The sum total of the descendants of Perez who were settling in Jerusalem was 468 exceptional men.

I was very upset, and I threw all of Tobiah’s household possessions out of the storeroom.

The traders and sellers of all kinds of merchandise spent the night outside Jerusalem once or twice.

And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

For he looks to the ends of the earth and observes everything under the heavens.

“Indeed, God does all these things, twice, three times, in his dealings with a person,

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who behave wickedly.

Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping!

May all my enemies be humiliated and absolutely terrified! May they turn back and be suddenly humiliated!

For the music director; according to the alumoth-labben style; a psalm of David. I will thank the Lord with all my heart! I will tell about all your amazing deeds!

Then I will tell about all your praiseworthy acts; in the gates of Daughter Zion I will rejoice because of your deliverance.”

The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, “God won’t hold me accountable; he doesn’t care.”

He is secure at all times. He has no regard for your commands; he disdains all his enemies.

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts!