As for those who are bent on traveling a sinful path, may the Lord remove them, along with those who behave wickedly! May Israel experience peace!

Let the fields and everything in them celebrate! Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy

They will travel to Sheol like sheep, with death as their shepherd. The godly will rule over them when the day of vindication dawns; Sheol will consume their bodies and they will no longer live in impressive houses.

You terrified the nations with your battle cry; you destroyed the wicked; you permanently wiped out all memory of them.

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

O God, you cause abundant showers to fall on your chosen people. When they are tired, you sustain them,

Let them sing about the Lord’s deeds, for the Lord’s splendor is magnificent.

May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful!

You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

When you ignore them, they panic. When you take away their life’s breath, they die and return to dust.

Whoever is wise, let him take note of these things! Let them consider the Lord’s acts of loyal love!

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

I mention Rahab and Babylon to my followers. Here are Philistia and Tyre, along with Ethiopia. It is said of them, “This one was born there.”

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.

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

They repay me evil for the good I have done; though I have tried to do good to them, they hurl accusations at me.

For God will deliver Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, and his people will again live in them and possess Zion.

As they pass through the Baca Valley, he provides a spring for them. The rain even covers it with pools of water.

So I made a vow in my anger, ‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’”