Strap your sword to your thigh, O warrior! Appear in your majestic splendor!

Say to God: “How awesome are your deeds! Because of your great power your enemies cower in fear before you.

During his days the godly will flourish; peace will prevail as long as the moon remains in the sky.

His glorious name deserves praise forevermore! May his majestic splendor fill the whole earth! We agree! We agree!

Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

I say, “O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

They made the Lord angry by their actions, and a plague broke out among them.

He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

ג (Gimel) Be kind to your servant! Then I will live and keep your instructions.

How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks wisdom, whoever does it destroys his own life.

The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!

Remind me of what happened! Let’s debate! You, prove to me that you are right!

(63:19b) If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you!

Lord, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

In light of all this, how can you still hold back, Lord? How can you be silent and continue to humiliate us?