²⁴ Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

⁸ The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

¹ <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

¹⁹ Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.

¹ Be my judge, O God, supporting my cause against a nation without religion; O keep me from the false and evil man.

⁵ That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

²⁰ The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.

²¹ For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

²² For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

²³ And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

²⁴ Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

⁶ For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,

²² Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth: