Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.

When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company.

I hate the mob of evil men, and do not associate with the wicked.

Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the Lord are the ones who will possess the land.

Hide me from the plots of evil men, from the crowd of evildoers.

“Surely, God does not reject a blameless man, nor does he grasp the hand of the evildoers.

Yes, wild dogs surround me – a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

When evil men attack me to devour my flesh, when my adversaries and enemies attack me, they stumble and fall.

I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me; I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me.

Who will rise up to defend me against the wicked? Who will stand up for me against the evildoers?

Sing to the Lord! Praise the Lord! For he rescues the oppressed from the clutches of evildoers.

You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.

Yet he too is wise and he will bring disaster; he does not retract his decree. He will attack the wicked nation, and the nation that helps those who commit sin.

The sinful nation is as good as dead, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the Lord, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.

But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.