Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord,
And let not the sin of his mother ^(N)be blotted out.
¹⁵ Let them be continually before the Lord,
That He may ^(O)cut off the memory of them from the earth;
¹⁶ Because he did not remember to show mercy,
But persecuted the poor and needy man,
That he might even slay the ^(P)broken in heart.
^17 (Q)As he loved cursing, so let it come to him;
As he did not delight in blessing, so let it be far from him.
¹⁸ As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
So let it ^(R)enter his body like water,
And like oil into his bones.
¹⁹ Let it be to him like the garment which covers him,
And for a belt with which he girds himself continually.
²⁰ Let this be the Lord’s reward to my accusers,
And to those who speak evil against my person.

²¹ But You, O God the Lord,
Deal with me for Your name’s sake;
Because Your mercy is good, deliver me.
²² For I am poor and needy,
And my heart is wounded within me.
²³ I am gone ^(S)like a shadow when it lengthens;
I am shaken off like a locust.
²⁴ My ^(T)knees are weak through fasting,
And my flesh is feeble from lack of fatness.
²⁵ I also have become ^(U)a reproach to them;
When they look at me, ^(V)they shake their heads.

²⁶ Help me, O Lord my God!
Oh, save me according to Your mercy,
^27 (W)That they may know that this is Your hand—
That You, Lord, have done it!
^28 (X)Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, let them be ashamed,
But let ^(Y)Your servant rejoice.
^29 (Z)Let my accusers be clothed with shame,
And let them cover themselves with their own disgrace as with a mantle.

³⁰ I will greatly praise the Lord with my mouth;
Yes, ^(AA)I will praise Him among the multitude.
³¹ For ^(AB)He shall stand at the right hand of the poor,
To save him from those ^[e]who condemn him.