How blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

Wait patiently for the Lord! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes!

Then the king will be attracted by your beauty. After all, he is your master! Submit to him!

May he live! May they offer him gold from Sheba! May they continually pray for him! May they pronounce blessings on him all day long!

All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give him thanks! Praise his name!

May no one show him kindness! May no one have compassion on his fatherless children!

A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

The scorner does not love one who corrects him; he will not go to the wise.

Do not say, “I will do to him just as he has done to me; I will pay him back according to what he has done.”

Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.

Like one who grabs a wild dog by the ears, so is the person passing by who becomes furious over a quarrel not his own.

If someone blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be counted as a curse to him.

Surely the king’s authority is absolute; no one can say to him, “What are you doing?”

Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

Those remaining in Zion, those left in Jerusalem, will be called “holy,” all in Jerusalem who are destined to live.

He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation, he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth. Look, they come quickly and swiftly.

Their roar is like a lion’s; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

Then you must recall the Lord’s instructions and the prophetic testimony of what would happen. Certainly they say such things because their minds are spiritually darkened.