For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you.

The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.

if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause,

Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God!

Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.

Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord?

who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;

Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed.

For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet—

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked.

in whose hands are evil devices, and whose right hands are full of bribes.

When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.

Do not drag me off with the wicked, with the workers of evil, who speak peace with their neighbors while evil is in their hearts.

Give to them according to their work and according to the evil of their deeds; give to them according to the work of their hands; render them their due reward.

Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me!

They repay me evil for good; my soul is bereft.

He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.

There the evildoers lie fallen; they are thrust down, unable to rise.

He Will Not Forsake His Saints

Of David.

Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers!

Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!

Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.

For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.

they are not put to shame in evil times; in the days of famine they have abundance.

Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever.

Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.

For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.

“You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.

The Steadfast Love of God Endures

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”

Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.

You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah

Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

He will return the evil to my enemies; in your faithfulness put an end to them.

Let death steal over them; let them go down to Sheol alive; for evil is in their dwelling place and in their heart.

All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil.

deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men.

You, Lord God of hosts, are God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations; spare none of those who treacherously plot evil. Selah

Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers,

They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?”

Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.

no evil shall be allowed to befall you, no plague come near your tent.

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

For behold, your enemies, O Lord, for behold, your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered.

My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.

Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?

O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

A perverse heart shall be far from me; I will know nothing of evil.

Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.

They mounted up to heaven; they went down to the depths; their courage melted away in their evil plight;

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.

When they are diminished and brought low through oppression, evil, and sorrow,

So they reward me evil for good, and hatred for my love.

May this be the reward of my accusers from the Lord, of those who speak evil against my life!

I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word.

Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

They draw near who persecute me with evil purpose; they are far from your law.

The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.

But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be upon Israel!

Deliver Me, O Lord, from Evil Men

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men; preserve me from violent men,

who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually.

Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot, or they will be exalted! Selah

Let not the slanderer be established in the land; let evil hunt down the violent man speedily!

Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!

Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

Keep me from the trap that they have laid for me and from the snares of evildoers!