⁸ 
Consider thoughtfully, you senseless (stupid ones) among the people;
And you [dull-minded] fools, when will you become wise and understand?
⁹ 
He who made the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?
¹⁰ 
He who instructs the nations,
Does He not rebuke and punish,
He who teaches man knowledge?
¹¹ 
The Lord knows the thoughts of man,
That they are a mere breath (vain, empty, futile).^(B)

¹² 
Blessed [with wisdom and prosperity] is the man whom You discipline and instruct, O Lord,
And whom You teach from Your law,
¹³ 
That You may grant him [power to calm himself and find] peace in the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked and ungodly.
¹⁴ 
For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He abandon His inheritance.
¹⁵ 
For judgment will again be righteous,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.
¹⁶ 
Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?
Who will take a stand for me against those who do wickedness?

¹⁷ 
If the Lord had not been my help,
I would soon have dwelt in [the land of] silence.
¹⁸ 
If I say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your compassion and lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.
¹⁹ 
When my anxious thoughts multiply within me,
Your comforts delight me.
²⁰ 
Can a throne of destruction be allied with You,
One which frames and devises mischief by decree [under the sacred name of law]?
²¹ 
They band themselves together against the life of the righteous
And condemn the innocent to death.
²² 
But the Lord has become my high tower and defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
²³ 
He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.

⁶ 
O come, let us worship and bow down,
Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].
⁷ 
For He is our God
And we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand.
Today, if you will hear His voice,^(D)
8 
Do not harden your hearts and become spiritually dull as at Meribah [the place of strife],
And as at Massah [the place of testing] in the wilderness,^(E)
9 
“When your fathers tested Me,
They tried Me, even though they had seen My work [of miracles].
¹⁰ 
“For forty years I was grieved and disgusted with that generation,
And I said, ‘They are a people who err in their heart,
And they do not acknowledge or regard My ways.’
¹¹ 
“Therefore I swore [an oath] in My wrath,
‘They absolutely shall not enter My rest [the land of promise].’”^(F)

^7 
[b]Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
⁸ 
Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name;
Bring an offering and come into His courts.
⁹ 
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;
Tremble [in submissive wonder] before Him, all the earth.
¹⁰ 
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns;
Indeed, the world is firmly and securely established, it shall not be moved;
He will judge and rule the people with fairness.”^(H)

¹¹ 
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
Let the sea roar, and all the things it contains;
¹² 
Let the field be exultant, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
¹³ 
Before the Lord, for He is coming,
For He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness
And the peoples in His faithfulness.^(I)

“They who had no news of Him shall see,
And they who have not heard [of Him] shall understand.”^(A)