1For evil-doers fret thou not thyself unquietly; Nor do thou envy bear to those that work iniquity. | 2For, even like unto the grass, soon be cut down shall they; And, like the green and tender herb, they wither shall away. | 3Set thou thy trust upon the Lord, and be thou doing good; And so thou in the land shalt dwell, and verily have food. | 4Delight thyself in God; he’ll give thine heart’s desire to thee. 5Thy way to God commit, him trust, it bring to pass shall he. | 6And, like unto the light, he shall thy righteousness display; And he thy judgment shall bring forth like noon-tide of the day. | 7Rest in the Lord, and patiently wait for him: do not fret For him who, prosp’ring in his way, success in sin doth get. | 8Do thou from anger cease, and wrath see thou forsake also: Fret not thyself in any wise, that evil thou should’st do. | 9For those that evil doers are shall be cut off and fall: But those that wait upon the Lord the earth inherit shall. | 10For yet a little while, and then the wicked shall not be; His place thou shalt consider well, but it thou shalt not see. | 11But by inheritance the earth the meek ones shall possess: They also shall delight themselves in an abundant peace. | 12The wicked plots against the just, and at him whets his teeth: 13The Lord shall laugh at him, because his day he coming seeth. | 14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and bent their bow, to slay The poor and needy, and to kill men of an upright way. | 15But their own sword, which they have drawn, shall enter their own heart: Their bows which they have bent shall break, and into pieces part. | 16A little that a just man hath is more and better far Than is the wealth of many such as lewd and wicked are. | 17For sinners’ arms shall broken be; but God the just sustains. 18God knows the just man’s days, and still their heritage remains. | 19They shall not be asham’d when they the evil time do see; And when the days of famine are, they satisfy’d shall be. | 20But wicked men, and foes of God, as fat of lambs, decay; They shall consume, yea, into smoke they shall consume away. | 21The wicked borrows, but the same again he doth not pay; Whereas the righteous mercy shews, and gives his own away. | 22For such as blessed be of him the earth inherit shall; And they that cursed are of him shall be destroyed all. | 23A good man’s footsteps by the Lord are ordered aright; And in the way wherein he walks he greatly doth delight. | 24Although he fall, yet shall he not be cast down utterly; Because the Lord with his own hand upholds him mightily. | 25I have been young, and now am old, yet have I never seen The just man left, nor that his seed for bread have beggars been. | 26He’s ever merciful, and lends: his seed is bless’d therefore. 27Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore. | 28For God loves judgment, and his saints leaves not in any case; They are kept ever: but cut off shall be the sinner’s race. | 29The just inherit shall the land, and ever in it dwell: 30The just man’s mouth doth wisdom speak; his tongue doth judgment tell. | 31In’s heart the law is of his God, his steps slide not away. 32The wicked man doth watch the just, and seeketh him to slay. | 33Yet him the Lord will not forsake, nor leave him in his hands: The righteous will he not condemn, when he in judgment stands. | 34Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and thee exalt shall he Th’ earth to inherit; when cut off the wicked thou shalt see. | 35I saw the wicked great in pow’r, spread like a green bay-tree: 36He pass’d, yea, was not; him I sought, but found he could not be. | 37Mark thou the perfect, and behold the man of uprightness; Because that surely of this man the latter end is peace. | 38But those men that transgressors are shall be destroy’d together; The latter end of wicked men shall be cut off for ever. | 39But the salvation of the just is from the Lord above; He in the time of their distress their stay and strength doth prove. | 40The Lord shall help, and them deliver: he shall them free and save From wicked men; because in him their confidence they have. | |