¹⁸ Remember how the enemy has mocked you, Lord,
    how foolish people^(A) have reviled your name.

⁸ Save me^(A) from all my transgressions;^(B)
    do not make me the scorn^(C) of fools.

⁶ Is this the way you repay^(A) the Lord,
    you foolish^(B) and unwise people?^(C)
Is he not your Father,^(D) your Creator,^[a]
    who made you and formed you?^(E)

⁶ I have posted watchmen^(A) on your walls, Jerusalem;
    they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
    give yourselves no rest,^(B)
7 and give him no rest^(C) till he establishes Jerusalem
    and makes her the praise^(D) of the earth.

²³ Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?^(A)
    Against whom have you raised your voice^(B)
and lifted your eyes in pride?^(C)
    Against the Holy One^(D) of Israel!
²⁴ By your messengers
    you have ridiculed the Lord.
And you have said,
    ‘With my many chariots^(E)
I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
    the utmost heights^(F) of Lebanon.^(G)
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
    the choicest of its junipers.^(H)
I have reached its remotest heights,
    the finest of its forests.

⁷ Remember, Lord, what the Edomites^(A) did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.^(B)
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”^(C)

⁴ They pour out arrogant^(E) words;
    all the evildoers are full of boasting.^(F)
5 They crush your people,^(G) Lord;
    they oppress your inheritance.^(H)
6 They slay the widow^(I) and the foreigner;
    they murder the fatherless.^(J)
7 They say, “The Lord does not see;^(K)
    the God of Jacob^(L) takes no notice.”

⁸ Take notice, you senseless ones^(M) among the people;
    you fools, when will you become wise?