⁵ Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

²³ But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

¹⁴ Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness.

²⁵ I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.

²⁷ Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

²⁸ Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.> Have pity on me, O God, in your mercy; out of a full heart, take away my sin.

¹⁴ Alexander the copper-worker did me much wrong: the Lord will give him the reward of his works:

²² I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.

¹¹ Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.

¹² But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

⁵ You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

⁶ They come back in the evening; they make a noise like a dog, and go round the town.

⁷ See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

⁸ But you are laughing at them, O Lord; you will make sport of all the nations.

⁹ O my strength, I will put my hope in you; because God is my strong tower.

¹⁰ The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

¹¹ Put them not to death, for so my people will keep the memory of them: let them be sent in all directions by your power; make them low, O Lord our saviour.

¹² Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

¹³ Put an end to them in your wrath, put an end to them, so that they may not be seen again; let them see that God is ruling in Jacob and to the ends of the earth. (Selah.)

⁹ Let your face be turned from my wrongdoing, and take away all my sins.