Psalms 59:4

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers,

a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

This is so that innocent blood will not be shed in the middle of your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, leaving blood guilt on you.

“God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

“As in the days of your coming out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.”

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

At noon, Elijah mocked them, and said, “Cry aloud; for he is a god. Either he is deep in thought, or he has gone somewhere, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he sleeps and must be awakened.”

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity and seek after falsehood?

Vindicate me, Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness. Don’t let them gloat over me.

For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

Yahweh reigns! He is clothed with majesty! Yahweh is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

For they don’t sleep unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near.”

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

“Their feet are swift to shed blood.

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.