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God looks down from heaven on the children of men, To see if there are any who understood, Who seek after God.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on God?

There they were in great fear, where no fear was, For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, Because God has rejected them.

Oh that the yeshu`ah of Yisra'el would come out of Tziyon! When God brings back the captivity of his people, Then shall Ya`akov rejoice. Yisra'el shall be glad.

< > Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

Hear my prayer, God. Listen to the words of my mouth.

For strangers have risen up against me. Violent men have sought after my soul. They haven't set God before them. Selah.

Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the one who sustains my soul.

< > Listen to my prayer, God. Don't hide yourself from my supplication.

As for me, I will call on God. The LORD will save me.

God, who is enthroned forever, Will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, Who don't fear God.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, But I will trust in you.

< > Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, God.

Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.

In God, I will praise his word. In the LORD, I will praise his word.

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Your vows are on me, God. I will give thank offerings to you.

For you have delivered my soul from death, And prevented my feet from falling, That I may walk before God in the light of the living.