The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.

Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.

Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.

He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.

They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.