Let the sea and everything in it shout, along with the world and those who live in it!

When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

A psalm of David. The Lord owns the earth and all it contains, the world and all who live in it.

for you live among them. You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

When the sovereign judge scatters kings, let it snow on Zalmon!

The descendants of his servants will inherit it, and those who are loyal to him will live in it.

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

But it is said of Zion’s residents, “Each one of these was born in her, and the sovereign One makes her secure.”

Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, “Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!”