How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord!

The Lord is good to all, and has compassion on all he has made.

Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations.

the one who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who remains forever faithful,

may an enemy relentlessly chase me and catch me; may he trample me to death and leave me lying dishonored in the dust. (Selah)

For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

He does not charge interest when he lends his money. He does not take bribes to testify against the innocent. The one who lives like this will never be upended.

For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one’s life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning.

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

O Lord, do not let me be humiliated, for I call out to you! May evil men be humiliated! May they go wailing to the grave!

Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food. (If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!)

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, “May the Lord be praised!”

Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves,

Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Exalt the one who rides on the clouds! For the Lord is his name! Rejoice before him!

He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

The Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty, the Lord is robed, he wears strength around his waist. Indeed, the world is established, it cannot be moved.

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’