The righteous praise and thank the God of Jacob-They shall be exalted-God is the judge, and the wicked shall be condemned.

  1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

  2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

  3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

  4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

  5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

  6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

  7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

  8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

  9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

  10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.