¹ Why do you boast about evil, you hero?
The mercy of God endures all day long.
² Your tongue plans destruction.
It is like a sharpened razor, you scheming liar.
³ You love evil rather than good. Interlude
You love lying rather than speaking what is right.
⁴ You lying tongue, you love every word that devours!

⁵ But God will tear you down forever.
He will grab you and pull you out of your tent. Interlude
He will uproot you from the land of the living.
⁶ Then the righteous will see and fear.
Then they will laugh at him:
⁷ “Look, here is the man who did not make God his stronghold,
but trusted in the greatness of his wealth.
He grew strong by his destructive deeds!”

⁸ But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God.
I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever.
⁹ I will thank you forever because you have done this.
I will hope in your name in the presence of your favored ones
    because it is good.

¹ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

⁴ Don’t they know, all those evildoers,
    who devour my people as if they were eating bread?
They do not call on God.
⁵ There they are, terrified, where there was nothing to fear.
For God scattered the bones of those who camped against you.
You put them to shame, because God despised them.

⁶ Who will provide salvation for Israel from Zion? ^[4]
When God restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!

¹ God, save me by your name.
By your power judge me justly.
² God, hear my prayer.
Turn your ear to the words of my mouth.

³ For strangers have risen up against me.
Ruthless men seek my life. Interlude
They pay no attention to God.

⁴ Indeed, God is my helper.
The Lord is the one who preserves my life.
⁵ Let evil return on those who oppress me.
In your faithfulness destroy them.

⁶ I will sacrifice willingly to you.
I will praise your name, O Lord, because it is good.
⁷ Surely, from all my distress he has delivered me.
My eyes have looked down on my enemies.