But You are on high forever, O Yahweh.
But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
For they will wither quickly like the grass And fade like the green herb.
My foes have trampled upon me all day long, For many attack me proudly.
Until I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood their end.
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cause them to fall to destruction.
That they may know that You alone—Your name is Yahweh— Are the Most High over all the earth.
More than the voices of many waters, Than the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods; for in this matter they acted presumptuously against the people.”
If you see oppression of the poor and robbery of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished over the matter; for a lofty one keeps watch over another lofty one, and there are loftier ones over them.
Now about that time Herod the king laid hands on some who belonged to the church in order to harm them.
