Give ear unto my words, O Lord,
my meditation weigh.
² Hear my loud cry, my King, my God;
for I to thee will pray.

³ Lord, thou shalt early hear my voice:
I early will direct
My pray’r to thee; and, looking up,
an answer will expect.

⁴ For thou art not a God that doth
in wickedness delight;
Neither shall evil dwell with thee,
⁵ Nor fools stand in thy sight.

All that ill-doers are thou hat’st;
⁶ Cutt’st off that liars be:
The bloody and deceitful man
abhorred is by thee.

⁷ But I into thy house will come
in thine abundant grace;
And I will worship in thy fear
toward thy holy place.

⁸ Because of those mine enemies,
Lord, in thy righteousness
Do thou me lead; do thou thy way
make straight before my face.

⁹ For in their mouth there is no truth,
their inward part is ill;
Their throat’s an open sepulchre,
their tongue doth flatter still.

¹⁰ O God, destroy them; let them be
by their own counsel quell’d:
Them for their many sins cast out,
for they ‘gainst thee rebell’d.

¹¹ But let all joy that trust in thee,
and still make shouting noise;
For them thou sav’st; let all that love
thy name in thee rejoice.

¹² For, Lord, unto the righteous man
thou wilt thy blessing yield:
With favour thou wilt compass him
about, as with a shield.