Now we know that as many things as the law says, it speaks to those under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law [comes] [the] knowledge of sin.

Oh let the wickedness of sinners come to an end; and [then] You shall direct the righteous, O God that searches the hearts and minds.

God is a righteous Judge, and strong, and patient, not inflicting vengeance every day.

And on it He has fitted the instruments of death; He has completed His arrows for the raging ones.

He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. Pause.

Break the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

Arise, O Lord, prevent them, and cast them down; deliver my soul from the ungodly; [draw] Your sword,

Let Your hand be found by all Your enemies; let Your right hand find all that hate You.

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

Draw not away my soul with sinners, and destroy me not with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace with their neighbors, but evil are in their hearts.

Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their endeavors; give them according to the works of their hands; render their recompense unto them.

Let the deceitful lips become dumb, which speak iniquity against the righteous with pride and scorn.

[A Psalm] of David. Judge, O Lord, those that injure me, fight against them that fight against me.

Bring forth a sword, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me; say to my soul, I am your salvation.

Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.

For without cause they have hid for me their destructive snare; without a cause they have reproached my soul.

Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.

[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.

They have searched out iniquity; they have wearied themselves with searching diligently, a man shall approach and the heart is deep,

and their tongues have set him at nought, all that saw them were troubled;

who by His power is Lord over the ages, His eyes look upon the nations; let not them that provoke [Him] be exalted in themselves. Pause.

For the end, A Psalm of a Song by David. Let God arise, and let His enemies be scattered; and let them that hate Him flee from before Him.

As smoke vanishes, let them vanish: as wax melts before the fire, so let the sinners perish from before God.

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.

Let those that plot [evil] against my soul be ashamed and utterly fail; let those that seek my hurt be clothed with shame and dishonor.

Repay to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

Do to them as to Midian, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the Brook of Kishon.

Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna; [even] all their princes,

O my God, make them as a wheel, as stubble before the face of the wind.

so shall You persecute them with Your tempest, and trouble them in Your anger.

Let them be ashamed and troubled forevermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.

Set a sinner against him; and let an accuser stand at his right hand.

Let his days be few; and let another take his office of overseer.

Let his children wander without a dwelling place and beg; let them be cast out of their habitations.

Let him have no helper; neither let there be anyone to have compassion on his fatherless children.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

Because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the needy and poor man, [that] he might even slay the broken in heart.

Yea, he put on cursing as a garment, and it has come as water into his bowels, and as oil into his bones.

This is the dealing of the Lord with those who falsely accuse me, and of them that speak evil against my soul.

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze [it], raze [it], even to its foundations.

Blessed [shall he be] who shall seize and dash your infants against the rock.

[As for] the head of them that surround me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them.

Coals of fire shall fall upon them on the earth; and You shall cast them down in afflictions; they shall not bear up [under them].

Send lightning, and You shall scatter them: send forth Your arrows, and You shall discomfit them.

Send forth Your hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hand of strange children;

And Sihon king of Heshbon would not allow us to pass by him, because the Lord our God hardened his spirit, and made his heart stubborn, that he might be delivered into your hands, as it is this day.

And if a man shall rise up persecuting you and seeking your life, yet shall the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life with the Lord God, and you shall whirl the life of your enemies as in the midst of a sling.

And David heard it and said, Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself for a wife.

And it was reported to David, saying, Ahithophel also [is] among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord my God, disconcert, I pray, the counsel of Ahithophel.

And Absalom, and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite [is] better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord has purposed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, that the Lord might bring all evil upon Absalom.

And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his donkey, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

And it came to pass when the prophet was speaking to him, that he said to him, Have I made you the king's counselor? Take heed lest you be scourged! And the prophet became silent, and said, I know that [God] is disposed against you to destroy you, because you have done this thing, and have not hearkened to my counsel.

So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai; and then the king's wrath was appeased.

frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noonday even as in the night.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness";

HE. Her oppressors have become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her sins. Her young children have gone into captivity before the face of the oppressor.

The days of vengeance have come, the days of your recompense have come; and Israel shall be afflicted as the prophet that is mad, as a man deranged. By reason of the multitude of your iniquities your madness has abounded.

Hear, O heaven, and hearken, O earth! For the Lord has spoken, [saying], I have begotten and reared up children, but they have rebelled against Me.

but if you be not willing, nor hearken to Me, a sword shall devour you; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

But they disobeyed, and provoked His Holy Spirit; so He turned to be an enemy, He Himself contended against them.

we have committed iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from Your commandments and from Your judgments;

To you, O Lord our God, [belong] compassion and forgiveness, whereas we have departed [from You.]