³ Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;^(F)
    you are the one Israel praises.^[c](G)
4 In you our ancestors put their trust;
    they trusted and you delivered them.^(H)
5 To you they cried out^(I) and were saved;
    in you they trusted^(J) and were not put to shame.^(K)

⁶ But I am a worm^(L) and not a man,
    scorned by everyone,^(M) despised^(N) by the people.
⁷ All who see me mock me;^(O)
    they hurl insults,^(P) shaking their heads.^(Q)
8 “He trusts in the Lord,” they say,
    “let the Lord rescue him.^(R)
Let him deliver him,^(S)
    since he delights^(T) in him.”

⁹ Yet you brought me out of the womb;^(U)
    you made me trust^(V) in you, even at my mother’s breast.
¹⁰ From birth^(W) I was cast on you;
    from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

¹¹ Do not be far from me,^(X)
    for trouble is near^(Y)
    and there is no one to help.^(Z)

¹² Many bulls^(AA) surround me;^(AB)
    strong bulls of Bashan^(AC) encircle me.
¹³ Roaring lions^(AD) that tear their prey^(AE)
    open their mouths wide^(AF) against me.
¹⁴ I am poured out like water,
    and all my bones are out of joint.^(AG)
My heart has turned to wax;^(AH)
    it has melted^(AI) within me.
¹⁵ My mouth^[d] is dried up like a potsherd,^(AJ)
    and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;^(AK)
    you lay me in the dust^(AL) of death.

² “My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer
    because I am greatly disturbed.^(B)
3 I hear a rebuke^(C) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

⁴ “Surely you know how it has been from of old,^(D)
    ever since mankind^[a] was placed on the earth,
⁵ that the mirth of the wicked^(E) is brief,
    the joy of the godless^(F) lasts but a moment.^(G)
6 Though the pride^(H) of the godless person reaches to the heavens^(I)
    and his head touches the clouds,^(J)
7 he will perish forever,^(K) like his own dung;
    those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’^(L)
8 Like a dream^(M) he flies away,^(N) no more to be found,
    banished^(O) like a vision of the night.^(P)
9 The eye that saw him will not see him again;
    his place will look on him no more.^(Q)
10 His children^(R) must make amends to the poor;
    his own hands must give back his wealth.^(S)
11 The youthful vigor^(T) that fills his bones^(U)
    will lie with him in the dust.^(V)

¹² “Though evil^(W) is sweet in his mouth
    and he hides it under his tongue,^(X)
13 though he cannot bear to let it go
    and lets it linger in his mouth,^(Y)
14 yet his food will turn sour in his stomach;^(Z)
    it will become the venom of serpents^(AA) within him.
¹⁵ He will spit out the riches^(AB) he swallowed;
    God will make his stomach vomit^(AC) them up.
¹⁶ He will suck the poison^(AD) of serpents;
    the fangs of an adder will kill him.^(AE)
17 He will not enjoy the streams,
    the rivers^(AF) flowing with honey^(AG) and cream.^(AH)
18 What he toiled for he must give back uneaten;^(AI)
    he will not enjoy the profit from his trading.^(AJ)
19 For he has oppressed the poor^(AK) and left them destitute;^(AL)
    he has seized houses^(AM) he did not build.

²⁰ “Surely he will have no respite from his craving;^(AN)
    he cannot save himself by his treasure.^(AO)
21 Nothing is left for him to devour;
    his prosperity will not endure.^(AP)
22 In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him;^(AQ)
    the full force of misery will come upon him.^(AR)
23 When he has filled his belly,^(AS)
    God will vent his burning anger^(AT) against him
    and rain down his blows on him.^(AU)
24 Though he flees^(AV) from an iron weapon,
    a bronze-tipped arrow pierces him.^(AW)
25 He pulls it out of his back,
    the gleaming point out of his liver.
Terrors^(AX) will come over him;^(AY)
26     total darkness^(AZ) lies in wait for his treasures.
A fire^(BA) unfanned will consume him^(BB)
    and devour what is left in his tent.^(BC)
27 The heavens will expose his guilt;
    the earth will rise up against him.^(BD)
28 A flood will carry off his house,^(BE)
    rushing waters^[b] on the day of God’s wrath.^(BF)
29 Such is the fate God allots the wicked,
    the heritage appointed for them by God.”^(BG)

⁸ “‘These people honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.
⁹ They worship me in vain;
    their teachings are merely human rules.^(E)’^[c](F)”