Deliver to the God of Jerusalem the vessels that are given to you for the service of the temple of your God.

They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?

Will it go down to the barred gates of death? Will we descend together into the dust?”

know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.

For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’

Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”

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

The enemy’s cities have been reduced to permanent ruins; you destroyed their cities; all memory of the enemies has perished.

You will not abandon me to Sheol; you will not allow your faithful follower to see the Pit.

They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

Even when an army is deployed against me, I do not fear. Even when war is imminent, I remain confident.

Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the Lord are the ones who will possess the land.

My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

God says this to the evildoer: “How can you declare my commands, and talk about my covenant?