⁴ I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

² How long will you go on judging falsely, having respect for the persons of evil-doers? (Selah.)

³ Give ear to the cause of the poor and the children without fathers; let those who are troubled and in need have their rights.

⁴ Be the saviour of the poor and those who have nothing: take them out of the hand of the evil-doers.

⁵ They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

⁶ I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:

⁷ But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.

⁸ Up! O God, come as judge of the earth; for all the nations are your heritage.

¹⁷ For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.

⁸ Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

¹⁴ He has put on high the horn of his people, for the praise of all his saints; even the children of Israel, a people which is near to him. Let the Lord be praised.

²² How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

⁵ Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

⁶ Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

²⁰ And about the ten horns on his head and the other which came up, causing the fall of three; that horn which had eyes, and a mouth saying great things, which seemed to be greater than the other horns.

²¹ And I saw how that horn made war on the saints and overcame them,