Pay attention, all you people, both rich and poor!

They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.

Yes, I find delight in your rules; they give me guidance.

even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.

Yes, your servant finds moral guidance there; those who obey them receive a rich reward.

Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated. Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted and humiliated.

Yes, the Lord will bestow his good blessings, and our land will yield its crops.

where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

Though rulers plot and slander me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

“Since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not defeated me.

Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.

Even my close friend whom I trusted, he who shared meals with me, has turned against me.

Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins. He will scoop you up and remove you from your home; he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

Everyone rejects God; they are all morally corrupt. None of them does what is right, not even one!

I will express my thanks to you with a stringed instrument, praising your faithfulness, O my God! I will sing praises to you accompanied by a harp, O Holy One of Israel!

All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice, for those who want to harm me will be embarrassed and ashamed.

Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)