I have set Jehovah always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
I will be glad and rejoice in thy lovingkindness; For thou hast seen my affliction: Thou hast known my soul in adversities;
Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
For thou hast been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
Ephraim (shall say), What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.