0 The just shall rejoice in the Lord, and shall hope in him: and all the upright in heart shall be praised.
Who whet their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
Who whet their tongues like a sword, who aim venomous words like arrows,
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
who sharpen their tongues like swords. They aim their arrow—a cruel word—
Hear my prayer: all flesh will come to you.
O hear my prayer: all flesh shall come to thee.
They have spoken vain things every one to his neighbour: with deceitful lips, and with a double heart have they spoken.
Attend to my supplication: for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
1 Be thou exalted, O God, above the l heavens: and thy glory above all the earth.
For behold they have caught my soul: the mighty have rushed in upon me:
5 Grief in the heart of a man shall bring him low, but with a good word he shall be made glad.
1 By three things the earth is disturbed, and the fourth it cannot bear:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
1 And I will make Jerusalem to be heaps of sand, and dens of dragons: and I will make the cities of Juda desolate, for want of an inhabitant.