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Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.

Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

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

The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper"s tongue shall slay him.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;