Your instructions are totally reliable; all your just regulations endure.

You will eat what you worked so hard to grow. You will be blessed and secure.

Protect me from the snare they have laid for me, and the traps the evildoers have set.

I will focus on your honor and majestic splendor, and your amazing deeds!

Even those living in the most remote areas are awestruck by your acts; you cause those living in the east and west to praise you.

that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake-charmer.

Certainly your angry judgment upon men will bring you praise; you reveal your anger in full measure.

I am like an owl in the wilderness; I am like a screech owl among the ruins.

Many say about me, “God will not deliver him.” (Selah)

From the place where he lives he looks carefully at all the earth’s inhabitants.

O God, listen to my prayer! Pay attention to what I say!

May those who say, “Aha! Aha!” be driven back and disgraced!

Restore us, O God our deliverer! Do not be displeased with us!

Your throne has been secure from ancient times; you have always been king.

The Lord knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it engulfed the group led by Abiram.

They surround me and say hateful things; they attack me for no reason.

With my lips I proclaim all the regulations you have revealed.

I will speak about your regulations before kings and not be ashamed.

Your statutes have been my songs in the house where I live.