As for God’s chosen people who are in the land, and the leading officials I admired so much –

Violent men perjure themselves, and falsely accuse me.

which my lips uttered and my mouth spoke when I was in trouble.

God deserves praise, for he did not reject my prayer or abandon his love for me!

My lips will shout for joy! Yes, I will sing your praises! I will praise you when you rescue me!

when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt, and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.

who said, “Let’s take over the pastures of God!”

My hand will support him, and my arm will strengthen him.

How blessed is the one whom you instruct, O Lord, the one whom you teach from your law,

The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

The sea is his, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land.

where your ancestors challenged my authority, and tried my patience, even though they had seen my work.

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

The trees of the Lord receive all the rain they need, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,

where the birds make nests, near the evergreens in which the herons live.

Recall the miraculous deeds he performed, his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,

He sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he had chosen.

They did not destroy the nations, as the Lord had commanded them to do.

Let those delivered by the Lord speak out, those whom he delivered from the power of the enemy,

May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!