¹⁸ Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.

⁸ Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.

¹⁹ The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

⁶ Do you thus requite Yahweh, Foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

¹⁴ But I worked for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.

⁶ I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

⁷ and give him no rest, until he establish, and until he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

²³ Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;

⁷ Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, The day of Jerusalem; Who said, "Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!"

² Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

³ Yahweh, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked triumph?

⁴ They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.

⁵ They break your people in pieces, Yahweh, And afflict your heritage.

⁶ They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.

⁷ They say, "Yah will not see, Neither will Jacob's God consider."

⁸ Consider, you senseless among the people; You fools, when will you be wise?

⁵⁰ Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, How I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,

⁵¹ With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, With which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.

²² Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

¹ > Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.