³ When my enemies turn back,
They shall fall and perish at Your presence.
⁴ For You have maintained my right and my cause;
You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
⁵ You have rebuked the ^[b]nations,
You have destroyed the wicked;
You have ^(C)blotted out their name forever and ever.

⁶ O enemy, destructions are finished forever!
And you have destroyed cities;
Even their memory has ^(D)perished.
^7 (E)But the Lord shall endure forever;
He has prepared His throne for judgment.
^8 (F)He shall judge the world in righteousness,
And He shall administer judgment for the peoples in uprightness.

⁹ The Lord also will be a ^(G)refuge^[c] for the oppressed,
A refuge in times of trouble.
¹⁰ And those who ^(H)know Your name will put their trust in You;
For You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion!
^(I)Declare His deeds among the people.
^12 (J)When He avenges blood, He remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the ^[d]humble.

¹³ Have mercy on me, O Lord!
Consider my trouble from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,
¹⁴ That I may tell of all Your praise
In the gates of ^[e]the daughter of Zion.
I will ^(K)rejoice in Your salvation.

^15 (L)The ^[f]nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
¹⁶ The Lord is ^(M)known by the judgment He executes;
The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
^(N)Meditation.^[g] Selah

¹⁷ The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the ^[h]nations ^(O)that forget God.
^18 (P)For the needy shall not always be forgotten;
^(Q)The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever.

¹⁹ Arise, O Lord,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the ^[i]nations be judged in Your sight.
²⁰ Put them in fear, O Lord,
That the ^[j]nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah

² “The^(D) Lord also brings a ^[c]charge against Judah,
And will punish Jacob according to his ways;
According to his deeds He will recompense him.
³ He took his brother ^(E)by the heel in the womb,
And in his strength he ^(F)struggled with God.
⁴ Yes, he struggled with the Angel and prevailed;
He wept, and sought favor from Him.
He found Him in ^(G)Bethel,
And there He spoke to us—
⁵ That is, the Lord God of hosts.
The Lord is His ^(H)memorable name.
^6 (I)So you, by the help of your God, return;
Observe mercy and justice,
And wait on your God continually.

⁷ “A cunning ^[d]Canaanite!
^(J)Deceitful scales are in his hand;
He loves to oppress.
⁸ And Ephraim said,
^(K)‘Surely I have become rich,
I have found wealth for myself;
In all my labors
They shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.’

⁹ “But I am the Lord your God,
Ever since the land of Egypt;
^(L)I will again make you dwell in tents,
As in the days of the appointed feast.
^10 (M)I have also spoken by the prophets,
And have multiplied visions;
I have given ^[e]symbols ^[f]through the witness of the prophets.”

¹¹ Though ^(N)Gilead has idols—
Surely they are ^[g]vanity—
Though they sacrifice bulls in ^(O)Gilgal,
Indeed their altars shall be heaps in the furrows of the field.

¹² Jacob ^(P)fled to the country of Syria;
^(Q)Israel served for a spouse,
And for a wife he tended sheep.
^13 (R)By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt,
And by a prophet he was preserved.
¹⁴ Ephraim ^(S)provoked Him to anger most bitterly;
Therefore his Lord will leave the guilt of his bloodshed upon him,
^(T)And return his reproach upon him.