They will lift you up in their hands, so you will not slip and fall on a stone.

Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we depend on the Lord our God.

The oppressed look on – let them rejoice! You who seek God, may you be encouraged!

But God has been my king from ancient times, performing acts of deliverance on the earth.

O God, invincible warrior, restore us! Smile on us! Then we will be delivered!

I will not break my covenant or go back on what I promised.

Do not sit in judgment on your servant, for no one alive is innocent before you.

Everything looks to you in anticipation, and you provide them with food on a regular basis.

He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

As for me, I said: “O Lord, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you!

As for you, O Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up, so I can pay them back!”

A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.

For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.

They say, “How does God know what we do? Is the sovereign one aware of what goes on?”

you kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and all you leaders on the earth,

Certainly none who rely on you will be humiliated. Those who deal in treachery will be thwarted and humiliated.

May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually!