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For you are not a God who desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you.

Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

A Shiggaion of David which he sang to Yahweh on account of Cush, a Benjaminite. O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge. Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me.

O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands,

Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God.

My shield is with God who saves the upright of heart.

God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day.

The wicked shall turn back to Sheol, all the nations forgetting God,

With bald-faced pride the wicked will not seek God. There is no God in any of his thoughts.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."

Rise up, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget the afflicted.

Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, "You will not call me to account."

Consider and answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death,

For the music director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good.

Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God.

There they are very fearful because God is with the generation of the righteous.

A miktam of David. Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in you.

Those who hurry after another god increase their sorrows. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood, nor take up their names on my lips.

As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words.

Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold.