¹³ Up! Lord, come out against him, make him low, with your sword be my saviour from the evil-doer.

⁷ Come to me, Lord; keep me safe, O my God; for you have given all my haters blows on their face-bones; the teeth of the evil-doers have been broken by you.

²⁸ To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

¹² Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

⁹ Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?

²⁶ Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.

⁵ They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.

¹⁵ Will the axe say high-sounding words against him who is using it, or the blade be full of pride against him who is cutting with it? As if a rod had the power of shaking him who is using it, or as if a stick might take up him who is not wood.

⁵ Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!

¹²⁶ It is time, O Lord, for you to let your work be seen; for they have made your law without effect.

²⁶ Up! and come to our help, and give us salvation because of your mercy.

²³ Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

²⁰ Make my soul safe from the sword, my life from the power of the dog.

¹¹ God is the judge of the upright, and is angry with the evil-doers every day.

¹² If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.

¹³ He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.

⁶ Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.