² The wicked person arrogantly pursues oppressed people.
    He will be caught in the schemes that he planned.
³ The wicked person boasts about his selfish desires.
    He blesses robbers, but he curses Yahweh.
⁴ He turns up his nose and says, “Yahweh doesn’t care.”
    His every thought concludes, “There is no Elohim.”
⁵ He always seems to succeed.
    Your judgments are beyond his understanding.
    He spits at all his opponents.
⁶ He says to himself, “Nothing can shake me.
    I’ll never face any trouble.”
⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, deception, and oppression.
    Trouble and wrongdoing are on the tip of his tongue.
⁸ He waits in ambush in the villages.
    From his hiding places he kills innocent people.
    His eyes are on the lookout for victims.
⁹ He lies in his hiding place like a lion in his den.
    He hides there to catch oppressed people.
    He catches oppressed people when he draws them into his net.
¹⁰ His victims are crushed.
    They collapse,
        and they fall under the weight of his power.
¹¹ He says to himself,
    “El has forgotten.
        He has hidden his face.
            He will never see it!”

¹² Arise, O Yahweh!
    Lift your hand, O El.
    Do not forget oppressed people!
¹³ Why does the wicked person despise Elohim?
    Why does he say to himself, “Elohim doesn’t care”?
¹⁴ You have seen it; yes, you have taken note of trouble and grief
    and placed them under your control.
        The victim entrusts himself to you.
    You alone have been the helper of orphans.
¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and evil person.
    Punish his wickedness until you find no more.

¹⁶ Yahweh is Melek forever and ever.
    The nations have vanished from his land.
¹⁷ You have heard the desire of oppressed people, O Yahweh.
    You encourage them.
    You pay close attention to them
¹⁸ in order to provide justice for orphans and oppressed people
    so that no mere mortal will terrify them again.