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So now be wise, you kings: take his teaching, you judges of the earth.

Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,

I send up a cry to the Lord with my voice, and he gives me an answer from his holy hill. (Selah.)

See how the Lord has made great his mercy for me; the Lord will give ear to my cry.

There are numbers who say, Who will do us any good? the light of his face has gone from us.

For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

I will give praise to the Lord for his righteousness; I will make a song to the name of the Lord Most High.

You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;

But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.

Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.

When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.

The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.

The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.