You deliver oppressed people, but you watch the proud and bring them down.

He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

Serving beside them were their fellow Levites, the descendants of Merari, led by Ethan, son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch,

If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

For you defended my just cause; from your throne you pronounced a just decision.

He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water.

He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.

Then observers will say, “Yes indeed, the godly are rewarded! Yes indeed, there is a God who judges in the earth!”

The God who loves me will help me; God will enable me to triumph over my enemies.

Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion.

Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.

Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!

Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O Lord, being thoroughly aware of it.

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

Wisdom is found in the words of the discerning person, but the one who lacks wisdom will be disciplined.

Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.