Judge them, O God; let them fail of their counsels: cast them out according to the abundance of their ungodliness; for they have provoked You, O Lord.

[For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride.

And for [their] cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction be denounced; [they shall fall] by the wrath of utter destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is Lord to the ends of the earth. Pause.

Let their table before them be for a snare, and for a recompense, and for a stumbling block.

Pour out Your wrath upon them, and let the fury of Your anger take hold of them.

Therefore deliver up their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword. Let their women be childless and widows, and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.

And You, O Lord, know all their deadly counsel against me: provide no atonement for their iniquities, and do not blot out their sins from before You. Let their weakness come before You; deal with them in the time of Your wrath.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much harm. May the Lord repay him according to his works;

Give back to her as also she gave back, and pay back double as also she [did], and according to her works. In her cup which she mixed, mix for her a double [portion].

Why did the heathen rage, and the nations imagine vain things?

[saying], Let us break through Their bonds, and cast away Their yoke from us.

Then shall He speak to them in His anger, and trouble them in His fury.

You shall destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from [among] the sons of men.

Thus says the Lord God: It shall also come to pass in that day, that thoughts shall rise up into your heart, and you shall devise an evil plan.

and mercy is Yours, O Lord; for You will recompense everyone according to his works.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor recompensed us according to our iniquities.

He loved cursing also, and it shall come upon him; and he took not pleasure in blessing, so it shall be removed far from him.

Let it be to him as a garment which he puts on, and as a girdle with which he girds himself continually.

But You, O Lord, my Lord, deal [mercifully] with me, for Your name's sake; for Your mercy is good.

who forgives all your transgressions, who heals all your diseases;

who redeems your life from corruption; who crowns you with mercy and compassion;

who will recompense to each one according to his works:

But to those who are contentious, and who disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

Behold then the kindness and severity of God: upon those that fell, severity; but upon you, kindness, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also shall be cut off.

And after all that has come upon us because of our evil deeds, and our great trespass, [it is clear] that there is none such as our God, for You have lightly visited our iniquities, and given us deliverance;