הַוָּה

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! laid: Heb. lifted up

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? my taste: Heb. my palate

They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. faithfulness: or, stedfastness their mouth: Heb. his mouth, that is, the mouth of any of them very: Heb. wickednesses

They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. wickedness: or, substance

Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.

To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast. Altaschith: or, Destroy not

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. the substance: or, the wicked for their wickedness

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up. his: Heb. the mischief of his soul