Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

Let destruction come upon him at unawares and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.

I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people.

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

[This] thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness and let them not rejoice over me.

Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify [themselves] against me.

And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness [and] of thy praise all the day long.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

He deviseth mischief upon his bed he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good he abhorreth not evil.

Thy righteousness [is] like the great mountains thy judgments [are] a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee and thy righteousness to the upright in heart.

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

Delight thyself also in the LORD and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

For yet a little while, and the wicked [shall] not [be]: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it [shall] not [be].

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.

A little that a righteous man hath [is] better than the riches of many wicked.

The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.

But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD [shall be] as the fat of lambs: they shall consume into smoke shall they consume away.

For [such as be] blessed of him shall inherit the earth and [they that be] cursed of him shall be cut off.

Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth [him with] his hand.

[He is] ever merciful, and lendeth and his seed [is] blessed.

For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see [it].

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

And the LORD shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Grace [be] to you and peace from God our Father, and [from] the Lord Jesus Christ.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

And whether we be afflicted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, [it is] for your consolation and salvation.

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver [us]

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also [are] ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.

But [as] God [is] true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

For all the promises of God in him [are] yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.