Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life?

By David. O Lord, fight those who fight with me! Attack those who attack me!

Your justice is like the highest mountains, your fairness like the deepest sea; you preserve mankind and the animal kingdom.

I can see the evildoers! They have fallen! They have been knocked down and are unable to get up!

He will vindicate you in broad daylight, and publicly defend your just cause.

The Lord supports him on his sickbed; you completely heal him from his illness.

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

Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother; he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price

All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to God.

Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

God delivers me and exalts me; God is my strong protector and my shelter.

They did not keep their covenant with God, and they refused to obey his law.

When the Lord heard this, he was furious. A fire broke out against Jacob, and his anger flared up against Israel,

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!

For who in the skies can compare to the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings,

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

But you have spurned and rejected him; you are angry with your chosen king.

He says, “Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

Sing to the Lord! Praise his name! Announce every day how he delivers!

All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.