When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.

Give me understanding so that I might observe your law, and keep it with all my heart.

י (Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.

Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.

Pay attention to me and answer me! I am so upset and distressed, I am beside myself,

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

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

So I will give you thanks before the nations, O Lord! I will sing praises to you!

He summons the heavens above, as well as the earth, so that he might judge his people.

You have given your loyal followers a rallying flag, so that they might seek safety from the bow. (Selah)

I say to the proud, “Do not be proud,” and to the wicked, “Do not be so confident of victory!

ה (He) Teach me, O Lord, the lifestyle prescribed by your statutes, so that I might observe it continually.

when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.

so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

So now my heart will sing to you and not be silent; O Lord my God, I will always give thanks to you.

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

They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”

Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people!

Against you – you above all – I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.