Rouse yourself, God, and defend your cause! Remember that godless people laugh at you all day long.

Don't forget how I, your servant, am insulted, how I endure all the curses of the heathen.

Your enemies insult your chosen king, O LORD! They insult him wherever he goes.

Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did the day Jerusalem was captured. Remember how they kept saying, "Tear it down to the ground!"

On your walls, Jerusalem, I have placed sentries; They must never be silent day or night. They must remind the LORD of his promises And never let him forget them.

They must give him no rest until he restores Jerusalem And makes it a city the whole world praises.

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of all countries were destroyed. God remembered great Babylon and made her drink the wine from his cup---the wine of his furious anger.

Happy are those who are concerned for the poor; the LORD will help them when they are in trouble.

Save me from all my sins, and don't let fools make fun of me.

You are the judge of us all; rise and give the proud what they deserve!

How much longer will criminals be proud and boast about their crimes?

They kill widows and orphans, and murder the strangers who live in our land.

My people, how can you be such stupid fools? When will you ever learn?

But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.'

Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.

You sent your servants to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees, and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests.

But I did not, since that would have brought dishonor to my name among the nations which had seen me lead Israel out of Egypt.