⁷ By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

²³ But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

¹³ Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

¹⁹ Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.

²⁰ Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.

²¹ For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

²² Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

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.

²⁵ Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

¹⁰ And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

¹⁵ Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:

⁸ No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

²⁰ What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

²¹ They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

¹⁵ Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

⁹ Send destruction on them, O Lord, make a division of tongues among them: for I have seen fighting and violent acts in the town.

¹² There the workers of evil have come down: they have been made low, and will not be lifted up.