פָּעַל

You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O LORD, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.

For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

…if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?

They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

Does not disaster come to the unjust and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times,

He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.

There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

Teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again.’

If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

I get my knowledge from afar, and I will ascribe justice to my Maker.

Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ‘You have done wrong’?

They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.

He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,

Do not drag me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while malice is in their hearts.

How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!

There the evildoers lie fallen, thrown down and unable to rise.

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon God.

No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.

Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and save me from men of bloodshed.

Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,

Summon Your power, O God; show Your strength, O God, which You have exerted on our behalf.

Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

…that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.

They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.

Who will rise up for me against the wicked? Who will stand for me against the workers of iniquity?

Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.

They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.

Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.

The way of the LORD is a refuge to the upright, but destruction awaits those who do evil.

The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.

Justice executed is a joy to the righteous, but a terror to the workers of iniquity.

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

O LORD, You will establish peace for us. For all that we have accomplished, You have done for us.

Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.”

Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.