They cried, but there was no deliverer: [even] to the Lord, but He hearkened not to them.

For it shall be that when you call upon me, I will not listen to you: wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me.

Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.

Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness; they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

[Yea], our soul has been exceedingly filled [with it]: [let] the reproach [be] to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.

I will go up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

They that see you shall marvel at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;