Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; ¹  you hate ²  all who behave wickedly. ³ 

He mounted ¹  a winged angel ²  and flew; he glided ³  on the wings of the wind. ⁴ 

before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me. ¹ 

I keep track of ¹  every bird in the hills, and the insects ²  of the field are mine.

I am oppressed and suffering! O God, deliver and protect me! ¹ 

For you give them splendor and strength. ¹  By your favor we are victorious. ² 

With trumpets and the blaring of the ram’s horn, shout out praises before the king, the Lord!

The lips of the righteous know ¹  what is pleasing, ²  but the speech ³  of the wicked is perverse.

The one who troubles ¹  his family ²  will inherit nothing, ³  and the fool ⁴  will be a servant to the wise person. ⁵ 

The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. ¹  How does that benefit him? ² 

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life’s breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

You conceive straw, ¹  you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you. ² 

Look, all of them are nothing, ¹  their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance. ² 

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but ¹  the one who humbles ²  himself will be exalted.”

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent ¹  from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Like an eagle that stirs up ¹  its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord ²  spread out his wings and took him, ³  he lifted him up on his pinions.

The people ¹  who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

Far from where people live ¹  he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, ²  far from other people he dangles and sways. ³ 

Then I will ¹  tell about all your praiseworthy acts; ²  in the gates of Daughter Zion ³  I will rejoice because of your deliverance.” ⁴ 

The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; ¹  the oppressed are trapped ²  by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up. ³