Now we know that whatever the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight, for through the Law is the full true knowledge of sin.

O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

God judges the righteous, and the Mighty God is angry with the wicked every day.

He has also prepared instruments of death for him; He makes His arrows hotly pursue.

He has excavated a cistern and dug it, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their own foot is caught in the net which they hid.

Jehovah is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil one; investigate his wickedness, until You find no more.

Arise, O Jehovah, forestall him; bow him down; deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword,

Your hand shall find out all Your enemies; Your right hand shall find out those who hate You.

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

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, yet evil is in their hearts.

Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their practices; give them according to the work of their hands; give back to them what they deserve.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; the lips which speak with arrogance, haughtiness and contempt against the just.

i1 [A Psalm of David.]i0 par Plead my case, O Jehovah, against those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me.

Also draw out the spear and close up the way against those who pursue me; say to my soul, I am your salvation.

Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the Angel of Jehovah drive them away.

For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit; without cause they have dug for my soul.

Let death seize them, and let them go down alive into Sheol; for evil is among them and in their dwellings.

Let them be taken in their pride for the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips, along with the cursing and the lying which they speak.

Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they may not be; and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.

They devise injustice; they have finished searching out a plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are unfathomable.

So they shall stumble over their own tongues; everyone who sees them shall flee away.

He rules by His power forever; His eyes keep watch over the nations; let not the rebels lift themselves up and exalt. Selah.

i1 [To the chief Musician. A Psalm or Song of David.] i0 par Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered; let those also who hate Him flee before Him.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.

Let their table become a snare before them; and to those at peace, a trap.

Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let Your burning anger take hold of them.

Let them be ashamed; let those who are enemies of my soul be consumed; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor, who seek my hurt.

and return upon our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

Deal with them as with Midian, as with Sisera, as with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,

Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, yea, all their anointed like Zebah and Zalmunna,

O my God, make them like the whirling dust, like the chaff before the wind!

so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.

Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever; yea, let them be abashed and perish,

Set a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.

Let his days be few, and let another take his office.

Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also from the waste.

Let there be no one to extend mercy to him, nor any to show favor to his fatherless children.

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

because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, even to kill the disheartened.

As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it enter his body like water, and like oil into his bones.

Let this be the reward to my adversaries from Jehovah, and to those who speak evil against my soul.

Remember, O Jehovah, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, who said, Raze it, raze it, to its very foundation!

Blessed is the one who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the evil of their lips cover them;

let burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Cast forth lightning and scatter them; shoot out Your arrows and destroy them.

Extend Your hand from above; rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of the sons of foreigners,

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through; for Jehovah your God had made his spirit stubborn and hardened his heart, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.

If a man arises to pursue you and seek your soul, the soul of my lord shall be bound up in the bundle of life with Jehovah your God; and the souls of your enemies He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.

And when David heard that Nabal had died, he said, Blessed is Jehovah, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has kept His servant from evil! For Jehovah has returned the evil of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

And someone reported to David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness!

So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Jehovah had purposed to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Jehovah might bring calamity upon Absalom.

And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not carried out, he saddled a donkey, and arose and went home to his house, to his city, put his house in order, and hanged himself, and died; and he was buried in his father's tomb.

So it was, as he spoke with him, that the king said to him, Have we made you the king's counselor? Stop! Why should you be killed? So the prophet stopped, and said, I know that God has given counsel to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my counsel.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot bring about their success;

They meet with darkness by day, and grope at midday as in the night.

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

Her oppressors have become the chief; her enemies are at ease; for Jehovah has afflicted her for the multitude of her sins. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

The days of visitation have come; the days of retribution have come. Israel shall know. The prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and your great hatred.

Give heed, O heavens, and hear, O earth! For Jehovah has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against Me.

But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.

But they rebelled, and grieved His Holy Spirit; therefore He changed, to be their enemy, and He fought against them.

we have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your commandments and from Your judgments.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him.