Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,

And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.