Is it not misfortune for the unjust, and disaster for those who work iniquity?

Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints!

Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

if iniquity is in your hand – put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.

They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”

Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked –

There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies –

The words he speaks are sinful and deceitful; he does not care about doing what is wise and right.

Deliver me from evildoers! Rescue me from violent men!

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

If I had harbored sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.

Direct my steps by your word! Do not let any sin dominate me!

Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.

A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

The way of the Lord is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

The righteous do not encounter any harm, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.