Psalms 24

1 How long shall I take counsels in my soul, sorrow in my heart all the day? 2 How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider, and hear me, O Lord, my God. Enlighten my eyes, that I never sleep in death: 4 Lest at any time my enemy say: I have prevailed against him. They that trouble me, will rejoice when I am moved: 5 But I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice in thy salvation: I will sing to the Lord, who giveth me good things: yea, I will sing to the name of the Lord, the most high. 7 Unto the end, a psalm for David. The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. 8 The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God. 9 They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good: no not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they acted deceitfully: the poison of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and unhappiness in their ways; and the way of peace they have not known: there is no fear of God before their eyes. 10 Shall not all they know that work iniquity, who devour my people as they eat bread?