Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

Certainly the Lord guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.

He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver.

Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

the plague that comes in the darkness, or the disease that comes at noon.

Is your loyal love proclaimed in the grave, or your faithfulness in the place of the dead?

The waves of death engulfed me, the currents of chaos overwhelmed me.

who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion,

He sent them an assuring word and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.

When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.

Come! Witness the exploits of the Lord, who brings devastation to the earth!

Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

You make mankind return to the dust, and say, “Return, O people!”

Those who seek my life try to entrap me; those who want to harm me speak destructive words; all day long they say deceitful things.

He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.

O Lord, how long are you going to just stand there and watch this? Rescue me from their destructive attacks; guard my life from the young lions!