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The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' [are] all his devices.

Pain do his ways at all times, On high [are] Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them.

He hath said in his heart, `I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

Jehovah [is] king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!

`Jehovah [is] in his holy temple: Jehovah -- in the heavens [is] His throne. His eyes see -- His eyelids try the sons of men.

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

For righteous [is] Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

The counsel of the poor ye cause to stink, Because Jehovah [is] his refuge.

`Who doth give from Zion the salvation of Israel? When Jehovah doth turn back [To] a captivity of His people, Jacob doth rejoice -- Israel is glad!

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.